Postfix on Slackware 10.1
Introduction
Postfix is an alternative
Mail Transfer Agent (
MTA) to Sendmail. It is simple to configure and secure, yet still very powerful. This document will cover installing and configuring Postfix 2.2.3 from source.
The source
Download and compile
First,
choose a site to download the Postfix source code. Use
tar -zxvf postfix-2.2.3.tar.gz to decompress and untar the source archive.
cd into the
postfix-2.2.3 directory created by the previous
tar command. Compile the Postfix source using the command
make. The
README_FILES directory and
INSTALL file may provide insight if there are compile errors.
Install Postfix
Postfix requires a user and group called postfix. Also, another group postdrop is needed. The postfix user can be secured by using /dev/null as the home directory and /bin/false as the shell program. make install will start an interactive program to select installation paths. The defaults should work fine. Once all the files are installed, the program will attempt to start postfix.
Basic configuration
References