[sf-lug] Mail problems (or Firefox, or systemd,...)

[Ken Shaffer]

Anyone else having email problems?  Last month, systemd on my Ubuntu 18.04
stopped resolving mail.comcast.net.  No known changes on my part, not even
an update, it just stopped working, but none of the other sites I visit had
a problem.  Seems some longstanding issues with DNS on systemd, oh well,
not wanting to get too dirty under the hood (on an otherwise untouched
system), I just took the suggestion to redirect /etc/resolv.conf to the
/run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf file instead of the .../stub-resolv.conf.
(pointing the nameserver to my router instead of 127.0.0.53). That  fixed
things, until my gmail through Firefox stopped working (on my 18.04, FF
phone and FF 16.04, & Chrome were still OK).  Most unhelpful error message,
"Sorry that didn't work try again".  Cleaned caches, history, etc.  No
fix.  Finally found a suggestion to turn off the blocking of trackers (was
only using the default basic stuff anyway) -- That did it, Google insists
now that my Firefox not block any trackers.  I'll look around to see if
there's any granularity on this, but I just saw a few checkboxes.  Sigh.
Ken


On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 7:30 PM Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
wrote:

> Hi LuGers,
>
>      The last meeting of 2018!
>
>    SF-LUG meets every third Monday from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M.
> and  every first Sunday from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M.
> at the Cafe Enchante, 26th and Geary Boulevard.
>
>      These meetings are usually lightly attended with a high for the
> year so far of 7 members.   If you have a problem come along
> and maybe we can help but if not we can usually find someone
> who can.
>
>    Added to the distributions library:
>
>      4MServer-27.0-64bit.iso
>
>      4MLinux-27.0-32bit.iso
>
>      Both used to fit in a CD Now a DVD is required for each.
>
> CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveKDE-1810.iso and some other
> variations have been released.
> CentOS is using KDE Plasma 4.14.8,
> Linux kernel 2.1.0-957 ,
> LibreOffice version 5 is supplied but not
> LibreOffice Manager.
> Updates supplied by yum, a tool run in terminal
> It does use a late version of Dolphin for a file manager.
> Firefox is supplied which is how I found out about yum.
>      CentOS is an Enterprise Distribution Linux compiled
> from the RedHat source code.  If the users are not savvy
> they will need an IT to manage the system.
>     One shortcoming is that the disk did not display the
> UEFI alternative on boot.  I checked the disk and under /boot
> we do have an /EFI   The best use is in business where
> people are concerned about staying away from the cutting
> edge.
>
>      ==================================
>
> December 5 at the Fog City News I was able to get
> the Linux Pro December 2018 issue #217.
>
> Distributions of the Month are both 64 bit
> Debian 9.5 Gnome
> Emmabuntüs
>
>      Front Cover devoted to Innovative Distros!
>
> ⁕ Bohi -for a simpler Enlightenment
> ⁕ Heads -  anonymizing surfing even on old hardware.
> ⁕ Nitrux User Interface get creative on KDE
> ⁕ Qubes Lockdown security with the forcus on isolatiion.
>
>      /proc Filesystem so that you can Window into a running system
>
>      cheat.sh Syntax tips at your fingertips
>
>      Upribox 2 Use a Rasp Pi to filter ads and trackers
>
>      Git Workshop -working with remote repositories
>
>       Purism Librem - Linux laptop (and phones) with special security
> features
>
>      LINUXVoice:
>      ⁕ Astrology with OpenAstro
>      ⁕ maddog - BSA and the real cost of proprietary Software
>      ⁕ Usenet on the modern Internet
>
>      FossPicks:
>       °   Vocal Podcast Manager
>       °   MVAW -Old-School BBS
>       °   Leo Online Editor
>
>      Tutorial:
>       °    RSS Feeds
>
>      And yet more than this.
>
>      Hope to see some of us on Monday, 17 December 2018
>
>      Bobbie Sellers
>
>
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