Hi Folks
I see this topic popping up in the list from time to time but since I am getting ready
to make the jump to OS X, I thought I'd
ask for the most current experience.
I have a trusty old 7600 that has been a light-use web, mail, news, chat, file,
you-name-it server for the past 5 years in my
lab, helping me run a multi-site HIV research project. Bit by bit over the years, it
has been upgraded to where it now has 354
Meg of RAM, a Sonnet 400 Mhz G4 upgrade card, USB/Firewire ports on a PCI card, and
10G SCSI and 40G Firewire external Hard
Drives. I started running MacHTTP then went to Ouid Pro Quo, and now want to go to
Apache with OS X. For mail servers, I started
with AIMS then EIMS and then switched over to SIMS when the ORBS vigilantes came after
me.
This machine has only about half a dozen people and roughly equal number of mailing
lists that use it. The web server gets only
a few dozen hits a day (so performance is not a big deal). I have no budget (in time
or money) for the server parts of this
machine so I have to make due with what I can run on the edges of its (funded) use as
a bioinformatics machine for my research
(another reason for OS X).
Unless I am reading this wrong, It seems from the archives that SIMS will not be OS X
native any time soon, so I am wondering
what to do about mail servers. I am sure a lot of others are in a similar situation,
so I thought I'd ask about people's
experience so far. I am not certain about the relative merits of learning sendmail (or
other standard UNIX mail servers) vs.
running SIMS in Classic vs. any other cheap, light-use mail servers that might be out
there that I don't know about.
Thanks for any advice.
Robin Colgrove
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