Category Archives: osx-server

Setting up Snow Leopard iCal Server

After scouring through the official documentation, and finding that lacking, Google has found the answers. Make sure Wiki Server is set to 127.0.0.1 and that Use SSL is checked. Here’s how I was finally able to get my groups into … Continue reading

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Snow Leopard Sieve Rules

How to edit sieve rules in Snow Leopard by hand. This is not really recommended especially because it seems that SL server does not utilize all the sieve rules and the ones that it does utilize are in a slightly … Continue reading

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Dovecot Permissions

Well, I finally bit the bullet and installed OS X Snow Leopard Server. Most of what I absolutely need to get working is mail services. One of the peculiarities of Dovecot is that each users mail folder is owned by … Continue reading

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Verizon Thinks You’re a Spammer

They must. Verizon now blocks port 25 and does not allow you to opt out. Why do I care? Well our hospital just opened up free WiFi everywhere and when I found I couldn’t send email I made a couple … Continue reading

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WordPress Automatic Updates

I think I finally have the automatic updates feature of WordPress working. Previously, when asked for my login info for the FTP connection I would get some vague connection error. It’s a permissions issue. Some permissions for files/folders need to … Continue reading

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Server-Side Email Filtering with Sieve

Another post for the peripheral brain. When I first set up my own server lo these years ago, I never really thought about email message filtering. After all, I had rules in Mail.app that would send my incoming message to … Continue reading

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False Positive

Just a personal reminder to keep in the memory bank. When running OS X Server and SpamAssassin, if you have spam set up to be quarantined it gets stored in /var/virusmails. A method of viewing and releasing quarantined mail mostly … Continue reading

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New IP Address

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 … Continue reading

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Fail2ban on Leopard Server

So here I am running my own server — for almost 2 years now. It’s been a real learning experience and I’ve tried to share. My latest add-on has been fail2ban. I got tired of looking into my logs and … Continue reading

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Amavisd settings

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 … Continue reading

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