My income E-mail on my E-mail Server takes 1 hour to get in Mac OS X Lion Server

My income E-mail on my E-mail Server takes 1 hour to get in, outgoing is really fast. does anybody know why that might be? Im running Mac OS X Lion Server

Hi
If you up the logging level to Information or Debug you should see something like this in the Mail.log: "NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from . . . . 450 . . . . Recipient address rejected: Service is unavailable:"
Greylisting is enabled by default as soon as you start the Mail Service. Any legitimate mail server will try and send again to your domain. Spammers will give up and move onto an easier target.
HTH?
Tony

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Messages reappear in mail.app inbox when they are moved into folders on my mac (10.7 Lion)

Have an extremely frustrating problem with OSX 10.7's mail.app. Specifically, using an imap setup w/AOL I file messages into appropriate folders in the "On My Mac" section. And the messages move into the folders, but they apparently aren't getting deleted from the IMAP server because they'll reappear in my inbox as unread. This is quite annoying, as I receive hundreds of emails per day and am accountable for responding to them, which means I cannot ignore them the second time they appear on the off-chance that they happen to be a reply in the same thread or a follow-up question.
I've tried many things: diskwarrioring the drive, rebuilding mail's envelope index using onyx, even deleting the account entirely & re-adding it. Nothing has worked. Hopefully there's a magic bullet for this one.

Try posting this in the 10.7 Mail forum. You'll get more help there.
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How To Install A (Almost) Working Lion Server With Profile Management/SSL/OD/Mail/iCal/Address Book/VNC/Web/etc.

