On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:02 PM, jeffrey j donovan wrote:
>
> 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.
$ man port
$ port variants postfix
postfix has the variants:
dovecot_sasl: add Dovecot SASL support
ldap: add ldap support via openldap
mysql5: add mysql support via mysql5
pcre: add pcre support
postgresql83: add postgresql support via postgresql83
* conflicts with postgresql84 postgresql90 postgresql91
postgresql84: add postgresql support via postgresql84
* conflicts with postgresql83 postgresql90 postgresql91
postgresql90: add postgresql support via postgresql90
* conflicts with postgresql83 postgresql84 postgresql91
postgresql91: add postgresql support via postgresql91
* conflicts with postgresql83 postgresql84 postgresql90
sasl: add sasl support via cyrus-sasl2
tls: add tls support via openssl
universal: Build for multiple architectures
Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht
