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Configuring Postfix in Mac OS X 10.5 Server with Dyn Standard SMTP

As a happy user of MailServe Pro on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard “client”, I was assuming my migration to Leopard “Server” would be worthwhile by getting a more capable admin GUI for the built-in Postfix mail server. So far, it’s been a little more complicated than that.

In this configuration, I’m using Dyn Standard SMTP to relay SMTP and configured the 10.5 Server Admin accordingly:

But when I send mail, I get the following error in the SMTP log:

postfix/smtp: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found

Great. After double checking the password, authentication settings, port, etc., it turns out the lovely Server Admin GUI (a major driver for the upgrade) is a little buggy when it comes to editing the Postfix config files. Reading closely in the FAQ from Dyn, you have to manually edit /etc/postfix/main.cf by adding:

relayhost = outbound.mailhop.org:2525

smtp_sasl_security_options=

Mind you editing config files is exactly what I was hoping to avoid with Server Admin. In fact, this worked fine in the prior setup using the client OS with MailServe, no edit required. I plan to post more about the server setup and why I’ve chosen vintage equipment to run it on, but for now I need to document some of the gotchas of this upgrade. I hope this is the last post!

You have got to be kidding me. I purchased a movie from the iTunes Store. I want to play it on my authorized Mac computer using iTunes. When I go to display it on my Apple Cinema display monitor, it get the above message preventing me from playing it. If I drag iTunes to my second monitor (non-Apple brand, and not in the best movie viewing position mind you), it works fine. Absolutely ridiculous.

CIO: Execs Get Ready: Workers Will Soon Be Running Companies

CIO: Execs Get Ready: Workers Will Soon Be Running Companies

Depending on the situation, it could take three, five or even 15 years for corporate managers to realize that the traditional corporate hierarchy no longer works, as younger, tech-savvy workers increasingly call for and use enterprise-level social collaboration tools.

… “They need to understand what a collaborative organization really looks like. They need to give an appropriate amount of resources and attention to changing the way they were doing things in the past,” she added.

CIO: Execs Get Ready: Workers Will Soon Be Running Companies

From this CIO article… (Source)

Depending on the situation, it could take three, five or even 15 years for corporate managers to realize that the traditional corporate hierarchy no longer works, as younger, tech-savvy workers increasingly call for and use enterprise-level social collaboration tools. … “They need to understand what a collaborative organization really looks like. They need to give an appropriate amount of resources and attention to changing the way they were doing things in the past,” she added.

There is nothing in the critical field that should be of greater philosophical interest or prove more rewarding to analysis than the progressive modification of one mind by the work of another.

Paul Valéry

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

Ralph Waldo Emerson