I recently installed a fresh version of Lion Server after attempting to fix a broken upgrade. With some help from others, I've managed to get all the new features working and have kept notes, having found that many or most of the necessary installation steps for both the OS and its services are almost entirely undocumented. When you get them working, they work great, but the entire process is very fragile, with simple setup steps causing breaks or even malicious behaviors. In case this is useful to others, here are my notes.
Start with an erased, virgin, single guid partitioned drive. Not an upgrade. Not simply a repartitioned drive. Erased. Clean. Anything else can and probably will break the Lion Server install, as I discovered myself more than once. Before erasing my drive, I already had Lion and made a Lion install DVD from instructions widely available on the web. I suppose you could also boot into the Lion recovery partition and use disk utility to erase the OS X partition then install a new partition, but I cut a DVD. The bottom line is to erase any old OS partitions. And of course to have multiple, independent backups: I use both Time Machine with a modified StdExclusions.plist and Carbon Copy Cloner.
Also, if you will be running your own personal cloud, you will want to know your domain name ahead of time, as this will be propagated everywhere throughout server, and changing anything related to SSL on Lion Server is a nightmare that I haven't figured out. If you don't yet have a domain name, go drop ten dollars at namecheap.com or wherever and reserve one before you start. Soemday someone will document how to change this stuff without breaking Lion Server, but we're not there yet. I'll assume the top-level domain name "domain.com" here.
Given good backups, a Lion Install DVD (or Recovery Partition), and a domain name, here are the steps, apparently all of which must be more-or-less strictly followed in this order.
DVD>Disk Utility>Erase Disk [or Recovery Partition>Disk Utility>Erase Partition]
DVD>Install Lion
Reboot, hopefully Lion install kicks in
Update, update, update Lion (NOT Lion Server yet) until no more updates
System Preferences>Network>Static IP on the LAN (say 10.0.1.2) and Computer name ("server" is a good standbye)
Terminal>$ sudo scutil --set HostName server.domain.com
App Store>Install Lion Server and run through the Setup
Download install Server Admin Tools, then update, update, update until no more updates
Server Admin>DNS>Zones [IF THIS WASN'T AUTOMAGICALLY CREATED (mine wasn't): Add zone domain.com with Nameserver "server.domain.com." (that's a FQDN terminated with a period) and a Mail Exchanger (MX record) "server.domain.com." with priority 10. Add Record>Add Machine (A record) server.domain.com pointing to the server's static IP. You can add fancier DNS aliases and a simpler MX record below after you get through the crucial steps.]
System Prefs>Network>Advanced>Set your DNS server to 127.0.0.1
A few DNS set-up steps and these most important steps:
A. Check that the Unix command "hostname" returns the correct hostname and you can see this hostname in Server.app>Hardware>Network
B. Check that DNS works: the unix commands "host server.domain.com" and "host 10.0.1.2" (assuming that that's your static IP) should point to each other. Do not proceed until DNS works.
C. Get Apple Push Notification Services CA via Server.app>Hardware>Settings><Click toggle, Edit... get a new cert ...>
D. Server.app>Profile Manager>Configure... [Magic script should create OD Master, signed SSL cert]
E. Server.app>Hardware>Settings>SSL Certificate> [Check to make sure it's set to the one just created]
F. Using Server.app, turn on the web, then Server.app>Profile Manager> [Click on hyperlink to get to web page, e.g. server.domain.com/profilemanager] Upper RHS pull-down, install Trust Profile
G. Keychain Access>System>Certificates [Find the automatically generated cert "Domain", the one that is a "Root certificate authority", Highlight and Export as .cer, email to all iOS devices, and click on the authority on the device. It should be entered as a trusted CA on all iOS devices. While you're at it, highlight and Export... as a .cer the certificate "IntermediateCA_SERVER.DOMAIN.COM_1", which is listed an an "Intermediate CA" -- you will use this to establish secure SSL connections with remote browsers hitting your server.]
H. iOS on LAN: browse to server.domain.com/mydevices> [click on LHS Install trust cert, then RHS Enroll device.
I. Test from web browser server.domain.com/mydevices: Lock Device to test
J. ??? Profit
12. Server Admin>DNS>Zones> Add convenient DNS alias records if necessary, e.g., mail.domain.com, smtp.domain.com, www.domain.com. If you want to refer to your box using the convenient shorthand "domain.com", you must enter the A record (NOT alias) "domain.com." FQDN pointing to the server's fixed IP. You can also enter the convenient short MX record "domain.com." with priority 11. This will all work on the LAN -- all these settings must be mirrored on the outside internet using the service from which you registered domain.com.
You are now ready to begin turning on your services. Here are a few important details and gotchas setting up cloud services.
Firewall
Server Admin>Firewall>Services> Open up all ports needed by whichever services you want to run and set up your router (assuming that your server sits behind a router) to port forward these ports to your router's LAN IP. This is most a straightforward exercise in grepping for the correct ports on this page, but there are several jaw-droppingly undocumented omissions of crucial ports for Push Services and Device Enrollment. If you want to enroll your iOS devices, make sure port 1640 is open. If you want Push Notifications to work (you do), then ports 2195, 2196, 5218, and 5223 must be open. The Unix commands "lsof -i :5218" and "nmap -p 5218 server.domain.com" (nmap available from Macports after installing Xcode from the App Store) help show which ports are open.
SSH
Do this with strong security. Server.app to turn on remote logins (open port 22), but edit /etc/sshd_config to turn off root and password logins.
PermitRootLogin no
PasswordAuthentication no
ChallengeResponseAuthentication no
I'm note sure if toggling the Allow remote logins will load this config file or, run "sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist ; sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/org.openbsd.ssh-agent.plist" to restart the server's ssh daemon.
Then use ssh-keygen on remote client to generate public/private keys that can be used to remotely login to the server.
client$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C client_name
[Securely copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from client to server.]
server$ cat id_rsa.pub > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
I also like DenyHosts, which emails detected ssh attacks to [email protected]. It's amazing how many ssh attacks there are on any open port 22. Not really an added security feature if you've turned off password logins, but good to monitor. Here's a Lion Server diff for the config file /usr/share/denyhosts:
$ diff denyhosts.cfg-dist denyhosts.cfg
12c12
< SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure
> #SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure
22a23
> SECURE_LOG = /var/log/secure.log
34c35
< HOSTS_DENY = /etc/hosts.deny
> #HOSTS_DENY = /etc/hosts.deny
40a42,44
> #
> # Mac OS X Lion Server
> HOSTS_DENY = /private/etc/hosts.deny
195c199
< LOCK_FILE = /var/lock/subsys/denyhosts
> #LOCK_FILE = /var/lock/subsys/denyhosts
202a207,208
> LOCK_FILE = /var/denyhosts/denyhosts.pid
> #
219c225
< ADMIN_EMAIL =
> ADMIN_EMAIL = [email protected]
286c292
< #SYSLOG_REPORT=YES
> SYSLOG_REPORT=YES
Network Accounts
