Today I finally wanted to move the mail server, which is basically only an IMAP server. First I enabled Postfix with the shareware MailServe , which also installs and configures the IMAP server. Since I also used UW-IMAP on the old server, I just copied the mail folders and files from /var/mail and the home directories of the users to the new location. On Mac OS X the IMAP folder can be found in ~/Library/Mail/IMAP. These folders will be created automatically after you accessed your new mailbox for the first time with an email client.
Next I had another look at Webmin and it turned out to be less difficult than expected. Just download webmin-1.270.tar.gz, copy it to /usr/local, unpack it here and run ./setup.sh. (last 3 steps as root or with the sudo command).
Since I already had my fetchmail configuration files, I just copied those as well and configured the cron jobs in Webmin. You can also use MailServe for the settings, if you don’t want to switch between different configurations.
The migration is now complete and all that is left are extra features like configuring automatic logfile analysis (AWstats or Webalizer), scheduled backups etc.
Update [March 2007]:
The PowerBook is still in use as our home-server and things have been going well. The speed is good and noise is low. Recently I moved it to our media room, where it is also being used as media center, directly connected to the LCD TV and controlled with a bluetooth keyboard/trackpad.
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