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Wed 02 Jan 2013
Luca in Chinese
Category : Technology
Hai Hwee has been working on a Chinese-localised version of Luca:
That's how it will look like.
This version includes various bug fixes and speed improvements. It's a version we hope we'll be able to sell on the Mac App Store.
And then onwards to a version of Luca for the iPad.
Posted at 12:38PM SGT | permalink
Thu 29 Nov 2012
Bug Fixes for Liya and LDAP Enabler
Category : Technology
Liya is now at version 2.0.11 (while the Mac App Store version remains stuck at version 2.0.9). I've fixed Liya so it'll handle SQLite fields declared as Bool. Liya will treat it as an integer, and map it to the NSNumber Cocoa data type.
LDAP Enabler is now at 2.0.2. In version 2.0.1, the password was not set correctly when a user was first created. You had to do a Change & Save Password explicitly to set the password correctly. Version 2.0.2 fixes this bug.
Posted at 10:37PM SGT | permalink
New PostgreSQL 9.2.1 Installer
Category : Technology
I've built it, this time, with these configuration parameters : '--with-pam' '--with-ldap' '--with-krb5' '--with-gssapi' '--with-bonjour' '--with-openssl' '--with-libxml' '--with-libxslt' '--with-perl' '--with-python' '--with-tcl'
And it should work on both Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) and 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
One more thing - I've been troubled that with I've had to create a postgres user in order to run my previous installers. There's already a _postgres user built into every Lion and Mountain Lion system and I ought to be using it. So I've finally figured out how to make everything work with that built-in _postgres user. So, if you use this latest 9.2.1 Postgres Installer, you can safely delete the postgres user from your users' list in the Users & Groups Preference Pane, after you've run the installer and upgraded your current Postgres installation to 9.2.1.
Posted at 4:58PM SGT | permalink
Wed 21 Nov 2012
MailServe for Mountain Lion ver 6.0.6
Category : Technology
SMTP authentication via the sasldb password mechanism stopped working at some point in Mountain Lion.
I just released version 6.0.6 of MailServe to fix this problem.
Posted at 1:05AM SGT | permalink
Tue 20 Nov 2012
LDAP with JPEG Photos
Category : Technology
I've finally figured out how to get the LDAP Server to accept JPEG photos (tagged by the jpegPhoto attribute). Yay!
And, more importantly, I've figured out how to get these photos to show up in the Contacts app when the LDAP record is displayed :
And LDAP Enabler works with all the drag and drop goodness we expect from the Mac, when you're matching photos to people.
Posted at 9:57AM SGT | permalink
Thu 15 Nov 2012
Liya 2.0.10 for Mountain Lion
Category : Technology
Tabular data from Liya can be dragged and dropped onto a spreadsheet like Numbers but the number of columns brought over was always one short because of a stupid bug. This has been fixed in version 2.0.10.
So let's see how long this will take to show up on the Mac App Store.
Posted at 10:51PM SGT | permalink
MailServe 6.0.5 and LDAP Enabler 2.0 for Mountain Lion Released
Category : Technology
I've released a new version of MailServe that will allow Postfix and Dovecot to authenticate against the passwords stored in an LDAP Server set up by LDAP Enabler.
This is what LDAP Enabler for Mountain Lion looks like :
And this is how it works with MailServe to allow Dovecot and Postfix to authenticate against LDAP :
In the coming months, I'll work at making the integration between MailServe and LDAP Enabler even tighter, in terms of the ease with which user records can be created and passwords set.
I've also used the chance to clean up the code related to the use of MailServe's Access field, which controls which IP addresses, domain names, and email addresses can be allowed to send mail to or through the server. Prior to this latest version, the Access field didn't work too well. Now it's a lot more accurate in implementing what the user's intentions are, as stated in the Access field.
Posted at 10:46PM SGT | permalink
Thu 01 Nov 2012
MailServe and LDAP
Category : Technology
If you're waiting for news on the LDAP front, I've got news for you. I've managed to get the mail server authenticating against the LDAP Server database. 
Basically, what I have is Dovecot authenticating against the passwords stored in the LDAP Server, rather than the built-in OS X accounts' password system. And then I get Postfix to use the LDAP authentication so set up, for its own SMTP authentication. And it works, with or without SSL.
I did so many things and tried so many variations, so now I have to take a step back and figure out just what I did to make this work. Then I will make new versions of MailServe and the LDAP Enabler that will do all this for the user with just one click on their respective Enablers.
Actually I might have gotten most of this working in Chengdu last week, so it was a pretty productive week, even though I was traipsing around Chengdu.
I think what I didn't realise, until I got back to Singapore, was that the PAM module for LDAP that I was using, pam_ldap.so, needs to be built again for the x86_64 processor that is the default in Mountain Lion. I was using a pam_ldap.so that was a fat PPC/i386 binary - absolutely useless on Mountain Lion - and that explains the crashes whenever PAM was called which was whenever a user tries to authenticate against the LDAP Server. I banged my head against the wall so many times in Chengdu. It only cleared when I got back to Singapore, and then it became crystal clear what the problem was. It's a mystery how the mind works. Posted at 7:10PM SGT | permalink
Tue 23 Oct 2012
LDAP Enabler for Mountain Lion
Category : Technology
Here I am, sitting in a backpackers' hostel in Chengdu, China, and I've just built a working version of LDAP Enabler for Mountain Lion.
Now that I have an LDAP Server running on my Mountain Lion MacBook Air, I can now move on to the next phase—getting a version of MailServe to work that will authenticate the mail server against an LDAP Server.
Posted at 10:56PM SGT | permalink
Sun 14 Oct 2012
Fetchmail & sslfingerprints
Category : Technology
I'm trying to Google for how to get the sslfingerprint for imap.mail.me.com
This is so Fetchmail can pull the mail down without a bunch of warnings that the communication is in cleartext.
If I can find a way, I'll post the method here. I'd like to set up a list of sslfingerprints for commonly used mail server certificates (sort of like an FAQ), or at least a usable method that can be followed by mere mortals to set up Fetchmail. Posted at 11:17AM SGT | permalink
WebMon 6.0.2 for Mountain Lion, including Server
Category : Technology
I've just released WebMon for Mountain Lion 6.0.2. This is the first version of WebMon that will also work on Mountain Lion Server.
You can use this single version of WebMon on both Mountain Lion client and Mountain Lion Server to set up WebDav, Apache, PHP, Server-Side Includes, Exec CGI, SSL certs, etc.
Posted at 9:26AM SGT | permalink
Sat 13 Oct 2012
MailServe for Mountain Lion 6.0.4
Category : Technology
If you're having trouble fetching from a site that requires SSL, you should upgrade to this bundled version. To obtain this latest version of Fetchmail, do a De-Install from MailServe 6.0.4's Help menu, and then restart all the mail services.
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