Finally! One of the banes of running Mac OS X Server has been that there is no easy way for users to manage their own vacation messages, which creates a support request every time someone takes a day off. Until now. Mac OS X Server 10.6, “Snow Leopard Server”, includes a web-based interface for users to manage their own vacation messages.

The new feature is implemented via the wiki/blog server. Wiki Server 2 has many new features. One of them is a user-customized home page called “My Page” that displays updated wiki content that the user has access to. My Page is also where the user can enable, schedule, and edit their vacation messages.

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The documentation for setting up sieve on Mac OS X server is sparse, at best:

To enable Sieve support:
1. Add the following entry in /etc/services/:
sieve 2000/tcp #Sieve mail filtering
2. Reload the mail service.

Right. This will enable the service, but it doesn’t configure it. This short article describes how to do both.

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