Re: Upgrading FreeBSD.
Hello, mergemaster will take care of /etc. But how about the other configuration files?, Could you please tell me where i can find proper documentation for upgrading freebsd4.5 to 4.8. Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:13:59AM -0700, Naveen Glore wrote: Hello all, I have a freeBSD 4.5-Release server. I could not find any packages available for 4.5 version at freebsd ftp site. So i decided to upgrade it to FreeBSD 4.8-Release. Can i upgrade the server without any change in its current configuration. There are always changes to the configuration files in /etc as part of the ongoing development of FreeBSD. One of the upgrade steps is to run the mergemaster utility, which lets you merge in these changes into your existing configuration files. Please read the associated documentation, and remember to make a full backup before attempting any upgrades. Kris ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Upgrading FreeBSD.
Hello all, I have a freeBSD 4.5-Release server. I could not find any packages available for 4.5 version at freebsd ftp site. So i decided to upgrade it to FreeBSD 4.8-Release. Can i upgrade the server without any change in its current configuration. Thanks, Naveen. - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server
Hello, Gary, thankyou for all the information. I will start working on setting up the mail server. Thanks, Naveen Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Naveen, --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 12:42:00 PM -0700 Naveen Glore wrote: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted from server. Now with IMAP i think i need to do something for it. Is there a way to direct mails to /usr. Does this message redirection create any problem in configuring MUA?. If you set up qmail to use /Maildir/ format, mail is stored in each users home dir under his/hers Maildir, so it would be under /usr/home/whomever... even root, for security reasons is assigned or aliased to a user. A Maildir is made with the command maildirmake as that user, in his $HOME. You can put in a Maildir in skel and it will automatically make a Maildir for each new user. Inside each Maildir there are 3 dirs, new, cur, tmp.. This is automatically created with the maildirmake command. Don't worry, if you will use IMAP, any MUA that can use IMAP will read the dirs properly... Providing you use a IMAP client that supports Maildir, as mentioned, Bincimap or Courier. -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server
Hello, I understand that qmail is very secured than sendmail. Since these two are completly different from each other, is it difficult to change from sendmail to qmail? i would really appreciate if you could tell me where i can find proper documentation for it. I need documentation which explains how to change sendmail MTA to qmail. Thankyou gary and chris for all the information. Naveen. Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 04:54:59PM -0700 or thereabouts, Chris Pressey wrote: Gary wrote: I choose qmail. BTW, I build them from source, not from the ports... The ports seem to have several patches in there which most people do not need. FYI, I think the patches you are referring to are optional; they're only applied if you build the port with an explicit build option, like make WITH_QMAILQUEUE_PATCH=yes The patches included with the port (i.e. /usr/ports/mail/qmail/files) only affect how qmail is installed, AFAICT. thank you Chris for that info. It is good to know. -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server
Hello, I will start going through lifewithqmail.org. Would like to clear few more things: In mailserver I think the messages will be stored in var/mail/accountname (correct me if i am wrong). I have very less disk space for /var. This was not a concern with POP3 because messages get deleted from server. Now with IMAP i think i need to do something for it. Is there a way to direct mails to /usr. Does this message redirection create any problem in configuring MUA?. Thanks, Naveen. Chris Pressey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:18:54 -0500 Gary wrote: Hi Chris, Hey :) [...] --On Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:03:33 AM -0700 Chris Pressey wrote: Er - you mean running two different MTA's on different interfaces on the same machine? Sure, I guess you could do that, if you wanted... Actually, I was referring to running a MUA that does not use the Sendmail switch automatically, as Mutt would use, but something like KMail, or whatever, which requires one to put in the SMTP address (IIRC). Ah. Well, I admit I'm less familiar with setting qmail up to play nice with MUAs. In fact I must make a guilty confession: I'm still making qmail deliver to mbox format until I can figure out how to get Sylpheed to grok Maildirs. I haven't used Mutt or KMail yet, either. I'm just referring to how FreeBSD's MTA wrapper lets you switch between sendmail, qmail, and any other sendmail-compatible MTA (say, Postfix) without too much effort. Okay, I am now seeing a better appreciation of how this FBSD MTA wrapper works, allowing one to switch MTAs almost on the fly... cool I'm not sure it could do it on the fly... but pretty darn close, yeah :) Thanks for your input.. Glad I can help. And you're right, Life with Qmail is probably the best qmail tutorial on the net. (When I first set up qmail, I went solely on djb's docs -- *ouch*! It took like a week to even begin to figure it out.) I didn't mean to imply that LwQ is lacking FreeBSD information, just that if you're going to run qmail under FreeBSD, it's good to keep abreast to FreeBSD developments that affect MTAs... because unlike qmail, FreeBSD changes regularly :) -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server
Hello all, I have a freeBSD server. Currently I am using POP3 server with MS outlook as mail client. I would like to change POP3 to IMAP so that i can have a centralized email system. Could anyone suggest me some good documentation for converting POP3 to IMAP. Please let me know if there are any important things i need to keep in mind while making that change. Thanks, Naveen. - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing from POP3 server to IMAP server
Hello, Currently I am using sendmail MTA. I heard that sendmail is not very secured. Do i need to switch to qmail before going for IMAP? Thanks, Naveen. Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, September 29, 2003 01:25:46 PM -0700 Naveen Glore wrote: I have a freeBSD server. Currently I am using POP3 server with MS outlook as mail client. I would like to change POP3 to IMAP so that i can have a centralized email system. They are two separate protocols. What you need is an IMAP server. You can leave your POP server on too if you wish. You can have both. Could anyone suggest me some good documentation for converting POP3 to IMAP. Please let me know if there are any important things i need to keep in mind while making that change. The docs come with the type of IMAP server you wish to use. I would classify IMAP servers as to how they handle your mail. Some like UW uses, I believe, mbox format. Cyrus uses its own format, and I believe can convert mbox format to its own. If you currently run Maildir format type mail, there are two that come to mind, Bincimap and Courier.. -- Gary ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing Ethernet Driver.
hey, While installing FreeBSD4.5 from CD on my system, I could not install the driver for the ethernet. After installing the freeBSD, I checked ifconfig and found no entry for the ethernet. Well, since i did not install any driver for ethernet during installation of FreeBSD its obvious that there is no information about the ethernet in ifconfig. My question is : how can i install the ethernet driver and also how can i find the proper driver for it. Thanks in advance. Ramana. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
