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" wrote:
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> 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! :))
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> 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.
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> http://www.tnpi.net/internet/mail/toaster/
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> Rick
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> Quoting Kurt Bigler :
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>> 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.
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>> -Kurt
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>> On 8/2/12 8:13 PM, "Eric Shubert" wrote:
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>>> 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.
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