Peter via Postfix-users wrote in <5080e33a-0d10-d028-d59e-0481024e3...@pajamian.dhs.org>: |On 22/08/23 15:42, Bruce Dubbs via Postfix-users wrote: |> I have built postfix-3.8.1 from source and want to use it only on the |> local system. That is, I really only want it to receive messages from |> applications like sudo, cron, or some simple scripts using mailx and |> post it to the local user's mailbox. | |You've already over-complicated it. For starters building from source,
For his explicitly stated use case i agree with you. |while admirable, is almost certainly not going to be required for the |simple use-case you have. I would just install the postfix that your |distro packages for you, it may be an older version but nothing you are |doing requires the latest bleeding-edge version of postfix, or anything |near to it. ... |> bdubbs@pippin120$ mail -s test root |> smtp-server: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first ... |This means that mailx has been reconfigured from it's default to attempt |to use either submission or smtp. If you want to keep it simple then |you don't need to do this, just let mailx use the sendmail binary which |in postfix uses the postdrop command and mail gets picked up by the |pickup service, all of which are enabled and properly configured by \ |default. "But" postfix's sendmail reads the postfix configuration, it will not work otherwise, at least once i tried last. Going over SMTP (submission that is) can share a single postfix instance in between many containers that do not have access to the actual configuration, filesystem-wise. Often i have wished postfix's sendmail(1) would work otherwise; i also used dma (DragonFly Mail Agent) as is now used by default on FreeBSD for that purpose (which was quite messy installation- order wise), ie, simple sendmail that relays to real postfix. Yes, a compile-time configuration option, and a postdrop that listens via UNIX domain socket on a path that can be mounted into containers, and a postfix sendmail that only works on that path, that would be a nice thing container-wise, wouldn't it? Just an idea... ... --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