User Server.app to create your network accounts; do not use Workgroup Manager. If you use Workgroup Manager, as I did, then your accounts will not have email addresses specified and iCal Server WILL NOT COMPLETELY WORK. Well, at least collaboration through network accounts will be handled clunkily through email, not automatically as they should. If you create a network account using Workgroup Manager, then edit that account using Server.app to specify the email to which iCal invitations may be sent. Server.app doesn't say anything about this, but that's one thing that email address entry is used for. This still isn't quite solid on Lion Server, as my Open Directory logs on a freshly installed Lion Server are filled with errors that read:
2011-12-12 15:05:52.425 EST - Module: SystemCache - Misconfiguration detected in hash 'Kerberos':
     User 'uname' (/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1) - ID 1031 - UUID 98B4DF30-09CF-42F1-6C31-9D55FE4A0812 - SID S-0-8-83-8930552043-0845248631-7065481045-9092
Oh well.
Email
Email aliases are handled with the file /private/etc/postfix/aliases. Do something like this
root:           myname
admin:          myname
sysadmin:       myname
certadmin:      myname
webmaster:      myname
my_alternate:   myname
Then run "sudo newaliases". If your ISP is Comcast or some other large provider, you probably must proxy your outgoing mail through their SMTP servers to avoid being blocked as a spammer (a lot of SMTP servers will block email from Comcast/whatever IP addresses that isn't sent by Comcast). Use Server.app>Mail to enter your account information. Even then, the Lion Server default setup may fail using this proxy. I had to do this with the file /private/etc/postfix/main.cf:
cd /etc/postfix
sudo cp ./main.cf ./main.cf.no_smtp_sasl_security_options
sudo echo 'smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous' >> ./main.cf
sudo serveradmin stop mail
sudo serveradmin start mail
Finally, make sure that you're running a blacklisting srevice yourself! Server Admin>Mail>Filter> Use spamhaus.org as a blacklister. Finally, set up mail to use strong Kerberos/MD5 settings under on Server Admin>Mail>Advanced. Turn off password and clear logins. The settings should be set to "Use" your SSL cert, NOT "Require". "Require" consistently breaks things for me.
If you already installed the server's Trust Certificate as described above (and opened up the correct ports), email to your account should be pushed out to all clients.
iCal Server
Server.app>Calendar>Turn ON and Allow Email Invitations, Edit... . Whatever you do, do NOT enter your own email account information in this GUI. You must enter the account information for local user com.apple.calendarserver, and the password for this account, which is stored in the System keychain: Keychain Access>System> Item com.apple.servermgr_calendar. Double-click and Show Password, copy and paste into Server.app dialog. This is all described in depth here. If you enter your own account information here (DO NOT!), the iCal Server will delete all Emails in your Inbox just as soon as it reads them, exactly like it works for user com.apple.calendarserver. Believe me, you don't want to discover this "feature", which I expect will be more tightly controlled in some future update.
Web
The functionality of Server.app's Web management is pretty limited and awful, but a few changes to the file /etc/apache2/httpd.conf will give you a pretty capable and flexible web server, just one that you must manage by hand. Here's a diff for httpd.conf:
$ diff httpd.conf.default httpd.conf
95c95
< #LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
> LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache2/mod_ssl.so
111c111
< #LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
> LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
139,140c139,140
< #LoadModule auth_digest_apple_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_digest_apple.so
< #LoadModule encoding_module libexec/apache2/mod_encoding.so
> LoadModule auth_digest_apple_module libexec/apache2/mod_auth_digest_apple.so
> LoadModule encoding_module libexec/apache2/mod_encoding.so
146c146
< #LoadModule xsendfile_module libexec/apache2/mod_xsendfile.so
> LoadModule xsendfile_module libexec/apache2/mod_xsendfile.so
177c177
< ServerAdmin [email protected]
> ServerAdmin [email protected]
186c186
< #ServerName www.example.com:80
> ServerName domain.com:443
677a678,680
> # Server-specific configuration
> # sudo apachectl -D WEBSERVICE_ON -D MACOSXSERVER -k restart
> Include /etc/apache2/mydomain/*.conf
I did "sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/mydomain" and add specific config files for various web pages to host. For example, here's a config file that will host the entire contents of an EyeTV DVR, all password controlled with htdigest ("htdigest ~uname/.htdigest EyeTV uname"). Browsing to https://server.domain.com/eyetv points to /Users/uname/Sites/EyeTV, in which there's an index.php script that can read and display the EyeTV archive at https://server.domain.com/eyetv_archive. If you want Apache username accounts with twiddles as in https://server.domain.com/~uname, specify "UserDir Sites" in the configuration file.
Alias /eyetv /Users/uname/Sites/EyeTV
<Directory "/Users/uname/Sites/EyeTV">
    AuthType Digest
    AuthName "EyeTV"
    AuthUserFile /Users/uname/.htdigest
    AuthGroupFile /dev/null
    Require user uname
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /eyetv_archive "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Documents/EyeTV Archive"
<Directory "/Volumes/Macintosh HD2/Documents/EyeTV Archive">
    AuthType Digest
    AuthName "EyeTV"
    AuthUserFile /Users/uname/.htdigest
    AuthGroupFile /dev/null
    Require user uname
    Options Indexes MultiViews
    AllowOverride All
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>
I think you can turn Web off/on in Server.app to relaunch apached, or simply "sudo apachectl -D WEBSERVICE_ON -D MACOSXSERVER -k restart".
Securely copy to all desired remote clients the file IntermediateCA_SERVER.DOMAIN.COM_1.cer, which you exported from System Keychain above. Add this certificate to your remote keychain and trust it, allowing secure connections between remote clients and your server. Also on remote clients: Firefox>Advanced>Encryption>View Certificates>Authorities>Import...> Import this certificate into your browser. Now there should be a secure connection to https://server.domain.com without any SSL warnings.
One caveat is that there should be a nice way to establish secure SSL to https://domain.com and https://www.domain.com, but the automagically created SSL certificate only knows about server.domain.com. I attempted to follow this advice when I originally created the cert and add these additional domains (under "Subject Alternate Name Extension"), but the cert creation UI failed when I did this, so I just gave up. I hope that by the time these certs expire, someone posts some documentation on how to manage and change Lion Server SSL scripts AFTER the server has been promoted to an Open Directory Master. In the meantime, it would be much appreciated if anyone can post either how to add these additional domain names to the existing cert, or generate and/or sign a cert with a self-created Keychain Access root certificate authority. In my experience, any attempt to mess with the SSL certs automatically generated just breaks Lion Server.
Finally, if you don't want a little Apple logo as your web page icon, create your own 16×16 PNG and copy it to the file /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/favicon.ico. And request that all web-crawling robots go away with the file /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Misc
VNC easily works with iOS devices -- use a good passphrase. Edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist and set "listen_addresses=127.0.0.1" to allow PostgreSQL connections over localhost. I've also downloaded snort/base/swatch to build an intrusion detection system, and used Macports's squid+privoxy to build a privacy-enhanced ad-blocking proxy server.

