Ian Eiloart wrote: > > --On 5 October 2009 13:36:53 +0800 W B Hacker <w...@conducive.org> wrote: > >> Christian Balzer wrote: >>> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote: >>>> .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here... >>>> >>> While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no >>> patching, binary packages from the distro of your choice) is starting to >>> hurt. >>> Lets not repeat the discussion about pro and cons of DKIM, this is a >>> question of having an easy and fully supported way to offer DKIM for >>> those who want it or have a political (managerial) need to implement it. >>> >>> The last official word about this from Tom was on March 30th IIRC and >>> since then nothing about it and Exim 4.70. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Christian >> 4.69 is not the barrier. >> >> WITH_DKIM = >> >> .. is already in the Makefile. > > yes, but libdkim isn't.
But it is, and has been for a long time. Tom did the Exim work, sky@ and krion@, the FreeBSD port maintainers picked up the dependencies and put them into place: Under /usr/ports/mail/libdkim even my now-obsolete FreeBSD 7.1 has libdkim-1.0.17-tk.tar.gz and it is found and used under /usr/ports/mail/exim with a simple: make -DWITH_DKIM=yes .. producing the expected output: /usr/ports/mail/exim/work/exim-4.69/build-FreeBSD/dkim-exim.o etc. > The docs refer to > <http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/libdkim-1.0.15-tk.tar.gz> two > more recent versions are available there, but not easily discoverable, and > I don't see documentation about that fact. Present-day FreeBSD 7.2 production release and ports does list the newer libdkim-1.0.17_1 Both call the requisite openssl version (discussed in April-May 2008 thread). > > Tom said about 4.70 that the DKIM implementation is stand-alone (library > included in Exim bundle, no additional dependencies), and the new library > supports some non-POSIX platforms like Windows (I know). On the other hand, > support for domainkeys is dropped - not that I think that's a great loss. > There is still a domainkeys lib in ports for that also - same maintainer, s...@freebsd.org I haven't checked NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, but 'pkgsrc' may well have the DKIM option also. >> As to 'binary' and 'distro' ISTR the tools to make the result of >> compilation into an RPM or similar 'package' are free, plentiful, and >> not hard to utilize. >> >> If it was a *Pony* you wanted 'compiled', OTOH .. 'wishing' is probably >> safer. >> >> ;-) >> >> >> Bill > > Long story short: - Yes, docs could/should be updated to better reflect the current state, above. - But if FreeBSD rolled it all into ports NLT 7.1-RELEASE, (over a year ago), there must be at least ONE of the many Linux distros if not *several*, that has/have done so already. Linux is usually quicker off the mark on new stuff than the more conservative *BSD's. - In any case, given that the 'official' release is an OS-agnostic / fits all POSIX-critters *source* tarball, I don't see distro-specific binaries *or* third-party dependencies as entirely an Exim-devel responsibility. YMMV, Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
