Re: postfig confiuration advice/info

[KLaM Postmaster]

mouss wrote: some uses of header and body checks: - reject "banned attachments" - detect forged Received headers - detect some backscatter (see the BACKSCATTER README) I gather that all of these are well described in the BACKSCATTER README, are there any other sources that might be worth a look? your FPs... Sorry for being dumb, but what are FPs? - most people use the default setup. so this is the setup that has been widely tested and validated. My trouble here was that I haven't found a consistent default setup. The setup that came with my Linux distribution was designed for the local desktop machine and did not seem to be suitable for a server. the codes are defined in the RFCs ;-p OK, I should have known that.  :-! 3) Is it possible to replace the virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/vmailbox with something like proxy maps such as virtual_mailbox_maps = proxy:unix:passwd.byname and if so how would implement this using Dovecot as the LDA/ MDA virtual_mailbox_maps is for addresses in virtual_mailbox_domains. passwd.byname is for unix users. do not mix these. Sorry, I asked my question poorly and provided an even poorer exemplar. My objective here was to see if there was some way of avoiding having two lists of addresses/mail boxes, the vmailbox table and the Dovecot user_db file. What I was trying to get at is that Dovecot has a look up function for addresses using its auth_master function. Is that accessible from Postfix, and if so how? I am trying to make this easy to administer for a total non-techie, as I may not be around. The "tradition" here is to show output of 'postconf -n' instead of main.cf. but I'm skipping it anyway... I did that, but the output seemed bigger than the stuff I appended, but if the convention is "postconf -n" then I will do that in future, thanks for the heads up. Etiquette question, should I post to the mailing list alone or to both the list and the respondent (in this case mouss). Once again TIA JLA