Leopard Server's Mail Server Storage Format

I'm hoping to get some help with a migration project to Mac OS X 10.5 Server's mail server from another mail server. One of the main tasks is going to be migrating our archived mail from the old system to the Server's mail server. To do this I need to know what format Apple has chosen to store messages in with its mail server. As far as I can tell the messages are stored as individual files at /var/spool/imap/<username>/<folder> but I can't find any documentation about the format itself.
According to the docs it looks like Cyrus does this storage under the hood, has Apple changed any of this to suit the configuration Leopard Server or does it work just like Cyrus? There are also a bunch of databases kicking around which handle what appear to be some basic fast lookup information. However I don't think I'm going to need to create these since they appear to be repairable so once the files are present it should just be a case of repairing the databases and starting the server. I hope!
If any Apple Mail Server ninjas know more than I do I'd really appreciate some advice from someone who's gone before.
Thanks

I forgot to check my cables. Apparently they have used crossed-cable for the previous Mac Pro to switch connection. After connecting the server to our AirPort Extreme things got a little sticky, using a straight cable did the trick.

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Mail Server and SMTP Configuration (Leopard Server)

Hello,
Our setup: Mac OS X SERVER 5.2 - LEOPARD SERVER
PowerPC G5
Orange Internet connection via a router / DHCP
We try to find such assistance in configuring your Mac book
OS Server at your service.
We set our server with a local area "domaine.intranet"
We created users with the interface, and have an address
"[email protected]."
Our messaging system works internally with the client MAIL.
We also have an Internet domain "domaine.fr", this area is hosted
In online.net.
We have personal e-mail addresses such as "[email protected]" always
Hosted by online.
We can check our e-mails via the client MAIL by IMAP.
However, we do not send emails to the outside world, and especially
"Domaine.fr" or "[email protected]."
In the console admin Server:
-- LETTERS: we have turned the SMTP protocol allowing mail
Entrant, authorizing "Relayer outgoing mail over the host:
Smtp.orange.fr "
At the tab relay, we leave the config classic 127.0.0.0 / 8
And 192.168.1.0/24.
In the history of mail, there are "postfix / postfix-7563]: fatal: the
Postfix mail system is not running, why then that the service operates on
Priori!
How can I be able to send emails to the outside knowing that we
Use addresses' [email protected]. "
Please tell us a direction to follow or procedure.
Sincerely,
ORIGINAL IN FRENCH
Notre configuration : Mac OS X SERVER 5.2 - LEOPARD SERVER
PowerPC G5
Connexion internet orange via un routeur/DHCP
Nous avons essayer de trouver cette aide à la configuration dans votre livre Mac
OS Server à votre service.
Nous avons configuré notre serveur avec un domaine local en "domaine.intranet"
Nous avons créé des utilisateurs à l'aide de l'interface, et avons une adresse
"[email protected]".
Notre système de messagerie fonctionne en interne avec le client MAIL.
Nous avons également un domaine internet "domaine.fr", ce domaine est hébergé
chez online.net.
Nous avons des adresses mail personnel du type "[email protected]" toujours
hébergé chez online.
Nous pouvons consulter nos emails via le client MAIL par IMAP.
Par contre, nous n'arrivons pas à envoyer des emails à l'extérieur, et notamment
sur "domaine.fr" ou "[email protected]".
Dans la console d'admin Serveur :
- COURRIER : nous avons activé le protocole SMTP en autorisant le courrier
entrant, en autorisant "Relayer le courrier sortant via l'hôte :
smtp.orange.fr"
Au niveau de l'onglet relais, nous avons laisser la config classique 127.0.0.0/8
et 192.168.1.0/24.
Dans l'historique de courrier, il y a "postfix/postfix-script[7563]: fatal: the
Postfix mail system is not running", pourquoi alors que le service fonctionne à
priori !
Comment faire pour pouvoir envoyer nos emails à l'extérieur sachant que nous
utilisons les adresses "[email protected]".
Merci de nous indiquer une direction à suivre ou une procédure.
Cordialement,
Message was edited by: serveurbense

Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
I modified according to your advice and tried to send mail, but it does only internally. My mail.log gives me the following information:
Apr 21 10:59:30 domaine postfix/smtp[4521]: 46D302308BE: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.84]:25, delay=0.27, delays=0.05/0.01/0.16/0.05, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.84] said: 554 <[email protected]>: *Recipient address rejected: Missing Authentication (in reply to RCPT TO command))*
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 2147323090F: removed
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/pipe[4608]: 022FF230937: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.28, delays=0.01/0.04/0/0.23, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/smtp[4606]: 022FF230937: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86]:25, delay=0.31, delays=0.01/0.04/0.18/0.08, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86] said: 553 <[email protected]>: *Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to MAIL FROM command))*
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/smtp[4606]: 022FF230937: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86]:25, delay=0.31, delays=0.01/0.04/0.18/0.08, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86] said: 553 <[email protected]>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/cleanup[4600]: 602A423094E: message-id=<[email protected]>
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/bounce[4612]: 022FF230937: sender non-delivery notification: 602A423094E
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 602A423094E: from=, size=3531, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 022FF230937: removed
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/pipe[4608]: 602A423094E: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.06, delays=0.01/0/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 602A423094E: removed
Apr 21 11:01:10 domaine postfix/postfix-script[4664]: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Apr 21 11:01:10 domaine postfix/master[2938]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Apr 21 11:01:26 domaine postfix/smtpd[4516]: disconnect from domaine.intranet[192.168.1.11]
Apr 21 11:02:10 domaine postfix/postfix-script[4734]: refreshing the Postfix mail system
I am looking for solutions to correct mistakes 553 and 554, hoping that this will allow us to send mail out.
Do you have any other suggestions?
Thank you.
Bonjour
merci pour la réponse.
J'ai modifié selon vos conseils et essayé d'envoyer des mails, mais ça ne marche qu'en interne. Mon mail.log me donne les informations suivantes:
Apr 21 10:59:30 domaine postfix/smtp[4521]: 46D302308BE: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.84]:25, delay=0.27, delays=0.05/0.01/0.16/0.05, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.84] said: 554 <[email protected]>: *Recipient address rejected: Missing Authentication (in reply to RCPT TO command))*
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 2147323090F: removed
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/pipe[4608]: 022FF230937: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.28, delays=0.01/0.04/0/0.23, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/smtp[4606]: 022FF230937: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86]:25, delay=0.31, delays=0.01/0.04/0.18/0.08, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86] said: 553 <[email protected]>: *Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to MAIL FROM command))*
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/smtp[4606]: 022FF230937: to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86]:25, delay=0.31, delays=0.01/0.04/0.18/0.08, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.orange.fr[193.252.22.86] said: 553 <[email protected]>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found (in reply to MAIL FROM command))
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/cleanup[4600]: 602A423094E: message-id=<[email protected]>
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/bounce[4612]: 022FF230937: sender non-delivery notification: 602A423094E
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 602A423094E: from=, size=3531, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 022FF230937: removed
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/pipe[4608]: 602A423094E: to=<[email protected]>, relay=cyrus, delay=0.06, delays=0.01/0/0/0.05, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via cyrus service)
Apr 21 11:00:27 domaine postfix/qmgr[4582]: 602A423094E: removed
Apr 21 11:01:10 domaine postfix/postfix-script[4664]: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Apr 21 11:01:10 domaine postfix/master[2938]: reload configuration /etc/postfix
Apr 21 11:01:26 domaine postfix/smtpd[4516]: disconnect from domaine.intranet[192.168.1.11]
Apr 21 11:02:10 domaine postfix/postfix-script[4734]: refreshing the Postfix mail system
Je cherche des solutions pour corriger les erreurs 553 et 554, espérant que cela nous permettra d'envoyer des mails à l'extérieur.
Avez-vous d'autres propositions?
Merci d'avance.

