FWIW I did everything on this page with sudo, so I submit that enabling root is optional.

Do you have the time and inclination to suggest how I might modify the above directions to achieve this?

Thanks for the instructions you\\\’ve provided so far.

JW

I’ve gotten to the part where I’m trying to run “make install” for Postfix. It is failing at the following point:

cc -DUSE_TLS -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -I/usr/local/include/sasl
-DHAS_SSL -I/usr/include/openssl -DHAS_MYSQL
-I/sw/include/mysql
-DDEF_HTML_DIR=\”/Library/WebServer/Documents/PostfixDocs\”
-DBIND_8_COMPAT -DNO_NETINFO -DHAS_PCRE
-I/usr/local/include -g -O -I. -I../../include
-DMACOSX -o master master.o master_conf.o master_ent.o
master_sig.o master_avail.o master_spawn.o
master_service.o master_status.o master_listen.o
master_vars.o master_wakeup.o master_flow.o
../../lib/libglobal.a ../../lib/libutil.a -L/usr/lib
-lldap -L/usr/lib -llber -L/usr/local/lib -lssl
-lsasl2 -L/sw/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm
-L/usr/local/lib -lpcre -flat_namespace
ld: Undefined symbols:
_db_create
_db_version
make: *** [master] Error 1
make: *** [update] Error 1

Here is some additional information that might be useful:
* I’m installing on an OSX 10.3.9 system.
* I don’t have a full MySql installation on the system that I’m setting up as the mail server (MySql is running on a different server). However, I do have the MySql libraries installed on the system I’m working with. That’s why when I ran ‘make’ for Postfix, I changed the path ‘/Library/MySQL/include/mysql’ to ‘/sw/include/mysql’ and ‘/Library/MySQL/lib/mysql’ to ‘/sw/lib/mysql’.
* I wasn’t sure if this is the root of the problem or not, but my ‘/sw/lib/mysql’ directory doesn’t contain a file named ‘lmysqlclient’. It does contain many similarly named files, such as ‘libmysqlclient.dylib’, ‘libmysqlclient.a’, and ‘libmysqlclient.la’, among others.

Can you help me overcome this problem? If it comes to it, I could always install MySql on the system I’m setting up as the mail server, but I’d like to avoid that if possible. The system in question is already acting as a web server, and some of the sites are already accessing the copy of MySql that is running on another one of our servers, and I was hoping to use that installation of MySql for the mail databases as well.

Thanks,
Brent

Richard5: The issue was solved, the erorr was caused by having more than one old install of MySQL on the system which weren’t expected.

Richard5: Scott had the same problem as Chris, he had multiple installations of MySQL on the same machine.

I have installed everything up to the Courier-Auth without a single bit of trouble.
However, when configuring Courier-Auth with the following params:

./configure –with-authmysql –with-mysql-libs=/Library/MySQL/lib/mysql –with-mysql-includes=/Library/Mysql/include/mysql

I get the error of:

configure: error: –with-authmysql specified but no mysqlclient.so

I have searched my entire hard drive, and this file does not exist. Was it part of a package that I should have already?
Thanks for your help.

OS X 10.4.4

Richard5: Chris had multiple installations of MySQL on the same machine. If you have the same problem you can use the command mysql_config to find out which paths are used for the library and the include files.

/usr/local/courier-0.52.2/install-sh -d /usr/local/var/tmp
test -w /etc || exit 0; chown bin /usr/local/var/webmail-logincache
chown: bin: Invalid argument
make[4]: *** [cache-reminder] Error 1
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [install] Error 2
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

OS X 10.4.4 PowerMac G4

Richard5: The problem is solved, Markis tried to compile the complete Courier-MTA distribution instead of just compiling the IMAP server.


./configure --with-authmysql --with-mysql-libs=/Library/MySQL/lib/mysql --with-mysql-includes=/Library/Mysql/include/mysql


(replacing the –with-mysql-* paths with the paths to your mysql install)

/usr/bin/ld: truncated or malformed archive: /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.a (ranlib structures in table of contents extends past the end of the table of contents, can’t load from it)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [master] Error 1
make: *** [update] Error 1

its is the same if I follow your directions of if i just try to build postfis with only mysql. => http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=658158&#658158

my hardware is an xserve running 10.4.2 mysql is from mysql.com v5.0.16 all other pacatges are the sorces you have listed. I have tried using the factory supplied mysql as well with the same result.

any ideas?

Richard5: It is solved, the problem was related to using the corrrect path to the MySQL include files and libraries.