2013-05-26 Solved the mail submitting problem. That was a strange one! Mail needs to be submitted via port 587 using STARTTLS. This is enforced by qpsmtpd. The authentication, which is required, is done with the local IMAP server as the authentication backend. The problem was, this authentication failed. The logs said: ``auth_imap - could not connect to server''. Yet, the request went to localhost:993 and the server was listening on 0.0.0.0:993. Even if I tried localhost:143, the server listening on 127.0.0.1:143 as well, it failed. Eventually, I picked a small Perl code snipped that demonstrated the use of Net::IMAP::Simple::SSL and ran tests with this one. By surprise I discovered that the authentication succeeded for the external hostname and port 993, whereas it did not for ``lo- calhost'' on the same port. Further more, it even succeeded for ``127.0.0.1:993''. It only failed for ``localhost:993''. With telnet I am able to connect to this address, though. How strange! In changing the authentication IMAP server from ``localhost:993'' to ``127.0.0.1:993'' everything works again as expected. Got a notification that there are new features on Flickr. First, I thought that it must be a spam message, but it appeared that I probably have an account there. It proved to be true. I've never used it, though. I was quite happy to get it deleted within hours. It took a message to the support team, who gave me a tem- porary password to log into the account again. Then I was able to delete it by loading a special webpage I found in the Flickr help forum. [0] [0] http://www.flickr.com/profile_delete.gne http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke