Postfix

[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

[mimosa]

How did you install postfix? If you did so using src

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slapt-src -i postfix

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

[hello_world]

Installation of this tutorial
Documentation >User Documentation > How to set up a mail server
slapt-get -i postfix

[thenktor]

As always see the README.Slackware file in /usr/doc:
less /usr/doc/postfix-2.6.5/README.Slackware

[hello_world]

Thank you
Checking evening at home

[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!

[thenktor]

Yes, just take it as a hint that server packages usually come with such a README.Slackware file

[hello_world]

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