Snow Leopard Server - Remote Mail Access

Greetings,
I'm looking to see the best way to support remote users of an OS X server for handling mail/calendar synchronization. Some users will be in environments where they could connect directly, while others would be able to use the standard VPN services in OS X server to connect and synchronize. Others, however, would probably be limited to HTTP/HTTPS access to the server.
I know that the web mail interface would work for this, though Squirrel Mail has never been a favorite of mine, but I'm attempting to support synchronization with their native clients. These would likely be Mail or Outlook, depending on the platform, though possibly Thunderbird would be in play.
When reviewing options, it seems as if installing an SSL VPN software package may be the best bet, even if that's not an OS X standard software component. These would appear to allow connectivity via HTTPS, and I'm wondering if anybody has had positive experiences on OS X Server with these.
Another option is different software all together for mail services, such as Zimbra Professional Edition. It has plugins to support directly synchronizing via HTTPS and thats certainly a good benefit, though it brings it's own infrastructure and doesn't use the OS X server internal capabilities.
Are there other features that I am missing that would provide this type of capability within the standard Snow Leopard Server installation, or other recommended products for supporting this in a heterogeneous environment?
Thanks!

Hi
Multi client full bandwidth VPN done directly on a server tends to be pretty wretched stuff. Dedicated VPN boxes are cheap enough if your firewall router does not already have VPN built into it.
Bob

Where is mail store on Leopard Server?

I'm trying to restore email after a reinstall of Leopard Server but I can't find the mail on the Time Machine backup. I've looked in /var/spool/ but the folder is empty.

I've just spotted this and I'm frankly disgusted: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2599896
Leopard Server is one of the most irresponsible products Apple has ever released. This was sold to us as an easy to use integrated server. Crack dealers are more reliable.
What was Apple possibly thinking? Hey, let's sell Leopard Server to small businesses and tell them it's easy to use, but when they think they're backing up they won't be. Haha.
The only silver lining in this sorry story is that I'd already learnt not to trust the disgrace that is Leopard Server. I keep a copy of all the mail on a local machine and we also have an offsite backup. Problem is what should have taken minutes is going to take hours or days to restore. I can't imagine the grief those have gone through who hadn't learnt to distrust Leopard Server.

What is the correct way to teach leopard server mail about junk mail?

All my clients are using apple mail and they basically taught their own client each their own way of filter junk mail. This works ok...but after upgrading to Leopard Server I think the server can be trained with junk mail data too? If so, anyone know how to set it up? I only see options to mark mail as junk mail on the server side, nothing about training.

I have done it on a mac os 10.4 server, it works great. Have a look here
http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/37/58/
regards

Please help, After mac 10.5.8 mail server migrated to snow leopard server?

Hi,
All my old emails date has changed to the date on which i migrated to snow leopard server, all the old emails show as they arrived on 31st of Dec 2009.
How do I fix it. Very Very important to me to have the arrived date.
Please help
Thanks,
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here is a link of other users having wrong date problems after upgrading to 10.6
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2134525
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Will Windows Outlook clients be happy with Snow Leopard Server Mail Server?

Our network at work has a Windows SBS 2003 server - and 40+ XP PCs running office 2003 (and outlook 2003).
Can I set up Snow Leopard Server so that the Outlook 2003 clients will be able to use contacts, calendars and mail etc from the mac (mini) that we would purchase for this?
I'd love to get everyone on Mac here, but we can't cos our core application is windows only and we would still need the MSSQL server. I know - we could install parallels or virtualbox for the windows apps but that is extra expense, and tbh I don't think our users could cope.
Thanks

Hi
+"Can I set up Snow Leopard Server so that the Outlook 2003 clients will be able to use contacts, calendars and mail etc from the mac (mini) that we would purchase for this?"+
For mail yes. For calendars you will need 'assistance' using 3rd-party applications or helper utilities. The iCal Admin manual has more details of what is available:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/iCalServerv10.6.pdf
Page 12. For Addresses/Contacts consult the Address Book Server Admin Manual for more details:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/enUS/AddressBkServerv10.6.pdf
Page 12. I don't see anything specifically listed so you may have to search for these yourself unless someone else posts with something more specific that works?
If you're expecting Exchange-like functionality you will be disappointed. If you really must have the functionality you're used but also want to move to the mac platform a better prospect (IMO) would be Kerio Mail Server:
http://www.kerio.com/connect
Depending on what other services you may or may not want you may not necessarily need OSX Server? Then again you could as easily install KMS on a Windows or Linux box instead. In which case why swop from Exchange?
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Mail A record Snow Leopard Server

