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  • Subscribing to Delegated Calendars

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    OK, I’m fortunate or crazy enough to run my own server using Apple’s OS X Leopard Server software. It has been, at times, very simple and very complex to set everything up. One of the options that I use is the iCal Server so that I can have shared calendars. Once I got it up…

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  • MobileMe & OS X Server

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    I’m just coming down out of the Jobs RDF. I’m wondering, will there be some OS X Server equivalent to the new .Mac service – MobileMe? I’d love to be able to deploy push email and push calendar to my users.

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  • Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

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    I’ve previously written about problems with [Leopard server and forwarding of virtual hosted domain email][1]. My solution was somewhat inelegant and errors were written into the mail.log. Since that time I’ve found a solution that works and generates no errors. It also has the added benefit of being entirely within Server Admin. Here’s what to…

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  • Fixing cyrus

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    Yeah, I did something stupid and had to reinstall my server OS — again. I thought I’d be OK but my mail backup was about a day old. I’ve used [mailbfr][1] before and it worked great but this time I kept getting errors. It seemed that mailbfr wasn’t copying over the `skipstamp` file. What I…

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  • Unforeseen Circumstances

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    Due to unforeseen circumstances I accidentally trashed my server installation. Don’t ask me for details but I think I accidentally unloaded all my launch daemons. I figured no big deal just restart the machine and everything’s fine. Not so fine. I restart and my mail server doesn’t seem to be working correctly. Several reinstalls later…

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  • Webmail Authentication

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    OK, my problem with my webmail and my [Thunderbird][1] user are fixed. Here’s what happened. When I was setting up my server install with the AppleCare rep on the phone he said to check CRAM-MD5 and Plain for authentication. This inside of Server Admin. It turns out that the default authentication method for SquirrelMail is…

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