On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 04:42:42PM +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:37:46AM -0500, Jay G. Scott wrote:
>
> > I had two smtp lines in the master.cf file. Splutter.
>
> You're supposed to. One is for the Postfix SMTP server
> (inbound mail):
&
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 08:02:55PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> On 6/10/2014 5:45 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> >
> > After trying various combinations of things in
> > main.cf and master.cf, I find that, using the script
> > below, if the mail reaches the filter script, the
delivered unfiltered, no bounces, no hops.
main.cf:
content_filter = filter
got it filtered, but resulted in the hops bounce.
What am I missing?
j.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:37:34PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> On 6/10/2014 3:05 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> >
> > RE: the after-queue
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:37:34PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> On 6/10/2014 3:05 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> >
> > RE: the after-queue, simple filter example
> >
> > Just trying to figure out how it works.
> > I have a feeling I don't fully understand the
RE: the after-queue, simple filter example
Just trying to figure out how it works.
I have a feeling I don't fully understand the full implications of
"after-queue".
>From master.cf:
# custom filter
filter unix- n n - 10 pipe
flags=Rq user=filter null_se
My maillog entries like like this:
Mar 18 03:45:40 jgs postfix/pickup[20868]: [ID 197553 mail.info] 8C94B4F6B:
uid=0 from=
What is the "[ID 197553 mail.info]" part?
Can I turn it off?
Thanks.
j.
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Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut.utexas.edu
Head of Sun Support, Sr
That is, I deliberately banish all references to NIS from
main.cf. (I might need the NIS client libraries to compile
and link but I don't care about that.) postfix does not
(in that case) use NIS for anything, right? I could firewall
the ports closed and nothing bad happens, correct?
j.
--
J
The maillog says this, and I believe it:
Mar 5 08:22:02 ns5.arlut.utexas.edu sendmail[5427]: s25EM0Zg005419:
to=, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=1081946, relay=ns2.arlut.utexas.edu. [146.6.211.1], dsn=5.1.3, stat=Service
unavailable
But the user's bounce msg said:
ns2.ar
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 04:19:16PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jay G. Scott:
> > overlook a "too many hops" notice.
> >
> > I've seen these at my site before, they've been going on for years,
> > but they're still rare. Maybe 4-6/year. I che
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 05:08:08PM -0600, Noel Jones wrote:
> On 3/3/2014 4:45 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> >
> > I have one user telling me that he has a long mailing list
> > (on the order of 34 -- hardly long) and some of the recipients
> > bounce. If he mails them o
I have one user telling me that he has a long mailing list
(on the order of 34 -- hardly long) and some of the recipients
bounce. If he mails them one at a time the mail works -- so
the addresses are okay.
However, the mailing list itself could have bogus characters in
it. The individual addres
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 01:55:09PM -0500, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> This will do what you're looking for, much easier.
>
> in main.cf:
>
> mydomain = arlut.utexas.edu
>
> # SENDING MAIL
> #
> # The myorigin parameter specifies the domain that locally-posted
> # mail appears to come from. The default
(I'm sorry if this is a duplicate post. If the earlier one
got through I haven't seen it.)
Here's what I want to do:
When (incoming) mail is addressed to
user@hostname.domain
I want to change that to:
user@domain
before I deliver it.
in main.cf:
recipient_canonical_maps=regexp
Here's what I want to do:
When (incoming) mail is addressed to
user@hostname.domain
I want to change that to:
user@domain
before I deliver it.
Here's what I did:
in main.cf:
recipient_canonical_maps=regexp:/etc/postfix/pfrecipient_canonical
[root@davis postfix]# more pfrecipi
sorry for the earlier post. i kept looking and found it as
"relocated users". i'll be pursuing that.
j.
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Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut.utexas.edu
Head of Sun Support, Sr. System Administrator
Applied Research Labs, Computer Science Div. S224
Un
that is, when someone leaves our employ, we used the sendmail
redirect feature to reply
551 user has moved, try user@arl.REDIRECT
i've been looking for the postfix equivalent, but haven't found
it. is there such a thing?
j.
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Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut
Greetings,
someone made this statement to me:
| The MTA will record the IP address of the server that sent the message.
| However, under some circumstances the MTA is not able to find that IP address.
how would i verify that my MTA is finding the IP?
(this may explain a lot of my issues. if po
Thanks to all who have tried to help me so far.
I'm sorry to be such a pest. I've tried a number of things and still
can't get it.
Management wants email to
user@ .arlut.utexas.edu
will be treated as though it had been addressed to
u...@arlut.utexas.edu
(sendmail can do this.)
Can someone tell me whether the following is correct?
virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/pfmalias hash:/etc/aliases
It begins to look like if the file ___HAS___ colons, like the aliases
man page that comes with postfix says, and you use
postalias hash:/etc/postfix/pfmalias
wi
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 09:05:15AM -0500, Jay G. Scott wrote:
>
> wait a sec. i think my test procedure is not working.
> i won't be able to check until this afternoon.
