Re: [Discuss] mbox questions
Certainly MH and maildir are less corruption prone. On 10/27/2011 06:37 PM, John Abreau wrote: I gave up on mbox long ago. I had all the usual problems with data corruption, buggy reindexing software, and the pure pain of trying to grep for individual messages in a single huge file. For a while I used MH format, until I got comfortable with Maildir. Now I keep all my local backups of mail folders in Maildir format on one of my home servers, with Dovecot sitting on top for easier access via IMAP. On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote: I currently use Thunderbird 7.0 and I have periodic freezups. I have had this issue before, and one of the solutions is to remove all the index (.msf) files and compact all the mbox files. In my situation I have emails in local folders going back years. This should be no problem, but I would like to find a utility that (1) will test each mbox file for corruption and (2) compact it. Of course one other solution would be to convert to Evolution or another email client such as kmail. I used to use claws, but I prefer to have the capability to send html formatted emails if I want to. -- Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider
From: Bill Bogstad [mailto:bogs...@pobox.com] I looked at micro-instances at one point. The only thing is that it appears that it is only free for the first year: http://aws.amazon.com/free/ Do you have pointers to anything which is free after a year? No, I believe that's right. Free for a year. Not free indefinitely (Unless you claim to be a new customer again and migrate your stuff to a new account, or do other shady stuff.) But even so, for tiny services such as hosting my website, the estimated cost even after a year is lower than any competitor I can find. Something between $5 and $10 a month. While I have found and used other services in this range, the performance or reliability or specs have not been in the same ballpark. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:10:32PM -0400, Bill Horne wrote: On 10/27/2011 12:43 PM, Dave Peters wrote: Any suggestion for virtual hosting server provider? blueHost? Hostmonster, Godaddy, inmotion or networksolutions? I'm also looking for a virtual host provider. It's for a test site to work on changes to the production site that I use for The Telecom Digest, so I need to be able to put in a LAMP server, procmail, mutt, and other things that I use every day while preparing the Digest. http://www.linode.com has an offer for ~$20/month that includes 512MB of RAM, 20GB storage and 200GB transfer. It's fine for what I need, but the price is just around my point of pain, so I'd like to hear what others think about other possibilities. The cheap end is covered by the blog Low End Box, at www.lowendbox.com -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)
My domain is hosted starting at an old friends ISP. He has sold out but they have grandfathered me in so I have kind of a 'brother-in-law' price. So if there are some local ISPs talk with them about setting up there if they have virtual domains. I like local ISPs (and local vendors of just about any kind). They keep the money locally and support the local community. But they still must compete with larger companies. My old friend with the ISP used to keep a logged on computer at home. If you called support in the middle of the night, it might take him 2 or 3 minutes to get online and wakeup enough to use a keyboard, but you got the guy that was VERY INTERESTED in your problem. Because it was his problem, his company, and you were an important customer... oops, sorry about the flag waving and the Sousa march that just started in the background, but you get the drift. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)
I found a super cheap provider, 3ix, DO NOT USE THEM. It was about $1/month. But they could not keep the hackers out. When you are on a shared machine, it is shared. Others have access to it. If the admins don't do a reasonable job, you get hacked and pay the price. The folks at 3ix.com were good. Well automated, support folks tried but didn't have a clue. It took to much of my personal bandwidth to keep a simple site running with web pages un-hacked, so I am paying 10x that $ amount at Godaddy for a similar service. I am not a godaddy fan, but I am not a detractor either. If it is enough for you, use sites.google.com for free sites. Point your domain at them, and you can even put a free google apps account associated with the same domain. Not a bad way to go if you can deal with its limitations. A friend runs a college from a google apps domain ( watkins.edu Watkins college of film and design in Nashville ) especially for email, documents, calendaring, etc... But they keep a few small servers on site for 'special' things they do. Being on Google Apps allowed the 'business' part of the school keep going during the Nashville flooding of last year (there was 4' of water all over their campus). ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)
Bill Horne wrote: On 10/27/2011 12:43 PM, Dave Peters wrote: Any suggestion for virtual hosting server provider? blueHost? Hostmonster, Godaddy, inmotion or networksolutions? I'm also looking for a virtual host provider. It's for a test site to work on changes to the production site that I use for The Telecom Digest, so I need to be able to put in a LAMP server, procmail, mutt, and other things that I use every day while preparing the Digest. http://www.linode.com has an offer for ~$20/month that includes 512MB of RAM, 20GB storage and 200GB transfer. It's fine for what I need, but the price is just around my point of pain, so I'd like to hear what others think about other possibilities. Bill Have you looked at 11? Their prices seem to be quite reasonable. http://www.1and1.com/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider
On 10/27/2011 12:43 PM, Dave Peters wrote: Any suggestion for virtual hosting server provider? blueHost? Hostmonster, Godaddy, inmotion or networksolutions? I've been using http://prgmr.com/xen/ for about a year and have been happy with it. It's a small operation, the owner is the author of The Book of Xen and it's in CA. At some point I think they were co-lo at he.net, but I'm not sure that's still the case. Nuno -- http://aeminium.org/slug/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [Discuss] Virtual hosting provider (me too)
On 10/28/2011 6:42 PM, edwa...@linuxmail.org wrote: Bill Horne wrote: On 10/27/2011 12:43 PM, Dave Peters wrote: Any suggestion for virtual hosting server provider? blueHost? Hostmonster, Godaddy, inmotion or networksolutions? I'm also looking for a virtual host provider. It's for a test site to work on changes to the production site that I use for The Telecom Digest, so I need to be able to put in a LAMP server, procmail, mutt, and other things that I use every day while preparing the Digest. http://www.linode.com has an offer for ~$20/month that includes 512MB of RAM, 20GB storage and 200GB transfer. It's fine for what I need, but the price is just around my point of pain, so I'd like to hear what others think about other possibilities. Bill Have you looked at 11? Their prices seem to be quite reasonable. http://www.1and1.com/ Sorry, they're out of my league: the lowest-price offer for a virtual server is $49.95/month. Anyone know of companies that are in the lower-rent district? -- Bill Horne 774-219-7638 (cell) 339-364-8487 (office) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
