OK - fresh install of OS X 10.4 on a Xserve G5. Everything running OK but having some client connection issues, as follows:
1. Our ISP hosts DNS for our domain. Everything works for outside clients but I need the internal clients to resolve mail.domainname.com to the local IP address and not the external one. I am afraid that the Apple DNS server (if that is what if I have to use) is not the simplest thing I have ever had to configure (I am used to Windows DNS server). So, I need some instructions from someone who has done this and had it work properly. The main reason for doing this is so that laptop users can use the mail.domainname.com in their mail settings whether inside or outside of the network. (Right now, clients are using the actual internal IP address of the mail server)
2. My IMAP logs show the following entries when a user connects - I am interested to know what SQUAT is and why it might be failing:
Aug 18 11:05:48 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:48 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:48 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:48 Xserve1 imap[27469]: SQUAT failed to open index file
Aug 18 11:05:48 Xserve1 imap[27469]: SQUAT failed
Aug 18 11:05:53 Xserve1 imap[27469]: accepted connection
Aug 18 11:05:53 Xserve1 imap[27469]: login: localhost [::1] jthomas plaintext User logged in
Aug 18 11:05:53 Xserve1 imap[27469]: quota set to "unlimited" for mailbox user.jthomas
Aug 18 11:05:53 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: accepted connection
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: login: localhost [::1] jthomas plaintext User logged in
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: quota set to "unlimited" for mailbox user.jthomas
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: open: user jthomas opened INBOX
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: SQUAT failed to open index file
Aug 18 11:05:57 Xserve1 imap[27469]: SQUAT failed
3. WEBMAIL: Why does mail sent from the webmail client prepend "mail." to the domain name. I would like mail to display as user@domainname.com irrespective of source. When sent from webmail, it displays as user@mail.domainname.com. How do I override this setting?
Thanks in advance,
J