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Authored by: themostbob on Mar 19, '02 03:42:27PM

Since that hint last year pointing to an offsite tutorial, Postfix has come a remarkable distance to an easy installation on MacOSX. I was having SMTP problems with Yahoo on my main mail receiving machine and decided to give it a shot. Suggestion: ignore that previous hint. Fink has PCRE 3.7 in unsupported (3.5 compatability?) if you want it, but Postfix is working great without those other 3 packages spoken of in the tutorial (they weren't listed as requirements).

Just download the tarball from postfix.org and immediately go to $POSTFIX/auxiliary/macosx for fairly simple instructions to get it going. There are even scripts to get the users added in netinfo, backup and store your sendmail binaries, and a StartupItem. I would suggest taking some time to learn about mailserver operation as you config the server, but it will be worth it to a number of people, I'm sure. Most of Postfix need not run to only send mail out.

I'll write an updated hint if people want...reply to let me know. Flames to /dev/null.



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