I may be missing something fundamentally obvious here, but I can’t figure out where the Apple Mail Server is documented. I’m running Mac OS X Server 10.1.5. I haven’t had too much trouble with it, because everything was either obvious, or identical to the way I’ve been running UNIX servers for years (but with a new GUI front end), or both.

Not Apple Mail Server. I can’t figure out where it lives, where its configuration lives, where it’s documented. I was barely able to figure out where it was delivering mail to local users! And that was by poking around in my own personal directory structure until I found my incoming mailbox.

Where can I find out more about this beast?

For what it’s worth: The version of /usr/sbin/sendmail that’s delivered with 10.1.5 is out of synch with the config file that’s delivered in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, which seems to be for a different version of sendmail. The stuff that’s in the ‘/usr/share/sendmail/conf’ directory, though, is the right version. So if you’re running Server 10.1.5, and you want to switch to sendmail, you’d better install a new sendmail.cf, or sendmail will just quit on you with a complaint.

If you’re not using NetInfo, so you don’t need to suck your aliases out of the NetInfo database but can run from the separate aliases database in /etc/mail, you might just be better off sucking down the latest sendmail distribution from sendmail.org, though I’ll admit I haven’t done this myself since I live behind a firewall and don’t need the very utter latest in security. I also don’t know what the situation is in 10.2 Server because I haven’t got that yet.