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| Edit | Post #293732 | Initial revision | — | 8 days ago |
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A: Can I verify myself on Mastodon using a Google Site with a custom domain? Based on seeing other website auth and metadata protocols only, I'm expecting this to be of the form ` ... ... ` . When I fetched the page and looked at the source (with curl or in Firefox dev), and I only see mention of `mastodon` further down, and there it is encoded in a `` element which surel... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293725 |
just drawing your attention to the new bit above, "our lucky day, [cPanel provides documentation](https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/articles/5528247629463-How-to-use-exigrep-to-search-the-Exim-logs)" (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293725 |
Post edited: mail header analysis, and in general about security in advice from strangers |
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| Edit | Post #293725 |
Post edited: about mail forwarding |
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| Edit | Post #293728 | Initial revision | — | 9 days ago |
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A: Automated Git bisect One great power of `git bisect`, and bisection search in general, is that automation is often not required. If you the bug loiters among 128 commits, you should only need seven tests to find it. It's great that one can automate this search. Sometimes it's even better that you don't need to. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293629 |
sounds like a use case for shallow clones (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293727 | Initial revision | — | 9 days ago |
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A: How to delete old files in GIT while keeping history? History of text changes is highly compressible This is why Git is good for source code and other text. You can make hundreds of changes to one file and `git gc` will compact that down by an astonishing amount. Usually you don't need extra flags on it. For other readers mostly storing text and s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293725 | Initial revision | — | 9 days ago |
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A: How do I stop Gmail from silently dropping legitimate email? > I've known for a while that Gmail sometimes silently drops incoming email -- it doesn't bounce or go to the spam folder; it just disappears. [...] > > How can I debug (and ideally fix) this problem? For me, these are the jumping-off points: the places you know messages are not coming from. ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293715 |
Also, and importantly, gmail showed me how to fix my system **without registering myself on their system as a site owner**, which was an option at some point.
I will not sign up for an account with each place I need to send an email! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293711 |
I think those rules have to be somewhat opaque. Clear rules for how a spammer can get a message past the filters are not what we want!
Clear rules for how well-administered Mail Transport Agents should be configured is something that gmail (in my experience) has provided. That's a different thing,... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293715 |
Yes, I've been there. The errors from gmail were probably phased in gently over months at some point, but I didn't send often enough for that to be very clear to me.
I got my SPF set up, and that makes me a better mail administrator. Importantly, it is **harder for the spammers to forge my address... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293715 |
They are certainly seem too big to have time to care about individuals' mail problems.
Also being leaders on the tech adoption front, they seem to be more aggressive than other webmail providers in pushing for SPF adoption - and I think that is a positive thing. (more) |
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