Re: [SPAM] anti-OSX [was: qmail+vpopmail upgrade questions]

I don't disagree with any of your points :)
I use FreeBSD, I don't know why anyone would run Linux for any real  
server load - I'M JUST KIDDING! :))

Have you taken a look at Matt Simerson's toaster script?  It's  
targeted at FreeBSD, but I'm fairly confident the instructions are OSX  
friendly.  At least in the past they were.

http://www.tnpi.net/internet/mail/toaster/

Rick

Quoting Kurt Bigler <[email protected]>:


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> I would consider running QMT in a VM, but would rather avoid a VM.  I've
> never touched CentOS.  My "distro" of choice still would be Mac-native.  I
> suppose I would try building from sources and see what happens.  I really
> don't want my *entire* server in a VM (just qmail+vpopmail if really
> necessary) and also really don't want multiple IP's, and suspect sharing a
> single IP with host and mail VM would be problematic.  I already have native
> Apache, SQL, PHP, etc. and figure it is a good thing to leave it that way if
> I want to "try" Mac for whatever it may be worth.
>
> But if the whole idea doesn't work maybe I will just install some linux on
> my Mac mini.  But in that case I suppose I could put the whole thing in a
> linux VM under MacOSX and run SoftRAID in the Mac host.  It is just not
> stuff I'd thought through since I naively didn't expect Mac to be such a
> problem.  If it really is such a problem, then I guess the "why Mac"
> questions may be sensible.  It just surprises me.
>

>
> -Kurt
>
>
>
> On 8/2/12 8:13 PM, "Eric Shubert" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I wonder too, why OSX? The only thing I can think of is perhaps you have
>> an older MacMini laying around that you'd like to use. That's certainly
>> usable for something such as this, but I wouldn't recommend running a
>> server w/out some sort of raid (I prefer the SW variety).
>>
>> Disclaimer: I've recently taken charge of the QMail-Toaster.com project,
>> so I'm a bit biased. ;)
>>
>> If you're really bent on OSX, you could run a QMT mail server as a VM
>> under whichever virtualization platform you prefer. Migrating your
>> existing setup to QMT should be fairly easy, depending on your vpopmail
>> settings. QMT has a slew of qmail patches applied, and I'm presently
>> upgrading vpopmail to 5.4.33 (long awaited), which will bring all of the
>> QMT packages current with upstream releases. There is a large community
>> behind QMT, so you won't need to look far for helpful support.
>>
>> QMT is presently only available on CentOS/RHEL, so that might be a
>> drawback to you. If you're familiar with packaging though, you might
>> want to roll your own for whatever distro you choose. We hope to have
>> the sources available on GitHub by the end of the year, and will be
>> using OBS to build the packages.
>>
>> You're welcome to join us in our endeavors.
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