DNS lookup is reporting that I have No A record for mail. This is a new server setup on Snow Leopard Server 10.6.8 below is a screen shot from DNS Lookup:
However if I use dig -t A hkmurray.net from terminal I think things look correct, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
RESULTS:
hkmurray:~ butch$ dig -t A hkmurray.net
; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> -t A hkmurray.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44517
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hkmurray.net.                              IN          A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
hkmurray.net.                    10800          IN          A          68.169.178.128
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hkmurray.net.                    10800          IN          NS          NS1.hkmurray.net.
hkmurray.net.                    10800          IN          NS          NS2.hkmurray.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS1.hkmurray.net.          10800          IN          A          68.169.178.128
NS2.hkmurray.net.          10800          IN          A          68.169.178.128
;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon May 27 09:27:52 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 114
hkmurray:~ butch$
I am also attaching a screen shot of my DNS setup in Server Admin and any advice on how to correct if not correctly setup would be appreciated. (Oh, it appears I have nameservers set correctly for they will resolve). How to configure mail in Server Admin Mail would also be appreciated, for some reason I always have trouble with mail setup.
Thanks in advance for giving up your time to help others.

Get the name of the mail server...
$ dig MX +short HKMURRAY.NET
10 mail.HKMURRAY.NET.
$
Ok. Now translate the MX record to the IP address...
$ dig +short mail.HKMURRAY.NET
hkmmurray.NET.
$
Whoops. That's not an A record.   (If it were an A record, I'd get an IP address there.)
It's (also) not typical to have a domain as your mail server A record, either.
Ignoring that error and checking further — various mail servers won't check further, as the RFC requires an A record here — and on to the next translation:
$ dig +short HKMURRAY.NET
68.169.178.128
$
Ok. That's the public IP.
Checking further — the following won't return the expected values, as it's already known that this mail server is not using an A record — the reverse translation is (also) incorrect:
$ dig +short -x 68.169.178.128
host-68-169-178-128.EPSOLT1.epbfi.com.
$
As part of establishing your mail server DNS, your ISP needs to add a PTR record (reverse DNS) for your IP address. Probably to mail.hkmurray.net, if that's what you're using for your mail server.
In conclusion, you don't have an A record.
There's no point in having two name servers on the same host address, either.
Make sure your DNS server doesn't allow general access for translations, too. If you do, you'll end up as part of a DNS-based attack; I've seen that happen with DNS servers, and the load on the servers and the Internet connection becomes... large.   Just serve your own records, with no recursion, etc. (It can often be easiest to move the public DNS translations out to your DNS ISP and their DNS servers, too. They're already set up to deal with reflection and magnification and other ugliness.)

Leopard server clients not receiving mail

Mail on our leopard server suddenly stopped recieving extrnal mail about a month ago then around 2 weeks ago stopped recieving anything internally.
When i telnet in it tells me the user is not enabled even though in serveradmin and WGM say it is.
I have tried building a new server, ive had the mx records checked, the router and line checked, and the dns on the server is working fine.
Any idea what might be casuing this?

Same here. Something caused file to change... I can see it by modification date.
First of all look at /etc/postfix/main.cf line with parameter inet_interfaces
it should be equal to all (inet_interfaces = all)
in my case it was changed to inet_interfaces = localhost.
Then i updated my system. And amavisd stopped working.
As it was our production system, restored service by disabling virus/spam checking by commenting line
#content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
After doing this restart postfix or whole mail service from GUI.
it seems amavisd was no longer starting. i could see it from netstat and ps.
tried to start manualy, but
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
returned nothing found to load
i don't know what was the cause for this, but i needed to edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
and change:
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <true/>
to:
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <false/>
after
launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
it started normally.

Leopard Server Mail - Postfix or Cyrus?

