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Bug 84129 - net-mail/ezmlm-idx depends on qmail, but it can work just as well with postfix
Summary: net-mail/ezmlm-idx depends on qmail, but it can work just as well with postfix
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2005-03-04 13:52 UTC by David Masover
Modified: 2019-10-20 16:48 UTC (History)
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Description David Masover 2005-03-04 13:52:12 UTC
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?
Comment 1 Fernando J. Pereda (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-05 05:10:49 UTC
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
Comment 2 David Masover 2005-03-06 12:24:56 UTC
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.
Comment 3 Jesse Adelman 2009-03-07 22:23:04 UTC
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 ~ #"
Comment 4 Benedikt Böhm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-07-07 20:46:57 UTC
i assume this is also true for ezmlm-idx?
Comment 5 Ian Stakenvicius (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-01-07 16:10:04 UTC
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?