ACGI Dispatcher

Current Version: 2.5 (September 20, 2005)

On Mac OS versions 9 and earlier, once could write applications that ran as "ACGI programs" in AppleScript or other languages that could handle Apple Events. Under OS X, Apache doesn't know how to send Apple Events, so you're out of luck. Apple includes an "ACGI Enabler" program with OS X Server, but chose not to include that with the standard edition. ACGI Dispatcher allows you to use traditional AppleScripts - or other programs that ran as ACGI programs under OS 9 - on OS X with Apache. Version 2.5 adds/changes the following:

• The Handle CGI event now contains all the parameters that are defined by the standard scripting addition. This means that many scripts that failed to work in the previous version due to missing parameters should work now.
• Now supports OS X Server, Apache 2, or other customized web server installs.
• The installation no longer adds information to the apache config file, so there is no danger of the settings getting overwritten when using Apple's own OS X Server Apache configuration tools.

AmphetaDesk

Open source; $0

Current Version: 0.93.1 (October 31, 2002)

AmphetaDesk is a remarkable program. In short, AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator - it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy to use (and customizable) web page. AmphetaDesk actually functions as a simple web server (written in Perl but not requiring a separate download of the MacPerl package) that contacts and collects news from selected XML-based (RSS) news sites to be combined and served in a simple web page format that is served to your web browser (or to other people's browsers, should you care to broadcast the address of your server) by your very own computer.

All this is not as complicated as it sounds; using it is a download-and-double-click affair, and customization and selection of content is done through your web browser. Because it's written in Perl, however, AmphetaDesk runs more slowly than you might like, and it may have a speed impact on other running applications. That said, it's an awful lot of fun, and since it's absolutely free and the source code is available, it's worth a look by any geek who can't get enough news - yours truly included.

Version 0.93.1 makes a whole slew of changes, all of which are fully detailed on the AmphetaDesk CHANGELOG page.

BlueDragon

Commercial; See text

Current Version: 7.0.1.352 (November 30, 2007)

New Atlanta Communications, LLC produces BlueDragon, a low-cost ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) application server that is widely used and admired. BlueDragon is available for Mac OS X in two editions: Server and Server JX.

The BlueDragon Server family of Java-based servers (Server and Server JX) enables the stand-alone deployment of CFML. Both BlueDragon Server versions contain a built-in web server for development and testing, and each integrates with Microsoft IIS, Sun ONE/Netscape/iPlanet (JX only), and Apache web servers for deployment.

Those looking to replace CFML with ASP or PHP due to budgetary reasons might consider sticking with CFML instead, deploying the base version of BlueDragon Server on Windows, Mac OS X or Linux platforms for free. BlueDragon Server includes support for CFCs, XML, Web Services, and Java and C++ CFX tags.

BlueDragon Server JX adds additional functionality to BlueDragon Server, including precompiled/encrypted CFML templates, J2EE session management, enterprise database drivers, support for SSL, support for additional OS/web server combinations - plus the ability to deploy hybrid CFML/JSP web applications (including shared access to data within J2EE sessions, ability to perform includes between CFML and JSP pages, calling Java objects from CFML, and more).

BlueDragon Server is free and BlueDragon Server JX is $899. See the BlueDragon Feature Comparison matrix for more information on the differences between BlueDragon Server and BlueDragon Server JX.

Version 7.0.1.352 adds/changes the following:

• Fixed #2691: Internal Server Error when connection attribute is excluded from a cfftp tag
• Fixed #2962: comparing strings containing only days of the week always returns true
• BlueDragon 7.0.1 final release

ColdFusion

Commercial; $1,299

Current Version: 8.0.1 (April 7, 2008)

Adobe (formerly Macromedia, Inc.) produces the ColdFusion web content server, written in Java for Mac OS X.

Version 8 includes a variety of fixes and enhancements that are best described in the online release notes. Highlights include:

• Added 64-bit support to nearly every platform.
• Improved functionality in several areas including AJAX functions, CFPDF, and CFIMAGE.
• Updated several software libraries including Yahoo YUI, EXT JS, Spry, and the FCKEditor.
• These updates continue to improve upon the existing high quality in the ColdFusion implementation, and possibly more important, enable support for the Safari browser.
• Added some core language improvements, including nesting of structure and array creation and have made AttributeCollections significantly more powerful, allowing developers to create structures of information that can be re-used from one tag to another.

CommuniGate Pro

Commercial; See text.

Current Version: 5.2.6 (July 29, 2008)

Stalker Software makes the incredibly powerful and robust CommuniGate Pro Internet messaging server, which covers the gamut from faxing to POP mail.

Single server and cluster licenses are available, with prices ranging from $849 and up.

Version 5.2.6 adds/changes the following:

• Media Plugin: Firefox on Windows, Safari/Firefox on MacOS X are supported now.
• Pronto: the Pronto version 2.2 is included.
• MAPI: the MAPI Connector version 1.52.5.2 is included.
• Admin: "Pronto-xxxx", "Admin-xxxx" Skins are implemented.
• Admin: the HiddenSkins Account setting is implemented.
• Kernel: the WebPronto directory retired, its files are moved to WebSkins directories.
• IMAP: now the "CHILDREN" LIST extension is automatically enabled.
• XIMSS: the readStrings, skinFileList, skinFileRead operations now have the skinName parameter; the skinList command is added.
• MEDIA: automatically adjusted mixer delay is implemented.
• XIMSS: the fileDirList operation is implemented.
• Account: virtual "$DomainSkins" and "$CommonSkins" File Storage directories are implemented.
• WebUser: the Greek language has been added.
• QUEUERULES: the Accept Request "decline reason" message is customizable now.
• HTTP: Cache-Control headers added to "plain" files.
• Kernel: start parameters are recorded in the System Log now.
• CALLLEG: now session-expiration data is processed in mid-dialog responses, too.
• CG/PL: the message composer can include parts of exiting messages into a new one.
• FTP: the "CWD" operation now checks that the target directory exists.
• FTP: the Legacy-Style LIST option is implemented.
• Bug Fix: Foundation: 5.1c1: XML parser could incorrectly parse "CDATA" data.
• Bug Fix: CLUSTER: 5.2.5: the CheckAccountPassword command did not work.
• Bug Fix: AIRSYNC: 5.2.2: a failure to submit an iCalendar invitation could crash the server.
• Bug Fix: CG/PL: 5.2.5: Mailbox operations failed to "normalize" INBOX names.
• Bug Fix: IMAP: 5.2c4: under very heavy CPU load, an error in a "long" IMAP COPY operation could cause server crash.
• Bug Fix: DOMAINS: 5.2c1: settings read from Directory-based Domains could fail because of case-sensitivity.
• Bug Fix: WebAdmin: 5.2c3: updated WebAdmin preferences were not displayed immediately.
• Bug Fix: CLUSTER: 4.2: "cluster remote services" member sets were not properly re-initialized after a controller failover.

