Re: Listening on 587 but submission not enabled in master.cf

2011-11-29 Thread email builder
> Embarrassing question time...  was investigating use of port 587/submission > in > addition to our usual 465/smtps, but I found that our server is already > listening on port 587.  ALL of the "submission" lines in master.cf are > commented out.  > > > Surely I just goofed something up, bu

Listening on 587 but submission not enabled in master.cf

2011-11-29 Thread email builder
Hello, Embarrassing question time...  was investigating use of port 587/submission in addition to our usual 465/smtps, but I found that our server is already listening on port 587.  ALL of the "submission" lines in master.cf are commented out.  Surely I just goofed something up, but I'm not

Re: Best setup for performance and fault tolerance

2011-11-29 Thread Wietse Venema
To make Postfix highly-available, you mount the configuration, queue and mailbox directories from a highly-available file store. Then, you replace a broken Postfix server simply by mounting the configuration, queue and mailbox directories on a different server and giving that server the IP address

Best setup for performance and fault tolerance

2011-11-29 Thread Donny Brooks
Hello all. I am in need of some guidance. First a little background. Currently our mail server is on physical hardware (Dell server with 2x 2.8GHz Xeon w/ 4GB ram, raid5 array, single gigabit nic) running on Fedora 11 and postfix-2.5.6-3.fc11.x86_64 with dovecot-1.2.11-3.fc11.x86_64. Mailstore is v

Re: Switch off Postfix filters

2011-11-29 Thread Alfredo Saldanha
On 11/28/2011 05:45 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 11/28/2011 1:04 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Alfredo Saldanha: Dear, I'd like to know if is there some way to disable automatic or manually Postfix filters in case of failure (overload) or something. I'm asking this because I was an incident where, unde

Re: MUA/Smtp client/script to send mails via a Postfix relay server

2011-11-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Roger Goh: > Just to add, I'm not allowed to start up sendmail (as it's hardened > for security reason), so editing sendmail.cf may not be an option. > > So I certainly need a script/tool to do this forwarding to the relay > /postfix server Use the POSTFIX sendmail command. Wietse