It should be working now. Not sure what the issue was, but it’s been resolved.
[Update a few minutes later]
Someone was attacking the email services on my server. No idea who, or motive, but the IP has been blocked.
Category Archives: Administrative
Email Problems
I’ve got a problem, that my system administrator won’t help me with. My Trash folder on the server has grown to several gigabytes, and there is no way for me to empty it. It slows down getting and deleting mail, but Thunderbird crashes when I even try to load it. Here is the helpful email I got when I asked to simply delete it on the server (which I can’t do, because I don’t have root privileges–on my own hosted server).
“You’ll need to access your email accounts with a proper email client from your PC to clear them out. We can’t just delete the mail from the server, then the indexes are messed up. You need to be properly emptying your trash.
You have multiple Gigs of mail in the trash folders on the Simberg account. “
Note that this is nothing I don’t know, except I don’t understand why it would mess up indexes to delete the trash. Is that true?
[Update a while later]
OK, Tbird crashes, but I seem to be able to access it from Evolution. But there is no obvious way to empty it, other than to Expunge, which seems a little drastic, but maybe that’s what I have to do. And it doesn’t load all of the headers; it gets stuck at 99%.
[Update a while later]
Well, I hit “Empty Trash” in Evolution, and it seems to have done the job (even though Evolution says it’s still working on it).
OK, Evolution thinks it’s finished now. My next problem is that it’s not properly displaying my inbox. But now my web interface is much more manageable.
ISS R&D Conference
I’m taking a red eye to Atlanta tonight to attend it. I’ll be taking laptop, so I’ll probably be blogging, but I’ll have a lot of networking to do there. Also, it will be the first time I’ve ever been in the city. I’ve been through Hartsfield a lot, but never in Atlanta proper.
[Monday noon update]
Arrived about 7 AM, and was able to get an early check in, so I got a few hours sleep.
My first impression is that Atlanta seems to have recovered somewhat from the war, but it’s had 155 years.
Back On The Air
For those wondering why posting has been light, I woke up with a summer head cold on Monday. I spent a lot of yesterday taking it easy and napping, but last night I slept pretty well, and I’m mostly dried up today.
Busy
Light/non-existing posting because since boarding red eye to DC Tuesday night, I’ve been attending the Space Enterprise Summit at the State Department.
My Close Call With The Ambulance
Anyway, feeling much better today. Just sore left arm, like I’d been overdoing something with it yesterday. Which in a sense, I had been.
Back To CA
I’ve been on the road, to Michigan and DC, for the entire month so far, so I’m on the plane, looking forward to getting home in a few hours.
Light Blogging
My desktop computer is FUBAR. I can’t boot it. Getting it fixed is my highest current priority.
[Friday-afternoon update]
It seems to be a hardware problem. I built a clean install of Fedora 30, and the machine froze in the middle of the first software update. I’m running a memory test on it now, but I suspect it’s a motherboard issue. Which of course means CPU and memory replacement as well, unless I can find a used motherboard, because they don’t make AMD FM3 boards any more.
Any recommendations?
[Saturday-morning update]
Sorry, hadn’t realized that site wasn’t taking comments. It should work now.
[Saturday-afternoon update]
OK, it was WP-Spamfree plugin. Try it now.
Blog Issue
Sorry about that. I’d activated a plugin that apparently didn’t play nice, then had to run out for meetings. Things should be back to normal now.
[Late-Evening update]
I understand that some people are having trouble posting comments. I can’t deal with that until tomorrow morning (Pacific time).
WordPress Issue
I have one valued commenter whose comments are almost always being held up for moderation, even though I always approve them. I can’t see any reason for it in my blacklist. Does anyone have any ideas what the issue could be?