Privacy Enhancing Filtering Proxy and SSH Tunnel
Lion Server comes with its own web proxy, but chaining Squid and Privoxy together provides a capable and effective web proxy that can block ads and malicious scripts, and conceal information used to track you around the web. I've posted a simple way to build and use a privacy enhancing web proxy here. While you're at it, configure your OS and browsers to block Adobe Flash cookies and block Flash access to your camera, microphone, and peer networks. Read this WSJ article series to understand how this impacts your privacy. If you configure it to allow use for anyone on your LAN, be sure to open up ports 3128, 8118, and 8123 on your firewall.
If you've set up ssh and/or VPN as above, you can securely tunnel in to your proxy from anywhere. The syntax for ssh tunnels is a little obscure, so I wrote a little ssh tunnel script with a simpler flexible syntax. This script also allows secure tunnels to other services like VNC (port 5900). If you save this to a file ./ssht (and chmod a+x ./ssht), example syntax to establish an ssh tunnel through localhost:8080 (or, e.g., localhost:5901 for secure VNC Screen Sharing connects) looks like:
$ ./ssht 8080:[email protected]:3128
$ ./ssht 8080:alice@:
$ ./ssht 8080:
$ ./ssht 8018::8123
$ ./ssht 5901::5900 [Use the address localhost:5901 for secure VNC connects using OS X's Screen Sharing or Chicken of the VNC (sudo port install cotvnc)]
$ vi ./ssht
#!/bin/sh
# SSH tunnel to squid/whatever proxy: ssht [-p ssh_port] [localhost_port:][user_name@][ip_address][:remotehost][:remote_port]
USERNAME_DEFAULT=username
HOSTNAME_DEFAULT=domain.com
SSHPORT_DEFAULT=22
# SSH port forwarding specs, e.g. 8080:localhost:3128
LOCALHOSTPORT_DEFAULT=8080      # Default is http proxy 8080
REMOTEHOST_DEFAULT=localhost    # Default is localhost
REMOTEPORT_DEFAULT=3128         # Default is Squid port
# Parse ssh port and tunnel details if specified
SSHPORT=$SSHPORT_DEFAULT
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$LOCALHOSTPORT_DEFAULT:$USERNAME_DEFAULT@$HOSTNAME_DEFAULT:$REMOT EHOST_DEFAULT:$REMOTEPORT_DEFAULT
while [ "$1" != "" ]
do
case $1
in
    -p) shift;                  # -p option
        SSHPORT=$1;
        shift;;
     *) TUNNEL_DETAILS=$1;      # 1st argument option
        shift;;
esac
done
# Get local and remote ports, username, and hostname from the command line argument: localhost_port:user_name@ip_address:remote_host:remote_port
shopt -s extglob                        # needed for +(pattern) syntax; man sh
LOCALHOSTPORT=$LOCALHOSTPORT_DEFAULT
USERNAME=$USERNAME_DEFAULT
HOSTNAME=$HOSTNAME_DEFAULT
REMOTEHOST=$REMOTEHOST_DEFAULT
REMOTEPORT=$REMOTEPORT_DEFAULT
# LOCALHOSTPORT
CDR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS#+([0-9]):}         # delete shortest leading +([0-9]):
CAR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS%%$CDR}             # cut this string from TUNNEL_DETAILS
CAR=${CAR%:}                            # delete :
if [ "$CAR" != "" ]                     # leading or trailing port specified
then
    LOCALHOSTPORT=$CAR
fi
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$CDR
# REMOTEPORT
CDR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS%:+([0-9])}         # delete shortest trailing :+([0-9])
CAR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS##$CDR}             # cut this string from TUNNEL_DETAILS
CAR=${CAR#:}                            # delete :
if [ "$CAR" != "" ]                     # leading or trailing port specified
then
    REMOTEPORT=$CAR
fi
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$CDR
# REMOTEHOST
CDR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS%:*}                # delete shortest trailing :*
CAR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS##$CDR}             # cut this string from TUNNEL_DETAILS
CAR=${CAR#:}                            # delete :
if [ "$CAR" != "" ]                     # leading or trailing port specified
then
    REMOTEHOST=$CAR
fi
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$CDR
# USERNAME
CDR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS#*@}                # delete shortest leading +([0-9]):
CAR=${TUNNEL_DETAILS%%$CDR}             # cut this string from TUNNEL_DETAILS
CAR=${CAR%@}                            # delete @
if [ "$CAR" != "" ]                     # leading or trailing port specified
then
    USERNAME=$CAR
fi
TUNNEL_DETAILS=$CDR
# HOSTNAME
HOSTNAME=$TUNNEL_DETAILS
if [ "$HOSTNAME" == "" ]                # no hostname given
then
    HOSTNAME=$HOSTNAME_DEFAULT
fi
ssh -p $SSHPORT -L $LOCALHOSTPORT:$REMOTEHOST:$REMOTEPORT -l $USERNAME $HOSTNAME -f -C -q -N \
    && echo "SSH tunnel established via $LOCALHOSTPORT:$REMOTEHOST:$REMOTEPORT\n\tto $USERNAME@$HOSTNAME:$SSHPORT." \
    || echo "SSH tunnel FAIL."

