A quote from Apple’s documentation: Virtual hosting is a method you can use to host more than one domain name on the same computer and IP address, with overlapping mail user names. For example, a mail server can receive mail transfer requests for two domains, mail.example1.com and mail.example2.com, both of which resolve to the same […]
View the Mail Queue sudo mailq Need details of a message in the queue? Every message has a Queue ID. Copy the ID after running the mailq command. sudo find /var/spool/postfix/deferred/ -name ECCB516EB4017 -exec cat {} \; Delete a message sudo postsuper -d ECCB516EB4017 Delete all messages in the mail queue sudo postsuper -d ALL
OS X Server 10.8 (Mountain Lion) To reset the Profile Manager data stored in postgres: sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/wipeDB.sh
This FAQ is geared towards new administrators looking for guidance on a proper mail server setup. As a best practice, your mail server should require SSL encryption for IMAP, POP and Webmail. SMTP should have SSL enabled, but not required. A typical OS X Server mail server for a small business would have these ports […]
By default, OS X Servers expect a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) as a greeting (helo) for all SMTP connections. The server expects: helo mail.mydomain.com Many apps (Outlook and some phones) don’t send a FQDN and instead send something like: helo computer1 The server will reject this connection, and you will see this in your […]