how to install postfix on my 11.10 box with everything else in place?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Rashkae wrote:

> On 11/08/2011 11:02 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >    openly admitting i'm not an email admin expert, i have a running
> > 11.04 system with email running nicely -- "fetchmail" to get my mail,
> > "alpine" as my reader and, underneath it all, postfix.
> >
> >    i want to finish moving everything from this current system to the
> > new one, and the last thing left to move is the ability to get and
> > send email.
> >
> >    i've copied over all of mail/, mbox, .addressbook*, .pinerc,
> > installed fetchmail and alpine, and all that's left to do is install
> > and configure postfix.
> >
> >    this *shouldn't* be hard since my .fetchmailrc and .pinerc files
> > pretty much configure everything i need to know, i just need to drop
> > in a basic postfix, correct?  so given my fairly basic setup, when i
> > install postfix on the 11.10 system, which selection do i make:
> >
> >    No config
> >    Internet Site
> >    Internet with smarthost
> >    Satellite system
> >    Local only
> >
> > as i read it, i want either choice 2 or 3 but i'm not sure which.
> > advice?
> >
> > rday
> >
> The choice really only affects how e-mail is sent out from your
> system to other hosts on the Internet.  Most people now configure
> their e-mail client program (alpine in your case) to connect to the
> smtp server of their ISP, in which case, this won't matter at all.
> You could even choose Local Only to make sure Postfix isn't trying
> to send out anything internet side.

  that's what i thought after reading a bit more.  currently, my
.pinerc file has an entry of the form:

smtp-server=mail.crashcourse.ca:[port]/user= ... etc etc ...

and since i use only alpine for now, it would seem that that's
everything i need.  in this case, do i even need postfix installed?  i
ask since it's installed on my current system but it would now seem i
never needed it in the first place.

  if fetchmail is configured to know where to get my mail, and alpine
knows where to send it, i would think i'm pretty well set, no?

rday

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