Entries by Athanasios Alexandrides

Why do mails I send using Outlook get blocked by my own OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard Server?

Snow Leopard Server implements several anti-spam measures in its default Postfix configuration. Unfortunately there are a few glitches, which may prevent your own Outlook clients from sending mail. Among the different parameters, there is one which explicitely verifies that the sending mail client does have a fully qualified hostname. The reason being that much spam […]

Why do e-mails sent to OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard Server arrive only after a delay?

Snow Leopard Server implements an anti-spam technique called Greylisting. While this is quite effective, it has the side effect of causing delays during mail delivery. If you wish to turn it off, you can disable anti-spam measures in Server Admin. To specifically only stop Greylisting do the following: Edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and change: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated […]