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mach.82
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 Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 7:05 am Post subject: emerge mailman with USE flags courier & postfix? [Resolv |
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Hi, I want to emerge mailman but unsure what USE flags to enable? If I issue the bash command emerge mailman pv I get the following:
| Quote: | | [ebuild N ] net-mail/mailman-2.1.8_rc1 +apache2 -courier -exim -postfix -qmail -sendmail -xmail 6,695 kB |
And the Gentoo Linux Use Variable Descriptions from http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml does not provide any explanation for the USE flags courier and postfix.
Question1: I have setup my MTA using the Virtual Mailhosting System with Postfix Guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml, should I emerge mailman with the courier and postfix flags? Like this:
| Code: | | USE=courier postfix emerge mailman |
Question2: What do these two USE flags (courier and postfix) do within mailman?
Thanks!
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simeli
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| Posted: Tue May 23, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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net-mail/mailman:courier - Build with delivery options for courier
net-mail/mailman:postfix - Build with delivery options for postfix
what this exactly means I don't know. I guess the postfix flag has something to do with the aliases used by mailman. don't have my gentoo box up at the moment so i can't check.
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.
Networking stuff, so moved here.
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mach.82
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Hi, simeli, I found the answer (I think?)! It is in the mailman-2.1.8_rc1.ebuild between line 25 and line 39 as follows:
| Quote: | if use postfix; then
MAILGID="280"
elif use sendmail; then
MAILGID=daemon
elif use qmail; then
MAILGID=qmail
elif use courier; then
MAILGID=mail
elif use exim; then
MAILGID=mail
elif use xmail; then
MAILGID=xmail
else
MAILGID="280"
fi |
It appears that the variable is used to set the compile option --with-mail-gid= ${MAILGID} on line 62 of the ebuild and that the variable defaults to postfix with GID=280. Therefore if you are using postfix, one can ignore all the (MTA) flags (aka postfix, sendmail, qmail, courier, exim and xmail) or alternatively change to one of the supported MTA so that the group user is compiled in correctly. |
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simeli
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: |
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ah good, that seems to make sense. however, if i have postfix as my mta and courier as my imapd and popd, what do you think would be correct?
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Hi, simeli, postfix would be the one you want to include in your USE flag but since postfix is the default, so in this case, it doesn't matter! But if you use mail-mta/courier as your "MTA" then you would:
| Code: | emerge -C mail-mta/postfix
USE="courier" emerge mail-mta/courier |
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