After reading and rereading Leopard manuals on Leopard website, I am
still confused:
Is the Mail Service in Leopard Server Postfix or Cyrus?
Have found some excellent books on Postfix setup etc, but none on Cyrus.
Any suggestions on where to get background and info on best practices.
BTW -- Our mail server on 10.4.10 running fine -- migrating soon to Leopard
by way of erase and install.
Thanks in advance

Both!
The MTA (SMTP) is Postfix. The IMAP/POP server is Cyrus.
Details here:
http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/129/1/

Snow Leopard Server incoming Mail

I am trying to set up my mail server with Snow Leopard Server. I am able to send messages out of accounts I've created, but I am not able to receive them. I receive this message:
Final-Recipient: rfc822;[email protected]
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 5.1.1 <[email protected]> invalid recipient
How do I correctly set up it to receive incoming mail?

It seems there are a few issues at hand and you're not alone. We've been experiencing the same issues on a clean install of SNS and have just turned off the default greylisting (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2130446&tstart=0) to see if that helps.
The mail server seems to be working instantly for all 'normal' email but attachments can be problematic. Testing from my dot me account I can send a 10 MB attachment and it arrives fine within a few minutes but if I send it 3 or 4 times one of them will inevitably fail. The sporadic behaviour is making it vary hard to track down and I'm finding the logs quite hard to decipher.
The other issue (which may well be the same issue) is where an email will arrive late - quite often exactly 60 minutes late - although we have seen this as much as 3 or 4 hours.
There are several threads on the front page relating to this but they've become a bit muddled and it's hard to know on which thread to post questions.
I know none of this specifically answers your questions but the other threads may give you somewhere to start. For now we're just monitoring things without the greylist and if the problems persist we'll have to delve a little deeper.

5 mail domains with one snow leopard server

Hi,
i have a mac pro with snow leopard server and i want to set up the mail service. If i only have one domain, i know that i can do that, but i want to do it with 5 domains. Can I do that? How can I do it?
Than you for your help.

I am using mail.app from mac os x snow leopard.
The smtp settings on mail:
port (25,465,587)
ssl activated
md5 challenge-response
and i copied it:
biff = no
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter =
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
enableserveroptions = yes
header_checks =
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
inet_interfaces = all
mail_owner = _postfix
mailboxsizelimit = 0
mailbox_transport = dovecot
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
messagesizelimit = 10485760
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
mydomain = playstore.es
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = server.playstore.es
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = _postdrop
smtpdclientrestrictions = permit_mynetworks permitsaslauthenticated permit
smtpdenforcetls = no
smtpdhelorequired = no
smtpdhelorestrictions =
smtpdpw_server_securityoptions = cram-md5
smtpdrecipientrestrictions = permitsaslauthenticated permit_mynetworks rejectunauthdestination permit
smtpdsasl_authenable = yes
smtpdtlsCAfile = /etc/certificates/server.playstore.es.D03BC945C97A0058A8CB9D7F862D48EED9CE5C3D. chain.pem
smtpdtls_certfile = /etc/certificates/server.playstore.es.D03BC945C97A0058A8CB9D7F862D48EED9CE5C3D. cert.pem
smtpdtls_excludeciphers = SSLv2, aNULL, ADH, eNULL
smtpdtls_keyfile = /etc/certificates/server.playstore.es.D03BC945C97A0058A8CB9D7F862D48EED9CE5C3D. key.pem
smtpduse_pwserver = yes
smtpdusetls = yes
tlsrandomsource = dev:/dev/urandom
unknownlocal_recipient_rejectcode = 550
virtualaliasdomains = $virtualaliasmaps hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_domains
virtualaliasmaps = $virtual_maps hash:/etc/postfix/virtual_users
Thank you again.

IOS & Snow Leopard Server Mail, Contacts, Calendars Account

Is there any way to add a single IMAP/Cardav/Caldav account in iOS 5, or OS X 10.6/10.7 that goes back to Snow Leopard Server? Adding each type of account works, but it'd be cleaner if I could setup one account with multiple services like I can with Exchange, iCloud, MobileMe, Yahoo, etc..
Anyone have an idea?

This is the problem I'm trying to describe. It is now happening multiple times every day.
Any advise would be appreciated. The problem is the accounts are being de-accessed.

