On 10 November 2017 at 22:59, Viktor Dukhovni
wrote:
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>> On Nov 10, 2017, at 8:22 AM, Tom Marcoen wrote:
>>
>> Last week however, I was reading a book on Dovecot written by Peer
>> Heinlein and he says that if you put a Postfix server in front of
>> Dovecot you should use 'relay_domains' for the
Tom Marcoen:
> So am I correct that the general population would recommend/prefer
> virtual mailbox domains over relay domains in this situation?
Yes, virtual_mailbox_domains is for final destinations
including LMTP, relay_domains for forwarding to MTAs.
Peer may have written some of his text be
> On Nov 12, 2017, at 6:15 AM, Tom Marcoen wrote:
>
>>> Losing recipient validation is NOT an advantage. Either way,
>>> you need to have a table of valid recipients to avoid backscatter.
>>
>> An alternative to a static table is dynamic recipient verification.
>> This uses a cache with proac
On 12 November 2017 at 10:57, Postmaster wrote:
> You should neither ignore your Postfix bounces (called Local/synchronous
> bounces) nor generated by other providers (called Remote/ Asynchronous
> bounces). Both should be processed correctly and not be retried if its
> related to mailbox/user do
Dominic Raferd:
> ?I am deluged with messages in the postmaster mailbox reporting failed
> smtpd transactions for spammers trying to send to non-existent recipients
> on our domain?, which postfix quite rightly rejects (i.e. not listed in
> virtual_alias_maps). These are smtpd transaction reports n
