From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 00:18:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B09DA118 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:18:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8908FD10 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3hyzKz6KBjz17Y for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:18:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:18:31 -0400 From: Daniel Staal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is pkg saying courier and postfix are incompatible? Message-ID: <9745AE56F096E150A334CBD1@[192.168.1.50]> In-Reply-To: <005201cfd2bd$d8ac34d0$8a049e70$@shaw.ca> References: <005201cfd2bd$d8ac34d0$8a049e70$@shaw.ca> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:18:34 -0000 --As of September 17, 2014 3:25:04 PM -0600, Dale Scott is alleged to have said: > I then installed the main courier pkg thinking there might be undocumented > dependencies. Pkg reported during install that courier was incompatible > with Postfix, and would be uninstalling Postfix for me. I hoped I could > re-install Postfix later, but now pkg is telling me it needs to delete > courier to install Postfix, so it seems there is some incompatibility > between the two. --As for the rest, it is mine. This is correct - Courier (the 'main' port/package) and Postfix are mutually incompatible, in the same way Postfix and Sendmail are. Courier-main is a mail server - the same as Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, etc. You aren't going to want more than one of those installed on your system at the same time. The Courier project though developed several other mail-handing programs - the most popular of which (and more common than the mail server itself) is the IMAP server, and associated authentication server. That's what you are trying to install, and it works just fine with Postfix - I was using it until very recently in that capacity. (I switched to Dovecot, which a lot of people like. It seems to be more up-to-date, although I haven't seen the speed increases people claim.) So, yes you've departed significantly from the howto you were using. ;) Courier-main you need to uninstall. Courier-IMAP and Courier-auth you'll need to keep. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------