CrushFTP

Shareware; $30

Current Version: 4.8 (June 9, 2008)

CrushFTP is a cross-platform, Java-based file server that provides FTP, SFTP (SSH FTP), FTPS (FTP over SSL), HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, and WebDAV SSL services. The "Crush" in CrushFTP comes from its ability to compress transfers on the fly seamlessly.

CrushFTP provides an expandable feature set via plugin support. Currently, all CrushFTP plugins are free, and they include:

• AutoUnzip (decompresses .zip files when a user uploads them)
• MagicDirectory (make a directory, and a user can login)
• WebStatistics (OS X widget to monitor your server)
• CrushSQL (use SQL tables to load your users from)
• LaunchProcess (launch external actions on uploaded files)
• HomeDirectory (make a user, and their home folder and permissions are created automatically)
• CrushLDAP (use ActiveDirectory, or LDAP to load your users from)
• BlockContent (only allow files with specific extensions)

Version 4.8 adds/changes the following:

• Added ability to specify a folder that gets cleaned up after a while (auto archives, or purges old files)
• Added better file browser to CrushUploader
• Added scheduled email support to reports
• Added cut, copy, paste buttons to web interface
• Added support for emailing reports when they are run
• Added support for CrushSQL users to be able to request their password be emailed to them
• Added tag option to list the free space of the drive in the HTML comments, or FTP dir listings
• Sped up dir listings in SFTP
• Added miniUrlManager plugin. Allows external easy management of miniURLs.
• CrushUploader now handles the forms on multiple batches by cloning the existing form
• You can now modify the 404 error page that is returned if a user tries to download a file they don't have access to.
• SFTP now supports AES128 & AES256 for encryption. Faster and better cipher.
• Added support for FTP Implicit to the CrushFTP proxy abilities.
• Added log rolling based on day
• Added last 1 day option for running reports
• Multiple prefs.xml backups
• Fixed bug with adding invalid IP blocks all users in the ban list
• Fixed bug with CrushUploader when used behind Apache and ReverseProxy
• Fixed bug with large dir listings and SFTP
• Fixed bug with Windows and CrushImagePreview images being on multiple drives
• Fixed bug with email events and SFTP uploads only having the last file in the email.
• Fixed an issue with CrushLDAP and homeDir locations being loaded from LDAP
• Fixed bug with CrushImagePreview being auto triggered to convert uploaded images
• Fixed bug with some FTP servers not handling standard FTP commands when using the FTP proxy
• Fixed issue for possible loss of stats.xml file
• Fixed issue with SFTP connections hanging around after a disconnect

DansGuardian

See text.

Current Version: 2.8.0 (July 27, 2004)

DansGuardian is an award winning web content filtering proxy for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris that uses Squid to do all the fetching. It filters using multiple methods. These methods include URL and domain filtering, content phrase filtering, PICS filtering, MIME filtering, file extension filtering, POST limiting. The content phrase filtering will check for pages that contain profanities and phrases often associated with pornography and other undesirable content. The POST filtering allows you to block or limit web upload. The URL and domain filtering is able to handle huge lists and is significantly faster than squidGuard. The filtering has configurable domain, user and source ip exception lists. SSL Tunneling is supported. The configurable logging produces a log in an easy to read format which has the option to only log the text-based pages, thus significantly reducing redundant information such as every image on a page. Pretty much all parts of DansGuardian are configurable thus giving the end administrator user total control over what is filtered and not some third-party company.

DansGuardian 2 is:

• free for non-commercial use
• not free for installation by 3rd parties charging for installation or support
• not free for commercial use
• licensed under the GPL

DigiChat

Commercial; varies

Current Version: 5.1 (March 3, 2005)

Digi-Net Technologies, Inc. produces DigiChat, a Java-based client and server chat system for Web content providers. DigiChat and its sister product - DigiChat AV - feature a number of features that are summarized on the DigiChat Feature Set page.

DNEWS

Commercial; $95-485

Current Version: 5.7e1 (May 7, 2004)

NetWin, Ltd. produces DNEWS, one of the few NNTP news server systems available for the Mac, although it does not see much updating these days, as NetWin appears to be pushing its heir apparent, SurgeNews, which isn't yet available for Mac OS X.

DNS Enabler

Shareware; $15

Current Version: 2.1.1 (July 10, 2007) / 3.0.4 (August 4, 2008)

DNS Enabler is an inexpensive shareware application that takes the work out of configuring BIND, the DNS server built into Mac OS X. According to the authors, DNS Enabler "tries to be as buzzword-compliant as possible - it handles multiple virtual domains, multiple subnets, aliases, MX records (including specifying back-up servers on other networks), and creating the right number of reverse pointer and CNAME records - while doing it all using a single window, the Mac way."

