[X-Unix] Postfix troubles

[Alan Harper]

It is pretty easy to enable postfix from the command line. I did it in a couple of minutes over the weekend (just upgraded to panther on the weekend two, god it rocks, i'm happy that apple has fixed the maximisng routine so it centres the window)

This is from memory but i did the following as root

chown -R postfix /var/spool/postfix
chown root /var/spool/postfix
set MAILSERVER=-YES- in /etc/hostconfig
edited /etc/postfix/master.cf and removed the # in the follwoing line:
smtp      inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd

Ran "postfix check" to see that all is well

Any questions e-mail me I might know
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:56:51AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> 
> On Jan 29, 2004, at 6:56 pm, Dennis Fazio wrote:
> 
> >--On Wednesday, January 28, 2004 09:02 AM -0600 Michael Grant 
> ><soft at bdanube.com> wrote:
> >>... Since I *only* want to use Postfix to send mail from this
> >>particular machine for now and, as Stroller rightly points out, don't 
> >>want
> >>to risk opening the machine as an open relay for spammers,
> >
> >You may want to consider. Postfix Enabler (on Versiontracker or 
> >Macupdate). It does this with a click of a button. If you want to set 
> >it as an IMAP/POP server later, it does that too with relay 
> >protection.
> 
> I'm sure that Postfix Enabler is very good, but I'm gathering the 
> impression that it's a proprietary, closed-source GUI tool. I know it's 
> only $10, but this is a Unit-oriented list - if one learns how to 
> enable Postfix from the commandline, using pico or vi to edit the 
> config files, one has the benefit that one will be sure to be able to 
> configure Postifx on any Unix system in the future.
> 
> Stroller.
> 
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