Richard
The information on this site represents what we have done ourself on our own Mac’s. The documentation is the result of a lot of Googling and late night experiments with our Macs. We are no expert on any off the stuff you find here. We just write down our findings that made it work for us.
We do learn some of the stuff by doing it all ourself and by helping out others in solving the problems they encounter with installing the software. We try to write down why some choices where made and why and try to explain possible alternatives. We don’t want you to expect that we have all the answers, but we try to find a workable solution for people who run into problems.
If you have a question or a problem, please use the forum for that. It is a better places for discussions than comments on a blogpost. If you find an error in the documentation you’re free to leave a comment.
DIYMacServer is also on Twitter, if you follow us you will get to see what we are doing for research, the problems we are solving ad get insant updates.
By the way we all do this next to our regular day job, it is a hobby. If you like what you found and it was really useful to you we would appreciate it if you would donate a small amount to cover the expenses for hosting the site.
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All the documents are free to use, under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Which means you can use the work, copy it, change it as long as you mention or link to my website or name my name in your work. Legal stuff here.
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Comments
7:28 am
Hi Richard,
Thanks so much for your awesome website. I just finished going through most of the stuff and it’s worked great. Especially the mail server install and configuration, really invaluable. Best regards.
6:19 pm
I want say, it is a great site
I’m new mac user, and here I found many important informations for me.
Thanks a lot
7:10 am
yes its indeed a great site although i’m NOT a MAC user.
I’m mostly on Linux but I believe most of the tutorials and how-to provided are related each other. A great job here.
Keep it up !
5:21 am
I was cruising around for some networking detail to expand my scene, and stumbled upon this site. Quite well written and rich…
I had similar feelings when I set up an IP cam’s server on my network for an oddball IP cam with Linux aboard 4 years ago- bits & pieces of info all over the place, none of it all in one place.
I want to say Thank You for all the work you are sharing. When it comes time to do a heavier duty server trip from home I know where to come for details desired.
Half of being a grand network geekette is not knowing all the answers, but knowing where to find answers- and YOU are one AWESOME teacher! Thanks for Being. ?Leslie
10:41 am
Thank You for all the knowledge you are sharing. It helps a lot.
5:02 pm
Richard, you saved my butt, thanks for the help! I’m officially up and running again.
11:02 pm
Hi Richard,
I am definetely last person to say thank you after reading tutorials, but THANK YOU! Your page simply saved my time
Kind regards
Pawel
4:47 pm
These tutorials are absolutely amazing!
I just got ProFTPd with MySQL for virtual users working on my Mac Server. Comparing the issues and time it took to implement ftp with everything on your site is night and day.
P.S. FTP for virtual users would be a great addition to your tutorial.
Thank you.
I would have given up on this along time ago without this tutorial.
5:17 pm
Thank you for providing us with a great resource. Apple has a lot of room to grow in the server market.
You may not realize this now, but when Mac’s begin taking over data centers you’ll be ahead of the game.
I wish you luck!
4:10 pm
In the past I tried setting up a mail server on the mac but all outgoing email gets tagged as spam in other people’s inbox. I’ve read similar happenings too, email from one’s computer is automatically tagged as spam by ISP. Is your setup different ?
3:09 pm
Nomad, this depends on where your mailserver is located. If you are using a home dsl line it might be the case that your isp is/has blacklisted all dynamic ip´s. It is possible to take care of this and remove the block. It´s been a while but contact me via email and we can get you working if you want to.
5:29 am
First of all thanks for the great resource.
Second, am I missing the Dovecot migration guide? If not, any word on when you might make it?
7:09 am
@Richard, working on it. Check your mail…
1:45 am
Richard,
Great site and thanks for creating this resource. I look forward to following some of your installs to build out my own mac client server.
One question, after skimming the info on the site, i notice you are compiling most all of your installs. Is there a reason you don’t use mac ports?
8:08 pm
@balbert, the main reason of not using macports is that I don’t like the dependency. If a new version of some software comes out I want to try it right away without having to wait on others and I want to make my own decisions on compiling options.
5:17 am
Hi Richard,
Just a heads up… you “register” page seems to be broken.
Great articles.
Thanks,
Chris
7:09 pm
@Chris, sorry this is intentional for now. Too many spammers were leaving messages on the board. Working on getting different forum software up and running.