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The annoying, uninformative error message.

This message can’t be saved to the Outbox.
The message contains one or more attachments that are too large to be saved in the Outbox. Try deleting some attachments.

Have you ever got this error message before? I use Mail.app IMAP’ing from my GAFYD (Google Apps for Your Domain) account and thought I was going insane when I was getting this error message the other day.

I went in and emptied trash, cleared out a bunch of emails – basically got back to 50% free space, which was moooore than enough for the 5mb attachment I was sending. I also checked my local hard-drive to ensure I had plenty of free space, and I did.

It turns out this error message actually means that the attachment that you are trying to send on hasn’t finished downloading yet. 

A more descriptive error message would be nice!

So I finally got around to moving my domain to use google apps for your domain. So far I like it, but migrating from 2 years of Gmail use has been tough. I haven’t moved much email yet, though I’m pretty sure that a temporary upgrade to a pro account can take care of that – steps will come in another post once they are completed.

So now it’s time to move my calendars. I run out of 3 calendars, one for timetables (hours worked, uni classes etc), one for due dates (projects, assignments) and one for everything that doesn’t come under either of thsoe 2 categories like personal dates.

I expected it to be an annoying and arduous task, but low and behold, it is extremely simple!

First you need to log into your Gmail account, click settings up the top rightm, choose the calendars tab and export all your calendars.

Unzip the file and keep the .ics files somewhere handy.

Next, log into your Google apps calendar and create the neccesary calendars.

Then click the little arrow next to Add and choose import calendar

From here you select the file you want to import, the calendar you want to import to and voila! Calendar moved from Gmail to Google Apps for your Domain.

When playing with SSL certificates and Java I came across a very weird error that I could not find a solution to anywhere.

I had submitted my CSR and got the certificate back in an email, so I copied it and pasted it into a .cer file ready to SSL my applet, but when trying to import the certificate, I got the following error:

keytool java.security.cert.CertificateParsingException: signed overrun, bytes = 139

After much searching of forums and Google, I could not find any reference to this specific error message other than something about copy and pasting from the wrong format. I thought that maybe it was something to do with Outlook, so logged into Gmail and copy and pasted from there, voila!

I decided to make sure Outlook was my problem before slaying it all over the intarwebz and sure enough, copy and pasting from Outlook again threw the error, but doing it from Gmail did not. I no longer copy and paste anything important out of Outlook.