[TriLUG] Debian on PowerMac G4

Dave Sorenson dave at logicalgeek.com
Mon Feb 23 15:02:40 EST 2009


I moved mine back to my servers after a couple of weeks of too much Ham 
getting thrown in with Spam.  I was spending more time trolling the spam 
folder than I liked. I'd move back if you could tweak or turn off the 
spam filters more effectively.

YMMV
Dave

James Jones wrote:
> Weave, Tanner  and all,
>
> I have been using Google Hosted Email servers for well over a year.
> Almost no hitches in there giddiup!
>
> Plus you have all the usual google docs, etc.
>
> jcj
>
> On 2/23/09, Tanner Lovelace <clubjuggler at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Weave,
>>
>>  If you really want to take all the stress out of running your own email
>>  server, I can highly recommend Google Hosted Applications.  They
>>  handle all the email server stuff and provide, in addition to the GMail
>>  web interface, POP3 and IMAP access (all three of which work *very*
>>  well with both Debian and Ubuntu).  Life is just too short to deal with
>>  running your own mail server (and all the spam avoidance that incurs).
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>
>> Tanner
>>
>>
>>  On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Brian Weaver <cmdrclueless at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > Thanks all. Turns out I did have a spare x86 based machine in a corner
>>  > that I had forgotten about. I'm working on recovering and moving me
>>  > setup to the slightly less than ancient machine ;-). I'm normally not
>>  > squeamish about recompiling the kernel and other packages. But this
>>  > time the less work I have to do the faster I can have my replacement
>>  > back online. Since it's my primary mail processing system
>>  > (postfix+procmail+dbmail/imap) I'd like to have it working sooner
>>  > rather than later.
>>  >
>>  > I'll leave the G4 system for later when I have more time to try LInux
>>  > on it without any stress of getting mine and my wife's e-mail back
>>  > online.
>>  >
>>  > -- Brian
>>  >
>>  > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Paul McLanahan <pmclanahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >> I installed Debian a few months ago on a G4 Mac Mini and had no issues. It's
>>  >> a simple(er) machine, granted, but from what I recall it "just worked."
>>  >> Good luck,
>>  >>
>>  >> Paul
>>  >>
>>  >>
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