Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Homer Wilson Smith
Yeah, no truer words ever said. Homer Wilson Smith Clean Air, Clear Water,Art Matrix - Lightlink (607) 277-0959 A Green Earth, and Peace, Internet, Ithaca NY ho...@lightlink.com Is that too much to ask?

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread John Stoffel
Wietse, Thank you so much for postfix. I'm a recovering Sendmail user and I thank you every day. I've been migrating my $WORK servers to postfix too, and it just makes life much much much simpler. John

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Noel Jones: > On 2/12/2017 12:06 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. > > Goodness, how time flies. Thank you for postfix, and for > demonstrating excellence always. I've learned a lot here. > > Do postcards sent to the IBM Watson addr

Re: dict_ldap_lookup questions

2017-02-13 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Feb 13, 2017, at 1:38 PM, Gomes, Rich wrote: > > In the test script for latency below, does table/file.cf refer to the > ldapconfig file I am using? > > $ domain=example.com # Replace with actual domain > $ i=0; while (( i < 1024 )); do > echo "$i-probe@$domain"

Migrating Postfix mail account to a new mail account without losing mail

2017-02-13 Thread Sean Son
Hello all I have an user who has a number of mail accounts on our Postfix server. He is interested in knowing if its possible to migrate these accounts to new accounts with out losing any old mail? For example: current mail account: happy_us...@mymailserver.com new mail account: very_happy_us..

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Michael Grimm
Jesper Dybdal wrote: > every Postfix upgrade I've done has been a trouble-free success. ACK. I started to use postfix 10 years ago without having troubles during an update/upgrade to a newer version, ever. Congratulations and thanks for that wonderful piece of software! With kind regards, M

RE: dict_ldap_lookup questions

2017-02-13 Thread Gomes, Rich
In the test script for latency below, does table/file.cf refer to the ldapconfig file I am using? $ domain=example.com # Replace with actual domain $ i=0; while (( i < 1024 )); do echo "$i-probe@$domain" i=$(( i + 1 )) done | time postmap

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Mike
On 2/12/2017 1:06 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. Many thanks for the amazing Postfix. The quality and functionality of the software is among the best. Mike.

Fwd: Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Ashok Kumar J
Really i love postfix , its mature, wealth and its wealth of users. Both grows enourmosly. -- Forwarded message -- From: "Noel Jones" Date: Feb 13, 2017 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Postfix 20 years ago To: Cc: On 2/12/2017 12:06 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Last month it was 20 years

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
On 2/12/2017 12:06 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. Goodness, how time flies. Thank you for postfix, and for demonstrating excellence always. I've learned a lot here. Do postcards sent to the IBM Watson address in AAAREADME still fin

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2017-02-12 19:06, Wietse Venema wrote: Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. Having done a little digging among old files, I've just realized that I've been using Postfix since autumn 2000 (or perhaps earlier). I don't even think I was aware at that time that

Re: MTA market share (by server count)

2017-02-13 Thread Stephen Satchell
If I recall correctly, Exim is also the MTA installed by default into CPANEL Web servers. (I surmise that because I'm still on the Exim mailing list, from more than a decade ago, and I would have no reason to be on that list otherwise. So long ago...) Interesting point: when I worked at a Web h

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Larry Stone
I’ll add my thanks as well. Looking through my email archive, I first signed up for this list in 2008. As other have said, one of Postfix’s strengths is its excellent documentation which has led me to configure Postfix to meet my needs while understanding why it does that and how I can make it

Re: Best way to run Postfix on a single server for multiple domains

2017-02-13 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Feb 13, 2017, at 10:30 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > >> [Nitin:] >> One reason why we would like to have Perfect Headers is that one >> of the domains is a B2C platform where many users can register. We >> want to reduce all possibilities (as much as we can) of our first >> email to these users

Re: IPv6 address format in -o content_filer in master.cf

2017-02-13 Thread Michael Konieczny
>> Still, it doesn't connect to ::1, but connects to 127.0.0.1. > > If a connection request to ::1 fails, or results in a connection > to 127.0.0.1, then that is an issue with your IP stack, and should > be resolved in a different forum. You're welcome to report the > resolution here, as that is

Re: MTA market share (by server count)

