[CentOS] Re: Best way to have Postfix 2.3 or 2.4 on Centos 4.4?

[Feizhou]

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. :)