Comments on: First preview of ISP in a box 2.0 http://switch.richard5.net/2006/04/03/first-preview-of-isp-in-a-box-20/ How to build your Mac into a internet server using open source software Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeff Stubbs http://switch.richard5.net/2006/04/03/first-preview-of-isp-in-a-box-20/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Jeff Stubbs Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:08:03 +0000 http://switch.richard5.net/2006/04/03/first-preview-of-isp-in-a-box-20/#comment-246 Richard, When I first started playing mail administrator, way before OS X, there were only a few choices available for OS 9. They broke down into commercial and free catagories. Being with a smaller firm, I opted for the free software. I ran Stalker Software's SIMS for years, without any problems, on ancient (I mean ancient) machines. The mailing list provided a great support tool, being manned by fellow users that were involved in day to day operations. Your software documentation effort provides a close parallel to the SIMS project. If you would install phpBB on your server, so that users could exchange advice, you will have duplicated the Stalker environment. (But I don't know how big the user base is using your project). Privately, I've been refering to the mail server setup as RIMS (Richard's Internet Mail Server) as a play on words. Oh, and I'm still running it on a older machine, the first of the new world Macs (B/W G3, 10.4.5, 450MHz, 1GB RAM, 80 GB disk) Jeff Richard,

When I first started playing mail administrator, way before OS X, there were only a few choices available for OS 9. They broke down into commercial and free catagories. Being with a smaller firm, I opted for the free software. I ran Stalker Software’s SIMS for years, without any problems, on ancient (I mean ancient) machines. The mailing list provided a great support tool, being manned by fellow users that were involved in day to day operations.

Your software documentation effort provides a close parallel to the SIMS project. If you would install phpBB on your server, so that users could exchange advice, you will have duplicated the Stalker environment. (But I don’t know how big the user base is using your project).

Privately, I’ve been refering to the mail server setup as RIMS (Richard’s Internet Mail Server) as a play on words. Oh, and I’m still running it on a older machine, the first of the new world Macs (B/W G3, 10.4.5, 450MHz, 1GB RAM, 80 GB disk)

Jeff

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