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Web service’s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support enables secure encryption and authentication for ecommerce websites and confidential materials. An
Mac OS X Server offers extensive support for dynamic websites:
•Web service supports Java Servlets, JavaServer Pages, MySQL, PHP, Perl, and UNIX and Mac CGI scripts.
•Mac OS X Server includes a JBoss server and
The web technologies administration guide provides information about configuring and managing web service.
Mail Service
Mac OS X Server provides an
Outgoing mail (SMTP) has these features:
•The SMTP mail transfer agent is based on Postfix. For complete information about this
•Authentication using the following methods is available: PLAIN, LOGIN,
Incoming mail (POP and IMAP) highlights include these:
•The mail access agent is a Cyrus POP and IMAP server. See asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/ for information about this agent.
•Authentication supported for IMAP is clear text, PLAIN, LOGIN,
•The mail database is extremely fast.
•Vacation rules and quotas for individual users are available.
•Mailman is used to create and maintain mailing lists.
Mac OS X Server also supports SquirrelMail for
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.
Chapter 2 Inside Mac OS X Server
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