Re: pkgsrc qmail packages re-updated

On 2 Apr 2017, at 13:35, Amitai Schleier wrote:

> 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. ;-)

Here's a two-minute demo, in case anyone besides me finds it useful, of 
switching from NetBSD's default Postfix to qmail: 
https://youtu.be/4FDdKsVAwvk (I threw in SMTP service as a bonus).

Given these publicly available binary packages, when I set up new 
systems, I'll probably take the one minute to set up qmail as the system 
MTA.

pkgsrc also provides binary packages for other OSes, like Linux, 
SmartOS, and Mac OS X. When I find myself on those systems, having qmail 
binaries built with sensible defaults is pretty handy, even if the 
qmail-run package is less completely helpful than it is on NetBSD.

Hoping DJB intends to release checkpassword and mess822 into the public 
domain sooner rather than later, so pkgsrc can include them in these 
binary packages.

- Amitai