Ken, Red Hat doesn't package postfix with their distribution. So, you're not going to find an RPM for it on Red Hat's servers, or any of the mirrors.
It sounds like what you're doing is grabbing RPMs for a Linux distribution other than Red Hat, and trying to install them on Red Hat. This may work at some point in the future (assuming Linux Standard Base and all gets much further than it is today), but it's definitely _not_ a good idea at the present time. Part of the reason is what you've experienced: the pieces don't fit together, because they were never meant to. Until things in the Linux world improve greatly, you need to use the RPMs that your distribution creator provides, or build your own RPMs from source and install the resulting binaries. Once you start down that road, though, you're going to find yourself spending a lot of time and having a lot of problems, because you're taking on the role of a developer, and not just a consumer/user. The Debian distribution would probably have the largest variety of email servers of any of them. (Any distribution that has over 100 editors on it just _has_ to have the most of everything. :) You might want to take a look at them. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Kenneth Illingsworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 12:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Postfix We are running RH V7.2 on a Linux s390 VM. There is a great mirror site at ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/redhat/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/s390/RedHat/RPMS/ , that seems to omit some RPMs such as the one for the Postfix MTA. One thing I have noticed is that when I have to go outside this safe haven, the unlisted RPM's fail installation most of the time due to incompatibilities with the recommended GLIBC. This is the case with Postfix. The standard GLIBC RPM's for this distribution are at v2.2.4-24, and the Postfix RPM (among others) requires an older version of GLIBC (IE v2.3.1 or thereabouts). I am inclined to suspect that I need to back rev the GLIBC. But I am loath to confront what I feel would be a lot of dependency problems. 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. Thank you in advance for your time.
