Postfix is fast and popular SMTP server widely used. The main job of Postfix is to relay mail locally or to intended destination outside the network. Some of the most popular SMTP servers are Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail. This article will help you to install Postfix on Ubuntu 15.10, 15.04, 14.04 LTS and 12.04 LTS systems.
Step 1: Install Postfix on Ubuntu
Postfix packages are available under default repositories of Ubuntu operating systems. Simply use the following command to install Postfix SMTP server on your Ubuntu system.
$ sudo apt-get install postfix
The installation process will ask your for some inputs like below. Just
Step 2: Configure Postfix
Let’s start Postfix configuration. Edit Postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf in your favourite editor and make following changes. Change myhostname, mydomain as per your requirements.
myhostname = host.tecadmin.net
mydomain = tecadmin.net
myorigin = $mydomain
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost, $mydomain, localhost.localdomain
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, /32
relay_domains = $mydestination
inet_interfaces = all
inet_protocols = all
home_mailbox = Maildir/
Step 3: Restart Postfix Service
As we have done basic Postfix configuration, So restart Postfix service to read changes of configuration. Also configure to auto start on system boot.
$ sudo service postfix restart
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“chkconfig command not found”
Ubuntu 15.04