> it may be the other configurations i thought i was trying
> weren't actually being used at all.
t
wait a sec. i think my test procedure is not working.
i won't be able to check until this afternoon.
it may be the other configurations i thought i was trying
weren't actually being used at all.
j.
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Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut.utexas.edu
Head of Sun Support, Sr
Hello,
This machine has a list of legitimate users but does not deliver
mail locally. (It's a mail gateway.)
Presently user schumi gets copies of his mail delivered to three
systems. The three destinations are listed in virtual_alias_maps.
schumi: sch...@inm.arlut.utexas.edu,
greetings,
first, thanks to everyone who has tried to help me.
i still don't have it working. let me re-set the problem in case that helps.
i have an external mail server (ns4, here) running postfix.
i have an internal mail server (ns6, here) running postfix.
neither ns4 nor ns6 does local del
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:58:29PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
>
> You can use a regexp or pcre map for wildcard subdomains.
>
> /^user@.*\.arlut\.utexas\.edu$/ OK
i tried this. assuming i did it right, it didn't work.
i put this in my "known users" file, did the postmap
on it. restarted postfix.
thanks to all who replied. i still can't manage it.
i'm still getting msgs to
u...@ns8.arlut.utexas.edu
rejected as user unknown in relay recipient table.
postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = pmx:127.0.0.1:10025
daemon_directory
hi,
here's my problem, which i think i cannot do w/in postfix.
i'm going to have to allow mail to get delivered (in principle,
not in fact) to all machines of the form
*.arlut.utexas.edu
i'm partly unable, partly unwilling to generate a relay recipient map
that contains this:
@.arlut.ute
hi,
i just swapped postfix in replacing a sendmail configuration.
here is how i thought it worked (but i'm wrong):
my relay recipient map has entries like this:
g...@arlut.utexas.edu OK
my transport file has entries like this:
ns8.arlut.utexas.edusmtp:[ns8.arlut.utexas.edu]
i thought th
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:40:38PM +0100, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
> On 2010-11-17 Jay G. Scott wrote:
> > now -- my relay_recipient_maps parameter points to pfknown_users
> > which has the form:
> > ttt OK
> > do i have to have ...@arlut.utexas.edu OK ?
>
greetings,
i'm pretty new at this. my problem could be obvious.
i have a primary internet connection and a backup. sometimes the primary
side will tell the backup side to deliver mail for it. at least, that's
what i think based on what i see in the maillog snippets below.
mail that should be
first, my problem from october is resolved, thanks to the help i got
from this list. basically i lacked the requisite knowledge. i'm
getting closer to competent, thanks.
(was: postfix not delivering all by itself. (it is now.))
i'm considering adding greylisting and SPF to postfix.
(ah, FWIW i
heh. the subject of my question seems to be wrong.
there's something else i don't understand. here's my postconf -n output:
-
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = pmx:127.0.0.1:10025
daemon_directory =
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:02:23PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jay G. Scott:
> >
> > a while back i posted to the effect that i couldn't get postfix to deliver
> > mail all by itself.
> >
> > it was pointed out that because i had two versions of postfi
a while back i posted to the effect that i couldn't get postfix to deliver
mail all by itself.
it was pointed out that because i had two versions of postfix installed
that i was doing a bad thing. you're right. i've fixed that.
i have ONE version of postfix installed. i compiled 2.7.1 from sou
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 03:41:26PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jay G. Scott:
> > Am I to understand that transport_map=value
> > existing at all means relayhost=value is ignored?
>
> No.
>
> Please answer the questions that I asked in my other response.
I will, bu
Let me take a step back. Let us say that my
main.cf looks like this:
# i don't do local delivery on this machine, so:
mydestination =
#
relayhost = outgo.arlut.utexas.edu
transport_map = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
and transport looks like this:
blarg.arlut.utexas.edu smtp:[blarg.arlut.utex
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:47:55PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jay G. Scott:
> > relayhost = ns4.arlut.utexas.edu
> > transport_maps = hash:/VOLUMES/postfix/etc/pftransport
> > Mail leaving my site from ns6 should go straight
> > to ns4, and not touch mxhost1. I
Greetings,
I should know the answer to this but I don't. Very embarrassing.
The problem is my inside the firewall, backup mail server.
mxhost2 (ns6) in the dig output below.
# dig -t MX arlut.utexas.edu
; <<>> DiG
RE: metrics for objective postfix vs. sendmail
Hi,
thanks to all who replied. i was going to summarize, but, then i
realized i'm not an authority and should leave that to others, like
Victor Duchovni.
anyhoo, i'm gonna call this one done. i'm committed to switching
to postfix. (i already wa
they haven't started shouting yet, but i sense it's coming.
i just swapped postfix in for sendmail on a mail server.
are there any metrics i can get to show why postfix is better?
they seem to be all up in arms about memory usage.
but doing this
ps -eo pid,vsz,rss,pmem,time,comm | grep sendmail
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:40:29PM -0400, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote:
> On 8/4/2010 1:23 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:
>> what's the deal w/ no configure script?
