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cyrus-sasl wrong plugin dir configuration #378
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I think it's correct, though perhaps the wording could do with some work. For the configuration file it says:
The configuration files for applications using the sasl2 libraries used to be in ${PLUGINDIR}/, but are now expected in ${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/. You need to move them after upgrading the pkg.The modules themselves definitely live in
${PLUGINDIR}, so the other part of the MESSAGE also seems correct:${PKGNAME} will use the following directory as the default path to its plugin modules: ${PLUGINDIR} The search path for plugin modules can be customized by setting the SASL_PATH variable to a colon-delimted list of directories in the shell environment.I'm generally against MESSAGE files as they often aren't helpful, and I wonder if this one is causing more problems than it helps, even though it's technically correct.
In theory, it is correct; in practice, it gives the user a wrong and misleading indication since the file needs to be written in a different directory.
I've removed the offending text from the
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In your message, you have indicated ${PLUGINDIR} as the default path for plugin modules, but this is incorrect.
Actually, Cyrus-SASL searches for configuration files like smtpd.conf in /opt/local/etc/sasl2/