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This post is about configuring mutt, fetchmail, and ssmtp to use a secure (encrypted) connection between your computer and your hosting provider when sending or retrieving email.
I have been using the Mutt email client on various flavors of Unix or Cygwin for a long time. I use fetchmail to retrieve email from my hosting provider, [...]

Last year I began a tradition of cooking a heart-shaped pizza for Valentine’s day. This was ambitious because I don’t know the first thing about cooking.
As a novice, my biggest challenge is that cookbooks assume you already know how to cook. They’ll tell you to do things, like marinating meat, or sautéing an onion, without [...]

We recently installed a stove in our home. This stove required a conversion from natural gas to propane (LP). The installation instructions walked us through the process, which included changing the pressure of the regulator valve, installing smaller orifices in each of the burners, and adjusting the air flow for proper combustion.
When we were done, [...]

I’m starting to see a lot of web searches for wedding playlists bringing people to our site. We put a lot of effort into coming up with soundtracks for the different parts of our celebration. We started by choosing music from our collection that we wanted to share with our friends and family. Next, we [...]

The morning of the ceremony, we hosted a breakfast at our cabin. This music was chosen to be relaxing and a little bit silly.
Also see:

Our wedding playlist, part 1: Friday night cookout
Our wedding playlist, part 3: Post-ceremony celebration
Our wedding playlist, part 4: During the band’s break
Our wedding playlist, part 5: Dancing
Our wedding playlist, part 6: [...]

We hired an excellent classical guitarist, Chuck Pinnell, to play for our wedding ceremony.
After the ceremony, the music was chosen to be celebratory, with an emphasis on love (of course). After a half hour or so, we let it get a little silly, with songs like “Enchanted Reptile Palace,” “Dixie [...]

The wonderful Lou and Peter Berryman came down from Wisconsin to play at our celebration. This music was chosen to provide some background music during their break.
Yes, there’s a duplicate. We heard William Shatner’s Tambourine Man during the Friday night cookout. We figured some of our guests may have luckily avoided missed hearing that [...]

This music was chosen to begin with slow dances, then to get progressively faster and louder. The Cure’s cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” is wonderful dance track.
Also see:

Our wedding playlist, part 1: Friday night cookout
Our wedding playlist, part 2: Saturday morning
Our wedding playlist, part 3: Post-ceremony celebration
Our wedding playlist, part 4: During the band’s [...]

After the reception, we had a late-night gathering at our cabin to wind down. This music was chosen to be a little more mellow than the loud dance music, but still lively.
Also see:

Our wedding playlist, part 1: Friday night cookout
Our wedding playlist, part 2: Saturday morning
Our wedding playlist, part 3: Post-ceremony celebration
Our wedding playlist, part [...]