Hi all, I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's: OpenBSD FreeBSD PCBSD NetBSD DragonflyBSD etc Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile it myself? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Hi Steve,
Go for FreeBSD ;) it offers Dovecot(2) via ports or via package. I
always recommend ports though, due to the fact of being able to
enable/disable options - but that's your choise.
Ports:
cd /usr/ports/mail/dovecot2
make install clean
or via pkg(8):
pkg install dovecot2
I can allway recommend to ask your friend Google: "FreeBSD + Dovecot +
Tutorial" or "FreeBSD + Dovecot + How to".
According to my knowledge, it works quite the same with the other BSDs
in your list. It's been a while since I worked with one of them. I
sticked to FreeBSD
* For updating / maintenance of ports and packages, I recommend
portmaster.
* For System binary related updates there is freebsd-update(8).
Best Regards,
Leander S.
Am 25.09.14 18:14, schrieb Steve Litt:> Hi all,
>
> I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days
> with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's:
>
> OpenBSD
> FreeBSD
> PCBSD
> NetBSD
> DragonflyBSD
> etc
>
> Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone
> know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile
> it myself?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
> Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
I can confirm that Dovecot 1.2 (I started with 0.9 back in the day and just didn't yet upgrade to 2.x) works fine under NetBSD.
I run dovecot on FreeBSD and its in ports.. no issues at all and the maintainer keeps it current. On Sep 25, 2014 11:17 AM, "Steve Litt" <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days > with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's: > > OpenBSD > FreeBSD > PCBSD > NetBSD > DragonflyBSD > etc > > Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone > know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile > it myself? > > Thanks, > > SteveT > > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance >
On 25.09.2014, at 18:14, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:> I'm investigating several 'BSD's: > > FreeBSDOne more to confirm that Dovecot and Pigeonhole are running at FreeBSD.> Does anyone know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I > need to compile it myself?No need to compile, both come as ports. But if you might be interested in testing upcoming versions, it's pretty simple to set up a mercurial repository and compile from scratch, both Dovecot and Pigeonhole. Regards, Michael
On 25 Sep 2014, at 18:14, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:> Hi all, > > I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days > with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's: > > OpenBSD > FreeBSD > PCBSD > NetBSD > DragonflyBSD > etc > > Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone > know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile > it myself? > > Thanks, > > SteveTit works just fine for my little company, see my signature on what OS I prefer. Poke me in case you need help .. Cheerio Remko> > Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance-- /"\ Best regards, | remko at FreeBSD.org \ / Remko Lodder | remko at EFnet X http://www.evilcoder.org/ | / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 841 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20140925/9d151eec/attachment.sig>
dovecot 2.2.13 works very nicely here via pkgsrc on NetBSD. cheers mark
> I have a dovecot server on my Debian Wheezy desktop computer. My days > with Debian are limited, and I'm investigating several 'BSD's: > > OpenBSD > FreeBSD > PCBSD > NetBSD > DragonflyBSD > etc > > Is there any reason Dovecot wouldn't work on any of those? Does anyone > know if those OS's have packages for Dovecot, or do I need to compile > it myself?I've successfully run Dovecot on OpenBSD since 2010 and before that for many years on FreeBSD. Never had any issues, runs just fine on both those OSs. .jh