Re: Solving a misdelivery puzzle

2020-06-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Wietse Venema wrote: > The net result was that mail for a virtual alias, that should be > forwarded to a remote address, was sometimes delivered to the local > spam folder. But only because a half-dozen conditions were met. Wow! I can see each of the decisions the local admin made when they made

Solving a misdelivery puzzle

2020-06-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Here is a chain of conditions that led to to a bizarre problem: mail for a virtual alias was sometimes delivered to the local spam folder, instead of being forwarded to the intended remote recipient. It was only after some careful detective work that we found out that a lot of things were needed f

RE: smtpd tests

2020-06-02 Thread Kevin Miller
Ugh. I meant thanks Wietse! (Although I appreciate Victor's contributions here as well.) ...Kevin -- Kevin Miller Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept. 155 South Seward Street Juneau, Alaska 99801 Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4588 Registered Linux User No: 307357 -Original Me

RE: smtpd tests

2020-06-02 Thread Kevin Miller
Thanks Victor. Naturally, I stumbled across that section after I posted. The thing I really like about postfix is there's so much documentation. The thing that drives me nuts about postfix is there's so much documentation. :-) ...Kevin -- Kevin Miller Network/email Administrator, CBJ MIS Dept.

Re: smtpd tests

2020-06-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Kevin Miller: > In the table on http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html > it list the following smtp_mumple_restrictions which one can use. > > smtpd_client_restrictions > smtpd_helo_restrictions > smtpd_sender_restrictions > smtpd_recipient_restrictions > smtpd_relay_restrictions > smtpd_

smtpd tests

2020-06-02 Thread Kevin Miller
In the table on http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html it list the following smtp_mumple_restrictions which one can use. smtpd_client_restrictions smtpd_helo_restrictions smtpd_sender_restrictions smtpd_recipient_restrictions smtpd_relay_restrictions smtpd_data_restrictions smtpd_end_of_

Re: Architectural question for handing submission mail to a smarthost

2020-06-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Alexander Perlis: > Wietse asked: > > What should happen with local submissions via /usr/sbin/sendmail? > > Thanks, I forgot about those, they too should go to the separate smarthost. > Your follow-up > message passing options to pickup(8) would seem to take care of that. > > > /etc/postfix/mast

Re: Architectural question for handing submission mail to a smarthost

2020-06-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Wietse asked: What should happen with local submissions via /usr/sbin/sendmail? On 01.06.20 19:06, Alexander Perlis wrote: Thanks, I forgot about those, they too should go to the separate smarthost. Your follow-up message passing options to pickup(8) would seem to take care of that. so, you