the joy of SIMS

[Ron Risley]

For various reasons, I have migrated almost my entire operation over to Yellow Dog Linux running on a stack of PowerMac 7200/120's. I have only a single Mac OS box (running 8.5) in the server farm, specifically for running SIMS.

Recently I got a notion migrate my mail processing to Linux and eliminate the last Mac OS box. This is a completely not-for-profit operation. The last 7200 I bought cost $9 on eBay, and the whole farm was cobbled together for only a few hundred dollars. The cost of a Communigate Pro license would break the bank here, not to mention violating the spirit of this undertaking.

Well, I succeeded in getting qmail installed and running, and adding modules or patches to support POP, remote administration, blackhole lists, SMTP-AUTH, xtnd xmit, address harvesting restrictions, logging, password management, notification, and I'm sure a few other features that SIMS supports that I had taken for granted. Whew! What a trial!

In the end, I decided to stick with SIMS. Though I'm an experienced *nix admin, the new mail setup simply seems too complex for me to comfortably administer in the few hours a week I have available to run this farm.

I just wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for SIMS and Stalker's support of this friendly, reliable, free program. I frequently get questions from other admins about how I run the mail here, and while none have been willing to bring up a Mac box, several have bought CGP after taking a quick look at SIMS. (At least in this small way, SIMS is working as a marketing tool.) This is an incredible tool and, IMHO, well worth running an additional box to support. Believe me, next time I'm setting up a *nix-based mail system, I will eschew the "free" solutions in favor of CGP.

--Ron
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Ron Risley
www.risley.net

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