Wednesday 1st December 2004
More Open-Source goodness
Thunderbird is my latest addition to my work PC, so that I can check my gravitystorm emails without using the web interface that my provider, umm, provides. The only problem is that all my filtering rules are run by the web interface, so I need to keep that open in firefox to filter all the messages into the appropriate folders. I need to sort the filters out to be server-side at some point, but never underestimate my laziness.
I found today that Psi and OpenOffice.org have installed themselves quite weirdly - i.e. they’ve added themselves to the startup folder as a network path (\cs-cxgeneral6\c$\blah), instead of a local path (C:\blah). Which explains why Psi pops up no matter what machine I log on to. It took me worryingly long to realise what was going on. I’m contemplating doing a similar thing for Firefox and Thunderbird, but I’ve no idea what that would do to my Firefox and Thunderbird profiles.
Ho Hum.
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Pingback by Shine » Checking IMAP Sub-Folders with Thunderbird :: GravityStorm — 1/12/2004 @ 4:58 pm
Use procmail or dot.qmail files to do your filtering… then you don’t need the web interface open. That’s what does the spam pre-processing on fireburst.co.uk before it forwards on the mail and it works a treat.
Not that hard to learn either.
Comment by Sam — 1/12/2004 @ 8:01 pm
Hmm.. Thunderbird and Firefox profiles on network drives… you can hack the prefs.js file to work like that. It’s working on about 30 peoples PCs as well, and seems stable. The only place it doesn’t work is on my PC, where every once in a while it claims that my profile is in use, and I can’t for the life of me work out why. The whole thing will probably come crashing down around my ears when it happens to all the other people…
Comment by Andrew T — 3/12/2004 @ 1:40 am
We have network profiles and network drives here at College (as I’m sure almost everyone who reads this knows), but for some reason that I’ve not yet worked out, most programs use my precious H: drive to store their settings (in the H:\IExplore directory). I’m guessing there’s some kind of group policy / registry settings. So my firefox and thunderbird profiles are on my H: drive without me trying.
But I’ve never found mozilla profiles the most reliable of things, unless you stick to one application instance at a time - I’ve been caught out by locking on the profiles in the past. So I think they’d just take a hairy fit if I tried opening the same profile twice on different machines. OpenOffice.org is aware of which computers the profile is open on, and warns you about it.
But I mainly just use Terminal Services if I want access to any programs on my office PC when I’m ‘out in the field’.
Comment by Andy — 3/12/2004 @ 11:01 am
If only terminal services worked on 56k dialup and ADSL
Comment by Andrew T — 3/12/2004 @ 3:57 pm