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Masked by Eray Aslan on 2025-12-24

Notice: This package is in a virtual group: virtual/mda, virtual/mta
Equivalents: mail-filter/maildrop, mail-filter/procmail, mail-mta/citadel, mail-mta/courier, mail-mta/mini-qmail, mail-mta/netqmail, mail-mta/qmail-ldap, mail-mta/esmtp, mail-mta/exim, mail-mta/msmtp, mail-mta/notqmail, mail-mta/nullmailer, mail-mta/opensmtpd, mail-mta/sendmail, mail-mta/ssmtp

Install

Install this package:

emerge -a mail-mta/postfix

Package Information

Description:
A fast and secure drop-in replacement for sendmail
Homepage:
https://www.postfix.org/
License:
|| ( IBM EPL-2.0 )

Versions

Version EAPI Keywords Slot
3.12_pre20260925 8 ~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 0
3.11.7 8 ~alpha amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc x86 0

Metadata

Maintainers

Raw Metadata XML 
<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>eras@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Eray Aslan</name>
	</maintainer>
	<maintainer type="person">
		<email>williamh@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>William Hubbs</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="dovecot-sasl">Enable <pkg>net-mail/dovecot</pkg> protocol
			version 1 (server only) SASL implementation</flag>
		<flag name="eai">Add support for SMTPUTF8</flag>
		<flag name="ldap-bind">Add support for binding to LDAP backend
			using <pkg>dev-libs/cyrus-sasl</pkg></flag>
		<flag name="memcached">Add support for using <pkg>net-misc/memcached</pkg>
			for lookup tables</flag>
		<flag name="lmdb">Add support for using <pkg>dev-db/lmdb</pkg>
			for lookup tables</flag>
		<flag name="mongodb">Add support for using <pkg>dev-db/mongodb</pkg>
			for lookup tables</flag>
		<flag name="tlsrpt">Add support for TLSRPT protocol</flag>
	</use>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p mail-mta/postfix | euse -E <flag> -p mail-mta/postfix | euse -D <flag> -p mail-mta/postfix

Flag Description 3.12_pre20260925 3.11.7
berkdb Add support for sys-libs/db (Berkeley DB) ✓ ⊕
cdb Add support for the CDB database engine from the author of qmail ✓ ✓
dovecot-sasl Enable <pkg>net-mail/dovecot</pkg> protocol version 1 (server only) SASL implementation ✓ ✓
eai Add support for SMTPUTF8 ⊕ ⊕
ldap Add LDAP support (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) ✓ ✓
ldap-bind Add support for binding to LDAP backend using <pkg>dev-libs/cyrus-sasl</pkg> ✓ ✓
lmdb Add support for using <pkg>dev-db/lmdb</pkg> for lookup tables ⊕ ⊕
mbox Add support for mbox (/var/spool/mail) style mail spools ✓ ✓
memcached Add support for using <pkg>net-misc/memcached</pkg> for lookup tables ✓ ✓
mongodb Add support for using <pkg>dev-db/mongodb</pkg> for lookup tables ✓ ✓
mysql Add mySQL Database support ✓ ✓
nis Support for NIS/YP services ✓ ✓
pam Add support for PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) - DANGEROUS to arbitrarily flip ✓ ✓
postgres Add support for the postgresql database ✓ ✓
sasl Add support for the Simple Authentication and Security Layer ✓ ✓
selinux !!internal use only!! Security Enhanced Linux support, this must be set by the selinux profile or breakage will occur ✓ ✓
sqlite Add support for sqlite - embedded sql database ✓ ✓
ssl Add support for SSL/TLS connections (Secure Socket Layer / Transport Layer Security) ✓ ✓
tlsrpt Add support for TLSRPT protocol ✓ ✓

Files

Manifest

Type File Size Versions
DIST postfix-3.11.7.tar.gz 5293599 bytes 3.11.7
DIST postfix-3.11.7.tar.gz.asc 220 bytes 3.11.7
DIST postfix-3.12-20260925.tar.gz 5461457 bytes 3.12_pre20260925
DIST postfix-3.12-20260925.tar.gz.asc 220 bytes 3.12_pre20260925
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