[WBEL-devel] Anyone got a good "how-to" for setting up a virtual mail host using RHEL/WBEL??

[Vlad Mazek]

In short, stick with Gentoo.

Otherwise, you're stuck recompiling half the distribution; RedHat does 
some very funny stuff with Postfix, SASL, SASL2, etc which will make it 
close to impossible to do this from vanilla rpm's. If you're still up 
for it, this is the place where you'll spend a lot of time :)

http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/

-Vlad

Joe Brouhard wrote:

>Normally, I wouldn't spam more than one list, but I got myself a major
>hurdle to fix before migrating my primary mailserver over to WBEL...
>
>I have a Virtual Mailhost set up on my Gentoo Linux server (which is
>doing EVERYTHING for me.. I'd like to spread services across one or two
>boxes now).  The How-To I used for this can be found at
>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml
>
>I've used the how-to at www.high5.net/howto in an attempt to recreate
>what a friend of mine did on RedHat 8.0.  However, This howto requires
>me to build the packages from scratch.  I do not want to end up having
>to do this for variety of reasons.. one of them being the problem of
>upgrading.  If I ever upgrade using RPM's, there's too big a chance of
>things breaking, forcing me to spend countless hours working on it when
>I could be working on more important projects.
>
>Sure, I could probably use the how-to to rebuild the RPM's from source,
>but if anyone out there has a better suggestion/how-to for this kind of
>setup, I'm all ears.
>
>Anything to make my life easier.. I've been fighting this for two weeks
>already, and have gotten sick of hunting down a simple issue like "i
>can't login". <G>
>
>Currently, virtual mailhosting works fine.  Everything's working. 
>HOWEVER, User cannot LOGIN.  I'm presuming this is because I'm storing
>passwords with MD5 encryptation in the mysql database, and SASL may not
>be working with it properly.  SourceRPM says it is, so if the SourceRPM
>says it was built with MD5 support, the rpm i pulled from the web/CDs
>should also have this support, am I correct?
>
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