* Gerben Wierda via macports-users: > Apart from Steven Smith, are there other users here that run a mail > server setup via MacPorts? And is already someone else running on > Monterey?
While MacPorts provides the necessary ports for running a mail server on macOS, I'd suggest an alternative approach if you are dead set on using a Mac as the server machine. As mentioned here before, Apple is not making it easy to use regular macOS for server use, and this seems to be a deliberate decision on their end. Have you considered running the mail server components in virtual machines (e.g. VirtualBox) or, even better, as a Docker/Containerd service stack? This method isolates Postfix, Dovecot et al from the underlying macOS, and the service Docker images can use Ubuntu, Debian, or whichever Linux you fancy. I have introduced a Docker-based service infrastructure for a major mail service provider in Germany, catering for hundreds of thousands of users and millions of emails per day. While the production hardware is of course beefy, I develop and run the very same Docker images on my MacBook Pro. -Ralph