I'm fairly sure that the only part of qmail that ezmlm requires is the availability of a .qmail file, along with custom .qmail-foo type files. Postfix can provide similar files as .forward and .forward-foo files. This requires tweaking some configuration variables, so I can understand a warning when installing with Postfix, but I shouldn't have to edit the ebuild or install manually. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. export USE="-mailwrapper" 2. emerge postfix 3. emerge ezmlm Actual Results: ezmlm refuses to install, because qmail is blocked by postfix Expected Results: ezmlm should not depend on qmail. If anything, it should depend on virtual/mta or virtual/mda, I'm not sure which. emerge info isn't relevant. Is it?
Besides reading http://www.postfix.org/VERP_README.html what other things do you suggest to put in a README.gentoo-postfix file ? I want to fix this but won't do it with a proper documentation since upstream sais it is designed to work *only* with qmail. Cheers, Ferdy
Look in the postfix config file. There's an option for such-and-such delimiter in there. I'm packing for a weeklong trip right now, otherwise I'd boot up my postfix test box and find it for you, but it's the only mention of the delimiter in the example config. If you want me to write the README.gentoo-postfix file, wait about 10-11 days for me to get back from Hawaii. Otherwise, it's probably better to talk to the Postfix people, not the ezmlm people.
Hrm, is this moot now? "fuji ~ # emerge -p ezmlm These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "net-mail/ezmlm" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-mail/ezmlm-0.53-r1 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Torsten Veller <tove@gentoo.org> (29 Dec 2008) # Unmaintained net-mail packages # Masked for removal in 30 days # 251383 - 29 Dec 2008 For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. fuji ~ #"
i assume this is also true for ezmlm-idx?
David, can you confirm that ezmlm-idx also works fine with postfix, similarly to how ezmlm did? ie, should something be done about this bug, or can it be closed due to the removal of ezmlm from the tree?
