netbsd, postfix, relaying and sasl

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:21:28 -0500

One more thing I don’t do often enough to remember, setting up SASL-based email relaying to pobox.com:

stop the existing postfix: /etc/rc.d/postfix stop
update the POSTFIX.options += sasl tls
install mail/postfix from pkgsrc: cd mail/postfix && make install
update the postfix configuration: /usr/pkg/sbin/post
update /etc/rc.d.conf/postfix
Postfix installs security/cyrus-sasl as a dependency, but doesn’t include any authentication methods, so install:
*# security/cy2-plain
Strictly speaking you can stop installing here but I also include two more in case I later want to authenticate to some other service:
*# security/cy2-crammd5
*# security/cy2-digestmd5

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