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Ok, here's what happened. I created abc and then set up a forward of xyz to abc both on the same server and it worked fine. When I tested the first time (previous post) I used the shorter domain name. I have cwckw.org parked on covenantwordchurch.org hosted here, but the cwckw email is hosted on Gmail so it went sideways. Ignore my last post... it was wrong.

It sounds like you are trying to forward from a@xxx.com to b@xxx.com, with b being the "real" account. The problem is that when both addresses are at the same domain there's an issue. When the mailman is trying to deliver the email to a@xxx.com, that address doesn't exist and since they are on the same server it gets confused. Thats the case with mine as well.. I get a 'no such user' bounce. If you were forwarding to another domain it would work - I have several of them. You could create the a@xxx.com account and have it forward. NOTE: I'm going to investigate this further - deleting for now. -- Or maybe not - can't find the delete

Cool Hand Luke "Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while."

If you are a user of Google hosted email then it looks just like regular Gmail. All the features are the same including the "delete nothing - search" mindset. As administrator you have a menu that will let you create/delete/reset passwords on accounts and you can also set up mailing lists so you can email to a group name and have multiple recipients. Forwards would be set up at the individual email address, not for the whole domain. For anyone not following this thread, hosted Gmail is like Gmail but your email address is xyz@****** and lets you do like I did for our church -- the website is here at TCH but the email, so-and-so@cwckw.org, goes to a special login place at Gmail for that particular person at our church. That way the leaders and department heads can switch from DSL to Cable and we have only one address for them which they can get even on vacation... as long as they have a web browser.

That's different. Where I grew up we just say "Shoo, get outta here" and chase them off.

36 hours straight of anything is not good for you if you are mentally unbalanced. As for doping up the kid? Not necessary. If I weren't getting old and my body screaming at me I could do it today... with the right game. I've done it gaming and programming in my younger days... you know, back when you could afford to crash for 2 days without worrying about jobs and stuff.

Tim, if you skip the vacation, at least send the normal amount of money you would have spent! Our economy depends on tourist dollars. lol

Shortstop is I Don't Give a Darn. Today's the catcher and Tomorrow is pitching.

Maybe, Steve. They may sense/see the drought here and settle for drinking out of some kind of instinct. It sure is dry though... and fires are scary in the Keys, and I guess elsewhere, because Wilma's flooding (salt water) killed a lot of brush and with it dry it's just so much kindling. Supposed to rain a little the next couple of days though. Maybe they do want privacy... we don't bathe in the wide open, why should they?

If you ask "Who's on first" the proper answer would be something like "That's right". Who's on first, what's on 2nd and I don't know's on 3rd. (Sorry, just had to harass you a bit, Steve.)

Don't forget, Don, that a lot of spammers are using dictionary attacks to guess names. They modify it of course, so they may use Don123 or HappyDon or any number of permutations, but it's such big business and they trash all failures so it's worth it to let their computers just sit and churn out trash.

Definitely open a ticket... your 2nd test file works on my account on a different server.

That's true Bruce, and even with that weird address the random character generators will send some spam through. It's almost a lost cause - I'm just thankful for the filters that work as well as they do.

This has nothing to do with TCH specifically so I put it in the Open Discussion forum. Has anyone else noticed a boatload more spam lately? I use Gmail for 99% of my emalis and they have a spam folder that drops messages older than 30 days. I usually have from 3400 to 4000 emails in there, meaning around 100 per day. Today, and it's been high for about a week, I have 6430 in there which means I have on average 214 per day! Egads, don't these guys have anything better to do? It also seems evenly spread out among the addresses I use so it's not like they "broke the code" I'm using to hide emails on websites from bots. The good thing is that only 3 or 4 per day get through the Google filter, but it sure makes it impossible to go back and check for false positives. The bad thing is that I've not changed anything such as putting email addresses on web pages or signed up for a get-rich-quick thing so this seems to be just a natural increase in spam. The sad thing is that it must work for them or they wouldn't do it so there must be a lot of suckers out there.

What they said about checking with the forums where you want to do this. As for person-to-person email it's common to have such things in your sig. In fact, most website marketing people suggest it to get more people to your site. Back in the pre-internet days the commonly accepted thing was 4 lines or less. Of course that was before we could put graphics and banners and stuff in sigs but the concept still holds - don't make the sig longer than the message.

If you have any web page accelerators, especially Google accelerator, make sure you turn it off (or unload it - it can actually accidentally delete emails in the wrong circumstances). It can do nasty things sometimes. I had a similar problem with Horde because of it before.

