Postfix v 2.3

M.Lewis cajun at cajuninc.com
Mon Oct 9 02:25:29 UTC 2006


Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, M.Lewis wrote:
> 
>> Thomas Antony wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Am Freitag, den 06.10.2006, 20:36 -0500 schrieb M.Lewis:
>>>> Thanks Michael. So you must have installed from the tarball.
>>>>
>>>> Postfix didn't support Dovecot SASL until v2.3 
>>>
>>> You can download the postfix src.rpm from the latest FC6 test release
>>> and rebuild it. Don't forget to enable mySQL support if you want to
>>> authenticate against a mySQL server.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>
>> Thanks Thomas. Good idea. Can I not just get the binary .rpm file and 
>> install it? I've never rebuilt an rpm.
> 
> If the binary rpm will do what you need then of course you can use it. 
> However
> if you need something like mysql support then you have to roll your own.
> 
> If you need postfix rpms and you do not wish to roll your own, you might 
> want
> to look at http://ftp.wl0.org/official/2.3/
> 
> Simon Mudd has been maintaining posrfix rpms since before postfix was 
> included
> in Red Hat Linux. In fact the original postfix rpm in RHL 7.something 
> was based
> on Simon's work.
> 
> The srpms are there also so it is easy to roll your own if you need to.
> 
> Regards,
> 


Thanks very much Tom. I will check it out.

Thanks,
Mike


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