Default POP3 and IMAP4 virtual servers on Windows 2003 SBS

Monday, 27 July 2009 13:54

If you've just installed MS Windows 2003 Small Business Server and are trying to connect your blackberry or an iPhone to the server, you'll soon find out that the IMAP and POP services are disabled by default. One way to enable them would be to go through the "network connection wizard" and configure your network connection. Another method would be to start the services manually:

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Changing PATH variable in Vista

Friday, 24 July 2009 21:13

Question: I've just installed an application on Vista and would like to run it by just typing it into the cmd window or by going to "Start"->"Run" - how do I do that without specifying the full path?

(This will also allow you to modify other system variables, such as location of the TEMP folder)

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Increase (decrease) new email notification (Outlook)

Wednesday, 08 July 2009 14:31

Question
How can I change my microsoft outlook notification pop-up to display longer (or shorter)?

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Outlook Web Access (OWA) Compose/Reply issue

Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:29

A few people reported having this problem when accessing OWA (Outlook Web Access) interface:

• Unable to compose a new e-mail message
• Unable to reply to an e-mail message
• Unable to create a new contact, task, note, journal entry, or appointment
• Unable to change any configuration in the OWA (Outlook Web Access) options folder

In most cases you may also see a small red "x". This happens on the newer Internet Explorer browsers (IE7 and IE8) and the reason is that Internet Explorer does not allow the ActiveX component to run. This is the solution:

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Killing a zombie process

Tuesday, 19 May 2009 13:52

On unix-based systems, a zombie process or defunct process is a process that has completed execution but still has an entry in the process table. You can read more about it on wikipedia.

# ps aux | awk '{ print " " }' | grep -w Z

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Tar files over the network

Monday, 04 May 2009 14:29

When transferring large amounts of data, its a good idea to tar/gzip it first. What if there is not enough space on the source system to contain both the original content and the tar/gzipped content?

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SSH and Authorized keys

Tuesday, 14 April 2009 14:28

This is a short HOWTO on setting up secure shell access without a password

Generating Keys

Protocol version 1 key generation

To create the most simple key, with the default encryption, open up a console, and enter the following command :

[dave@caprice dave]$ ssh-keygen

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Forward email to smarthost (sendmail)

Wednesday, 01 April 2009 06:54

If you'd like to send emails using sendmail and your ISP's SMTP server (or another smarthost), do the following in sendmail.cf:

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