No Thunderbird labels when using imap over SSL

Thijs Lensselink — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:40:50 +0000

Last week i moved one of our domains to a new server. After syncing all the email between two servers i was happy i didn’t had any problems in the process. But a few days later one of the girls in the office noticed she can’t share labels anymore. This is a big problem since we have one mailbox that is shared over 4 people. When somebody works on a newly arrived mail they can tag it so the others can see it’s being worked on.

So after some hour of playing with settings i figured out the problem was SSL. If i disable SSL the labels come through normally. If i enable SSL no labels are being loaded. At this moment i am not sure if it’s a mail server issue, a mis configured SSL certificate or maybe a bug in Thunderbird. Will do some more research when i get back from my well deserved vacation.

There seems to be some sort of solution available in the form of an extension for Thunderbird. But it’s only available for v3 and up!

So the workaround for now is to disable SSL. I’m not to happy about it. But it will do for now.

Google earth libcrypto crash

Thijs Lensselink — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:50:26 +0000

I was reading up on some new features the guys at google pushed into google-earth. And i was curious enough to give it a try. So i downloaded the installer for Linux and installed the application without any errors. But when i tried launching it from a command line. I was surprised to see the application crash and burn with the following message:

Warning: Unable to create prefs directory ‘/home/user/.googleearth’. File exists.
./googleearth-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/i686/cmov/libssl.so.0.9.8: symbol BIO_test_flags, version OPENSSL_0.9.8 not defined in file libcrypto.so.0.9.8 with link time reference

Seems the libcrypto.so is linked against some wrong libraries. Thankfully this is pretty easy to fix. Just browse to the google-earth install directory and run the following commands:

$ rm libcrypto.so.0.9.8
$ ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypto.so libcrypto.so.0.9.8

The main reason i installed google-earth was to check out the new ocean view feature. So i selected a piece of coastline near the Netherlands.

Although i was looking for some ocean life. The first thing i found was an airplane

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No Thunderbird labels when using imap over SSL

Google earth libcrypto crash