Re: Alpha release of Maia Mailguard 1.0.5

I'll upload the (I believe) working port to a repo today. It still needs cleaning up, but I'll get to that later when I have a chance.

I'll provide the repo URL shortly. 

Regards,
Janky Jay, III 

On September 22, 2025 4:42:28 PM UTC, jjs - mainphrame <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 <[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.
>>
>> If need be, I'll set up a FreeBSD instance here to help with testing.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM Travis Mikalson <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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