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jweinberger - Apr 4, 2005 - 8:16 pm

Hi:

I hope I am posting this in the right category (polite correction is welcome!):

I am running postfix on Mac OS/X 10.3.8 (Client), and also running PHP and MySQL to make some simple web-based applications (I'm not all that sophisticated about it - I'm still learning how all this works, but it's just for personal and family use...)

I have managed to figure out that Apple's out-of-the-box install of Postfix does not include MySQL support (in my case for virtual alias tables). And I'd like to create a PHP applet which lets my (wildly extended) family maintain their own e-mail forwarding addresses - and I think keeping it in a database is far easier than doing it by hand or figuring out a text file and postmap-ing from PHP.

What I really need is the simplest and least obscure way to either update postfix or install again. I"m comfortable with terminal and mucking about in the system (Carefully!), but I'm hesitant to go "make"-ing my own packages without alot of help.

Any suggestions for resources, or a simple installer, would be very much appreciated!

Thanks,

--Jeff

macjock - Apr 7, 2005 - 9:20 pm

Your best bet is to get the package from fink.
http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php?phpLang=en

I don't think(!) you'll get a binary from the web site but you'll get everything you need:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/pack.../postfix-mysql

Poke about on fink to find "Fink Commander" which if I recall correctly is a GUI for downloading and compiling the fink packages. You may need the Apple developer tools installed

Other than this you'll need to do some more googling to see if you can a pre-compiled version for OS X. The version that supports MySQL has been made with the "-DHAS_MYSQL" setting.
I just did a quick look myself but couldn't see anything - thats not to say it's not available.

regards,

dave

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jweinberger - Apr 7, 2005 - 11:56 pm

Dave:

Thanks!

I am actually playing with Fink to see if I can figure it out well enough to feel comfortable - seems really simple.

I'll let you know if that works for me.

I appreciate your help!

--Jeff