Nekkid Ninjas

A little while ago I posted about I blogged about the anti-spam system that was being installed on Ninjahosting HQ. An eagle-eyed visitor spotted that it was Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy (ASSP)server project.

Since that time ASSP has been installed and the server has been running effectively with a dozen or so live accounts.

Time for a quote:

Before upgrading to Leopard I had no problems setting MobileMe on my Mac Book.

But then I upgrade the other day (Late I know) and MobileMe decided to die and stopped connecting.

I was constantly receiving this error:

"The server cannot be contacted on Port 993" blahblah@mac,com

After my usual round of Googleing, I found that the problem hadn't been solved (not that I could find) and everyone had been told it was Apple's mistake and we had to wait.

But something struck me as odd in the error message. -> @mac,com

I had entered me.com everywhere and not entered mac.com once but it was still getting it from somewhere. Plus I couldn't enter half of the fields, primarily the port number, when I chose to let mobile me configure itself.

So I decided to try and manually connect as another imap account instead of using the default MobileMe settings.

After 5 minutes of experimentation I fixed it!

When creating the account, uncheck the 'create automatically' box, because it puts mac,com into everything instead of me.com BUT it sets the ports to the me,com port: 993 and not the mac,com port: 587 so it will never work.

If you turn off the Automatic account creation, then you can manually enter your server info.

Set the incoming server to mail,me,com port 993 and ssl
Set the outgoing server to smtp,mac,com port 587 and ssl

You should be right as rain from there. (^_^)b

Why am I using mac.com for my outgoing? me.com still wouldn't work no matter what I port field but mac.com did. It works, and people get the right return email address so I am not complaining.

Obviously this isn't a desirable or perfect fix, but it will do for me until Apple finally fixes the auto setup.

This should be Uwe's post but approximately half an hour before we became aware of that NinjACL was listed in the Joomla Extension Directory Uwe mentioned in the Team Ninja private chat that he was "leaving early" today. Today is his @;!*th birthday and he had celebrations planned!!

Because of that and because this is such a superb extension I thought that two things should be celebrated!!

So, first of all: Happy Birthday Uwe!!

And secondly; congratulations on releasing NinjACL for Joomla 1.0.15

If you're interested then NinjACL can be download from Ninja Forge!

...and, if that wasn't enough I think I might be right in suggesting that Uwe is already working on NinjACL's first patch and it might be for a much-used Joomla component; D**man

Nice one Uwe!!

Maybe this is old news and I just didn't notice it before, but I got a new follower today, and went to check out their profile, as you do.

Anyway the profile name was macey121 with a nice pic of a pretty girl there.

But when I checked out her profile there was a single post advertising how she was going to make $40,000 this month and a link to the site.

http://twitter.com/macey121

She also has several thousand people she is following. How anyone could follow several thousand other people's twitters and stay sane I am not sure, so it's obviously a spam account, using the follow others as a way to get them to come and check out your twitter which has an big fat add in it.

I wonder if Twitter has some sort of policy about this? Because pretty soon it will be stock full of bots following everyone (including each other)

I'm proud to announce today, that I've finished work on NinjACL to almost 90% and am able to set the extension on Alpha Status now. So we Ninjas can begin testing on this component from tomorrow on.