Tag Archives: osx-server

Verizon Thinks You’re a Spammer

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on December 16, 2009 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on December 19, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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

Posted on June 9, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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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Forwarding Email in Leopard Server, part 2

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Andy Fragen

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. … Continue reading →

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