OSX Lion Server / Mail.app with FB

Hi - I have an OSX mac mini i7 Lion Server 10.7.4 running mail server. I am getting emails from gmails but apparently, it is not getting email from Facebook registration. I tried many times but no facebook registration comes in. I tried sending email from a gmail account to my the same username and I get all of them. But, from facebook, say registering from facebook, it is not getting any. User is setup correct in osx users as well as in mail server users.
I went to mail.app and deleted the mail cache, remove the filters for spams and all that. But I still do not get FB email confirmation. What could be the reason.
This is what I get on my message log.
This from All messages log:
6/14/12 8:50:21.125 AM postfix/smtpd: connect from outmail020.snc7.facebook.com[69.171.232.154]
6/14/12 8:50:26.206 AM postfix/smtpd: disconnect from outmail020.snc7.facebook.com[69.171.232.154]
6/14/12 8:51:56.533 AM org.clamav.clamd: SelfCheck: Database status OK.
6/14/12 8:51:58.184 AM postfix/postscreen: CONNECT from [66.220.144.142]:56363
6/14/12 8:52:04.498 AM postfix/postscreen: PASS NEW [66.220.144.142]:56363
6/14/12 8:52:04.840 AM postfix/smtpd: connect from outmail008.snc4.facebook.com[66.220.144.142]
6/14/12 8:52:09.926 AM postfix/smtpd: disconnect from outmail008.snc4.facebook.com[66.220.144.142]
6/14/12 8:55:29.936 AM postfix/anvil: statistics: max connection rate 1/60s for (smtpd:69.171.232.154) at Jun 14 08:50:21
6/14/12 8:55:29.936 AM postfix/anvil: statistics: max connection count 1 for (smtpd:69.171.232.154) at Jun 14 08:50:21
This from the mail.log
Jun 14 01:11:10 rj45hotspot postfix/dnsblog[5142]: warning: dnsblog_query: lookup error for DNS query 134.143.42.114.zen.spamhaus.org: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=134.143.42.114.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, try again
Jun 14 08:50:14 rj45hotspot postfix/dnsblog[7431]: warning: dnsblog_query: lookup error for DNS query 154.232.171.69.zen.spamhaus.org: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=154.232.171.69.zen.spamhaus.org type=A: Host not found, try again
Thanks

