Configure Hotmail for POP3

February 9th, 2009 The email-boys are ever-expanding in a bid to whiz past each other. The new spunky boy Googlemail has its updates completed and continuously increasing its storage space.

June 24th, 2008 GMail overall has a nice spam filter. You can leverage the GMail spam filtering capability even for your corporate emails without paying a dime.

April 17th, 2006 I found a super-simple way to block access to external email providers like GMail or HotMail or Yahoo Mail in firewall. The process while trivial to configure has a caveat.

July 12th, 2005 Have you wondered why Hotmail is so uncool these days? Read on.

April 5th, 2008 On running ./configure in dansguardian (web content filter for Linux), I got the following error - configure: error: pcre-config not found!configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_prog_PCRE contains a newline.. The solution, as usual, is simple: Install pcre-devel.

July 8th, 2006 The perfect setup of fedora core 4 fails you on multiple fronts. First you cannot install apt as the package it mentioned has become obsolete and latest packages do not install with rpm.

April 5th, 2008 A common error while configuring (running ./configure) software in Linux systems is - error: C++ compiler cannot create executables. The solution, not surprisingly is simple: Install the package which adds C++ support to the GNU Compiler Collection - gcc-c++.

August 19th, 2008 In earlier versions of Db4o we used Db4o.configure() to configure all Db4o database globally (across all ObjectContainer). However in 7.2 (and above) versions of Db4o Db4o.configure() has been deprecated and it is suggested to use Db4o.newConfiguration() instead.

April 10th, 2007 XMemo is an alternative to IPMsg (for Windows only) and claims to interoperate with IPMSg protocol. In short a quick messaging tool for intranet use.

November 9th, 2007 First you should learn how to create a self-signed certificate using OpenSSL (free). After that it is a simple matter of copying the files to appropriate location and enabling dovecot to use SSL authentication.

April 30th, 2009 Emails are no more the simple programs for correspondence between friends, family and co-workers. Emails have grown into indispensable mode of communication in out day-to-day life.

September 28th, 2007 I faced a vexing problem with the otherwise excellent Mozilla Thunderbird email client. I was unable to forward emails to another account using the rules in Message Filters.

October 20th, 2007 Modern DSL modems by default allows you to establish a DSL link through them to provide internet connectivity. The actual connection is handled by software running on your computer.

July 7th, 2006 Finally my (unmanaged dedicated) server has been deployed (under 48 hours). Now my actual work begins.

February 3rd, 2007 I recently faced a strange situation where my mail server was showing over 700 emails but Microsoft Outlook was failing to download them with timeout error. The problem was that it wasn't downloading even a single email.