Use Mountain Lion server (Mail) as a Microsoft Exchange alternative?

Dear community,
I googled for this question (see topic) and I found some threads (also on the Apple Support Communities) of people asking the same question, rather they mention Lion server and not Mountain Lion server. When I look at some reactions to those questions I see replies saying that you should only use the Mail server in small scenarios (30 - 50 people) and some say it would be wiser to stick with Microsoft Exchange.
I am wondering if you guys think about this the same way. I work for a school with roughly 1500 users and 400 employees. So that's approximately 2k useraccounts / mailaccounts. I'm sure I want to get rid of MS Exchange for various reasons, should I give the Mail server a try or should I search for alternatives?
Kind regards, John

John,
you really can't compare Apple(s) with ... well Microsoft(s).
It is not up to the number of users, as Mark23 already said, because postfix will be capable of handling more mails than your users will produce any day. Rather it is up to what you expect to get. Exchange can deliver you more services, workflow integration and user experience than postfix/dovecot/calendar/address book (of cause you have to pay a price!). But what do you need?
Just mail? Shared calendars or address books?
Maybe you are looking that way just to get mail. Do you need kerberized services? Are your users mainly using Mail app? Do you want the simple configuation interface that comes with OS X server instead of standard files? Then go with OS X Server. Otherwise you might consider a linux box with postfix and dovecot.
But it's all up to your requirements.

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com.apple.Notes - /Users/danieloria/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/
com.apple.Notes - /Users/danieloria/Library/Containers
com.apple.Notes.plist - /Users/danieloria/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Preferences
com.apple.Notes.savedState - /Users/danieloria/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Saved
4. Restart your Mac. Put your exchange account back into System Preferences, you can go ahead and activate the Notes sync service.
5. Open Notes and it should be working now!
NOTE: I also deleted all the stored information related to the exchange account in Keychain Access when I deleted the 4 com.apple files. This may or may not be necessary, but I just thought it was worth mentioning.

