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Tired of getting mail notifications of e-mails you’ve already seen but have not read? The default mozilla thunderbird new e-mail notification tool has the tendency to display old mail and mail that has already been moved to junk folders. When you flag your e-mail as ‘read’ when you filter out junk, you can work around the displaying of junk messages.

With this new thunderbird add-on, you can configure more: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2610

note: use “%subject” and “%sender” in the notification text to display message details. More info on these variables on the author’s website: http://tjeb.nl/Projects/Mailbox_Alert/index.html

The past months, I teamed up with the panel6 folks in their project to create a server/webhosting control panel “that eats webmins for breakfast”. I’m very happy with the results so far: the webbased GUI communicates 100% through ajax with the core system.

And it gets even better: it contains a command-line called ‘opencli’

Creating vhosts on servers is repeating the same trick every time. I know most people around me have automated this using ‘setup-a-new-domain’-scripts, but handmade scripts usually lack proper errorchecking – unless you spend a lot of time writing them. With opencli creating a new vhost is as simple as entering ‘create vhost www.foo.com’ and apache is up and running the domain \o/.

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