The version of Postfix that comes with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or CentOS 5 does not

support MySQL lookups. You can build your own custom Postfix RPM or get a prebuilt
RPM from the CentOS Plus repository. You can use the CentOS repository in RHEL
since CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL. This article describes how to install
Postfix with MySQL lookup table support from the CentOS Plus repository.

1. Edit the
file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo or its equivalent in RHEL and edit the lines
below.
[base]
exclude=postfix

[update]
exclude=postfix

[centosplus]
enabled=1
includepkgs=postfix
If you are using RHEL, add the lines below under the centosplus section.
name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?
release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
2. Type yum remove postfix in a terminal window to remove the standard version of
Postfix.
3. Type yum install postfix to install the version of Postfix found in the CentOS Plus
repository.
4. To verify MySQL support, type postconf -m and check if mysql is found in the
output.