Postfix

Download Source:	http://www.mirrorspace.org/postfix/official/postfix-2.5.10.tar.gz

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Introduction to Postfix

The Postfix package contains a Mail Transport Agent.

Project Homepage: http://www.postfix.org/

Dependencies

Optional

• Pcre
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• OpenLDAP
• OpenSSL
• CyrusSASL
• cdb or TinyCDB

Creating the Postfix User & Group

groupadd -g 33 postfix &&
groupadd -g 34 postdrop &&
useradd -c "Postfix Daemon User" -d /dev/null -g postfix \
-s /bin/false -u 33 postfix &&
chown -v postfix:postfix /var/mail

Non-Multilib

Compile the package:

make makefiles CCARGS='-DDEF_DAEMON_DIR=\"/usr/lib/postfix\" \
-DDEF_MANPAGE_DIR=\"/usr/share/man\" \
-DDEF_HTML_DIR=\"/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.5.10/html\" \
-DDEF_README_DIR=\"/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.5.10/README\" 
<additional args>' \
<AUXLIBS='additional args'> '

TLS Authentication

CCARGS='-DUSE_TLS -I/usr/include/openssl'
AUXLIBS='-L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto'

To use TLS you will also need CyrusSASL

Cyrus-SASL

CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL -I/usr/include/sasl'
AUXLIBS='-L/usr/lib -lsasl2'

OpenLDAP

CCARGS='-I/usr/include -DHAS_LDAP'
AUXLIBS='-L/usr/lib -lldap -llber'

MySQL

CCARGS='-DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/include/mysql'
AUXLIBS='-L/usr/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm'

PostgreSQL

CCARGS='-DHAS_PGSQL -I/usr/include/postgresql'
AUXLIBS='-L/usr/lib -lpq -lz -lm'

TinyCDB

CCARGS='-DHAS_CDB'
AUXLIBS='</path/to/CDB>/libcdb.a'

Install the package

sh postfix-install -non-interactive

Multilib

BootScript

Install the init script included in the blfs-bootscripts package.

make install-postfix