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FAQ

List of questions that regularly come up on the Postfix mailing list. They're divided into categories dealing with various aspects of Postfix and its configuration.


Postfix Articles
  • " Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs" (O'Reilly Network, January 2004) Introduction to Postfix logging and how to increase the level of information logged.
  • " IBM's Secure Mailer" (SysAdmin Magazine, December 1999) This is an older article, but the first half does give an overview of Postfix that is still relevant. The second half of the article walks through a Postfix installation, which has changed since this was written.

How-To Documents

Scripts from the Book

The following scripts are from Postfix: The Definitive Guide. None of them are very long, but if you're interested you can grab them from here to save yourself from typing them.

  • postfix (Chapter 4) General start/stop script for SysV-style initialization.
  • pfdel.pl (Chapter 5) Perl script to delete messages from the queue based on the sender or recipient's email address.
  • pfcat.sh (Chapter 5) Shell script to easily display the contents of a queue file.
  • inforeply.pl (Chapter 8) Perl concept script for creating an automatic reply mechanism. This script will require some customization on your part, but it's a good starting point.