On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 12:17:37PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> > Ok, thanks for the information. But I still do not understand why
> > depending on courier-authlib is necessary at all. I think this is
> > necessary when courier is used as part of a courier server, but
> > I thought the maildrop package of debian was intended to be used
> > standalone.
>
> Yes, it is used standalone, and courier-authlib does not hurt that.
> It merely facilitates people connecting to Courier or LDAP or MySQL or
> something when they want to keep users in those places. This is useful,
> and the inclusion of courier-authlib dependency is indeed intentional.
It occurs to me that I failed to mention this tidbit: the courier-authlib
package is just 76kB/256kB of overhead which shouldn't be particularly
important these days, as maildrop itself is now 313kB/964kB.
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