How to Enable Local SMTP Server (Postfix) on OS-X Leopard

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Irakli:

The fastest way to send e-mails from your e-mail client (e.g. Mail) on OS-X is to use local SMTP server. You also need local SMTP if you are using your Mac as a development platform (say, for Drupal) and are testing some e-mail related functionality. Since OS-X Leopard is a powerful Unix system, installing a local SMTP server is not a problem. As a matter of fact, Leopard comes with pre-installed SMTP server (Postfix), we just need to enable it. The following quick tutorial, from the In Under 5 Minutes series, shows how to do it.

Posted 05/10/2009 - 23:44 // 10 comments

Fixing delete should mean backspace in iTerm

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Frank:

How frustrating is it when you are in vi and hit the backspace key and all it does is insert ????^? into your text file? I have run into this problem during my conversion from XP to OS X. I do a vast majority of my work on remote Linux machines – thus am a slave to SSH. I begrudgingly admit that I love VI….except for problems like this.

Posted 02/20/2008 - 13:55 // 1 comment