Back home
I have been away from my computer during the last week and just came back home. I have discovered there has been a big problem in my secondary MX setup, which prevented me from receiving mail! This was a stupid error in the DNS. If you have tried sending e-mail last week, please send it again (you should have received an “undeliverable mail” alert from my server).
By the way, my holidays to Portugal were really good!
Up-to-date!
My first week of holidays has been busy, but I am quite proud of the work I managed to do. I can consider I am up-to-date, as the only entry in my to-do list is refacing my personal website and merging this blog into it. I still haven’t found any CMS or CMF that can suite all my needs.
In short:
- I managed to catch up with my official Debian packages – 2 uploads are pending: new release of nautilus-open-terminal, and new package for freeloader to comply with the new python policy.
- I also worked a lot on my unofficial packages, updating all the kernel modules packages to use m-a instead of custom rules (and took the opportunity to update/pach some of them), updated dspm backport and Adobe Acrobat French packages.
- Mathieu Bérard started a new omnibook kernel module project on SF, and he accepted to give me an SVN access to the repository so that I can maintain the Debian package (which is available in my repository). Good to see people like him!
- Updating ltmodem-source reminded me that I had the project to set up a secondary Internet connection when my ADSL line is down – this is now almost done (almost as the switch between ADSL and PTSN connections has to be done manually for the moment).
I now have a week left to work on my website…
dspam virus notifications
I managed to write a patch to allow the recipient of an infected mail to receive a notification. This is especially useful if ClamavResponse is set to “accept”, and avoid losing important mail.
I have chosen to add a new entry in the configuration file: VirusNotifications (on/off) as I think some users would want to use these notifications, but not the standard ones (first{run,spam}, quarantinefull).
The text of the notification has to be called virusnotification.txt, and the following variables are parsed (in addition to standard $u):
- $i – IP of the sending server)
- $s (sender e-mail address – more exactly the contents of the From: header of the infected mail)
The patch applies to current CVS version, but I have built backported Debian packages for the 3.6.8 release. They are available in my repository.
I have sent this patch to dspam-devel mailing-list for reviewing, in the hope it can be applied upstream.
How to simply share files?! #2
Well, I haven’t yet solved my problem, but the news are good for me!
First, gshare has been recently uploaded to Debian. It has the same functions as gnome-user-share but uses FTP instead of WebDav, which reduces the number of dependencies for a Desktop machine. However, it is not what I want, as still quite slow.
Then, the umask bug in GnomeVFS (well, in reality in Nautilus) was fixed by Josselin Mouette, at least partly fixed, as I still have some problems as explained in the bug report. But I am now very optimistic as someone put out a bounty to solve this bug! Thanks to him.
Also, I have discovered that the long-awaited ACL support was added to Nautilus, and will be part of GNOME 2.16.
Upgraded desktops to sid
I usually run my desktop machines on Debian testing (aka Etch), but as I installed more and more packages from the unstable distribution, I decided to switch everything to sid, to make my life easier. I will still enjoy the new uploads while the freeze period before the new stable release.
The upgrade caused no problem at all to my own surprise!
murphy.d.o blacklisted on SpamCop
I was quite surprised not to have received anything from Debian mailing-lists today. I first thought everyone was on holidays, but pflogsumm (which I have just discovered – a great tool) says some debian.org e-mail were rejected by my mail server. My enquiry showed that murphy.debian.org was blacklisted on spamcop.net filter list as you can see here.
I decided to remove the call to this RBL in my postfix configuration for some time.
Upate: murphy seems to have been removed from the list 