{"id":283,"date":"2012-05-07T12:07:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T06:24:49","slug":"enable-the-postfix-mail-transfer-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.tulsalabs.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Enable the postfix Mail Transfer Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to use git’s mailing capabilities on OS X Lion to send out patches. How do I configure the MTA?<\/p>\n

This Enable the postfix Mail Transfer Agent<\/a> looks interesting, but old:<\/p>\n

\r\n  loghyr:postfix root# head \/etc\/hostconfig \r\n  # This file is going away\r\n<\/pre>\n
But I think we can control all of this from the postfix(1).<\/p>\n
\r\n  loghyr:postfix root# postconf -d | grep etc\r\n  alias_database = hash:\/etc\/aliases\r\n  alias_maps = hash:\/etc\/aliases\r\n  config_directory = \/etc\/postfix\r\n  sample_directory = \/etc\/postfix\r\n<\/pre>\n
I’m going to need a version for my home network and my vpn network:<\/p>\n
\r\nloghyr:postfix root# cp main.cf home.cf\r\nloghyr:postfix root# cp main.cf work.cf\r\nloghyr:postfix root# cp main.cf default.cf\r\n<\/pre>\n
Edit the config files and start it:<\/p>\n
\r\nloghyr:postfix root# cp work.cf main.cf\r\nloghyr:postfix root# postfix start \r\npostfix\/postfix-script: warning: group or other writable: \/Library\/Server\/Mail\/Data\/mta\r\npostfix\/postfix-script: starting the Postfix mail system\r\n<\/pre>\n
How do I get it to stay launched? What’s the correctly way to make Postfix run permanently on Lion (not server)<\/a><\/p>\n
I can switch my config files as needed.<\/p>\n
Hmm, it works. I can’t show you, but it works.<\/p>\n
The main thing I changed from the article I linked in was the relayhost:<\/p>\n
\r\nrelayhost = [mail.internal.excfb.com]\r\n<\/pre>\n
My setup assumes that I am connecting to an already working mail server in the domain. I.e., my iMac isn’t going to be receiving mail, just sending it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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