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Postfix
Posted: 3. May 2011, 23:32
by hello_world
Hi
I use postfix tutorial and I have a problem.
postfix: fatal: file / etc / postfix / main.cf: parameter mail_owner: unknown user name value: postfix
Why postfix installation did not start a group and user?
How to properly create a user for Postfix?
Thank you
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 02:45
by mimosa
How did you install postfix? If you did so using src
the error messages should ask you to create the group, user, and then another for postdrop:
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#groupadd -g 200 postfix
#useradd -u 200 -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -g postfix postfix
#groupadd -g 201 postdrop
at least on my system.
If you don't have slapt-src:
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#slapt-get -i slapt-src
#slapt-src -u
#slapt-src -i postfix
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 11:13
by hello_world
Installation of this tutorial
Documentation >User Documentation > How to set up a mail server
slapt-get -i postfix
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 11:24
by thenktor
As always see the README.Slackware file in /usr/doc:
less /usr/doc/postfix-2.6.5/README.Slackware
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 11:39
by hello_world
Thank you
Checking evening at home
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 12:45
by mimosa
My previous post was based on trying it out on a machine running 13.37. On 13.1, a simple slapt-get -i does the job. The commands for adding groups and user are the same.
Good luck!
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 14:37
by thenktor
Yes, just take it as a hint that server packages usually come with such a README.Slackware file
Re: Postfix
Posted: 4. May 2011, 19:56
by hello_world
@mimosa
bingo, work
Hurra
Time to configure Dovecot
@thenktor
I read
Greetings from Polish