Install guide · Ubuntu 24.04 (noble)printed 29 Oct 2026, 02:20 UTC

Install PostSRSd 2.4 on Ubuntu 24.04

Ubuntu 24.04 ships PostSRSd 1.10. The current release is 2.4.1. freshdeb builds it for noble from upstream's release with Debian's packaging, so it replaces the distribution's package in place and updates with apt upgrade like the rest of the system.

Ubuntu 24.04 ships: 1.101.10-2.1build1
main: 2.4.1follows every upstream release, minors and majors included. Currently 2.4.1.
Built for: amd64 and arm64, natively

1Trust the signing key (once per machine)

sudo install -d -m 0755 /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.freshdeb.com/freshdeb-archive-keyring.gpg \
  | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/freshdeb-archive-keyring.gpg >/dev/null

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2Add the source for noble

sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freshdeb-postsrsd.sources >/dev/null <<EOF
Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.freshdeb.com/postsrsd
Suites: noble
Components: main
Signed-By: /etc/apt/keyrings/freshdeb-archive-keyring.gpg
EOF

3Install

sudo apt update && sudo apt install postsrsd
apt policy postsrsd   # expect 2.4.1-2+freshdeb~ubuntu24.04

Already on Ubuntu 24.04's PostSRSd? The same command upgrades it: the freshdeb version sorts higher. What's different from Debian's package.

Upgrading from PostSRSd 1.10

What changed between Ubuntu 24.04's 1.10 and 2.4.1 that you may notice. Configuration and data stay where Debian put them.

Since 2.0: PostSRSd 2 reads /etc/postsrsd.conf instead of /etc/default/postsrsd. The upgrade carries your settings over (domains, secret, separator, hash lengths, user, chroot) and keeps the secret, so addresses 1.x rewrote still reverse. Postfix needs a change the package can't make: 2.x answers socketmap: lookups on /var/spool/postfix/srs instead of tcp: tables on ports 10001 and 10002. In /etc/postfix/main.cf, set sender_canonical_maps = socketmap:unix:srs:forward and recipient_canonical_maps = socketmap:unix:srs:reverse, keep the classes, and reload Postfix. Until then Postfix defers mail and retries it later.

Going back to 1.10

Delete /etc/apt/sources.list.d/freshdeb-postsrsd.sources, run sudo apt update, then sudo apt install postsrsd=1.10-2.1build1: apt asks before it downgrades. PostSRSd 1.x reads /etc/default/postsrsd again, which the upgrade leaves in place, and Postfix needs its tcp: lines back.

Why a package

The upstream source builds with CMake, but then the service, the user, the chroot and the AppArmor profile are yours to set up. This is Debian's package, with all of that, at upstream's current release.

PostSRSd elsewhere

postsrsd: every release line, its contents and origin