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au - 0.06

Rendezvous email & DNS cache

All Time: (4.0)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 0.06
Release Date: 2003-05-06
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 1,810
Downloads (all versions): 2,807
Price: Donations

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Product Description:

au is a packaging of SMALL BEAUTIFUL tools that allow you to be more autonomous on a network. This version includes a number of Daniel J. Bernstein's utilities including djbdns, qmail, and daemontools. The effect of this combination provides you with a DNS cache and Rendezvous-based email.

THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE and has only been tested on 10.2.5 clients (not server) without a local SMTP server.

Feedback is crucial and will determine how far this package goes. You can contact me by picking any name and appending "@gu.st". You can get more information before you download and install by visiting: http://au.gu.st.

What's new in this version:

  • hides root folders from finder (thx: Kristofer Widholm)
  • DMG downloads correctly in all browsers

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.2.5 or higher

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au CommentaryNicely packaged... - Version: 0.05, 5/5/2003 10:31AM PST

qetipadgu
au works well, and I only had a few issues. The uninstall application doesn't work. I had to remove things by hand. It seemed to break sendmail until I removed everything by hand. It doesn't really do what I want (hence no rating), which would be a combination of rendezvous and internet email, but with sorting to the appropriate accounts. (all au mail apparently goes to your user account, and not to the account specified, even if the accounts doesn't exist). Preferences for something like that would be nice. I'm sure there are a lot of people who would rather use qmail or something other than sendmail, but haven't had much luck comiling/configuring it by hand. This application seems to be in the right position for doing something like that. Although that isn't the purpose for this application, it would be nice :-P
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au ReviewOnly (and best) DJB tools installer for OS X - Version: 0.04, 5/3/2003 01:25AM PST

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Juicy
If you've been dying to use qmail and/or djbdns on OS X this is a great start. The qmail and dnscache installation is quick and painless. (A DNS cache, by the way, speeds your internet requests by making the DNS query portion of any request lightning fast.) While Au isn't a DJB tool installer at heart (and I haven't made use of the Rendezvous side of it), it's been the best way I know to get started using those tools on OS X. And while dnscache is the only app from the djbdns suite installed and configured by Au, tinydns and several critical helper apps are also installed. A trip to http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html will help die-hards figure out how to configure a complete industrial-strength DNS server with the tools Au installs. Thanks Jak, for such a great tool!
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au CommentaryWhat does a DNS cache do? - Version: 0.04, 5/2/2003 06:38PM PST

Luhmann
What does a DNS cache do?
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