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1.8 KiB
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34 lines
1.8 KiB
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What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an
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alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program.
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Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at
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the same time, being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing
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users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is
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completely different.
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This script builds postfix with support for Dovecot SASL but does not
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include any support for Cyrus-SASL. If you need to enable support for
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Cyrus see SASL_README in the source code. You can also enable support
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for MySQL and Postgres. This script should find support for BerkleyDB
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and PCRE automagically, so no special options are required. Further,
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this script builds postfix with TLS support and requires that openssl
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be installed. openssl-solibs is not enough. You can find a SlackBuild
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script for Dovecot at http://www.SlackBuilds.org/ but you do not need
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to install it to use this package without SASL.
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A couple things to remember about postfix:
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- this script doesn't add the necessary postfix user and postdrop
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group, but exits if they do not exist. Add these before running
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this script. They should have no special permission and postfix
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should NOT be a member of the postdrop group. The script *WILL*
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offer some sane defaults that won't conflict with the canonical
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users and groups, and shouldn't conflict with any other scripts
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downloaded from SlackBuilds.org that require their own uids and
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gids
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- many of the utilities in postfix have multiple manpages such as
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postconf(5) and postconf(8). Use man -k to find them.
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- subscribe to the postfix-users mailing list
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If you have any questions or comments about this script, you are free
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to contact me via e-mail at <alan@lizella.net>. Thanks!
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