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. This package conflicts with the stock postfix (or sendmail) package included in Slackware and overwrites some of its files, so remove the postfix (or sendmail) package before installing opensmtpd You must have smtpd and smtpq users and groups on the system for privilege separation - something like this should suffice: groupadd -g 270 smtpd useradd -u 270 -g 270 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpd groupadd -g 271 smtpq useradd -u 271 -g 271 -r -s /bin/false -d /var/empty smtpq You will want to modify rc.local so that OpenSMTPD will start on boot something like this: # start opensmtpd a replacement for sendmail and postfix if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.opensmtpd ]; then . /etc/rc.d/rc.opensmtpd start fi Optional Dependency: LibreSSL To use the LibreSSL runtime libraries First install LibreSSL then build OpenSMTPD For hints on using alpine with OpenSMTPD see the README.alpine file