Re: postfix smtp + sasl

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 08:22:03PM +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> Yes, I'm afraid you have to build Postfix from "pkgsrc" with the
> "sasl" option enabled.

Yes, but on the bright side, it integrates quite well to the base system.
The message during installation reveals the only thing requiring attention:

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$NetBSD: MESSAGE.NetBSD,v 1.4 2009/09/08 13:06:01 martti Exp $

If you are running NetBSD 1.5 (or newer), the existing /etc/rc.d/postfix
can be forced to start ${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix instead of /usr/sbin/postfix,
by adding the following lines to /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix:

        postfix_command='${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix'
        required_files='${PKG_SYSCONFDIR}/main.cf'
        start_cmd='${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix start'
        stop_cmd='${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix stop'
        reload_cmd='${PREFIX}/sbin/postfix reload'
        postconf='${PREFIX}/sbin/postconf'

Please note that /etc/rc.conf.d/postfix does not exist by default so
you need to create that file if you need to override the default settings.
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I've been happy with such setup for quite some time now.

(I also symlink the configuration files from "/usr/pkg/etc/postfix" to
"/etc/postfix" in order to gain the normal location for configuration files
and to prevent pkgsrc from accidentally overwriting these during updates.)

- Jukka.