Hmmm, not sure what is going on, but from the Mail log, neither of those IPs have a name associated with them, 1st one is in Netherlands, 2nd one is iin Africa!???
Any idea why it'd be looking those up?
I wonder if your Facebook account has been hacked, or See if you might have this malware redirecting DNS queries...
http://macmegasite.com/node/3924
http://www.ehow.com/how_2128387_remove-osxrspluga-trojan-horse-mac.html
How to fix...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071031114140862
Known DNSChanger address ranges. Source: dcwg.org
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/03/court-4-more-months-for-dnschanger-infected-p cs/

Lion server migration from 10.6 wiki dead, mail dead, ical dead

i have a mac mini w leopard server- everything worked perfect
i upgrade and migrated to lion server
nothing working, wiki, mail, or icalendar
any ideas-
other than going back to restore of timemachine of leopard server
thanx
CT

One thing that jumps out from your brief description of the problem is a bug in the persent iteration of Lion Server that occurs when the "Dedicate system resources to server services" box is checked (or, honestly, when it's unchecked too -- read on). This is located within Server.app. in the left pane, select your machine under the hardware section. The second tab, settings, contains this option. I'd try either ticking or unticking the box and then restarting and then trying to start those services again. Though the bug was initially reported as related to this similar problem (the one you describe) occurring when this box is checked, I've found that toggling between on to off, or off to on (depending on the current state) and then restarting, seems to help get things going again. Sometimes this has to be done twice. As well, until Apple issues a fix for these Server.app related problems, it's best, once you get your server configured, to keep from opening Server.app when possible. Just opening it seems to cause problems. One example of this is checking the mail quota box and entering a value. It seems to stick fine, but when Server.app is opened again, the box is unchecked once again. This one happens every time.

How can I setup mail serveice in Lion server

Where can I set the smpt and pop server's name?Why my mail account cannot link the server ?

Maybe you need to ask in the Lion Server Forum?

IPHONE 4S incoming calls go directly to voice mail. This is a brand new replacement phone. Prior phone didn't have this problem

IPHONE 4S incoming calls go directly to voice mail. This is a brand new replacement phone. Prior phone didn't have this problem

Slide up from the bottom of your display to access the control panel.
Look for the button (should be at the top) that shows a crescent moon.
Tap that button. It should say "Do not Disturb: Off".
Then try it out and let us know if it worked.

HT5361 I am unable to start or select the MAIL app. No incoming mail and no outgoing mail. I do not even know how to get an answer without email. Can you help?

I am unable to start or select the MAIL app. No incoming mail and no outgoing mail. I do not even know how to get an answer without email. Can you help?

Thank you Carolyn, How helpless you can feel without this App!
Going into the App Store as you suggest, I see 'thee updates available", the first says, 'X RESTART', the second says, 'Garage Band, an error has occurred" (in red), and the third 'Memory Clean, UPDATE'.
Am I correct in thinking that OSX is the problem, because it is waiting for a restart?
Kind regards,
Cy

Excessive Incoming Messages in Mail configured to Yahoo Mail

From a Mac newby...
Each time I open Mail on my new Mac Mini (OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.3), Mail Activity shows thousands of incoming messages arriving at a rate of roughly 40 per minute. But the only emails going into my inbox are "legitimate" emails from friends and customers.
I've configured Mail to use Yahoo Mail (although I've also set up and enabled an iCloud account which I don't use). Are those thousands of incoming messages in fact old Yahoo Mail messages that have to load onto Mail each time I open it?
Whatever they are, is this avoidable? I don't seem to be losing any messages, but it slows the computer down for quite a while, and just doesn't "feel right".
If this is an issue inherent to Yahoo Mail on a Mac, I will consider using a different main address. What sort of address is least likely to be problematic with Mail software? Changing my main email address is a big deal and I wouldn't want to have to do it again in the near future.
P.S. Would prefer answers that are understandable to, say, an unusually bright chimp

If I understand you correctly, you would like to handle your mail directly on the remote server? That is not possible from Mail.app. There may be other Mail clients that offer this option or you could simply handle your Mail with your web browser.

