Make sure Wiki Server is set to 127.0.0.1 and that Use SSL is checked.

Here’s how I was finally able to get my groups into iCal SL client (no SSL)

userName
password
server.com/principals/__uids__/wiki-groupName/ (no http://)

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Anyway, I found that a couple of my files didn’t have the correct permissions and I found out by trying to open in webmail. It gave me errors I’d never seen before. Where I found better errors was in mailaccess.log where I saw a dovecot service with a failed: Permission denied error.

I managed to find where the files lived and as I have quite a few mail users I didn’t want to go through individually so I figured out a script to do it.

sudo ls -lA /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail | grep -v total | awk {'printf $3": /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/"$9"\n"'} | xargs -n2 -p sudo chown -R

The script will ask if you want to proceed with the chown command for each user.

If you find your logs reporting permissions issues with a specific account or your webmail users have errors opening mailboxes, then the following script when provided with the offending GeneratedUID will reset the permissions similar to the above. Simply replace the GUID in the script with the one listed in your logs.

dscl /LDAPv3/127.0.0.1 -list /Users GeneratedUID | grep GUID | awk {'printf $1": /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail/"$2"\n"'} | xargs -n2 -p sudo chown -R

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When I first set up my own server lo these years ago, I never really thought about email message filtering. After all, I had rules in Mail.app that would send my incoming message to wherever I wanted them. Besides, I was much more concerned with eliminating spam.

Well, that was then and spam seems under control. I was prompted to look at server-side message filtering mostly to help out my mother, who seems determined to have every single store, travel and other consumer site that will happily take your email address and send you messages daily — or more often, have a more controllable experience on her iPhone. When we originally set up her iPhone she told me she didn’t want to use it for email. Silly me, I listened and set her up with a POP account. Well now she wants email. What’s a good son to do.

I changed her POP account to IMAP, copied over all her messages to her new IMAP folders and thought I’d need to solve her impending problem of 100 or so messages every other day choking her inbox.

After a bit of Googling I found Sieve. I’d actually heard of it before but never really thought about it. The Apple Discussion Forum had a nice start and pointed me on to sources I used to set it up.

Here are the salient points. From the terminal…

1. Add the following lines to /etc/services

   sudo pico /etc/services
   

   Insert the following lines.

   callbook 2000/udp # callbook
   callbook 2000/tcp # callbook
   + sieve 2000/udp # sieve mail filtering
   + sieve 2000/tcp # sieve mail filtering
   

   You can check to see if it’s running by running

   netstat -an | grep 2000
   

   with results

   tcp4 0 0 *.2000 *.* LISTEN
   tcp6 0 0 *.2000 *.* LISTEN
   

2. Create /usr/sieve

   sudo mkdir /usr/sieve
   sudo chown _cyrus:mail /usr/sieve
   

3. Restart mail services

   sudo serveradmin stop mail
   [ some stuff ]
   sudo serveradmin start mail
   [ some stuff ]
   

4. Since I’m using OS X Server and SquirrelMail is already running, next was installing and configuring avelsieve.

I really did try installing the latest development version — 1.9.9 alpha. That should have been a clue. After spending way too much time with it I installed the stable version - avelsieve 1.0.1. Once copied into /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins run sudo perl /etc/squirrelmail/config/conf.pl and activate the plugin.

Then it’s back to the terminal. These instructions are from AFP548.

    cd /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins/avelsieve
    sudo cp config-sample.php config.php

Now set the correct authentication matching SquirrelMail.
Edit /etc/squirrelmail/plugins/avelsieve/config.php and change:

$preferred_mech = "PLAIN";

to

$preferred_mech = "CRAM-MD5";

You should be running SquirrelMail with CRAM-MD5 authentication anyway.

Finally, edit the /etc/squirrelmail/plugins/avelsieve/lib/sieve-php.lib.php file.

Find the line:

fputs($this->fp, "PUTSCRIPT \"$scriptname\" \{$len+}\r\n"); 

and change it to :

fputs($this->fp, "PUTSCRIPT \"$scriptname\"".' {'."$len+".'}'."\r\n");

This fixes an error in the script allowing you to save your changes to the filters. Now go login to webmail and click on the Filter link to start creating your Sieve filters.

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To make a file or folder invisible issue the following from the CLI.

SetFile -a V path/to/fileOrFolder

To make it visible again…

SetFile -a v path/to/fileOrFolder

That’s it. This can be especially useful on shared drives to keep others out of specific folders, etc. BTW, the file or folder still shows up in ls, it’s just not visible in Finder.

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I wrote up a modified script like in the example and bundled it with at shell script it install and uninstall the modification. You have to run this script using sudo from the CLI (Command Line Interface aka Terminal.app).

The zip file contains the shell script, the modified Mail.scpt AppleScript, and the original Mail.scpt AppleScript.

To install run “sudo /path/to/iCal_Reply_Send.sh install”
To uninstall run “sudo /path/to/iCal_Reply_Send.sh revert”
To check usage and status, run “/path/to/iCal_Reply_Send.sh”

If you don’t like messing with the CLI then there’s a great little shareware app, iCal Reply Checker that does it all, and more.

