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Postfix is Wietse Venema's mailer that started life as an alternative to the
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widely-used Sendmail program. It attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and
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secure, while at the same time, being sendmail compatible enough to not upset
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existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is
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completely different.
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This script builds postfix with support for Dovecot SASL, Cyrus SASL, and
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TLS (using OpenSSL.) Support for Berkeley DB hash and btree maps, being a
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Postfix requirement, is also detected and built.
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In addition database plugins are built for LDAP, MySQL, PCRE and sqlite3. To
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add support for additional database plugins which are not provided in
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Slackware, such as CDB or PostgreSQL, it is necessary to recompile this
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package. See the comments in the SlackBuild script to get started.
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Postfix manual sections follow the BSD standard, where section 8 is only for
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daemons, and all user commands, even root-user-only administrative commands
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such as postfix(1), are in section 1.
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Postfix is exceptionally well documented. If you put a link to your
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html_directory (/usr/doc/postfix/html) somewhere you can find it in your
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favorite browser, all of this will be readily available to you. The place
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to start is not with man pages, but with the various READMEs, all HTMLified
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and with convenient hyperlinks to the relevant anchors in the HTML versions
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of the manuals.
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