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Deployment

RHEL/CentOS/OEL

The default Python version in RHEL7 (and clones) is too old, you need at least 3.5 to run postfix-mta-sts. However, Python 3.6 is available in the Software collections

For other distributions please edit the Systemd Unit file accordingly

Create a User (and Group) to run MTA-STS

useradd -c "Daemon for MTA-STS policy checks" mta-sts -s /sbin/nologin

Systemd Unit file

Place the provided files to /etc/systemd/system and reload the system daemon

systemctl daemon-reload

To enable MTA-STS on system startup run

systemctl enable postfix-mta-sts.service

FreeBSD rc.d file

Place the provided mta-sts-daemon file to /usr/local/etc/rc.d

To enable MTA-STS on system startup add mta_sts_daemon_enable="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf

NetBSD rc.d file

Place the provided mta_sts_daemon.netbsd file to /etc/rc.d/.

You want to verify that command_interpreter is set to your correct python interpreter.

Also make sure that you have added the mta-sts user and group.

To enable MTA-STS on system startup add mta_sts_daemon="YES" to your /etc/rc.conf.