is pkg saying courier and postfix are incompatible?

[Dale Scott]

> On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:18 PM, Daniel Staal <DStaal at usa.net> wrote:
> 
> --As of September 17, 2014 3:25:04 PM -0600, Dale Scott is alleged to have said:
> 
>> I then installed the main courier pkg thinking there might be undocumented
>> dependencies. Pkg reported during install that courier was incompatible
>> with Postfix, and would be uninstalling Postfix for me. I hoped I could
>> re-install Postfix later, but now pkg is telling me it needs to delete
>> courier to install Postfix, so it seems there is some incompatibility
>> between the two.
> 
> --As for the rest, it is mine.
> 
> This is correct - Courier (the 'main' port/package) and Postfix are mutually incompatible, in the same way Postfix and Sendmail are. Courier-main is a mail server - the same as Postfix, Sendmail, Exim, etc. You aren't going to want more than one of those installed on your system at the same time.

That makes sense. Thanks 

> The Courier project though developed several other mail-handing programs - the most popular of which (and more common than the mail server itself) is the IMAP server, and associated authentication server.  That's what you are trying to install, and it works just fine with Postfix - I was using it until very recently in that capacity.

So courier-authlib-ldap is a full LDAP server? I'm already using OpenLDAP, which I would prefer to leave it as-is. I thought courier-authlib-ldap might be an interface from courier-authlib to a 3rd-party LDAP server (i.e. OpenLDAP).

>  (I switched to Dovecot, which a lot of people like.  It seems to be more up-to-date, although I haven't seen the speed increases people claim.)

Do you know if it's difficult to setup Dovecot to authenticate a webmail username and password using /etc/master.passwd (like the Hong recipe with courier-authlib), or authenticate using an OpenLDAP server?

> So, yes you've departed significantly from the howto you were using.  ;) Courier-main you need to uninstall.  Courier-IMAP and Courier-auth you'll need to keep.
> 
> Daniel T. Staal
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