Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:23:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail/postfix default build options request: SASL In-Reply-To: <559B6791.7050407@FreeBSD.org> References: <559B643F.3060409@calorieking.com> <559B6791.7050407@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 7/07/2015 3:31 PM, Gregory Orange wrote: >> I don't know if this is a helpful forum to raise it, but I would like to >> request that SASL be enabled in the default build options for >> mail/postfix. We don't use the upstream Postfix package but have noticed that sites serving IMAP use Dovecot more often than other impads by a large margin. > +1 on security related options enabled by default > +1 on OPTIONS_DEFAULT matching upstream defaults > -1 on OPTIONS_DEFAULT introducing large dependency sets Agreed and should note that mail/postfix' unnecessary build-time dependency on perl can be just as problematic. Most of the time we simply delete any references to perl from the Makefile, otherwise it's a real pain to wait through a perl build as many/most systems don't have it installed. Roger
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