Version 2.1.1 - the latest release for Mac OS X 10.3 & 10.4 - adds/changes the following:

• Fixed a bug which occurred when there is a domain, e.g. called ABC.com, and another, say, xyzABC.com which contains the same letters as the first domain. DNS Enabler got confused when it had to process both these domains in the same list. This has been sorted out and DNS Enabler is smarter now about these things.

Version 3.0.4 - the latest release for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) - adds/changes the following:

• Fixed the config file to work with Apple's latest BIND 9.4.2-P1 update. Eliminates the "using specific query-source port suppresses port randomization and can be insecure" warning.

DNS Expert

Commercial; see site.

Current Version: 5.1.3 (December 1, 2005)

Men & Mice produces DNS and IP management software that enables users, through a graphical interface, to simultaenously manage standard DNS and DHCP servers on different platforms, as well as keep track of IP addresses. DNS Expert - a DNS analysis and monitoring product - is a module of Men & Mice's Men & Mice Suite that may be purchased separately and deployed independently from the rest of the suite. It performs over 80 different tests on DNS configurations and reports on issues that might affect the health of your DNS.

DNS Helper

Freeware

Current Version: 1.6 (November 7, 2003)

DNS Helper is a free application that takes the work out of configuring BIND, the DNS server built into Mac OS X. DNS Helper allows you to:

• Create zone, domain, db.cache, and named.conf files for your BIND server without the need to understand the formatting of those files.
• Set the needed permissions and ownership on the files after they are created.
• Install the files for you into the active system.
• Have total control over the DNS Server with the ability to start, stop, and reload BIND.
• Set the DNS Server to start at boot time.
• Read and save the system.log, filtering out the non-DNS Server related entries if desired.

Currently, DNS Helper does not do the following:

• Edit or maintain existing files.

With the 1.5 release, DNS Helper became a full replacement for Mac OS X Server's Server Settings DNS module. Actually, it can do quite a bit more than the Apple software can as of Spring, 2003.

Elektron

Commercial; $750

Current Version: 2.0.1725 (June 18, 2007)

Periodik Labs (formerly Corriente Networks LLC) produces Elektron, which is a software-based server that provides RADIUS/802.1X authentication services for Wi-Fi networks.

Version 2.0 adds/changes the following:

• Authentication Domains - Authentication domains allow you to map users to different authentication sources based on the user's domain. For instance, "user@foo.com" can be authenticated against your Active Directory, while "user@bar.com" can be authenticated against a remote LDAP server. Even if you have only a single domain, this feature gives you the ability to add support for guest accounts: configure "company.com" to authenticate against your company's user directory, while "guest.company.com" is configured to use Elektron's built-in user database for easy temporary account creation.
• FIPS 140-2 Validated Cryptographic Module - Elektron version 2 uses a cryptographic module that has been tested and validated under the NIST Cryptographic Module Validation Program as meeting requirements for FIPS PUB 140-2, enabling its use in certain government and financial industry applications.
• MAC Address Authentication Simultaneous use of MAC address and standard user account authentication is supported in Elektron version 2, and is fully configurable on a per-access point basis.
• Full Windows Vista Support - Elektron's Windows Vista feature set has been updated to include full support for installation on Vista (including UAC support) and to authenticate Windows Vista clients when installed on any supported platform.
• SNMP - Elektron can be configured to to respond to SNMP management information requests in accordance with the standardized RADIUS MIBs, and to issue SNMP traps is response to a user-configurable set of server events.
• Authorization Policies - Policy support has been enhanced in Elektron version 2, with new support for triggering actions based on string pattern matching of the username, account groups, access points, and MAC addresses. Support for external scripts includes the ability to trigger policies based on the script result, and to have an external script act upon the result of the policy. Also included is greatly simplified configuration of VLAN assignment, one of the most common uses of authorization policies.
• EAP-FAST - Support for Cisco's EAP Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling protocol makes its debut in Elektron version 2.
• Least Privilege - Elektron version 2 honors the "principle of least privilege," in which the server performs its normal functions at the lowest possible level of security privilege, closing potential avenues of attacks on your server.

Eudora Internet Mail Server

Commercial; $400

Current Version: Server: 3.3.7 (February 25, 2008) / Admin: 3.3.7 (July 21, 2008)

Formerly known as Apple Internet Mail Server (AIMS), Qualcomm once bought and renamed this freeware SMTP server program that can be used on its own or in tandem with Eudora. As of December, 2001, however, original author Glenn Anderson licensed the product back to himself for future development, while keeping the Eudora badge.

EIMS - as it is commonly known - is very easy to set up, and quite reliable. Version 3.2.10 makes several fixes that are described in detail in the online release notes.

EIMS involves two pieces of software: the actual server itself, and the EIMS Admin administrative console application.

Version 3.3.7 of the server adds/changes the following:

• Worked around bug in accept() on OS X that resulted in port scans from 255.255.255.255 being reported
• Fixed AppleScript dictionary not being available on OS X in EIMS 3.3.4 to 3.3.6
• Fixed reporting of local message delivery errors showing the Return-Path header rather than the recipient address

Version 3.3.7 of the administrative console adds/changes the following:

• Fixed Command-Q not working in login window on OS X
• Fixed popup menu sizes on Leopard
• Fixed Account Enabled checkbox not being disabled for postmaster accounts
• Mouse wheel/trackpad scrolling now works in windows that aren't the front window
• Better reporting of lookup errors
• Fixed crash when default domain was longer than 53 characters

An upgrade from version 3.2.x costs $60; a full version costs $400. EIMS Light is also available for $200; it supports all of the features of the full version of EIMS, except it only supports one domain (with domain aliases), has no IMAP server, no directory server (LDAP and Ph), no AppleEvent/AppleScript support, and no Incoming Mail folder.

Qualcomm sales and technical support are not supporting EIMS 3. Qualcomm will, however, continue to support EIMS 2.x and 3.0.x; see http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/eims/ for more information.

