Hi, On Sunday, January 09, 2011 09:34:10 pm Wietse Venema wrote: > Floris Bos: > > > > sendmail: fatal: unsupported dictionary type: mysql > > > > > > This means that MySQL support is not compiled into your Postfix > > > sendmail command. > > > > Do I need any special compile option other than the standard -DHAS_MYSQL > > (and include/library directory) to get the support into sendmail? > > Hmm. It seems that only "local" file-based databases (hash, btree, > regexp, pcre, etc.) are linked into the user commands, not the > higher-level databases that require access to the network. > > This is certainly something that could be changed, but then it > means that > > a) Postfix can't accept local submission when the network > is down (for example when the machine is booting).
Well, in our use case MySQL runs locally, and is started right before Postfix. So that would be acceptable. > b) EVERYONE on the system would have to be able to read > your *SQL etc. password. Wouldn't it be possible to have the check only done in the postdrop executable and not in sendmail? Could make the configuration only readable by the maildrop group then. -- Yours sincerely, Floris Bos
