From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 5 15:28:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15DE14BF8 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 15:28:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA54864; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:27:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 18:27:30 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Troy Settle Cc: Vadim Chekan , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: imap, postfix, freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Troy Settle wrote: > > Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > > > However, I think that the CYRUS IMAP server is somewhat nicer > > than IMAP-UW. > > > Is anybody looking at updating the port ? > > > > I tryed to run it but there are a problem. New Cyrus uses PAM. But > > non-root user hasn't got permissions to athentificate user by pam_unix. > > I don't know is this a feature or bug. It's possible to use Curus's > > users database. > > > > As far as I can tell, the newer cyrus will still use pwcheck, but only > through that SASL crap, which, when building with --with-pwcheck, it chokes > and pukes. On my list of things to do this week, is to figure out what the > folks at CMU have been smoking and how it's affected their ability to create > clean code and reasonable documentation. I've provided Larry Greenfield with an account on one of my FreeBSD machines so he can test compiles/portability on FreeBSD 3.3. His predecessor, Tim Showalter, used one of my machines for the same thing, but I guess we'll wait and see if Larry actually does it or not :-). Of late, I've been thinking of setting up a freebsd-build.watson.org and allowing developers to try building their software there to test FreeBSD compatibility. I do this for a couple of people now (KeyNote, Cyrus) and it seems to work fairly well for people working entirely in userland. Any thoughts on the feasibility of this? Part of the problem of a "ports" collection is that the changes often don't get submitted back to the original maintainer of the software, leading to problems on updates, and more than one point of maintenance. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message