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Dear Mr Bouwman,
We want to email our staff by using a one email address like This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Is there a way to do that in Apple's OSX 10.6 Server?
Marty B - Santa Rosa.
Mac OSX 10.6 offers several ways to create a group email list, though some is not well documented. For easy solution in small business I prefer to use the following method, called the "Enable server group mailing List". This involves several steps in setting up, but it works well in 10.6.4. Once set up, maintaining the list is a breeze. Some limitations apply at the bottom.
Sometimes the vacation message (or out of office message ) In Mac OSX 10.6.4 appears to refuse to stop. Editing the message seems to have no effect. It appears that the mail server has the old message buffered somewhere and does not want to let go. This is part of the 'Server side mail rules' which appear on two places in "Server Admin."
Ideally you want your users to always be able to connect to the myserver.mycompany.com, independent if they are at the office or anywhere else in the world. This is fairly simple with the DNS split horizon setting.
The split horizon trick is to run a local DNS server behind the company's firewall. This is the DNS server LAN local ip address of the server to local LAN machines. (For instance, 192.168.1.200 for any machine on the 192.168.1.x subnet) The machine on the Internet gets your public ip address when it tries to connect to the server (For example, 74.125.224.16).
Joomla allows you to use your Mac OSX Server 10.6 native Open Directory for authentication at Joomla's front door. This is ideal because it gives the users of your school or company direct access through the front door. You will need to enable the standard Joomla 1.5 ldap plugin, which came with the installation software. The trick is to use correct settings for the standard LDAP--if there is such a thing. At a minimum you will need to set: (Suppose my FQDN is myserver.mycompany.com)
Why does my Adobe Reader crash when when I run it from my server based home directory?
- Bill, TX
Adobe is aware of this problem and at times has fixed it in different versions. It does not appear to be a priority for them, because after an upgrade it can stop working all over again.
The problem seems to be that Adobe uses the home directory to store some cache data. Apearently the compiler it uses cannot handle the network drive. It might have to do with the copyright version of Adobe Writer, which might share part of the same code-base. Anyway, the directories that seem to be the problem are: /Users/Shared/9.0_x86/ or on the old ppc: /Users/Shared/9.0_ppc/. While working with various versions we have been able to work around this problem by using symbolic links to fool Reader into thinking it is running on a local hard drive. While this worked for a while, various updates tend to break it.
Can you help me install Mindstorm on my new Snow Leopard computer?
- Mary P. Cambridge, UK
There seems to be a bug in the Mindstorm Install disk. I am not sure why Mindstorm did not post a fix on its website. The issue is that the installer disk removes the installed temporary files when it's done. People have found that by removing the PREflight section, the POSTflight program leaves the program installed.