On May 9, 2015, at 19:13 , Jerry jerry@seibercom.net wrote:
2.2.17.rc1 will compile on FBSD 10.1 only, if bash has been installed (see 554773D2.9060609@dovecot.fi from Teemu Huovila).[...]. But, maybe it's worth solving this issue for those non-linux systems without bash installed per default before releasing dovecot v2.2.17, finally.
Besides that: Thanks for all of you involved making dovecot available!
For what its worth, I run FreeBSD 10.1 and I have Bash. Personally, I could not work without it. It is not a big deal to install it on FreeBSD. My question is does it have to be the default shell in dovecot v2.2.17 or just installed?
I run FreeBSD 9, 10, and 10.1. And I don't have bash installed except on the one system I use to build lots of ports. Because, there are other ports that also presume the availability of bash, and therefore require it. I'd much rather be able to build dovecot without bash, because I don't have bash installed on my FreeBSD 10.1 mail server, where I run dovecot.
I'd also be willing to help by porting any of the scripts that require bash to something else that is available in the base installation of FreeBSD as well as the variety of Linux distributions.
I agree that it's not hard to install the bash port. But if you don't plan to use it for anything else, it's better not to have to.
- Chris