Looks like I have fallen victim to a bug in Apple Mail 3



on my MacBook running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8.



This is what happened:

I tried sending a larger file (33 MB) through my GMail (Google Mail) Account. I have my GMail account setup to utilize IMAP functionality.

I received a dialog box from Apple Mail telling me that the file was too large after trying to upload it. Later I found out that GMail comes with a 25MB sending limit.

I didn't give it much of a thought and sent the 33MB file through my alternative personal account.

Every time I started Apple Mail I received an error message saying it has problems with my Gmail account I tried sending that 33MB file through.



Basically my GMail account was not working anymore within Apple Mail.

Trying to find a solution I came to the conclusion that it seems to be in fact an Apple Mail bug and not a GMail problem.

What seems to have happened is that Apple Mail kept trying to send the 33MB email and was stuck in a loop, ending up with an error dialog box.

This is basically what I did to fix this problem:

1) Logged into my GMail account and disabled IMAP functionality.
2) Signed out of GMail.
3) Went into Apple Mail and deleted the GMail account.
4) Closed Apple Mail.
5) Logged back into GMail and enabled IMAP functionality again.
6) Started Apple Mail and added the GMail account again.
7) Checked for mail.

Everything seems to be working as expected again. The GMail account synchronized properly and this seemed to have fixed the problem.

Hope this will help people with the same problem trying to find a solution.

This should work with any version of ExpressionEngine that has the Metaweblog API Module installed. I currently have a 1.6.x version installed.



Once the module is installed we have to create a new file on our server and link to that file in the head section of our main index file.

If we do not do that posterous will show us an authorization error message. So we have to actually help posterous a little bit out to work with our ExpressionEngine system.

For this example let's assume the following:

1) Website Address: http://www.eesite.com/
2) Expressionengine Install: http://www.eesite.com/
3) Metablog API: http://www.eesite.com/?ACT=43&id=23



4) Weblog ID: 6



5) Name of saved RSD File: rsdinfo.txt (in the root folder of our website)
6) Location of rsdinfo.txt: http://www.eesite.com/rsdinfo.txt

The content of the RSD file, rsdinfo.txt, looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<rsd version="1.0" >
<service>
<engineName>ExpressionEngine CMS</engineName>
<engineLink>http://www.eesite.com/</engineLink>
<homePageLink>http://www.eesite.com/</homePageLink>
<apis>
<api name="MetaWeblog" preferred="true" apiLink="http://www.eesite.com/?ACT=43&id=23" blogID="6" />
</apis>

</service>
</rsd>

Lets link to rsdinfo.txt into the head section of your main index file.

<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://www.eesite.com/rsdinfo.txt" />

Example shown in my code editor:



Now that the hard part is finished lets go over to posterous.com and finalize the ExpressionEngine Autopost integration.

Login to your posterous account.

Select Manage from the top right hand menu,



Select the option to the left:



Click on the large 'Add a Service' button.



From the service list within the blogs category select 'MovableType'



Enter the ExpressionEngine login and site information and that's it!



Enjoy!

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This doesn't really help remove the clutter, does it :).
Definitely a keeper!

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In my office I use a Mac Pro with two 30 inch Dell displays. When I am going home I only take my 13 inch Unibody MacBook with me. I just love the mobility and power of it.

I have the office Mac Pro setup in a way that I can access it from home, with my MacBook.

For the remote control task I am currently using the Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 (ARD) application.
Once I connect to my office Mac Pro I am presented with both 30 inch screens displayed on my 13 inch MacBook.



Even in full screen mode it is virtually unreadable on the MacBook. I end up using one screen at a time.





Trying to work with this setup on a 13 inch MacBook is a pain. Within ARD I have to toggle back and forth between both 30 inch displays since the windows are scattered between both monitors.

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