Mail Server Postfix

Postfix is a popular SMTP server and recommended for new mail setups.

Installing

mport install postfix

or

cd /usr/mports/mail/postfix; make install clean

enable in /etc/rc.conf with

sysrc postfix_enable="YES" Configuration This is not a complete guide. There are many available online.

MidnightBSD keeps the postfix config files in /usr/local/etc/postfix

Detailed info on the postfix website.

postfix config

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html

tls config

http://www.postfix.org/TLS_README.html

Maintenance Tasks check mail queue

mailq Delete ALL messages from mail queue

postsuper -d ALL

Delete individual messages

postqueue -p or mailq to get the ID (first column)

postsuper -d MSGIDHERE

Delete all deferred messages

postsuper -d ALL deferred