--On Sunday, December 02, 2007 10:06 AM -0700 "Joseph L. Casale" <jcasale at ActiveNetwerx.com> wrote: >> That said, I don't know why one would use CentOS and then compile >> postfix from source packages and then have to assume all responsibility >> for updates. >> >> Craig > > Well, mainly because CentOS is the distro I have decided to use while > learning Linux and that version of Postfix is the one I need to > experiment with :) Then take the version of Postfix that's required, the Postfix SRPM from CentOS, and adapt the SRPM to use the later Postfix tarball. You might check Fedora, as it may have this already done. (An SRPM is a source package, so you'd be "building from source" while still using the distro package manager.)