On Sunday 12 September 2004 12:26, Kirti S. Bajwa wrote:
> Section 4 Second paragraph reads:
>
> "To use MySQL or PostgreSQL with Postfix, first install the
> postfix-mysql or postfix-pgsql packages (they're in Debian,
> probabally also in other distros).
This post does bring up the issue that this could be documented a bit
better. There's no mention of compiling from source. Fortunately the
process is pretty well covered in the Postfix documentation: the
MYSQL_README and PGSQL_README files. (Both of those are available
online as well as in the Postfix source distribution.)
I suggest adding verbiage such as this:
"If you want or need to compile from source, first compile your chosen
database, and then consult the appropriate file (MYSQL_README or
PGSQL_README) in the Postfix documentation."
I'm rather well experienced in such things now so it didn't present a
problem to me, but I can recall that a few years back this would have
been very confusing.
Obviously it's not dbmail's job to provide step- by-step instructions
for every optional package dependency, but we're not all using Debian.
Slackware does not even provide postfix.
Another nitpick, the last sentence in the same part of INSTALL.postfix:
"Postfix will send a bounce if a recipient is not present."
That's not quite accurate. Postfix refuses the mail with whatever is
configured as $unknown_local_recipient_reject_code in main.cf, the
default being 450. This occurs in the SMTP dialogue. If a bounce is to
be sent to the envelope sender, the sending MTA is the one to send it.
s/'send a bounce'/'refuse the mail'/ will fix it.
Finally, and this WAS a problem for me (resolved in IRC; thanks Jesse),
is that the sample sql_recipients.cf file in the 2.0RC8 INSTALL.postfix
file says "table = aliases". So by following the instructions exactly
it did not work. "table = dbmail_aliases" worked.
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