Re: Suggestion for docs

2011-06-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
On 06/22/2011 08:07 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> >>> I'm away from home, so I can't quickly fire up a ksh box. It certainly >>> does not work with FreeBSD8 /bin/sh. Since I always have one: works perfectly well in ksh Uwe

Re: postfix unavailable at 5 minutes after the hour?

2010-05-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
On 05/12/2010 10:46 PM, Larry Stone wrote: Based on what you've provided us, I'd say that it fails at five minutes past every hour because that's the only time you try to run it. Spot on and brown bag for me. Of course, it used to be */5 until I carelessly dropped some characters with all my

Re: postfix unavailable at 5 minutes after the hour?

2010-05-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
On 05/12/2010 09:27 PM, Jorge Andrea G Carminati wrote: Uwe: you may want to try this tip that I've got from google: http://www.bloovis.com/wordpress/?p=172 HTH I guess it will help. I have no access now, but I'll report back next week. And I do like those kind hints about Google. ;) My c

Re: postfix unavailable at 5 minutes after the hour?

2010-05-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
On 05/12/2010 07:13 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: "fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [::1/25] failed: Connection refused." is what I get in the mail at *:05. Fetchmail wants to connect over IP VERSION 6. Apparently, Postfix does not listen on IP VERSION 6. Apparently. Maybe I shoul

postfix unavailable at 5 minutes after the hour?

2010-05-12 Thread Uwe Dippel
This is quite strange: I have been running fetchmail from a cronjob for a few years now, to collect my messages from an IMAP server and forward it to another one. This was and is the (only) cronjob: # m h dom mon dow command 5 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail > /dev/null No changes of the .fetchm

Re: 'Domain not found' errors after Ubuntu upgrade

2010-04-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
Y z wrote: I'm sure (well, almost sure) that bind got hosed *somehow*. Postfix really doesn't have more than a bit part in this drama. I just want to figure out why Postfix gets different answers than dig at the command prompt. Relax. I am sure you did dig that.other.mail.org MX. Then the

Re: 'Domain not found' errors after Ubuntu upgrade

2010-04-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
Start by making sure that these match: /etc/resolv.conf /var/spool/postfix/etc/resolv.conf Yup. Postfix start warns me if they differ. I tried putting in nameservers there, but that makes it worse: then postfix (it's supposed to relay) accepts the messages, then can't find te relay d

Re: Linux users with mixed case names

2010-01-31 Thread Uwe Dippel
Ralph Blach wrote: Thanks, I discovered this and I personally consider this a bug. In these days, users names need to be mixed case for security reasons. If I have a domain name I could just run through a list of well known names, and then fill it up with mail. I created mixed case user names

Tracing

2009-04-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
(I know this is a bit off postfix, but not completely) I'm running postfix as MTA on a machine with several CMS. Recently, there is a huge number of spam being sent from there, alas. When I scan the logs, all those come from 'root', meaning they don't come through port 25. I run OpenBSD with m

Re: Attachments with email from command line?

2008-10-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
mouss wrote: or use Perl. use MIME::Lite; my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From=> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', To => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Cc => '[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]', Subject => 'blah blah', Type=> 'multipart/mixed' ); $msg->attach( Type => 'TE