Monthly Archives: November 2008

phpBB + authenticated SMTP problem

It took us almost a week to figure out the problem between phpBB and the authenticated SMTP server (mail.authsmtp.com); but we did it! Now, two days after that, I almost forgot how we solved it. So, I want to write about it so that I don’t forget. First, I tried to get phpBB configured to work [...]
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working with Amazon Web Services

I think the key to working with an AWS box is to get the image right. Today it took me a few minutes to realize that I had picked the wrong image for me. I wanted my image to have “yum” ready to go. I love the idea of typing “yum install java” and having [...]
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dealing with SMTP client queues

I have been dealing with a PHP + SMTP problem during the last few days. I got to the point where I needed to delete old (malformed) messages from the queues I had in my Linux box. Basically, the implementation of the message notifications worked this way: PHP BB -> PHP -> sendmail -> postfix [...]
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