Sometimes it can happen that you have mail stuck in your mail queue stating: status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: connect to 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]: Connection refused This usually means that for some reason your content filter (amavisd) is not running. The easiest way to check if amavisd-new is running is to issue: ps -U clamav (for Mac OS […]
Simply turning of mail services in Server Admin does not prevent Postfix from starting up again when needed/called by another process. To completely disable Postfix and Cyrus on Mac OS X Server 10.5.x/10.4.x issue: sudo /bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist sudo /bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/edu.cmu.andrew.cyrus.master.plist Should you have the need to re-enable these services just issue: […]
The proper way to stop and start amavisd on OS X Server 10.5.x/10.4.x is to issue: sudo /bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist sudo /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.amavis.amavisd.plist
If you have happened to update your server from 10.3.x to 10.4.x, you may have noticed issues with fetchmail not working anymore. Older versions of fetchmail would check for an SSL certificate in an opportunistic way but still go ahead if there wasn’t one. More recent versions will interrupt comunications. If you want to use […]
Unfortunately, Mac OS X Server’s Server Admin is far from being perfect. Especially when it comes to mail, web and name server services. If you happen to modify Postfix settings from the command line, while keeping Server Admin open, it can happen that whatever changes you have made will be overwritten and that any future […]