Sheila King wrote: []The Fink repository has no mail servers that show up in the FinkCommander for download/installation, even if I select "unstable" option. However, DarwinPorts has mail servers in their repository (such as postfix...)
Fink has a postfix package in the "net" section. But I hope you know that Mac OSX 10.3 comes with postfix already?
Sheesh. No. I certainly did not know that. In fact, when I went to the Apple store, they gave me the geekiest guy in the store to talk to about servers and Linux and so on, and I mentioned "mail server" and he said nada about it.
And I've searched all over Google on "Mac OS X mailserver" and the most obviously useful looking results were Fink and DarwinPorts.
I sure don't want to re-install something that is already installed.
Is running both Fink and DarwinPorts possible? Not advised? ... ???
In principle, you can install both, but if you want to compile things from source, you will probably run into problems unless you hide one of the two.
K, thanks. For the time being, I guess I will just sit tight with Fink. At least it provides an option for a GUI interface (FinkCommander) and is sort of Gentoo-ish in that you just click "install" and it goes out and gets the stuff for you and "does its thing". Reviewing DarwinPorts, looks like I would have to do everything CLI (not surprising), but I'm the sort to do something stupid and make it enormously difficult on myself when in principle it should be as simple as just copying their examples.
Thanks for the tip on postfix...saved me an enormous amount of wasted time there...
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