Clarify bare-metal handling of generated mail service config files#141
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[WIP] Add bare metal configuration step between existing steps
Clarify bare-metal handling of generated mail service config files
May 9, 2026
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The bare-metal install guide skipped what happens to generated Postfix, Dovecot, and OpenDKIM config after
mailserver genconfig. This update adds the missing step and aligns the README with the actual runtime behavior used by both bare-metal and Docker flows.Installation docs
mailserver genconfigwrites the live config directly to system paths under/etc/postfix,/etc/dovecot, and/etc/opendkim./data/dkim.Operator guidance
genconfigruns / service startup.Doc consistency
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