Drew came back by around 2 am this morning to pick up Huntur, and woke me up in the process. I assumed the loud noise was him coming in the house, but got up to make sure anyway. It felt as if it took me the rest of the night to fall asleep.
I got up at 6 am, as usual, thanks to Ming and Sasha. I built an impromptu table in the next room (plywood sheet on a pair of twin-drawer file cabinets) and cleaned up around the office, waiting for Galina to rise. Once up and breakfasted, she joined me in the next room going through all our receipts.
We broke around 1 pm for an hour or so, and then went at it again for a couple more hours. The process is murder on the back and on the brain, as soon you start to really want to pile stuff in haphazard heaps again. Of course, the papers started out in haphazard heaps this morning, so that number just wouldn't do. I may go back and process another couple of handfuls of stuff before calling it a night.
Then again, looking at the room, I'd say we probably nailed about 75% of the papers today.
* * *Drew called earlier to say that Shannon was not feeling very well, so they'd probably not be coming over later today. So far, that prediction has been true.
* * *Setting up an IMAP mail server on 'onegin' is in the back of my mind, seeing as how my DSL connection has now got a static IP address associated with it. Properly configured, I'd be able to get at my e-mail from anywhere, while keeping it on 'onegin'. As I understand it, keeping the mail on the server is a fundamental feature of IMAP, whereas the ability to keep mail on a server is merely a capability of the POP software.
Unfortunately, I'm finding documentation on moving from POP to IMAP kinda thin on the Internet. There's an article by Nick Petreley on doing what I'm thinking of doing, but his article shares the same problem most of the other vaguely successful hits on the internet exhibit, namely: configuring the software. In his article, the configuration occurs in a file called imapd.conf. In my setup, I have only a subdirectory inside of /etc called im, which contains a file named SiteConfig.
(Hmmm. I hadn't searched on that file name. Searching on IMAP and im just got me a lot of sites in Germany.)
Anyway, I also found the place in the postfix configuration file main.cf that defines the destination of incoming mail for a system user. I had a little mind-block while thinking about it, since I'd never actually defined the location (the default for user 'foo' is /var/spool/mail/foo), but there is an entry that allows me to modify that.
I've speficied a "home" directory in the SiteConfig file and enabled the imapd daemon on 'onegin' (telnetting to port 143 gets me an IMAP prompt), but haven't the foggiest idea if that - along with a change in the postfix config file - is enough to do the trick after restarting all the processes involved.
In my copious spare time, we'll see. One step at a time.
Cheers...
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