From: Brian Collins (listbcnewnanutilities.org)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2007 - 08:45:43 CST

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> Installing postfix on CentOS is a matter of:
> yum install postfix
> yum remove sendmail
>
> Those are the only commands you need to use. Unless you have a
> specific need to compile postfix, please use the yum/rpm packages
> instead.
>
> There is rarely a need to compile a package when using a distro like
> Centos, and compiling is actually a bad thing, as it will break the
> package management tools.

There is a need if you want to use any features not built-in, or if you
don't like the way RedHat (and thus CentOS) ships Postfix by default. They
used to make it chroot out of the box; not sure whether they still do that.

But even if you need to compile your own, it's easy enough with Simon Mudd's
RPMs. He makes it very easy to built Postfix in an RPM-based system.

--Brian

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