LINUX PORTABILITY ================= On RedHat Linux 7.0 you must install the db3-devel RPM before you can compile the Postfix source code. On RedHat Linux 7.1 procmail no longer has permission to write the mail spool directory. Workaround: chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail. LINUX SYSLOGD PERFORMANCE ========================= LINUX syslogd uses synchronous writes by default. Because of this, syslogd can actually use more system resources than Postfix. To avoid such madness, disable synchronous mail logfile writes by editing /etc/syslog.conf and by prepending a - to the logfile name: mail.* -/var/log/mail.log Send a "kill -HUP" to the syslogd to make the change effective.