[HOWTO] Postfix + SMTP AUTH + MySQL

Tested on: Fedora Core 4 (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4), MySQL-5.0.16

1.0 Getting the needed resources

Before installing postfix make sure the following packages are installed:

• openssl-0.9.7f-7

Both packages above was pre-installed in Fedora Core 4. If needed, run

# up2date openssl

Download and install cyrus-sasl from this site, the cyrus-sasl version used in this HOWTO is 2.1.20

# mkdir /usr/src/cyrus-sasl
# cd /usr/src/cyrus-sasl
# wget ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20.tar.gz
# tar zxvf cyrus-sasl-2.1.20.tar.gz
# cd cyrus-sasl-2.1.20
# ./configure --disable-krb4 --disable-gssapi --disable-otp
# make
# make install
# ln -s /usr/local/lib/sasl2 /usr/lib/sasl2

During the ./configure;make process, an error will occur like below:

client.c:64: error: static declaration of 'global_callbacks' follows non-static declaration

Locate the client.c file at /usr/src/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/lib/ . Edit the file with your favourite editor find the statement "static sasl_global_callbacks_t global_callbacks;" and subsitute it as below:

# nano /usr/src/cyrus-sasl-2.1.20/lib/client.c

...
# Comment this line, remove the static keyword
#static sasl_global_callbacks_t global_callbacks;

sasl_global_callbacks_t global_callbacks;
...

Save the file, client.c. Re-run the command above.


Next, Postfix installation. Get the Postfix package and execute the following command:

# mkdir /usr/src/postfix/
# cd /usr/src/postfix/
# wget ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/postfix/official/postfix-2.2.7.tar.gz
# tar zxvf postfix-2.2.7.tar.gz
# cd postfix-2.2.7

The following command is to clean left over files from the previous build

# make tidy
#make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_TLS -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -I/usr/local/include/sasl -DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/include/mysql" AUXLIBS="-lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/local/lib -lsasl2 -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm"

Compile and install them

# make
# make install

Upon successful installation, you will be prompted to input some values. Just press 'enter' key to accept the default values.