On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Larry Stone wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > >> On 2/14/2012 8:45 AM, jeffrey j donovan wrote: >>> greetings >>> >>> I have a couple of PPC 10.5 machines running as authenticated smtp relays. >>> I upgraded postfix to 2.9.0 using macports. >>> >>> I am running into a warning when I run postfix check. >>> >>> /opt/local/sbin/postconf: warning: /opt/local/etc/postfix/main.cf: unused >>> parameter: smtpd_use_pw_server=yes >>> /opt/local/sbin/postconf: warning: /opt/local/etc/postfix/main.cf: unused >>> parameter: smtpd_pw_server_security_options=login,cram-md5 >>> /opt/local/sbin/postconf: warning: /opt/local/etc/postfix/main.cf: unused >>> parameter: enable_server_options=yes >>> >>> >>> these options were to access my local password server for authentication. >>> Is there an alternate command ? >>> how do I get my users to authenticated without creating another password >>> database ? >> >> These are options that Apple patches into postfix, and looks as if >> they didn't fully patch 2.9.0 to make "postfix check" aware of the >> apple-specific parameters. > > I'm not familiar with the macports versions but they are different from what > Apple provides. Apple provided Postfix comes with Mac OS distributions and > updates. > > Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is rather ancient these days but is the last version > that runs on PPC (Power PC) systems. I have no way to check right now but > what Apple would have been distributing then is Postfix 2.low. Even under > 10.6 (Snow Leopard), I think it was a 2.4.x version. > > Currently, with Mac OS X 10.7.3 (Lion), it's Postfix 2.8.4. No 2.9 from Apple > yet (I'm currently running OS X 10.7.3 and Postfix 2.8.4 on my home server). > >> You can safely ignore these warnings, and report the problem to your >> package provider. > > > The package provider for the 2.9 the OP is trying to run is macports but the > parameters are specific to an Apple distributed version. Not really macports' > problem. In one sense, switching from an Apple version of postfix to the > macports version is the same as switching from another MTA to Postfix. While > they're both called Postfix, one cannot just be dropped in in place of the > other. I think the OP needs to figure out how the macports version handles > authentication. >
thanks to all replied. Larry hit the nail. i need to find out how macports handles authentication. With all these different patched/unpatched variants. It's unfortunate that these machines are old. they are 10.5 ppc, ( stock postfix apple version mail_version = 2.4.3 ). i did not realize that each package could be different. So that being said. can someone give me a quick basic tutorial setup so I can test basic/traditional sasl Authentication. I have always used the password server parameter. But if it's an apple specific patch, I want to avoid it. I'll make a flat file if I have to. These machines are going to be secure relays. i have read http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html and I am using cyrus on this machine. tia -j
