Looping in new production machine!

2008-12-31 Thread Rich Winkel
I'm not sure, I may have an unusual dns setup on this mail server. The primary host name is math.missouri.edu, but it has an alias of math.math.missouri.edu. In any case, I'm getting the dreaded: status=SOFTBOUNCE (mail for math.math.missouri.edu loops back to myself) Even though incoming messag

Reject non-local mail masquerading as local ?

2008-12-10 Thread Rich Winkel
I guess this can be accomplished using check_sender_access in smtpd_recipient_restrictions but it seems like such a common need I thought there might be a more direct way (i.e. lookup IP# of sender and compare with $mynetworks when MAIL FROM: claims to be local) ... Thanks, Rich

Re: "smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext" with dovecot?

2008-11-13 Thread Rich Winkel
Thanks! That's just what I needed! Rich On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:58:45PM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: > Most folks use > smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes > to require STARTTLS before AUTH since some popular mail > clients only support plaintext methods (plain and/or login), > rather than disabling plai

"smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext" with dovecot?

2008-11-13 Thread Rich Winkel
I have postfix-2.5.4 and dovecot-1.1.2. I'd like to use: smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext It barfs on this with: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms and smtpd doesn't start. Of course I don't want people sending their passwords in plaintext over the net. Am I missing something? T

stopping anonymous smtp login (dovecot)

2008-07-24 Thread Rich Winkel
Hi, I'm setting up a mail server with dovecot-1.0.13 and postfix-2.5.1 on freebsd 7.0. I'm a newbie to postfix, I almost have it running but have two questions: I'm using dovecot auth-client for sasl authentication. I want it to reject mail from anonymous logins, but this isn't working. "postco