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10.7 Web Server Admin Alternatives

I have been playing around with two pieces of software that promise to help bring back this lost functionality in an easy to use GUI tool and perhaps even restore a little sanity to running a website on Lion. The first application that I reviewed was called VirtualHostX.

10.7 Server Web Administration: Missing Manual

The purpose of this entry is to talk about 10.7 server and show you how to accomplish everything that you could accomplish from the Server Admin application through commands using terminal or edits to system files in the operating system. Everything below requires that you be logged in as the root user on the server in order to avoid permission issues.

Stay off of blacklists: Limit postfix recipients

“I just setup a new server and within days we were on a corporate email blacklist, I contacted the company in question and asked why are we on your blacklist, why won’t you deliver our email. They shared with me an email log of thousands of emails being sent from my mail server through several legitimate email accounts. I ensured that my server was not an open relay so I asked these users, if they had indeed sent this many emails in one shot without any kind of unsubscribe link...

Better Quota notifications for OSX Server

One such service is the topic today, Dovecot. Dovecot is integrated with Server Admin, Apples GUI Server Administration tool. You can set two different kind of notifications to trigger here, a quota notification that will send an email out when someone is over a certain percentage of email quota and an email warning them when they have gone over quota. In my experience it takes more than a couple emails to make a user clean up their inbox.

Deploy Studio Server to the Rescue

Again, since I do not have any looming restrictions in my workplace I have found a piece of software that would never be allowed in larger Government facilities but works nicely for what I need. The problem, from time to time I need to re-image or re-core a massive amount of computers, sometimes hundreds of computers. I have a team of two, me and a Helpdesk Technician. This is a daunting task and since I do not like to work weekends, I find that Deploy Studio Server helps me keep...