postfix installation on os x server

[Anonymous]

Will this how to work for non-server OS X or is it specifically for OS X Server?

[Anonymous]

I have followed the article about installing postfix in OSX 10.2 server for use with Apple’s IMAP services. I’ve got a school with a load of iBooks and 5 Windows XP machines. I am running Postfix on an early Xserve running OS X Server 10.2.6. I have run into two odd problems.

First (with password server running and the Windows Users having password server passwords) Windows users can only authenticate from Outlook if they are entered in to the local netinfo database. The root netinfo database is on the same xserve. If the users are in the root domain (with basic or password server passwords) they cannot successfully authenticate to the IMAP server. Moving them to the local netinfo domain allows them to talk to the IMAP server.

The second problem is this. I have setup the Windows Users without a home directory (thinking that it would not be neccessary). If mail comes in from outside the school’s subnet for a Windows user, it shows up in the IMAP INBOX. If one Windows user sends a message to another Windows user (within the subnet) the message does not show up in the IMAP mailbox. But if the user logs directly into the server, from the command line the “missing mail” shows up in mail. This does not seem to be a problem with Mac users, although the Mac users have home directories on the Xserve.

Anybody have anything useful to say about either of these problems?

Thanks, signed Confused

[Anonymous]

Acutally no, I am running Apple’s IMAP (where ever it actually comes from) with postfix installed instead of sendmail.

Thanks, Confused

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