[ My questions and answers are in the normal reading order. ]
On 11/01/2020, Gerben Wierda wrote :
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| It is not necessary as the cause has (probably) been found.
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| macOS still contains a postfix and it is launched at boot time during 60
seconds with a launchdaemon plist
/System/Library
This might break things as some Apple stuff may rely on /usr/sbin/sendmail
being able to deliver mail. Not certain, though. It might be a simple solution.
G
> On 11 Jan 2020, at 12:17, daniel Azuelos wrote:
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> [ My questions and answers are in the normal reading order. ]
>
> On 11/01/2020,
On 11 Jan 2020, at 12:17, Gerben Wierda wrote:
This might break things as some Apple stuff may rely on
/usr/sbin/sendmail being able to deliver mail.
Indeed it does. As does anything Unixy which is not explicitly
configured to look elsewhere, e.g. cron.
Not certain, though. It might be a
Thank you very much for troubleshooting this issue.
First, as Gerben points out, macOS‘s postfix launch daemon is in
/System/Library, so you’d have to disable SIP to unload it, which at best is a
major PITA, and realistically a non-option.
Second, I see these two possible fixes:
• Include a l
> On 11 Jan 2020, at 19:32, Steven Smith wrote:
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> Second, I see these two possible fixes:
>
> • Include a little bash script in the postfix launch daemon that tests for
> macOS postfix being loaded, or port 25 in use, then wait a bit, and try a few
> times before giving up. I do this hack
It was Bill Cole who gave the answer on postfix users.
G
> On 11 Jan 2020, at 19:32, Steven Smith wrote:
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> Thank you very much for troubleshooting this issue.
On 11 Jan 2020, at 13:32, Steven Smith wrote:
• Edit /etc/postfix/master.cf as Gerben suggests.
My concern about the second option is that it will never give the
macOS postfix a chance to do what it wants to do a boot time
That gives Apple too much credit, e.g. assumes that someone competent
> On 11 Jan 2020, at 22:08, Bill Cole
> wrote:
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> That should not matter, because 10.14+ (Mojave & Catalina) are entirely unfit
> for and hostile to server duties. The best answer to the question "How do I
> make Postfix work well on modern macOS?" is simply: "You don't.”
Though I heartily
