Re: Alpha release of Maia Mailguard 1.0.5

I've installed FreeBSD 14.2 and I'm finding my way around. It's very nice.

I can manually install all the maia components and see how it goes, unless
someone here has a script to automate the process.

Either way, FreeBSD is a tier one platform for Maia

Joe



On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM jjs - mainphrame <jjs-5OBBLe+cWrVYgzK/[email protected]> wrote:

> It seems that maiad and the rest of the perl code have aged very well, and
> it was still running well on the latest Debian here. My only problem was
> with the php part, and had to keep an older OS around for the web
> interface. But that's sorted now, and I'm hoping the web interface also
> runs well on the current FBSD now.
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> If need be, I'll set up a FreeBSD instance here to help with testing.
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> Joe
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> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM Travis Mikalson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> The idea to put the port in progress in a repo somewhere and link to
>> that from the README makes the most sense.
>>
>> I am one of those FreeBSD users, I actually saved a copy of the port
>> before it was deleted and I'm still running the maiad part on recently
>> updated modern FreeBSD 14 boxes!
>>
>> On 9/21/2025 23:45, Janky Jay, III wrote:
>> > Hi Joe,
>> >
>> > Thanks for the quick reply.
>> >
>> > This is only temporary for testing until the code is considered
>> > stable/acceptable (by you? By mass-users? By whomever...) so I don't
>> > think it would fit into the installer or contrib. Once there is
>> > something solid, it will be part of the FBSD ports tree. I don't want
>> > anyone getting confused, so perhaps it's best if I just dump the port
>> > code into a separate repo that maybe you can link to in the README?
>> >
>> > I dunno. I'm just trying to be productive because I know there a lot of
>> > Maia users on FBSD (and Linux alike) out there that have been waiting
>> > (drooling?) for an update to this code for years. The sooner I can
>> > provide something, the better. I just want to make sure it's as
>> > abundantly clear as possible that there is updated code that works.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Janky Jay, III
>> >
>> > On 9/21/25 08:54PM, jjs - mainphrame wrote:
>> >> I like the idea of a unified maia codebase. After all, the php code,
>> >> maiad and the perl scripts are for all *nix OSes.
>> >>
>> >> We have the Linux parts mostly segregated in the "installers" and
>> >> "contrib" directories, and there should be a similar way to keep the
>> >> *BSD parts distinct from the common core.
>> >>
>> >> Joe
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM Janky Jay, III <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     Wowza! I was able to pull the last security/maia port for FBSD.
>> >>     Given that it's needed some serious attention since it's
>> >>     introduction (about 18 years ago), boy-oh-boy is it UGLY! (and
>> >>     this is my fault.) I do have a working port for the latest code,
>> >>     but it needs serious attention. Give me a day or two to re-write
>> >>     this son-of-b***h. I'll likely need some help from the serious
>> >>     ports gurus as I'm unsure how to handle some of these changes in
>> >>     the inclusions. With any luck, I'll have something worthy.
>> >>
>> >>     Quick question: Would you rather me provide the temporary FBSD
>> >>     port as a pull request/branch for your current work on Github or
>> >>     should I make it something completely separate? I'm fine with
>> >>     either. I just wanna make it as easy as I can for others until
>> >>     there's solid enough code to submit to the FBSD ports tree.
>> >>
>> >>     Regards,
>> >>     Janky Jay, III
>> <snip>
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