Postfix

Notes on using Postfix ^[1]. Quick and dirty procedure for setting up Postfix on a new machine that needs email.

Setting up Postfix

Add Postfix Mail Transfer Agent as satellite smarthosting through Google, install mail utilities, setup an alias for root's mail and test it all

```
 sudo su -
```
```
 apt-get install postfix
```
```
 apt-get install bsd-mailx
```

cat <<HERE | sudo tee /etc/postfix/main.cf > /dev/null

# satellite configuration
smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous

HERE

 echo "smtp.gmail.com me@example.com:PASSWORD" > /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

```
 postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
```
```
 chmod 640 /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd*
```

 chown postfix:postfix /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd*

```
 /etc/init.d/postfix restart
```

 echo "root: me@example.com" >> /etc/aliases && newaliases

 echo test |mail -s "test mail sent to external" greg.rundlett@gmail.com

 echo test |mail -s "test mail sent to root" root

References

↑ loosely following the info at http://braiden.org/?p=15

[1] sely following the info at http://braiden.org/?p=15

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