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diff --git a/network/opensmtpd/README b/network/opensmtpd/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..da5475c9b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/opensmtpd/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol +as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. +It allows ordinary machines to exchange e-mails with other systems +speaking the SMTP protocol. + +You must have smtpd, smtpf, smtpl, and smtpq users on the system +for privilege separation - something like this should suffice: +useradd -u 270 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpd +useradd -u 271 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpf +useradd -u 272 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpl +useradd -u 273 -g 0 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpq + +You will want to add /etc/rc.d/rc.opensmtpd to rc.local so that it +will start on boot (or perhaps consider symlinking rc.sendmail to +rc.opensmtpd). + +This package conflicts with the stock sendmail package included in +Slackware and overwrites some of its files if you do not remove it +before. |