If you read the subject and thought "Linux" or "Firefox" then this post is for you. This is just a gentle admonition that I wish I could make to the entire world, but since I have seen it several times here I thought I'd mention it in the forums. Many times, it seems more often here recently, people have asked about Windows or Internet Explorer(IE) problems they have had and they get a reply of "Just switch to Firefox" or "Move to Linux". There are three possibilities: 1. They have a specific reason (work for ex) they have to use Windows or IE. 2. They have never heard of the alternative solutions and can handle using them. 3. They have never heard of the alternative solutions and can't handle the techno-geek stuff. Case 2 is pretty rare. Anyone techno-geek enough to handle them has probably heard of them. Case 3 is the case a lot of the time. If someone is just trying to get a website to work or install their Ipod they probably can't handle the other possibilities yet. Let them grow a little and they'll hear about the other stuff as time goes on. Case 1 is probably the equal in size to Case 3 - people have to use Windows at work or they have a program they need to use (I have one for making membership cards for my martial arts school that's Windows only and my bank won't talk to Firefox) and they don't have a choice. Why did I write this? Just as a gentle reminder to everyone who's knee-jerk reaction is to say "Switch to XXX" without trying to help the person within the confines of their problem. No one is wrong, but we should probably help them with the junky program they are using first and then nudge them toward the "better solution" after their crisis is over. Peace & love.

There is a flash tuorial at http://www.2serveu.net/cpanel-tutorials/standardcron.html that I found by using Google to search for "cPanel cron tutorial" which may help. TCH-Thomas deactivated the link.

Apparently this is a problem with Gallery in some cases. http://gallery.menalto.com/node/48799 I doubt it would be a problem on the TCH servers unless you are doing something very non-standard or they'd already be aware of it... but it's worth keeping an eye on.

300MB per day is a drop in the bucket. No problem there as long as your account covers that much in a month. Simply linking to a picture on TCH from another forum is fine and shouldn't cause any more bandwidth or CPU usage than people coming to your page at TCH directly. It is strange they said you were hogging the CPU. Was there anything else there that could cause it? Do you have any scripts that could have gone rogue? Maybe they weren't reporting some kind of traffic in your usage but it cost CPU cycles, such as looking for non-existant files a bazillion times. If you did have anything bogging down the CPU, of course TCH would limit you as well, but simple linked photos wouldn't do it.

Just make sure you don't write ANYTHING to that card or it will make your life miserable. (You probably know that but just in case )

Don't quote me Boss, macheveli started it. (I just said that prices should be rounded unless it's the price of gas cuz pennies are not so important.) How bout you HG? You haven't said if you pick up pennies.

I disagree. When considering debts versus assets, my net worth is negative... seriously. I believe you are close though. I think that the amount of money not worth picking up is directly proportional to a person's love of money. I'd bet Bill Gates would pick up a penny because, if we are to believe stereotypes and assumptions about him, money is the most important thing to him. I work for a guy who by local standards is quite rich and money is the most important thing in his life and I do believe he'd pick up a penny if no one was around to see the "indignity". (note, I'm not saying WHICH of the guys I work for )

Please excuse this off-topic delving into the thinking of an Englishman, but... I hear this comment a lot but the cost of petrol in England or other places being so much doesn't have any relevance to the fact that last year gas was $2.50-ish a gallon and is now $3.28 per gallon here and it worries us. I'd be curious to see how far the average Englishman drives on an average day versus how far an average American drives on an average day. Also, does the UK have any oil refineries? Why is it that the prices are so high and no one has rioted yet? There has to be a reason... everyone there talking to Americans says "Try living here" but no one there seems to think it's a travesty when discussing it amongst themselves. Just as an example, usatoday.com on the first page has: States seek relief from high gas costs Oil prices tumble nearly $2 but a search on the BBC website shows, in the first page of results Crime on petrol forecourts is on the rise 7 articles of personal interest about WW2 a reading festival a "yellowbelly petrol" competition (whatever that is ) It seems to me that £1 GBP per litre doesn't bother you guys on a daily basis. Why is that?

Nope. I'd probably not stop for less than a dime... but those tiny things are so pesky to try to pick up from the ground I may not at that. Pennies are the scourge of the money world. My evidence? People are so willing to give them away that stores have the "need a penny take a penny, have a penny leave a penny" cup. We should get rid of the 1's and round everything to 5.... except gas! I'll take every cent I can on that.