Install postfix with MySQL support on CentOS 5.3 (64Bit)

Monday, September 21, 2009 posted by Till

The following article explains the steps to compile postfix MTA with MySQL support on CentOS 5.3 as e.g. needed for ISPConfig 3.

Remove the postfix package from CentOS which does not has MySQL support:

/etc/init.d/postfix stop rpm -e --nodeps postfix

Download the postfix source RPM and install it:

cd /tmp wget http://mirror.rackspace.com/CentOS/5.3/os/SRPMS/postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.src.rpm rpm -i postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2.src.rpm

Edit the spec file to enable MySQL support.

vi /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/postfix.spec

and change the line:

%define MYSQL 0

to:

%define MYSQL 1

Install a few prerequisites before we build the new postfix RPM package

yum install pcre-devel mysql-devel

Build the postfix RPM with MySQL support:

rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/postfix.spec

and install it.

cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64 rpm -i postfix-2.3.3-2.1.x86_64.rpm

Start postfix and configure it to be started at boot time:

/etc/init.d/postfix start chkconfig --levels 235 postfix on

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Tags: ISPConfig 3, postfix

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