Now I’ve got my production server running Dovecot (finally) and can tell you that it really rocks and I performed the upgrade without any problem. Just configure, compile and install as per instructions and then kill the current running dovecot process. The new version should start automatically.

Just an small remark, just saw in my Wordpress dashboard before posting this, that I’ve passed the 200 blogposts on this blog. That is excluding the 134 pages (the actual documentation) and the 920 comments (which I tend to prune every now and then to keep them relevant).

Here is nice one for the people wh recently bought a mini, someone found out that it will take 8 Gb of usable memory just like the newer MBP’s. It’s a shame that it still soooo expensive but it is a good thing to look forward to. I’m almost temped to by another mini just to see how this would perform. I think it would make a awesome server, although I must confess that of my current production server only half of it’s 1Gb is in active use.

For people looking to host a server at MacMiniColo.net, they have some second hand mini’s listed on the sign up page which will do the job perfectly for less money. I did this myself as well and it is stil working. I like their service so much I recently renewed for a two year period.

Back to testing…

Update: Forgot to mention that I’ve finished installing everything on a clean install of Snow Leopard. So that now works as it is supposed to do. Next up getting my mini ready for the update and installing everything in 32 bits.

Postfix has released a new version 2.6.5 as well. Usually they are installable without problems so feel free to update and I will test is soon!

Sorry about this!

Some of the reasons for choosing a laptop were:

• The ability to take it with me. More people are depending on my support for their server (yes I offer paid support on a best effort basis) and being away from home without a Mac is making it difficult.
• The option to use it for my day job and to drop the ugly Dell laptop I got from my employer. You’ve got to admit the new unibodies are drop dead gorgeous.
• It’s gorgeous!
• I think the 2 GPU’s are going to give me an advantage when Snow Leopard will be able to utilize them with the OpenCL stuff. This should mean I can keep using the new laptop for quite some time without it getting old and slow.

I wanted to to thank all the people who donated money, it’s been used to help me buy the laptop.

Here is a picture of the new laptop on my desk at home. Still installing and configuring the basic stuff before installing a new version of DIYMacServer. Enjoy.

PS. Just found out my old G4 mini got a problem. Probably a faulty hard drive…

I’m looking forward to a new Mac mini or any new Mac on my desktop.

If you have any wishes for the new year related to the content on this site please let me know perhaps I can make them come true. So what to add or what subject to cover anything goes as long as it falls within the boundaries of my abilities.

Why do I tell you this, because I paid for the drive partly with some of the money I got from the donations I received from some happy users. As this mini is used to test everything first I thought it was appropriate.

Next target for the donations is getting a new Mac (I hope for a new mini), I need it to be able to support you who want to compile everything in 64 bits mode. My current mini’s don’t support 64 bit. I’ve got one of the early Intel mini’s also paid for partly by donations in September 2006! (Boy does time pass quickly when you have fun)

Currently I can only support Tiger and Leopard on G4 and Intel 32 bits machines. Planning for the future I would like to support 64 bits Intel machines as well. As soon as Snow Leopard comes out the plan is to drop support for Tiger so from then on I will support Leopard on G4/G5 and Intel (32 and 64 bit) and Snow Leopard on Intel (32 and 64 bit).

I hope you agree with this decision as it is impossible to support every combination. I know some of you still use Tiger on older Macs and are unable to upgrade. Please know that I’ll try to help you to the best of my ability even if you are not using one of the supported combinations.

Because I can and because I like it!

I like to have my own mail-server because I like to be in control. I decide the features. I decide what happens with my email. I decide when email is spam. I decide the size of my inbox. I decide what is secure enough. I decide who gets access to my mail. Especially the last two are becoming more and more important when governments become more and more paranoid.

Another reason which, I guess, is only valid for geeks: It’s fun! You really get to understand the workings of email, spam filtering, and more. By configuring, tweaking and reading the log-files you really get to understand what happens and how you can improve your own mail-server.

Why did you choose to have your own mail-server ?

The first thing I tried, now I’ve got everything migrated, was getting my home server to work as a backup MX server. I found out that it was pretty straightforward and adding one line to the main configuration made it work.

I’ve added it to the documentation set, so if you have the same luxury as I have and have more than one server connected you could use the this as well. Read how to do it here: Configuring a backup (relay) MX server.

To keep it short, I just made my test environment where I was developing the new design of the site the current live site. It was the easiest thing to do and I only lost some posts and comments by that. Which I still will try to retrieve in some manner when possible. The design isn’t finished, it still needs some tweaks. I just received an email from the designer with a large list of items I need to change. Tanja, I’m sorry I will do them as quickly as possible.

Hope you like the new design even if it isn’t completely finished yet.