Enda wrote: > Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > A lot of people managed to get by with just a simple process: > > > > 1) Install courier-authlib, according to the instructions in > > INSTALL. > > > > 2) Install courier, according to the instructions in INSTALL. > > > > If your MAILUID and MAILGID is not set correctly, it indicates that > > courier-authlib was not installed properly. > > Well.... I uninstalled authlib and zapped the sources and rebuilt from > there, and now I've got a build of courier. Not sure what I've done > differently this time. > > For anyone thats interested, and for the sake of Google searches by > other lost souls, the configuration parameters relating to users and > groups are: > > MAILUSER > MAILGROUP > MAILUID > MAILGID > > These appear to be set automatically by a correct install of Authlib, > where mailuser and mailgroup get assigned the highlevel user and > group names, eg courier and courier, and the mailuid and mailgid get > assigned the number id values. > > You can certainly overide the first two when compiling courier by > using --with-mailuser and --with-mailgroup and I'd suspect you could > overide the last two with --with-mailuid and --with-mailgid > although, as Sam will quickly point out, that should not be necessary > if everything else is properly configured. God knows what else would > be missing if you adopted that route, and I'm sick of watching > courier build at this stage to go back and see.
Ummm... No. Go back and read Sam's posts again... Sam Varshavchik wrote: > The --with-mailuser and --with-mailgroup options are not documented > anywhere in INSTALL, and you are not to use them directly. They are for > internal use only. Sam Varshavchik also wrote: > Forget that these two options exist, for Courier. Wipe them from your > memory. --with-mailuser and --with-mailgroup _CAN_NOT_BE_USED_ when building Courier. If you want to adjust the mailuser and mailgroup for Courier, you must do it while building Courier-Authlib. Courier gets these values from the Courier-Authlib installation. -- Bowie ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
