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Tue 22 Mar 2011

Why our server apps are not in The Mac App Store

Category : Technology/MacAppStore.txt

I've been asked, why are our apps like MailServe and DNS Enabler not in the Mac App Store?

There's this small matter of rule 2.27 in Apple's Mac App Store Review Guidelines:

It says, "Apps that request escalation to root privileges or use setuid attributes will be rejected". And that's that.

In order to configure the mail, web, or DNS server, my apps need to be granted superuser status by the user. There's no other way around it. Or is there? But I can't quite think how. At least for the moment.

Of course, there are the other apps that should probably be OK with the Apple Thought Police. Luca, Liya, etc. But one thing at a time. There's always so much to do and so little time.

Posted at 9:43AM UTC | permalink

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• VPN Enabler for Mavericks
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• DNS Agent for Mavericks
• WebMon for Mavericks
• Luca for Mavericks
• Liya for Mountain Lion & Mavericks
• Postfix Enabler for Tiger and Panther
• Sendmail Enabler for Jaguar

Services running on this server, a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks:

  • Apache 2 Web Server
  • Postfix Mail Server
  • Dovecot IMAP Server
  • Fetchmail
  • SpamBayes Spam Filter
  • Procmail
  • BIND DNS Server
  • DNS Agent
  • WebDAV Server
  • VPN Server
  • PHP-based weblog
  • MySQL database
  • PostgreSQL database

all set up using MailServe, WebMon, DNS Enabler, DNS Agent, VPN Enabler, Liya and our SQL installers, all on Mavericks.