Re: Running A Mail Server

2008-09-21 Thread Neil
(To avoid a couple separate mails, I merged some of the list replies. Also, apologies for the delay.) On 15 Sep 2008, at 06:52, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:59 -0300, Diego Ledesma wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm currently r

Re: Running A Mail Server

2008-09-21 Thread mouss
Neil wrote: Unfortunately, that's currently unfeasible: while I've idly entertained fantasies of trying to install a hypervisor on to my VPS instance, and then running multiple servers from there, I'm not entirely sure it would work out in practice as it does in theory... Barring that, I'd nee

Re: Client Trouble with SASL AUTH

2008-09-21 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you both so much for your help. This was the problem - well, part > of it anyway. After setting the above, I could see that authentication > was failing. I could also see that Postfix was choosing CRAM-MD5. I > knew from prior testing that met

Re: Client Trouble with SASL AUTH

2008-09-21 Thread mouss
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: Choosing the mechanism is not done by Postfix, but by the Cyrus SASL library libsasl, linked into the Postfix smtp client. The rationale is "go for the most secure mechanism". PLAIN is, left on its own, far less secure than CRAM-MD5; plain is secure only used in conju

Re: Client Trouble with SASL AUTH

2008-09-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: * Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Thank you both so much for your help. This was the problem - well, part of it anyway. After setting the above, I could see that authentication was failing. I could also see that Postfix was choosing CRAM-MD5. I knew fro

Re: failover for check_policy_service

2008-09-21 Thread J . Thomsen
>So it would comfortable if the postfix accepts all mails when >the sqlgrey is ot of order. We are facing the same problem. Are there any new thoughts from the official maintainers of Postfix about implementing a 'dunno' fallback on a failing check_policy_service ? The current 4xx solution will

moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Wayne Catterton
Hi, I currently have an old qmail toaster (customized some) setup. I have been wanting to build a new mail server for a while, and just finally got around to doing it. My old system is setup with qmail, vpopmail, squirrelmail, spam assassin, smtpauth, autorespond, qmailadmin, vqadmin, clamav,

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Sahil Tandon
Wayne Catterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I looked at alternative MTA's and found postfix. It looks like > it's exactly what I'm looking for, however I am not sure on what all I > need to install to keep the mail system fairly secure and protected. > So I started looking through installatio

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread mouss
Wayne Catterton wrote: Hi, I currently have an old qmail toaster (customized some) setup. I have been wanting to build a new mail server for a while, and just finally got around to doing it. My old system is setup with qmail, vpopmail, squirrelmail, spam assassin, smtpauth, autorespond, qma

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 10:08 -0700, Wayne Catterton wrote: > Hi, > > I currently have an old qmail toaster (customized some) setup. I have > been wanting to build a new mail server for a while, and just finally > got around to doing it. My old system is setup with qmail, vpopmail, > squirrelmail

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread mouss
Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: i think you had better use "google apps" instead of postfix ;; some of us still consider mail to be private ;-p

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
> > i think you had better use "google apps" instead of postfix ;; > some of us still consider mail to be private ;-p Ditto.

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:45:32 +0900 Byung-Hee HWANG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think you had better use "google apps" instead of postfix ;; I assume that is a joke. -- Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 1

Re: failover for check_policy_service

2008-09-21 Thread Wietse Venema
J . Thomsen: > >So it would comfortable if the postfix accepts all mails when > >the sqlgrey is ot of order. > > We are facing the same problem. > > Are there any new thoughts from the official maintainers of Postfix about > implementing a 'dunno' fallback on a failing check_policy_service ? > >

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 09/21/2008 12:08:08 PM, Wayne Catterton wrote: What I'm wondering is if I missed something, is there something vital I missed as far as security/mail processing? I like sqlgrey, others prefer postgrey. Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."

Re: moveing to postfix from qmail setup

2008-09-21 Thread Sahil Tandon
Karl O. Pinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/21/2008 12:08:08 PM, Wayne Catterton wrote: >> What I'm wondering is if I missed something, is there something vital >> I missed as far as security/mail processing? > > I like sqlgrey, others prefer postgrey. +1 for postgrey. -- Sahil Tandon <[EMA

Re: smtps:,Servname not supported for ai_socktype"

2008-09-21 Thread J. Bakshi
mouss wrote: > J. Bakshi wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> I get an error like "postfix/master[18801]: fatal: 127.0.0.1:smtps: >> Servname not supported for ai_socktype" >> below is my main.cf of postfix. Could any one give me a clue ? >> > > what does > # grep smtps /etc/services > return? > Good mornin

Re: smtps:,Servname not supported for ai_socktype"

2008-09-21 Thread J. Bakshi
J. Bakshi wrote: > mouss wrote: > >> J. Bakshi wrote: >> >>> Dear list, >>> >>> I get an error like "postfix/master[18801]: fatal: 127.0.0.1:smtps: >>> Servname not supported for ai_socktype" >>> below is my main.cf of postfix. Could any one give me a clue ? >>> >>> >> what does >>

Re: smtps:,Servname not supported for ai_socktype"

2008-09-21 Thread mouss
J. Bakshi wrote: J. Bakshi wrote: mouss wrote: J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I get an error like "postfix/master[18801]: fatal: 127.0.0.1:smtps: Servname not supported for ai_socktype" below is my main.cf of postfix. Could any one give me a clue ? what does # grep smtps /etc/s