On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Jason Williams wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I am currently working on mail server, running Postfix 2.0.12, which was > installed via RPM from the following link: > > http://postfix.wl0.org/en/ > > So here are my questions: (Bare with me...im fairly new to all of this) > > 1.) It appears that I am going to need to do one of two things to be able > to add a few features that I would like: Specifially, SASL support. To do > that, I can do one of two things: Download the source tarball and go > through the all thing: OR, I can download the src.rpm available, and > configure a few options of my own, correct?
I do the later (src rpm). And is my preference. Just out of curiousity what does "rpm -qi postfix" show? > > 2.) Currently, my mail server is working the way I would like it to be. I > have setup my main.cf and master.cf and it is doing what I want it to do. I smell a trick question here. > 3.) What is the best way I can go about re-installing postfix, to add new > features, and at the same time, make sure I do not lose any important > information? I already backed up my main.cf and master.cf...is there > anything else that I can do? > Again, in keeping with "the rpm way". rpm -Uvh postfix-newversion.i386.rpm. and of course. making a backup of your main.cf, master.cf, access, virtual, relay-domains, and possibly transport and others prior to upgrading the rpm. > I have not done a whole lot of recompling software to add new features, so > im still learning. > > If anyone can help me out here, I would very much appreciate it. > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
