From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Oct 17 5:35:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from EnContacto.Net (adsl-64-173-182-158.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net [64.173.182.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6609837B405; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:35:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by EnContacto.Net (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f9HCYwx51691; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@EnContacto.Net) Received: from 24.20.19.75 ( [24.20.19.75]) as user eculp@SavvyWorld.Net by Mail.SavvyWorld.Net with HTTP; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:34:56 -0700 Message-ID: <1003322096.3bcd7af0a8f0b@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 05:34:56 -0700 From: Edwin Culp To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Tom Hukins , Yarema , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, petef@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Courier-MTA on FreeBSD References: <83240000.1003262186@volyn.dppl.net> <20011016223519.A85872@eborcom.com> <1003275520.3bccc50044cd7@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> <20011017092527.A67798@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20011017092527.A67798@mithrandr.moria.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 2.3.7-cvs X-Originating-IP: 24.20.19.75 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoting Neil Blakey-Milner : | On Tue 2001-10-16 (16:38), Edwin Culp wrote: | > Quoting Tom Hukins : | > | > | 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 . | > | | > | Tom | > | | > | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org | > | with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message | > | | > | > | > 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 --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message