From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 22:03:23 2005 Return-Path: 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 EC2CF16A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:03:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B120343D1D for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 22:03:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@users.sourceforge.net) Received: from pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.21])2004))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:03:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I9N003QKRXN6W50@pd3mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:03:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I9N00K3GRXNCW@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:03:23 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 15:03:23 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: To: artware Message-id: <20050101220323.GA1119@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: courier-imap installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 22:03:24 -0000 On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 02:57:34PM -0600, artware wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I'm a n00b to FreeBSD, and I'm trying to install courier-imap > with 5.3, but I'm not sure what steps I should be taking. I did: > pkg_add -r courier-imap > However, when I do: > /usr/local/libexec/courier-imap/imapd.rc start > (as the courier-imap manual instructs), it gives me: > /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd does not exist, forgot make > install-configure? Did you look in the /usr/local/etc/courier-imap directory? It will contain a number of *.dist files that you will have to copy and modify to configure your installation. For example, if you want to serve imap you will have to rename imapd.dist to imapd and edit the resulting /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd file so that it is configured the way you want. The file is heavily commented and the necessary changes should be trivial. > Which is odd, because imapd actually seems to be in > /usr/local/bin/imapd, and I would assume that courier-imap was That is the executable. > configured properly when it was prepared as a port. I would just It was installed properly, but quite a few ports require some post- install configuration, especially on the server side. -- Danny