Hi All,
I just had an old iMac handed down to replace and improve my even much older mail
server which is currently a little old Power Mac 6116 that is running SIMS (60MHz?,
700MB Drive, MacOS 9.0.4, SIMS and Retrospect Client) reliably for several years. The
new machine is probably 50x faster which I don't think I care about, has a much larger
hard drive which will allow me to be a lot less stingy on user mailbox sizes and
keeping log files, and runs OS/X-10.2.
I was all set to downgrade the new iMac to OS/9 but it feels funny to step backwards
like that without taking a pause. If you were doing it, would you downgrade the new
box, keep it at OS/X (seems silly to run SIMS under classic mode), or would you bite
the bullet and try to get up to speed on using the built in OS/X (Unix) mail
capabilities?
Under Unix I know from distant memory that the routing is pretty nice (some sort of
.aliases file which, for instance, let me direct one alias out to 5 different
addresses without creating a fake POP mailbox to do the rerouting as I have to do in
SIMS). But implementing the RBL's would probably be a new hassle sine I think it
involves extra incantations with scripting etc. I'd also need to find instructions on
how to set it up initially, figure out if there are any new security issues, and find
a support community similar to this awesome list!
So, if you had a brand new OS/X box dumped on your lap for a mail server, what would
you do?
Looking forward to any comments. If you want to reply directly to me please remove
the "2" from my address and I'll see it a lot sooner.
- Paul
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