This podcasts teaches you how to set up a mail server on your Mac. With step by step demonstrations covering the following topics:con. This review came about because I, like lots of other Mac users unloaded Mail when I set up my Mac, thought it did a great job, sat back.And started to lose mail.Not lots of it, I didn't even know I was losing any until I lost a big piece of business because I failed to respond to an email in time.
In this post, I would like to share how to install mail server on Mac OSX. Having mail server is important if you need to send email from your web application in local environment. To do this, we will use Postfix.
Postfix is a Mail Transport Agent (MTA), supporting LDAP, SMTP AUTH (SASL) and TLS. In this post, We will setup Postfix to run with SMTP.
Setup
- Mac OSX (I'm using OSX Yosemite 10.10.3).
- Terminal
Postfix Installation
No need it because Postfix already exist as pre-installed on Mac OSX. Open your terminal, make sure you can see response if you type below:
Great, then we are going to configure it to be able for sending email.
Postfix Configuration
We are going to change postfix configuration file. Run this command below:
Make sure if these lines below are exist
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From codes above, you can see that we use Gmail SMTP for our postfix. Next step is add our gmail's username and password.
and add this line
Then run command below to create the hash db file for Postfix. Waves cla-76 free torrents.
Configure the postfix daemon
Add these lines before </dict>
Start the postfix service
* Note that if you make changes in postfix configuration file (/etc/postfix/main.cf), you have to run command
Testing
Apache Mail Server
Here is the command you need to execute to test postfix.
If success, you will receive email in your inbox.
If you want to see mail queues, execute this command
If you want to see mail log, execute this command
Conclusion
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Setting up mail server on Mac OSX can be done using pre-installed Postfix. Having mail server in local environment will give you advantage for your web application that have sending email feature.