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Hi,

Altough it's very understandable that you want to live close to Debian, so in 
case of an upgrade, you know apt and dselect will handle it correctly.

But if you think about it a bit longer, you might find that just NOT 
installing courier imap/pop3d, will also succeed any upgrade...

and since you installed qmail-ldap already from source ( I suppose ) you also 
have easy control over updates from qmail-ldap (and qmail-pop3d/imapd).

I was using the debian qmail package, and tried to install qmail-ldap patch 
over it - some time ago I stopped with that completely, and now always use 
'raw' source stuff. And was bitten in the back, because one day 
inexplainable, the qmail package for debian was updated and it wiped out my 
self compiled binaries !

So, to conclude:
- - don't use debian qmail package
- - compile your own, and install it in a directory you want (/var/qmail is 
fine, of course).
- - don't try to 'fit in' debian's directory structure. You may, of course, make 
symlinks from /etc/qmail to /var/qmail/control, it makes life easier.
- - use daemontools to stop and start the services, the scripts in ~boot are 
pretty cool

Cheers,
_ace

PS and I am glad I got rid of courier package (quite large) and can use 
qmail-imapd now!

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