Installing Courier Mail Transfer Agent (MTA)

Install courier-authlib

1. Download courier-authlib from http://www.courier-mta.org/download.php#authlib
2. Extract the tarball.
3. Compiling courier-authlib required two missing dependencies: libtool-ltdl-devel and gdbm-devel (sudo yum install libtool-ltdl-devel gdbm-devel) .
4. Run ./configure
5. Run make
6. Run sudo make install

Install courier (failed)

1. Download Courier from http://sourceforge.net/projects/courier/
2. Extract the tarball.
3. Run ./configure --with-db=gdbm
4. Run make
5. Compilation error:

/usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e xsinit -- -o xsinit.c -std
Can't locate ExtUtils/Embed.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
make[5]: *** [xsinit.c] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/smiley/devel/courier-0.66.0/courier/filters/perlfilter'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/smiley/devel/courier-0.66.0/courier/filters'
make[3]: *** [all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/smiley/devel/courier-0.66.0/courier/filters'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/smiley/devel/courier-0.66.0/courier'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/smiley/devel/courier-0.66.0/courier'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

 Install missing dependencies and try again

1.  Install perl-ExtUtils-Embed: sudo yum install perl-ExtUtils-Embed
2. Run make
3. Run make check
4. Run sudo make install
5. Run sudo make install-configure