Greetings,
I would like to install Postfix 2.3 or 2.4 (I need support for SASL authentication via Dovecot) on a Centos 4.4 server.
I have already found rpm packages at http://postfix.wl0.org/en/available-packages/ and pages about using the centosplus repo for postfix.
Before launching rpm or yum, however, I'd like to ask the list which way you think is the best way to do this. By "best" I mean the way which:
* has no known issues, gotchas, extra configuration tricks... * has as little extra dependencies as possible * can be maintained/upgraded with yum
Thank you in advance for any feedback!
Marco
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 09:42:17 AM +0200, io (mfioretti@mclink.it) wrote:
Before launching rpm or yum, however, I'd like to ask the list which way you think is the best way to do this. By "best" I mean the way which:
- has no known issues, gotchas, extra configuration tricks...
- has as little extra dependencies as possible
- can be maintained/upgraded with yum
Sorry, I forgot one thing:
* which has the smallest impact on other packages
meaning that if the postfix I want is in some extra repo which has lot of other things I don't need, I (ideally) only want to take postfix from there when I run "yum update", and keep taking other packages from the official Centos Repos.
Marco
On 27/07/07 09:42 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
Greetings,
I would like to install Postfix 2.3 or 2.4 (I need support for SASL authentication via Dovecot) on a Centos 4.4 server.
I have already found rpm packages at http://postfix.wl0.org/en/available-packages/ and pages about using the centosplus repo for postfix.
Before launching rpm or yum, however, I'd like to ask the list which way you think is the best way to do this. By "best" I mean the way which:
- has no known issues, gotchas, extra configuration tricks...
- has as little extra dependencies as possible
- can be maintained/upgraded with yum
If this is a dedicated mailserver, i prefer installing postfix from source.
--beast
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 16:52:20 PM +0700, beast (beast@ldap.or.id) wrote:
If this is a dedicated mailserver, i prefer installing postfix from source.
I don't, I explicitly mentioned I want to maintain the server via yum/rpm without installing compilers and what not. Thanks anyway,
Marco
beast wrote:
On 27/07/07 09:42 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
Greetings,
I would like to install Postfix 2.3 or 2.4 (I need support for SASL authentication via Dovecot) on a Centos 4.4 server.
I have already found rpm packages at http://postfix.wl0.org/en/available-packages/ and pages about using the centosplus repo for postfix.
Before launching rpm or yum, however, I'd like to ask the list which way you think is the best way to do this. By "best" I mean the way which:
- has no known issues, gotchas, extra configuration tricks...
- has as little extra dependencies as possible
- can be maintained/upgraded with yum
If this is a dedicated mailserver, i prefer installing postfix from source.
Better document the build procedure like make command arguments and what not then for your next server or in case the thing goes kaboom.
Packages exist for a reason. :)
beast spake the following on 7/27/2007 2:52 AM:
On 27/07/07 09:42 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
Greetings,
I would like to install Postfix 2.3 or 2.4 (I need support for SASL authentication via Dovecot) on a Centos 4.4 server.
I have already found rpm packages at http://postfix.wl0.org/en/available-packages/ and pages about using the centosplus repo for postfix.
Before launching rpm or yum, however, I'd like to ask the list which way you think is the best way to do this. By "best" I mean the way which:
- has no known issues, gotchas, extra configuration tricks...
- has as little extra dependencies as possible
- can be maintained/upgraded with yum
If this is a dedicated mailserver, i prefer installing postfix from source.
--beast
If you are going to compile everything, why not use Gentoo?
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