A child Postfix port with TLS enabled by default

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Sun Mar 30 19:55:58 UTC 2014


On 2014-03-30 21:20, Sahil Tandon wrote:
> Some people have asked for TLS to be enabled by default in mail/postfix.
> I have been reluctant in order to abide by POLA, and to be consistent
> with how Wietse distributes Postfix upstream. Recently, bz@ proposed an
> alternative:
> 
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~bz/20140228-01-postfix-tls.diff
> 
> I updated the patch, primarly to adjust CONFLICTS:
> 
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~sahil/postfix-tls.diff
> 
> Because I have seldom worked with child ports, and mail/postfix is
> widely deployed, I would appreciate feedback from -ports before
> proceeding. If there is no opposition within a week or so, I will go
> ahead and commit.
> 

Hm,

the patch from bz@ should use this form

- OPTIONS_DEFAULT=PCRE TLS
+ OPTIONS_SLAVE=TLS

this way TLS is always ON for the slave and cannot switched OFF by accident

-- 
Regards,
olli


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