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Published Jun 21, 2019
Was wondering what this annoying thing was on my SD card. And I couldn't remove the spotlight stuff even with sudo! Very annoying, honestly. The link writes about what all those hidden directories are and what they do.
 
Published Jun 20, 2019
We wanted to set up some infrastructure that would send mail through a shared icloud account. Here's how we did that:
  1. Set up icloud account.
  2. Set up AppleID for said icloud account / the mac(s) running the infrastructure.
  3. Fully log in to your Apple ... stuff. Mac, icloud, apple ID, etc. You must use two-factor authentication to do so.
  4. Go to your AppleID management interface, once fully logged in and authenticated.
  5. Create an "app specific password."
You should now be fully set up and ready to go! Invoke your script. Let's assume your icloud account is myfakeaccount@icloud.com. This should be it!
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python mailer.py \
	--user myfakeaccount \
	--passwd <app specific password in the format: aaaa-aaaa-aaaa-aaaa> \
	--host smtp.mail.me.com \
	--port 587 \
	--from_addr myfakeaccount@icloud.com \
	--to_addr <your address> \
	--subj "Your subject" \
	--attach your_file.txt
If that doesn't work, well, check the reference document we used to get going and see what's wrong.
 
Published Jun 20, 2019
Work based on a previous reference: my python script to send mail on MacOS. (As previously mentioned, on Linux I just use mail/sendmail.) I believe interacting with this script is cleaner and simpler. The password is hardcoded, but for the automation infrastructure we're using, something has to store the password, so why not the caller? We can probably do better ... but.
Script after the jump.
 
Published Jun 20, 2019
A very nice fellow by the name of Peter Hosey wrote a simple, quick, small python script to send mail to an SMTP server. He mentions it here on Stack, which is where I found it. I've used it successfully on macos where I couldn't get mail/sendmail to work. (On Linux I always just use sendmail without issue.)
 
Published Jun 20, 2019
We recently needed to clone some SD cards - or, more precisely, copy a directory structure. Apparently SD card cloners are kind of expensive. We didn't really need a block-type copy, just a standard copy, so I whipped up a script. Details after the jump.
 
 
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