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Postfix is an advanced mail server, MTA (mail transport agent).  Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure.  The outside has a definite Sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.  Funtoo is providing postfix as default MTA.
Postfix is an advanced mail server, MTA (mail transport agent).  Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure.  The outside has a definite Sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.  Funtoo is providing postfix as default MTA. Main change in default postfix configuration is that it running using unix socket instead listen on IP address.


== Installation ==
== Installation ==

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Postfix is an advanced mail server, MTA (mail transport agent). Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure. The outside has a definite Sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different. Funtoo is providing postfix as default MTA. Main change in default postfix configuration is that it running using unix socket instead listen on IP address.

Installation

root # emerge postfix

At this point emerge will try to replace any alternative MTA (if any) installed on your system.