EvoCam

Shareware; $25

Current Version: 3.6.2 (March 13, 2008)

EvoCam (formerly CoolCam) is a webcam server application for Power Macintosh, PowerBook, iMac and iBook computers running Mac OS X 10.4 (or higher). EvoCam provides true WYSIWYG editing of text captions, picture badges, clocks and blur items, all floating on top of live video from your camera. Mac OS X users: Currently, Mac OS X supports only FireWire DV cameras. Please contact the manufacturer of your camera to ask about support for Mac OS X.

Version 3.6.2 adds/changes the following:

• Added support for Airlink AIC250W
• Added support for Hawking HNC210
• Added support for AvioSys 9060A
• Added support for IQinVision IQeye
• Added support for LevelOne FCS-1020
• Added support for Linksys WVC200
• Added support for OvisLink WL-5400CAM
• Added support for Swann Max-IP-CAM
• Added support for TRENDnet TV-IP312W
• Added support for pan/tilt when using Canon network cameras
• Added support for RTSP streaming when using generic network cameras
• Added support for RTSP streaming when using D-Link MPEG-4 network cameras
• Added support for RTSP streaming when using TRENDnet MPEG-4 network cameras
• Added textual message body to emails to prevent filtering by some ISPs
• Fixed problem where EvoCam would occasionally crash when performing network operations
• Fixed problem where EvoCam would occasionally crash when opening, closing or hiding windows
• Fixed problem where movies would not be closed correctly when quitting EvoCam during recording
• Fixed problem where audio sensor would not trigger recording reliably
• Fixed problem where video from D-Link cameras would be pixelated
• Fixed problem where movie recording folder could not be accessed from AppleScript
• Fixed problem where caption items could not be accessed from AppleScript on Mac OS X 10.5
• Removed extraneous console output when sending emails

EvoCam is shareware. Site licenses are $250 and world-wide site licenses are $500.

eXodus

Commercial; $270

Current Version: 9.0 (June, 2003)

Powerlan USA, Inc. produces the eXodus series of X servers for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X. Features include:

• Security through TunnelMate Secure Shell Security Client
• Connect to both remote and local X clients
• Enhanced rootless screen support for X Desktop environments
• Traditional rooted screen support
• Fully X11R6.4 compliant
• Hardware accelerated OpenGL
• Increased XDM Security
• Xauth user access control
• Compressed pcf font support
• Rootless (Mac OS X Aqua, Classic Mac OS, & Motif) Window Styles
• Euro support

FirstClass

Commercial; varies

Current Version: Client: 9.207 (July 24, 2008) / Server: 9.1 Build 612 (July 24, 2008)

Centrinity produces the FirstClass email and workgroup communication/collaboration system. Server software includes FirstClass Business Edition and FirstClass Education Edition.

FirstClass 9.1 Service Pack 1 (Client 9.207 / Server 9.1 Build 612) makes a number of changes that are fully detailed in the online release notes.

FirstClass Client requires Mac OS X 10.2.8, 10.3.4 - 10.3.9, or 10.4.x at a minimum; FirstClass Server requires Mac OS X 10.4.x or later.

You can find the latest version on FirstClass Online in the Conferences/Downloads/FirstClass Product Updates section of your software. Ensure that you review the Upgrade Instructions located there, and have your FirstClass upgrade license before proceeding with an upgrade. You should find the upgrade license in your FirstClass Online account mailbox or can complete an online request form for it.

See the online support page for more information.

iForm

Commercial; $45

Current Version: 2.4.8 (February 25, 2008)

Limit Point Software produces iForm, a specialized form-generating and form-processing server that simplifies implementation of web-based forms, with no separate web server or CGI processor required.

Version 2.4.8 makes the following changes:

• System requirements have been relaxed: this version now works on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above.

The software requires a demo registration code in order to take it for a test drive.

Interaction

Current Version: 4.1 / 4.5 (December 22, 2004) / 5.0.2 (May 25, 2005)

Interaction is an application that adds threaded discussion forums, chat rooms, and a shopping cart system to any WebStar, MacHTTP, Web Server 4D, WebTen, Quid Pro Quo, NetPresenz, Zeus, or Mac OS Web Sharing server. Versions 4.0 and higher can generate WAP documents and other XML based formats using XSL, making the pages available both for web browsers and PDAs. It can extract and include data from other sites (included web enabled databases) using the revised Resource entity type, with form data optionally forwarded from the original request based on configuration in a dialog on the Mac. Interaction 4.5 is "Carbonized" and runs on Mac OS X Classic (but not natively on Mac OS X), in addition to Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x with CarbonLib 1.4 or higher. Version 5.0 is the first "native" Mac OS X version, and version 5.0.2 is presumably a bugfix release. Changes are somewhat detailed in the online release notes.

iTools

Commercial; $349

Current Version: 9.0 (January 9, 2008)

Tenon Intersystems produces iTools for Mac OS X, which provides many of the graphical services offered by NetTen for use with Mac OS X's implementation of the Apache Web server (version 7 supports Apache 2). In addition to extensions and enhancements to the Mac OS X Apache web server, iTools provides a WEBmail server, a domain name server, a multihoming FTP server, an SSL encryption engine to support eCommerce, a caching engine with proxy support, and a Sherlock-savvy search engine.

Version 9.0 adds/changes the following:

• Apache 2.2.6
• In addition to including the newest Apache, iTools 9 now includes many improvements and bug fixes to both DNS and FTP.
• iTools 9's enhanced FTP support has a built-in File Manager that lets you assign clients to unique groups and let all members of a particular group share in the uploading, deleting and renaming of content files.

JRun

Commercial; $899

Current Version: Version 4 Updater 7 (November 26, 2007)

Adobe (formerly Macromedia, Inc.) produces the JRun Java application server, written in Java for Mac OS X. New features include drag-and-drop deploy, XDoclet integration, and optimized Macromedia Flash Player connectivity.

