SirAdmin

SirAdmin is a ver cool GUI tool to manage IMAP mailboxes.

It has one problem though.
In order to get it to work, you have to enable clear password authentication on the mail server.

Using Server Admin go to

Mail>Settings>Advanced>Security

Here you have to enable 'Clear' in the IMAP column, otherwise SirAdmin will not be able to authenticate

Tip found here.

Leopard Auto User Setup using Workgroup Manager in Advanced Server Setup

There seems to be an easier way of doing this:
In the manual User_Management_v10.5.mnl.pdf you can find a section 'Using the Preference Editor to Manage Core Services' on page 236.
Using this information it is quite easy to assign preferences in the workgroup manager.
The cool thing about this is that you may use '%@' as a variable for the login name.
This way options such as the account name for login into the mail server may be used.

If I were given the option to post a few picture I could illustrate this.
Feel free to contact me for more information...

Sharing...

Have you ever tried to set up a share point using the command line?

Why would you do this?

Well, I thought that there must be a way to copy share points after a clean install.

So, how do we find out what is being shared:

Enter this command:
sharing -l

This gives you something like this:

name: Software
path: /Volumes/Backup/Software
afp: {
name: Software
shared: 1
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 1
}
ftp: {
name: Software
shared: 0
guest access: 0
}
smb: {
name: Software
shared: 0
guest access: 0
inherit perms: 0
oplocks: 0
strict locking: 0
directory mask: 493
create mask: 420
}


In order to set up this share point again after a clean install one would have to enter this command:
sharing -a /Volumes/Backup/Software -g 000 -i 10 -s 100

chmod ACL removal

The command to recursively remove all ACLs from the files in the working directory and its subdirectories is:

sudo echo | sudo chmod -R -E ./*

How to rebuild the LaunchServices database

If your "Open With" menu shows applications that are no longer installed, or shows some of them as duplicates, you can use the following Terminal command to rebuild your LaunchServices database:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Enable Mail Bundles in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

Normally Bundles no longer work after installing Leopard.
I miss Mail.appetizer. To get these working again in Leopard follow these steps:

Quit Mail

Enter these commands in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion -int 3

Start Mail

Turn off Translucent Menu Bar in Leopard

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 1