Quickies
- Paul Heinlein has updated his collection of tips
on building and running pine under Mac OS X. - Paul Stamatiou has written a guide to installing RoundCube on your server. RoundCube is a webmail client with a Mail.app look.
- Apple has published a technote that advises you to “avoid using spaces and the commercial at symbol (”@”) in passwords of iCal calendars that are published to an iDisk or a WebDAV server.” You need to use only letters and numbers.
- Steve Gio joins the select few who are turning their backs on Gmail. He is returning to Mail.app as his main client. Why? Gmail offers no useable way to access email when offline.
- Chris Marsden says some nice things about Hawk Wings (ta very much), where he discovered Peter Maurer and his software. Raves about Witch, Textpander, et al. follow.
- In the Apple Mail Discussions, Tenacious MC wonders why Mail.app “seems to write to com.apple.Safari.plist for some odd reason”. So do I.
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February 28th, 2006 at 5:52 am
Roundcube went beta last week as well:
http://roundcube.net/
Also feel free to email the mailing list as well:
http://roundcube.net/?p=mailinglists
Many of us are on it — I’ve actually been using it in production for a few clients, 200+ users, and it’s worked great for them. The CSS customizing for us designers is a god send, and the funcitonality a clean improvement over squirrelmail.
As a notation — for those of you users fearful of phpMyAdmin, or are weary of installing it on your OS X server — you may also use NaviCat, MacSQL, or Aqua Data Studio for free or donation.
For those of you, like me, who just don’t care for any of that and want to ARD or VPN into their server, just fly with terminal to add your mysql tables. Here’s how, briefly…
1) Log into mysql via terminal
mysql
2) Create your new database (end each element with a ; and a return) - I’m going to use roundc as my database, brady as my username, blah as my password:
create database roundc;
grant all on roundc to brady.* identified by 'blah';
flush privileges;
To verify, you can type in:
show databases;
And you’ll see that new database you created. Now, let’s import that mysql file to get everything going.
use roundc;
Puts you in the roundc database, now:
source [drag the file mysql.intial.sql located in the sql folder]
For example, I dragged mine in and it says:
source /Users/bradyjfrey/Desktop/roundcubemail-0.1beta/SQL/mysql.initial.sql
Press return. You can verify it created the tables by:
show tables;
make sure, just in case to follow up with:
flush privileges;
you can do much more using terminal, as well as backing up your databases on the fly, and if your server let’s you, SSHing into it and running mysql commands right there. This is a quick way to install without having these 3rd party programs, and will help you improve your server skills.
Thanks for that ical publishing doc, I’ll have to watch out for that!
February 28th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Syntax error the following:
grant all on roundc to brady.* identified by 'blah';
should be:
grant all on roundc.* to brady identified by 'blah';
My apologies, I’d edit if I could:)
March 1st, 2006 at 4:05 am
Regarding PINE, Nancy McGough has a lot of OS X pine links at:
http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/pine/#osx
She actually links to Paul Heinlein’s article too. Additionally, there is a link to an article she wrote about installing the pre-built PINE binary on OS X:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.pine/msg/872047caedeacedb
March 4th, 2006 at 12:13 am
[...] As Brady J. Frey points out in a comment on another post, RoundCube Webmail has recently gone beta, with a release that contains many more features than the version Hawk Wings reviewed late last year. [...]