Version 4 Updater 7 fixes many bugs and includes the following enhancements:

• Sun JDK Support - JRun 4 Updater 7 supports JDK 1.6.0_01 and JDK 1.6.0_02.
• Updated JDBC drivers - JRun 4 Updater 7 kit includes version 3.6 build 0017 of the JRun JDBC drivers.
• Windows Support - JRun 4 Updater 7 supports Windows Vista.
• Mac OS X on Intel support - JRun4 Updater 7 supports Mac OS X 10.4 on Intel.
• 64-bit Support - JRun4 Updater 7 provides 64-bit support on Solaris-SPARC. Other 64-bit operating systems including Windows 64-bit and Solaris-x86 64-bit are not supported.
• IIS Support - JRun4 Updater 7 supports IIS7.
• Apache support - JRun4 Updater 7 supports Apache versions 2.2.x.
• SunOne Webserver Support - JRun4 Updater 7 supports SunOne Webserver 7.
• IBM JDK 1.5 Support: JRun 4 Updater 7 supports IBM JDK 1.5
• Performance gains in Web Clustering - Significant gains have been achieved in Web Cluster performance by fine tuning two specific areas - RMI calls and Data replication. A session replication now makes a single RMI call as against four to five earlier. Data replication has been optimized to backup data only on need basis instead of replicating on all calls. It has been further tuned to send only changes to the backup node instead of replicating the entire session object.

The online release notes have further information, including a complete list of bugfixes.

Kerio MailServer

Commercial; See text.

Current Version: 6.5.2 (July 15, 2008)

Kerio Technologies Inc. produces Kerio MailServer, an email server designed primarily for small to medium-sized organizations. Its critical components includes integrated ActiveSync support, McAfee anti-virus with dual anti-virus options using built-in third party plugins, multiple anti-spam technologies, cross-platform groupware functionality in Outlook, Entourage, Treos, Windows Mobile Devices and Kerio WebMail. Groupware features include shared and public email, calendars, contacts, notes and tasks. Users can be defined internally or managed through Microsoft Active Directory or Apple Open Directory. A migration tool for Microsoft Exchange is also inlcuded to migrate users and folders to Kerio MailServer. Kerio MailServer runs on Windows, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, and Mac OS X.

Pricing varies, depending upon the desired number of users.

Version 6.5.2 makes a number of improvements, including the following:

• Added support for e-mail, calendar and contacts over-the-air synchronization with Apple iPhone 3G and 2.0.
• Added support for e-mail push and remote device wipe feature for Apple iPhone 3G and 2.0.
• Added support for AVG 8 antivirus.
• Enhanced McAfee antivirus plug-in's detection of potential threats in Microsoft Word documents.
• Improved compatibility with Apple iPhone IMAP client.
• Some e-mails from Outlook Express on Windows XP SP3 could get higher spam score.
• Fixed handling of certain SPF records.
• Shared calendars in Entourage were not properly refreshed in some cases.
• Fixed a very rare crash upon server shutdown.

The release makes many other changes to the Administration Console various modules (Administration Console, WebMail, Web Administration, Synchronization Plug-in, Outlook Connector, etc.) that are more fully detailed in the complete release notes.

LetterRip Pro

Commercial; $395

Current Version: 4.07 (May 23, 2006)

LetterRip Software, LLC produces the LetterRip Pro mailing list server, which enables you to set up email discussion groups, send email announcements to large groups of people, and manage moderated discussions.

Version 4.07 adds/changes the following:

• Fixed problems handling internal bounces and the proper expiration of queue items.

LISTSERV

Commercial; see text.

Current Version: 15.5 (November 28, 2007)

L-Soft International, Inc. produces the LISTSERV line of email list management software for Mac OS X Version 10.4.2 and later. LISTSERV Classic is L-Soft's full-featured email list management software, featuring a high level of flexibility, scalability and performance. LISTSERV Lite is L-Soft's entry-level email list management software, primarily designed for customers with small workloads who do not require the more advanced features of the "Classic" product.

Evaluation copies are limited only in capacity, and are governed by an expiration date. An installation guide is available that explains the installation process.

LISTSERV is available in a variety of sizes and options; LISTSERV Classic runs between $500 and $9,400, whereas LISTSERV Lite runs between $450 - $2,800. See the LISTSERV license page for more information.

Version 15.5 makes a number of usability and other improvements that are fully detailed in the downloadable release notes.

LiteSpeed Web Server

Varies; see text.

Current Version: 3.3.16 (August 19, 2008)

From the LiteSpeed Web Server home page: "LiteSpeed Web Server is a high performance, secure and easy-to-use web server that can handle thousands of concurrent connections with a small memory footprint. It is less vulnerable when facing various attacks."

Features include:

