From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 20 10: 5: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ralf.artlogix.com (sense-mcglk-240.oz.net [216.39.168.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28A7037B41A for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:05:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by ralf.artlogix.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 838981B9D3B; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 10:05:00 -0800 (PST) To: Simon Siemonsma Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building postfix from ports References: <200201201546.QAA02075@smtp.hccnet.nl> From: Ken McGlothlen Date: 20 Jan 2002 10:05:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: <200201201546.QAA02075@smtp.hccnet.nl> Message-ID: <87hepg6gqb.fsf@ralf.artlogix.com> Lines: 68 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Simon Siemonsma writes: | 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. That's a little like telling the car salesman that you just want a car, and don't care whether it's an automatic or manual transmission. In order: * Perl Compatible Regular Expressions If you're a Perl user, this can be very useful, as you can use all the Perl regex syntax you're familiar with. If you're not, you'll find this confusing. So use this if you're a Perl user. * Cyrus SASL If you use Cyrus as your IMAP server, set this; if not, don't. * Berkeley DB3 If you've installed db3 on your system, you may want to use this. db3 is a fast, if minimalist, database system that Postfix can use to speed up lookups. If you don't use db3 on your system, or have a fairly small mail installation, don't use this. * MySQL map lookups If you have MySQL on your system, you have the option of telling Postfix that you want to use it for map lookups. If you don't, or if you have a small mail installation, don't use it. * OpenLDAP map lookups If you're using OpenLDAP, you can use it for map lookups instead. If you don't, or you have a small mail installation, don't use it. * SMTP/LMTP test server and generator Almost certainly unnecessary for your installation. * Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security If you want to use SSL or TLS for mail transfer, use this. If not, don't. * IPv6 support If you're using IPv6 addresses, you'll want to use this. If not, don't. The postfix port tries to make this really, really easy for you, but perhaps it would be better if it provided a little more explanation for the options. In any case, it's not trying to be confusing. If you don't like this, then you definitely don't want to install ghostscript. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message