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Well, I got the SOCKS thing figured out. It seems that current builds of Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and IE (?!?!) don’t support doing name resolution on the remote side of a SOCKS proxy. They all try to resolve the name locally, then use SOCKS for the actual connection itself. That just does’t make sense to me. heh.

Anyway, after digging around online for a few hours I found a two-year Bugzilla thread which discusses this. It finally looks like it’s coming around. So, I grabbed the most recent Mozilla nightly and… What do you know… There’s a checkbox for the option and it works great. Whee!

Has anyone here had any luck making Firefox and/or Thunderbird work properly with a SOCKS proxy? I’ve got one running via PuTTY and it works great for AIM and SOCKScap. I can’t get the damn thing to work with IE, Firefox, or Thunderbird. It appears that the apps are attempting to do their name resolution locally, so they don’t know where to connect to…

Any ideas?

[Crossposted to and .]

So, I need a suggestion…

See, I normally use a number of different email addresses to handle things like mailing lists, LJ, ebay, online ordering, etc. This works out great, as Mail.app (the Apple mail client I use) does a good job with multiple accounts.

Currently I use POP3 at home set to download the mail, and delete it 5 days later. When away from home I check mail with Squirrelmail, which uses IMAP. This setup allows me to access my last week of email remotely, with everything being available and archived at home.

I also will send email from these accounts, especially the admin one, my personal one, the lists one, and the ordering one.

I would like to switch everything around so I have a single IMAP account which I log into with both Squirrelmail and Mail.app. Inbound email will get forwarded to the IMAP account, then filtered into folders based on each account / mailing list / mail type / spam / whatever. This part is easy. Procmail seems to make this trivial.

Here’s where I’m running into a problem… From time to time I will need to send email using an account other than the main IMAP one.

Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? The only way I’ve had to do this in the past is to use Eudora and set up an account with only the outgoing address and SMTP server set. I don’t believe you can do this under Mail.app nor Thunderbird. So… Any other ideas?

Does anyone who reads this have a preference for a web-based BIND administration tool? I’m kinda sick of editing zone files by hand.

I hope someone here can help me out with this…

I’ve been reading through Apple TN2118: Kernel Core Dumps and it seems pretty straight forward. There is one thing I’m not quite getting, though. I can’t seem to find a way to make a machine panic and then dump core to the local disk. It only seems possible to dump to a remote machine running ‘macosxkdump’, not the local disk.

And, well, since I’ve only got one Mac at home, and macosxkdump hasn’t yet been ported to any other OSS platforms (an OpenBSD port would be stellar right about now), I’m kinda sunk.

Has anyone else done this, or come up with a way to get dumps to go to a local disk?

UPDATE: It appears that kdumpd from the network_cmds part of OpenDarwin is all that one needs to handle this. I’ve found postings online which say it’s trivial to port, but I don’t have the skill to do it. :( Would anyone else be up to this task?

Has anyone who reads my friends list ever worked with any sort of SSL (or other type) of cryptography accelerator? I’ve been thinking about setting up one to accelerate SSL in my webserver. It seems to be possible to obtain a few fairly cheap via eBay when one uses some inventive searching.

Have you found them to be useful? Did it really speed things up? I’m hoping to use this under FreeBSD…