Postfix Cyrus Web cyradm HOWTO

1.4.

I got a error from Web cyradm like this  Fatal error: Call to undefined

function: query() in /usr/local/httpd/htdocs/web cyradm/auth.inc.php on line

17 

Web cyradm depends on PEAR for database abstraction. PEAR is included in

recent PHP versions. Often PEAR is a separate package, check out the package

base of your distribution. I strongly suggest to update to the most recent

version of PHP anyway, because a lot of bugs have been fixed.

Another reason could be an authentication error with MySQL. Be sure the user

 mail  has enough rights to access the database and tables.

1.5.

Why MySQL and not LDAP?

Good question. LDAP is role based and it would be indeed a better solution for

such applications. Unfortunately LDAP is very hard to set up. You have to

make proper schemes etc. MySQL is the way strait ahead, it is very easy to

handle and versatile. There is a PAM module available for LDAP, feel free to

use it.

1.6.

Why Postfix and not Qmail?

Lots of people like to see such a setup with Qmail. The reason why is,

Mysql support is a hack and not in the included in the main source tree. This

could end up in a bad situation. Think if a security hole is found in qmail and

the patch does not work with the corrected version. Postfix is supporting

MySQL natively. Another (personal) reason is that I find Postfix more

sympatic (I don't know why)

1.7.

I got a Error: "Temporary lookup failure"

Postfix cannot look up the alias table. Must common failure is that MySQL is

not running, or there is a authentication Error. Check

/var/log/mail

and

/usr/local/mysql/var/.err

to track the error.

1.8.

For what platforms does this HOWTO work?

It is primarily for Linux. Until now I only tested it on Linux/IA32. Most

probably it will also work on other architectures. FreeBSD is reported working

fine. AIX has problems with at least PHP. Please report if you got it running on

other platform, so I can update this section.

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