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

2011-06-21 Thread William H. Magill
On Jun 18, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: I've started to modify the wiki on setting up postfix under MacPorts: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupPostfix feedback is appreciated :-) -- Bjarne D Mathiesen København N ; Danmark ; Europa

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

2011-06-21 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 21, 2011, at 16:05, William H. Magill wrote: The only interesting thing I noticed -- the second request for a password. I assume that it was simply sudo timing out -- as the mysql5, especially, and postscript installs did take a while. I wasn't timing them, so I don't know how long

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

2011-06-21 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
William H. Magill wrote: On Jun 18, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: I've started to modify the wiki on setting up postfix under MacPorts: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupPostfix feedback is appreciated :-) -- Bjarne D Mathiesen København N ; Danmark ; Europa

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

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jun 18, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: be careful with openDNS and other providers as you want to make sure you have them set to not do their 'magic' stuff (I believe openDNS has a setting you can configure so they don't do their automatic redirection stuff if you want to

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

2011-06-18 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
Daniel J. Luke wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: That's really not the fault of postfix, but a piss-poor DNS system in the router. postfix uses the DNS services from the computer, and the computer queries external DNS services etc etc. true. if the router or

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

2011-06-18 Thread Andrew Long
On 17 Jun 2011, at 22:07, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: William H. Magill wrote: Also, got this comment from Andrew Long... On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Andrew Long wrote: I tried to get postfix running many years ago, after moving from Linux to OS/X. I stumbled at the first hurdle as the

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

2011-06-18 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
I've started to modify the wiki on setting up postfix under MacPorts: https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/SetupPostfix feedback is appreciated :-) -- Bjarne D Mathiesen København N ; Danmark ; Europa -- denne besked er skrevet

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

2011-06-18 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
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 -

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

2011-06-18 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
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

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

2011-06-18 Thread 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

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

2011-06-17 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
William H. Magill wrote: But what are your ambitions ??? Mine are rather extensive, as I need to set up several virtual domains, so it's my intension to use postfix with either mysql5 or postgresql90. I run my own domain ... mcgillsociety.org My current mail server is an old Dec Alpha

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

2011-06-17 Thread William H. Magill
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: William H. Magill wrote: But what are your ambitions ??? Mine are rather extensive, as I need to set up several virtual domains, so it's my intension to use postfix with either mysql5 or postgresql90. I run my own domain ...

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

2011-06-17 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
William H. Magill wrote: Also, got this comment from Andrew Long... On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Andrew Long wrote: I tried to get postfix running many years ago, after moving from Linux to OS/X. I stumbled at the first hurdle as the inbuilt DNS client wouldn't retrieve MX information

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

2011-06-17 Thread Daniel J. Luke
On Jun 17, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Bjarne D Mathiesen wrote: That's really not the fault of postfix, but a piss-poor DNS system in the router. postfix uses the DNS services from the computer, and the computer queries external DNS services etc etc. true. if the router or the local ISP don't

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

2011-06-16 Thread William H. Magill
Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7)The basic problem is I know virtually nothing about Postfix. There was a time when I was pretty conversant with sendmail on Tru64 Uinx and FreeBSD, but that was 10+ years ago:)The MacPorts-WIKI How-To document is 3+ years old ... I began trying to update

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

2011-06-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
William == William H Magill mag...@me.com writes: William Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7) Postfix is part of the base install of OSX. No need for a port any more. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com

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

2011-06-16 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 15:06, Randal L. Schwartz mer...@stonehenge.com wrote: William == William H Magill mag...@me.com writes: William Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7) Postfix is part of the base install of OSX.  No need for a port any more. ...unless you want SASL to work. --

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

2011-06-16 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: William == William H Magill mag...@me.com writes: William Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7) Postfix is part of the base install of OSX. No need for a port any more. MacPorts has so much more functionality than the standard Mac OS X version: bash-4.2$

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

2011-06-16 Thread Bjarne D Mathiesen
William H. Magill wrote: Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7) The basic problem is I know virtually nothing about Postfix. There was a time when I was pretty conversant with sendmail on Tru64 Uinx and FreeBSD, but that was 10+ years ago:) The MacPorts-WIKI How-To document is 3+

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

2011-06-16 Thread William H. Magill
On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: William == William H Magill mag...@me.com writes: William Is anyone working Postfix on OSX? (10.6.7) Postfix is part of the base install of OSX. No need for a port any more. Except that it still exists and is current: port list |