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New IP Address

Andy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:26:25 +0000

Well, as a cost saving measure and because we really weren’t using more than one, we’ve cut back to a single IP address. Time Warner Cable is the biz Internet provider. They’ve been very helpful in setting up reverse DNS lookups and PTR records, but at the same time the transfer to the new IP really screwed with the cable modem.

I spent many hours with some very nice people at TWC tech support, like Jan, but what eventually fixed the problem was changing the fixed IP I was assigned to another fixed IP.

Long and short is everything, mail, web, etc. seems to be back up and running.

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Amavisd settings

Andy — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:03:40 +0000

I run my own mail server on OS X Server. For the most part I have my SpamAssassin settings tweaked pretty well. Unfortunately, there is some spam that seems to have malformed or incomplete MIME boundaries and these messages don’t seem to be getting passed off from Amavisd to SpamAssassin. As such, they seem to be getting through to the recipient with a null value for the spam score.

After a little Googling I found Amavisd critical settings and I think the $final_bad_header_destiny is the key. The default setting is set to D_PASS. I’ve changed mine to D_REJECT now I’ll see what the logs say and see how much non-spam gets caught. Obviously, if enough good stuff doesn’t get through then I’ll have to think of something else.

But the obvoious question remains, Why doesn’t SpamAssassin score these messages?

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Backblaze Backup

Andy — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:35:37 +0000

I have an invite or two to distribute for the Backblaze online backup service for OS X. Price is $5 a month per machine for unlimited data. Attached disks are recognized, but not yet network attached storage. My opinion is once they allow for NAS backup it’ll be great.

Leave a comment if you want a link to the beta.

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Laptop Envy

Andy — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:44:04 +0000

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Whining

Andy — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:06:11 +0000

Security experts say that Apple isn’t ready for enterprise prime-time.

Quit whining. All you seem to care about is that Apple didn’t give you any advance notice. You spent the entire article about it without even addressing the fixes or whether OS X and/or QuickTime, etc. are now more secure. Grow up. Apple doesn’t need to have a press conference to tell you they’re working on security.

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Powered Down

Andy — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:34:11 +0000

The power was off for most of the day a couple of days ago. Perhaps related or not but now our G5 iMac won’t power on.

Off to the closest Apple Authorized Service Center.

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WordPress and the iPhone

Andy — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:14:37 +0000

So I’m trying out the latest WordPress for iPhone app and it’s pretty cool. What I’ve noticed though, because I use the Markdown plugin is that the preview shows the marked up content and not the rendered content. It would be great if somehow this could be fixed.

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Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

Andy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:25:53 +0000

I’ve previously written about problems with Leopard server and forwarding of virtual hosted domain email. My solution was somewhat inelegant and errors were written into the mail.log. Since that time I’ve found a solution that works and generates no errors. It also has the added benefit of being entirely within Server Admin.

Here’s what to do.

In Server Admin > Mail > Settings > Advanced > Hosting the following items are needed.

Obviously, in the lower panel Virtual Domain Hosting needs to be checked and the domains entered.
In the upper panel I have the following entries.

localhost
server.mydomain.private (this is the entry under Server Admin > Mail > Settings > General > Domain Name.

virtual1.com and the others are the hosted virtual domains for which users have email accounts. That’s it. When I check my mail logs, mail is forwarded, I get errors regarding accounts not being set up, but mail is forwared.

Update
Well, it seems I still see the bounces, but mail is forwarded. I’ve removed the virtual domains from the upper panel. It was a bad idea to start with. I don’t know if Snow Leopard server fixes this. Let me know.

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Unforeseen Circumstances

Andy — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:31:32 +0000

Due to unforeseen circumstances I accidentally trashed my server installation. Don’t ask me for details but I think I accidentally unloaded all my launch daemons. I figured no big deal just restart the machine and everything’s fine. Not so fine.

I restart and my mail server doesn’t seem to be working correctly.

Several reinstalls later and I would still have a wonky mail server. It only got screwy after I tried to restore my mail stores. I was using mailbfr so it should have gone smoothly.

After several attempts I decided to change my plan. I reinstalled the OS, and didn’t update the software to 10.5.2. I then copied over calendars, files, etc. after setting up the server software.

Then I hand edited the SpamAssassin local.cf file to it’s previous settings and used mailbfr to selectively restore only specific users. Everything’s working. So I let it chug along checking my logs and finally decide to do the Software Update.

Everything’s still working. My wife thinks I should not run my own server as the aggravation is so great. I told her that it only continues to demonstrate how little comparative aggravation I receive from her.

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Apple USB Ethernet Adapter - solution

Andy — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:15:15 +0000

Peter Sichel of Sustainable Softworks is a genius. Seriously. He’s not only just updated his USB to Ethernet Adapters for Mac OS X to work with the recently released Apple-branded USB Ethernet adapter, but he sent me a comment letting me know.

I’ve just installed the USBAx8817x 1.0.3b10 release and it seems to be working.

Peter emailed me to let me know his sources inside Apple report that the driver in 10.5.2 should correctly with Apple’s adapter. You will have to remove Peter’s driver to see if this works. I’ll try it when I get the server back from repair as I’ll have to re-install the OS anyway.

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