On 06/10/10 18:16, D G Teed wrote:
Usually I prefer to work within the package management provided
by a distro, or some repository collection. It can provide timely
security updates and you can have some confidence that all
of the updates coming at once are tested to work together.
I avoided the default Postfix from Redhat years ago and put in
postfix 2.4.6 built from source. That version is still newer than Redhat's
2.3.3 RPM, four years after the install! In the meantime, Debian
provide 2.5.5 currently.
If I needed a very good reason to not use Redhat's postfix,
is there a major feature or issue (or two) that comes to mind?
No MySQL table lookup support in the Red Hat package:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293251
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502412
Although CentOS do provide an otherwise identical package with this
feature enabled in their CentOSPlus repository.
Not necessarily a reason to use a newer version of postfix, but it might
be a reason not to use the Red Hat package.
