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10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
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:
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 ---
10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
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.
10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
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.
10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
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 I wanted to add that it's also probably a good idea to add the following
parameters to your
10.4: Enable postfix without inducing insomnia
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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