happenstance

i bought ipartition and since bootcd doesn't work with tiger yet (i have been working with the author beta testing a new version though), i used sma's mac to connect to my powerbook over firewire (booted to firewire target mode) and repartition the drive to delete the empty openbsd partition and enlarge the mac os one to fill the drive.

i've switched from using mutt on my server to using it on the powerbook with imap over ssl so that i can handle attachments better. i was tired of having to scp files back and forth or bounce messages to some other mailbox that i check with a windows machine just to be able to work with a stupid file attachment.

i'm using dovecot and a self-signed ssl cert on the server and mutt with the header-cache patch and mini_sendmail on the powerbook. the header caching makes changing folders with 1000's of messages just as quick as it was on the server (once i changed a few settings). i'm using mini_sendmail to relay mail through my server using my pop/imap-before-smtp daemon to open up access wherever i'm at. even though postfix comes with mac os x, i'm using mini_sendmail because it provides real-time feedback if the smtp session fails for some reason, returning me to the sending confirmation screen in mutt so i don't lose the message. with postfix (or any queueing mta) the message would just stay in the queue and i wouldn't know about it.

one thing that did bother me about this new setup was that when i'd suspend the laptop and bring it to work or vice versa, mutt would lock up for ~30-45 seconds while waiting for the previous network connection to timeout. a quick patch took care of that and now times out and closes the mailbox in 5 seconds.