My mail app was crashing every time I opened it, this is what i did to solve it.

I cleared the library folder files for mail.

1. First delete your settings for all your email accounts in your system pref->email accounts

2. Copy the contents of YOUR_USERNAME->Library->Mail-> to your desktop as a backup and therefore the result is that your mail folder is empty.

3. Reopen system pref->email accounts and re-add your accounts to mail

4. Reopen mail and the crashing should stop!

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Finally free of MS OUTLOOK!

I know i officially retired from configuration but i found this out by accident while configuring my alumni email account.

I am very happy to escape from using outlook since iCloud and Mail (Calendar and to-do list syncing) and iPhones will play very well together.

Heres how to do it.

1. Add your SMU account in system pref->email accounts (make sure you use your full email address xxx.20xx@fullschoolemail.smu.edu.sg)

2. Ensure you tick sync contacts

3. Open mail and go to preferences->accounts and change your username to xxx.20xx@fullschoolemail.smu.edu.sg

4. Open addressbook and go to preferences->accounts and ensure that Use SSL is ticked under server settings (its off by default) and it will work!!!! Say bye to outlook!

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All functions seem to work on Mail.

If there any problems please let smumacness know, i cant really troubleshoot many issues as I am already out of school, I will probability be only using  basic functions.

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Q: Will it help me with school? (These are based on my experience in school and i have not personally tested Lion in SMU yet)

A:

• The auto-saving feature will definitely end all the “I FORGOT TO SAVE!!!!!!” kind of happenings, coupled with the versions feature will make project version control easy.
• Airdrop will increase the ease of which you can share files tho I am not sure if it will work on the school’s network
• Internal visualizations of Lion can be done for IS projects if they require extensive system hacking and you don’t want to mess up your current working installation
• Better mail (I hope) will end the dependence of Outlook once and for all (in a much nicer interface)
• New photobooth effects will keep you occupied thru the boring days in school
• Digital signing support for PDFs in preview will make signing forms for school/events/cca easy and fun!
• Migration manager for windows will hopefully make migration much easier to your new mac! (for new users)
• iMessage will most likely come to Lion only (maybe?), making messaging in class SO MUCH EASIER and integrated with your messages from your iPhone!
• iCloud will end the need for syncing and will backup selected files and contacts automatically!
• Windows users will feel the much greater urge to upgrade to a mac!

Q: When will it be released?

A: 14 July on the App Store ONLY

Q: Will it work in SMU?

A: I have no idea, you will need to check with http://smumacness.com/, i have retired from providing support for mac users in SMU as i have graduated and there is no way i can test settings. Expect printer settings to change (from experience upgrading from tiger to leopard and lion to snow leopard)

Q: How do i make a backup bootable copy since its only released via App Store

A: http://eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/ this can be done with thumb drives as well, you just need need to format the usb disk as mac osx extended.

Q: Whats new?

A: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html it’s a long list

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Been a long time since i posted!

I shall post with a small article about the htaccess file i used, I have been doing much research on web page optimization and i will share some of these bit by bit.

First the htaccess file!

#####################################################

# CONFIGURE media caching

#

# Header unset Expires

# Turn on Expires and set default expires to 3 days

ExpiresActive On

ExpiresDefault A259200

# Set up caching on media files for 1 month

<FilesMatch “\.(ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|flv|pdf|swf|mov|mp3|wmv|ppt)$”>

ExpiresDefault A29030400

Header append Cache-Control “public”

</FilesMatch>

# Set up 2 Hour caching on commonly updated files

<FilesMatch “\.(xml|txt|html|js|css)$”>

ExpiresDefault A604800

Header append Cache-Control “private, must-revalidate”

</FilesMatch>

# Force no caching for dynamic files

<FilesMatch “\.(php|cgi|pl|htm)$”>

ExpiresDefault A0

Header set Cache-Control “no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0″

Header set Pragma “no-cache”