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I'm sorry i did it wrong (but I think it's this editor that makes the spaces, because before I update this text, there is no space); here the new one
server:~ delsup$ sudo launchctl load -w /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.a mavis.amavisd.plist
launchctl: Dubious ownership on file (skipping): /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.a mavis.amavisd.plist
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server:~ delsup$
and system.log:
Sep 5 17:49:37 server.delsup.org System Preferences[832]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep 5 17:49:37 server.delsup.org System Preferences[832]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep 5 17:49:37 server.delsup.org System Preferences[832]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep 5 17:49:37 server.delsup.org System Preferences[832]: *** WARNING: -[NSImage compositeToPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] is deprecated in MacOSX 10.8 and later. Please use -[NSImage drawAtPoint:fromRect:operation:fraction:] instead.
Sep 5 17:49:37 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.preferences' by client '/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writeco nfig' [838] for authorization created by '/Applications/System Preferences.app' [832] (100002,0)
Sep 5 17:49:43 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 17:49:43 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 17:49:46 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 17:49:46 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
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Sep 5 17:51:34 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003d
Sep 5 17:51:34 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Received display connect changed for display 0x3f003e
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d02: GL mask 0x4; bounds (0, 0)[1 x 1], 2 modes available
        off-line, enabled, built-in, Vendor 756e6b6e, Model 76697274, S/N 0, Unit 2, Rotation 0
        UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003e
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d01: GL mask 0x2; bounds (2304, 0)[1 x 1], 2 modes available
        off-line, enabled, built-in, Vendor 756e6b6e, Model 76697274, S/N 0, Unit 1, Rotation 0
        UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d00: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[1920 x 1080], 11 modes available
        Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, Vendor 756e6b6e, Model 76697274, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
        UUID 0x00000472000000be0390ca1100000000
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Created shield window 0x73 for display 0x41dc9d02
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Created shield window 0x74 for display 0x41dc9d01
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Created shield window 0x75 for display 0x41dc9d00
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display added
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display removed
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d00: GL mask 0x1; bounds (0, 0)[1920 x 1080], 11 modes available
        Main, Active, on-line, enabled, built-in, Vendor 756e6b6e, Model 76697274, S/N 0, Unit 0, Rotation 0
        UUID 0x00000472000000be0390ca1100000000
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d02: GL mask 0x4; bounds (2944, 0)[1 x 1], 2 modes available
        off-line, enabled, built-in, Vendor 756e6b6e, Model 76697274, S/N 0, Unit 2, Rotation 0
        UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003e
Sep 5 17:51:35 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d01: GL mask 0x2; bounds (2945, 0)[1 x 1], 2 modes available
        off-line, enabled, built-in, Vendor 756e6b6e, Model 76697274, S/N 0, Unit 1, Rotation 0
        UUID 0xffffffffffffffffffffffff003f003d
Sep 5 17:51:37 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: **DMPROXY** (2) Found `/System/Library/CoreServices/DMProxy'.
Sep 5 17:51:37 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Created shield window 0x7d for display 0x41dc9d00
Sep 5 17:51:37 server.delsup.org WindowServer[99]: Display 0x41dc9d00: VirtualDisplay Unit 0; ColorProfile { 1, "Default(sRGB IEC61966-2.1)"}; TransferFormula (1.000000, 1.000000, 1.000000)
Sep 5 17:51:37 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Sep 5 17:51:37 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 17:51:37 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
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Sep 5 17:56:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[870]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:01:24 server.delsup.org postfix/qmgr[112]: warning: connect to transport private/smtp-amavis: Connection refused
Sep 5 18:06:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[926]: error: get user record: unable to open user record for user=diradmin
Sep 5 18:06:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[926]: error: validate response: unable to lookup user record for: diradmin
Sep 5 18:06:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[926]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:16:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[975]: error: get user record: unable to open user record for user=diradmin
Sep 5 18:16:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[975]: error: validate response: unable to lookup user record for: diradmin
Sep 5 18:16:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[975]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:26:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1027]: error: get user record: unable to open user record for user=diradmin
Sep 5 18:26:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1027]: error: validate response: unable to lookup user record for: diradmin
Sep 5 18:26:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1027]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:30:37 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 18:30:37 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 18:36:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1085]: error: get user record: unable to open user record for user=diradmin
Sep 5 18:36:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1085]: error: validate response: unable to lookup user record for: diradmin
Sep 5 18:36:27 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1085]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:39:41 server.delsup.org screensharingd[1106]: Authentication: SUCCEEDED :: User Name: Sara Delsupehe :: Viewer Address: 192.168.19.50 :: Type: DH
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Sep 5 18:40:48 server.delsup.org login[1115]: in od_record_check_pwpolicy(): retval: 0
Sep 5 18:40:48 server.delsup.org login[1115]: in od_record_attribute_create_cfstring(): returned 2 attributes for dsAttrTypeStandard:AuthenticationAuthority
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Sep 5 18:41:35 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 18:41:35 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 18:41:35 server.delsup.org servermgrd[410]: -[AccountsRequestHandler(AccountsSystemConfigurationObservation) registerForKeychainEventNotifications]: SecKeychainAddCallback() status: -25297
Sep 5 18:41:41 server.delsup.org sudo[1131]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load -w /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.a mavis.amavisd.plist
Sep 5 18:41:42 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 18:41:42 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 18:46:24 server.delsup.org postfix/qmgr[112]: warning: connect to transport private/smtp-amavis: Connection refused
Sep 5 18:46:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1152]: error: get user record: unable to open user record for user=diradmin
Sep 5 18:46:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1152]: error: validate response: unable to lookup user record for: diradmin
Sep 5 18:46:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1152]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:48:32 server.delsup.org sudo[1171]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/more /var/log/amavis.log
Sep 5 18:48:32 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 18:48:32 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 18:48:54 server.delsup.org sudo[1174]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/more /var/log/system.log
Sep 5 18:48:55 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 18:48:55 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 18:56:24 server.delsup.org postfix/qmgr[112]: warning: connect to transport private/smtp-amavis: Connection refused
Sep 5 18:56:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1211]: error: get user record: unable to open user record for user=diradmin
Sep 5 18:56:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1211]: error: validate response: unable to lookup user record for: diradmin
Sep 5 18:56:26 server.delsup.org postfix/smtpd[1211]: warning: unknown[192.168.19.50]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed
Sep 5 18:57:53 server.delsup.org sudo[1225]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load -w /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.a mavis.amavisd.plist
Sep 5 18:57:54 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 18:57:54 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 19:00:28 server.delsup.org sudo[1235]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl load -w /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.a mavis.amavisd.plist
Sep 5 19:00:28 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 19:00:28 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 19:00:48 server.delsup.org sudo[1237]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/more /var/log/amavis.log
Sep 5 19:00:49 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 19:00:49 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
Sep 5 19:01:59 server.delsup.org sudo[1248]:   delsup : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/delsup ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/more /var/log/system.log
Sep 5 19:01:59 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (2,0)
Sep 5 19:01:59 server.delsup.org com.apple.SecurityServer[19]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [67] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [115] (100000,0)
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Out of office Relpy for apple Mail on Mountain Lion Server

