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Postfix

by Richard Blum
May 2001
Beginner
624 pages
13h 6m
English
Sams
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Chapter 3. Server Requirements for Postfix

Before you can get your feet wet with Postfix, you must have a server available for it to run on. The Postfix package was written specifically for the Unix platform. Postfix requires several features of the Unix operating system to operate properly. This prevents Postfix from running on a standard Microsoft Windows workstation (even Windows 2000). Fortunately, many Unix implementations are available that can support Postfix.

Novice mail administrators often are not familiar with the operating system that is used for the mail server. This chapter presents a brief description of the Unix operating system that Postfix requires. It also describes one popular free Unix implementation that is available for Postfix: ...

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