Coredump

Not!

I was scheming a quick-and-dirty email-to-SMS hack:

• Send email notifications to my vanity mail address. Tag it “sms”.
• Create a filter that forwards mails tagged “sms” to 63xxxxxxxxxx@chikkatalk.com
• As we all know, @chikkatalk.com is Chikka’s federated XMPP server. So… mails should then be received in my mobile phone.

Easy does it, right? Well, not. Chikkatalk.com is indeed an XMPP server, but not a mail server:

[iandexter@hiraya ~]$ dig mx chikkatalk.com

; < <>> DiG 9.2.5 < <>> mx chikkatalk.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32086
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chikkatalk.com.           IN   MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
chikkatalk.com.  10503 IN   SOA   ns1.chikka.com. »
   hostmaster.chikka.com.com. 2006060100 3600 600 604810 86400

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.101#53(192.168.1.101)
;; WHEN: Fri Oct 27 00:53:32 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 101

[iandexter@hiraya ~]$

Eep. Stupid me.

In the news this evening: a battallion of Philippine marines hole up in their Fort Bonifacio headquarters to protest the relief of their commandant.

Meanwhile, in Malacañang, presidential chief of staff Mike Defensor urges media not to “provide exposure” to the dissidents in what’s brewing to be a standoff in Fort Bonifacio.

Hello? Hey, Mike, there’s such a thing as press freedom — specifically, the right against prior restraint. Or is even that not allowed anymore during the de-facto martial law, er, “state of emergency”?