>>
>> you do know that you DON'T NEED autoconf/automake to install, right?
>> they're not hi
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:33:26PM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 12:23:13PM -0500, Jay G. Scott wrote:
> >
> > what's the deal w/ no configure script?
> >
> > you do know that you DON'T NEED autoconf/automake to install, right?
&
what's the deal w/ no configure script?
you do know that you DON'T NEED autoconf/automake to install, right?
they're not hiding behind that old dodge, are they? i'm so sick of
that.
if i supply a configure script, will you guys use it?
every time i try to go to a newer version of postfix, the
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 02:36:13PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> On 7/29/2010 2:24 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> My users have a script like so (sanitized for everyone's sake):
>> /usr/ucb/mail -s "a subject" \
>> -r contracts
Greetings,
My users have a script like so (sanitized for everyone's sake):
/usr/ucb/mail -s "a subject" \
-r contracts \
-c "list o folks"\
-b "diff list o folks" \
"real recip list" \
< some_file
I just switched the machine from sendmail to postfix.
the "-r contracts" "doesn't work". that is,
hi,
i'm trying to convert from sendmail to postfix.
i have a utility (let's call it) that looks through
files in the sendmail mail queue and determines whether the
msg is a bounce message that i don't really want to send out.
i stop sendmail, then delete the q and d files, and re
Greetings,
the aliases files are limited to 1024 chars/record because of NIS.
but postfix looks like it would take hash maps instead for things
like aliases. does this work around the 1024 character limit?
i hope, i hope. the chaining biz is annoying.
j.
we use puremessage and sendmail now, i'm contemplating/planning the
switch to postfix.
i installed puremessage (which installs postfix for me) on a test
box. and i looked through main.cf, master.cf ... and i don't see
how puremessage and postfix know about each other. in my sendmail.mc
file th
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:39:12PM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> * Jay G. Scott :
> > okay, maybe i'm catching on.
> >
> > i set up the /etc/sasldb2 method of authentication.
> > that's doing so far what i want.
> >
> > 1. o
Hi,
okay, maybe i'm catching on.
i set up the /etc/sasldb2 method of authentication.
that's doing so far what i want.
1. okay, i guess /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd is only for client
security? but why does the client need security? my /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
file (and assoc .db) were
postconf -n
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
html_directory = no
mail_owner = postfix
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
mydestination = $myh
hi,
I figured out, by accident, that although I hoped I was using
/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db
as my authentication store, I wasn't. I'm using regular login
stuff, a la PAM. So anyone in my /etc/passwd file can send
authenticated email.
What I'd like to do is change that so you can only send au
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:25:45PM -0500, Blake Hudson wrote:
> Original Message
> Subject: thunderbird 3.0, cram-md5 failing
> From: Jay G. Scott
> To: postfix-users@postfix.org
> Date: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:03:38 PM
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
Greetings,
client = thunderbird 3.0 beta 3
postfix 2.3.3
linux, host == jgstoy
doing TLS encryption and authentication.
windows/thunderbird 2.0.0.22 works
windows/outlook 2003 works
looking at /var/log/maillog i see that thunderbird 3 is setting
up a TLS connection okay.
but the authenticati
Greetings,
Koetter and Evans were both right.
I get email w/ both tls headers and auth headers now.
Thanks.
Since I'm a noob it had to be something like that.
j.
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Jay Scott 512-835-3553g...@arlut.utexas.edu
Head of Sun Support, Sr. Operating Systems Specialist
Appli
hi,
the goal: require AUTH and TLS to send email.
using these instructions:
http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/postfix_tls_support.html
postfix 2.3.3 from the RH enterprise rpm.
partial successes:
i can get tls to insert a header if i'm only using tls. (ie, tls but no au
Yes, I had too many backslashes.
Thanks.
Now I will get back to the other instructions.
Thanks again.
j.
- Forwarded message from Noel Jones -
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:30:32 -0500
From: Noel Jones
To: "Jay G. Scott"
CC: postfix users list
Subject: Re: conf
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:28:22PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote:
> Jay G. Scott wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>
> Instructions to test SASL:
> http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_test
[snip]
Sigh. Truly, I am a noob.
I spent all morning getting the sasl2-sample-[server
Greetings,
I'm a newbie at the mail w/ authentication thing.
So tell me what to read, since what I need is how to find answers and
not just the answers. But I've been searching the web and
I'm getting close, but no exact matches.
postfix-2.3.3
cyrus-sasl-*-2.1.22
saslauthd is running.
This is j
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:56:51PM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:38:11PM -0500, Jay G. Scott wrote:
>
> > -
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf snippet:
> > -
> >
i hope i've come to the right list for this. i didn't think
this was a "developer" issue.
trying to set up:
solaris 10
postfix-2.6.2 w/ tls, compiled from source
cyrus-sasl-2.1.23, compiled from source
the postfix-tls part was/is working. i can send/recv mail
and it has the tls header in it.
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