Dr Fragen in the operating room

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  • Snow Leopard Sieve Rules

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    How to edit _sieve_ rules in Snow Leopard by hand. This is not really recommended especially because it seems that SL server does not utilize all the sieve rules and the ones that it does utilize are in a slightly different format than exists in [Sieve documentation][1]. A couple of sources later and a couple…

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  • Dovecot Permissions

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    Well, I finally bit the bullet and installed OS X Snow Leopard Server. Most of what I absolutely **need** to get working is mail services. One of the peculiarities of Dovecot is that each users mail folder is owned by that user. I think in Cyrus they were all owned by *mail* or *_cyrus*. Anyway,…

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  • Verizon Thinks You’re a Spammer

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    They must. Verizon now blocks port 25 and does not allow you to opt out. Why do I care? Well our hospital just opened up free WiFi everywhere and when I found I couldn’t send email I made a couple of trips to the Information Services folks. They swore up and down that they weren’t…

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  • WordPress Automatic Updates

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    I think I finally have the automatic updates feature of WordPress working. Previously, when asked for my login info for the FTP connection I would get some vague connection error. It’s a permissions issue. Some permissions for files/folders need to be set for web server user, in my case Apache2, or _www on OS X…

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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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  • False Positive

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    Just a personal reminder to keep in the memory bank. When running OS X Server and SpamAssassin, if you have spam set up to be quarantined it gets stored in /var/virusmails. A method of viewing and releasing quarantined mail mostly from the command line follows. First, to do anything with the quarantined message you need…

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