[suranyami]

[quote:7b3fc7b082]As I said before my big peeve with Postfix was getting SMTP AUTH to work. David has gotten around this by setting up POP before SMTP, but I like to send mail through my client’s systems on a regular basis to make sure that they are working. I want to be able to do this without needing a POP/IMAP account on the server. [/quote:7b3fc7b082]

I’d be really interested to hear how this was done.

I figured that since Apple have decided to go for Postfix in Panther, that I’d bite the bullet and install Postfix now in preparation for when it arrives. My first big obstacle was getting SMTP authentication working…

I downloaded the Cyrus SASL libraries, and got a whole slew of make errors, which is pretty discouraging.

SMTP Authentication is an absolute show-stopper in my situation, since ALL of the users are outside the subnet and some of them are using this machine for SMTP even without a POP account.

Anyone had any success with this? How’d ya do it, oh masterful one?

[suranyami]

>>I’ve looked at networked home directories what’s it for?
It’s for users to have their home dir/preferences travel from mac to mac.

Okay, this makes sense now. I’ll give it a try… we still have need for that too.

[quote:e013fde588]Why don’t you just use Carbon Copy Cloner or PSyncX to do incremental backups. Setup a schedule to back up to the server (if it’s availble). Or add a login/logout hook to copy the files to the server everytime they login and logout.[/quote:e013fde588]

Both of these suggestions are good… I’ll give them a try! Thanks

Still… I’d be very interested in having a fake iDisk server, anyway…

I guess I’ll have another bash at following the hints on that site I found, and see if I cant simplify the process some.

[suranyami]

> I have no need for this since I use networked home directories.

Okay, ‘scuse my ignorance here, but how does this help (or subsititute for) working with using Apple’s Backup utility?

I’ve gotta admit, I’ve looked at networked home directories with some bewilderment… what’s it for? If it can help in this situation, then I’m all for it.

In our scenario, we have 3 laptops that are in and out of the network all the time and 1 server.. at least 1 of the laptops is used for collecting and manipulating photographs, so it’s got a constant influx of large new files that we’d like to make sure are backed up. The laptops are almost always attached to the network overnight, so setting up some program (e.g. Apple Backup) to do an incremental backup in the early hours of the morning would be ideal.

So, more directly, I guess what I’m looking for is a reliable distributed backup strategy. I used to use Retrospect as part of my job a long time ago, but a) it drove me crazy and b) there’s no way I can justify the expense for our little non-commercial setup.

[suranyami]

No, I was allowing PLAIN and LOGIN…. however, what I HAD done wrong, which is pretty stupid in retrospect, was that I had IMAP turned off for the users that I was testing with.

I suppose it may have been obvious to others that SquirrelMail used IMAP to collect mail, but I must admit I didn’t find out this most important fact when I was trawling through the help files that came with the SquirrelMail download.

As a general rule, I never use IMAP… no particular reason, just never saw the point.

All works fine now, which is just frikkin’ awesome!

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