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<font color="#B03060">The Answer Gang</font>
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<H4>By Jim Dennis, Ben Okopnik, Dan Wilder, Breen, Chris, and...
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(<a href="tag/bios.html">meet the Gang</a>) ...
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the Editors of Linux Gazette...
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and You!
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<br>Send questions (or interesting answers) to
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The Answer Gang
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<H3>Contents:</H3>
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<dt><a href="#tag/greeting"
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><strong>¶: Greetings From Heather Stern</strong></A></dl>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/1.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>How to Investigate a System Lockup</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/2.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>How to send email without a DNS server?</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/3.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(!)" border="0"
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><strong>Starting many X sessions</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/4.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Playing CD Music Digital Output</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/5.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>Mandrake 8.1 fd0 unknown device, and downloading pictures from
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a digital camera</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/6.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>How to optimize space usage for multiple files on multiple CDs</strong></a>
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<dt><A HREF="tag/7.html"
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><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
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alt="(?)" border="0"
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><strong>/dev/scd0 is not a valid block device?</strong></a>
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<H3 align="left"><img src="../gx/dennis/hbubble.gif"
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>Greetings from Heather Stern</H3>
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<p><strong>The Answer Gang's Editor Gal
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Hello all, and welcome once more to the lively world of The Answer Gang.
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I'd like to hand out a special thank you to all the readers who
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definitely read the posting guidelines before asking the Gang their
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question. It's helped my work a lot.
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Almost the only spam that escapes Dan's traps anymore are those dratted
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conman scams telling me about how their late uncle <TT>/</TT> business partner
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<TT>/</TT> revered general or whatever left them a quadzillion dollars <TT>/</TT> francs
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or whatever and they can't get at any of it unless you as a friend /
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distant relative <TT>/</TT> confidant <TT>/</TT> conveniently uninvolved sucker open your
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bank account to help them launder it. Whereupon I presume they take you
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to the laundry, raid all your spare quarters and leave you in the giant
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tumble-dryer with no socks. So that's the Peeve of the month. Although
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I suppose I should mention that the useless use of HTML attachments
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fought really hard for second place. The Klez worm gets a distant third
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since infected people usually figure it out and fix themselves.
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So I didn't get very far in my personal project of the month this time.
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After a foray into the space for some clients of mine, I'm starting to
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seriously look into decent IMAP setups.
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<A HREF="http://www.washington.edu/imap"
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>UW IMAP</A>
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is easy to install,
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sort of like saying a tricycle is easy to drive. Any kid can do it but
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it just was never designed for anything beyond being the reference
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implementation for IMAP as far as I can tell. Beyond that it's somewhat
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well known for being full of bugs, and their attitude towards client
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side problems in the FAQ feels laced with a lot of "your client sucks,
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use pine."
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<A HREF="http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus"
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>Cyrus</A>
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I glanced at and it seems sturdy enough, I guess. But the clients asked
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after <A HREF="http://www.inter7.com/courierimap"
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>Courier-IMAP</A>. Hmmm,
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nice.
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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height="24" width="20" align="middle"> About ten times as fast as UW. Just don't use the MTA that
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comes with it. Ugh, whatta mess. Maybe in a year or two you'll be
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reading this and it will have grown up. We went back to sendmail.
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If there are any other IMAP daemons
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to speak of I couldn't find them all that quickly. Courier is
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sufficiently cool and maildir delivery makes people happy for other
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reasons.
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Did I remember to say IMAP is cool? As I've been going to more
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conferences with less techie features available, the idea of having my
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mail on the server be willing to deal with two workstations and a laptop
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carrying the same mail around doesn't sound half bad at all. And
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most people can't take the other tactic that I've done, which is to get
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involved with setting up internet lounge space
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=":)"
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Which reminds me, the
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<A HREF="http://www.conjose.org"
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>ConJosé</A>, the 60th World Science Fiction Convention
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is coming up at the end of August, in my area, and I expect it'll be a
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lot of fun. I can tell you there's gonna be some Linux around.
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<IMG SRC="../gx/dennis/smily.gif" ALT=";P"
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<A HREF="http://www.linuxworldexpo.com"
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>Linux World Expo</A> will be in my area
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in August also. WIth any luck I'll get to meet some more members of
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the Answer Gang. Group photo, anyone?
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</blockQuote>
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Anyways, back to IMAP. It turns out there are email specific
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appliances out there running Linux and Cyrus under the hood.
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Not only nice but I don't have to tinker?
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Oboy! To be fair I'm good friends with the folks over at
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<A HREF="http://www.imap-partners.net"
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>IMAP Partners</A>
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and the people who make
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the appliances they use host the system for my local sysadmins group,
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<A HREF="http://www.baylisa.org"
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>BayLISA</A>.
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But I didn't get as far along as I wanted in my great project to
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determine which IMAP clients suck the least. Our loyal readers may
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recall that I have a rather cynical opinion about the usefulness of
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so-called "productivity' software and and regardless of my deep
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dependence on email, MUAs (mail user agents) are no exception. So
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I will probably have an article about that next month. Contributions
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welcome, of course.
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With that, it's time for a picnic. This year's Independence Day issue
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is full of some juicy bits just waiting for you to throw some CDs on
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the roaster. Me, I'll be spending a happy 4th of July hanging out with
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my family down in L.A.
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<H5 align="center">This page edited and maintained by the Editors
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of <I>Linux Gazette</I>
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<a href=""
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>Copyright ©</a> 2002
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<BR>Published in issue 80 of <I>Linux Gazette</I> July 2002</H5>
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