Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 18:44:40 -0600 From: "Jay Austad" <austad@marketwatch.com> To: "'Thomas Cannon'" <tcannon@noops.org>, "Scott Stoddard" <sstoddard@gblx.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Qmail - qmail-smtp.c authentication update? Message-ID: <54180709DD3FE145917BB165AFE7EFA002E0D2DF@mspexch2.office.mktw.net> In-Reply-To: <20020104144850.N14183-100000@stereophonic.noops.org>
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When I was modifying my qmail stuff, I did the "make setup check", but to install it, I still had to do a make install from /usr/ports/mail/qmail to get it to install the binaries. You have to remove /usr/ports/mail/qmail/work/.install_done first. I've since switched to postfix-20011127 though. Performance is better than I was getting with qmail, especially with a large queue, and administration of postfix is *WAY* easier. Qmail is a good product, but the endless amount of patching to modify its behavior gets old, really fast. After a year and a half of dealing with it on 6 different very high-volume email servers, I switched, and I'm loving it. Jay ---------- Jay Austad Network Administrator CBS Marketwatch 612.817.1271 austad@marketwatch.com <mailto:austad@marketwatch.com> http://cbs.marketwatch.com http://www.bigcharts.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Cannon [mailto:tcannon@noops.org] > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 4:54 PM > To: Scott Stoddard > Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Qmail - qmail-smtp.c authentication update? > > > > What I've done after patching source code for qmail and > already having it installed has been to go into the > /work/qmail-1.0.3 dir and run: > > make setup check > > Make determines that source has changed, compiles the new > binary, and installs it, and only it -- everything else > should stay exactly how it is. > > A backup never hurt anybody, even if it's just stopping qmail > and copying the /var/qmail dir to /var/qmail-good, you know, > just to be on the safe side. ;-) > > Thomas > > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Scott Stoddard wrote: > > > Hi all, I was going to update my qmail to support SMTP > authentication, > > I got a patched version of the file qmail-smtp.c and I threw it in > > (backing up the old) /usr/ports/mail/qmail/work/qmail-1.03 > directory. > > My question is I have already complied and installed qmail and it > > works great, what is the best way to upgrade this, do I need to > > uninstall and lose all my settings (or back themup) and reinstall > > fresh? or can I just install on top of the old one, also I noticed > > that in the work/qmail-1.03 dir there is an already > compiled version > > of qmail-smtp to get my updated version of qmail-smtp.c > compiled do I > > need to do anything special? Thanx! > > > > --Scott > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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