On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:02:11PM -0500, Larry Stone wrote: > I have been running Postfix under Mac OS X for a number of years > (now on OS X 10.7.latest (Lion)). I am working on moving away from > the Apple provided and customized Postfix to "real" Postfix built > from sources. I've successfully built Postfix but not yet tested. To > avoid having it overwritten by Apple updates to Postfix, I'm > planning to install in /usr/local/ (e.g. /usr/local/etc/postfix, > /usr/local/sbin, and /usr/local/libexec/postfix). > > When it comes time to install, do I do "make install" or "make > upgrade"? It's not clear to me if "make upgrade" will work when the > upgrade is in a different location than the previous version.
You could consider the Postfix from macports. Otherwise, "make install". -- Viktor.