Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 03:57:08 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb> To: committers, current Subject: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. Message-ID: <199812301157.DAA06160@hub.freebsd.org>
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Starting later today, I will import Postfix (aka VMailer
aka SecureMailer from IBM) into the tree under /usr/src/contrib.
Postfix was written by Wietse Venema (tcp_wrappers, satan, etc).
Postfix is a mail transfer agent. Postfix runs as its own user.
We will be adding a new system uid and gid (user mta, uid
25, group mta, gid 25). You will need to add this user
and group by hand using the /usr/src/etc/{group,master.passwd}
files as a template.
You will be able to choose between Sendmail and Postfix as
your mail transfer agent. Therefore, you can ignore Postfix,
if you choose.
For a sneak preview take a look at http://www.postfix.org and
http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/formula/securemailer.
Postfix is still under development as so is labelled "beta".
However, the FreeBSD mailing lists have been using Postfix
for more than 4 months without incident. Wietse's beta is
better than many "finished" products ;)
jmb
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