pkgsrc qmail packages re-updated

On 3 Aug 2004, at 17:20, Amitai Schlair wrote:

> Versions incorporating these changes:
> * netqmail-1.05nb1
> * qmail-1.03nb8
> * qmail-run-20040803

Nice to see some activity on this list!

I still run qmail, and I still get it (usually on NetBSD, but sometimes 
Mac OS X or Linux) from pkgsrc, where I continue to maintain these 
packages:

- qmail-1.03nb25
- qmail-run-20170114

pkgsrc grew a framework for build options a couple weeks after I posted 
the above, obviating the need for a separate netqmail package. Build 
options available today:

     :; make show-options
     Any of the following general options may be selected:
         djbware-errno-hack  Patch to #include <errno.h> for 
correctness.
         qmail-bigdns        Patch to handle oversized responses to MX 
queries.
         qmail-maildiruniq   Patch to avoid name collisions when PIDs 
recycle fast.
         qmail-netqmail      Patch collection prepared by respected list 
members.
         qmail-outgoingip    Patch to force a particular source IP 
address.
         qmail-srs           Patch to implement Sender Rewriting Scheme 
with libsrs2.
         qmail-viruscan      Patch to SMTP-reject certain types of MIME 
attachments.
         sasl                Enable SASL support.
         syncdir             Force synchronous link() and related 
syscalls.
         tls                 Enable TLS support.
     At most one of the following rcpt options may be selected:
         qmail-badrcptto     Patch to SMTP-reject particular envelope 
recipients.
         qmail-qregex        Patch to SMTP-reject customizable patterns.
         qmail-rcptcheck     Patch to SMTP-reject via a script or 
program.
         qmail-realrcptto    Patch to SMTP-reject nonexistent 
recipients.

     These options are enabled by default:
         djbware-errno-hack qmail-bigdns qmail-netqmail
         qmail-realrcptto

The qmail-run package creates all the basic config files needed to run 
qmail, provides example mailer.conf, spamdyke.conf, and stunnel.conf and 
NetBSD-style rc.d scripts, and throws in wrapper scripts for procmail 
and qmail-qfilter.

Example of how all this fits together: I send my own mail through...

- stunnel on port 587, connecting to
- mess822's ofmipd with John R. Levine's SMTP AUTH patch (available in 
pkgsrc with the "sasl" option to mess822), which
- qmail-run's qmailofmipd rc.d script provides on localhost:26, and 
which
- checkpassword authenticates (setuid root, using the 
"checkpassword-suid" option).

In the just-released stable "2017Q1" branch of pkgsrc, binary packages 
of qmail actually work, without build and install hosts needing to agree 
on numeric UIDs and GIDs! The main trick was porting forward Paul Fox's 
getpwnam.patch from 0.96; accompanying tricks were mostly pkgsrcery. ;-)

If for some odd reason you'd like to read about this stuff in more 
detail, I recently wrote (with copious links to commit logs) about my 
experience running NetBSD and qmail and figuring out how to harmonize 
the two: https://schmonz.com/2017/03/27/automation-for-mail-hosting/

- Amitai