MailScanner on Mac OSX?

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

I once tried getting it to work on OS X Server, but gave up ;) - I think 
it can be done, except I'm not very postfix-savvy.

You *could*, however, run it using any Linux-for-Mac distro; I haven't 
heard of any for the Intel Macs yet (if anybody knows, I'd appreciate 
the heads-up), but if one's not available right now I suspect they 
should be here RSN.


Julian Field wrote:
>
> On 2 Apr 2006, at 22:40, James Gray wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm hoping I'm not about to "break new ground" :)  Has anyone got any 
>> reports
>> on using MailScanner on Mac OSX (Intel)?  I'm simplifying my network 
>> at home
>> with a Mac Mini (Core Duo thing) replacing 3 old tired PC's.
>
> There are a few people (and I mean _very_ few) doing this, after a guy 
> at Sophos got it working on 10.3.
>
> It's one of the projects I want to get onto, and may be able to put in 
> some time on it very soon.
>
> There are those 2 packaging systems (Fink and the other one I can't 
> remember) which would provide an easy, though cumbersome, solution.
>
> Would that be good enough for now?
>
> What I really want is a system that uses launchd properly and at least 
> has a system preference for starting and stopping it. Slimserver 
> nearly does this, but in a pre-Tiger form, not using launchd. I would 
> much rather "do it properly" than hack something together.
>
> If anyone can point me in the right direction, such as an example 
> package that already does all this that I can plug into, that would be 
> fantastic.
>
> But even working out how to program for launchd would be a start. The 
> OSX way of booting appears to be very complicated, involving reams of 
> XML.
>
> Sorry that doesn't really answer your question, but....
>
>>
>> So far I've figured out that OSX is using Perl 5.8.6 and Postfix of some
>> flavour.  Does anyone have any pre-installation validation tools or 
>> advice on
>> what to expect?  I know OSX is BSD under the hood, but the directory
>> structure is seriously weird for someone coming from a "pure" 
>> Linux/BSD/Unix
>> background.
>>
>> BTW - where the hell does OSX keep it's cron jobs and services?  I've 
>> got
>> Apache+MySQL running on it but they both came with neato *.dmg
>> packages....I'm a real OSX n00b I'm afraid :P  Unlike most n00b's 
>> though I'm
>> happy to work with Julian to get the bugs sorted and possibly create 
>> a OSX
>> "port" complete with dmg package etc....now THAT interests me!
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> James
>> --I've got a bad feeling about this.
>> --MailScanner mailing list
>> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>>
>> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>>
>> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!
>
> --Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> Buy the MailScanner book at www.MailScanner.info/store
> PGP footprint: EE81 D763 3DB0 0BFD E1DC 7222 11F6 5947 1415 B654
>
>
> --This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
> --MailScanner mailing list
> mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner
>
> Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting
>
> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!