Bowie Bailey writes:
I built courier 0.47 (my current mail server is running that still) and I'm sure I recall the docs saying something about a configure option for the uid and gid, but I don't see it in the Installation Guide for the current version.There are configuration options '--with-mailuser=courier
No, there is no such configuration option for Courier that's documented in Courier 0.52's INSTALL file. There was such an option in earlier versions of Courier, but that function has been moved to the courier-authlib package.
Trying to pass random options to the configure script is never, never a good idea. At best, nonexistent options will get quietly ignored. At worst, you're going to interfere with the configure script's internal configuration settings. Everything will seem to work, but after building and installing you will begin encountering mysterious errors and malfunctions; you will come here and complain, and a lot of people here are going to end up scratching their heads, for no good reason, and wasting a lot of their time running around in circles.
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