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The Kerio Mailserver is a great thing when accessed via Outlook from Windows. When it comes to Linux Clients it get’s a little bit tricky but it can be done.

I’ve setup the email client Thunderbird with its addon Lightning for Calender/Tasks

1. Email via IMAP
   Simply specify your Hostname and Username/Password
2. Calendar/Tasks via calDAV
   Add a new network calendar using calDAV with the address

   http://<hostname>/calendars/<domain>/<user>/Calendar

3. Adressbook via LDAP
   Create a new Adressbook with LDAP
   Name: Your name but can be whatever you like
   Adress: your server’s hostname
   Base-DN:  fn=ContactRoot
   Port: 389
   Bind DN: your emailadress
   The only Drawback is that this Addressbook will be read-only

I’m a proud owner of a quite outdated but otherwise extremly reliable Palm Treo 680. For software testing reasons I require a network connection from my Palm to a Ubuntu 8.04 box using bluetooth. Continue reading »

When installing the Dovecot IMAP Server on Ubuntu its certificate is only valid for a short time.
You can create a new certificate by issuing:

openssl genrsa -out server.key 1024
openssl req -new -x509 -key server.key -out server.pem -days 1826
sudo mv server.key /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
sudo mv server.pem /etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart

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I have a tomcat installation including a deployed mesh-cms (a really excellent thing btw )   When moving the whole tomcat from Linux to Windows mesh-cms looses my “german Umlauts”.  The reason for that behaviour is described here.

What needs to be done ist do convert my utf-8 encoded files to iso-8859-1 is: Continue reading »

Being tired of installing Ubuntu using CDs (especially if you have a machine without a CD-ROM) I’ve built myself a PXE Install server. Continue reading »