Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Email monitoring

I've been thinking more about the problem of monitoring an email server. I'm thinking of writing a program to help me make sure a mail server I don't control is actually receiving email.

Any ideas?

links for 2008-04-22

• Freedom, OS X Networking Freedom Software
  Freedom disables networking on an Apple computer for up to three hours at a time, freeing you from Internet distractions, allowing you time to code, write, or create. A reboot is the only circumvention.
  (tags: procrastination osx mac network internet lifehacks productivity)
• O Notation via Calculus
  (tags: complexity calculus integral programming math O algorithms)
• The $25,000,000,000 Eigenvector
  My Linear Algebra teacher devoted an entire lecture to the math behind Google's PageRank algorithm. I think this was his Become a Mathematician Elevator Pitch. People certainly paid attention during that lecture!
  (tags: algorithms google mathematics programming matrix eigenvector pagerank)