Gregory BELLIER put forth on 3/2/2010 6:03 AM: > Hi ! > > I downloaded postfix-2.7.0 and I need to manually build it. > The goal is to place everything in a different folder than usual : > /opt/postfix
<snip> http://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html 4.4 - Overriding built-in parameter default settings All Postfix configuration parameters can be changed by editing a Postfix configuration file, except for one: the parameter that specifies the location of Postfix configuration files. In order to build Postfix with a configuration directory other than /etc/postfix, use: % make makefiles CCARGS='-DDEF_CONFIG_DIR=\"/some/where\"' % make IMPORTANT: Be sure to get the quotes right. These details matter a lot. (Found the answer in less than 60 seconds with Google--1st hit, first sub entry, searching for "/etc/postfix hard coded") -- Stan