2017-02-13 Thread Dominic Raferd
On 13 February 2017 at 15:45, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > There are likely more Exim servers than Postfix servers. Exim is the default > MTA for Debian and Ubuntu Linux > .. Not for Ubuntu: 'Postfix is the default Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) in Ubuntu' - https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/pos

Re: IPv6 address format in -o content_filer in master.cf

2017-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Konieczny: > >> postfix/smtp[69016]: connect to ::1[::1]:10024: Operation timed out Of course that timeout problem is outside the scope of Postfix. > > If you don't like the ::1, specify a hostname. The logging format > > is hostname[address]:port. If no hostname is available, it will log

MTA market share (by server count)

2017-02-13 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Feb 13, 2017, at 7:21 AM, Marcio Merlone wrote: > > I guess postfix is the most deployed smtp server on the globe, isn't it? There are likely more Exim servers than Postfix servers. Exim is the default MTA for Debian and Ubuntu Linux. Many users don't look past the default. Other users p

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread /dev/rob0
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 09:16:16PM +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:06:42PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. > > It is good to see thanks from users who've been with you all for > almost the entire time

Re: Best way to run Postfix on a single server for multiple domains

2017-02-13 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:20:45PM +0530, Nitin N wrote: > Dear Rob (I hope that is your name), That works, but I also answer to "hey you" and various epithets (you can even google up a few from this very list. ;) ) > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 8:53 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at

Re: IPv6 address format in -o content_filer in master.cf

2017-02-13 Thread Benny Pedersen
Michael Konieczny skrev den 2017-02-13 15:37: OK, so log format is clarified. Still, it doesn't connect to ::1, but connects to 127.0.0.1. amavis listens on both ::1 and 127.0.0.1, confirmed using telnet, every other local connection over ::1 works (I have several of them, for example IPAP and S

Re: IPv6 address format in -o content_filer in master.cf

2017-02-13 Thread Michael Konieczny
>> postfix/smtp[69016]: connect to ::1[::1]:10024: Operation timed out > > If you don't like the ::1, specify a hostname. The logging format > is hostname[address]:port. If no hostname is available, it will log > the address instead. OK, so log format is clarified. Still, it doesn't connect to ::

Re: IPv6 address format in -o content_filer in master.cf

2017-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Konieczny: > postfix/smtp[69016]: connect to ::1[::1]:10024: Operation timed out If you don't like the ::1, specify a hostname. The logging format is hostname[address]:port. If no hostname is available, it will log the address instead. Wietse

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Luciano Mannucci
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 13:06:42 -0500 (EST) wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. We're getting elderly, are'nt we? :-) ;-) :) BTW, thamks fore the great job you're still doing! Cheers, Luciano. -- /"\

IPv6 address format in -o content_filer in master.cf

2017-02-13 Thread Michael Konieczny
I'm running postfix + amavis, and I have the following in master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024 amavis unix - - n - 5 smtp -o smtp_bind_address=127.0.0.1 Works. Now I'm trying to swi

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Marcio Merlone
Em 12/02/2017 20:16, mar...@fredo.co.uk escreveu: In all the years I cannot think of any other software I have used that has maintained such an extraordinarily high standard of functionality, stability, security and usability. (I started hosting in 1994). Your work has been, and is, a key part

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Marcio Merlone
Em 12/02/2017 16:06, Wietse Venema escreveu: Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. After coming to IBM research in November 1996, I spent most of December and January making notes on paper. I knew that writing a mail system was more work than any of my prior projects

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Patrick Ben Koetter, 13.02.2017 09:57 +0100: > I owe you a lot! Seconded, thank you Wietse! -- Regards mks

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Tamer Higazi
Dear Wietse, Thank you very much for this wonderful MTA system you have developed and maintained over the years. You did a wonderful and great job, and your software made the internet really come to live. With support of the latest technologies like DANE and DNSSEC, PFS you made secure communicat

Re: Postfix 20 years ago

2017-02-13 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Wietse Venema : > Last month it was 20 years ago that I started writing Postfix code. > After coming to IBM research in November 1996, I spent most of > December and January making notes on paper. I knew that writing a > mail system was more work than any of my prior projects. Eversince I discov