[WBEL-users] Postfix

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 12:24 +0200, Karl-Koenig Koenigsson wrote:
> Last night I pulled out the Postfix installation from my WBEL3 since
> it is more than ancient. I then compiled and installed a newer version
> straight from postfix.org.
> 
> A couple of questions that I have encountered in concert with this:
> 
> - I had to get rid of both mutt ans squirrelmail since there were
> dependencies. I "used yum remove postfix" and from there I got the
> dependency chain. I could not find a way to manually install these
> packages after I was done with my manual Postfix installation. What is
> the proper yum incantation to tell yum that I already have a MTA
> installed and to get it to please get on with the installation and not
> require me to get sendmail as well.
> 
> - Perhaps someone has already made a RPM for WBEL with Postfix 2.2
> that I could/could have installed instead of my manual installation?
> It would be nice to know for future reference.
> 
> - Why, oh why do RedHat keep insisting on enclosing the 2.0 version of
> Postfix? Most distros seems to do this and I find it utterly annoying.
> Quite a lot of water has passed under the bridges in the last years
> and Postfix has evolved even further. There are things in later
> versions that I require (support for greylist handling) and 2.0 just
> does not make it.
> 
> - How hard is it to make a RPM of what I have? I mean: if there is no
> 2.2 release for WBEL I guess I just will have to make one, right? :-)
> There are certain advantages with having everything installed as RPMs
> -- just see the first paragraph.
> 
> 
> Enough ramblings for now -- comments, anyone?
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Use Simon Mudd's postfix rpms...

http://postfix.wl0.org/en/

FWIW on RHEL 4...
# rpm -q postfix
postfix-2.1.5-4.2.RHEL4

and greylisting works fine

Craig