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Things are probably a lot more stable now compared to when you first installed it. Are you familiar with John De Troye’s documents ? (He works for Apple). Lots of stuff suitable for your type of installation environment…

http://homepage.mac.com/johnd/album.html

-david

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Just to add something to this thread… even if using an alternative submission port, it is possible that your remote user could be on a dynamic IP or similar which may get blocked by any recipient restrictions, (RBLs, etc). To avoid this, overwrite any restrictions for the alternative submission port.

Rather than duplicate stuff, see Jeff Johnson’s web site…
http://mac007.com/?Tips:Alternate_SMTP_Ports

-david

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No, not a bug. Depends on what you put in “main settings” – presumably you put the domain in ‘domain name’ field and something like “mail.domain.name” in ‘hostname’ field? This would be correct but will still need the domain in the Local Host Aliases pane. Anything in here will be treated as a local domain, otherwise server thinks you want to ‘relay out’ to an external domain.

I think your problem just got confused by the addition of the RBL problem.

Have a look at the output from “postconf -n”. This just prints out non-standard settings from the main.cf file. The part you want to look at is the ‘mydestination’ clause. This defines what your server will accept for local delivery. If you do not put anything in the Local Host Aliases pane then this will produce the following…

mydestination = $myhostname,localhost.$mydomain

$myhostname & $mydomain are taken from the settings of the same names (these will also show up in postconf -n). So, as you can see, it will by default accept mail for “mail.domain.name” and “localhost.domain.name” but not the one you actually want – “domain.name”.

Some people get around it by making ‘Hostname’ field equal to same as ‘Domain’ field but this is not right as the ‘Hostname’ should be the same as your external MX record uses (so connecting servers get the same HELO name from your server as they are expecting from the MX record)

-david

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How are you “pruning” old messages?

Are you using pop or imap accounts?

-david

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Is the receiving domain listed in Advanced-> Hosting-> local Host Aliases ?

If not, add it. If already listed, post output from Terminal command “postconf -n”

-david

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Puzzle solved!
Courtesy of Pterobyte (Alex) on the Apple Mailserver forum, quota report is generated by the OSX Server Admin tool, when it is open at the Mail Maintenance tab – it refreshes every minute and generates a quota report each time. Aaarrghh 😉
Full story on Apple forum…
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=576165&tstart=0
-david

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[QUOTE][u]Quote by: macshome[/u]

these are old skool PostScript fonts and they keep all their data in the resource fork.

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Aaah, makes sense now!
And thanks for the link!
-david

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It was maybe a mistake putting this query in with rsync/backup, since it seems to be about why Apple install four ._ fonts in System/Library/Fonts.

Anyway, out of curiosity I ran FixupResourceForks on the System Fonts folder and the four ._ fonts were deleted. The other four ‘normal’ fonts (of similar name but without the ._ ) remained as zero size files so I don’t know what the ._ fonts were doing there – maybe a left-over error in the installation package?

I also noticed that there are zero size (0B) font files in /Library/Fonts – I guess I’m going to have to do a bit more reading on font files and figure out why some of them are zero bytes in size but still appear to work…

-david

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Thanks, macshome, but the problem is not with recreating the resource forks. The problem seems to be that a standard install of the server actually creates the 4 system font files starting with the ._ chars. Rsync does not expect to find these prefixing ‘real’ files and so (somehow) creates an error message about “disappearing” files, and does NOT copy them to the remote clone.
I confirmed that these files actually get created on a brand new install of 10.4. No other files get created by a new install with the ._ prefix.
Why does the system create only these four font files prefixed with these chars? And then similar named font files (without the ._ ) which are zero size?
-david

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Thanks, that does the trick! I thought I was going to have to do without my weekly fix. While I’m here. many thanks for the site!

For anyone not realising that you can change the theme, it is set under User Functions-> Preferences

-david

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There’s a thread on Apple Discussions with a possible workaround which seems to work for me also…

RE: AFP group permissions not working correctly with 10.4 client

-david

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Sorry, didn’t mean to have so many question marks in last post ! 🙂

-david

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I have not moved to Tiger server yet, and I don;t know why Apple would have cut down the GUI functions, but…

A text based DNS via Terminal editing must be a pretty basic bit of knowledge for a server administrator? Beyond the absolute basic which I presume the start-up “wizard” does.

Yes, it’s something extra to learn but a simple DNS is really pretty basic, isn’t it? If you already know what an ‘A’ record is then you should know how to define it… No?

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That’s in 10.3.9 Panther as well.

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Hi Josh, what should I be checking out (in man pages?) for the CLI to modify this “auto-reconnect timeout”?

I’ve never got the idle user timeout to work consistently & I’m hoping this helps ‘fix’ things. Ta.

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