Postfix
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Introduction
Postfix is a MDA like Exim or Sendmail which is the default on Ubuntu and Darwin (Mac) installations. Refer to this general guide to configure a Email relay if you get stuck.
Why do this? So you can perform simple and useful UNIXy commands from your terminal like:
cat log | mail -s "check this out" colleague@example.com
Finding which version of Postfix you are running
won$ postconf -d | grep mail_version mail_version = 2.1.5
Monitor your logs
tail -f /var/log/mail.log
Configure your laptop's Postfix to relay your email to Dreamhost to relay
mail.dreamhost.com should instead by mail.yourdomain.com
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
relayhost = [mail.dreamhost.com] smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_pass smtp_sasl_security_options =
Keep in mind that some ISPs block the default smtp port. Therefor you must manually specify the alternate port available
relayhost = [mail.yourdomain.com]:587
You probably also want to ensure you have good values for:
myhostname = yourdomain.com mydomain = yourdomain.com
/etc/postfix/smtp_pass:
mail.domain.com username:password
and do the following:
$ sudo postmap /etc/postfix/smtp_pass
This creates a /etc/postfix/smtp_pass.db for the hash
Finally:
sudo postfix restart
And monitor to your logs to debug. Whilst firing off:
echo test | mail someone@gmail.com
