[Dovecot] Trouble implementing Antispam plug-in for Dovecot

[Ben Morrow]

At 3PM -0400 on 10/09/12 Ben Johnson wrote:
> 
> So, I setup a development environment that mimics the production
> environment in question.
> 
> Must I install Dovecot from source to install Antispam from source?
> 
> Because I installed Dovecot using a back-ported package (
> https://launchpad.net/~christian-roessner-net/+archive/dovecot ) and
> when I go to install the Antispam plug-in from source, executing the
> "configure" script yields the following error:
> 
> # ~/dovecot-antispam-plugin# ./configure
> [...]
> checking for dovecot-config in "/usr/local/lib/dovecot"... not found
> configure:
> configure: Use --with-dovecot=DIR to provide the path to the
> dovecot-config file.
> configure: error: dovecot-config not found
> 
> I'm assuming that this directory does not exist on my system because I
> didn't install Dovecot from source.

It looks to me like you need to install the dovecot-dev package from
that site (if you haven't already), and pass
--with-dovecot=/usr/lib/dovecot to configure.

Ben