It seems that neither method interferes with the code signing of iCal as the script in question is not code signed.

Update
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I told him I have the latest patches to my OS and I am running the most currently available version of Safari. I told me that someone there “got some update patch and could log in.” I told him, with all due respect, I’ve been using Macs for over 20 years. (I got my first Mac 128K in 1985) I was quite certain that there is no more currently available version of Safari. Naturally I ran Software Update and no updates are available.

Currently I’m running OS 10.6.3 and Safari Version 4.0.5 (6531.22.7), according to the About box. I’m not sure why they want to blame Apple, but for their logic to hold true a single user of theirs seems to have a “more up-to-date” version of Safari than is obtainable from either Software Update or Apple’s site.

Fortunately Firefox still works.

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1. Remember what the heck I was thinking.
2. Remember what all these pieces were supposed to accomplish as a whole.
3. Provide some sort of reference to others interested in this stuff.

Concept: To use VoodooPad Pro as a CMS for a web site, allowing for static sites and inclusion of blog-style concatenated page. The blog-style page was originally intended as a “News” page of a static business site. SEO optimization necessitating the addition of a page with re-newing content. Google likes it more.

Disclaimer: I like Markdown and built these scripts around the fact that the VPP document is essentially always formatted in plain text. Images need to be added using links.

I will include a sample package that contains a VPP document, a web export plugin and several script plugins. The site the sample is based upon is at http://losrobleshoa.org.

VoodooPad Pro is a requirement as the meta data and triggers are necessary in the creation of the files. My workflow is as follows.

1. Create new page/post.
2. Run script plugin Blog > Meta Markup - HomepageMeta on new page.
3. Run script plugin Blog > Make Homepage and Feed
4. Run web export.
5. FTP files up to site. I use Transmit. It’s also a great app.

The script will move all the created files into a folder structure so that the file structure on the computer will match the web site structure.

VoodooPad Pro document Item meta data is contained in the HomepageMeta page of the document. This is where most of the personalized info on the site is contained.

In the VPP document tags are used to create a pseudo-folder structure. This means that a page may only have one tag. Some pages are not exported but are used as reference, ie. links in the sidebar or the HomepageMeta page. Static pages that are to be rendered at the root level of the site are tagged main.

Triggers can be used to include certain information into specific pages or info on every page. I use this for things like Google Analytics which needs to be on every page or the analytics confirmation that is only on the index.html page.

The Web Export Plugin Some customization of these files will be necessary for your specific site.

• preflight.sh - creates the actual folder hierarchy, the folders are created in the preflight.sh script. The preflight.sh script also copies files like images to the export folder. These images are kept in the web export plugin. File like robots.txt that need to be at the root level are kept in a root folder inside the web export plugin.

• postflight.sh - can be used to rename pages that may be PHP based from .html to .php

• deleteVPExtra.sh - deletes the extra pages that VoodooPad creates during a web export. No changes to this file are needed.

• fixRelativePaths.sh - fixes the relative URLs that occur inside of nested pages. No changes to this file are needed.

• parseMetaXml.rb - Parses the meta.xml file that VoodooPad creates and uses that infomation to move files into their correct folder structure on the disk and to create a valid sitemap.xml file for use with Google Sitemaps.

• Info.plist - This file was edited to call these scripts during the web export process.

Script Plugins These are placed in the ~/Library/Application Support/VoodooPad/Script PlugIns/ folder. No changes should be required in these scripts. They will be viewable from the Plugin > Blog menu in VoodooPad.

• meta_markup_HomepageMeta.lua - Takes the data from the page HomepageMeta in the VPP doc and adds specific item meta data to the frontmost page.

• meta_markup_update.lua - Propagates changes made to the HomepageMeta page to all the item meta data of all pages that require them. This is only just the pages used for the blog-style page.

• blog_home_atom.lua - Creates the blog-style page now called home in the VPP document and also creates a valid atom.xml feed in the output directory.

Comments and questions are welcome. If some enterprising person wants to wrap this all up in the new plugin architecture that would be cool. I’m happy to help if I can.

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As the image above shows there are now only 2 properties, both of which are lists. These lists work together as an array; which means the order of the list items is crucial.

• exchange_fragment contains unique fragments of the TZID that the Exchange server sends.
• ical_tzid contains the tzid info that iCal expects to see.

If you have any problems setting it up let me know. This post has all the info for the script.

Download the iCal-Invite-Fix script.

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Here’s the problem. My wife and I both have iPhone’s. I’d like to see one of her calendar’s on my iPhone and I want here to see one of mine on her iPhone. On our respective computers these calendars show up in iCal as Delegates. That’s how there’re suppose to show up. The problem is that only local calendars and subscribed calendars are listed in iTunes for syncing to the iPhone.

After a bit of googling, the answer appeared in the Apple Discussions Board. If I do a get info on the Delegate calendar and copy the CalDAV URL I can then subscribe to this URL, the calendar will show up in my Subscriptions list. I can then sync it to the iPhone. It is perhaps the simplest workaround that I’ve found. Your user must log out and log back in for iTunes to see the newly subscribed calendar.

However, it’s still a kludge and I await the day Apple fixes iTunes to allow for syncing any viewable calendar iCal to your iPhone.

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