Archive for the ‘OS X’ Category

Upgrade day

Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

pfeeuw.

Transmit 3
Pix OS 7 (well, announced at least)
Wordpress 1.5

Transmit 3 have I bought today.
PIXos 7 will be a free upgrade (SMARTnet to the rescue)
Wordpress…2 out of 3 blogs already updated, gargleblaster will follow this weekend.

Transmit 3 kicks ass. Still clicking through the different new options. I know I’m going to love the “DockSend” option.
A year ago I thought that a graphical (s)FTP client was for lusers, but since my colo I couldn’t live without Transmit.

Vintage video revival

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

This one was on slashdot more than a week ago, but I just found the time to upload the movie to my webserver. From a historical perspective, this video is amazing. Shot in 1992, it has lots of technology introduced almoast ten years later again with the release of Mac OS X. If you watch the video, you will see mail.app, interface builder, the dock and more.
Amazing.

Original credits go to openstep.se, and here is the slashdot link.
Openstep.se still seems being slashdotted.

1992 nextstep demo
click to play (warning, over 30 mb!)

Postfix mailqueue

Sunday, February 6th, 2005

*sigh*

This took me more than 5 minutes. How to empty a postfix mailque completly:


postsuper -d ALL

It’s not in the manual.

Ooooh, This is why!

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

You have to be carefull with autoresponders :)
LOL
Some frenchman clearly misconfigured his autoreply, because OS X server mailinglist is hammered with messages like this:

Madame, Monsieur,
Je suis en mission, de retour le 23 nov. 2004. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez
contacter Mme xxxxx, au +410000000
Merci
Pierre xxxx

Dear collegues,
I am currently in mission, back on Nov. 23th, 2004. I will respond to your
mail upon my return.
In urgent cases, please contact Mrs xxx (+41000000000)
Regards,
Pierre xxxx

My mailbox is flooded as you can see:

mailbombing my inbox?

Mail.app and multiple IMAP accounts

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

My new mailserver is up and running. I like slow migrations and just migrated one of my last domains.
The total number of imap-accounts in mail.app reached 4. For every account I selected “Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes”.
And at every start of mail.app, the application comes to a complete deadlock.

Courier-imaps settings in mail.app

I was afraid it showed up to be an incompatibility with courier-imap, mail.app and synchronizing subfolders.

It took me a full day googling, hoping and lucky guesses.
The solution:

Max. of three accounts for a full sync. of all subfolders.
So you can add more accounts, but just take care that you not select “Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes”

With four mail.app stalls. Period.
I hope this will be solved in Tiger’s version of mail.app.