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SHORT HOWTO: install Postfix from source with SASL authentication and SQL data access servers on Ubuntu Server 6.06 LTS

23 January, 2008 17:59

Source code compilation needs the apt-get resource package build-essential: 

sudo apt-get install build-essential 

The following packages needed from the apt repositories for the MySQL server and the libraries to compile postfix with this data access method:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libmysqlclient15off libnet-daemon-perl libplrpc-perl mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server-5.0 libmysqlclient15-dev zlib1g-dev 

The following packages needed from the apt repositories for the Cyrus SASL authentication server and the libraries to compile postfix with this authentication method:

sudo apt-get install sasl2-bin libsasl2 libsasl2-dev

Berkely DB libraries are also required:

sudo apt-get install libdb4.4 libdb4.4-dev

I used Postfix source version 2.4.6, found here.  Alternative mirrors can be found here.

Deflate the package:

tar -xzvf postfix-2.4.6.tar.gz

cd postfix-2.4.6

You may then create the makefiles:

make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_CYRUS_SASL \
-I/usr/include/sasl -DHAS_MYSQL -I/usr/include/mysql" \
AUXLIBS="-L/usr/lib -lsasl2 -L/usr/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lz -lm"

Then finally install Postfix with:

sudo make; make install

Cheers! 

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2GB DDR2 $29.00 Free Shipping

23 January, 2008 11:47

- Corsair 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800 Desktop Memory, $29.00* with Free Shipping!

[link to specials page on newegg.com] 

Don't pass this one up, like my broke ass will! 

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notes about the pipe man, I am talking about the pipe... the pipe...

18 January, 2008 18:46

Some thoughts about my home Internet pipe speed increase...

What can I say, I feel OK accomplishing my daily tasks, while answereing a VoIP call now.  My incremental backups of my dedicated servers, my external virtual machines interface, downloads, and of course upload speed has all been approved on when used in conjunction.

I need to tweak Firefox to render pages with a little more responsiveness to the faster connection.  For the most part at this point, web browsing has improved about 3x without the tweak.   

And my personal million dollar question: yes, the router lights do actually blink faster.  My switch and modem/nat device do not however, shame... ;) 

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VISTA summarized

13 January, 2008 10:12

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Century Telephone has one hell of a deal on a 10Mbit down 768Kbits up package; I just could not resist

07 January, 2008 10:18

I have no phone with this DSL provider, just Skype, which saves me enough to upgrade.  It is only $10 more per month.  I have to wait one week, as they have to do some physical work on the wiring.  How the hell am I going to wait that long?  I want it right now!

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PPoE MTU and LAN MTU changes resulting in unbelievable increases in performance

05 January, 2008 02:08

I was looking over my PPoE stats and noticed an MTU of 1540.  Most of my internet uses relies on UDP communication, so I decided to play around a bit.

I lowered the response time negotiation in relation to lowering my routers MTU to 1300.  Ya, try doing that with your average ISP and see how long it takes for your net to go down.

My local network has improved in performance 2 fold, and WAN data transfer has increased by at least 3!

However, this is the first time I had rebooted my router since my ISP hook-up, about 4 months.  Who knows.  Sure as hell happy though! 

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