On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Nikolaos Milas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17/1/2013 5:45 μμ, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: > >> We build Postfix and Amavis ourselves. > > > We build Postfix, Amavis, Dovecot ourselves too. > > Postfix, based on: > http://ftp.wl0.org/official/2.9/SRPMS/postfix-2.9.1-1.src.rpm > > Amavis, based on: > http://pkgs.repoforge.org/amavisd-new/amavisd-new-2.6.6-3.rf.src.rpm > > Dovecot, based on: > http://ns.fakessh.eu/rpms/dovecot-2.1.8-1.centme.src.rpm > > We simply replace with the latest sources and adjust options/naming and > build current packages. > > Nick
Thanks for the responses, everyone. I've shied away from source RPMs. I rarely saw any point in the end sysadmin user needing it. But perhaps I should check it out as a regular solution for something like amavisd which no distro has an interest in updating frequently.
