On Apr 01, 2012, at 11.38, Robinson, Eric wrote: > We only want to install postfix as a null client for sending alerts from our > servers. When I try to install postfix, it wants to install > mysql-libs-5.1.61-1.el6_2.1 as well. I'm afraid this will break our mysql > servers, which are all running MySQL 5.0.77. Will installing postfix break > things? If so, is there a way to install postfix without MySQL support? I > don't mind building postfix from source if necessary, but I would prefer to > install via RPM.
you could always just not install postfix, since installing an entire mail server isn't at all necessary to simply send email. i would recommend null client specific software, such as msmtp, instead. among other things, it would likely introduce far fewer packaging considerations. -ben