• HTTP/1.1
  • Backward compatible with HTTP/1.0
  • Chunked Transfer Encoding
  • Basic Authentication (htpasswd and LDAP backend)
  • Entity Tag
  • Range/Multi-range Request
  • Static and dynamic content compression(gzip)
• IPv6 support
• API Connectivity
  • CGI/1.1
  • FastCGI
  • LSAPI (LiteSpeed SAPI)
  • AJP 1.3
  • Transparent Reverse Proxy (interface to back-end web server, application server)
• Dynamic Language Support
  • PHP (CGI,FastCGI,LSAPI), compatible with 3rd party PHP Accelerators.
  • JSP/Servlet (AJP)
  • Perl (CGI, FastCGI)
  • Ruby/Roby on Rails (CGI, FastCGI, LSAPI)
  • Python (CGI, FastCGI)
  • C/C++ (CGI, FastCGI, LSAPI)
• URL Rewriting
  • URL Rewriting is fully compatible with Apache's rewrite configuration
• .Htaccess Support
  • Apache compatible distributed per-directory Access Control and Authentication configuration.
• Request filtering
  • Perform deep inspection of request header and body, using Apache mod_security compatible configuration directives.
• MS Frontpage server extension 2002
  • Supports content publishing with MS Frontpage client.
• Virtual Hosting
  • Supports IP based and name based virtual hosting
• Security
  • LiteSpeed web server is desgined to be a secure web server. With chroot jail, IP level bandwidth throttling, connection accounting, strict HTTP request checking, and URL context filtering, DoS effects are minimized and the application backend is properly fenced away from the HTTP request layer reducing vulnerability.
  • High performance Secure HTTP (HTTPS): supports SSLv2, SSLv3 and TLSv1
  • Access Control at server, virtual host and directory (context) level
  • File system protection
  • HTTP Authentication
  • IP level throttling (Bandwidth and Request Rate)
  • Comprehensive IP level connection accounting
  • Hotlink protection
  • Strict HTTP request checking
  • Comprehensive protection for static files
  • External application firewall for dynamic content
  • CGI resources consumption limit
  • CGI suEXEC excution and chroot
  • Chroot whole server process[Enterprise Edition only]
• Reliability
  • Zero downtime maintanance (include reconfiguration, software upgrade)
  • Watch dog and Instant recovery maximizes up-time
  • Graceful shutdown, all requests in process will be completed.
  • Runs completely in the user space, OS reliability is not affected
  • CGI, Fast CGI and servlet engine run in standalone processes,the reliability of the web server is not affected by third party software.

The program is available in two editions:

• Standard Edition is free for both private and commercial use.
• Enterprise Edition is a commercial product line with enhanced features, security, and tuned for the best performance/scalability. Pricing varies from $499-$1299, with leasing options available.

Version 3.3.16 adds/changes the following:

• New feature: added support for "Header" directive.
• New feature: added timestamp for std error log entries.
• ignore signal SIGXFSZ to avoid core dump when log file reaches 2GB.
• Update PHP to 4.4.9.
• Improved AWStats log file handling.
• Fixed a bug in handling IP configuration when server has over 100 IP addresses assigned.

Macjordomo

Freeware

Current Version: 1.0.14 / 1.6a3 (December 15, 2005)

Macjordomo is a powerful, easy-to-use freeware listserver. Version 1.6a3 - the latest version for Mac OS X - makes the following changes:

• Added option to just ignore messages from non-subscribers (rather than send a notice)

Please visit the Macjordomo home page before downloading the program for the first time.

Mailtron Gateway

See text

Current Version: 1.3.2 / 3.0 (March 20, 2006)

Mailtron Gateway is a POP (and for Mac OS X, a POP/IMAP) email gateway from Studiotron Software that allows multiple people at a single domain to share a single email account. The license key that is required after the initial 30-day usage period is free for "Classic" Mac OS. Version 3.x (for Mac OS X only), however, comes as a fully-functional demo that runs for 30 days (except that he fetchmail daemon will not automatically run after a system restart) and can be registered for $69. The Mac OS X version features "industrial strength" mail forwarding using fetchmail, and automatic protocol detection, including IMAP.

Version 3.0 - the latest release for Mac OS X - adds/addresses the following:

• Fixed compatability with Mac OS X Tiger folder privileges.
• Integrated Kagi registration keys.

Manila

Commercial; $1,099

Current Version: 9.6 (October 9, 2006)

UserLand Software - founded by legendary Mac programmer Dave Winer - produces a number of web application server products that work not only on the Macintosh, but on Windows as well. Manila (formerly Frontier) is a comprehensive web scripting / content management system/ weblog publishing system that makes it simple for anyone to create and use web content, collaborate on projects, manage online discussion groups, podcast and share documents.

Downloads are available as free 30-day trials. Frontier includes an integrated HTTP server but works with third-party server software as well.

Manila 9.6 includes a large number of improvements and bug fixes that are fully detailed in the online release notes.

Men & Mice Suite

Commercial; see site.

Current Version: 5.1.3 (December 1, 2005)

Men & Mice produces DNS and IP management software that enables users, through a graphical interface, to simultaneously manage standard DNS and DHCP servers on different platforms, as well as keep track of IP addresses. The Men & Mice Suite comes in both an enterprise version and a small business version (the latter which was formerly called "QuickDNS"). The Suite is comprised of three components: a client, called "Men & Mice Management Console"; a data storage and web server, called "Men & Mice Central"; and DNS gateway software, called "Men & Mice Server Controller".

One component of the suite - the DNS Expert (a DNS analysis and monitoring product) - may be purchased separately and deployed independently from the rest of the suite.

MP3 Sushi

Open source; optional fee

Current Version: 1.4.1 (March 27, 2003) / 1.5 (January 4, 2004)

MP3 Sushi is a set of two applications: MP3 Sushi Server and MP3 Buddies. MP3 Sushi Server allows you to turn your Mac into a jukebox or a radio broadcast station in a few clicks, allowing you to share and stream your music among a local network or the Internet. Thanks to the Rendezvous technology (aka ZeroConf), MP3 Buddies makes it easy to find every jukebox and radio server on your local network. Once MP3 Buddies is launched on a user computer, a list of servers is displayed and in just one click the user can browse the jukebox songs in his favorite navigator or listen to the radio in iTunes.

Version 1.5 adds/changes the following:

• [FIX] Added support for Panther (Mac OS X 10.3): the Radio now works properly
• [MODIF] Updated the Jukebox component (gnump3d 2.6)
• [NEW] The songs can be searched via the Jukebox Web interface
• [NEW] New themes for the Jukebox Web interface
• [FIX] The "Check Version Update" feature works again
• [MODIF] Display the name of the server instead of its IP

Muffin

Current Version: 0.9.3a (April 4, 2000)

Muffin is an interesting beast. It's one of the few Java applications that I list on the Orchard (if I were to include every Java application that had useful Internet capability, I would never have time to maintain this site), and while its functionality is useful for users of all levels, installing and getting it up and running - while not difficult for experienced Mac users - is not for the faint of heart.

