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Well, it was going to be a big shoot-out with all the big names in OSXS Mail solutions, but trawling through them all would have taken far too long and got far too boring. So imagine that the preliminary rounds took place behind close doors and you’re here for the final. We’re going to be pitching the commercial Kerio Mail Server up against free-if-you-don’t-need-all-the-features Zimbra Collaboration suite which comes in 3 flavours (one free, and two paid-for).

Read on for the results…

In part 1 of the series, I covered the reasons why you would want to separate a single server into multiple servers. Now we move on to the nitty-gritty: how do you actually accomplish the task?

Goal: Set up a separate server in the DMZ that handles web serving and external mail transport. This will reduce the number of direct connections from the outside to the inside server. External contributors will still connect directly to the internal mail server to pick up their mail via IMAP.

Ed. Note: You can find this article with a bit more graphic flavor at the author’s website.

A perl script to read individual user spam and ham folders.

After I got Bayes learning to work correctly in SpamAssassin, I wanted a more convenient way for users to mark messages that were incorrectly classified. The Apple recommendation, as I’m sure you know, requires the user to redirect the message to a particular email address, where a nightly script will process it.

Read on for more…

Worth pointing out, since it contradicts what some people have said in the past.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303697

Some thoughts on getting a small office network setup.

Read on for the beginning of a four part series on configuring some basic connectivity on your server.

The first Apple announcement at NAB 2006 is the release of Xsan 1.3 – the biggest improvement being the ability to use LUNs greater than 2TB, removing the need to slice your 7TB RAIDs. Read on for the other improvments…

Filling in the holes where the system lags a bit, here’s a quick way to get e-mail quota warnings out to your users

So I got bitten this morning by a user who hit their IMAP quota limit and didn’t get any alerts from Mail.app about it, possibly because he reckoned he hadn’t quit Mail.app or logged out of his machine for about a month…

This led me to whip up this PHP script this morning. PHP has kind of become my command line scripting language of choice, mainly because I often find myself needing to read SQL data for one reason or another, it’s installed on all OS X machines, and has a reasonable API for things like sending email.

Yes, it’s here! With new features including remote Spotlight searches, remote drag and drop, shared clipboards, curtain mode, Automator actions, a task server and smart computer lists there’s a veritable feast of stuff to get excited about. Check out the new Apple Remote Desktop page.

Lab Admins Unite!

LabMan is a low-key, inexpensive, and friendly conference intended for people who manage, supervise or maintain computing labs in higher education, K-12, or library facilities regardless of platform or technology they maintain. That said, it does indeed have long running and strong Mac presence.

This year it runs from June 6-7 at Purdue University in Indiana. More info at the conference page.

So, it’s not exactly server related, but it’s worth mentioning. Today Apple have released the public beta of Boot Camp – a piece of software to simplify the install of Windows XP SP2 on your Intel-based Mac. Check out its page for more details, including System Requirements and limitations (no support for IR, Bluetooth Keyboard/mouse, built-in iSight, sudden motion sensor and the ambient light sensor).