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*** WIP *** Mail shoot-out

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.

By maccanada 1 min read

Servers and Services

How to Split a Server (Part 2 of 4)

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.

By PuLSe 9 min read

Mail

Easy way for users to tweak Bayes filtering

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.

By Ross Carter 1 min read

Mail

Automatic Email Quota Warnings

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...

By nigelkersten 1 min read

Mail

Communigate Pro with LDAP Authentication

With all the issues related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliancy, and contracts being written to cover all losses and lawsuits related to any security breach in network setup these days, along with the desire for System…

By andrina 1 min read

Mail

How to Delete Old User Mailboxes

We have quite a large turnover of staff, and over a period of time I noticed that once users accounts were deleted in WGM, (and indeed none functional), their mailboxes were still present and showing up in SA. There is a how-to floating about (url below) which will kill these mailboxes, but it seems it only works prior to deleting user in WGM.

By snafu 2 min read

Servers and Services

Mac OS X Server Administrator Topics Documentation

Apple has put up a nice bit of documentation on their developer site on some the more advanced topics that systems administrator may be interested in. Topics covered include Kerberizing the Mac OS X VPN Server, Creating Mail Account Bundles, Setting Up a Network Library, Setting Up Key-Based SSH Login and Incorporating User Images in Open Directory.

By andrina 1 min read

Mail

Greylisting on 10.4

How to get greylisting working with the included Postfix SMTP server on OS X Server 10.4 Greylisting, if you've not encountered it before, is the process of temporarily rejecting e-mail from an unknown host/sender/recipient combination.

By jxself 3 min read