April 2008

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04.12.08

Logging SMTP errors with qmail Linux | (0)
For the past few days, a customer of ours has had problems receiving mail from one of their partners. While troubleshooting the SMTP traffic to our qmail server I stumbled upon the following line in our logs: X-Qmail-Scanner-1.25st: Process XXXX closed, parent process died This message occurs every single time they tried to send mail to our customer. It turns out they used a homebrew MUA which sent messages using Bare LFs as EOL instead of proper ones (according to document 822bis) - read DJB's dwelling into this matter. Our qmail system rejects the mail as supposed to, and informs the sender about the ...

Tagged: administration, Linux, qmail, qmail-scanner, recordio, smtp, smtplf
04.10.08

Getting own content on top of Google Maps Code | (0)
I just stumbled over a great solution to a problem I had; getting own content to float above a Google Maps IFRAME. I thought I had tried every possible way, using a variety of tricks. However, the solution would reveal itself to be much easier than I would have thought! Ben Simon writes on his blog on how he solved the issue nice and tidy by simply using a parent container for two child DIVs; the overlay and the map. Like this: This will be on top of the map Using the following CSS markup: #container { position: relative; } #layer { ...

Tagged: css, development, google maps, programming