Apologies if my random ignorance has been a bit much.
Thanks for taking the time to look at the posibilities and also discuss
them with added words for me to look in to. The mention of Policy
Servers and Milters along with the information that is supplied to them
by Postfix causes me to come up wi
Hi list,
I saw this configuration in my company's postfix.
relayhost = [mail.example.net]:587
Generally I would write it as:
relayhost = 1.2.3.4
but what does this mean with '[]' and hostname in it?
Thanks.
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From postfix docs: "The form [hostname] turns off MX or SRV lookups."
https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost
On 7/25/24 09:09, Corey H via Postfix-users wrote:
Hi list,
I saw this configuration in my company's postfix.
relayhost = [mail.example.net]:587
Generally I would write it
* Corey H via Postfix-users [25/07/2024 11:09] :
>
> relayhost = [mail.example.net]:587
> but what does this mean with '[]' and hostname in it?
>From the documentation[1]:
"The form [hostname] turns off MX or SRV lookups."
Emmanuel
1: https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost
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So, relayhost = mail.example.net without '[]' will lookup MX records for
mail.example.net?
Thanks.
On 2024-07-25 11:12, Serhii via Postfix-users wrote:
From postfix docs: "The form [hostname] turns off MX or SRV lookups."
https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost
On 7/25/24 09:09, Co
On 2024-07-25 11:15, Corey H via Postfix-users wrote:
So, relayhost = mail.example.net without '[]' will lookup MX records
for mail.example.net?
Thanks.
OK I got the idea.
when sending email to u...@foo.com, and relayhost = [mail.example.net],
this postfix won't lookup MX records for foo.com
On 24.07.24 14:40, Bob via Postfix-users wrote:
I get it might be a bit flakey from a security perspective and should
come with warnings but it is my box.
Yes, but when postfix was designed with security in mind, it may
intentionally not support things like this one.
As an aside the content
On 2024-07-25 11:15, Corey H via Postfix-users wrote:
So, relayhost = mail.example.net without '[]' will lookup MX records
for mail.example.net?
On 25.07.24 15:40, Corey H via Postfix-users wrote:
OK I got the idea.
when sending email to u...@foo.com, and relayhost = [mail.example.net],
this
Bob via Postfix-users:
> Having put my foot in it by suggesting that Postfix might make calls to
> external functions requiring root access, in particular IPTables, what
> if Postfix had its own version of IPtables.
It was decided long ago that Postfix will be extensible with different
tools from
I should pay more attention to which e-mail address I am using to
instill confidence.
Bob
On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 20:31 +0100, Keith wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-07-25 at 13:07 -0400, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users
> wrote:
> > Bob via Postfix-users:
> > > Having put my foot in it by suggesting that Post
Keith:
> If you are interested and I do not subsequently break your head can I
> ask some questions as to how to find snippets of your code that might
> do things related to those questions so I can fail to make sense of
> them and rob them to try and implement a/my thing?
I'm afraid that there is
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