The weirdest errors are those occurring on a freshly installed system where you’d expect for everything to simply work (with the default configs). But such new installs rarely work.
Roudcube successfully connects and sends emails through localhost. At the same time, external clients are unable to send emails through SMTP. The issues is…
Main symptom of a problem is that emails are visible in the Read User Mail utility in Webmin but they do not show up in either webmail (Roundcube/Squirrelmail), Usermin or any email client configured to connect to the server.
After further inspection, it appears the emails get delivered to /var/mail/usermailbox@domain.tld instead of /home/username/homes/usermailbox/Maildir.
Running a PPTP server on your own router is very handy when you need a secure/trusted middle point from which to connect to all your external services while being on the move.
Or maybe you just want to access some private resource that’s only available in your LAN. Either way, with DD-WRT it’s very easy to set up a PPTP server.
Computers need upgrades, and upgrades involve motherboards, and motherboards have chipsets, and chipsets require drivers, which drivers are chipset dependent. And computers also fail, requiring replacing parts. Upgrading or replacing a motherboard with different chipset in Windows Xp used to be both complicated and simple at the same time, requiring the well known repair install. But then Vista and later 7 were released and the repair install was no more.
Fortunately, there is still a way to keep your Windows 7 (and probably Vista, 8, 8.1 and perhaps even the upcoming 10) after switching to a motherboard with different chipset (and driver).
Guest wireless access is handy when you want to separate guest devices (your friends’ phones and laptops) from your own devices connected to the main network.
To get started, you need a router capable of guest wireless (not every router can do this) already set up and running either DD-WRT or Tomato. This tutorial explains how to set up a router running Tomato that is used only as access point (WAN is disabled/unplugged).
One can never have too many backups. There’s always room for one more backup. Backups are what keep computers running (most of the time)… Except when backups are not set up. At all. Not even a single antiqued copy exists of what broke down…
Let’s imagine that worst case scenario. Let’s imagine…
The thing I love about Thunderbird (and its sibling Firefox) is that to transfer a wholly configured instance from one computer/system to another all one needs is to copy over the contents of the profile folder.
However, on the path of a Linux to Windows migration I discovered the oddity that Thunderbird will neither connect to mail server not prompt for password…
After setting up a headless VirtualBox environment on your server, there comes a time when you realize you’ve been using the same old version for so long… that updating doesn’t sound so bad.
If you’ve installed VirtualBox from the repositories, you might enjoy an (almost) painless update procedure. Or not…
Start by making sure…
Be it your neighbour’s network or your friend’s (whom you visit once a year) wifi, those pesky twisted hard-to-remember passwords ask to be forgotten. But your trusty Android phone remembers them all.
Wouldn’t it be great if it could tell them to you? Well, if you have a rooted device, you’re in luck. You can quickly re-discover the password of all networks you’ve saved them for. Use your favourite file manager and…
I’ve unpleasantly noticed that osTicket 1.9.5(.1) changed functionality and is now sending staff alert emails from the department email (if one is set). Old behaviour was to sent these alerts from the (configured) alerts email address. Some may prefer the new way better (this is most likely why it got …
AWstats updates work fine for all other domains on the server. The cron task is there and is correct. Manually running from command line completes very fast (2-3 seconds).
Among a ton of other reasons, AWstats may fail to run if a previous collection crashed while running and…
When using a system to host your important (or critical) operations, being able to get informed of issues while you’re away is a very handy function. Email is good for notifications, but it isn’t always fast enough (and constant checks drain battery power).
SMS on the other hand, is an almost instant alert method and although length-limited, should do the job just fine for those very important, must have alerts. For this setup you will need…
