[CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

Thu Sep 12 13:49:45 UTC 2013
Brian Mathis <brian.mathis+centos at betteradmin.com>

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

> Ned Slider wrote:
>
> >> The CentOS document <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix>
> >> explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6.
> >> Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation
> >> for CentOS-6?
>
> > The above probably should work, just that it wasn't written specifically
> > for 6 and hasn't been tested on 6, but the changes in Postfix between 5
> > and 6 shouldn't prevent it from working given it describes the bare
> > minimum required to get Postfix up on your system.
>
> Ok, thanks for the response.
> I'll try following the instructions in that document,
> as I have had no luck with the documents on www.postfix.org .
>
> The changeover from sendmail to postfix in CentOS-6
> was probably a mistake, in my view, unless required to follow RedHat.
> At the very least proper documentation should be a pre-requisite
> for a change like this.
>
> --
> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
>


An important document is the architectural overview (
http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html) which is somewhat unceremoniously
indexed under "Other Topics" on the documentation page.  That really helps
tie a lot of things together.


❧ Brian Mathis