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Archive for March, 2008

Is trying to fix (E)SMTP really worth it?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

I wanted to let you know that I just published an article covering the shortcomings of SMTP, the current email infrastructure and how some fixes to problems of SMTP, like SPF and DKIM, are not a real solution.
 

 You can find the article here.
 

Python IDEs tested

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

I just wrote a blog post about my recent test of Python IDEs and observations about them.

Until now I have been using GNU Emacs instead of a fully-fledged IDE and was quite happy with it. But one IDE in particular changed my mind.

If you are looking for an IDE you might want to read the blog post (oh, and you vim and GNU Emacs users out there might want too).