On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 12:34:05PM +1100, the unit calling itself Ian McWilliam wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2005, at 8:18 AM, J Moore wrote: > > >Ian, > > > >Hope you'll excuse my persistence, but I'm still struggling with > >akpop3d. I may be confused, but here's how I see my choices: > > > >1. chgrp mail /var/mail (after adding mail as a group) > >2. akpop3d -g wheel (give akpop3 wheel privileges ?) > > > > Not really the port needs fixing some what. Try the attached tar ball. > > The port now creates a group _akpop3d and the lock files writable by > the _akpop3d group. > You will need to make /var/mail group writable, leave the permissons > on /var/mail as root:wheel (the default). > The command line I've used for simple testing is > > /usr/local/sbin/akpop3d -d -s -c /etc/ssl/server.crt -k /etc/ssl/ > private/server.key
Ian, I'm groggy, but I think this fixes it. I plan to start using it in a day or two & will let you know if I see anything. Many thanks, and it looks like you may have inherited a port :) Oh - I tried to create a diff between the tarball you sent, and the stuff in the tree... it was pretty ugly, and didn't seem to apply. diff -u -p -r /.../ians_akpop3d /usr/ports/mail/akpop3d > ian.patch Jay
