John wrote:
(I'm looking to set postfix, fetchmail, dovecot, squirrelmail, PHP, MySQL, Apache, HylaFAX, OpenLDAP, OpenSWAN, Samba and CUPS and would prefer to use them 'out of the box' rather than having to rebuild!) John - a relative newbie but somewhat confused ;-)
You are worrying way too much. You can certainly use all those out of the box. Have you been building Linux From Scratch or something, that you worry so much about compile options? The integration stuff is ready made by the fine SUSE engineers, so you don't have to. :-)
Thanks for your reassurance. I'm relatively new to Linux and don't want to get involved in recompiling unless absolutely necessary. Some articles I've read, however, suggest that packages need to be built to ensure their association with others, eg postfix + OpenLDAP, which worried me.
It's not possible to use every combination of the listed services out of the box, but it should be possible to configure postfix with ldap. On the other hand, if you want to use mysql as backend to manage postfix you do need to recompile since suse compiled the ldap support into the postfix rpm but not the mysql support. Sandy