Re: Action during SMTPD* checks

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
KLaM Postmaster a écrit : > I have just finished reading a bunch of stuff on UCE and the "effects" > of the various parameters associated with the smtpd_*_restrictions, and > I am now somewhat confused as two of the authors I have been reading > state that if a message receives an "OK" from any che

Re: flush daemon

2008-12-29 Thread punit jain
> Don't look under the hood unless you know what you are looking at. I agree with you Viktor but i am just trying to get a clear picture of postfix as a novice. What my concern is what will happen after setting fast_flush_domains to relay domains and flushing the queue say at the time when th

Re: flush daemon

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
punit jain: > > Don't look under the hood unless you know what you are looking at. > > I agree with you Viktor but i am just trying to get a clear picture of > postfix as a novice. > > What my concern is what will happen after setting fast_flush_domains to > relay domains and flushing the que

Enforcing sending domain from the inside network

2008-12-29 Thread D. Karapiperis
Hi All I have a question regarding postfix restrictions. Is there a way for Postfix to enforce some kind of policy so that all the outgoing (allowed) mails be " @business.com" and all the others be rejected. Of course this policy should be enforced only to the outgoing emails not in the incom

Re: Reject/Discard mails to a Receipient

2008-12-29 Thread Linux Addict
Wietse Venema wrote: Linux Addict: Sahil Tandon wrote: Linux Addict wrote: Hello, I have clients sending mails to an non-existent email address/domain, emailerm...@exchange.example.net. I want to discard any mail sent to this address. I looked at smtpd_recipient_restricti

Re: Action during SMTPD* checks

2008-12-29 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:55 AM, KLaM Postmaster wrote: I have just finished reading a bunch of stuff on UCE and the "effects" of the various parameters associated with the smtpd_*_restrictions, and I am now somewhat confused as two of the authors I have been reading state that if a message r

Re: Enforcing sending domain from the inside network

2008-12-29 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:45:05PM +0200, D. Karapiperis wrote: > > > Hi All > > > >I have a question regarding postfix restrictions. > > > >Is there a way for Postfix to enforce some kind of policy so that all > >the outgoing (allowed) mails be " @business.com" and all the others be > >rejected

Re: Enforcing sending domain from the inside network

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
D. Karapiperis a écrit : > > > Hi All >> >> I have a question regarding postfix restrictions. >> >> Is there a way for Postfix to enforce some kind of policy so that all >> the outgoing (allowed) mails be " @business.com" and all the others be >> rejected. >> Of course this policy should be enfor

Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in uppercase. This surprised me, because the linux user accounts are in upper

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: > I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am > inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix > converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to > the accounts that are in uppercase. This surprised me, because the > linux user a

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Xn Nooby: >> I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am >> inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix >> converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to >> the accounts that ar

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: > I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am > inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix > converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to > the accounts that are in uppercase. This

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Noel Jones
Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in

VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Jesper Dybdal
I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient address provided by Mailman is rewritten

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Bryan Irvine wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: >>> >>> I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am >>> inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix >>> converts all email addr

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Jesper Dybdal: > I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my > Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have > patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. > > This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient address > provi

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Xn Nooby: > >> I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am > >> inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix > >> converts all email addre

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Noel Jones
Xn Nooby wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Noel Jones wrote: Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email address

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Jesper Dybdal a écrit : > I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my > Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have > patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. > > This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient addres

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Sahil Tandon
Xn Nooby wrote: > >> Probably the easiest solution would be to write a script to create > >> aliases in lower case. > >> > >> -Bryan > > > > No, that won't fix the problem. > > > > The best solution is to not use upper-case usernames. > > > > If that's not possible, the other solutions are: > > a)

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
Hi Sahil, I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it. Below is my main.cf and aliases file. Also, should I post my replies to emails at the top or the bottom? (a few years ago some people got really mad at me

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
> Your options are: > > 1) Create lower-case UNIX password file entries with the same > numerical UID and GID fields as the upper-case names, and with a > "*" password. I was able to resolve my problem by creating the duplicate entry in the /etc/passwd file, I will use this method. I might uses

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Xn Nooby a écrit : > Hi Sahil, > > I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I > am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it. you forgot to tell us which OS you run. let's assume your "sudo ..." as a hint ;-p - save the following as doit.sh #!/bin/s

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:21:41 -0500 (EST), wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: >I do not understand why you would send mail to a recipient address >other than the recipient subscribed to the Mailman list. Example: My server (for Mailman and Postfix and some local mailboxes) is named nuser

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:30:53 +0100, mouss wrote: >Jesper Dybdal a écrit : >> Since mailing list software using XVERP needs to recognize the address >> from the envelope return path as being equal to the subscribed address, > >Really? AFAIK, most list managers use the From: header. The point in V

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: > > Your options are: > > > > 1) Create lower-case UNIX password file entries with the same > > numerical UID and GID fields as the upper-case names, and with a > > "*" password. > > I was able to resolve my problem by creating the duplicate entry in > the /etc/passwd file, I will use t

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Jesper Dybdal a écrit : > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:30:53 +0100, mouss wrote: > >> Jesper Dybdal a écrit : >>> Since mailing list software using XVERP needs to recognize the address >>> from the envelope return path as being equal to the subscribed address, >> Really? AFAIK, most list managers use t

postfix: set up pop3 / imap with postfix..

2008-12-29 Thread vivek.agrawal
hello everyone, I want to use postfix to send and receive mail for my web application. Currently i am able to send email using gmail as relay host. now i am trying to get email comming to same gmail account which i am using for relay host. on some sites i have read that i need to configure pop3 o