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Install an easier to configure mail server UNIX
In my quest to run my own mailserver on OS X, I looked at qmail (very complex), postfix (medium complex), and then finally found james. James is an Apache SMTP/POP server that is fully programmable in Java. It setup in about 30 seconds on OS X just by following the instructions on the website.

I set it up to use SMTP authorization and even tested it on ordb.org (to make sure it wasn't an open relay) with positive results.
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email on X Server help
Authored by: JohnnyMnemonic on Nov 07, '03 12:07:11PM

Not directly related to this email server, but I have found the help guides relating to mail on X Server that are found on AFP548 to be of great help. Admins doing mail on X should read through some of these HOWTOs and explications.

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James is good, if you can handle the wait
Authored by: swankjesse on Nov 07, '03 01:05:17PM

I've been using James for a while. And I do like a lot of things about it - especially Java, database storage and maillets.

But I've found that the performance just isn't there. For my small server James is sucking up 84 MB of RAM. And although I attempted to optimize it I've had very limited success.

Has anyone else tried James? Perhaps there's some magic to get it working quickly. FYI, my server is a Linux/XBox with James 2.1.3 running 10 users in a dbfile repository.



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Install an easier to configure mail server
Authored by: rammjet on Nov 07, '03 01:02:55PM

Postfix is included in Panther.

Postfix Enabler, a shareware app, handles the configuration:
http://www.roadstead.com/weblog/Tutorials/PostfixEnabler.html



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Postfix on Panther (IMAP?)
Authored by: sjoshi on Nov 07, '03 04:27:21PM

Do not have Panther yet. If the Panther mail app is based on Postfix, does it allow one configure it as an IMAP email server?

I would like to setup an old PowerMac, or something similar, as a general purpose server (e.g., file server, web server, email server). An IMAP solution is the last piece of the puzzle towards that goal, without actually getting OS X Sserver. Thanks.

(Sorry for the digression form the original topic, but if James was to support IMAP, that would probably be the simplest and best solution.)

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Install an easier to configure mail server
Authored by: sharrissf on Nov 07, '03 01:56:25PM

Wow, pretty cool running it on an xbox. I don't know the answer to your question but I was wondering what db you used.



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antother hint on postfix
Authored by: sapporo on Nov 08, '03 09:46:45AM
Install an easier to configure mail server
Authored by: chrome on Nov 09, '03 09:43:01PM

<a href="http://www.exim.org/">Exim</a> is my favourite. Its a single process, supports Maildir, and doesn't require a big bloaty VM to be loaded to run either ;)



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Install an easier to configure mail server
Authored by: kate on Nov 10, '03 04:35:05AM

qmail is available as a nice package with easy config for Macintosh from
http://au.gu.st

especially well for mobile Macs! It 's great. Runs since a year on all my Macs without any hickup.



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Install an easier to configure mail server
Authored by: ajabu on Nov 10, '03 05:19:33AM

Looked at several OS X alternatives this summer when we decided to kick out Exchange, and ended up with Kerio Mailserver. Not free, but easy to set up (me not being a UNIX guru...), and works great.

Other alternatives are Communigate Stalker and 4D Mail server (besides the standard OS X server and other Unix alternatives mentioned already).



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Install an easier to configure mail server
Authored by: sharrissf on Nov 14, '03 07:44:08PM

I like james because of it's programmability but a lot of these other mail solutions are good as well. The one thing I found easier to do in james than in other mail servers was get the external auth stuff right so that I could use my smtp from anywhere. There is a good tutorial on james at:

http://rzserv2.fhnon.de/~lg002556/james/James.html#chap_Intro

No matter what you choose, always make sure you test your mailserver with one of the free open relay tester sites like the one mentioned in the original post.



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