[pfx] Now Dovecot doesn't like me

2024-07-12 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
Hi, now that Viktor spotted the config error and fixed yesterday's problem, I'm back with what I hope is another dumb question. Having wrestled Cyrus authentication to a draw, now I'm trying Dovecot which I would have hoped would be easier. It's the same Debian box. First I set up Dovecot an

[pfx] Mysteries of user semi-banning

2024-07-11 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
Last month I asked for advice on limiting specific senders to specific recipients, and Wietse offered this: /etc/postfix/main.cf: smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/restricted_senders smtpd_restriction_classes = joe_user_acl joe_user_acl =

[pfx] Still no luck with Cyrus SASL

2024-07-02 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
I've been poking at this for a week with no luck at all. I presume I am doing something dumb but I can't see what. I have what I think is a bog standard debian systen running in a virtual machine on my laptop, with the usual postfix and sasl packages. All of the mail addresses and mailboxes

[pfx] Re: Fastest way to reject unwanted sender

2024-06-16 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
On Sat, 15 Jun 2024, Jeff Peng wrote: I think postscreen can block them easily. I'm looking at the postscreen man page and I don't see anything about mail addresses. Am I missing something? I do see smtpd_command_filter. How about if I map MAIL FROM: to QUIT? Regards, John Levine, jo...@t

[pfx] Re: Fun with line endings, was Re: Mail text wrapping

2024-04-28 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
Well, the header lines are properly terminated by CRLF. However, the text lines are whatever I get from postfix. Generally that is just a LF. I copied the text and inserted the CRs and sent it to see what happens. I get the same result: = signs at each fold point. Those = signs are somethi

[pfx] Re: The SMTP HELP command

2023-12-29 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023, Wietse Venema wrote: The real reason is that it's easier to convince a few delinquent MTA implementors, than an IETF working group. The WG isn't opposed but we have a very long list of nits to clean up so I'd rather make the list shorter if as in this case it doesn't matte

[pfx] Re: The SMTP HELP command

2023-12-29 Thread John R. Levine via Postfix-users
On Fri, 29 Dec 2023, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Of course, implementing a HELP command is also not much work, so why not? That's the conclusion we came to in emailcore. It's so easy to implement that even though it's been a long time (if ever) since it did anything useful, it's not worth the hassl