We just recently switched our server from Lion to Mountain Lion and now we can not figure out how to create and launch an Out of Office Reply for Apple Mail on the new Mountain Lion Server. I have searched the internet for an aswer and/or instructions on how to do this and haven't found any.
As anyone figured out how to create and launch an Out of Office Reply for Apple Mail on the new Mountain Lion Server?

Eustace - Thanks for taking a crack at it! I saw this same post as well but it doesn't answer my question about how to create and launch an Out of Office Reply for Apple Mail on the new Mountain Lion Server?
I'm not looking to create an out of office rule on my computer but on our Mountain Lion Server like we used to be able to do on Lion Server.

Archiving Mail on Mountain Lion Server with MailSteward or Other?

Anyone here successfully archiving mail for multiple user accounts on Mountain Lion Server without spending a bunch of dough?
From poking around a bit I guess mail is in /Library/Server/Mail/Data, but I don't think MailSteward can pull from there, dovecot daemon stuff that is over my head.
Interested in solutions short of going to Kerio Connect, which looks to provide the archiving functionality I need (and maybe also lets users change their own passwords, which would also be nice).
Thanks!

Eustace - Thanks for taking a crack at it! I saw this same post as well but it doesn't answer my question about how to create and launch an Out of Office Reply for Apple Mail on the new Mountain Lion Server?
I'm not looking to create an out of office rule on my computer but on our Mountain Lion Server like we used to be able to do on Lion Server.

How can I set up a mail alias in Mountain Lion Server?

Hi, newbie to Mountain Lion Server here.
I've set up mail for domain a.com and a virtual domain b.com
User a receives mail just fine at [email protected] and [email protected], now I wanted to receive mail for [email protected] as an alias, which I understood after reading the posts here is done by going to 'advanced options' of user a and setting b in the alias field.
But sending a mail to [email protected] bounces with a "550 5.1.1 <[email protected]>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in virtual alias table".
However sending a mail to [email protected] does work, so I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.

Hi, it's a late response, I know, but I had same problem just now and in my searching for an answer I found your question. ...better yet, I also found the answer - simply make a user alias including the virtual domain, like for instance if you want alias c to receive mails from both a.com and b.com, you should make two aliases:
c, [email protected]
where the first alias defaults to a.com as the default domain and the second explicitly specified the virtual domain.
Cheers

Using mountain lion, why does it take so long for mail to show up? messages appear on my iphone but not on my iMac

Using mountain lion on iMac. Email appears on my iPhone but when I open mail on desktop the messages aren't there and take several minutes before they appear. Thoughts as to why this happens? Anyone else experiencing this too?

Thank you. Check for new msgs is set for every minute. However, I got your message on my iPhone and it still hasn't appeared on iMac.

Upgrading to Mountain Lion server and all services breaks down...

