Postfix Slackbuild with Cyrus-SASL, LDAP and MySQL
 

Slackware 13 64 - full installation
Postfix from slackbuilds dot org
Dovecot from same

Hi
has anyone recompiled Postfix using the Slackbuild script, modifying the script to include support for Cyrus-SASL, OpenLDAP, and MySQL in the build, while retaining Dovecot SASL and TLS?
If so I would appreciate it if they could post the CCARGS and AUXLIBS commands. I am having some difficulty getting this working.
Thank you.

Hi
I struggled through this and I think I have finally succeeded. This is the first time I have recompiled a Slackware package by editing the slackbuild, and it has been a very rewarding experience. Here is what I did:

1) Used standard Slack openssl
2) Used standard Slack cyrus-sasl
3) Recompiled OpenLDAP - first I downloaded the updated source from the OpenLDAP site and then I edited the slackbuild so that the version number matched the updated source; and second I edited the slackbuild script so that the OpenLDAP server was enabled (the server is disabled by default in Slackware 13-64). I did this by changing "disable-slapd" and "disable-slurpd" to "enable-" in both cases.
4) Used standard Slack mysql
5) Created dovecot user and group, and installed dovecot from slackbuilds
6) Created postfix user and group, and postdrop group. Recompiled Postfix - downloaded up-to-date source from postfix.org and edited slackbuild accordingly. Then edited slackbuild to compile support for cyrus-sasl, mysql and openldap in, using the following CCARGS and AUXLIBS command:

make makefiles \
CCARGS='-DUSE_SASL_AUTH -DUSE_TLS \
-DUSE_CYRUS_SASL -DHAS_MYSQL \
-DHAS_LDAP -I/usr/include/sasl \
-I/usr/include/mysql' \
AUXLIBS="-L/usr/lib64/mysql -lssl \
-lcrypto -lsasl2 -lmysqlclient -lz -lm \
-lldap -llber"

Dovecot SASL and TLS are compiled in by default.

I wanted Cyrus SASL because I need my Postfix server to act as a client to my Fastmail SMTP server, and Dovecot SASL is server-only.

Everything seems to have gone OK; now I need to work on the Postfix config to get the server relaying outbound mail to the Fastmail servers, and then configure getmail to collect mail from them. I hope to use Dovecot IMAP to read the mail on my local Postfix server.

I will keep you informed as I go along. I find this way of installing packages very simple once you get the hang of editing slackbuilds to support different compile-time options and to compile from up-to-date source. It's certainly more exciting and instructive than what I have been used to, which is Next>Next>Next>Finish in Windows and apt-get install in Debian! It also allows you to download and install updated source quite easily. Very impressed.

I hope this is helpful to someone else along the way.

:)

I also needed something like that, so here are slackbuilds that i patched:

Patched cyrus-sasl slackbuild to support mysql:
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/_p....0/cyrus-sasl/

Patched openldap slackbuild to support server mode:
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/_p...13.0/openldap/

Patched postfix slackbuild to support also cyrus sasl, and mysql (and latest postfix version):
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/_patched/SBo/postfix/

Patched dovecot script to support various databases (and latest dovecot version):
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/_patched/SBo/dovecot/

You can read PATCHED file in each dir, and you can see the difference by comparing ORIG files.


Hope it helps, enjoy!

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Post patches
 

Mario,

Slackverse.org doesn't seem to exist anymore.

I realized I need to recompile with sasl options and build postfix in order to relay mail through gmail.

Maillog reports "unsupported SASL client implementation: cyrus and Fatal SASL Client initialization" everytime I attempt to send a test mail through gmail.

Could you post the contents of your build script in this forum?

Thanks!

Slackware 13.37 x86 --Full DVD Install
Slackbuild Postfix source for 13.37

Sorry, there was an error in dns (it could take a few hours until zone is fixed). Here are updated links for those slackbuilds:

http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/pa...37/cyrus-sasl/
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/pa...3.37/openldap/
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/pa...13.37/dovecot/
http://slackbuilds.slackverse.org/pa...13.37/postfix/

However, if you are running slackware-14.0, you should probably get updated postfix/dovecot slackbuilds from slackbuilds.org