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Archive for March, 2005

Computer Lists and Workgroup Manager

The other day it was looking like we might have to bite the bullet and actually put every single one of our clients into Computer Lists in Workgroup Manager…
The horror… with no way to easily import the computers (or export for that matter), we weren't really looking forward to having to enter all those addresses [...]

Posting mail to mailboxes directly with Cyrus.

So if you've followed Joel's excellent article on installing cyradm to manage Cyrus, you might find you want to be able to send email directly to shared mailboxes.

Some mail clients bork out on the default setting, so I've done this:

add this line to /etc/imad.conf

postuser: postuser

Use cyradm to create a shared mailbox, and assign “anyone” the [...]

dsimportexport is broken # 2

So there's another thing broken with dsimportexport apart from not overwriting properly.

If you are importing users, and you're not specifying the uid value, Workgroup Manager picks quite a sane value for the uid for that user.

dsimportexport on the other hand, seems to just pick really huge numbers that have no relation to reality, so you [...]

Split mail by month in AppleScript and Mail.app

So my resurgent affair with AppleScript continues…
I was having to organise a fair bit of email, so came up with this AppleScript to split email by month.

This doesn't look at the year at all. You need to organise that on your own.
Basically it just takes the list of currently selected mailboxes in the front [...]

Analog is the new Digital ?

So the Hipster PDA and the whole Getting Things Done system seems to be popping up absolutely everywhere these days.

I have say I'm kind of enthused about it, maybe because it kind of fits how I organise my email life, and perhaps everything else could do with a similar system…
The OS X Inventories list is [...]

Configuring Tomcat under OS X Server for more memory…

So after I hit somewhere in excess of 850 COFA Student blogs on blojsom (we're well over 1000 now, be interesting to see how many of them actually start using it…), I started running into problems with the amount of memory Tomcat was using by default.
On your standard Tomcat install, you'd increase the memory settings [...]