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diff --git a/network/opensmtpd/README b/network/opensmtpd/README index da5475c9b1..2931722d49 100644 --- a/network/opensmtpd/README +++ b/network/opensmtpd/README @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ -OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol -as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. -It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with other systems +OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol +as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. +It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol. -You must have smtpd, smtpf, smtpl, and smtpq users on the system -for privilege separation - something like this should suffice: -useradd -u 270 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpd -useradd -u 271 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpf -useradd -u 272 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpl -useradd -u 273 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpq +You must have smtpd and smtpq users and groups on the system for +privilege separation - something like this should suffice: + groupadd -g 270 smtpd + useradd -u 270 -g 270 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpd + groupadd -g 271 smtpq + useradd -u 271 -g 271 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpq -You will want to add /etc/rc.d/rc.opensmtpd to rc.local so that it +You will want to add /etc/rc.d/rc.opensmtpd to rc.local so that it will start on boot (or perhaps consider symlinking rc.sendmail to rc.opensmtpd). This package conflicts with the stock sendmail package included in -Slackware and overwrites some of its files if you do not remove it -before. +Slackware and overwrites some of its files, so remove the sendmail +package before installing opensmtpd. |