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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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> 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/
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