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Office 365 and postfix – revisited

by | Apr 16, 2017 | Linux, Technology, wordpress

Since I wrote this post (a long, long time ago) – Office 365 now adds support for creating a trusted connector between your Linux/postfix environment and Office 365.

Much, much easier than before.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/How-to-set-up-a-multifunction-device-or-application-to-send-email-using-Office-365-69f58e99-c550-4274-ad18-c805d654b4c4

So as a reminder for me next time:

  • certificate
  • SASL for username/password
  • Postfix main.cf settings
  • Set up Office 365 connector and trusted IP end point

Uploading mysql dumps to GoDaddy

by | Nov 28, 2010 | Technology, Uncategorized, wordpress

Strictly a console guy – I’ve been struggling to get the big blog database dumps up to the new hosting. phpMyAdmin claims to support zipped dumps – but that doesn’t work. There are also timeouts in the console for the upload and import.

I finally fixed it by using scp to move the non-compressed dump to the hosting server; and then using the Hosting Control Center to restore the dump as if it was a backup.

It’s running right now – so hopefully I’ll have happy blogs again soon.

WordPress filesystem abstraction – and automatic updates

by | Jun 11, 2009 | patching, Uncategorized, wordpress

Way back in the not-so-distant past the only way to update WordPress was to download (wget/ftp) updates, plugins and themes, unpack them and perform the update/install.

It is possible to pull the latest builds from subversion – but that’s really focused on the core hacker.

New in WP 2.7 was the ability to update automatically.

There were a few challenges with this – permissions, PHP modules, various host implementations – but I found it generally quite successful.

I found a great FAQ here – http://dd32.id.au/2009/02/20/wordpress-filesystem-abstraction-faq/

From the same author is a very cool plugin – core-control – it lets you enable and disable various transports – and shows the status of them.