On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream:
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote:I think the difficulties arise where there is no application distribution mechanism such as ports.On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream:
Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you have a very powerful front end mail system.
I *gather* (not in front of a FreeBSD box at this moment) that IMP is *not* in ports, otherwise (surely) installation wouldn't be *that* complex? Configging maybe, but install-wise ports 'apps just; "slide right in there" - usually :-)
I'm baffled by all this. IMP is easy to install and set up. It is in the ports tree, together with several other useful horde components:
From /usr/ports/www/horde2/pkg-descr:
Horde is used by these ports: mail/imp3, mail/turba, devel/chora, deskutils/kronolith, deskutils/nag, www/jonah, net/nic, devel/whups, and deskutils/mnemo
Horde applications have an intuitive folder structure, clearly identified config files and, the dozen or so times I've had to set this up, it's always just worked first time.
Now you mention it, I seem to recall a shedload of issues if you had to download the source and build it by hand. There were definite gotchas in that process I believe.
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