Category Archives: General

Git with Selenium UI Testing – Unpredictable results

A quick, and rather silly one, that has just caught me out a couple of times: Take a situation where you’re working on a site, and want to run some Selenium tests in the background, possibly with a CI server …

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Offline Mutt to replace Thunderbird on Ubuntu (5 of 4)…eh?

And one more that I’d forgotten about: using notify-send to show a popup when an email is received by offlineimap. Most of this was cribbed from…somewhere I forget. I think I just changed the parsing and left most of the …

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Offline Mutt to replace Thunderbird on Ubuntu (4 of 4)

It’s about time I got back to this one… So to bring together everything over the last 4 posts and to cover how offlineimap and msmtp can work together with Mutt, this is the config that’s needed: # Show unicode …

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Offline Mutt to replace Thunderbird on Ubuntu (3 of 4)

The previous post looked at setting up offlineimap for managing received emails, and this post will look at setting up msmtp for managing sending emails. The main reason I don’t like to use Mutt’s built-in SMTP to send directly to …

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Offline Mutt to replace Thunderbird on Ubuntu (2 of 4)

It doesn’t make sense to look at the Mutt config first, even though that is at the heart of everything. So first of all I’ll cover offlineimap. This package will replicate the IMAP folders from your email provider (Google Apps …

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Offline Mutt to replace Thunderbird on Ubuntu (1 of 4)

I’ve fallen out with Thunderbird recently and the geek in me has been interested in getting Mutt up and running for a while. But I needed certain functionality and it’s taken a little while to put all of the pieces …

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Here comes another one

Yet another attempt to start up a blog. I’ve been learning a lot recently with various computer related themes such as coding, and Linux, and so forth. Some of it has been useful, and some has been a bit tricky …

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