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| author | Alan_Hicks <alan@lizella.net> | 2010-05-11 15:01:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.net> | 2010-05-11 15:01:34 +0200 |
| commit | ef5869aea56485b4abbb7315162e900493b138fd (patch) | |
| tree | 78d9a12ced465547d8c0975d4759224d3435ef2a /network/postfix/README | |
| parent | 2f53017ebc85ef6aebd482ffe0367fcc258773bc (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-ef5869aea56485b4abbb7315162e900493b138fd.tar.gz | |
network/postfix: Initial import
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diff --git a/network/postfix/README b/network/postfix/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4ff3c1a399 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/postfix/README @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +What is Postfix? It is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an +alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. + +Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at +the same time, being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing +users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is +completely different. + +This script builds postfix with support for Dovecot SASL but does not +include any support for Cyrus-SASL. If you need to enable support for +Cyrus see SASL_README in the source code. You can also enable support +for MySQL and Postgres. This script should find support for BerkleyDB +and PCRE automagically, so no special options are required. Further, +this script builds postfix with TLS support and requires that openssl +be installed. openssl-solibs is not enough. You can find a SlackBuild +script for Dovecot at http://www.slackbuilds.org/ but you do not need +to install it to use this package without SASL. + +A couple things to remember about postfix: + - this script doesn't add the necessary postfix user and postdrop + group, but exits if they do not exist. Add these before running + this script. They should have no special permission and postfix + should NOT be a member of the postdrop group. The script *WILL* + offer some sane defaults that won't conflict with the canonical + users and groups, and shouldn't conflict with any other scripts + downloaded from slackbuilds.org that require their own uids and + gids + - many of the utilities in postfix have multiple manpages such as + postconf(5) and postconf(8). Use man -k to find them. + - subscribe to the postfix-users mailing list + +If you are upgrading a previous release of postfix, be sure to update +all references to earlier versions main.cf. + +If you have any questions or comments about this script, you are free +to contact me via e-mail at <alan@lizella.net>. Thanks! + |