</FilesMatch>

#

#####################################################

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>

<FilesMatch “\.(js|css)$”>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE

</FilesMatch>

</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_gzip.c>

mod_gzip_on Yes

mod_gzip_dechunk Yes

mod_gzip_keep_workfiles No

mod_gzip_can_negotiate Yes

mod_gzip_add_header_count Yes

mod_gzip_send_vary Yes

mod_gzip_command_version ‘/mod_gzip_status’

mod_gzip_min_http 1000

mod_gzip_minimum_file_size 300

mod_gzip_maximum_file_size 512000

mod_gzip_maximum_inmem_size 60000

mod_gzip_handle_methods GET POST

mod_gzip_temp_dir /tmp

mod_gzip_item_include file \.html$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.php$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.pl$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.rb$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.py$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.cgi$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.css$

mod_gzip_item_include file \.js$

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/javascript$

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^application/x-javascript$

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^text/.*

mod_gzip_item_include mime ^httpd/unix-directory$

mod_gzip_item_include handler ^cgi-script$

mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-status$

mod_gzip_item_include handler ^server-info$

mod_gzip_item_include handler ^application/x-httpd-php

mod_gzip_item_exclude mime ^image/.*

</ifModule>

<ifModule mod_headers.c>

Header unset ETag

</ifModule>

FileETag None

The first block will set http caching on. The 2nd block will turn on gzipping and the last 2 lines will take away etags. I will try to explain the exact meaning of those stuff in time!

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Hi everyone!

I will be graduating in a couple of weeks time and i just want to say thanks for all the support these 4 years! I never imagined that almost every mac user in school would refer to my site for configs. I am unsure what the main content of this website will be in the coming months but i will NOT be updating the SMU mac manual in the future.

Although i cant guarantee that this site will be online forever, the wiki that i created will be (unless that site closes suddenly or something)

http://bit.ly/smumacmanual

Update your bookmarks! Go there from now on to get the latest config (esp when lion comes out) that site will be updated by SMUMacness as well as you! (I hope kind souls out there who manage to get their stuff working will update the wiki, my guide wasn’t built by me alone and i know many out there who have the skills to get new configs working)

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The first version of the SMU Guide iPhone App is released!

The first and only Singapore Management University Guide.

Need to find out what time the library closes?
Need to know what the telephone number for the office of student life is?

Find all this info and more at the touch of your fingertips

Created By Kian Hean

Thanks to SMUSA for the SMUGuide and SMUMacness for their support!

DOWNLOAD

NOTES

1. This is a directory app, its in its first version and does not support GSR booking, this feature is unlikely as there is no API to connect to the server.
2. The information contained here was sourced online as well as other publications, should there be any error please let me know.
3. As i am graduating, app development will be taken over by SMUMacness in a few months time.
4. No android or BB or Win7 version planned as of yet.

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If your email is working without and problem please ignore this post.

For those having problems connecting to your email on outlook, entourage, mail, iphone etc…

Change the server to

hknprd0102.outlook.com.

Also, again for those who do not know… I am graduating from SMU this coming May.

This Website will not be updated with configuration news from SMU anymore after then.

Please refer to this wiki that i have created with the help of Macness as well

http://smumacmanual.pbworks.com/w/page/8321622/The-Ultimate-SMU-Mac-Knowledge-Base-Wiki

Also SMUMacness!

http://smumacness.com/

Somehow it was updated today this morning and all previous settings are broken.

Please use the new settings as below. The rest is the same

Full Instructions here

I have been investigating this issue and i have found the solution!

It works 90% of the time!

Step 1

Delete all other networks except the school network and maybe your home network. Dont worry they wont be lost forever.

This is to reduce “confusion” when mac tries to find a network. Somehow this works

Step 2

Make sure under the advanced tab of network. In the 802.1x portion make sure only 1 profile is active. Delete everything else.

Step 3

Go to keychain and make sure lanacs1, wlanacs or any cert that is wlan or smu is set to always trust for everything.

Following these 3 steps will make WLAN auto connect!