Re: [courier-users] Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goes down

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert Penz writes: I think you misunderstand me. dns using is ok, but it should use also hosts entries for A and PTR records, specially for its own hostname. To be specific I don't care about anything else accept its own hostname. Why does every Linux system have a /etc/hosts? because of the en

Re: [courier-users] Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert Penz writes: On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:02:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument No. This error message indicates some kind of permission failu

Re: [courier-users] Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goesdown

2009-08-19 Thread Malcolm Weir
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Penz [mailto:rob...@penz.name] > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 8:09 AM > On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:02:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik > > wrote: > > > Well, you have to turn off everything that uses DNS, in the esmtpd > > configuration file. Adding -nodns

Re: [courier-users] Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goes down

2009-08-19 Thread Aidas Kasparas
Robert Penz wrote: > I think you misunderstand me. dns using is ok, but it should use also hosts > entries for A and PTR records, specially for its own hostname. To be > specific I don't care about anything else accept its own hostname. Why does > every Linux system have a /etc/hosts? because of th

Re: [courier-users] Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Penz
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:02:44 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument >> Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument > No. This error message indicates some kind of permission failure in the > Maildi

Re: [courier-users] Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goes down

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Penz
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:02:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Well, you have to turn off everything that uses DNS, in the esmtpd > configuration file. Adding -nodnslookup to TCPDOPTS. Removing the > BOFHCHECKDNS option. Also turning off all spf settings in the courier > configuration file. > >

Re: [courier-users] Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert Penz writes: Hi! I've many following log entries on one of my mail servers: Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument I searched in Google and found only that I need to set followi

Re: [courier-users] Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goes down

2009-08-19 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Robert Penz writes: DNS is fundamental. If DNS blows up, you're dead in the water. There's no way around having functional DNS. I know but can I somehow force courier so that it does not lookup its own hostname? Well, you have to turn off everything that uses DNS, in the esmtpd configura

[courier-users] Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Penz
Hi! I've many following log entries on one of my mail servers: Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument Aug 19 12:28:11 mail imapd-ssl: Error reading ACLs for : Invalid argument I searched in Google and found only that I need to set following, ##NAME: MAILDIRPAT

Re: [courier-users] Courier-MTA reacts badly if own DNS server goes down

2009-08-19 Thread Robert Penz
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:30:21 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >> Ok, ignoring host entries for foreign systems is ok, but why lookup its >> own >> name? > To make that information available to local filters. Additionally, a failed but it should be the same entry fo> r every mail, or are there setup