DreamHost Newsletter v10.9 September 2008
0. Introduction.
1. New! System-wide Upgrades!
2. Volunteer to Get Upgraded First!
3. New! Quarantined Mail via IMAP!
4. New! Webmail Upgraded to 1.4.15!
5. DHSOTM
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0. Introduction.
Ugh, here it is, practically mid-October, and I'm still not *feelin* the
DreamHost September Newsletter, 2008 edition. If it's anything like a
usual month, I'm going to assume you guys aren't feeling it either. So,
maybe we should just call the whole thing off?
Hmm, I guess you can probably tell by the all the other words below this
that that isn't going to happen. Nah, I guess we all have a duty to each
other to write and read this thing, no matter how feeling-ly towards
each other we are feeling. So, I suppose we should just plow on through
and choke down whatever sorry excuses for "features" I whipped up in the
last 24 hours.
Let's get this thing over with.
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1. New! System-wide Upgrades!
What a lovely day today is! The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's
beautiful and so are you! Nothing is going to change my world today,
you'd have to be crazy to be in a funk with an environment like this!
Which is why we're doing our part even more to help keep it that way.
You might already know about our carbon offsets and what-not:
http://www.dreamhost.com/aboutus-green.html
But the world is NOT ENOUGH! So, as I detailed in this blog post:
http://blog.dreamhost.com/2008/10/01/lets-save-our-environment-harder/
We will, over the next year or so, be transitioning ALL customers to new
servers (with local disk) that should result in greater than 50% cost er
energy savings in our data center!
Happy, Happy, Year!
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2. Volunteer to Get Upgraded First!
Pshaw. That whole upgrade plan sounds like a hell-hole death-march of
busywork and problems, problems, problems. Haven't we ever heard of "If
it ain't broke, don't fix it?" I only know one thing, and that's that
no good can come of this.
If you've got a suicidal bent, and can easily be bought because you have
no principals, we've got an offer for you here:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=billing.accounts
If you actually VOLUNTEER to be one of the first moved to the new system
your account will be "upgraded" to unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever.
Of course, it's not like you'll use it, and it's of course subject to our
"unlimited" policy. If you do decide to do it, you'd be a damn fool to
not read the caveats listed there and *follow them*.
Damned fool if you do, gonna get moved eventually anyway if you don't.
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3. New! Quarantined Mail via IMAP!
There's NOTHING that makes my day MORE than us FINALLY finishing a
feature that's been one of the most popular suggestions for pretty close
to a DECADE!!!! :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)!!!!!!
Yes. It's TRUE!! You can finally access your junkmail quarantine folder
via your IMAP client!!! To enable this, just log into webmail at:
http://webmail.dreamhost.com/ or http://webmail.yourdomain.com/
and click "junkmail" there on the left, then "settings", then put in a
folder name for your spam!
You can also of course use:
http://mailboxes.domain.com/
(The place for individual mailbox users to manage their own settings.)
And click "junkmail settings" to do the same thing!
Today is already so BEAUTIFUL... and now THIS?!! Happy happy joy joy!
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4. New! Webmail Upgraded to 1.4.15!
Of course, putting a ribbon on a turd doesn't stop it being a turd.
We've tried upgrading squirrelmail (our open source webmail software) to
version 1.4.15 recently to see how big a ribbon they put on it:
http://webmail.dreamhost.com/ or http://webmail.yourdomain.com/
and as far as I can see, the ribbon, it does nothing.
What a waste of time that was. No obvious changes or benefits at all.
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5. DHSOTM
Wheeeee a contest! It's my perennial (permonthly?) favorite section of
the newsletter, the DreamHost Site of the Month contest! And I'm
ESPECIALLY ECSTATIC this month, because we have NEVER had such a GLORIOUS
winner:
http://www.tonyamoore.com/
She's a creative writing enthusiast with a flash-free home page, he's a
newsletter writer with a distinctly bi-polar nature... could it last?!
Of COURSE it could, you've just got to think POSITIVE! And, while you're
at it, you should DEFINITELY, POSITIVELY submit your own site:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tree=home.dhsotm
I just KNOW with a wonderful site like yours, you'll win it in a
chipmunk's heart beat!
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Sucky,
Josh Jones
P.S. This newsletter being worse than your portfolio, you'll probably
want to unsubscribe now by managing your contact preferences at:
https://panel.dreamhost.com/id/?tab=contact
