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A word of advice concerning the advice to “forward your mail through Gmail.”

Don’t.

Set up gmail to “Check mail from other accounts” instead.

The reason is that if you will be forwarding spam to your gmail account along with your regular email, gmail will see this spam as coming from your mail server, and it will start to hurt the Sender Reputation of your mail server, and you could end up having your mail server start showing up on some Block Lists.

I have had this happen to me. I have a tiny hosting service for my clients, and I started spam filtering a client’s “Contact Us” email through gmail by forwarding it to a gmail account that we made up in order to take advantage of gmail’s awesome spam detection. Then, some time later, a different email user tells me that one of her correspondents cannot receive her email. I look at the headers, and the reason the recipient cannot receive the email is because we are listed on a Block List. Uh Oh.

I tracked it down to the fact that the forward that I set up was sending hundreds of spam messages a day to that filtering gmail account. So gmail lowered our sender reputation.

The good news is that after I set that filtering gmail account to collect mail from the spammy “Contact Us” account via POP3, our sender reputation improved.

Adding to this discussion…

I managed to recover my original Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS system and successfully boot into it.

Yippee!!!

Wow, that was quite a saga. I know what those are like. It’s such a thrill when it finally works! (whatever “it” was)

Windows Secrets is one of the only newsletters that I always read.

I enjoyed the article.

I am typing this on a Linux Mint/Cinnamon laptop which dates from the early Vista days. My windows machine is running on the desk sitting next to this one.

I have been experimenting with a ton of Linux distro live CDs in the past year, mostly with the aim of updating some old WinXP PCs for a non-profit. They need the computers for doing data entry online and operating a phone bank.

Of the distros I have tried, Linux Mint Cinnamon and LXLE have been the standouts.

I like Mint Cinnamon edition because many things just seem to work the way you’d expect them to, like dragging an icon to the task bar…

LXLE is based on Ubuntu and has a lightweight desktop so it works better on older PCs. I liked it because it has great hardware detection, it’s pretty, and it’s fast. Hardware detection has been one of the great challenges of this little project. The old Broadcom wifi cards and SIS video cards have been tricky to get going. LXLE is specifically designed to replace Windows, and when you log in you can choose to use an XP desktop paradigm.

I am surprised no one has mentioned the “cursor alignment” problem that Google docs has.

My girlfriend recently finished her masters and I had suggested that she do her writing on G Docs because then she could work at whatever computer she was sitting in front of.

Little did I know that when you have a longish document, your cursor starts getting out of sync with the spot where letters actually appear when you type. It would get so bad for her that the cursor would be flashing several words away from the actual insertion point.

Apparently both our children experience this as well while doing school papers.

As far as I am concerned this makes Google Docs completely unusable.

I was thinking of having her try Zoho office or Microsoft’s version…but haven’t gotten around to testing.

I have this exact same problem and it drives me nuts.
I am convinced that it is based on extensions or plugins, as it only occurs on one of my Vista x64 systems, the one that I have loaded up with my favorite extensions.

It also causes pauses while I am typing, such as in this forum reply.