MailScanner on Mac OSX?

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I agree the startup method of OSX is strange.

I have not used it but /etc/rc refers to standard unix startup file.

/etc/rc.local

Darwin 8.5.0
Mac OSX 10.4.5


On 4/3/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> 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
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