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Bug 207657 - mail-mta/mini-qmail - /var/mini-qmail vs. /var/qmail
Summary: mail-mta/mini-qmail - /var/mini-qmail vs. /var/qmail
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal
Assignee: SpanKY
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Reported: 2008-01-27 07:43 UTC by Andreas Korsten
Modified: 2008-04-06 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Korsten 2008-01-27 07:43:13 UTC
The mini-qmail ebuild doesn't USE mailwrapper and conflicts with netqmail (which is ok) but installs qmail into /var/mini-qmail instead of /var/qmail, which causes certain problems:

- /etc/env.d/99qmail contains wrong paths

- packages relying on qmail being installed in /var/qmail (like net-mail/mess822) don't work

Suggested solutions:
- create a symlink /var/qmail -> mini-qmail
- better: install in /var/qmail instead of /var/mini-qmail
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2008-01-27 10:22:00 UTC
mini-qmail by design isnt supposed to do anything except redirect messages to a real qmail server ... do all of your customizations on that server

/var/mini-qmail/ is the upstream default path
Comment 2 Andreas Korsten 2008-01-27 12:01:44 UTC
mini-qmail by design isn't supposed to do anything except letting local
programs/users use the qmail-binaries (sendmail, qmail-inject etc.).
That's why they must be in PATH, which isn't the case at the moment.

What's more, packages like mess822 have /var/qmail/bin compiled in.

Changing anything on the qmqp-server won't help here, im afraid.
Comment 3 Andreas Korsten 2008-02-04 20:43:53 UTC
ACtually, there's another problem.  The current ebuild overwrites /usr/sbin/sendmail if mailwrapper is installed.  As none of you lot can be bothered to do anything about it, I've put an ebuild in my private overlay that adresses all the problems mentioned before:

http://dev.korsten.org/layman.xml
Comment 4 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-04-06 18:19:39 UTC
fixed in mini-qmail-1.06