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  • Fail2ban and OS X Server, Part Deux

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    As some of you might know I run my own installation of OS X Server. I’ve since updated it to Snow Leopard Server and I think I’ve got most of it running well. As I check my server logs frequently I find that there are all sorts of script kiddies attempting to log in to…

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  • Server-Side Email Filtering With Sieve

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    Another post for the peripheral brain. 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…

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  • Don’t Send iCal Replies

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    I came across a great hint in Mac OS X Hints today. It seems that there’s an easy way to interrupt the process of sending an email reply when accepting iCal invites. As I tend to play around with iCal invites a lot (adding and deleting the same event ad nauseum) — I love this.…

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  • Fail2ban on Leopard Server

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    So here I am running my own server — for almost 2 years now. It’s been a real learning experience and I’ve tried to share. My latest add-on has been fail2ban. I got tired of looking into my logs and seeing where script kiddies or bots were trying to take control of my server. Fortunately,…

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  • VoodooPad Pro Blogging

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    Please note that VoodooPad Pro has been renamed to VoodooPad. It’s time to package up all my VoodooPad blogging scripts and assorted web export plugins so that I can Remember what the heck I was thinking. Remember what all these pieces were supposed to accomplish as a whole. Provide some sort of reference to others…

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  • iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 3

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    I’ve updated the iCal-Invite-Fix script again. This time to allow for adding multiple Exchange servers to the script so that you should only need a single script. The set-up is slightly more complex. As the image above shows there are now only 2 properties, both of which are lists. These lists work together as an…

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