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  • Apple USB Ethernet adapter

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    **Don’t use this adapter on any Mac except the MacBook Air** At least not yet. Here’s why. The Apple USB Ethernet adapter loads just fine but it identifies itself with a **BSD Device Name of en0**. The problem with this is that your Mac’s built-in ethernet adapter also is identified as en0. I bought this…

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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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  • iPhone post

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    I’m just testing the iPhone posting with the new 1Password integration. I can only say one thing. Awesome.

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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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  • Remember my Settings

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    I guess this falls under the category of “no good deed goes unpunished”. Since I’ve now gotten my mail server running with an SSL certificate I find that every time I restart Mail.app it wants to put up a dialog letting me know that > _The certificate for this server is invalid._ Well, fortunately Mail.app…

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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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