Migrating mail between IMAP servers using mbsync
My university recently announced a switch from Zimbra to Microsoft Exchange server. The thought didn't sit well with me, so I decided to migrate the mails to my own mail server instead. A generalised account of what I used to achieve this, can be found below. …
Set up your own CalDAV server on Debian to synchronise calendars and contacts between OS X and iOS
We've been using standardised protocols like IMAP to keep our mailboxes in sync between many devices for well over a decade. Our calendars and contacts haven't been as lucky; though there have been proprietary protocols to keep our data centralised (such as Mi…
Sharing a Firefox profile between Windows and Linux
While I highly encourage people to just give Ubuntu a go, I appreciate there may be applications (games, Photoshop) that just don't work good enough on Linux without lot of effort. When I started dual booting Linux and Windows a few years ago, one of the firs…