Hi!
I have, after endless hours of scanning logs and .plist and other files' content and permission settings found why Mountain Lion Server.app in some cases doesn't seem to be able to take control over all service, stating it can't read or write its own setting files etc.
As a Swede I of course run a system set in the Swedish language. Mountain Lion can't upgrade a Swedish system, only fore languages are accepted !!!
See Migration Logs!
//Excerpt from the Mail Migration log:
Begin Mail Migration: Thu Aug 2 19:34:24 2012
purge: 0
sourceRoot: /Library/Server/Previous
sourceType: System
sourceVersion: 10.7.4
targetRoot: /
language: sv
Did not supply a valid language for the --language parameter, needs to be one of [en | fr | de | ja]
As you can see, it can only upgrade in English, French, German and Japanese system language. With no inital warnings the system crashes and causes a true mess half the way through its installation when you start Server.app.
Solution:
Throw Server.app in the trash or move it outside the Application folder, to force the computer to realized "its not a server". It can take half a minute or so for the system to realize it is no longer a server. You will see a sign.
Change the language setting to English in your system preferences and restart your computer. Move back Server.app from the trash (or where you put it) and start Server.app, thereby initiating a new Servers installation. I was happy to find that all mail accounts etc was found again. I thought for several hours they where lost.
The various sites hosted by the server did however not appear in their correct new location (when I tryed this). I had to manually move them from the "Previous" folder in /Library/Server/Previous/Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/ to /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/
I hope this helps anyone out there....
Cheers!
Stefan

Please explain.... when are you stoped from upgrading?
I haven't actually had problems with the actual OS upgrade it is when you launch Server.app the first time everything goes to f-n h....
Server.app should reconfigure and move around a lot of files and it does, but not succeeding doing it correctly. Many services can't read their config files and have them in two places. I trying to figure out which ones are being used. Somethime both locations are used but only parts of the settings in the files !?!?
I am soon giving up...

Configuring postfix on Mountain Lion Server

I'm trying to upgrade from Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion Server and did an install of Mountain Lion Server on top of a working instance of Snow Leopard Server. The "crippled" GUI on Mountain Lion Server is forcing me into using terminal to configure Postfix to handle incoming email.
I would like to configure Postfix to only accept email that is forwarded from a gmail business account. The public email address is [email protected] which is received by Google Mail, goes through their spam filters and then is auto-forwarded to [email protected]
The server WAN domain is nonpublic.com The ip address is 96.231.165.126
The server LAN is nonpublic.local The ip address is 10.6.18.201
The server is a MacMini running Mountain Lion Server 10.6.8 hostname server so the FQDN is server.public.com.
The network on the MacMini is configured to handle both LAN and WAN traffic through the 1GB physical ethernet port which plugs into a CISCO 3750 switch. The external traffic to the WAN flows through the switch as tagged packets. The LAN traffic is not tagged. The VLAN connection is running 802.1q
When an email is sent through the WAN to [email protected] the Postfix SMTP log shows:
Jun 7 19:29:22 server.public.com postfix/smtpd[42181]: connect from cisco.public.com[96.231.165.123]
Jun 7 19:29:22 server.public.com postfix/smtpd[42181]: disconnect from cisco.public.com[96.231.165.123]
I can send emails from a client on the LAN through this server with no problems. The incoming mail server can connect to the machine via the Cisco router/switch but Postfix just shows "cisco" as the connection (that's the router's DNS name) and provides no more info. I suspect Postfix possibly doesn't like the 802.1q connection and drops the SMTP request to connect on port 25.
I have turned on "debug" logging in Postfix, but that is all that appears in the SMTP log file
I've spent most of the week reading through everything I can find on how to install and configure postfix on Mountain Lion Server and work around the cripled GUI in the "server" application. I'm barely OK using Terminal and not familiar at all with configuring Postfix directling editing the config file.
What is the best approach to configure Postfix to allow SMTP connections from the outside to deliver incoming email that is forwarded from gmail.com?
I did find an "aliases" file in /etc/postfix/aliases but I'm not sure how to add the aliases and if adding aliases with a text editor is going to cause the "server" app problems and if the changes will be lost when the machine is restarted.
Any help would be appreciated.

