FOSS.IN has always focused on contribution but this year they are taking it a step further and there will be less talks and more code. There are a set of Workouts planned and people will come prepared with a goal in mind, and code together on the spot.

So in the spirit of the FOSS.IN workouts I’ve decided that these five days (actually nights since I’m working during the days) I’ll spend all the time that I can and try to put in some contribution from my side. I hope to explore the java-gnome bindings and use them to write my first application for GNOME.

So even though I’m not going to the event I’ll hopefully be taking my first steps towards contributing to FOSS

I spent the first night exploring java-gnome and starting with my application. I will write about the java-gnome experience in my next post. But for now it’s back to coding…

I am constantly getting Delivery Status Notification(Failures) from so many email servers. It seems that some stupid spammers are sending emails with fake addresses that seem to be originating from my domain(knowyourraga.com). And so if an email address does not exist a failure mail is sent to back to the address which appears to be from my domain and I happen to get all the messages send to that domain in the catch-all mailbox(which is also my primary mailbox).

I have tried various tests to confirm that my domain is not an open relay and I mention it here because if anyone out there can find a weakness in my server than I could correct that. I am getting hundreds of failure notification messages in a day which means that someone is sending thousands or millions of messages appearing to come from my domain. This is scary! I have no clue how to tackle this