Re: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 09:59:36PM -0800, sckall...@yahoo.com wrote: > I changed the last column in bounce line to bounce (it used to be > discard) in master.cf. Once your master.cf file is correct, it is no longer of much interest. What matters now is logs and main.cf. > Now I get NDRs every

RE: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread sckalleon
I changed the last column in bounce line to bounce (it used to be discard) in master.cf. Now I get NDRs every minute or so because of those retrying emails. What next? Here is my master.cf: # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format # of the file, see the master(5) m

Re: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 11:48:25PM -0500, Bill Cole wrote: > On 11 Jan 2021, at 21:49, Bob Jones wrote: > > > Also, what does all this mean essentially (in English)? > > The man page for master(5) is written in English and provides a standard > answer. Is there something unclear there? That's m

Re: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Bill Cole
On 11 Jan 2021, at 21:49, Bob Jones wrote: Also, what does all this mean essentially (in English)? The man page for master(5) is written in English and provides a standard answer. Is there something unclear there? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and m

Re: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 02:49:38AM +, Bob Jones wrote: > You are absolutely right about the master.cf. The bounce line looks like the > following: > > bounce  unix    -   -   n   -   0   > discard That is an invalid configuration. Nowhere is it documente

Re: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Bob Jones
You are absolutely right about the master.cf. The bounce line looks like the following: bounce  unix    -   -   n   -   0   discard What is a good configuration for this? Also, what does all this mean essentially (in English)? On Monday, January 11, 2021

Re: Fw: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 01:10:56AM +, Bob Jones wrote: > Our mail server (kolab 16 with postfix) has gone into a loop of some > kind leading to constant retrying of bounced emails. Your master.cf file is botched, listing an invalid definition of the "bounce" service. You CANNOT replace the "

Re: File-format for Included Files for main.cf Options

2021-01-11 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 01:00:26AM +, JL (Postfix Readers A/c) wrote: > Can someone point me at the right place in the docs, or offer advice > which maybe could also be added to the docs (!) to help others? Each main.cf parameter documents its syntax. Various parameters, that take literal li

Fw: Crazy retries for bounced (and a small number of successful) emails

2021-01-11 Thread Bob Jones
Our mail server (kolab 16 with postfix) has gone into a loop of some kind leading to constant retrying of bounced emails. Here is a segment of what I see in the maillog: Jan 12 00:36:14 mail postfix/discard[3091]: warning: unexpected attribute nrequest from bounce socket (expecting: flags)

File-format for Included Files for main.cf Options

2021-01-11 Thread JL (Postfix Readers A/c)
Hi, I can't find it in the docs or from a search of this mailing-list... When a main.cf entry specifies a filename, I know the contents are inserted in place. But the exact format of said file is unclear. I don't think it is literally "included" in-line, because a file that contains a list of do