Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 21:10:02 -0600 From: Manuel Rabade Garcia <mig@mig-29.net> To: "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <software@schmittnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD Message-ID: <20041123031002.GA1163@mig-29.net> In-Reply-To: <41A28AD5.90106@schmittnet.com> References: <41A24148.1000400@schmittnet.com> <20041122182836.3cfb0524.mig@mig-29.net> <41A28AD5.90106@schmittnet.com>
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Bill Schmitt (SW), who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > Manuel Rabade Garcia wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:04 -0500 > >"Bill Schmitt (SW)" <software@schmittnet.com> wrote: > > > > > >>I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to > >>use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on > >>doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using > >>PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or > >>pointers to web sites? I'm working with FBSD 4.9, PostgreSQL 7.2, and > >>Postfix 2.15. > >> > > > > > >First of all: I suggest you to use 5.3 instead of 4.9 (more support, > >more features, better preformance, etc). > > > >I have working Postfix+PostgreSQL+CyrusIMAP in FreeBSD, i read this > >tutorial: > > > >http://www.web-cyradm.org/documentation/Postfix-cyrus-postgreSQL-web-cyradm.pdf > > > >The paper talks about the setup in Linux Red Hat, but is a good > >starting point for any unix-like OS :) > > > >Greetings. > > > > Paper looks good. The reasons we stuck with 4.9 were practical. When we > started bringing up the box, 4.10 and the 5.x releases hung on the setup > of some of them. We think it was related to the presence of an unused > graphics adapter on the motherboard that kept being detected and which > we couldn't turn off on this older Gateway computer, but that is purely > a guess. > Well, upgrade is a bad idea if the machine is already in production :) In fact, the machine where i am running Postifx+Postgresql+CyrusIMAP+Alotofnicestuffformymailserver is running 4.9 :-P and it's fine and i want upgrade it in a couple of years :-D (it's a good point about FreeBSD: the security patches even for old releases ;)) If you want to apply some kind of stuff in the paper don't doubt to ask, i have running a more less similar setup as the described there :) Greetings. -- Manuel Rabade Garcia WWW - http://mig-29.net GPG - 1024D/AA3325C0 2002-09-30 Fingerprint - D2E5 76E1 CE2D 8783 545D 1F41 399B 5765 AA33 25C0
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