Tips and Tricks

Greek Spell Checking for the Mozilla and Mozilla Thunderbird email clients

In order to have Greek spell checking for the previously mentioned clients ( Mozzila mail, and Mozzila Thunderbird Mail) go to ftp://ftp.cs.ucy.ac.cy/pub/Windows/Thunderbird/Greek_Dictionary/ and download the el.aff and el.dic

Save the downloaded files in the following locations:

• For Mozilla mail in C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\components\myspell
• For Thunderbird in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\components\myspell

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Reclaiming free space after deleting log files

If a filesystem is full (for example /var) and you delete some log files in order to make some room on the filesystem, you observe that the space does not appear to be there when running the df command. The solution to this is to restart the application which is using the log files deleted. e.g: if you delete an apache log file then you should restart the httpd service.
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Multiple message selection and manipuilation in pine

Handling Multiple messages in pine. In order to handle multiple messages at once using pine, you first have to enable the aggregate commands: Setup<S> -> Config<C> and check the enable-aggregate-command-set option as shown in Figure 14. This option adds: a Select command (;) to select messages by various criteria (From, Subject, Date, etc); a Select Cur (:) to select the current message; an Apply command (A) to apply commands such as Save(S), to save all Selected messages; and Zoom (Z) to restrict the messages shown in the Folder Index to just the selected ones; and Del (D) to delete all Selected messages.

Open the folder you want to handle and click the semicolon (;) Select the messages you want to handle by any criteria that you like, {e.g.: if you want to select a range of message type (N) and then the range (1-1000) and hit enter} then hit (A) and select the command you would like to apply to them{e.g.: (D) To delete the selected messages}.