A month of Linux techmails
I’ve been so busy in the last little while I’ve not had a chance to post the recent techmails that have gone up, so here goes: Cloud-based RSS reading with Google Reader and Liferea looks at using Liferea as a client for Google Reader. The nice thing about using Google Reader is you can use(…)
Converting Maildir to mbox via mutt
Ran into an issue today where I needed to convert a Maildir containing over 50k messages to mbox format and couldn’t really find any good tools. So I found this blog post about using mutt to do it. Unfortunately, it converted one Maildir to another. =( One crucial piece is missing, so here is the(…)
Getting things done with mutt
This week’s TechMail is Getting things done with mutt, a look at using the GTD concepts with my favourite email client.
Fricking spam
Well, I’ve had it. Spam is driving me nuts. My spamassassin/RBL lists/etc. setup was working really well for a long time but now more and more spam is getting through and it’s nothing if not pissing me off. Strange thing is, I get a lot more spam on my Mandriva email than I do on(…)
Email clients… do they all suck?
Really… it is 2006 right? Email’s been around for ages, so why are email clients still so crappy? Last August I switched from the OS X Mail.app (in Tiger) to mutt because Tiger’s Mail.app was too stinking slow. I get lots of mail… I mean *lots* of mail. My incoming mbox for this month so(…)