Ignoring malformed SMTP from embedded device?

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Barry
We have an embedded device which is speaking malformed SMTP. We have filed a bug with the vendor but we would like to see if we can work around it in the meantime. Is there a way to ignore this or change it to a warning rather than a failure? 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP Postfix... HELO embedded.exa

Re: Postfix - Timeout While Sending End of Data

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Barry
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IPv6 Reverse DNS

2010-03-21 Thread Martin Barry
Hi I noted that postfix is writing headers with "unknown" instead of the IPv6 reverse DNS that I know exists. e.g. Received: from merboo.mamista.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:1f0b:1055::1]) by tigger.mamista.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 581F21100B4 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:18:00 +1

Re: IPv6 Reverse DNS

2010-03-21 Thread Martin Barry
$quoted_author = "Bernhard Schmidt" ; > > > > $ dig -x 2001:470:1f0b:1055::1 +short > > merboo.mamista.net. > > $ dig -t merboo.mamista.net +short > 2001:470:1f0a:1055::2 > > 1f0a != 1f0b [facepalms] thanks! Marty

Monitoring Postfix Processes

2008-10-13 Thread Martin Barry
Hi all We run Postfix on most servers and would like to have accurate monitoring of the various processes that are running. The monitoring has configuration for processes that "must" be running (and will alert if they are not) and those "allowed" to be running (and will alert if anything not pres