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10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
Authored by: jedik on May 15, '05 10:40:47PM
Thanks for the hint. I upgraded from Panther, and it broke my smtp daemon. I had to creat a StartupItem for it, wich was later improved by another hint found here. But I am glad that now I can remove it and use the launchd.

Two notes:

- I didn't have the "60" in the pickup line of master.cf. Just modifing the plist manually was enough for me.

- In the next restart, to test if things would start automatically, I found this in the mail.log:

May 15 23:07:51 localhost postfix/master[56]: fatal: file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter default_privs: unknown user name value: nobody

I have the user nobody in the Netinfo. Don't know how to fix it, although the smtp service works fine, besides the error. Any directions to fix it?

Cheers

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10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
Authored by: npaust on May 16, '05 05:30:13PM

I've had really good luck using the shareware program PostfixEnabler to get postfix working on my laptop.

It lets you get postfix up and working to send and receive mail in about a minute with a decent GUI. Configuring a secure IMAP server only takes a few minutes more. I'm not sure that there's anything more that this hint can do.

Postfix Enabler

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10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
Authored by: t0fukrunch on May 16, '05 07:29:50PM

Good point. For anyone that wants to enable postfix features as painliessly as possible I'd suggest a program like PostfixEnabler.

Some reasons why I prefer doing things by hand in this case is that I'm interested in the BSD/UNIX layer (in fact this was a major factor in my buying a mac), and it's not always easy to figure out what exactly a 3rd party application is doing to your system.

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10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
Authored by: t0fukrunch on May 16, '05 07:22:05PM

That's interesting that you didn't have the "60" in your main.cf. Perhaps this is because I performed a clean install. I also noticed the error you mentioned in my mail.log, but I'm unable to generate it consistently.

I wanted to add that it's also probably a good idea to add the following parameters to your /etc/postfix/main.cf file.


# 'man 5 postconf' at a terminal for more info

# specifies a delay before a warning message about undelivered
# mail is sent to the sender
delay_warning = [insert a delay specifier here; e.g. 30m, 2h, 5d, ...]

# a list of fallback smtp servers
fallback_relay = [insert a comma-separated list of smtp servers here]


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10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
Authored by: robelkin on Oct 14, '05 02:14:50AM

try running the disk utility and repairing your permissions, this is something like what I found when implementing this hint, and I found it to be because you may have edited the file using your access privilidges and the owner of the file is supposed to be root.



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