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Apple's Mac OS X 10.4: Page 3 of 4

Virus-infected e-mail can be bounced, deleted or sent to a single quarantine e-mail address. I used the Eicar standard virus test to verify that virus filtering was working. All four Eicar tests, including looking at zip files, proved that the Tiger 10.4 was doing its job. Mailman, an open-source mailing list package, was easily configurable. I dragged and dropped users and groups into lists.

Tiger 10.4 comes with a jabber IM server called iChat service, but configuration options are limited to changing a welcome message and setting an SSL certificate. I used iChat on my PowerBook to connect to my Tiger 10.4 Server, then contacted other Tiger 10.4 users to get permission to add them to my contact list. There was one glitch: Although I could see how many users were logging in on the Tiger 10.4 server, there isn't a list of users to see exactly who's logged in.

Converging Media

QuickTime streaming server has received a massive interface upgrade as well, including improvements to its Web configuration interface. From the QTSS Publisher, I could drag and drop media files into streaming playlists, which could then be grouped to create Web pages.

It was easy to create and maintain a blog on the system, though the features are limited. You can't embed files or graphics directly into a blog posting, but you can hyperlink and use the HTML tag img src=. A feature that lets you create categories and subcategories in blog posts is a welcome addition.