Postfix installation HOWTO

Download last version of Postfix at http://postfix.org and a patch that you can take at http://smartcgi.com/dist/postfix/patches/ Extract and apply the StartTLS patch, compile and install it as shown below:

    tar -xzvf postfix*
    cd postfix*
    cp ../pfixtls.diff ./
    patch -p1 < pfixtls.diff
        
    make -f Makefile.init makefiles \
	'CCARGS=-DHAS_MYSQL  -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_SSL \
	-I/usr/local/include/mysql/  -I/usr/local/include/sasl  ' \
        AUXLIBS='-L/usr/local/lib/sasl2 -L/usr/local/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient \
        -lz -lm -I/usr/local/include/sasl -lsasl2 -lcrypto \
        -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl'

    make install

Add user postfix:

     
	adduser -s /sbin/nologin postfix