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"Jerry A!" wrote: |
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> Hey, I've been working on trying to update the way mail portages are |
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> installed for a while now. Well, actually, the real job (tm) has been |
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> getting in the way. |
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> Anyway, what I've been trying to do is come up with a method of |
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> installing various types MTA setups (plain, LDAP, etc...) without having |
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> multiple ebuilds (for fear of them getting out of sync). |
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> So, I'm attaching my "work-in-progress". I'd really appreciate if if |
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> people out there would test this stuff out and provide me with some |
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> feedback. |
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> Okay, now the details: |
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> Options are set via the "USE" variable in /etc/make.conf. The existing |
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> options are mta-ldap, mta-mysql and mta-tls. The ebuild should check |
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> for the variables and do it's magic. |
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> Right now, I've got ebuild files for exim and postfix. Once these are |
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> ironed out and committed, I'll start work on qmail. Also, I've created |
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> a mailbase portage. All this does is create /etc/mail and stuff an |
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> aliases file there. I did this because exim, postfix and sendmail all |
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> use the same format, and most people just keep it in /etc/mail. Also, |
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> this solves the issue duplication (ie each MTA portage installing the |
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> same file, and thus a chance for aliases to get out of sync). |
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> Some more notes. These portages install basic config files that should |
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> allow it to work "out-of-the-box." The config files are the standard |
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> ones from the MTA, just modified to deliver to ~/.maildir. I figured |
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> that since the base config files have copious comments, it would help |
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> the users out with configuration questions. |
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> Okay, this message is getting long enough as it is. Just yank out the |
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> tarball and let me know what you think!!! |
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Sounds like lot of work Jerry, thank you for that, I'll give it a try on my |
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fresh installed rc4_pre2 test system. |
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achim* |
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> --Jerry |
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> name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a |
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> phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death... |
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> email: jerry@××××××.com || ...It's much more important |
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> || than that! |
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