Re: Installation Error _RESOLVED

2010-10-03 Thread Eugene V. Boontseff
On 03.10.2010 03:06, jason hirsh wrote: the change to the rc.conf doesn't apparently take effect until you reboot.. there might be another way but i am a bit of a newbie man hostname On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:42 PM, joe wrote: You rebooted to change the hostname??? Joe On 10/02/2010 01:13 PM, ja

static map returns 554, causing message to be accepted

2010-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
Dear list, I found that a lot of spam can be weeded out by rejecting clients who greet me with my own hostname. Initially, I achieved this with the following: main.cf: smtpd_helo_restrictions = […] check_helo_access pcre:$config_directory/reject_helo_myhostname reject_helo_my

how to return a multi-word result with a static map (was: static map returns 554, causing message to be accepted)

2010-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2010.10.03.1434 +0200]: > check_helo_access static:554 > > but that got the message accepted too. I found in access(5): ACCEPT ACTIONS all-numerical An all-numerical result is treated as OK. This format is generat

Re: how to return a multi-word result with a static map (was: static map returns 554, causing message to be accepted)

2010-10-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2010.10.03.1456 +0200]: > How can I use a static map to return a "5xx message" result? According to http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0208/0380.html, what I am trying to do is simply not possible. Is this still the case? -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://t

Re: static map returns 554, causing message to be accepted

2010-10-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
martin f krafft put forth on 10/3/2010 7:34 AM: > Dear list, > > I found that a lot of spam can be weeded out by rejecting clients > who greet me with my own hostname. Initially, I achieved this with > the following: > > main.cf: > smtpd_helo_restrictions = > […] > check_helo_ac

Re: Installation Error _RESOLVED

2010-10-03 Thread joe
No worries - Rebooting will indeed run through the items rc.conf, but in general you can run any of those commands at any time. You can change the host name with the "hostname" command and it takes effect immediately. Restart syslog as well if you want the new host name to appear in the log f

SMTPD AUTH broke ... ?

2010-10-03 Thread Nicholas Sideris
Hello, I have the following trouble with enabling the smtpd auth for postfix ... First of all I am using Dovecot 1.2.x and I have enabled everything according to the available on-line HOW TOs. Everything seems fine to me and the appropriate socket is created under private/auth so there's no pro

Re: SMTPD AUTH broke ... ?

2010-10-03 Thread Matt Hayes
On 10/03/2010 09:32 PM, Nicholas Sideris wrote: Hello, I have the following trouble with enabling the smtpd auth for postfix ... First of all I am using Dovecot 1.2.x and I have enabled everything according to the available on-line HOW TOs. Everything seems fine to me and the appropriate socket

Re: SMTPD AUTH broke ... ?

2010-10-03 Thread Nicholas Sideris
On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:39 AM, Matt Hayes wrote: > On 10/03/2010 09:32 PM, Nicholas Sideris wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have the following trouble with enabling the smtpd auth for postfix ... >> >> First of all I am using Dovecot 1.2.x and I have enabled everything >> according to the available on-li

Re: SMTPD AUTH broke ... ?

2010-10-03 Thread Matt Hayes
On 10/03/2010 09:58 PM, Nicholas Sideris wrote: On Oct 4, 2010, at 4:39 AM, Matt Hayes wrote: On 10/03/2010 09:32 PM, Nicholas Sideris wrote: Hello, I have the following trouble with enabling the smtpd auth for postfix ... First of all I am using Dovecot 1.2.x and I have enabled everythin

Re: static map returns 554, causing message to be accepted

2010-10-03 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/3/2010 7:34 AM, martin f krafft wrote: Dear list, I found that a lot of spam can be weeded out by rejecting clients who greet me with my own hostname. Initially, I achieved this with the following: main.cf: smtpd_helo_restrictions = […] check_helo_access pcre:$config

Re: SMTPD AUTH broke ... ?

2010-10-03 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/3/2010 8:32 PM, Nicholas Sideris wrote: Hello, I have the following trouble with enabling the smtpd auth for postfix ... Please show output of "postconf -n" and "postconf -a" http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail PS: My server is custom compiled using this command ... make AU