MailScanner on Mac OSX?

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

I've never built sendmail from source, but it *shouldn't* be too hard. I 
think I'll give it a whack one of these days and maybe post my 
experiences to the Wiki.

John Rudd wrote:
> Or you could run it with sendmail.  Sendmail builds just fine on OS 
> X.  (I'm using mimedefang at home, where I'm using OSX as my mail 
> server, though, so I don't have the mailscanner part of the puzzle 
> available to help ... but I wouldn't expect it to be _any_ different 
> than installing it on FreeBSD, except the startup scripting)
>
>
> On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>
>> 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.
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