Re: Setting up postfix

[Silas <silas%nocafe.net@localhost>]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 07:47:28PM +0100, Csányi Pál wrote:
> I am following https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-mail.html
> chapter to set up mail on my old laptop.

Hi!

I believe you just want to send and receive e-mails from your mail 
server, don't you?  If so, I recommend installing a simple MTA from 
pkgsrc.  I use mail/msmtp.  Then, in /etc/mailer.conf you change the 
"sendmail" line to point to /usr/pkg/bin/msmtp.  To retrieve e-mail via 
IMAP I use pkgsrc's mail/isync.

I have done a complete Postfix setup before, but only when configuring a 
full SMTP server, not using it as a local MTA to send e-mail from 
applications like mutt.

The chapter should be updated to deal with all the "new" stuff e-mail 
requires, like using the submission port, using STARTTLS (or SSL), etc., 
when configuring mail servers, and have examples on using simple tools 
(like msmtp or isync) for normal users.