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<h1><img src="postfix-logo.jpg" width="203" height="98" ALT="">Postfix and Linux</h1>
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<h2> Host lookup issues </h2>
<p> By default Linux /etc/hosts lookups do not support multiple IP
address per hostname. This causes warnings from the Postfix SMTP
server that "hostname XXX does not resolve to address YYY", and is
especially a problem with hosts that have both IPv4 and IPv6
addresses. To fix, turn on support for multiple IP addresses: </p>
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/etc/host.conf:
...
# We have machines with multiple IP addresses.
multi on
...
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<p> Alternatively, specify the RESOLV_MULTI environment variable
in <a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a>: </p>
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/etc/postfix/<a href="postconf.5.html">main.cf</a>:
<a href="postconf.5.html#import_environment">import_environment</a> = MAIL_CONFIG MAIL_DEBUG MAIL_LOGTAG TZ XAUTHORITY DISPLAY LANG=C RESOLV_MULTI=on
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<h2>Berkeley DB issues</h2>
<p> If you can't compile Postfix because the file "db.h"
isn't found, then you MUST install the Berkeley DB development
package (name: db???-devel-???) that matches your system library.
You can find out what is installed with the rpm command. For example:
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$ <b>rpm -qf /usr/lib/libdb.so</b>
db4-4.3.29-2
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<p> This means that you need to install db4-devel-4.3.29-2 (on
some systems, specify "<b>rpm -qf /lib/libdb.so</b>" instead). </p>
<p> DO NOT download some Berkeley DB version from the network.
Every Postfix program will dump core when it is built with a different
Berkeley DB version than the version that is used by the system
library routines. See the <a href="DB_README.html">DB_README</a> file for further information.
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<h2>Procmail issues</h2>
<p> On RedHat Linux 7.1 and later <b>procmail</b> no longer has
permission
to write the mail spool directory. Workaround: </p>
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# chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
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<h2>Syslogd performance</h2>
<p> LINUX <b>syslogd</b> uses synchronous writes by default. Because
of this, <b>syslogd</b> can actually use more system resources than
Postfix. To avoid such badness, disable synchronous mail logfile
writes by editing /etc/syslog.conf and by prepending a - to the
logfile name: </p>
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/etc/syslog.conf:
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
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<p> Send a "<b>kill -HUP</b>" to the <b>syslogd</b> to make the
change effective. </p>
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