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Movable Type and free alternatives

Paul Westbrook | 16 May, 2004 18:11

Over the past couple of days, I have been looking through blog rings, and looking at people’s blogs. One topic that seems to be on a lot pf people’s mind is that Six Apart changed their license agreement for Movable Type 3.0. I guess the free version does not have as many features as the previous free version.

I think that Six Apart has every right to change their licensing terms, but I also think that consumers have every right to vote with thier wallet. There is a lot of free blog software. I use plog, and it is a great open source software. I is a php/mysql application for blogs.

The url for plog is http://www.plogworld.org/

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SMTP with t-mobile

Paul Westbrook | 16 May, 2004 12:31

Today I had to wait while I had a tire repaired, so I decided to wait at a Starbucks. I firgured that I would bring my laptop and use it to get some stuff done with the t-mobile 802.11b,

When I tried to send an email, my mail client stated that the mail server did not use authentication (The mail server that I use requires authentication). After a little digging, it looks like t-mobile intercepts all outgoing connections to port 25, and then sends it to their smtp server.

That seems like it could be a possible security concern. If I sent a message using the smtp server in my mail client (in general a isp or company’s server), and it actually goes to a different server, I don’t like that. I think that it would be better if they just blocked outgoing connections to port 25. Then the user should have to explicitly set up their smtp server in order to send outgoing messages.

I didn’t read the terms of service that closely, but this might be listed there.

Today, what I did was to tunnel the smpt connection through my ssh connection to the mail server. With doing that, I could guarantee the privacy of my email.

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