Google‘s got a new format! I’ve updated my google results scraper that formats Google results for use in a sidebar frame. Here’s the code if you want to try it at home.

Many others have gone through the pain of having to replace/upgrade Redhat’s out-of-the-box IMAP email handling, which goes for compatibility over performance. And now, sadly, it’s my turn.

Redhat 9 ships with UW IMAP, with the most compatible mailbox format. This doesn’t scale well, for several users, or for one user with a lot of mail (that’d be me). From what I’ve read, there is no email indexing, and only one process can lock the mail file at a time. In squirrelmail, it’s currently taking minutes to load each page of email, and I’m going nuts (hah).

So I’m going to install Cyrus IMAP, which is supposedly “hard to configure”. Dang it… to be continued…