All of a sudden, after using Thunderbird happily for half a day, it all of a sudden stopped sending emails, complaining about my Temporary file/directory setting. However, I could not find any such setting in any of the configuration dialogues.
It turned out that my /tmp/ directory was not writable by my user, a quick chmod [...]
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Thunderbird refusing to send emails
Posted in Email, GNU/Linux, tagged Email, Linux, Mozilla, Thunderbird on January 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why don’t people quote their emails?
Posted in Community, Email, The Dark Side on December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Very few people these days knows the good practice of quoting. Proper email quoting makes all email correspondence easier and makes it possible to keep the overview of email discussions with multiple participants. Email quoting is described in RFC1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) and a good overview on the topic can be read here: http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/quoting.html.
The only email [...]
