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Snow Leopard Sieve Rules
A guide to manually editing Sieve email filter rules on Mac OS X Snow Leopard Server using terminal commands to locate and modify user-specific sieve script files, including a workaround requiring HTTPS for wiki settings changes to take effect.
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WordPress Automatic Updates
How to get WordPress automatic plugin and theme updates working on OS X Server by fixing Apache file ownership with chown and adding a direct filesystem method constant to wp-config.php, with a note that the fix works for plugins and themes but not core WordPress updates.
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Server-Side Email Filtering With Sieve
A step-by-step guide to enabling server-side email filtering with Sieve on Mac OS X Server, covering the Sieve service setup, installation of the avelsieve SquirrelMail plugin, and a fix for an authentication bug in its PHP library.
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False Positive
A command-line workflow for reviewing and releasing SpamAssassin-quarantined email on OS X Server using TextExpander snippets to automate copying, unzipping, previewing, and releasing messages, making the entire process manageable from an iPhone or iPad.
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Don't Send iCal Replies
A tip for suppressing automatic email replies when accepting or declining iCal invites on Mac OS X, with a downloadable script bundle containing install and uninstall shell scripts and a pointer to the iCal Reply Checker app for those who prefer a GUI.
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iPad Arrives
First impressions of the original iPad after handling one at the hospital, noting its light weight, bright display, and usable keyboard, while looking forward to the upcoming iPhone 4.0 announcement.
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Fail2ban on Leopard Server
Getting fail2ban running on Mac OS X Leopard Server required several workarounds — a launchd plist to create a missing run directory, tweaks to the ipfw action module, and a custom filter for bots hammering nonexistent URLs — all of which are documented and shared.
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VoodooPad Pro Blogging
A complete workflow is documented for using VoodooPad as a static-site CMS, combining Lua script plugins, a web export plugin, and shell scripts to handle file organization, sitemap generation, Atom feed creation, and URL correction, with a sample project package included.
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Amavisd settings
Spam with malformed MIME boundaries was bypassing SpamAssassin on an OS X Server mail setup and reaching recipients unscored, and changing the Amavisd final_bad_header_destiny setting from D_PASS to D_REJECT is proposed as the fix.