> > For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able
> > to find:
> > postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and
> > postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm
>
> Updated to 2.6.1 as I hadn't seen Wietse's 2.6.1 update.
Thanks a bunch, Simon.
--Brian
> I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely
> to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these rpms
> I build.
+1 for me as well, Simon. I appreciate your work and have used your RPMs
for years to keep my mail servers and filters up to date.
> Is there a down side to using a 3rd party RPM on RHEL / CentOS over the
> packages version of 2.3.
Nope. They work fine. I have several CentOS/RHEL/Fedora mail filters and
back-end servers running Postfix built from Simon's source RPMs. You can pick
and choose at build-time what options you
> Is there a real use case for binary RPMs not maintained by the
> distribution release engineering teams? What's wrong with the Postfix
> source, which is typically less likely to have ill-advised patches
> dropped into it?
Because those of us who run package-based systems find things work better
> I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to
> get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help.
Simon Mudd picks up the releases and makes good source and binary RPMs from
them with lots of options. However, he's a busy man and does not always get
to them right after release. A kin
> I am not sure if I am using SELinux, AppArmor. I didn't install any of
> these explicitly. I am not sure if they run by default.
If you're running a Red Hat based distro, it is on by default. Check it
with:
# getenforce
If it responds with "enforcing" then it is on. Turn it off with
# setenfo
> So that seems to be it. I would really need to compile an "authentic"
> postfix version. Can you give me a link to source RPM of 2.5.5 for
> centos 5
Wietse does not release any RPM versions of Postfix. As you can imagine,
keeping that up for all the RPM-based distros would be quite a feat.
How
> 127.0.0.1 is configured on lo, as normaly.
> I've tried with all interfaces because I haven't results with lo.
Quite odd indeed. I just did the same command on 2 of my mail filters and
got plenty of traffic related to sqlgrey and my antivirus.
What OS are you running?
--Brian
> So a few other details I've grabbed didn't provide yesterday- These
> numbers don't seem to add up.
> My big question is how do I get this system upgraded without breaking
> it?
>
> postconf -d | grep mail_version
> mail_version = 2.4.5
>
> and also
>
> rpm -qa | grep postfix
> postfix-2.3.3-
