From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 9:43:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C549037B404 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 09:43:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16SM0W-00011g-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:43:52 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.intra, from userid 500) id E3F99117F; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:43:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 18:43:51 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building postfix from ports Message-ID: <20020120174351.GC1952@raggedclown.net> References: <200201201546.QAA02075@smtp.hccnet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200201201546.QAA02075@smtp.hccnet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:52:04PM +0000, Simon Siemonsma wrote: > When I type make in /usr/ports/postfix I get asked if want to install stuff > like: > Perl Compatible Regular Expressions > Curus SASL > Berkeley DB3 > MySQL map lookups > OpenLDAP map lookups > SMTP/LMTP test server and generator > Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security > IPv6 support > > What the hell is this? I just want to build postfix. > Postfix can support all of the above directly, should you so wish. For example you may use LDAP for your hosts database, etc. If you don't know what they are all for, then you probably don't need them :). I would select the Perl regex support though and ignore the others. But it is hard to say without knowing your local situation (you may work in an environment where SSL/TLS matters for example). -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message