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If you are using Google Apps for email delivery, but your domain is still running on an external server that needs to deliver to those accounts, you can run into a lot of trouble with mail delivery.  In the case of a server running Plesk, the MTA is qmail, but sendmail has the same type… Continue reading Getting an existing email server to play nice with Google Apps

I recently got a new Mac Mini with OSX Lion for testing, and had a bear of a time getting it able to share a folder from a Windows 7 Ultimate PC.  In the end, these were the key steps: Make sure the Mac is on the same workgroup your PC’s are on as per… Continue reading Sharing folders between Windows 7 and Max OSX Lion

Following on this previous post, this short DOS script does the equivalent of chmod a+wS:   @echo off REM    forcewritable.cmd REM    Usage: Open an Administrator command prompt and run this, e.g., REM    forcewritable C:\path\to\folder   echo Taking ownership of %1… takeown /f %1 /r /d y icacls %1 /grant Everyone:F /t

Git pull is designed to prevent you from overwriting local changes.  Sometimes, though, you want to do just that, but there’s no out-of-the-box support for it.  This script comes to the rescue:     #/bin/sh       # Fetch the newest code     git fetch       # Delete all files which are being added, so… Continue reading Forcing a git pull

In this post, I discussed some ideas for how best to get a large amount of email, going back literally decades, off Outlook 2010 and onto Gmail.  Two months later I’ve finally finished – and I’m glad I did. Starting about a week ago I stopped being able to send email from Outlook reliably and… Continue reading Migrating to Gmail, Part 2