From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 18 04:34:51 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 02F335D2 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:34:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6AC483B for ; Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:34:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd2mr1so-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.141.110]) by pd3mo1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2014 22:34:43 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.1 cv=s+0R4JzlRBUW8GXF//6L4/AwYJegyFoFyppZH3AfVto= c=1 sm=1 a=FKkrIqjQGGEA:10 a=EZcv4ilsBBkA:10 a=vyJAdnRk0OcA:10 a=BLceEmwcHowA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=Fa5_YPFaAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=p1TNafwyvlnj1P7QywQA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=2mYow5eUDuQA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=HpAAvcLHHh0Zw7uRqdWCyQ==:117 Received: from unknown (HELO cds005.dcs.int.inet) ([10.0.141.22]) by pd2mr1so-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 17 Sep 2014 22:34:43 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: is pkg saying courier and postfix are incompatible? References: <005201cfd2bd$d8ac34d0$8a049e70$@shaw.ca> <9745AE56F096E150A334CBD1@[192.168.1.50]> From: Dale Scott MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <9745AE56F096E150A334CBD1@[192.168.1.50]> Message-Id: Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:34:43 -0600 (MDT) To: Daniel Staal X-Mailer: Zimbra 7.1.4_GA_2567 (MobileSync - Apple-iPad2C5/1104.257) Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" 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 04:34:51 -0000 > On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: >=20 > --As of September 17, 2014 3:25:04 PM -0600, Dale Scott is alleged to hav= e said: >=20 >> I then installed the main courier pkg thinking there might be undocument= ed >> 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. >=20 > --As for the rest, it is mine. >=20 > This is correct - Courier (the 'main' port/package) and Postfix are mutua= lly 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. That makes sense. Thanks=20 > The Courier project though developed several other mail-handing programs = - the most popular of which (and more common than the mail server itself) i= s the IMAP server, and associated authentication server. That's what you a= re trying to install, and it works just fine with Postfix - I was using it = until very recently in that capacity. So courier-authlib-ldap is a full LDAP server? I'm already using OpenLDAP, = which I would prefer to leave it as-is. I thought courier-authlib-ldap migh= t be an interface from courier-authlib to a 3rd-party LDAP server (i.e. Ope= nLDAP). > (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.) Do you know if it's difficult to setup Dovecot to authenticate a webmail us= ername and password using /etc/master.passwd (like the Hong recipe with cou= rier-authlib), or authenticate using an OpenLDAP server? > 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 n= eed to keep. >=20 > Daniel T. Staal >=20 > --------------------------------------------------------------- > 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. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"