Article:		Sanitizing Mail on Panther Server
Subject:		A Note From the Author
Date:		2004-02-02 12:26:42
From:		jldera
Some users have been reporting issues with this configuration after they've made new changes in Server Admin. Server Admin has a bad habit of overwriting changes made to configuration files. If you setup your server as this article describes and later make changes to your Mail settings, Server Admin will overwrite /etc/postfix/main.cf's mailbox_transport setting, changing it back to cyrus. If this happens, you'll just need to remodify it so that it says procmail. If you'd like to lock the file from changes, take a look at this hack: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/h/372

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• A Note From the Author
  2004-03-13 12:40:22  halesgarcia [Reply | View]
  
  
  Thank you for your informative and very relevant article.
  
  The problem of manual and GUI changes corrupting each other has been a problem with Mac OS X Server from the beginning. Apple has fixed the problem with some services, most notably Apache, by adding documentation in files explaining how to manually edit them. But I've noticed the documentation comes late and only if Apple is invested in the technology. In the mean time administrators have to learn by trail-and-error what works and what doesn't as I see occuring among your readers.
  
  I would very much like to see an O'Reilly article explaining the idiocyncracies of editing Mac OS X Server services. Depending on Apple's interest in the technology and its tenure on the platform the methods of manual editing can vary widely. Sometimes files should be only edited with the GUI applications provided, sometimes a combination of GUI and manual editing works, sometimes editing includes editing Plist files, or Netinfo directories, or LDAP attibutes in addition to the etc files.