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

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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