When you use the photo gallery feature of the file storage area, previously photo comments would be taken either from what was entered via the web interface, or if nothing entered, what was present in the UserComment EXIF tag of the image. As pointed out in this forum thread, there
I've setup a new Virtual Domains screen on our beta server. More details in this forum post. The main advantages of the new screen are: Users can explicitly control sub-domain handling for their virtual domain (e.g. Yes, No, or Drop) Users can set a domain to be "external&
If /beta is down for any reason, the URL will now just access the main servers as if you hadn't specified /beta at all rather than returning an error. Also, the actual beta server is down for about 6 hours today. You won't notice anything though, because of the above
Since my suggestion of "lynch all politicians" suffered from some implementation challenges, we have gone with the next big thing and updated our timezone database to support the experiment with daylight savings going on in Western Australia. Apologies to those who were affected for the couple of days
I installed the Microsoft's Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta the other day. From what I can tell, it's sort of a free successor to Outlook Express to access Windows Live Mail (the online web based version that's succeeding the Hotmail brand name) and other IMAP/POP accounts and RSS feeds
We've now setup and installed two new servers to deal with the increased mail delivery load that's been occurring the last two days. These new servers are powerful dual core Xeon 5130 processor based servers, and so should be able to handle the processing load. We've also lowered the queue
It seems all the measures we put in place yesterday weren't enough. We've just been paged by our servers that an inbound delayed mail queue has built up again. We're seeing what we can do bring it back down. Update (2:30pm EST): The queues are going down. We're getting
It seems today the spam attack we've been experiencing for the last week intensified even more, and caused email to backup on some of our servers causing some email to be delayed up to several hours. We've analysed what happened and believe we now have procedures in place to stop
About 4 days ago or so, something went crazy with the spam zombie machines out there. Previously the spam sending software spammers were using was acting like reasonably well behaved email sending software. It would connect to us, trying to send it's spam, then disconnect just like any other email