MrHoffman, thank you for your response to my challenge to get the new test server working. This is a migration from Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion Server.
Here is the "checkhostname" test results:
blue:~ admin$ sudo changeip -checkhostname
Password:
Primary address     = 96.231.165.211
Current HostName    = blue.pderby.com
DNS HostName        = blue.pderby.com
The names match. There is nothing to change.
dirserv:success = "success"
blue:~ admin$
Here is the response from postconf -n
blue:~ admin$ postconf -n
biff = no
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
data_directory = /var/lib/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
debugger_command = PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin xxgdb $daemon_directory/$process_name $process_id & sleep 5
dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
imap_submit_cred_file = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/postfix/submit.cred
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
inet_protocols = all
mail_owner = _postfix
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
message_size_limit = 10485760
mydomain_fallback = localhost
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
recipient_delimiter = +
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = _postdrop
smtpd_tls_ciphers = medium
smtpd_tls_exclude_ciphers = SSLv2, aNULL, ADH, eNULL
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
use_sacl_cache = yes
blue:~ admin$
I agree that I should change the LAN domain from .local to something like .internal or whatever.   I've been running with .local for 5 years on snow leopard server and never had any problems so that was a low priority.
I hope I'm just not seeing some obvious setting in main.cf

Is OSX Mountain Lion Server Compatible with Snow Leopard

Is Mountain Lion Server compatible with Clients running on Snow Leopard?

We haven't had any problems with Home Directories hosted on 10.8.2 on a small number ol 10.6 clients. The only issue is that you can't use Workgroup Manager 10.8 on the 10.6 machines to allow 10.6-only apps. If you have a mixture of 10.6, 10.8 or 10.7 clients the user's prefs for things like Mail get screwy due to the different schema.

Mountain Lion Server with Network User

I have a Mountain Lion Server with a network user. The whole system has been redone from Lion Server and on top of that I moved location, ISP, hardware and a few other things. The way I used the setup on Lion was to bind my MBP to the server and login from the MBP login window with the network account. If for whatever reason I wanted to look at the network account on the server, I could fast user swtich and everything that was open ie Safari, Mail, etc would be the same as it was on the MBP.
Now if I'm logged into the network user on the MBP and then go to the server, it logs in as if I've just booted. They share the home folder and any new files/folders created on one shows on the other. But if Mail is open on the MBP it won't be open on the server.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks for your reply.
I believe I got it to work, but,... How do you get the network account users to show up on the login window of the client computer? The login window shows the name of the client computer and the local accounts on the client computer. When I select Other in the login list I can login using a network account user id and it logs in. The network account user names do not show up on the login window

Password problem after migrating to Mountain Lion Server

Hello everyone,
Yesterday, I migrated our Lion Server to Mountain Lion Server. Everything seemed to work fine. Except since this morning, none of the network user cannot connect to their calendar, reminders, and wiki. They can connect to their account and to their mails. The following line appears multiple times in ApplePasswordServer.Error.log:
Aug 16 2012 16:52:50 700250us client response doesn't match what we generated
It seems that only web services are concerned (vpn, mobile accounts, and mails are working). My initial guess is that the hash computed on the basis of the user password is not computed on the same way on the client machine (which is running Mountain Lion by the way) and on the server. On the other hand, this would be very surprising, since all this stuff is based on standards and unlikely to have changed since Lion.
I tried to create a new "Test" user. Even this new user, created after the migration, cannot connect to its calendar, etc. I also tried to reset my user password using the Server App. It makes no difference, the same lines appear in the logs.
Is anyone experiencing a similar problem ? Does anyone have a clue of what to try next ?
Thanks a lot !

I found out the following:
After looking at the contents of the password server database using the slot numbers of several user accounts, it seems that all users where WEBDAV-DIGEST authentication is failing, have two entries for the digest method "*cmusaslsecretDIGEST". This is obviously wrong. All users who can authenticate successfully have only one such entry.
Deleting and recreating the user account has no effect. In fact, updating the password server with a new entry may actually trigger this error. It could be that all users where this is failing have changed their passwords after the server was updated to Mountain Lion.
It would be interesting to know if you also see duplicate entries for "*cmusaslsecretDIGEST" in the database. You can display a password server record via the user account's slot number (in your example, the 0xd6ace...) using the command
sudo mkpassdb -dump <slot-number>
At the end of the record dump, you should see 10 digest entries with their method identifiers.

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