Testing again
What I intended to do today: testing the used PHP code against the new PHP version, on Eden, the VMS emulator, simply didn’t work. Booting was no problem, the WASD webserver did start OK and I could present PHP_INFO. But there accessibility ended. Both PHPMyAdmin and WP284 gave me "Not permitted" – weird, since there hasn’t been changes in configuration. In order to find out what happened, I tried to start the admin page – but that failed as well, with the same message: "403 – Forbidden", and I would expect a log-in page! Something broke in the configuration, appearently.
Testing WindowsLive Writer
As I just downloaded WindowsLive and locate the ability to use it to add an entry to the blog, I gave it a try. Well, it works for most what I want. Adding plain text requires similar activity as under the WP edit pane, it looks like adding images is easier to accomplish – something I didn’t test yet. The only exception seems that adding en excerpt is not possible. However: worth taking a look at, anyway, and keep it in the back of my mind, if all others fail (2.8.4 , or the new program…)
Less mail – less spam
In the last weeks, the number of mail messages has dropped significantly. I used to get at least one message an hour (and such a low rate was seldom), today it happens that no message appears within a few hours: the only messages I see are the log timestamps, several after eachother without interleaving SMTP signals:
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 12:01:38.51 %%%%%%%%%%% Logfile time stamp
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 12:17:42.16 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user INTERnet on DIANA
INTERnet ACP SMTP Accept Request from Host: 192.168.0.2 Port: 54918
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 13:01:38.63 %%%%%%%%%%% Logfile time stamp
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 14:01:38.65 %%%%%%%%%%% Logfile time stamp
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 15:01:38.66 %%%%%%%%%%% Logfile time stamp
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 15:30:06.13 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user INTERnet on DIANA
INTERnet ACP SMTP Accept Request from Host: 192.168.0.2 Port: 54953
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 13-OCT-2009 16:01:38.68 %%%%%%%%%%% Logfile time stamp
Such low rates are uncommon: I’ve not seen reports of spam-enabled servers being downed, but there may well be some.