Re: No default or sample aliases file

2011-09-24 Thread /dev/rob0
On Saturday 24 September 2011 21:04:41 Phill Edwards wrote: > I ended up fixing the problem by running: > # touch /etc/aliases > # newaliases > > Shouldn't postfix create a default aliases file? Or at least > include a sample one somewhere as part of the install? Where did you look? A source inst

No default or sample aliases file

2011-09-24 Thread Phill Edwards
I have just installed postfix on one of my servers purely in order to get email output from cron jobs. I have installed postifx previously on other servers nad had no problems. But on this installation I found that no messages could be delivered because there was no aliases file. I was seeing this

RE: Easy Administration of Postfix SMTP Relay Server

2011-09-24 Thread Gary V
>I'm currently tasked with a project of creating a spam server which will >receive \ >email for all of our customers, filter it for spam and relay clean mail onto >the \ >final destination. The challenge is that it needs to be manageable by someone >who \ >doesn't know Linux. > >Is there a way

Re: Easy Administration of Postfix SMTP Relay Server

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 3:42 PM, Ryan Blakeslee wrote: Stan, I did not know this and I really appreciate the feedback, I apologize for suggesting that without fully understanding the implications on Postfix. No need to apologize. Here's the direct info: http://www.postfix.org/addon.html "mailscanner s

RE: Easy Administration of Postfix SMTP Relay Server

2011-09-24 Thread Ryan Blakeslee
Stan, I did not know this and I really appreciate the feedback, I apologize for suggesting that without fully understanding the implications on Postfix. -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Stan Hoeppner Sent: Satur

Re: Easy Administration of Postfix SMTP Relay Server

2011-09-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2011 3:02 PM, Ryan Blakeslee wrote: but, it's based on all actively maintained components: postfix, *mailscanner* AIUI, mailscanner directly manipulates the postfix queue files, which is not supported and is extremely frowned upon by the Postfix developer(s), to put it lightly. I'd

RE: Easy Administration of Postfix SMTP Relay Server

2011-09-24 Thread Ryan Blakeslee
Hi Kaleb, I just wanted to mention that there is a project that I have been using for years that is build for exactly what you need to do, using Postfix as the MTA. It's ESVA (email security virtual appliance.) I've used it for a number of customers and my own environment. The maintainer of

Re: Thunderbird SMTP to postfix - additional info

2011-09-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.09.2011 19:37, schrieb Steve Weigold: > > Greetings everyone, > > A bit more data on this issue: > > In a telnet session from the windows box, I notice that once the greeting is > received, if I do nothing but send an > immediate I get a bad syntax response. If I type anything, inclu

Thunderbird SMTP to postfix - additional info

2011-09-24 Thread Steve Weigold
Greetings everyone, A bit more data on this issue: In a telnet session from the windows box, I notice that once the greeting is received, if I do nothing but send an immediate I get a bad syntax response. If I type anything, including just a single character, followed by , it seems to be

Thunderbird SMTP to postfix - no response to greeting

2011-09-24 Thread Steve Weigold
Greetings everyone, I'm testing a postfix install on a machine on my local lan. Although I don't expect it to be relevant to the problem, it's an embedded debian system. Postfix is configured to relay through an ISP email server to send outgoing emails (ie relayhost = my.isp.server).Cur

Re: Multi-Instance-Questions

2011-09-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Thomas Trepper: > Hi all, > > I hope I am right here, I have the following problem and can't find a > solution so I would like to ask you for this: > > I have a server (ubuntu 8.04.3-server) with one network interface and two > IPs on it and on top one postfix (2.5.1 installation. I would like po

Multi-Instance-Questions

2011-09-24 Thread Thomas Trepper
Hi all, I hope I am right here, I have the following problem and can't find a solution so I would like to ask you for this: I have a server (ubuntu 8.04.3-server) with one network interface and two IPs on it and on top one postfix (2.5.1 installation. I would like postfix to relay to different re

Re: Easy Administration of Postfix SMTP Relay Server

2011-09-24 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 23.09.2011 19:51, schrieb Kaleb Hosie: > I’m currently tasked with a project of creating a spam server which will > receive email for all of our customers, filter it for spam and relay > clean mail onto the final destination. The challenge is that it needs to > be manageable by someone who doesn