Re: courier will be missing in the next stable version of Debian and Devuan

>>>>> unfortunately it will not be feasible to continue using courier as>>>>> mail on the servers working with Devuan.>>>>>>>> These kinds of things are always a question of supply/demand. If there's not>>>> enough Devuan user base to result in someone deciding to go ahead and put some>>>> elbow grease in this, then that's what it is.>>>>>> I'm running Courier under Devuan and I feel perfectly well compiling from>>> sources. I have a do-conf file for running configure with my custom options>>> and a postinst.sh which tweaks a few quirks, i.e. patch sendit.sh so as to sign>>> messages from webmail, set permissions of webmail, wrap sendmail to catch>>> local errors, strip debug info into separate files.>>>> Many thanks to all the people who have taken the time to answer me.>>>> Alessandro, if you feel comfortable doing so (no problem if you don't), I would appreciate it if you could document the process, share patches and/or extra files and whatever you think would help. I understand that you compile with the classic "configure & make & make install" and don't create deb packages, but it is interesting and helpful in any case. I prefer to continue trying to create deb packages without dependency on systemd (in the time I have spent so far using the debian folder included in the sources as a base I was not able to get rid of systemd with the changes I was making), but I don't rule out the classic "configure & make & make install" if that saves my mail servers (I like courier, I have spent time over the years understanding it and I want to avoid migrating to something else).>>> I don't do-conf is much useful/ portable. Modify it as needed. In particular, mind existing configs and queues.>> DON'T COPY AND RUN AS IS!>> The following code might just be useful to bring ideas about possible handling of Courier tarballs.>
Thank you very much (both) for your help.
Ale, don't worry, I don't plan to execute your code as is, but it can be very useful.
Best regards!

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