Am Montag, 26. Mai 2008 23:59:30 schrieb Tobias Gasser: > > The reason Courier was removed from the book was discussed > > in this forum a long time ago. We had no choice as the > > instructions in BLFS did not work (very broken as package > > requirements and methods changed) with newer Courier versions. It seems so that this is a bit of time ago and the situation may have changed in the meanwhile. On the other side, it is quite neccessary that we do not add packages to the book which than got rapidly unmaintained (the books pages). > > i'm running a mailserver here since about 18 month, including virtual > domains. > > courier-authlib 0.58 > cyrus-sasl 2.1.21 > courier-imap 4.1.1 > postfix 2.3.3 So there is no courier mta. You (as me as well) are using postfix as mta.
> > if there is anybody interested in a hint, i'd write it... I have a quite similar setup. I selected courier because i found that this is one which can handle virtual users without the overkill of having a database or a LDAP server running for my three users. Maybe it is possible with others too. I hacked such a hint together after that setup was running stable... (if you are interested you may have a view at http://equinox.homelinux.org/cms/node/2 ) If there is something in you may find helpful, just use it. Or we may extend the book in adding courier-{authlib,imapd} to the mail server section. Than we have all of the packages in the book we need to setup a well functional mail system. Adding some other perl modules and postgrey, spamassassin, squirrelmail and so on would make the installation complete. But here i think is the problem: This mail setup alone could fill up a book because in that complexity it is not enough to simply show the build instructions. They are almost the same as usual. But the real challenge is the configuration of them (and maybe even some additional scripting) to make the world go round. And, the configuration can only be as good as it is described. I think that is basically what Robert has brought up initially. I think we need a good balance of reinventing the wheel when describing a package and its configuration on the one side and focus on the build instructions on the other side. -- Thomas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