Basically, though, I include it here because it provides incredibly useful functionality that is not really provided by any other free Macintosh software.

Briefly, Muffin is a World Wide Web "filtering system" that acts as a proxy server to filter out content to your own specifications. It can be used to filter any or all of the following:

• animations
• cookies
• Java applets
• JavaScripts
• referer response information

 . . . and a whole lot more. Its core features include:

• Written entirely in Java. Requires JDK 1.1
• Runs on Unix, Windows 95/NT, and Macintosh.
• Freely available under the GNU General Public License.
• Support for HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and SSL (https).
• Graphical user interface and command-line interface.
• Remote admin interface using HTML forms.
• Includes several filters which can remove cookies, kill GIF animations, remove advertisements, add/remove/modify arbitrary HTML tags (like blink), remove Java applets and JavaScript, user-agent spoofing, rewrite URLs, and much more.
• View all HTTP headers to aid in CGI development and debugging.
• Users can write their own filters in Java using the provided filter interfaces.

Figuring out how to run Muffin on Classic Mac OS from the instructions on its Web site is needlessly intimidating. To save you the trouble, I've written a simplified set of instructions here:

To use Muffin, you'll need the following downloads (all free):

1. Mac OS Runtime for Java (otherwise known as "MRJ" and available on the Orchard's Helper apps page).
2. Apple's MRJ Software Development Kit.
3. The muffin.jar Java archive (control-click and save to disk if you have trouble with this link).

Once you have the two Apple MRJ products installed, you'll need to:

1. Place the muffin.jar file into the place where you want it to reside permanently.
2. Drag muffin.jar onto the JBindery application (located in the MRJ SDK folder under Tools | Application Builders | JBindery).
3. Enter "org.doit.muffin.Main" in the Class name: field, then click on the Classpath icon to make sure that the muffin.jar file is in the class path.
4. Finally, using the File menu select Save As... to give it a name and save it as an application. That's it!

By the way: you'll never have to do this again; now, you'll be able to double-click on the applet whenever you want to use Muffin (but you'll have to be online for it to run).

In order to use Muffin, you'll have to configure your Web browser's proxy settings (dig around your browser's preferences to find this) to point to Muffin so that it can intervene between you and the Web (which is exactly what a proxy server does). This is accomplished by setting your proxy server address to 127.0.0.1 (the magic "loopback" IP address that points to your own machine) and using port 51966.

Sit back, configure Muffin from its "Edit" menu, and you'll be ready to roll! It uses about 6-7 MB of RAM when running, and has excellent performance under MRJ 2.2.

For more information on Muffin, including documentation, visit the Muffin Web site.

NFS Manager

Shareware; €17.85

Current Version: 3.1 (March 29, 2008)

From the NFS Manager home page: "NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of Mac OS X. It can manage a whole network of Mac OS X computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks. The application is designed to use the latest technologies available in Mac OS X, like Open Directory, Bonjour, or Kerberos. If your network is setup as a Kerberos realm, secure NFS with authenticated and encrypted connections can be configured."

NFS Manager 3 is for Mac OS X Leopard or later only. Previous generations of Mac OS X use a very different implementation of NFS and therefore need a different management tool. Use NFS Manager 2 for legacy systems (Mac OS X 10.2.5 to 10.4.11).

Version 3.0 was redeveloped completely for Mac OS X 10.5 because Leopard uses a different NFS implementation. All aspects of the application have changed. Version 3.1 makes the following additional changes:

• Because Mac OS X 10.5.3 is fixing most of the problems of the Leopard NFS server implementation, some workarounds in the software could be deactivated.
• Input sheets receiving textual input have been optimized to complete all edit operations before the sheet is closed.
• A problem has been corrected where automount entries with numeric options might not have been re-read correctly by the application after those options had been set to non-default values.

Oculus

Current Version: 3.1

From Tom Dowdy, author of the shareware screen saver "DarkSide of the Mac" and friend Michael Kellner comes this QuickTime enhanced Macintosh WebCam. It allows an unlimited number of captions with custom formatting and transmission to a remote site or saved to a local file at an interval that you request. It is compatible with any QuickTime-capable video digitizer, and requires at least System 8.6 / QuickTime 4.0 to run; it is also available in Mac OS X native (Carbon) form. Version 3.1 adds/changes the following:

• JavaScript Image Updating
• Adjustable Spacing and Leading for text captions
• Skew and Rotate image captions
• Live Weather Conditions (with temperature)
• QuickTime Effects
• Analog Clock plugin
• Gauge plugin
• Motion trigger Mask
• End of Day Movie creation
• Schedule of Activity and inactive picture uploaded automatically
• Separate Schedule for Image and Movie creation
• Image Thumbnail creation
• Wildcard support on image and movie files
• Screen as Camera input
• Multiple Documents per Camera
• Cycle through multiple Cameras

Phantom

Commercial; see site.

Current Version: 2.2.5 (January 15, 2003) / 2.5 (August 24, 2003)

Aktiv Software Corporation produces the the Phantom web crawler/search robot formerly distributed by Maxum. Running on your web server, Phantom makes it possible for users to search your web site or other web sites. Phantom works like AltaVista (but on a smaller scale) so it can provide searching for remote web sites you specify using its built-in web crawler. Phantom supports indexing thousands of documents in a variety of formats including text, HTML and PDF. With its HTML form interface and web-based administration, Phantom makes it simple to implement basic searching but is also completely customizable for the more advanced Webmaster.

Post.Office

Commercial; $295

Current Version: 3.8.4 Rev. 115 (July 24, 2008)

For Mac OS X, Tenon has developed a direct port of the popular Post.Office mail server / list server, bundled with the SpamAssassin plugin. Post.Office is a SMTP/POP3/IMAP messaging server designed to meet the needs of small and mid-sized ISPs.

