Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:07:51 +1000 (EST) From: "Tim Clewlow" <tim@clewlow.org> To: fluxboxtremist@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix problem. Message-ID: <62827.192.168.1.10.1216044471.squirrel@192.168.1.100> In-Reply-To: <20080714134021.GD60130@nexus.in-nomine.org> References: <2de331130807140558q15fba58et52c04cbed592b6d4@mail.gmail.com> <20080714130145.GC60130@nexus.in-nomine.org> <2de331130807140614g2992f452rd487f2af2c6799ce@mail.gmail.com> <2de331130807140635y78df4e89o34d245a43802de72@mail.gmail.com> <20080714134021.GD60130@nexus.in-nomine.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > Can you please cc: the mailinglist? Thanks. > > -On [20080714 15:36], Andres Chavez (fluxboxtremist@gmail.com) > wrote: >>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not owned by group maildrop: >> /usr/sbin/ >>postdrop >> >>postfix/postfix-script: warning: not set-gid or not >> owner+group+world >>executable: /usr/sbin/postdrop >> >>postfix/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system. > > I would suggest: > > 0) clean your system from your botched attempt at installing postfix > by > yourself > 1) read > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html > 2) install postfix from ports/mail/postfix > > And take it from there? > Hi there, I have attached the notes I gathered while making the postfix server that is sending you this mail. In particular, pay attention to the bit that says: As part of the installation the port asks if it could add user "postfix" to group "mail", I advise answering yes. It also offers to activate postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, again answer yes. Regards, Tim. We are BSD ... resistance is futile. http://www.freebsd.org/ - http://www.openbsd.org/ - http://www.netbsd.org/ [-- Attachment #2 --] This document details how to install postfix (and disable sendmail). Note this was done on FreeBSD 6.2 with Postfix 2.5 PRE INSTALLATION Start by stopping sendmail with: ./etc/rc.d/sendmail stop In /etc/rc.conf add or change the sendmail lines to become: sendmail_enable="NO" sendmail_submit_enable="NO" sendmail_outbound_enable="NO" sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO" INSTALLATION Install mail/postfix As part of the installation the port asks if it could add user "postfix" to group "mail", I advise answering yes. It also offers to activate postfix in /etc/mail/mailer.conf, again answer yes. The file /etc/mail/mailer.conf will look something like: sendmail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail Now enable postfix in /etc/rc.conf with: postfix_enable="YES" And disable sendmail specific daily routines in /etc/periodic.conf: daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" CONFIGURATION Can probably work out most of the settings in /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf just by reading the comments also in that file, or can read: man 5 postconf Much good stuff can also be found at http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html Config settings are in file /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf unless otherwise specified. You must run the following command at least once before starting postfix, and you must also run it (and restart postfix) after making any changes to /etc/aliases newaliases The above command will create the file /etc/aliases.db - if you do not have this file then postfix will abort during startup, ie it wont work. STARTING POSTIFX You can either reboot and make sure everything starts at boot as expected, or just do: postfix start --- EXAMPLE In the setup I have at home (clewlow.org) I changed/uncommented the following lines in /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf myhostname = clewlow.org mydomain = clewlow.org myorigin = $myhostname mynetworks = 192.168.1.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 home_mailbox = Maildir/
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