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Using my Nokia N95 for fixing my MTA

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Published by Paul Buetow 2008-12-29, last updated 2021-12-01

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The last week I was in Vidin, Bulgaria with no internet access and I had to fix my MTA (Postfix) at

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host.0.buetow.org which serves E-Mail for all my customers at P. B. Labs. Good, that I do not guarantee

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high availability on my web services (I've to do a full time job somewhere else too).

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My first attempt to find an internet café, which was working during Christmastime, failed. However, I found with my N95 phone lots of free WLAN hotspots. The hotspots refused me logging into my server using SSH as I have configured a non-standard port for SSH for security reasons. Without knowing the costs, I used the GPRS internet access of my German phone provider (yes, I had to pay roaming fees).

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With Putty for N95 and configuring Postfix with Vim and the T9 input mechanism, I managed to fix the problem. But it took half of an hour:

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  • First, getting a shell prompt
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  • Second, use the "tail" command to analyse the Postfix logs
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  • Third, use the "sed" command to fix a syntax error in the Postfix config
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  • Fourth, restart Postfix
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It was a pain in the ass. My next mobile phone MUST have a full QWERTY keyboard. This would have made my life lots easier. :)

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At the moment I am in Sofia, Bulgaria. Here I can use at least an unprotected WLAN hotspot which belongs to one of the neighbours which I don’t know in person, and it is not blocking any port at all :)

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 diff --git a/gemfeed/index.gmi b/gemfeed/index.gmi index e88ce35b..a33347ac 100644 --- a/gemfeed/index.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/index.gmi @@ -23,4 +23,5 @@ => ./2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.gmi 2010-05-09 (1272 words) - The Fype Programming Language => ./2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.gmi 2010-05-07 (0192 words) - Lazy Evaluation with Standard ML => ./2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.gmi 2010-04-09 (0266 words) - Standard ML and Haskell +=> ./2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.gmi 2008-12-29 (0294 words) - Using my Nokia N95 for fixing my MTA => ./2008-06-26-perl-poetry.gmi 2008-06-26 (0147 words) - Perl Poetry diff --git a/index.gmi b/index.gmi index 9d76330d..8ebac6e5 100644 --- a/index.gmi +++ b/index.gmi @@ -73,4 +73,5 @@ I have switched blog software multiple times. I might be backfilling some of the => ./gemfeed/2010-05-09-the-fype-programming-language.gmi 2010-05-09 - The Fype Programming Language => ./gemfeed/2010-05-07-lazy-evaluation-with-standarn-ml.gmi 2010-05-07 - Lazy Evaluation with Standard ML => ./gemfeed/2010-04-09-standard-ml-and-haskell.gmi 2010-04-09 - Standard ML and Haskell +=> ./gemfeed/2008-12-29-using-my-nokia-n95-for-fixing-my-mta.gmi 2008-12-29 - Using my Nokia N95 for fixing my MTA => ./gemfeed/2008-06-26-perl-poetry.gmi 2008-06-26 - Perl Poetry -- cgit v1.2.3