From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 16:12:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BA637B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:12:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mrburns.nildram.co.uk (mrburns.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D579443F75 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:12:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owps@nildram.co.uk) Received: from UebiMiau (jupiter2.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.138]) by mrburns.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 82CB61D713C; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:12:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from client 194.222.18.174 for UebiMiau2.7 (webmail client); Fri, 28 Mar 2003 0:12:30 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 0:12:30 -0000 From: "Orton Wistow Primary School" To: "Anti" X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: UebiMiau 2.7 X-Original-IP: 194.222.18.174 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MSMail-Priority: Medium Importance: Medium Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20030328001230.82CB61D713C@mrburns.nildram.co.uk> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=INVALID_DATE,MISSING_MIMEOLE,MISSING_OUTLOOK_NAME, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:49:50 -0800 cc: "ports@FreeBSD.org"@mrburns.nildram.co.uk cc: yds@CoolRat.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: courier-0.39.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Orton Wistow Primary School List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 00:12:35 -0000 > On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:28:28 -0000 > "Richard Laxton" <ict@owps.org.uk> wrote: > > > Hi there > > > > Got FreeBSD5.0 Release trying to install courier and running into a problem. > > I've tried using the documentation on the courier website, but the paths are > > different in FreeBSD to what is listed in the manual so I am well and truly > > confused. > > > > What I am trying to do is configure the webadmin to run from my Apache > > cgi-bin folder; all I get is > > "For security reasons, the default configuration of webadmin prevents access > > from non-local IP addresses without SSL. See INSTALL for more information." > > > > So I read the manual and it says I need to create a file saying its okay to > > not use SSL ... that's where my problem starts. I don't actually have the > > same file path it suggests. This is the part of the readme I am attempting > > to follow : > > http://www.courier-mta.org/install.html#webadmin > > It gives and error when I try to run step 2 (it says make doesn't how to run > > the command given) and the little note right under step 3 is where I get a > > folder doesn't exist message. > > > > I'd be appreciate of any help, even if you know where there might be a guide > > / manual for installing courier that uses FreeBSD as its base instead of > > whatever branding of *nix that guide uses :) > > > the ports version of courier-mta is horribly outdated and broken in many ways... > install the latest version from source instead... > > "touch /usr/local/etc/courier/webadmin/unsecureok" to create the file making non-ssl ok... > Okay I'll go read the part of the handbook dealing with compiling and grab the latest version from source :) Thanks a lot :) Richard laxton