OK - I probably should have noted that I am speaking from a position of near-total ignorance when it comes to OS X. Which is why I am afraid of trying to configure mail servers on OS X (yes, your system did sound terribly complicated!) and why I would have been ready to pay to stay with what I know.
But if others who know more about OS X than me (ie almost everybody) are not so intimidated by configuring a mail server then I'm happy to accept that my assumptions about there being a market for SIMS X are wrong. And I also accept that maybe I shouldn't be so intimidated too! Is there an alternative to the SIMS submitted folder available on OS X? James Harvard >On Tuesday, May 14, 2002, at 06:34 PM, James Harvard wrote: >>My apologies if this topic has already been talked to death some time ago, >> but would there not be good money for Stalker in releasing a low cost, 'feature >limited' MTA for Mac OS X? (All the previous posts I have read have seemed to be >along the lines of "can Stalker re-write SIMS for OS X for free, please".) >> >>After all, who here would not happily pay a shareware-level fee for the current >version of SIMS that we know & love? > >erm... I suspect that the "market" for a OS X SIMS is vanishingly small. Setting up >OS X out of the box to do what Sims does is really quite easily done and can even be >administered through various web agents. (www.webmin. >com for one). > >And would be considerably more powerful than SIMS. For example, my OS X machine runs >fetchamil which grabs my mail from my Sims machine. Then mail goes through postfix >(my MTA) whcih runs it through procmail. Procmail filters the mail through >spamassassin and html.trap. This tags any incoming spam and disables any virues or >potentially naughty attachments. Finally it all gets dumped into the local mailspool >where my imapd server can serve it up to me to read in Mail.app or Eudora or >something. > >And while it all SOUNDS terribly complicated it was no more difficult to follow the >directions to do this than setting up a router in SIMS. > >SIMS is great because it runs os a zero-admin app on a zero-admin machine. > On the type of hardware that would likely be discarded otherwise. (Certainly I >can't think of any other use for a 6200 than as printserver or SIMS box). > >Now, if Stalker came out with a shareware product based on SIMS I would probably >register it. I wouldn't _USE_ it though, it'd just be my way of rewarding a company >that has made my live a whole hell of a lot easier the last several years. > >>There must be many dozens of people wishing that they could move to OS X with SIMS's >ease of use, features and familiarity - but unwilling to part with $100s for CGPro. >Then add to that all the new server admins that OS X will gather, many of whom will >be in the market for an easy to use alternative to sendmail. > >Really setting up sendmail is not that bad, and there are better options out there. >I use postfix and it took about 15 minutes to setup, and most of that was getting the >SpamAssassin filtering integrated. > >>How many hours would it take the talented coders (if in doubt, always try >flattery...) at Stalker to strip out the more advanced features of CGPro to leave >just the SIMS feature set? Not many, I suspect, and it would be a good ROI when we >all start queuing up waving our $30. Of course the nice people at Stalker aren't >going to become billionaires on the back of it, but I imagine it would pay for decent >Christmas party! > >I'm certain Stalker has thought about it. The only reason I can think of for not >doing it is that they don't think the market is there. Heck, a lot of SIMS installs >are on 68K machines... > >IANS (I am not Stalker) > >-- >You are responsible for your rose. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
