Re: eQmail or s/qmail

On 2016-05-16 19:18, Manvendra Bhangui wrote:
> qmail uses hardcoded uid/gids generated during make. This makes it
> unsuitable to deploy RPM/debs. You also cannot backup the binaries and
> restore it on another machine, unless the qmail users and groups are
> exactly the same as that on the machine where the qmail binary was
> compiled.
I don't think this is absolutely correct and could led into 
missunderstandings. And package maintainers of a distro should be able 
to handle these UID/GID's.

> This problem was solved in indimail-mta / indimail. Also
> indimail-mta/indimail does not use hardcoded directories e.g.
> /var/qmail/control, /var/qmail/queue gets replaced by environment
> variables CONTROLDIR, QUEUEDIR. I use build.opensuse.org to generate
> the RPMs and debs and all my production machines use yum/dnf/apt-get
> to install/update indimail-mta
This is a great improvement indeed.

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