Leopard Server Assistant and DNS Name

I am trying to setup Leopard Server in my home...
Server assistant launches I fill in the information and everything is fine... except I do not know what to put in the Server DNS name box. If I leave as is the server tools do not start because they cannot resolve the machine name.
In short what is going on...
1. How do you change the machine DNS name after server assistant has finished running?
2. What should I put in the DNS box?
MACServer.local? or MACSERVER
3. If I move to Dynamic DNS how do I change this later without having to re-install.
I have to admit that setting the server up, installing disks was easy but the DNS issue seems to be a real stumbling block for setting up a home server.
What am I doing wrong?
Message was edited by: Peter Jarvis
Message was edited by: Peter Jarvis

Tony,
Thanks for the response.
My concern is that a normal home user will not be able to setup MAC Server 10.5 very easily without knowledge of DNS. (I will walk through a setup later on in the mail)
My point is that the average user will not be able to setup MAC Server. They will have difficulty filling out the setup wizard correctly - for this reason I cannot recommend it to a rookie. What is needed is a really simple setup scenario script that can be given to user so they can setup a MAC server in the home to support file sharing, intranet web browsing and time machine backups and central storage for users.
Don't get me wrong a MAC admin will find the changes in 10.5 a significant and fine improvement over past mac server setups and a leap frog over the Windows and Linux setup experience. Don't let anyone persuade you that Microsoft Home Server is a easy either. (Actually corrupts data with certain apps) - great testing Microsoft
Back to good software...
MAC Server Setup example: (Newbie the new IT for the household)
Prior to setting up the server Newbie will need to define his system setup...
i.e.
Server Name [email protected]
IP Address: 192.168.0.100
Router: 192.168.0.1
Is the machine going to be a gateway or behind a firewall?
Will it distribute IP addresses for the home network etc?
These points are important as the DHCP and DNS go hand in hand. If the router is acting as a DNS relay and handing out IP addresses this may interfere with setting up the server to be primary DNS provider in the home.
Walkthrough 1: Scenario:
Setup the server to be a simple server with only file sharing, web server and time machine.
When asked Newbie enters:
Domain name: pkjserv.technophobic.com
Server Name:192.168.0.100 (DHCP) or manual
Nebie configures the server...
after setup the first thing that will happen is that Server Preferences will launch it will populate with the above server data...
Problem: Newbie trys to use server preferences and types in his password and fails to get access...
Why... because Server preferences expects "pkjserv.technophobic.com" to resolve but DNS is not setup yet...
OK so Newbie needs to setup DNS...
Newbie selects Applications/Server/Server Admin.app
(Newbie uses Magic to find Server Admin)
First prompt "Are you sure you want to use Server Admin?"
Newbie selects "Use Server Admin"
(Newbie uses Magic to know he has to do this)
Connect to server via IP address 168.192.0.100
Select DNS add click to box...
Expand 192.168.0.100 (our server)
Select DNS
Select zones...
Add primary zone / Select example.com
Change Primary zone to "technophobic.com."
Select "ns" and Change Nameserver to "pkjserv"
Under primary domain select machine change machine name to "pkjserv"
Select IP Addresses and change to 192.168.0.100
Click "save"
Newbie should have the following setup displayed:
Name Type Value
technophobic.com Primary Zone -
pkjserv Machine 192.168.0.100
0.168.192.in-addr.arpa Reverse Zone -
192.168.0.100 Reverse Mapping pkjserv.technophobic.com
------- Start DNS...
The problem here is that DNS is working but Newbies IP setup is still not referencing the DNS server so newbie will have to add it to the network settings.
Preferences / Network / advanced / DNS
once they have done this Newbie should be able to launch your browser and type "pkjserv.technophobic.com" and have it resolve to the web browser on the machine...
in short - this is difficult... hence my proposal that Apple need to create a simple setup scenario scripted document (fill in blanks) so a user can setup a MAC server in the home. Current docs do not allows an average user to install MAC OSX Server - I want a simple MAC Server that anyone can install...
Pete
Message was edited by: Peter Jarvis

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