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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] vpopmail's emerge directory structure
From:       "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2003-10-31 23:13:53
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:00:50PM -0700, Corey Crawford wrote:
> Afternoon everyone,
> 
> Can someone explain to me the reasoning behind putting vpopmail's tcp.smtp
> file in /etc?
> 
> Since my vpopmail runs as user 'vpopmail' it doesn't have access to write in
> /etc which causes problems when trying to update this file. Is there some
> reason we no longer want it in /var/vpopmail/etc (where was not too long
> ago)?
The file doesn't belong to vpopmail exclusively. It really belongs to
qmail, and vpopmail wants to add and remove items from it for it's
misguiding implementation of relaying.

Qmail looks at /etc/tcp.smtp via tcpserver, which only allows a single
file to be specified, so there is also a tcp.smtp is in
/var/vpopmail/etc, then qmail NEVER looks at it, as it really needs
/etc/tcp.smtp.

A much better overall solution is to use the relay-ctrl package (see my
notes in the latest qmail conf-smtpd and courier-imap stuff about it).

> Also, anyone know of a way to have emerge ignore my mysql USE flag when
> emerging vpopmail? :)
USE="-mysql" emerge vpopmail

But vpopmail is much more useful with mysql or some form of
non-flat database.

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