Version 3.8.4 Rev. 115 adds/changes the following:

• Enchanced SPAM filtering (Ability to disable filters; Ability to import and export filters; Updated SpamAssassin to version 3.2.4)
• Mac OS X Leopard compatible
• Unified Licensing

Privoxy

Open source; $0

Current Version: 3.0.10 (August 18, 2008)

From the Privoxy web site: "Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, modifying web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks." Privoxy is freeware, released under the GNU General Public License.

Version 3.0.10 - the first new release in over four (!) years - adds/changes the following:

• Added SOCKS5 support (with address resolution done by the SOCKS5 server). Patch provided by Eric M. Hopper.
• The "blocked" CGI pages include a block reason that was provided as argument to the last-applying block action.
• If enable-edit-actions is disabled (the default since 3.0.7 beta) the show-status page hides the edit buttons and explains why. Previously the user would get the "this feature has been disabled" message after using the edit button.
• Forbidden CONNECT requests are treated like blocks by default. The now-pointless treat-forbidden-connects-like-blocks action has been removed.
• Not enabling limit-connect now allows CONNECT requests to all ports. In previous versions it would only allow CONNECT requests to port 443. Use +limit-connect{443} if you think you need the old default behaviour.
• The CGI editor gets turned off after three edit requests with invalid file modification timestamps. This makes life harder for attackers who can leverage browser bugs to send fake Referers and intend to brute-force edit URLs.
• Action settings for multiple patterns in the same section are shared in memory. As a result these sections take up less space (and are loaded slightly faster). Problem reported by Franz Schwartau.
• Linear white space in HTTP headers will be normalized to single spaces before parsing the header's content, headers split across multiple lines get merged first.
• Host information is gathered outside the main thread so it's less likely to delay other incoming connections if the host is misconfigured.
• New config option "hostname" to use a hostname other than the one returned by the operating system. Useful to speed-up responses for CGI requests on misconfigured systems. Requested by Max Khon.
• The CGI editor supports the "disable all filters of this type" directives "-client-header-filter", "-server-header-filter", "-client-header-tagger" and "-server-header-tagger".
• Fixed false-positives with the link-by-url filter and URLs that contain the pattern "/jump/".
• The less-download-windows filter no longer messes "Content-Type: application/x-shockwave-flash" headers up.
• In the show-url-info page's "Final results" section active and inactive actions are listed separately. Patch provided by Lee.
• The GNUmakefile supports the DESTDIR variable. Patch for the install target submitted by Radoslaw Zielinski.
• Embedding the content of configuration files in the show-status page is significantly faster now. For a largish action file (1 MB) a speedup of about 2450 times has been measured. This is mostly interesting if you are using large action files or regularly use Privoxy-Regression-Test while running Privoxy through Valgrind, for stock configuration files it doesn't really matter.
• If zlib support is unavailable and there are content filters active but the prevent-compression action is disabled, the show-url-info page includes a warning that compression might prevent filtering.
• The show-url-info page provides an OpenSearch Description that allows to access the page through browser search plugins.
• The obsolete kill-popups action has been removed as the PCRS-based popup filters can do the same and are slightly less unreliable.
• The inspect-jpegs action has been removed.
• The send-wafer and send-vanilla-wafer actions have been removed. They weren't particular useful and their behaviour could be emulated with add-header anyway.
• Privoxy-Regression-Test has been significantly improved.
• Most sections in the default.action file contain tests for Privoxy-Regression-Test to verify that they are working as intended.
• Parts of Privoxy have been refactored to increase maintainability.
• Building with zlib (if available) is done by default.

The online release notes have more details.

PureFTPd Manager

Open source; $0

Current Version: 1.7 (December 20, 2007)

PureFTPd Manager is a simple Cocoa frontend to PureFTPd, "a free (BSD), secure, production-quality and standard-conformant FTP server based upon Troll-FTPd", for Mac OS X. PureFTPd Manager bundles pureftpd 1.0.18 for both Jaguar (10.2.x) and pureftpd 1.0.21 for Panther/Tiger (10.3.x, 10.4.x).

Version 1.7 adds/changes the following:

• Runs on Mac OS 10.2+ and has successfully been tested with Mac OS 10.5 (fresh install and update scenarios).

The online release notes have more details.

Please note that the download below includes separate versions for Mac OS X 10.2/10.3 and Mac OS X 10.4.

Radiator

Commercial; see text.

Current Version: 4.3.1 (July 30, 2008)

Open System Consultants Pty Ltd produces Radiator, one of two RADIUS implementations for the Mac that I'm aware of. Radiator is written in Perl and runs an just about any OS, including Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X.

Version 4.3.1 makes the following changes:

• Added new parameter PasswordServerAddress to AuthBy LDAP_APS, which forces Radiator to use the specified address as the address of the Apple Password server, instead of deducing it from the user's password details. Addresses may be one of the forms: 203.63.154.59, dns/yoke.open.com.au, ipv4/203.63.154.59 or ipv6/2001:720:1500:1::a100. This can be useful with replicated password servers.
• Reverted changes to PreClientHook introduced in 4.3. PreClientHook is now called before despatch to any Client clause. It will always be called even if there is no matching Client, but the attributes will not have been decrypted (as decrypting is done in the context of a particular Client). The new parameter ClientHook has been added to the Client clause, and is called immediately after the attributes have been decrypted by the Client.
• Fixed problems with trailing NULs not being stripped from User-Name.
• Fixed a problem with double logging of reply packeets from AuthBy RADSEC.

The software is available for online purchase for $840 - $7,140.

Radio UserLand

Commercial; $39.95

Current Version: 8.2 (September 6, 2005)

UserLand Software - founded by legendary Mac programmer Dave Winer - produces a number of web application server products that work not only on the Macintosh, but on Windows as well.