Mattheson on perfection
I’d like to quote Mattheson from Der vollkommene Capellmeister. In his foreword (I read from the english translation that’s close to impossible to get hold of these days. Publishers take note: this book requires a reprint!) he writes:
In France they say:
A passable meldoy or verse
Is not worth the devil.
Scholars are all of the opinion that […]
FreeBSD + postfix + sasl2 + pam + mysql = Working Authenticated SMTP
This is most of all meant as a note-to-self to next time I’ll have to do this.
Installed the port mail/courier-authlib with the following options:
WITH_PAM=true
WITHOUT_VPOPMAIL=true
WITH_MYSQL=true
WITHOUT_POSTGRESQL=true
WITHOUT_LDAP=true
WITHOUT_GDBM=true
WITH_AUTHUSERDB=true
Installed Postfix with SASL2 and TLS. Config to Postfix’ main.cf:
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
SASL2 needs “-r -a pam” flags in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/saslauthd.sh and the following in /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf:
pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
Finally, […]
FreeBSD’s maintainability
FreeBSD’s maintainability has been measured according to an index suggested by Ioannis Samoladas et al.
FreeBSD 5.3 released
Finally!
FreeBSD release engineering process updated
Scott Long announces changes to the release engineering process with a focus shift from features to timelines. Time for me to update the FreeBSD Project Model document again (already have one uncommitted major revision here that I’d planned to commit shortly after 5.3 )
