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How to set-up Postfix

• Audience: Advanced E-Mail set-up
• Requires: MacPorts >= 1.6, mail/postfix, shells/zsh-devel

Introduction

This How-to is part of the Fetchmail -> Postfix -> Dovecot advanced e-Mail set-up.

​Postfix is a ​mail transfer agent which can distribute you in and outbound mail. The set-up described here will distribute inbound mail to ​Dovecot ​IMAP server and outbound mail to an ​internet service provider.

Distribution E-Mail directly to the end receiver is one of the joys of the internet which has been destroyed by ​SPAM.

Installation

First set-up a mail storage to store your mail into. See Dovecot for a possible set-up. Without a proper mail storage you might have difficulty access you mail later.

Install postfix with:

port install postfix +tls +ldap

or - alternatively - use the postfix which comes pre installed with Max OSX.

Configuration

Most of the postfix configuration is done in the main.cf​ file which you find either in /opt/local/etc/postfix (macports) or /etc/postfix (OSX).

Step 1: set hostname and domain

Optional Parts

TODO: What else can be done?

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