Hello, Yesterday I decided to try out dbmail. I've gotten it working with postgresql, fetchmail, exim and sylpheed in order to retrieve and read my email. But I had some problems and some questions.
First of all, I'm using this on gentoo. I saw the contributed startup scripts in the dbmail tarball so I figure there must be other gentoo users too. Does anyone have a good ebuild for this? I saw the ebuild in the following bug report, but it didn't work at all (it wasn't even doing a make install). I played around with that enough to get it to work but it's definitely not perfect, and I really don't know much about ebuilds so I'd be excited to see one from someone who knows what they're doing. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22331 I've also had trouble with the provided startup scripts. If I try to stop dbmail-lmtpd or dbmail-imapd, I get an error like, "can't find a process with that pid". So I edited scripts to stop the processes by name instead. That seems to work, but I still have other problems. I just rebooted and the script did not know to wait until after postgressql to start. That's a simple fix, but what troubled me was that the startup script thought everything was ok when it wasn't. Then the system was in this state where I couldn't restart dbmail because it already thought it was started. Also, everything was working fine last night, but when I woke up this morning, I found my dbmail was dead! No lmtp or imap process at all. I didn't have the trace logging turned up very high (level 1) but there were no logs at all saying dbmail was shutting down or why. Any ideas? Allen
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