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Re: mysql support in Postfix

From: Magnus Bäck (magnusdsek.lth.se)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2007 - 15:38:10 CST


On Sunday, December 02, 2007 at 22:13 CET,
     jekillen <jekillenprodigy.net> wrote:

> I have Postfix 2.3x installed on FreeBSD v6.2 and am trying to set up
> Cyrus Imap and Cyradm. In the process of following the instructions
> there are a lot of references to use of MySQL tables to be used by
> Postfix. The problem is: postconf -m does not list mysql as a
> supported type. (it does not list db as a supported type even though
> Berkly db was installed by ports associated with Cyrus Imap and
> related software).

That's because the map types provided by Berkeley DB are called `hash'
and `btree', not `db'.

> I have looked in the Postfix manual and have a copy of The Book Of
> Postfix and I have not found much on installing postfix, let alone
> how to include database type support.

http://www.postfix.org/MYSQL_README.html

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