[Mac_crypto] postfix TLS on OS X?

[R. A. Hettinga]

At 6:18 PM -0700 on 7/28/02, Lucky Green wrote:


> I am looking for pointers to set up postfix with the postfix TLS patches
> on OS X. The postfix site, the postfix_TLS site, and Google have been
> unhelpful.

Not that I don't actually know *how* to do this stuff, but it seems to me
that there are two ways to get installations/patches into OSX/Darwin. The
first thing is through packages using package maker, which you can read up
on here:
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/DeveloperTools/PackageMaker/PackageMaker.help/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/index.html>

Essentially, this will put all the different files where you want them in
the entire directory structure. The user just double clicks on the .pkg
package file, OS X asks for the admin password, displays various bits of
license verbage that the developer puts up, asks the user if he's sure,
again, after the first okay :-), and proceeds to put files onto the target
disk mirroring the same directory structure that the package file has in it
internally. Pretty slick.

If you've just got a simple app that doesn't have to put stuff in various
bits of (user-hidden, -restricted) unix space, you can just have the user
drag something over to the Applications folder out of a standard .DMG image
file. Lots of commercial Carbon (ported Mac OS 9 apps), and Cocoa
(NeXT-ish) apps, are done this way, for instance.

Finally, there's fink, an application which is OS X/Darwin's answer to
Debian's apt-get. It seems to me that that's where you should look if your
patch needs the target application to be re-compiled, which is what it
sounds like you may want. It's a sourceforge project, and the details are
here: <http://fink.sourceforge.net/>.

It will be really cool to have all the stuff you've done for postfix/TLS
elsewhere working now on OS X, Lucky. Thanks for all the work you've done
on it.

Cheers,
RAH

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