After running a full server using Debian Linux, then mkLinux, I ran core MacOS X as a server (with bits and pieces manually built).
The Apple made MacOS X Server available, but after version 10.6.x stated dumbing it down to the point where I gave up on it. I used MacPorts for the web server functionality, but never for a mail server. I’ve been running both my home server and work web server (before being moved to a virtual machine, it ran on an 2009 Mac Pro - I still use that machine for testing) under FreeBSD for many years. I like the stability, zfs, and FreeBSD ports (although doing everything with Makefiles is not my thing). Both only run mail to forward system messages to me. Marius -- Marius Schamschula > On Mar 4, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Bill Cole > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2022-03-03 at 08:38:47 UTC-0500 (Thu, 3 Mar 2022 14:38:47 +0100) > Gerben Wierda via macports-users <[email protected]> > is rumored to have said: > >> Apart from Steven Smith, are there other users here that run a mail server >> setup via MacPorts? And is already someone else running on Monterey? > > I have run a personal/family mail/web/dns server whose componentry* is almost > all built by MacPorts since ~2006. Current platform is El Capitan, because > Apple has made macOS increasingly hostile to server use. When running ElCap > becomes too much of a hassle (or when that machine dies,) I expect that I > will finally move its functionality to a FreeBSD machine. > > Catalina and later simply are not fit for server duty. The deliberate > breaking of standard logging, broad locking of the system, and breakage in > the legacy implementation of 'cron' make it clear that Apple doesn't want > people fiddling around with their Macs "under the hood" or using them as > unattended utility machines. > > > (*) Apache HTTPD, Postfix, Dovecot, BIND, SpamAssassin, and a bunch of tools > that I use for administrative/research work on that machine. Also MIMEDefang, > which is hand-built because it's got some (originally intentional and > explicit) Mac-hostility and there's no port. Yet. > > -- > Bill Cole > [email protected] or [email protected] > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire
