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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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  • Importing Mail Message Attachments Into Aperture

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    So I’ve just gotten my new Unibody MacBook and Aperture. Immediately I find myself wanting for a Quick Look > Add to Aperture just like there is for iPhoto. Unfortunately it’s nowhere to be found. Fortunately Aperture is scriptable. Version 1.0 of SaveAttachments2Aperture is now available. It’s currently very simple with little error checking. It…

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