Subject: Re: MacOS and NNCPNet

From: John Goerzen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2025 22:40:05 -0500

Hi Jonathan,

Yep, the nncpnet tools should be portable to POSIX platforms.
nncpnet-mailnode is written around Exim, but I would imagine that could
run on MacOS X as well.  Or the container could just run in Docker
there.

- John

On Fri, Apr 18 2025, Jonathan Lane wrote:

> Postfix and UUCP are still installed by default in current versions of
> MacOS, presumably because they're needed for Unix certification.  The
> NNCPNet tools are written in Rust and don't use any Linux-specific
> crates that I can see, so building NNCP and NNCPNet from source with all
> binaries dropped in /usr/local/bin/ should allow you to turn a Mac into
> an NNCPNet peer.  Macs don't run Postfix in an SMTP mode by default, so
> you'll either need to change that part of the Postfix configuration or
> use a mail client that speaks sendmail.
>
> https://gist.github.com/haccks/7ec2fe500332a6d23ee68d1c1a2279d5