Comments on: Building the Postfix mailserver

By: Gringo Chaz

Gringo Chaz — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 04:14:55 +0000

Postfix is up now Postfix 2.4 stable release patch 5. I’m going to attempt it and I’ll let you know how it went. Thanks again for a great tutorial.

Did you ever cover Virtual Hosting with dynamic IP? If not I hope you get a chance soon. In the meantime… I’m googling.

By: james

james — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 08:00:42 +0000

Hello! This is a fantastic guide … I’m afraid I’ve been struggling with the postfix build for a day now, and can’t work out what I’m doing wrong.

When I do:
sudo make install

it craps out like this:
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_db_create
_db_version
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [master] Error 1
make: *** [update] Error 1

From the earlier guide, it was intimated that older installations of mysql didn’t help much with this – I completely refreshed the mysql install as per this documentation, but it’s not made any difference.

Hoping for some help!

By: Richard5

Richard5 — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:28:49 +0000

Thanks for letting me and all of us know Simon.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 18:40:03 +0000

Please ignore my ignorant comment above! As Richard quite rightly warns at the start of this tutorial, an accurate mySQL installation is key to success! I was missing the shared libraries – fatal!

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:53:48 +0000

I would echo the comments of ipod-groove, above. The path to the directory for the mysql libraries is incorrect above.

Replace:

-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql

with:

-L/usr/local/mysql/lib

Simon

By: Richard5

Richard5 — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:28:52 +0000

@James: Do the others get copied ? A directory can not be copied into itself so it’s not an real issue…

By: James Brown

James Brown — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 05:03:12 +0000

When trying to backup Apple Postfix, I get this:

$ sudo cd /usr/sbin
$ sudo mkdir -p postfix-2.0.10.apple
$ sudo cp -p post* postfix-2.0.10.apple
cp: postfix-2.0.10.apple is a directory (not copied).

James.

By: ipod-groove

ipod-groove — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:46:18 +0000

hello. Paul.

Passing the client of MySQL is wrong.

–It is likely to write like this. –

make -f Makefile.init makefiles \
CFLAGS=’-arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk’ \
CCARGS=’-DUSE_TLS -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL \
-I/usr/local/include/sasl \
-DHAS_SSL -I/usr/include/openssl \
-DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/local/mysql/include’ \
AUXLIBS=’-L/usr/lib -lldap -L/usr/lib -llber -L/usr/local/lib \
-lssl -lsasl2 -L/usr/local/mysql/lib \
-lmysqlclient -lz -lm’

By: Paul G

Paul G — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:00:01 +0000

While attempting the above install, I encounter the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: multiple definitions of symbol _SSL_write
/usr/lib/libssl.dylib(ssl_lib.o) definition of _SSL_write
/usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a(ssl.o) definition of _SSL_write in section (__TEXT,__text)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [error] Error 1
make: *** [update] Error 1

I have confirmed all of the mysql settings:

Usage: /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config [OPTIONS]
Options:
–cflags [-I/usr/local/mysql/include -Os -arch ppc -fno-common]
–include [-I/usr/local/mysql/include]
–libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient -lz -lm]
–libs_r [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient_r -lz -lm]
–socket [/tmp/mysql.sock]
–port [3306]
–version [5.0.22]
–libmysqld-libs [-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqld -lz -lm]

This is a fresh install of OSX and all packages are from those listed in the tutorials.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!