• Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Roundcube for OS X Server

    The latest Roundcube installer for OS X Server is now available at http://topicdesk.com/downloads/roundcube. This update, which provides a pretty awesome WebMail interface to OS X Server’s Mail Service provides the following: One installer that supports all Mavericks and Yosemite Roundcube WebMail 1.0.3 installed as a WebApp Automatically Configured Plugins Roundcube CardDav: Server-based address books Roundcube Managesieve: Server-side mail filtering and vacation messages PHP and Roundcube Config automatically configured for a typical Mac installation sqllite database – we no longer use Postgres Integration with the Mail Service running on OS X Server

  • Mac OS X Server

    Package Based Roundcube Setup For OS X Server

    The good people at TopicDesk have released a new version of their Roundcube installer. Now, with Mountain Lion & Mavericks compatibility. Automatic setup of carddav is the biggest new feature, but it’s also been updated to the latest version of Roundcube. The “topicdesk Roundcube Installer 0.9.5a” will: Install Roundcube 0.9.5 (the latest and greatest) as a WebApp in OS X Server Configure sensible defaults for Roundcube and PHP Automatically configure postgres and initializes the roundcube database Configure managesieve server-side filtering (Vacation Replies) Install mcrypt (if you don’t have it installed/functioning already) Automatically configure a carddav plugin, it works on first launch To download, check it out at: http://topicdesk.com/downloads/roundcube/

  • Kerio,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Configure the Mail Service in Mavericks Server

    Mail is one of the hardest services to manage. Actually, mail is pretty simple in and of itself: there’s protocols people use to access their mail (such as IMAP and POP), protocols used to communicate between mail servers and send mail (SMTP, SMTPS) and then there’s a database of mail and user information. In Mavericks Server, all of these are represented by a single ON button, so it really couldn’t be easier. But then there’s the ecoysystem and the evil spammers. As a systems administrator of a large number of mail servers, I firmly believe that there is a special kind of hell where only spam is served at every…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Install Roundcube on OS X Server 10.8 with Server App 2

    Installing Roundcube to work manually with OS X Server is a bit of a pain. So definitely wanted to mention that topicdesk, who brought us mailbfr and spamtrainer have now built a Roundcube package installer to take the pain out of doing so. The installer is available at http://topicdesk.com/downloads/roundcube. If you run mail on Mountain Lion Server and haven’t done anything for webmail, check it out! The latest release of our Roundcube webmail installer for OS X 10.8.x Mountain Lion with Server 2.x is available for download on this page. See current changelog for a complete list of fixes and additions. Please read our FAQs as well. The Roundcube webmail installer for OS X 10.8.x…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security

    Setting Up The Mail Service in Mountain Lion Server

    Mail is one of the hardest services to manage. Actually, mail is pretty simple in and of itself: there’s protocols people use to access their mail (such as IMAP and POP), protocols used to communicate between mail servers and send mail (SMTP, SMTPS)  and then there’s a database of mail and user information. In Mount Lion Server, all of these are represented by a single ON button, so it really couldn’t be easier. But then there’s the ecoysystem and the evil spammers. As a systems administrator of a large number of mail servers, I firmly believe that there is a special kind of hell where only spam is served at…

  • Mac OS X Server

    Changing Roundcube Max Attachment Size in Lion Server by Duong Nguyen

    Thanks to Duong Nguyen for the second user-submitted post on Changing Roundcube Max Attachment Size in Lion Server! By default, Lion Server’s webmail (Roundcube) has a 5MB max attachment size. The max attachment size is read from php’s “upload_max_filesize” and “post_max_size”. We don’t need to edit php.ini because Lion Server created a .htaccess in Roundcube’s directory that overrides php.ini’s settings. Please only do this if you are comfortable with the terminal! I start by SSHing to my server as root (or you can open a root terminal). 1. # cd /usr 2. # cd share 3. # cd webmail 4. # vi .htaccess 5. Use your arrow keys to navigate…

  • Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server

    Configuring Out of Office Messages in Lion Server

    One of the more common administrative tasks for any administrator of a mail server is to work with users on enabling various rules. One such rule is the Out of Office email messages. These messages can be enabled to automatically send responses to people that send email to those accounts when a user is not going to be checking mail. These can be somewhat frustrating for people on list serves, but they are a great way to be able to step away from your email in the event that you’re, I don’t know, Out of the Office. I should learn to rely on these more when I’m on vacation, but…

  • iPhone,  Mac OS X Server,  Mac Security,  Mass Deployment,  SQL

    Working with Postgres from the Command Line in Lion Server

    Mac OS X Server 10.7, Lion Server, comes with a few substantial back-end changes. One of these is the move from SQLite3 to PostgreSQL for many of the back-end databases, including Wiki and Podcast Producer (collab), Webmail (roundcubemail), iCal Server and Address Book Server (caldav) and as the back-end to the newest service in Lion Server, Profile Manager (device_management). As such, it’s now important to be able to use PostgreSQL the way we once used SQLite3, when trying to augment the data that these databases contains, as there currently aren’t a lot of options for editing this data (aside from manually of course). Postgres has a number of commands that…