I guess you weren't kidding about using FreeBSD. But I realize my idea of applying more standard patches to see if my problem goes away is perhaps a little indirect given the amount of effort involve. So I guess I will go ahead and post a qmail troubleshooting question here, separately.
And then at a later day I'll look into the toaster. From other comments here perhaps running it in a VM on the mac may not be such a bad thing for as long as I continue to use qmail+vpopmail, and I really haven't found an alternative that satisfies my usage. -Kurt On 8/3/12 6:25 AM, "Rick Romero" <r...@havokmon.com> wrote: > > I don't disagree with any of your points :) > I use FreeBSD, I don't know why anyone would run Linux for any real > server load - I'M JUST KIDDING! :)) > > Have you taken a look at Matt Simerson's toaster script? It's > targeted at FreeBSD, but I'm fairly confident the instructions are OSX > friendly. At least in the past they were. > > http://www.tnpi.net/internet/mail/toaster/ > > Rick > > Quoting Kurt Bigler <k...@breathsense.com>: > > >> *** >> >> I would consider running QMT in a VM, but would rather avoid a VM. I've >> never touched CentOS. My "distro" of choice still would be Mac-native. I >> suppose I would try building from sources and see what happens. I really >> don't want my *entire* server in a VM (just qmail+vpopmail if really >> necessary) and also really don't want multiple IP's, and suspect sharing a >> single IP with host and mail VM would be problematic. I already have native >> Apache, SQL, PHP, etc. and figure it is a good thing to leave it that way if >> I want to "try" Mac for whatever it may be worth. >> >> But if the whole idea doesn't work maybe I will just install some linux on >> my Mac mini. But in that case I suppose I could put the whole thing in a >> linux VM under MacOSX and run SoftRAID in the Mac host. It is just not >> stuff I'd thought through since I naively didn't expect Mac to be such a >> problem. If it really is such a problem, then I guess the "why Mac" >> questions may be sensible. It just surprises me. >> > >> >> -Kurt >> >> >> >> On 8/2/12 8:13 PM, "Eric Shubert" <e...@shubes.net> wrote: >> >>> I wonder too, why OSX? The only thing I can think of is perhaps you have >>> an older MacMini laying around that you'd like to use. That's certainly >>> usable for something such as this, but I wouldn't recommend running a >>> server w/out some sort of raid (I prefer the SW variety). >>> >>> Disclaimer: I've recently taken charge of the QMail-Toaster.com project, >>> so I'm a bit biased. ;) >>> >>> If you're really bent on OSX, you could run a QMT mail server as a VM >>> under whichever virtualization platform you prefer. Migrating your >>> existing setup to QMT should be fairly easy, depending on your vpopmail >>> settings. QMT has a slew of qmail patches applied, and I'm presently >>> upgrading vpopmail to 5.4.33 (long awaited), which will bring all of the >>> QMT packages current with upstream releases. There is a large community >>> behind QMT, so you won't need to look far for helpful support. >>> >>> QMT is presently only available on CentOS/RHEL, so that might be a >>> drawback to you. If you're familiar with packaging though, you might >>> want to roll your own for whatever distro you choose. We hope to have >>> the sources available on GitHub by the end of the year, and will be >>> using OBS to build the packages. >>> >>> You're welcome to join us in our endeavors. >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > !DSPAM:50208c4f34211260758337!
