18 September 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Exchange (OWA) CAS crashes with 503 error – again

TweetThis just started happening again, with these errors appearing in the event viewer: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 [...]

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16 May 2011 ~ 1 Comment

Amazon SES – “Illegal Header” errors

My thoughts on the “illegal header” error some people are encountering when relaying mail through postfix/SES. Plus some perl code that should help fix it.

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28 April 2011 ~ 8 Comments

Integrating Amazon Simple Email Service with postfix for SMTP smarthost relaying.

How I configured an EC2 instance to relay mail through Amazon’s SES, and some of the bumps I encountered along the way.

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24 April 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Going back to FiOS

TweetI’m not sure why these guys operate this way – they’re more than happy to lose me as a customer and then throw huge discounts at me to get me back. If they’d just give me a good price I’d love not to have to go through this rigmarole. But after being with Cablevision for [...]

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25 February 2011 ~ 1 Comment

How I fixed my Wii’s noisy disc drive & read errors.

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24 February 2011 ~ 1 Comment

After switching back to Cablevision, FiOS users can’t call us.

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23 February 2011 ~ 1 Comment

VMware Workstation 7 – virtual ethernet fails to start after changing vmnet8 subnet

TweetAfter my recent wipe of my laptop, I reinstalled VMware Workstation and my Win XP VM was working fine. The one wrinkle I faced was that the subnet for the vmnet8 (NAT) vnic had changed from 192.168.250.0/24 to 173.16.132.0/24. The host machine had been 192.168.250.1 so rather than reconfiguring everything on the guest to point [...]

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30 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Wasted time with Exchange 2010, SquirrelMail, and IMAP-SSL

TweetI’m setting up SquirrelMail to point to my Exchange 2010 server via IMAP (don’t ask) and couldn’t get SM to talk to Exchange on port 993 (imaps). Even though the servers on the same subnet, any time passwords are being sent over the network I like to opt for SSL. I found a couple of [...]

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