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Firefox Tips
Thursday, May 31st, 2007A few tips that may help you out with your Firefox browsing experience. To start off with they recommend that you back up your Firefox profile before doing any edits. On a Windows machine your profile would be under
\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Mozilla \Firefox\Profiles\(profileID).default\
Below are some of the changes that they suggest will make pages load faster. To make these changes after backing up your profile navigate to about:config in your Firefox browser.
ASSP Installation
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Recently I’ve starting getting more spam to my home email server, so I decided to find a solution for that. What I came up with was a project on sourceforge called ASSP. Although I ran into some problems I thought were cause by this program, but were in fact casued by a new anti-spam policy just implemented by my ISP. The process is a little long so I will continue my explanation below. Keep in mind this is written for Windows (this guide is written assuming that a current mail server is up and running).
First and foremost you want to make sure you backup your server. After that you’ll want to gather the software that you’ll need. You’ll need an installation of perl, I found mine at ActiveState. Installation of that is simple wizard based.
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Installing PHP v. 5
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006SquirrelMail
Friday, May 12th, 2006I recently installed and finished setting up SquirrelMail. I thought it might be helpful for some if I wrote a guide for installing and maintaining squirrelmail.
The first thing you’ll need are the latest version of Squirrelmail (I’ll refer to this by SM from now on) which at the time of writing was 1.5.1 was the latest development build and the only one that currently works with PHP v. 5 which I had installed earlier for the purposes of this blog.
Later I will publish a guide for installing PHP. The next thing you need is an IMAP capable server (I’m using hMailServer). Then since I installed SM on a windows 2000 server, I needed a copy of PERL (not necessary because you can edit the config by hand but just makes life easier). The first thing you want to do is unzip the SM files to a location outside of your inetpub folder for security reasons. Then you will want to create a virtual directory under IIS, make sure that this directory is writable because you will be uploading data to SM.
After that you want to run the PERL script located in SM under the config folder named conf.pl. Just go through all the options changing them to suit your needs. The main ones to pay attention to are the ones concerning the type of IMAP server you have and where the server is if it’s not located on the same machine. After getting everything configured you should try logging in. If your able to correctly login and receive and send mail congratulations you’ve setup SM.
The next thing you should do is search through the plugins section of SquirrelMail and find ones that would make you SM experience easier. The ones I recommend are the administrator plugin which allows you to remote access and change your config file. Also the admin_add plugin to easily add admins for the SM installation. I also activated the spam filters, calendar, newmail options, and the spell checker that are included in 1.5.1. A word on the Spell Check you will need another program in order for the spell check to work on windows. It’s called Aspell, there is a guide on installing Aspell for windows here under the windows section. After installing all the plugins that you needed, your SquirrelMail experience should be great.
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