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iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix – Chapter 3
The iCal-Invite-Fix AppleScript was updated to support multiple Exchange servers in a single script by using two paired list properties that map Exchange TZID fragments to the correct iCal time zone identifiers.
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Importing Mail Message Attachments Into Aperture
An AppleScript called SaveAttachments2Aperture was created to import email attachments directly into Apple Aperture, filling the gap left by the missing Quick Look shortcut that iPhoto users already enjoyed, with later versions adding file-type filtering and support for common camera raw formats.
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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Chapter 2
A substantially rewritten iCal-Invite-Fix AppleScript handles the three main Exchange/Outlook invite types (REQUEST, PUBLISH, and CANCEL) and multiple encoding formats, with detailed setup instructions for configuring script properties and wiring the script to a Mail rule.
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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Part 2
An interim update to the MailExchange2iCal-TZ-fix script fixes a parsing failure for .ics invites delivered only as attachments or in base64 encoding, and corrects the script so it runs reliably from a Mail rule.
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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix
A single AppleScript solution is presented to fix the broken time zone information that Microsoft Exchange injects into iCal meeting invites, preventing Mac users from missing meetings by correcting the TZID before the event is imported.
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Securing Email
A brief account of getting SSL working for IMAP, POP, and SMTP on a Leopard Server Mac mini after two frustrating days, resolved by following Panther-era instructions from Joel Rennich with only a minor workaround for the serial file.
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Running SpamAssassin locally
A walkthrough of using DisSpam with SpamAssassin in a cron job to filter POP3 spam before it reaches an iPhone, including a custom patch that checks headers against a hash file first to dramatically speed up processing of large mailboxes.