On 1/5/04 at 08:50, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> >>1) would I better have SIMS running on a separate machine with the old
> >>OS (I have a spare IIci which ran SIMS before the 9500 came into
> >>service), or would it work in Classic mode of OS X?
> >
> >Classic mode shouldn't be used for any servers. It's fine for the
> >occasional use of a must-have application (in my case, ResEdit...)
> >but it has a pile of issues for serious use and the TCP/IP hack that
> >allows 2 operating systems to share network interfaces is
> >disturbing, although it does mostly work as long you don't try to
> >talk to the Classic side from the X side.
>
> I thought people on this list had confirmed that SIMS would not work
> in Classic mode? Or does it work, but with your caveats listed above?
There's at least one person on this list who's reported running SIMS
successfully under Classic, although I don't think we've heard from him in
a while so I don't know what his experience might be with Jaguar or
Panther. IIRC, the big caveat is that you run into problems if you need to
have a Classic app talk via TCP/IP to an app on the OS X side of the same
machine. At any rate, I'd think that if you're going to migrate to OS X and
don't have a specific reason to stick with SIMS, you should seriously
consider switching to a *nix MTA. Sendmail is included with OS X versions
up through Jaguar, and Postfix is included with Panther. Among other
reasons to migrate, SIMS has apparently reached the end of its development
life and will almost certainly not keep up with any new anti-spam widgets
that may come onto the scene.
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