Archive for June, 2006

MacBook Pro: run a little cooler, save batter power with ati-config

Saturday, June 24th, 2006

So you probably discovered that your MacBook Pro runs about as hot as the corona of the Sun.
If you’re at my blog here, you probably run some GNU / Linux distro. Just a guess.
If you’re running a GNU / Linux distro, there’s a good chance you installed the binary ATI drivers and associated tools, [...]

spamassassin: make it work!

Friday, June 16th, 2006

I emerged spamassassin, which installed the spamd server, and the spamc client, with which to talk to the server.
However, the logs were complaing TELL commands have not been enabled. It seems that SPAMD_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/spamd is missing the -l (–allow-tell) option.
Adding the above -l to SPAMD_OPTS allowed spamc to talk to spamd and make [...]

mutt: sending via multiple accounts with esmtp

Thursday, June 15th, 2006

I found it much easier to set up multiple smtp accounts for mutt using esmtp than anything else. It’s actually completely straightforward — just make esmtp do all the work …

install esmtp
create your ~/.esmtprc file

man esmtprc — seriously, it’s easy

add the following to your ~/.muttrc

set sendmail=”/usr/bin/esmtp”
set use_envelope_from

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