Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
On 10/26/2017 03:36 PM, Ralph Seichter wrote: > On 26.10.17 23:29, cac...@quantum-equities.com wrote: > >> it appears to me that Postfix has evolved organically (Read: >> disorganized) as have many legacy applications like Apache used to be. >> The documentation you refer to is there alright, but i

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
On 10/26/2017 12:21 PM, cac...@quantum-equities.com wrote: >> the whole fact that mail was SENT by thunderbird has nothing to do >> with the >> fact that you need mail server on quantum-equities.com if you want to >> RECEIVE mail for quantum-equities.com. >> >> configure postfix on quantum-equities

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
> the whole fact that mail was SENT by thunderbird has nothing to do > with the > fact that you need mail server on quantum-equities.com if you want to > RECEIVE mail for quantum-equities.com. > > configure postfix on quantum-equities.com that will have > "quantum-equities.com" in mydestination. >

Re: Forward local user email or another local user

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
On 10/26/2017 11:09 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> On 10/26/2017 08:59 AM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: >>> Cannot use a virtual alias user (and forward to the final user Y) >>> because I have to provide a password as well. > > On 26.10.17 09:25, cac...@quantum-equities.com wrote: >> Am I understandi

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
The test email I'm sending from quantum-equities.com to delphi-real-estate.com, causes the delphi postfix to try and contact quantum on port 25, for some reason. Thing is, there is nothing listening there on 25 as the test email was sent by Thunderbird. Oct 26 09:06:33 quantum postfix/smtp[1137]:

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
Thank you Richard. On 10/26/2017 09:18 AM, Richard wrote: > >> Here's what delphi-real-estate.com looks like: >> >> www 28800  A 72.251.232.102 >> @   28800  MX  10 mail.delphi-real-estate.com. >> >> Do you mean I need to set an A record for delphi-real-estate.com ? > No, you don't nee

Re: Forward local user email or another local user

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
On 10/26/2017 08:59 AM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I have a service running that requires me to configure an SMTP user X > with password to send daily statistics to. > > Cannot use a virtual alias user (and forward to the final user Y) > because I have to provide a password as well. > > So I set up a

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-26 Thread cacook
On 10/25/2017 12:39 PM, Richard wrote: > >> Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 11:55:13 -0700 >> From: cac...@quantum-equities.com >> >> Sending an email from a remote machine pretends like it goes out >> just fine.  But it never arrives in the server's mail folder.  >> Zero goes into maillog, even

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-25 Thread cacook
On 10/24/2017 10:20 AM, cac...@quantum-equities.com wrote: > > On 10/23/2017 11:55 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> cac...@quantum-equities.com: >>> On 10/21/2017 11:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: cac...@quantum-equities.com: > How does DNS know where mail.example1.com is? Should I set it in >>

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-24 Thread cacook
On 10/23/2017 11:55 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > cac...@quantum-equities.com: >> On 10/21/2017 11:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> cac...@quantum-equities.com: How does DNS know where mail.example1.com is? Should I set it in my registrar, in the mail system, in Apache as a virtual domain,

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-23 Thread cacook
On 10/21/2017 11:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > cac...@quantum-equities.com: >> How does DNS know where mail.example1.com is? Should I set it in >> my registrar, in the mail system, in Apache as a virtual domain, >> or where? > Normally, someone pays a registrar, so that the payer can configure >

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-21 Thread cacook
How does DNS know where mail.example1.com is? Should I set it in my registrar, in the mail system, in Apache as a virtual domain, or where? In /etc/postfix/virtual ( have     # Redirect system email so it can be picked up     root    r...@quantum-equities.com Will this bypass /var/spool/mail/ro

Re: Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-20 Thread cacook
Thanks Noel and Rob, I may be on the right track now.  Good to know I can trust the docs to be current. So my three domains with 6 users are completely independent of one another;  no aliasing.  Thus I used *Non-Postfix mailbox store: separate domains, non-UNIX accounts* In main.cf I set mydomain

Virtual Domains/ Users

2017-10-18 Thread cacook
My mail server will receive mail for 3 domains with 6 users, and the MUA will be on another machine on The Internets. I'm seeing conflicting info on setting this up.  The simplest recipe is here: https://blog.tinned-software.net/setup-postfix-for-multiple-domains/ ... but nothing is mentioned abo

Self-Generating Postfix Key & Cert?

2017-10-16 Thread cacook
Anyone have handy the openssl commands to generate my own key and cert for Postfix? 0x946C680E.asc Description: application/pgp-keys

n00b To The Mechanics

2017-10-15 Thread cacook
I've run Linux on all my machines for 18 years, but have never needed to understand the workings of email, as I've always used shared hosting and cPanel.  Now I'm setting up my own server and I'd like to understand the actual mechanics of email. I've read several Postfix docs including http://www.