mail/postfix 3.11.7_4,1 FreeBSD

Secure alternative to widely-used Sendmail

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-20
Commit: 85ba298b7e
License: EPL, IPL10
Categories: mail
Package size: 1836.2 KiB, 8386.5 KiB installed

Description

Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and secure, while at the same time being sendmail compatible enough to not upset existing users. Thus, the outside has a sendmail-ish flavor, but the inside is completely different.

Some features:

Connection cache for SMTP, DSN status notifications, IP version 6, Plug-in support for multiple SASL implementations (Cyrus, Dovecot), TLS encryption and authentication, Configurable status notification message text, Access control per client/sender/recipient/etc, Content filter (built-in, external before queue, external after queue), Berkeley DB database, LDAP database, MySQL database, PostgreSQL database, Maildir and mailbox format, Virtual domains, VERP envelope return addresses and others.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

mail/postfix

3.11.7_4,1

NetBSD

mail/postfix

3.11.7

DragonFly

mail/postfix

3.10.1,1

MidnightBSD

mail/postfix

3.11.7,1

Install

Binary package:

pkg install postfix

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/mail/postfix/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	postfix>0:mail/postfix

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository

aarch64

amd64

armv6

armv7

i386

FreeBSD:14:latest

3.11.7_3,1

3.7.3_1,1

3.10.4,1

3.11.7_3,1

FreeBSD:14:quarterly

3.11.7_1,1

3.11.7_3,1

n/a

3.10.3,1

3.11.7_3,1

FreeBSD:15:latest

3.11.7_3,1

n/a

3.10.3,1

3.10.4,1

FreeBSD:15:quarterly

3.11.7_1,1

3.11.7_3,1

n/a

FreeBSD:16:latest

3.11.7_1,1

3.11.7_3,1

n/a

FreeBSD:16:quarterly

n/a

Dependencies

The Makefile names none itself; they come from USES and USE_*.

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 6

Run dependencies 5

Required by 5

Configuration

Options name: mail_postfix

Option

Default

Description

BDB

off

Berkeley DB support

BLOCKLISTD

Enable blocklistd support

CDB

CDB maps lookups

DOCS

off

Build and/or install documentation

EAI

Email Address Internationalization (SMTPUTF8) support

INST_BASE

off

Install into /usr and /etc/postfix

LDAP

off

LDAP maps (uses WITH_OPENLDAP_VER)

LMDB

LMDB maps

LMDB0

Use LMDB 0.9 library

LMDB1

off

Use LMDB 1.0 library

MONGO

off

MongoDB support

MYSQL

off

MySQL database support

NIS

off

Network Information Services/YP support

PCRE2

Use Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, version 2

PGSQL

off

PostgreSQL database support

SASL

off

Cyrus SASL support (Dovecot SASL is always built in)

SASLKMIT

off

If your SASL req. MIT Kerberos5, select this

SASLKRB5

off

If your SASL req. Kerberos5, select this

SQLITE

off

SQLite database support

TEST

off

SMTP/LMTP test server and generator

TLS

Secure network connection support via TLS

TLSRPT

Enable sending RFC 8460 TLS reports

USES: cpe pkgconfig shebangfix ssl
Service scripts: postfix
Conflicts with: courier-0.* opensmtpd opensmtpd-devel postfix postfix-base postfix-ldap-sasl postfix-sasl sendmail sendmail-devel
Flavors: postfix-ldap-3.11.7_4,1, postfix-sasl-3.11.7_4,1, postfix-mongo-3.11.7_4,1, postfix-mysql-3.11.7_4,1, postfix-pgsql-3.11.7_4,1, postfix-sqlite-3.11.7_4,1

Message after installing

To use postfix instead of sendmail:
  - clear sendmail queue and stop the sendmail daemons

Run the following commands to enable postfix during startup:
  - sysrc postfix_enable="YES"
  - sysrc sendmail_enable="NONE"

If postfix is *not* already activated in /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf
  - mv /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf.old
  - install -d /usr/local/etc/mail
  - install -m 0644 /usr/local/share/postfix/mailer.conf.postfix /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf

Disable sendmail(8) specific tasks,
add the following lines to /etc/periodic.conf(.local):
  daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO"
  daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO"
  daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO"
  daily_submit_queuerun="NO"

If you are using SASL, you need to make sure that postfix has access to read
the sasldb file.  This is accomplished by adding postfix to group mail and
making the /usr/local/etc/sasldb* file(s) readable by group mail (this should
be the default for new installs).

If you remove postfix permanent, adjust / remove the the following file:
  - /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf

Files

Manual pages 80

access(5)
aliases(5)
anvil(8)
body_checks(5)
bounce(5)
bounce(8)
canonical(5)
cidr_table(5)
cleanup(8)
defer(8)
discard(8)
dnsblog(8)
error(8)
flush(8)
generic(5)
header_checks(5)
ldap_table(5)
lmdb_table(5)
lmtp(8)
local(8)
mailq(1)
master(5)
master(8)
memcache_table(5)
mongodb_table(5)
mysql_table(5)
nbdb_reindexd(8)
newaliases(1)
nisplus_table(5)
oqmgr(8)
pcre_table(5)
pgsql_table(5)
pickup(8)
pipe(8)
postalias(1)
postcat(1)
postconf(1)
postconf(5)
postdrop(1)
postfix(1)
postfix-non-bdb(1)
postfix-tls(1)
postfix-wrapper(5)
postkick(1)
postlock(1)
postlog(1)
postlogd(8)
postmap(1)
postmulti(1)
postqueue(1)
postscreen(8)
postsuper(1)
posttls-finger(1)
proxymap(8)
qmgr(8)
qmqp-sink(1)
qmqp-source(1)
qmqpd(8)
qshape(1)
regexp_table(5)
relocated(5)
scache(8)
sendmail(1)
showq(8)
smtp(8)
smtp-sink(1)
smtp-source(1)
smtpd(8)
socketmap_table(5)
spawn(8)
sqlite_table(5)
tcp_table(5)
tlsmgr(8)
tlsproxy(8)
trace(8)
transport(5)
trivial-rewrite(8)
verify(8)
virtual(5)
virtual(8)

