Hi Wietse,
2012/12/7 Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> > Pierre-Gilles RAYNAUD: > > Hi Wietse, > > > > On 06/12/12 12:52, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > Pierre-Gilles RAYNAUD: > > >> /etc/postfix$ grep iglobe.be * > > >> client-blacklist:.iglobe.be REJECT 555 Spam not tolerated > > > Why do you have a '.' before the domain? > > > Where is this documented? > > > > > > Wietse > > Found on many posts explaining how to build blacklist or whitelist for > > access restrictions (check_xxxx_access= hash:/yyyyy) > > I don't think it was on postfix website but due to the number of blogs, > > posts using this syntax notation to exclude a domain, I assume, wrongly > > it seems, that statistically, it couldn't be wrong :( > > Blogs are often wrong, or worse, they are incomplete (which is what > got you into trouble). > > When configuring Postfix, you can save time and read the documentation > for the feature that you try to use. > > I am not going to dictate here what you should do. RTFM instead. > > Wietse > > Thank you for your time and answer. You are right when you are writting that blogs and posts may be incomplete and wrong, but this is not always the case Without any critics, the Postfix documentation is done by and for MTA experts, not unexperimented user like me. We (as a small company) have started to use Postfix because we were unhappy with the hosting solution we have been using during 10 years and when we decided to have our own mails server (we called it like this ;) ), we had to get knowledge on this matters and at the first beginning, some blogs were very helpfull when we awere in front a shell prompt in order to do. We have learnt a lot since day 1, reading blogs, posts and the Postfix documentation reference, and also by making mistakes like the one we have just did. By the way, in several months, perhaps we will be able to use to its full extend, some Postfix features we need in the emails area. This will only be possible because someone, You, has created an open source apllication like Postfix. Cheers -- PGR
