Category Archives: osx-server

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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Subscribing to Delegated Calendars

OK, I’m fortunate or crazy enough to run my own server using Apple’s OS X Leopard Server software. It has been, at times, very simple and very complex to set everything up. One of the options that I use is … Continue reading

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MobileMe & OS X Server

I’m just coming down out of the Jobs RDF. I’m wondering, will there be some OS X Server equivalent to the new .Mac service - MobileMe? I’d love to be able to deploy push email and push calendar to my … Continue reading

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