{"id":319,"date":"2008-04-15T21:09:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T20:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/319"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:56:33","slug":"installing-popfile-on-mac-os-x-105x-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/319","title":{"rendered":"Installing POPfile on Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may guess from the title, I have made the decision on how to switch away from Windows. It is not that Ubuntu had any problems but, having discovered that I would need to get new hardware anyway, the Mac PRO seemed to be the most reliable option at the best price. Yes, I spent more than I intended but they have jolly good salesmen who know their stuff down at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.western.co.uk\/\">Western Computer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have also scaled back the virtualisation plans to just a single XP guest running under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/fusion\/\">VMware Fusion<\/a> but I will talk more about that in a future post.<\/p>\n<p>In general, installing software on the Mac is just as easy as on a PC; in many cases easier if you do the PC properly with a separate admin account&mdash;you don&#8217;t need to on OS X because of the Sudo based &#8220;run as admin&#8221; facility which really works. But some of the more obscure open source packages don&#8217;t have proper installers, probably due to low demand and\/or lack of resources. One of these is the <a href=\"http:\/\/getpopfile.org\/\">POPfile<\/a> email classification (anti-spam) system. It works fine but is a pain to install with a dozen pre-req bits and pieces, some of which need to be compiled from scratch and even the documentation is a bit out of date. Having now done it, I will make my contribution to the project and publish an install script. Not a full blown installer, because I don&#8217;t know how to do that, but a scripted version of all the little bits that have to be done which will make it much simpler &#8230; [<a href=\"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/misc\/popfile.htm\">more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may guess from the title, I have made the decision on how to switch away from Windows. It is not that Ubuntu had any problems but, having discovered that I would need to get new hardware anyway, the Mac PRO seemed to be the most reliable option at the best price. Yes, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-mac","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1895,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/1895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}