On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:13:16PM -0500, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote: [Postfix dependency problems]
Try rebuilding the RPM from the SRPM; that should do it, because I doubt that Postfix really cares much what glibc is under it. so: rpm --rebuild postfix.whatever.src.rpm And then you say.... > Alternatively, since I am mainly interested in evaluating Email Server > solutions (IE freebies or demo versions will take priority over 5-user > licensed versions), perhaps I should ask what Email Server solutions I > should be looking at with this distribution. Well, these are my two cents, and be aware that the choice of mailers is a religious issue. For starters, anything is better than Exchange, which is what you're presumably running now. I'm going to confine myself to the Big Four MTAs that are Open Source and trivially available on Linux (should be in any distribution, easy to compile if not). From least favorite to most favorite, in my opinion: 1) Sendmail. Ick. No new site should even consider sendmail as their MTA. If you're already running it and it works for you, that's fine, but the configuration syntax is amazingly horrific. The encapsulation of the horrific syntax in a bunch of m4 macros helps a little, in that it's a very big structure of bandages that do a reasonably successful job of hiding a sucking chest wound. A major exploit was just found in sendmail, and a lot of the reason that that happens is that sendmail is *HUGE* and there's lots and lots of code in it. A lot of this code deals with mail infrastructures that no one uses anymore--now (although this was not the case when sendmail was written) you can pretty much expect delivery addresses to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the positive side, the milter (mail filter) interface to sendmail is pretty nice, and it *is* still far and away the most popular MTA out there. I wouldn't use it if I had a choice and a chance to start with a clean slate. 2) Qmail. Hmmmm. The big problem with qmail is that it really tries hard to force you into the DJB worldview. I don't want to go there. I've never found qmail configuration intuitive, although it's less grotty than sendmail. I'd still not choose this, but that's more aesthetic than practical on my part. 3) Exim. I like exim quite a lot. The director/router architecture takes some getting used to, but it actually makes it easy to do things like LDAP-based directory lookup and mail delivery. I don't find it as easy to configure as my favorite MTA, which is.... 4) Postfix. I dig Postfix, myself. It makes the easiest drop-in replacement for sendmail (not an issue for you), and the configuration syntax is astonishingly straightforward and well-documented. Be aware that if you're using majordomo for mailing lists, it and postfix don't get along very well. You can make it work, but it's a chore. My recommendation would be to use mailman for mailing lists. Adam
