At 7:02 AM +0000 2000/10/8, attila! wrote:
> (a) pick a directory and 'tar -zxf snapshot-20000531.tar.gz'
>
> (b) 'cd snapshot-20000531'
Three things:
1. You don't tell people where to get the postfix software.
Start with <http://www.postfix.org/ftp-sites.html>, and
select a mirror site close to you.
2. You mention the use of snapshots, but this is not
recommended practice for sites new to postfix. Instead,
start with the most recent "release" version, e.g.,
postfix-19991231-pl09.
According to Wietse, the "snapshot" versions are:
Work-in-progress code, subject to change, needs
testing before it can become an official release.
However, these versions are what he runs on his own
systems, so it's probably better than the official
"production" release version of code from most anyone
else.
3. If you want to build postfix with libraries that Wietse
does not consider "standard" for your platform, this
will take just a bit more work. I have a "MAKEAS"
script that I keep at the root of my
/usr/local/src/postfix directory structure, and whenever
I go to build a new version, I just execute:
$ sh ../MAKEAS
And it does all the "hard" preparation work for me,
which I can then just follow up with a:
$ make; sh INSTALL.sh
According to the instructions.
Currently, my MAKEAS script contains the following (with
backslashes to escape the line-breaks I manually added to
prevent mis-wrapping):
make makefiles CCARGS="-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/include
\
-DHAS_DB -DPATH_DB_H='<db_185.h>' \
-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib" AUXLIBS="-ldb" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB/lib" LIBS="-ldb" \
SYSLIBS="-ldb"
Note that this implies that on this machine I have
previously built and installed the Berkeley db 2.7.7 (built
with "../dist/configure --enable-compat185", because
postfix uses only the db 1.85 interfaces) and BIND
8.2.2-P5 (or whatever the latest version is that you
want to install) packages. Note that Berkeley db 3.0
installs in a slightly different directory, and that
I've had problems with it causing runtime failures, etc....
Recent snapshot releases have added features for performing
simple one line body_check regexp matching (like the older
header_check), added support for DSNs, and a new "fast ETRN" feature
that will avoid flushing the entire queue when a single site wants
mail for them to be flushed (which now makes postfix more suitable
for use at an ISP that provides backup MX services for its customers).
--
These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy
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