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View the most recent changes for the postal port at: postal.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for postal.
The raw portfile for postal 0.62 is located here:
http://postal.darwinports.com/dports/mail/postal/Portfile
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# $Id: Portfile 30236 2007-10-22 23:15:10Z jmpp macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: postal
Version: 0.62
extract.suffix .tgz
Category: mail benchmarks
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Benchmark SMTP/POP servers
Long Description: Postal is a SMTP benchmark. Postal-list will list all the possible expansions for an account name (used for creating a list of accounts to create on your test server). Rabid is the mad Biff, it is a POP benchmark.
Homepage: http://www.coker.com.au/postal/
Platform: darwin
master_sites ${homepage}
checksums md5 4a2eb25973c4f427022414e3e433ccb5
destroot.destdir prefix=${destroot}${prefix}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/postal
%  sudo port install postal  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching postal
--->  Verifying checksum for postal
--->  Extracting postal
--->  Configuring postal
--->  Building postal with target all

--->  Staging postal into destroot

--->  Installing postal

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using postal with these commands:

%  man postal
%  apropos postal
%  which postal
%  locate postal

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