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From the “my external memory dept”: One of the simplest way to debug SMTP problems is to talk directly to the SMTP server using a shell (Telnet): Frodo:~ jcf$ telnet smtp.domain.ch 25 Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx... Connected to smtp.domain.ch. Escape character is '^]'. 220 smtp.domain.ch ESMTP ready. MAIL FROM:name@domain.ch 250 OK RCPT TO:joe@doe.com 250 Accepted DATA 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself and then the message you want to send (including the headers) ...

If you need to find out which process is listening on a certain port, use the following: Linux netstat -natp | grep :80 Solaris lsof -i | grep :80 On Solaris, you need to have compiled lsof that you can get from Sunfreeware.com

Taking a cue from Gadgetguy, I have burned the most requested feed by running it through FeedBurner. This will massage the feeds, making them easier accessible to people using a browser and various other nice things (like giving me statistics on who is reading this blog - similar to Statcounter, who does an excellent job for tracking the web-usage of this blog. Also it inserts links to “relevant” Amazon books. This of course in a constant effort to offset the cost of me running this blog. If it doesn’t work out (as I suspect it will), this part will be removed again… ...

I will be gone until February, 28th… Don’t expect (m)any updates during that time

I won’t have time to do this for another 2 weeks (see above for the reason), but I googled around for the problem of a crashing Lotus Notes 6.0.3 for Mac OS X and found … Ben already has it licked: Notes 6.5 on OS X. Also Nini seems like a good thing to have.

Thanks to Ned for the Subversion Cheat Sheet