Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 15:28:04 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Courier-IMAPD problem with fam(d) Message-ID: <42DCFFE4.9080602@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <865F9A0C-9977-44A8-AEB7-E1F61BAEF16B@hiwaay.net> References: <D7EA0FAB-5F67-47AD-AC90-39DC8B01440D@hiwaay.net> <42DCE5C9.2060002@t-hosting.hu> <865F9A0C-9977-44A8-AEB7-E1F61BAEF16B@hiwaay.net>
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David Kelly wrote:
>
> On Jul 19, 2005, at 6:36 AM, Kövesdán Gábor wrote:
>
>>
>> The mail/courier-imap port installs famd as a dependency, but You
>> have to manually configure and start it. Take a look at /usr/local/
>> etc/fam.conf.
>
>
> I don't see anything about starting there or in fam(1M) other than
> "if fam is started by inetd".
>
Honestly speaking I don't know how to start it. Maybe inetd starts it,
maybe courier-imap or You might start it manually?! Unfortunately I dont
have such problems You have without fam. But if You have found out
please let me know, I'm interested. :)
>> Anyway, this is a deficiency in the new versions of courier-imap.
>> There isn't some kind of --without-fam configure options, the new
>> versions require fam.
>
>
> /usr/ports/mail/courier-imap/Makefile says fam is disabled by default:
>
> OPTIONS= OPENSSL "Build with OpenSSL
> support" on \
> FAM "Build in fam support for IDLE
> command" off \
> DRAC "Build in DRAC
> support" off \
> TRASHQUOTA "Include deleted mails in the
> quota" off \
> GDBM "Use gdbm db instead of system
> bdb" off \
> IPV6 "Build with IPv6
> support" on
>
If You take a look what the WITH_FAM macro actually does, You'll see it
only adds fam as a dependency and adds some extra cc flags, but leave
the CONFIGURE_ARGS untouched. Afaik fam can't be actually disabled in
courier-imap.
.if defined(WITH_FAM) || exists(${LOCALBASE}/lib/libfam.so)
CONFIGURE_ENV= CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS}"
LDFLAGS+= -L${LOCALBASE}/lib
LIB_DEPENDS+= fam.0:${PORTSDIR}/devel/fam
.endif
> I suspect but haven't been able to prove fam is somehow running, if
> only as a library linked to imapd. When Mail.app has "connection"
> problems its instantly disconnected but sometimes a few messages get
> thru. Sometimes a simple ssh to the FreeBSD machine, mutt to view the
> mailbox, close it with messages now tagged as old, is all it takes
> for Mail.app and courier-imap combination to be happy.
Likely there is the libfam.so linked, as You can see above, but that is
only a prerequisite to use famd. Famd must be running as a separate
process and courier-imap connects to famd with the help of libfam.
Cheers,
Gábor Kövesdán
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