Michael Cashwell said:
> If you are doing this on Panther (10.3) or Tiger (10.4) then you want
> to build it so it will plug into the PAM authentication system. The
> "osx" builds without PAM which is useful for pre-Panther systems and
> maybe if you deliberately wanted to not use PAM on later systems.
I'm running Tiger
> What you probably want to do instead is "make oxp" which builds for
> PAM. That way, any normal user account on the system will "just work".
Working on that now - if only my iMac weren't asleep. Better figure that
out before I move my mail server to it.... :)
>
> Also, if you want real SSL/TLS then you will need a server-side cert
> (that's either signed by a root authority known to the clients or
> self-signed with your own root cert installed on the clients).
> Without this good clients will complain. The choice largely boils
> down to how many users you have and how hard it is to distribute your
> own root.
This is a home system. I can easily handle the cert distribution. I've
got a self-signed cert for my web server ('cause I run squirrelmail to
provide remote access to my home email, although I'm sconsidering the more
AJAXy roundcube imap client) I need to create a new self-signed cert for
the new box. It's "on the list" of items to do.
It would be helpful to see how I'd need to configure the SSL cert for OS
X. Frankly it's a little confusing that OS X has things like /private/etc
- How do I know which user's private dir is relevant to services accessed
remotely.... Still learning OS X.
> I have a whole "cheat sheet" for uw-imap (and other services like
> AUTH SMTP using postfix, mailman, BIND, DHCPD, self-signed cert
> production, etc.) on OS X (client). If you (or anyone else) would
> like a copy let me know.
I'd love a copy!
Thanks MUCH for your guidance!
Since I'm picking your brain, I have another question:
I'm using mbox today - because it's easy and completely portable. One
downside is that since my primary mbox file is ~300MB, with a total of
about 1.5GB spread across several folders, I see my linux box in iowait
state a lot, even though I've got 1.2GB RAM. I've been considering
converting to a different mailbox format in the hope that it would improve
performance. The only complication is that I use procmail, fetchmail, and
spamassassin on linux, and would love to be able to keep that setup once I
convert mailbox formats. It's not clear to me the best way to go to
improve performance. (Of course, moving to a more powerful box with more
RAM is in the plan, hence the iMac.)
Any opinions about how to reduce system load and improve response time?
Regards,
Tom
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