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
-- 
Thilo

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