Re: Postfix (Fetchmail and Dovecote) on OSX 10.6.7 ???

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Jun 18, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:

> Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 17, 2011, at 3:58 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote:
>> 
>>> Mail.app is a MUA (Mail User Agent)
>>> postfix  is a MTA (Mail Transfer Agent)
>>>        completely similiar in fuctionality to sendmail
>>> actually, Mail.app isn't able to talk to postfix at all unless one
>>> installs a POP3/IMAP server also - this is why one also needs Dovecot
>> 
>> Mail.app sends messages using smtp and postfix speaks smtp.
> 
> Yeah ... I had posted when I realised my mistake ... I was thinking of
> the receiving end when I wrote it :-(
> 
> MUAs do speak smtp when _sending_ but not when _receiving_ !
> 
>> Postfix does not speak pop3 or imap.
>> Postfix CAN use dovecot to deliver local messages to a file system.
>> 
>> 
>> dovecot.org <http://dovecot.org> has some recipes to get you started.
>> http://wiki1.dovecot.org/HowTo
>> 
>> I use something similar to this one "Postfix and Dovecot with MySQL and
>> TLS/SSL, Postgrey and DSPAM".
>> http://johnny.chadda.se/article/mail-server-howto-postfix-and-dovecot-with-mysql-and-tlsssl-postgrey-and-dspam/
>> 
>> Here is the MacPorts ports with variants I'm currently using.
>>  dovecot2 @2.0.13_0+mysql5 (active)
>>  dovecot2-antispam @hg.43880985e3dd_0 (active)
>>  dovecot2-sieve @0.2.3_0 (active)
>>  dspam-devel @git-20110520_0+debug+mysql5 (active)
>>  mysql5 @5.1.57_0 (active)
>>  mysql5-server @5.1.57_0 (active)
>>  postfix @2.8.3_0+dovecot_sasl+mysql5+pcre+tls (active)
>>  sqlgrey @1.8.0-rc2_0+mysql (active)
>> 
>> sqlgrey is a fork of Postgrey and supports sql storage.
> 
> These don't seem to be in MacPorts ???
> sqlgrey
> dovecot2-antispam
> dspam-devel

Ah, right, I'll add these to MacPorts soon.

> I've also found postfixadmin - http://postfixadmin.sourceforge.net/
> and am in the process of writing a Portfile for it

Postfixadmin isn't bad.


Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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