I was asked recently whether the Popupper plugin for Wordpress works when mousing over an image. I tried it to see, if I had managed to write the code good enough for it to “just work” out of the box. Sadly no, the highlighted image disappeared when I tried it out. That’s a bug for [...]

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I posted here about how Verizon’s recent PBL policies affected my blog. Here is how I editted Wordpress 2.6.5 to use Verizon’s own SMTP server. Note that emails can still appear to come from whatever address I want (like a GMail account).
./wp-includes/pluggable.php

@@ -374,7 +374,7 @@
}
// Set to use PHP’s mail()
- [...]

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At some point in the last week, Verizon has listed all of its residential IP address with spamhaus.org in their Policy Block List. This means that any server running at a residence can no longer send out email from an internal SMTP server. Like say… the FreeBSD Server in my basement that hosts this blog. I used [...]

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