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  • Forwarding Email in Leopard Server

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    OK, to put it mildly the Workgroup Manager and Email in Leopard Server has some quirks and problems. I and others noted that a user whose email was set to forward would give a 550 error about not being able to access the users mailbox or the mailbox wasn’t set up. Well, since the mail…

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  • WordPress SVN

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    OK, since I’ve switched over to WordPress I have to admit it’s been pretty painless. I decided to go with the [SVN update process][1] since I know it’s much easier. But the monkey wrench in the process is having to switch to the new checkout for every stable release. So instead of $ cd ./blog…

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  • USB to Ethernet Adapter

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    Oh my god how aggravating. I’ve got an Intel Mac mini I’m using as a server and I’ve got a StarTech USB to Ethernet adapter. Unfortunately, none of the current drivers seems to support Leopard well. Fortunately, [Sustainable Networks][1] has written a beta driver to support Leopard. Unfortunately my adapter isn’t one of the ones…

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  • Moving domains

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    Sorry if anyone gets confused. When I moved this blog over to WordPress I was hosting it on a different domain. It now lives here on thefragens.dev where it belongs. I play around with virtual domains for the URL instead of a folder but that for another day.

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  • Leopard Server DHCP-NAT

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    Well, I’m finally getting most of the initial stuff for the server up and running. All I can say is _thank goodness for Google_. Setting up DHCP/NAT was both simple and highly complex. Simple in that running the **Gateway Assistant** from the NAT setup was easy. Complex in that the default `/etc/bootpd.plist` is missing some…

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  • Securing Email

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    I think I’ve finally accomplished it. It being getting my mail server to use SSL for IMAP/POP/SMTP. I’m running Leopard Server on an Intel Mac mini and I’ve been screwing around with Keychain Access > Certificate Assistant for the past 2 days. Don’t waste your time. Joel Rennich has some [excellent instructions on getting everything…

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