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2016/03/162018/09/09

Screw you, NameCheap.

A couple years back I took advantage of NameCheap’s “Move your domain day” specials to move from GoDaddy to NameCheap. I was motivated by a couple of things. First was GoDaddy’s effective censoring of RateMyCop.com by yanking their registration, and second was their CEO’s prolific hunting of endangered animals. So, fuck GoDaddy, I moved to NameCheap.

Today I noticed that I had lost a domain. It was a domain that I had hosted for a friend for nearly 20 years. I perused my email, and I didn’t have a single domain renewal email for this domain in 2015; but when I logged into NameCheap I found a long list of renewal notices that had been logged internally on their system but never delivered by email to my contact email address. When I contacted support @ NameCheap with the request that the delivery issue be tracked down, they actually offered to get my domain back for $10.87. Delighted, I transferred money to my NameCheap account. Within the hour they refunded it. Apparently, the first support agent hadn’t bothered to actually look at the issue, and had fired off some bullshit response that gave me false hope the issue could be rectified. The second agent conceded that they couldn’t get my domain back, and assured me that the problem couldn’t be on their end and I was therefore screwed.

I offered to how them ten years of mail server logs, proving their mail servers hadn’t even had a failed SMTP handshake with mine, if they’d show me their logs they said proved they had emailed me notifications. Not that it really mattered, as some scumbag domain speculating company snatched up that domain and they aren’t giving it back unless I pay a ton of money.

Bob Parsons is a dick, but I know that GoDaddy will call me directly a dozen times before they let a dime of registration money slip through their fingers. I’d rather deal with a dick than lose another domain.

Screw you, NameCheap.

ps. I’m really sorry Marietta.

2015/09/142017/09/15

Installing MacPorts on OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’

High Sierra Update: If you are looking for instructions on how to manually install MacPorts onto the High Sierra GM release, check here: Installing MacPorts on MacOS “High Sierra”

Update: MacPorts has released their official El Capitan installer. You should probably use it instead. 🙂

Update: Since people are ignoring my above comment, I have updated the below instructions to reflect the version changes reported by Chrisp in the comments.

Another year, another OS X update. If you are like me, you’ve weaseled a copy of the OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ Gold Master installer, and you have started checking to see how much of your software is going to break if and when you install. Given the issues I’ve had in the past, MacPorts is the very first thing I test. 🙂

The first thing I noticed is that there is no El Capitan installer for MacPorts, and the Yosemite installer will not run on OS X 10.11. So, we are back to compiling it ourselves. Fortunately, this goes pretty smoothly.

The first caveat is that in addition to needing access to OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’ , you will need a copy of Xcode 7 (beta, RC, etc). You won’t be able to compile MacPorts for El Capitan with Xcode 6 because of changes to one or more of the header files that ship with the OS X 10.11.

The second caveat is that I did a clean install of OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’, so my instructions may not adequately deal with any cruft left over by previous installs. If you have an upgrade issue, please comment here and I’ll do my best to help you out and improve the instructions. You may want to follow the MacPorts uninstall instructions before starting the below steps.

Install OS X 10.11 ‘El Capitan’
Install Xcode 7
Launch Xcode:
1. Agree to the license.
2. Let it install the extra components it says it needs.
3. Quit xcode.

Open a terminal window:

```
sudo bash
```

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

```
xcode-select --install
```
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cd Desktop
```
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mkdir macports
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cd macports
```

curl -O https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.3.4.tar.gz

```
tar xzvf MacPorts-2.3.4.tar.gz
```
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cd MacPorts-2.3.4
```
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./configure --enable-readline
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make && make install
```

echo 'export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile

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source ~/.profile
```
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port -v selfupdate
```

At this point, you should be ready to start reinstalling your ports! Wee!

If you see this error at step 4-10:

checking for Apple Foundation library... no
configure: WARNING: GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not defined in your environment, preventing the use of GNUstep's Foundation library
configure: error: Could not find a working Foundation implementation

It means you either have not installed Xcode 7 GM, or that you are running Xcode 7 Beta. Xcode 6 doesn’t know how to handle the changes to /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Headers/Foundation.h that happened with El Capitan. The configure script is able to find the header file, but the test compile fails so it reports that the Apple Foundation library isn’t there.

If you are running Xcode Beta, you can get around this by using the following command in the shell you opened above, and then going back to step 4-10: (Thank you SadDigger for the comment on Reddit!)

xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-beta.app

Update 2015-09-15 11:06AM – Fixed a typo in instruction 4-3 where WordPress was converting a double-hyphen into an extended hyphen. I have also updated it to the latest version of MacPorts, so that the final just updates the ports rather than rebuilding the whole thing. Sorry about that!

2014/11/052014/12/01

Mailcleaner – adding uceprotect.net RBLs

One of the first things I wanted to do with Mailcleaner was improve the selection of RBLs. I had noticed that a lot of spam was still getting through, but would have been stopped if a few of the RBLs listed at The Anti-Abuse Project’s Multi-RBL Check were being used on my Mailcleaner instance. I parsed the list, and turned it into script for creating the appropriate database entries and RBL config files. I quickly noticed that three of the entries I had created were not showing up in the web interface. A little googling and I found that I wasn’t the only one with this problem, and that other people with this problem had unanswered threads in the official forums.

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