Cyrus_imap23

[jekillen]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 9:09 PM, Scot Hetzel wrote:

> On 11/28/07, Kellen <jekillen at prodigy.net> wrote:
>>
>
>> This brings up another question. But first
>> let me explain a little. I tried pkg_info Cyrus-imap23
>> and got the response that no package by that name
>> was installed and could not be found, Well, of course
>> that is probably not the exact name and the exact name
>> is expected. So I just cd'd to the Cyrus-imap23 dir in
>> ports and did pkg_info with no parameter and got a
>> long list of stuff, including a lot of X11 and X windows
>> stuff.
>> The question is, if I do not know the exact name of
>> a package, how can I do pkg_info on it.
>
> It is quite simple to do a pkg_info on a port you don't know the exact 
> name:
>
> cd /usr/ports/mail/Cyrus-imap23
> pkg_info `make -V PKGNAME`
>
> or look in /var/db/pkg for the ports that have already been installed.
>
>> A corollary question is: How do I find out exactly how
>> much configuration a port has applied once a port
>> is installed. Apache with php; with or without ssl, might be a typical
>> example.
>
> The port maintainers try to create the ports so that you have minimal
> amount of work to configure the ports.  But you still need to review
> the configuration files installed for each port to ensure they are
> appropriate for you system.
>
>> Thus, there is a lot of configuration steps to get Cyrus
>> up and running with Postfix, ClamAV, Amavis new, Spamassassin,
>> PAM, SASL, mysql and all that. How do I find out how much 
>> configuration
>> a port has done in a case like this.
>
> Just break the task into steps that need to be accomplished to reach 
> your goal:
>
> assuming your using mysql to contain users:
> 1. configure postfix to send/receive mail for your domain
> 2. configure mysql server
> 3. setup pam_mysql
> 4. configure cyrus-sasl to authenticate users from mysql
> 5. configure cyrus-imapd
> 6. configure postfix to deliver messages to cyrus-imapd, test message 
> delivery
> 7. configure ClamAV
> 8. configure Amavis
> 9. configure postfix to have Amavis scan messages, test message 
> delivery
> 10. configure Spamassassion
> 11. configure postfix to scan messages for spam with Spamassassion,
> test message delivery.
> 12. monitor mail delivery until your satisfied that it is working 
> properly.
>
>> I did add Cyrus-imap23 and am
>> wondering if it also installed Cyrus SASl. It did create the Cyrus 
>> user
>> and mail group; I found that out when I went to create the Cyrus user
>> and mail group myself. I do not see a separate port for Cyrus SASL.
>
> There is a separate port for Cyrus-sasl2:
>
> /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2
>
> Scot
>

Thanks for the info
Much appreciated.
I got a copy of the new Absolute FreeBSD, and will be digging into it 
soon.
Jeff K