From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 6 09:13:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0AC616A416 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 09:13:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mbp@cs.hmc.edu) Received: from happy-hardcore.st.hmc.edu (happy-hardcore.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.56.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4C6D43D70 for ; Sat, 6 May 2006 09:13:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mbp@cs.hmc.edu) Received: from [134.173.60.208] (ghettotech.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.60.208]) by happy-hardcore.st.hmc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7E8B865; Sat, 6 May 2006 02:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <445C68C0.3070103@cs.hmc.edu> Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 02:13:36 -0700 From: Marshall Pierce User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060430) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk References: <20060506082126.GA20053@lothlorien.nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20060506082126.GA20053@lothlorien.nagual.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: gamin - fam X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 09:13:42 -0000 On 05/06/06 01:21, dick hoogendijk wrote: > Does anybody have a solution for the gamin / fam problem. > Afaics only the courier package needs FAM still. > So, I have two questions: > > (a) does courier run well without fam support? > (b) does courier run with gamin support? > > As it gets more and more packages that depend on gamin and not on fam it > seems obvious that I change the fam support to gamin. But I don't want to > harm my courier mailer system (I use the MTA, IMAP and POP3 units) > I could be wrong, but the I'm pretty sure that the last time I checked, courier-imapd (which is the only one of the three that I use) only needed fam if you wanted to use its "enhanced idle" mode that will notify clients when mail arrives (by watching users' maildirs with fam) in pretty close to real-time. I use it, and it's a nice (if essentially cosmetic) feature. I don't think the POP protocol has any facility similar to IMAP's enhanced idle, so I don't see how fam would be used there. I use Postfix for my MTA, so I am not familiar with courier's MTA, but I suspect that it wouldn't use fam either. (Why would it need to?) If you're willing to simply check for new (IMAP) mail every X minutes, then you don't need fam. (I think. :) I haven't tried getting it to use gamin, though. -Marshall Pierce