[steeveevee]

My hard-won discoveries for your consideration:

https://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/postfix.html (mactroll, Sept. ’02)

where I first found some advice, did not prove as useful as

https://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/postfix2.html (Atropos, Apr ’03)

but the latter had some loose ends.

For example, I commented out these lines from Atropos’ suggested UCE controls:

#check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/access-addresses,
#check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/access-ips,
and
#header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/spammerheaders
#body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/spammerbodies

Is this prudent? I don’t give a damn; my mail server is working. If someone can advise me explicitly how to properly create the files called for in those four lines, and how to properly populate them, I’m all eyes.

I found out more about this by looking at /var/log/mail.log, and from this thread at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2003-05/0318.html

My goal now is to get a virtual domain in there.

== Steeveevee

[steeveevee]

I’m afraid my problem was more basic than what you guys are talking about. I couldn’t make heads or tails of the collection of utilities that together manage OS X Server: Workgroup Manager, Macintosh Manager, Server Settings, Server Status, NetInfo Manager, etc.

For example, I was surprised to discover that when I created a new user account remotely, it didn’t automatically create a home directory. Call me spoiled from too many years of using systems where the new-user scripts did that automatically, but that flummoxed me for a while.

Another thing was this whole idea of “share points.” Talk about confusing. I couldn’t tell whether I had to specify the path or not; I couldn’t tell whether I needed to make a share point for each account, or whether they could all share one, or whether an individual’s user should be a share point, or the directory that user’s home directory was contained in. It may seem kind of churlish to people who are accustomed to Unix, but to someone accustomed to Macintosh, this was new turf.

The good news is, I think I’ve figured out some of the problem. I have succeeded in setting up several domain names hosted from the same server. Now I’m having trouble getting the server to let me log in using certain of the new accounts I’ve set up. Some let me in fine, others say user/password error, even when they worked an hour ago.

I’d consider upgrading to Panther…if it didn’t cost *another* $500.

== Steve

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