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 ... mcgillsociety.org >> >> My current mail server is an old Dec Alpha running Tru64 Unix and UW/IMAP. >> >> I also run a webserver on my Mac Mini using the MacPorts Apache2/PHP/MySQL5 >> installation. >> >> I assume, but don't know that the mail.app on that mini uses postfix to >> query the Alpha IMAP server >> but don't know how Mail.app works in that regard. >> >> If it is using Postfix, I don't know, but assume, it is using the native OSX >> Postfix as I presently have >> both it and the MacPorts version installed and have not done anything to the >> OSX installation. > > nope -- Mail.app doesn't use postfix in any way > > 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 - this is why one also needs Dovecot > > the process is this (simplified): > sending email : MUA -> MTA > transferring email : MTA -> MTA -> ... -> MTA > receiving email : MUA <- PO3/IMAP <- MTA > using fetchmail : MUA <- fetchmail <- POP3/IMAP <- MTA
> seems you might need to get mail transferred from me.com & gmail.com as I was pretty sure that was what was happening/needed... from the descriptions I saw, one needed Dovecot and likely Fetchmail (to have the server collect the mail from gmail/me.com). Also, got this comment from Andrew Long... On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Andrew Long wrote: > > On 16 Jun 2011, at 20:00, 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:) > > 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 for target mail domains (it was just requesting > information from the piss-poor DNS client in my router) and I just gave up > trying to get a real DNS system installed on the Mac... however, that was > back under Tiger, the situation may have improved since then ;-) > > Regards, Andy > > -- > Andrew Long > andrew dot long at mac dot com T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # iMac11,3 Core i7 [2.936GHz - 4 GB 1333] OS X 10.6.7 # iMac6,1 Core 2 Duo [2.16GHz - 3 GB 667] OS X 10.6.7 # MacBook Pro4.1 Core 2 Duo [2.5GHz - 4GB 667] OS X 10.6.7 # Mac mini Core Duo [1.66 Ghz - 2 GB 667]OS X 10.6.7 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.4.11 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV6-7) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 mag...@mcgillsociety.org mag...@me.com whmag...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
