Re: eQmail or s/qmail

> IMHO quite complicated for a mortal like me :)
You shouldn't say so. I didn't say that you are wrong, just pointed out 
that it "could" led into missunderstandings -⁠ IMHO.

> 
> # Files are edited in the installation directory, then copied.
> # There are 40 arguments to idedit after the filename,
> # showing the positions of each byte in the following ten ints:
> # uida, uidd, uidl, uido, uidp, uidq, uidr, uids, gidq, gidn.
> # Normal little-endian positions are n n+1 n+2 ... n+39 for some n.
> # Normal big-endian positions are n+3 n+2 n+1 n n+7 ... n+36 for some 
> n.
> 
> setup:
>     mkdir /var/qmail
>     ./idedit install-big XXX
>     ./idedit qmail-lspawn XXX
>     ./idedit qmail-queue XXX
>     ./idedit qmail-rspawn XXX
>     ./idedit qmail-showctl XXX
>     ./idedit qmail-start XXX
>     ./install-big
>     cp /var/qmail/boot/binm1+df /var/qmail/rc
>     chmod 755 /var/qmail/rc
>     echo '|fastforward -d /etc/aliases.cdb' > 
> /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default
>     chmod 644 /var/qmail/alias/.qmail-default
>     hostname | grep -q '\.'
>     ./config-fast `hostname`
Well known. Beside others, I did replace the whole install routine from 
my current development version. Instead of thousand lines of C code I 
have now hundred left -⁠ round about.

I know I was not accurate enough. What I meant was if a distro does 
reserve the UID/⁠GID's and does use the same qmail usernames and groups 
always, it will work. This doesn't mean that binaries will be portable 
between different distros nor updates of a distro.

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