How to Find Out Postfix Mail Server Version in Linux?

The most commonly used implementations of SMTP in most Linux distros are Sendmail and Postfix. Postfix is an open-source mail-transfer agent that was originally developed as an alternative to Sendmail and is usually set up as the default mail server.

We’ll show you how to figure out what version of the Postfix mail system is running on your Linux system.

Traditionally, popular options such as -v or -V or –version, depending on what the developer specifies, were used to display the version of an application or program installed (or running) in Linux, particularly on the terminal:

$ php -v
$ curl -V
$ bash --version

application version in linux

Type the following command in the terminal to find out what version of the Postfix mail system is running on your system. The -d flag causes the /etc/postficmain.cf configuration file to display default parameter settings instead of actual settings, and the mail version variable stores the package version.

$ postconf -d mail_version

postfix version after $ postconf -d mail_version

Alternate command:

$ postconf -d | grep mail_version

after postconf -d | grep mail_version

The above command is compatible with all Linux operating systems incl. CentOS, Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu.