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How to configure your Mail::Toaster

The toaster has two main configuration files, toaster.conf and toaster-watcher.conf. These should be configured during step 4 of the installation process. On most platforms, both of these files live in /usr/local/etc. Make changes to these files to customize your Mail::Toaster build.

The reason for having two config files is security. The toaster-watcher.conf file is available only to programs with root privileges (toaster-watcher.pl, toaster_setup.pl). This is because passwords and other security sensitive information is stored in that file.

toaster-watcher.conf controls options relating to:

where files are kept on your particular server

settings related to how the toaster is built

what programs and options are installed

where programs and run files are installed

run time parameters used to configure daemons

how the toaster's logs should be processed.

toaster.conf is for everything else (mailadmin, index.cgi, maillogs)

Read on for a post-install tutorial and other install notes.

AUTHOR

David Chaplin-Loebell
Matt Simerson

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post-install
FreeBSD rc.conf
toaster-watcher.conf
toaster.conf

Last modified on 4/28/05.