Wietse Venema:
> Manjiri:
> > Though, I have 2 postfix built on the same machine. One is w/o mysql support
> > and the above one is with mysql support.
> > I know that it is possible to start multiple postfix instances on same
> > machine, but is it possible to install and build multiple postfix packages
> > on same machine ?
>
> Sure. But you can't mix the commands and the daemons from different
> Postfix builds, because that does not work as you have demonstrated.
>
> Specifically, different Postfix builds must not share any of
>
> command_directory
> config_directory
> daemon_directory
> data_directory
>
> or any of the pathnames for sendmail, mailq, or newaliases.
>
> On the other hand, if you were to upgrade to 2.6 or later and follow
> MULTI_INSTANCE_README, then you must share command_directory and
> daemon_directory, but none of the other pathnames.
Correction: you're supposed to share the pathnames of all programs
and none of the data.
Wietse