pkg-plist 206

bin/mailq
bin/newaliases
bin/qmqp-sink
bin/qmqp-source
bin/qshape
bin/rmail
bin/smtp-sink
bin/smtp-source
%%PFETC%%/LICENSE
%%PFETC%%/TLS_LICENSE
%%PFETC%%/bounce.cf.default
%%PFETC%%/main.cf.default
@sample %%PFETC%%/main.cf.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/master.cf.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/access.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/aliases.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/canonical.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/generic.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/header_checks.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/relocated.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/transport.sample
@sample %%PFETC%%/virtual.sample
lib/postfix/libpostfix-dns.so
lib/postfix/libpostfix-global.so
lib/postfix/libpostfix-master.so
lib/postfix/libpostfix-tls.so
lib/postfix/libpostfix-util.so
lib/postfix/postfix-cdb.so
lib/postfix/postfix-ldap.so
lib/postfix/postfix-lmdb.so
lib/postfix/postfix-mongodb.so
lib/postfix/postfix-mysql.so
lib/postfix/postfix-pcre.so
lib/postfix/postfix-pgsql.so
lib/postfix/postfix-sqlite.so
libexec/postfix/anvil
libexec/postfix/bounce
libexec/postfix/cleanup
libexec/postfix/discard
libexec/postfix/dnsblog
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/cdb.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/ldap.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/lmdb.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/mongodb.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/mysql.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/pcre.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/pgsql.cf
libexec/postfix/dynamicmaps.cf.d/sqlite.cf
libexec/postfix/error
libexec/postfix/flush
libexec/postfix/lmtp
libexec/postfix/local
libexec/postfix/main.cf.proto
libexec/postfix/makedefs.out
libexec/postfix/master
libexec/postfix/master.cf.proto
libexec/postfix/nbdb_reindexd
libexec/postfix/nqmgr
libexec/postfix/oqmgr
libexec/postfix/pickup
libexec/postfix/pipe
libexec/postfix/post-install
libexec/postfix/postfix-files
libexec/postfix/postfix-non-bdb-script
libexec/postfix/postfix-files.d/cdb-files
libexec/postfix/postfix-files.d/ldap-files
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libexec/postfix/postfix-files.d/pcre-files
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libexec/postfix/postfix-script
libexec/postfix/postfix-tls-script
libexec/postfix/postfix-wrapper
libexec/postfix/postlogd
libexec/postfix/postmulti-script
libexec/postfix/postscreen
libexec/postfix/proxymap
libexec/postfix/qmgr
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libexec/postfix/scache
libexec/postfix/showq
libexec/postfix/smtp
libexec/postfix/smtpd
libexec/postfix/spawn
libexec/postfix/tlsmgr
libexec/postfix/tlsproxy
libexec/postfix/trivial-rewrite
libexec/postfix/verify
libexec/postfix/virtual
share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
share/man/man1/newaliases.1.gz
share/man/man1/postalias.1.gz
share/man/man1/postcat.1.gz
share/man/man1/postconf.1.gz
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Commit history 10

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-20

85ba298b7e

Baptiste Daroussin

databases/lmdb: allow to install both 0.x and 1.x together

LMDB 1.0 and the legacy 0.9 ABI cannot be mixed, the datanase format are incompatibles as well. Rename or relocate everything databases/lmdb0 installs so that it no longer overlaps with databases/lmdb: - the utilities are now mdb_copy0, mdb_dump0, mdb_load0 and mdb_stat0 - the header is include/lmdb0/lmdb.h - the linker name is liblmdb0.so, the shared object keeps its ABI name liblmdb.so.0 so already linked programs are unaffected - the pkg-config file is lmdb0.pc A compatibility prefix holding the previous layout is also installed under ${PREFIX}/lmdb0/ (include/, lib/ and libdata/pkgconfig/) so that build systems which expect to find lmdb.h and -llmdb relative to a single directory only need a path change. Now all ports should migrate to lmdb 1.X and use the lmdb 0.9 port to ease …

2026-10-10

696289b3e6

Juraj Lutter

mail/postfix: Fix lmdb dependency

- Do not depend on lmdb even when LMDB is turned off [1] PR: 299276

2026-10-03

92e125ad0d

Juraj Lutter

mail/postfix: Depend on databases/lmdb0 by default again

Depend on databases/lmdb0 by default and allow to select also databases/lmdb.

2026-09-30

b4ccc524e3

Juraj Lutter

mail/postfix: Depend on databases/lmdb

As the breaking change introduced in lmdb 1.0.0 has been reverted since lmdb 1.0.1, change the dependency back to databases/lmdb And while here, also replace the hardwired include and library paths and named with pkgconfig.

2026-09-15

fd2e3a26b8

Juraj Lutter

mail/postfix: Update to 3.11.7

PR: 298429

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