Postfix, SMTP Server, Jaguar 10.2.8

chris hinds

Trying to install "Postfix" to allow me to send emails using a local SMTP server. I am following the instructions available here:



Postfix Instructions



I hhave downloaded Postfix 2.1.5 from Postfix and then gone through the instructions. On entering the second command



newaliases



I get the following message:



newaliases: warning: valid_hostname: misplaced delimiter: Chris-Hindss-Computer.local.

newaliases: fatal: unable to use my own hostname



if I then continue and compile Postfix it compiles fine (logged in as Administrator) but when I come to edit main.cf in Pico it tells me that it cannot save to the file main.cf which I assumed to be a permissions issue. I tried again logged in as the "root" user and this time Postfix had errors on compiling.



Has anyone managed to get this working and established what is wrong. Here are the instructions I am using without the waffle:



sudo touch /etc/aliases # create empty aliases file if necessary

newaliases

cd

cd Desktop

cd postfix-2.1.5

make

cd auxiliary/MacOSX

sudo ./backup-sendmail-binaries

sudo ./niscript

cd ..

cd ..

sudo make install



I then follow all default selections, including setting setgid to "maildrop"



pico /etc/postfix/main.cf



I then cannot save the changes to main.cf



mkdir /Library/StartupItems

sudo ./backup-postfix-binaries

sudo ./activate-postfix



The last two steps fail also.



Any help will be greatly appreciated



Thanks





Chris

chris hinds

ok by modifying main.cf using text edit I got rid of the valid hostname error, which has now been replace by (on typing newaliases with:



postalias: fatal: open database /etc/aliases.db: Permission denied



doesn't matter if I add "sudo" before the command either. Haven't tried with being logged in as root. More info for the fire...



Regards





Chris