Taking contents in new incoming mail & creating new outgoing mail

im having 2 problems while trying to create an automator workflow.
1. take attachment from a new incoming mail message and pass it along to a new outgoing mail message.
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2. take a piece of information from the incoming mail message and paste it into the (to:) section of the new outgoing mail message (each outgoing mail will have a different TO: based on the information they send me)
this is what i mean.
if within the email i get:
fax number: 5055555555
then i would like to take that information and have it sent to:
[email protected]
i'm tired so i wont know if this makes sense until after i take a nap. hopefully somebody can help... ive tried a million things to make this work... and still no luck.
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Try going to System Preferences/Notifications/Mail and make sure Badge app icon is checked.

When I had my old blackberry connected to my computer, all incoming emails were routed to my outlook so I did not get mails on my blackberry. How do I get it so my iphone4 does not receive emails when connected to my computer?

I am getting my iphone inbox bombarded so would like it to not receive emails when connected to my computer. My old blackberry had an app that took care of this which worked really well. Am wondering if I can do the same with my iphone4.

Blackberries were/are able to do that with some types of e-mail accounts because the mail is routed to an intermediary (BlackBerry Service).
There is no equivalent for the iPhone as the phone communicates directly with the mail servers and does not go through a 3rd party.

Mail cannot access the mail server, but other email clients do.

My web host recently had extended problems with the mail server my sites are on. Now, Mail on my iMac Intel 27 Duo says it cannot access the server. However, Thunderbird and Entourage Mac have no problem. Sending from Mac Mail seems to be Ok as well. I've checked the settings over and over. I received no system disk for this machine when I bought it. Do I need to reinstall Mail, and if so, how?
The info below from Connection Doctor shows it appears to be trying to access through Port 25 but I have Mail set for 587 as instructed by the hosting company. I have renamed private info in the text below.
READ Jan 16 09:56:42.941 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.myemail.com -- port:25 -- socket:0x11f51aed0 -- thread:0x122c48a20
250-servername-a41.g.webhostname.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 40960000
250-ETRN
250-STARTTLS
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250 8BITMIME

However, Thunderbird and Entourage Mac have no problem. Sending from Mac Mail seems to be Ok as well. I've checked the settings over and over.
Well if TB and Entourage can both send and receive but Mail can only send I can only conclude you missed something in you rechecking. Of course with you being the only one checking you are going to make the same "mistake" and never no it. So post the relevant POP server info for your ISP (edit out personal info and passwords of course):
Account Info:
Incoming Mail server: pop server address
User Name:             required user name POP server is looking for (censor)
Password:              password required by POP server (censor)
Advanced:
Port:      995, 25, default?
Use SSL:   yes or no
Auth:      kind of authentication

HTML Mail content in Sender Mail Channel

Hi Experts,
I am doing a PoC using sender mail channel to read an incoming HTML email & take few values from the mail body to send out as proxy message. Settings in my Sender channel are Transport Protocol: IMAP4 & Message Protocol: XIPayload. I have tried the "Use Mail Package" parameter checked & unchecked. If "Use Mail Package" is checked the XML payload I am getting contains the mail body under <Content> tag with all HTML tags.
Without "Use Mail Package" option checked the content is coming as plain text as below.
I have tried adding modules MessageTransformBean & ASMA setting "IMail.AssumeXMLContent=true". But Not able to make the content into mapping ready XML. Is it possible to convert the HTML email body into mapping ready XML or I should use Java or XSLT mapping to work on the HTML mail body?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards
Prem A.

Hi Amit,
Thanks Amit. I will try XSLT or Java mapping for this scenario. Appreciate your help.
Regards
Prem A.

How to configure lion mail service with lion server settings

I've sucessfully setup outgoing mail but I keep getting "The server returned the error: The server "incoming.domain" cannot be contaced on port 110". What configurations for Lion Server and Mail incoming mail server do I need to receive mail?

