Postfix install instructions not quite accurate enough?

[steeveevee]

I’ve just spent all night trying to install SquirrelMail 1.4.2 and Postfix so i can host virtual domains. After I finally put the SquirrelMail folder into /Library/WebServer/Documents it finally worked, which made me whoop with joy.

But trying to install Postfix requires me to do things that no longer seem to be in the instructions at https://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/postfix.html. For example:

— The line numbers of the main.cf file, which is now a year’s worth of revisions older, doesn’t correspond with the examples in the article. What exactly should I be uncommenting?

— There is no Sendmail option in the pop-up menu in the Protocols tab in Configure Mail Service… (For that matter, there is no “Server Admin” application now; it’s “Server Settings,” I believe.)

Naturally, now I can’t send email, and my achievement with SquirrelMail is moot.

I just want to host multiple domains on one server box, and have the email for [email protected] go to joe1, and the email for [email protected] go to joe2. Does it have to be this hard?

[steeveevee]

My hard-won discoveries for your consideration:

https://www.afp548.com/Articles/mail/postfix.html (mactroll, Sept. ’02)

where I first found some advice, did not prove as useful as

https://www.afp548.com/Articles/Jaguar/postfix2.html (Atropos, Apr ’03)

but the latter had some loose ends.

For example, I commented out these lines from Atropos’ suggested UCE controls:

#check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/access-addresses,
#check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/access-ips,
and
#header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/spammerheaders
#body_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/spammerbodies

Is this prudent? I don’t give a damn; my mail server is working. If someone can advise me explicitly how to properly create the files called for in those four lines, and how to properly populate them, I’m all eyes.

I found out more about this by looking at /var/log/mail.log, and from this thread at http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2003-05/0318.html

My goal now is to get a virtual domain in there.

== Steeveevee

[davidkassa]

Steeveevee,

You seem to be doing what I am attempting to do…

2 questions:

1) Are you using 10.2 or 10.3?

2) Are you using cyrus-imap with sql_auth or just using net info users?

I’m guessing 10.2 and UW-IMAP, not cyrus, but I figured that I’d ask anyway.

Also, how has it gone with the virtual domains? Good, hopefully!

Thanks for the help,

David Kassa

[Anonymous]

10.2, just with NetInfo users. I was hoping to not have to install UW-IMAP. By the way, I’ve basically given up on this. The way to go is to upgrade to Panther Server, IMHO.

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