Syncing IMAP servers with imapsync

We’re moving our company mail from a self-hosted Cyrus-Imapd solution to Google Apps for domains. As such, I had to migrate everyone’s email. This sucked majorly.

My first solution to the problem was logging into both accounts (the current IMAP server as well as Gmail) and drag and drop folders. Yeaaaaah, no. I really didn’t care to write my own script to do this seeing as I’ve never written code to interface with IMAP before.

I searched far and wide for an automated/scripted solution and found two very good ones

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Posted at 1am on 03/05/09 | No Comments » | Filed Under: Linux, Software

Making your own iPhone ringtones in under 10 steps

Story so far: I went and stood in line on the morning of July 12th at 0850. There were some 30 and odd people ahead of me. I was able to get into the store at 1231 and I walked out with my very own 8gb black iPhone at 1252. I love this thing. It’s super nice, but Steve Jobs requires that I purchase ring tones for 99 cents off of iTunes to be able to use them with my phone.

I have several problems with this business model:
1. I own my music, I own my iPhone, and I’m not paying anyone anything to give me a 30 second clip of my music.
2. Especially considering *I* don’t get to choose which 30 seconds of the song I want as my ring tone.
3. See 1 and 2 above.

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Posted at 11am on 07/14/08 | 1 Comment » | Filed Under: Software