Howto setup internal postfix & mailx
Thilo Six
T.Six at gmx.de
Sat Jul 21 02:11:52 UTC 2007
Larry Alkoff wrote the following on 21.07.2007 02:33
> Although I use Thunderbird on Feisty for regular email, I am trying to
> setup postfix and mailx for internal mail (only) such as error messages.
>
> I have used apt-get install for postfix and mailx.
>
> It seems I need at least two config files.
> /etc/postfix/mail.cf for postfix
> and ~/.mailrc for mailx.
>
> Could someone give me a simple starting point on these files?
>
Hi
Hint:
If you want to only receive lokal mail (e.g. cronjobs) then masqmail may be
better, because of lesser recources needed.
For configuration:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow postfix
or
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow masqmail
.
bye
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Thilo
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