Up North

After looking a bit for a text based email client to get good and fast keybindings for operations like moving emails or moving to a certain folder I found the Thunderbird addon Nostalgy.

This is a truly great addon to Thunderbird as it let’s you quickly sort through your emails with a few keystrokes.

A while back, I decided to drop my email filters and have all mails go to my inbox where I manually sort them. For this I made four special folders, 1_ACTION, 2_TO_READ, 3_PENDING and X9_SPAM. These names will ensure that my three folders I visit frequently will show up before my regular archives and that the spam box ends up last in the list. With the Nostalgy plugin it also lets me do “s 1 ” to move a mail to my Actions folder and a “s 9 ” to move it to the spam folder.

It can also be setup to have a default folder for certain incoming addresses (for example, default gtk-devel-list to /Archives/GNOME/Gtk+ Devel) so that I can just click “shift-s” to move it there. Otherwise it defaults to the folder I last used so that you can quickly move several mails to the same folder.

Upgraded my firewall to Ubuntu Dapper this morning and after that my network interfaces started taking random names (one being eth1 and the other eth2). Struggled or a while to try to get it to load the right card with adding module aliases but couldn’t get it to work.

In the end I found ifrename by the help of Richard which seemed to do the trick.

On a personal level things are rocking, Emma is getting bigger and we are just waiting for the day she takes her first steps without any support. After that, end of quiet life…