Sean Reifschneider wrote:
>
> As I have actually used both vmailmgr and vpopmail, I may be able to provide
> some comparison information. It boils down to: I've switched to using
> vpopmail these days.
>
> vpopmail doesn't have an RPM, which kind of sucks. Making an RPM is hard
> because vpopmail compiles the user ID of the "vpopmail" account into the
> binary. I started on some patches to fix this, but ran out of time.
This can be solved, don't ask me how though. ;) Create a src rpm file,
then it will build and install in one step or how ever it is setup.
I have installed some programs on freebsd and openbsd with pkg_add (sort
of like a rpm type installer) and it does it all from start to finish.
I put pine on a openbsd box and used package add (pkg_add) it looked to
see if it was available local then went to pine's ftp site (and mirrors)
and fetched it, untar'd it made it, installed it and removed the .tar
file. You can set it not to remove the downloaded file if you want.
I imagine an RPM file could be setup the same way for vpopmail.
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Dale Miracle
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