Today is one of those days when I really question if the invention of computers was a good thing...
For the last few days, or Internet access has been soooo slow.
I finally broke down and called BellSouth. I got a great tech on the phone. Long story short... they made some tweaks to the line, and things improved dramatically.
Unfortunately, the improvements only lasted a few hours.
Resetting the DSL modem got things zipping along again, but I figure it will only be a matter of time before I have to reset it again.
As if that wasn't enough of an annoyance, my email mysteriously lost the ability to send mail.
After some digging, I determined that the problem was that the server was not accepting SMTP connections from my home machine. The really strange thing? It would accept connections from my work computer or the "other" windows PC.
I spent lots of time trying to figure out why the server would accept an SMTP connection from one machine on the network, but not another.
As one of my trouble shooting steps, I reconfigured sendmail to use a port other than 25. Sendmail accepted the connection from the main PC on this new port. When I changed it back, it wouldn't accept the connection. For the time being, I'm just going to leave it set to the other port.
Arrrg!
On a positive note, I had posted a message on the WLW forum requesting that support for MT Extended Entries be added. I received a response from the development team within hours saying "it's already on the list."
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Posted by David at November 29, 2006 08:23 PM