postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Mike's unattended mail
How do subscribers turn off the email distribution? How can post acknowledgements be turned on? Majordomo is poorly documented, and doing a "info postfix-users" command only gives: info postfix-users [Last updated on: Wed Apr 25 7:50:55 2007] TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix

Re: postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2012 14:28, schrieb Mike's unattended mail: > How do subscribers turn off the email distribution? > How can post acknowledgements be turned on? Sender: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help:

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread Mike's unattended mail
On 2012-09-21, Mikkel Bang wrote: > > What are these more intelligent, less crude techniques you talk about? * content analysis (high quality but computationally costly) * greylisting crude and sloppy cost-cutting approaches: * dnsbl * reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname The crude and sloppy

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2012 15:14, schrieb Mike's unattended mail: > crude and sloppy cost-cutting approaches: > > * dnsbl > * reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname > > The crude and sloppy approaches are used by: > > 1) corporations maximizing profits. Their market consists of naive > users who have no

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 10/20/2012 03:14 PM, Mike's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-09-21, Mikkel Bang wrote: What are these more intelligent, less crude techniques you talk about? * content analysis (high quality but computationally costly) * greylisting crude and sloppy cost-cutting approaches: * dnsbl

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread Mike's unattended mail
On 2012-10-20, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > > DNSBLs are recommended by just about everyone who is serious about > email, There are a couple ways to use DNSBLs. There are those who are "serious" but either incompetent or on a cost-saving agenda, and then there are those who are "serious", and have en

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread The Stovebolt Geek
--On October 20, 2012 1:14:19 PM + Mike's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-09-21, Mikkel Bang wrote: What are these more intelligent, less crude techniques you talk about? * content analysis (high quality but computationally costly) * greylisting crude and sloppy cost-cutting appro

Re: postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Mike's unattended mail
On 2012-10-20, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 20.10.2012 14:28, schrieb Mike's unattended mail: >> How do subscribers turn off the email distribution? >> How can post acknowledgements be turned on? > > Sender: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > Precedence: bulk > List-Post:

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread The Stovebolt Geek
--On October 20, 2012 5:27:09 PM + Mike's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-10-20, Jeroen Geilman wrote: DNSBLs are recommended by just about everyone who is serious about email, There are a couple ways to use DNSBLs. There are those who are "serious" but either incompetent or on a cost

Re: postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2012 19:43, schrieb Mike's unattended mail: > On 2012-10-20, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 20.10.2012 14:28, schrieb Mike's unattended mail: >>> How do subscribers turn off the email distribution? >>> How can post acknowledgements be turned on? >> >> Sender: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org

Re: The ultimate email server

2012-10-20 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 20.10.2012 18:01, schrieb Jeroen Geilman: > On 10/20/2012 03:14 PM, Mike's unattended mail wrote: >> On 2012-09-21, Mikkel Bang wrote: >>> What are these more intelligent, less crude techniques you talk about? >>* content analysis (high quality but computationally costly) >>* greylistin

Re: Alert of unusually large queue

2012-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.10.2012 15:20, schrieb James Day: > I use the following to do just that. I'm sure there is a better way but I > fudged this together myself > > Script 1: > > #!/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/mailq | /usr/bin/tail -n1 | /usr/bin/gawk '{print $5}' > > /etc/postfix/mailq_count > > Script 2: > >

Re: postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Larry Stone
On Oct 20, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Mike's unattended mail wrote: > On 2012-10-20, Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 20.10.2012 14:28, schrieb Mike's unattended mail: >>> How do subscribers turn off the email distribution? >>> How can post acknowledgements be turned on? >> >> Sender: owner-postfix-us...@p

Re: Alert of unusually large queue

2012-10-20 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Hey guys, > if [ `$mailq_count` -gt 50 ]; then echo "Mail count on Server is" > `$mailq_count`|/usr/sbin/sendmail -f r...@example.com repo...@example.com ; fi I'm not sure, if sending an e-mail about a "full mailqueue"-condition is the best way to go ;-) cheers, Jan

Re: postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Larry Stone : > It answers it the way I am interpreting the first question which "how > do you unsu*sc*ibe?". Perhaps the question you're asking is not clear > to us. The language you are using is a bit awkward. What do you mean by > "turn off the email distributions" if it doesn't mean "unsu*sc

Re: Alert of unusually large queue

2012-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2012 22:08, schrieb Jan P. Kessler: > Hey guys, > >> if [ `$mailq_count` -gt 50 ]; then echo "Mail count on Server is" >> `$mailq_count`|/usr/sbin/sendmail -f r...@example.com repo...@example.com ; >> fi > > I'm not sure, if sending an e-mail about a "full mailqueue"-condition is > t

Re: postfix-user list features undocumented

2012-10-20 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 20.10.2012 22:38, schrieb Ralf Hildebrandt: > * Larry Stone : > >> It answers it the way I am interpreting the first question which "how >> do you unsu*sc*ibe?". Perhaps the question you're asking is not clear >> to us. The language you are using is a bit awkward. What do you mean by >> "turn

Re: Alert of unusually large queue

2012-10-20 Thread CSS
On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Jan P. Kessler wrote: > Hey guys, > >> if [ `$mailq_count` -gt 50 ]; then echo "Mail count on Server is" >> `$mailq_count`|/usr/sbin/sendmail -f r...@example.com repo...@example.com ; >> fi > > I'm not sure, if sending an e-mail about a "full mailqueue"-condition i

chroot recommendations/BCP?

2012-10-20 Thread CSS
Hello, I was just digging through the documentation on running various postfix processes chrooted. I found the recommendation that at least the network-facing daemons be chrooted, but it appears that almost everything in master.cf can be. What's the current BCP for what to chroot and what not

Re: chroot recommendations/BCP?

2012-10-20 Thread Wietse Venema
CSS: > Hello, > > I was just digging through the documentation on running various > postfix processes chrooted. I found the recommendation that at > least the network-facing daemons be chrooted, but it appears that > almost everything in master.cf can be. What's the current BCP for > what to chr

Re: Alert of unusually large queue

2012-10-20 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 20.10.2012 22:08, schrieb Jan P. Kessler: > Hey guys, > >> if [ `$mailq_count` -gt 50 ]; then echo "Mail count on Server is" >> `$mailq_count`|/usr/sbin/sendmail -f r...@example.com repo...@example.com ; >> fi > > I'm not sure, if sending an e-mail about a "full mailqueue"-condition is > the