numbersix

It seems that the recent update to OSX (10.4.7) broke Canon's Camera Window software. While there doesn't seem to be an official fix for this at the moment I've found a work around which is almost as good. Plug the CF card into a normal USB card reader, the Camera Window software seems to recognise it as if you had plugged in your camera. After all the camera is probably only acting as a USB storage device anyway.

Hopefully Canon will fix this soon, I don't think it's a problem with OSX as such.

A quick summary of how I fit all these together on a BSD system.

First install each from ports. Then configure fetchmail to fetch your mail from whereever it is, my .fetchmailrc file looks something like this:

# Fetchmailrc
#
poll mail.mailserver.com protocol pop3 no dns
user myusername
pass mypassword
mda "/usr/local/bin/maildrop -d %T"
no keep
fetchall

Notice the mda line which will invoke maildrop as the Mail Delivery Agent. Then write your maildrop filter. Mine is pretty simple, all it does is invoke Spam Assassin's client to scan the mail. I use pine to filter the messages into different folders so I don't have any more rules :

xfilter "/usr/local/bin/spamc"

And finally make sure Spam Assassin is running as a daemon, add this line to /etc/rc.conf:

spamd_enable="YES"

and then start the daemon:

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd.sh start

Then all you have to do is run fetchmail to get your mail, and your mail client to read it. Oh, and add filters to your mail client to actually filter the spam. I'll leave that exercise to the reader.