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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:34:56 -0700
From:      Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net>
To:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
Cc:        Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.ORG>, Yarema <yds@dppl.com>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, petef@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Courier-MTA on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1003322096.3bcd7af0a8f0b@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net>
In-Reply-To: <20011017092527.A67798@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Quoting Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>:

| On Tue 2001-10-16 (16:38), Edwin Culp wrote:
| > Quoting Tom Hukins <tom@FreeBSD.ORG>:
| > 
| > | On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 03:56:26PM -0400, Yarema wrote:
| > | > Greetings,
| > | > 
| > | > Has anyone started any work porting Courier-MTA to FreeBSD?
| > | 
| > | See ports/24987 <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24987>.
| > | 
| > | Tom
| > | 
| > | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
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| > | 
| > 
| > 
| > That was submitted Feb. 10.  WOW.  This is version .31 and the latest
| > release is .35.1 or something.  Eight months - interesting.
| 
| I'd welcome anyone to port the whole courier MTA to FreeBSD -
| unfortunately it has foiled any of my attempts to properly live in
| hier(7) without severe work.  And the work I did on my first port when
| it finally behaved was useless with the next version.
| 
| I'm also very happy to commit a working port, but all the efforts
| thusfar don't obey the more important port rules.
| 
| Of course, I'm also willing to just shut up and hand over the courier
| MTA stuff to someone else. (:
| 
| Neil
| -- 
| Neil Blakey-Milner
| nbm@mithrandr.moria.org
| 


Thanks, Neil, now I understand the problem much better.  It may not be 
worth the effort.  There are advantages to installing direct from source,
especially courier. 

ed

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