To change the folder Thunderbird uses for deleted items:

• go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Config Editor

• filter for mail.server

• look for the server config you want to change, e.g. mail.server.server3

• add a string to that server, e.g.: mail.server.server3.trash_folder_name

• enter the name of the folder to use

• restart thunderbird

If you do not like the behaviour of Firfox’s new url bar you might want to take a look at the oldbar addon and set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true.

I was getting root file system not found errors when booting etch from a USB disk. As it turns out that the boot ramdisk did scan all devices for LVM partitions before USB drive detection was finished.

By adding rootdelay=10 to the kernel boot options the system will wait for ten seconds before activating LVM partitions giving the USB subsystem enough time to activate all devices.

Since the E61i has no escape key using vim is a rather interesting ordeal. I could send an escape key by pressing ctrl-chr, releasing ctrl, pressing chr again and select the opening braket.

Update The green key is also mapped to ESC ;).

Debian’s exim4 uses gnutls which has a feature that will not allow my E61i to use STARTTLS (see #438137) . Perhaps stunnel can help here …

Update: To advertise PLAIN authentication with exim4 for connections origination from localhost I used the following statement in my plaintext authentication configuration (broken into several lines for better readability):

server_advertise_condition =
 ${if or
  {
   {!eq{$tls_cipher}{}
  }
  {
   eq{$interface_address}{127.0.0.1}}
  }
  {yes}{no}
 }

That way plaintext auhentication is allowed for TLS sessions or unencrypted sessions originating from localhost.

Using stunnel and a default ssmtp configuration I can now send mails from my mobile phone.

Since I use a self signed certificate on my IMAP Server, my new E61i is complaining about an invalid certificate. I added the CA to my mobile by converting it to an x509 DER:

openssl x509 -outform der -in ca.pem -out ca.der

transfering the new file to the phone and opening it with the file manager.

Bradley Charbonneau has created a short video tutorial on how to use Hover.

Trying to match ] with sed needs some precautions:

$ echo "[foo   U ] abc/def [bar]" | sed 's/\([^]]\)\+] \([^ ]*\).*/\2/'
abc/def

Or use awk:

$ echo "[foo   U ] abc/def [bar]" | awk -F '[][]' '{print $3}'
 abc/def

After my upgrade to Thunderbird / Iceweasel 2.0 Enigmail was no longer working (see 427591). Seems like something mixed up the versions of installed add-ons. I fixed it by removing Enigmail, starting and stopping Thunderbird and reinstalling Enigmail.

A new version of Hover is available. This release really fixes a problem with search engine friendly links. The previous version v0.6.4 only fixed part of the problem.