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Chapter 2
Inside Mac OS X Server
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Web service’s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support enables secure encryption and
authentication for ecommerce websites and confidential materials. An easy-to-use
digital certificate provides non-forgeable proof of your website identity.
Mac OS X Server offers extensive support for dynamic websites:
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Web service supports Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and UNIX and
Mac CGI scripts.
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Mac OS X Server includes a JBoss server and high-level administration tools for
configuring and managing it. See “Application Server Support” on page 43 for more
information about JBoss.
The web technologies administration guide provides information about configuring
and managing web service.
Mail Service
Mac OS X Server provides an enterprise-capable mail server, which supports the SMTP,
POP, and IMAP protocols, allowing you to select a local or server-based mail storage
solution for server users.
Outgoing mail (SMTP) has these features:
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The SMTP mail transfer agent is based on Postfix. For complete information about
this open-source agent, see www.postfix.org/.
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Authentication using the following methods is available: PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5,
and Kerberos v5.
Incoming mail (POP and IMAP) highlights include these:
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The mail access agent is a Cyrus POP and IMAP server. See asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/
for information about this agent.
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Authentication supported for IMAP is clear text, PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5, and
Kerberos v5. POP authentication options are clear text, APOP, and Kerberos v5.
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The mail database is extremely fast.
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Vacation rules and quotas for individual users are available.
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Mailman is used to create and maintain mailing lists.
Mac OS X Server also supports SquirrelMail for web-based mail retrieval.
For information about SquirrelMail, see www.squirrelmail.org.
The mail service administration guide tells you how to set up and manage mail service.
The web technologies administration guide describes how to enable WebMail, the
server’s implementation of SquirrelMail.
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