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Sync'ing "Sent"-box between Mail.app and e-mail sent using the web-app (2)

Hi,
A while ago, I posted this question, and Allan Sampson provided the answer, how to do it quickly and efficiently (see below).
However, that method turns out to have a flaw:
Here's what I just posted to Apple's sofware feedback:
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During the week, I connect to the internet from behind a firewall that prevents IMAP usage. I therefore use the webmail access to my @mac.com account. Once I am connected from a more liberal network, I let Mail.app sync with the @mac.com account, and transfer the "sent" messages from the server (the "Sent Messages" sub-folder at the bottom of the left-hand side folder listing in Mail.app) into the "Sent" (paper glider looking) folder, to be stored locally. I store about 7 year's worth of e-mail and use it as database.
Unfortunately, when so transfering the sent messages from the @mac.com server into the local "Sent" folder, the "Date Sent" inexplicably changes to the date of transfer, and the original date of sending is obliterated!!! This should not happen, and I cannot but consider it a bug in Mail.app.
Please fix this ASAP!
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In the meanwhile, does anyone know of a workaroud, other than forwarding those "sent" messages to myself, whereby the original header with the original "date sent" would be retained?
Thanks, Tristan

Tristan, we’re getting nowhere. For some reason that escapes me, you keep ignoring, misreading and/or misunderstanding what I’m saying...
At this point, I can only guess that you don’t really know what I’m referring to when I talk about message headers. The message headers are not the same as the column headers that Mail displays in the message list. The message headers is what Mail shows above the message body when viewing a message. You can choose the amount of header information that Mail shows there by default in Preferences > Viewing > Show header detail, and you can tell Mail to show all the headers while viewing a message by doing View > Message > Long Headers.
There is no such thing as Date Sent or Date Received message headers. The date & time that Mail shows in the Date Sent column is the date & time that appears in the Date message header and is set by the sender’s mail client. The date & time that Mail shows in the Date Received column is the date & time that appears in the latest (topmost) Received message header and is set by the recipient’s incoming mail server.
If the message headers that Mail uses to determine the date & time that it should display in the Date Sent and Date Received columns are missing, Mail cannot reliably show the right date & time there, but it may still try to do so by looking somewhere else, such as the Internal Date message attribute if the message is stored on an IMAP server. Problem is, contrary to what happens with the message headers I’ve mentioned, the Internal Date is an IMAP attribute that isn’t part of the message itself, and hence, is lost as soon as the message is moved out of the server...
Before the transfer:
<http://homepage.mac.com/thubsch/eMailTransfer0.gif>
What you’re showing here is Date Received, not Date Sent, but I could say the same I’ve said about Date Sent in previous posts, except in this case Mail gets the date & time to be displayed there from the latest (topmost) Received message header. The thing is, that header is set by the recipient’s incoming mail server, so don’t be surprised if you don’t see it either by doing View > Message > Long Headers while viewing a sent message...
Again, if that message header is not present, Mail will have to get the date & time to be displayed in the Date Received column from somewhere else. In particular, if the message is stored on an IMAP server, as is the case here, it can determine that date & time by querying the IMAP server for the Internal Date message attribute, just like it can for the Date Sent column when there is no Date message header.
BTW, note that Date Received is meaningless for sent messages (Mail has absolutely no idea when the messages were received, not even whether they were actually received), but since those messages would normally have no Received message header, Mail would actually display the right sent date & time in Date Received for sent messages if the Date message header was present.
However, I wish to store those messages on my machine locally. In answer
to my earlier question (for which you cited the URL), the really simple
procedure was recommended, to select all messages from "SentMessages"
and press-and-drag them into the "Sent" folder. When I do that, the "Date
Sent" for all those messages becomes the date & time of transfer:
<http://homepage.mac.com/thubsch/eMailTransfer1.gif>
And again, when you do that, Mail can no longer query the IMAP server for the Internal Date message attribute. Since the message headers that you keep ignoring and that Mail needs in order to be able to show the right date & time in the Date Sent and Date Received columns aren’t there either, Mail simply has absolutely no way of knowing what date & time should it display there other than by looking at the creation date of the *.emlx files associated with those messages...
Now, you are welcome to write a dissertation on how come this happens and
why this is not a bug in "Mail.app". However, you are missing the boat:
Interestingly enough, I’ve already explained multiple times why that happens and why this is not Mail’s fault. The culprit here is the mail client used to send those messages, which fails to set the Date message header that Mail (or any other mail client, for that matter) needs in order to be able to determine what the Date Sent is supposed to be.
It’s you who keeps missing the boat and ignoring, misreading and/or misunderstanding everything I’m saying...

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