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  • Setting up Snow Leopard iCal Server

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    After scouring through the official documentation, and finding that lacking, Google has found the answers. 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/Lion client (no SSL) userName password server.com/principals/__uids__/wiki-groupName/ (no http://) To get this group calendar…

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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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  • 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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  • Poof it's Gone

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    OK, I’m only really posting this cause I need it and I just want to put it somewhere to remember it. 😉 To make a file or folder invisible issue the following from the CLI. [applescript] SetFile -a V path/to/fileOrFolder [/applescript] To make it visible again… [applescript] SetFile -a v path/to/fileOrFolder [/applescript] That’s it. This…

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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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