RE: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-10 Thread cfs_postfix
Scott Techlist wrote .. > It's a little dated now, but I can't recommend enough "The Book of Postfix" > ISBN > 1-59327-001-1 It helped me a good deal when I was learning postfix. I have to buy books for the kid's upcoming school term this week or next, so I'll add it to the list, thanks.

RE: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-10 Thread Scott Techlist
> If I missed anywhere on the web where moving from sendmail to postfix while > using (or modifying) existing external files is discussed >in detail, pointers would be appreciated - might save me from making a bunch >of embarrassing newbie posts here... > If I missed anywhere on the web wher

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-10 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 9.08.2020 o godz. 18:44:55 cfs_post...@insec.lofcom.com pisze: >I had skimmed these, and know I need to scan them properly (on the list > for tomorrow morning), but they tend to make the assumption that one is > setting up a fresh new mail server. I am migrating an old production > machin

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-10 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:36:56AM +0200, Benny Pedersen wrote: > Daniele Nicolodi skrev den 2020-08-10 02:41: > > > Can you please elaborate on why this is the case, or point me to the > > relevant documentation? Is it a matter of tooling, robustness, > > performance, or something else? The iss

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Benny Pedersen
Daniele Nicolodi skrev den 2020-08-10 02:41: Can you please elaborate on why this is the case, or point me to the relevant documentation? Is it a matter of tooling, robustness, performance, or something else? /etc/aliases is designed only for system users, not virtual users, there is imho no

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Benny Pedersen
Curtis Maurand skrev den 2020-08-10 02:19: On Aug 9, 2020, at 8:09 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: - Mail to managed lists with an owner-alias - Mail to pipes - Mail to :include:/some/file lists. this can be put into the transports table and you can skip the /etc/aliases altoget

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread cfs_postfix
Viktor Dukhovni wrote .. > When not material (i.e. not resolving a problem with a particular > domain), you can choose to consitently lightly obfuscate domain names > and email addresses, in a consistent manner, a=>a, b=>b, ... Would require a lot of search & replace. Whattheheck, it isn't li

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 09/08/2020 18:29, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > Yes, to varying degrees, but /etc/aliases is not entirely superfluous, > just best avoided when all you're doing is rewriting one email address > to another email *address*, with Postfix, that task is best handled in > virtual(5). Can you please elabor

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 08:19:50PM -0400, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2020, at 8:09 PM, Viktor Dukhovni > > wrote: > > > > - Mail to managed lists with an owner-alias > >- Mail to pipes > >- Mail to :include:/some/file lists. > > this can be put into the transports

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Curtis Maurand
> On Aug 9, 2020, at 8:09 PM, Viktor Dukhovni > wrote: > > - Mail to managed lists with an owner-alias >- Mail to pipes >- Mail to :include:/some/file lists. this can be put into the transports table and you can skip the /etc/aliases altogether.

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 06:44:55PM -0400, cfs_post...@insec.lofcom.com wrote: > > and (avoiding HTML formatting) post "postconf -nf" and "postconf > > -Mf" output (the latter if master.cf is pertinent). > >One question; this will absolutely expose real domains, machine >names,

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread cfs_postfix
My sincere thanks for the reply. Viktor Dukhovni wrote .. > - As much as possible ask one question at a time. Yeah, my general philosophy is to break large problems down to component parts and fix those one-at-a-time; that generally makes the large problem eventually disappear. >

Re: Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 02:07:30PM -0400, cfs_post...@insec.lofcom.com wrote: > So I am asking if painfully newbie-ish questions regarding migrating > from sendmail to postfix are permitted here. Been running linux a > while, but sendmail was always a bit of a mystery, and postfix is > brand-spank

Raw postfix newbie here...

2020-08-09 Thread cfs_postfix
Hello. I am migrating from an ancient version of sendmail to a new machine using postfix on CentOS 7, and am having problems with what I thought would be the simplest of things - I've already started over multiple times (thank heavens for default config file backups!) but even walking one st