Re: Fresh start for a postfix setup: how best to do a clean "start over" without a new installation?

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 12:53 Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > On Aug 26, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > I am fooling around with various configuration settings for my postfix > installation and would like to be able to clean out all

Re: Fresh start for a postfix setup: how best to do a clean "start over" without a new installation?

> On Aug 26, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am fooling around with various configuration settings for my postfix > installation and would like to be able to clean out all existing mail and the > existing configuration. This is poorly defined. What do you

Fresh start for a postfix setup: how best to do a clean "start over" without a new installation?

I am fooling around with various configuration settings for my postfix installation and would like to be able to clean out all existing mail and the existing configuration. Is there any single command to do that? Or do I have to manually delete stuff. I want the system to (1) start with empty

RE: Sanity check - of my postfix setup.

: Tuesday, May 09, 2017 9:40 AM To: postfix users <postfix-users@postfix.org> Subject: Re: Sanity check - of my postfix setup. I had similar issues and my Maildir was misnamed. I solved it by making a link from the existing name to the correct name. On 05/09/2017 07:36 AM, Noel Jones wrote: &g

Re: Sanity check - of my postfix setup.

I had similar issues and my Maildir was misnamed. I solved it by making a link from the existing name to the correct name. On 05/09/2017 07:36 AM, Noel Jones wrote: On 5/9/2017 6:59 AM, John wrote: As Andreas pointed out it might help is I outlined the problem. I am losing mail, it just

Re: Sanity check - of my postfix setup.

On 5/9/2017 6:59 AM, John wrote: > As Andreas pointed out it might help is I outlined the problem. > > I am losing mail, it just disappears. Postfix seems to deliver it, > hands it off the dovecot LMTP and then shows "removed" > > Dovecot shows ... : saved to INBOX. Both postfix and dovecot are

Re: Sanity check - of my postfix setup.

th my mail system. I think the problem is with Dovecot, or Thunderbird. However, just to make sure i am not missing something really stupid could I get a check on my postfix setup. TIA John A

Sanity check - of my postfix setup.

I am trying to debug a problem with my mail system. I think the problem is with Dovecot, or Thunderbird. However, just to make sure i am not missing something really stupid could I get a check on my postfix setup. TIA John A alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases append_dot_mydomain = no biff

Working thru some issues in configuring my postfix setup

I’m working thru some issues on my new server setup. I wanted to set up some virtual user mailboxes so I don’t have to create actual accounts but add them to the mySQL (MariaDB) database. I am having an issue with the following : postfix/trivial-rewrite[8120]: warning: do not list domain

Re: postfix setup best practice question

Hi, On 2015-08-27 10:27, z...@oper.hu wrote: 2015-08-27 10:04 időpontban Koko Wijatmoko ezt írta: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:53:19 +0200 z...@oper.hu wrote: Dear All, I would like to realize a postfix setup where: - I have 1 public IP address - at least 2 domains - one postfix instace After

Re: postfix setup best practice question

2015-08-27 10:04 időpontban Koko Wijatmoko ezt írta: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:53:19 +0200 z...@oper.hu wrote: Dear All, I would like to realize a postfix setup where: - I have 1 public IP address - at least 2 domains - one postfix instace After setting up (one) domain alias for the IP

postfix setup best practice question

Dear All, I would like to realize a postfix setup where: - I have 1 public IP address - at least 2 domains - one postfix instace After setting up (one) domain alias for the IP I experienced problem when sending mail. Since I have one IP I could set up only one PTR record which causes

Re: postfix setup best practice question

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:53:19 +0200 z...@oper.hu wrote: Dear All, I would like to realize a postfix setup where: - I have 1 public IP address - at least 2 domains - one postfix instace After setting up (one) domain alias for the IP I experienced problem when sending mail. Since I

Re: postfix setup best practice question

On 2015-08-27 Koko Wijatmoko wrote: PTR can only map to 1 IP, one PTR for one IP is enough even using multiple domain with postfix. Technically you can have PTR records resolve to multiple names, just like you can have A records resolving to multiple IP Addresses. It's just best practice to

Postfix setup

I'm trying to clarify the various ways in which I could set up Postfix + Dovecot + SpamAssassin under CentOS-7, and I'd welcome any comments on the following remarks. As far as I can see there are 3 standard ways of setting this up: 1. Use amavisd 2. Use dovecot + pigeonhole/sieve 3. Use

postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

Hi all, Here is what I'm trying to achieve, please let me know if this is possible/feasible. I wanted to run my own mail sever so I setup everything on a FreeBSD box at home. But soon I realized that my isp (comcast) is acting up. Sending: I have to send via comcast's gateway using my

Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

hiren panchasara: To circumvent all that, I got a VM with a live IP where nothing is being blocked now. What I want to do is, use this VM as just a jump host and still keep entire setup at home. http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html#backup Configuring Postfix as

Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: hiren panchasara: To circumvent all that, I got a VM with a live IP where nothing is being blocked now. What I want to do is, use this VM as just a jump host and still keep entire setup at home.

Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

hiren panchasara: This link only shows VM side of configs. How about on the home machine postfix side? For the machine that is FINAL DESTINATION: http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html Also, if my domain is mail.exmaple.com, which machine's postfix should have that set? VM

Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:36 AM, hiren panchasara hiren.panchas...@gmail.com wrote: This is how it should work, afaik: Sending: Initiates from my home box and go out via VM. Receiving: VM receives it and forwards to home box. (I've also tried sending through my home machine on port 587 but

Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Rick Zeman rze...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 3:36 AM, hiren panchasara hiren.panchas...@gmail.com wrote: This is how it should work, afaik: Sending: Initiates from my home box and go out via VM. Receiving: VM receives it and forwards to home box.

RE: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

for Debian and Ubuntu =13.04 that will do everything for you. Marius. -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of hiren panchasara Sent: Monday, May 5, 2014 10:28 PM To: Rick Zeman Cc: Postfix users Subject: Re: postfix setup

Re: postfix setup: machine with live ip forwarding traffic to home machine

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Marius Gologan marius.golo...@gmail.com wrote: What you want is 100% doable and can work without drawbacks. You need to work on the VM to act as an incoming and outgoing gateway. You've been provided with a link from Wietse. That is the starting point. Yes,

Need to review my postfix setup

I setup my original Postfix setup up some time ago using Jeff Posluns excellent howto/tutorial. My setup works and seems to work quite well, but I know that I have not kept pace with the changes and improvements in Postfix. Additionally, as a result of following this mail list, I believe

Re: Need to review my postfix setup

On 12/02/2012 04:17 PM, John Allen wrote: I setup my original Postfix setup up some time ago using Jeff Posluns excellent howto/tutorial. My setup works and seems to work quite well, but I know that I have not kept pace with the changes and improvements in Postfix. Additionally, as a result

Re: migrating postfix setup to new server ?

On Thu, March 31, 2011 12:35 am, Wietse Venema wrote: what the proper (easiest?) way to migrate current setup to the new server ? 1) Study the RELEASE_NOTES file and look for any incompatible changes that may affect your configuration. Wietse, thanks this seems a slightly different

Re: migrating postfix setup to new server ?

Voytek Eymont: I'm not clear here, this machine was given to me with Postfix 2.7.0 'pre-installed'; Sorry, I don't keep an up-to-date list for how to upgrade packages for BSD version X or Y or Z, Linux distro X or Y or Z, Solaris, and so on. You would have saved me time if you had mentioned

Re: migrating postfix setup to new server ?

Am 31.03.2011 14:15, schrieb Voytek Eymont: I'm not clear here, this machine was given to me with Postfix 2.7.0 'pre-installed'; so, subject to RELEASE_NOTES, do I copy old#/etc/postfix/* to new#/etc/postfix, then execute postfix upgrade-configuration ? or do I copy /etc/postfix/* then

Re: migrating postfix setup to new server ?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: you should make a distribution-like package instead breaking the package-managment, this is no solution This isn't the real problem. on fedora it is 5 minutes work install a src.rpm, replace the tarball and after

Re: migrating postfix setup to new server ?

Am 31.03.2011 15:48, schrieb Reinaldo de Carvalho: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: you should make a distribution-like package instead breaking the package-managment, this is no solution This isn't the real problem. it is because a package

migrating postfix setup to new server ?

I have a mail server on Centos with Postfix 2.4.5 mysql smtp-auth amavisd-new policyd postfixadmin 2.1 courier-imap, runs pretty well since install I need to transfer the mail server service to a new server running Ubuntu, it came with Postfix 2.7.0 what the proper (easiest?) way to migrate

Re: migrating postfix setup to new server ?

Voytek Eymont: I have a mail server on Centos with Postfix 2.4.5 mysql smtp-auth amavisd-new policyd postfixadmin 2.1 courier-imap, runs pretty well since install I need to transfer the mail server service to a new server running Ubuntu, it came with Postfix 2.7.0 what the proper

Re: Questions on new Postfix setup from Logwatch

On 12/10/2010 02:45 AM, mouss wrote: Le 10/12/2010 03:43, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : On 12/09/2010 10:31 AM, mouss wrote: Le 09/12/2010 14:54, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : This is a new install on Fedora 12 using the tools from: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System We have patched

Questions on new Postfix setup from Logwatch

This is a new install on Fedora 12 using the tools from: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System We have patched the Postfix source to add the Quota patch. It would be REALLY nice if this was just a part of Postfix that came disabled and was 'easy' to enable so we could work from

Re: Questions on new Postfix setup from Logwatch

Le 09/12/2010 14:54, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : This is a new install on Fedora 12 using the tools from: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System We have patched the Postfix source to add the Quota patch. It would be REALLY nice if this was just a part of Postfix The VDA is patch is

Re: Questions on new Postfix setup from Logwatch

On 12/09/2010 10:31 AM, mouss wrote: Le 09/12/2010 14:54, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : This is a new install on Fedora 12 using the tools from: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System We have patched the Postfix source to add the Quota patch. It would be REALLY nice if this was just a

Re: Questions on new Postfix setup from Logwatch

Le 10/12/2010 03:43, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : On 12/09/2010 10:31 AM, mouss wrote: Le 09/12/2010 14:54, Robert Moskowitz a écrit : This is a new install on Fedora 12 using the tools from: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System We have patched the Postfix source to add the Quota

Re: Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

Vikas Rawal wrote, at 07/06/2009 07:41 PM: On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails FWIW, recent development versions of mutt support SMTP: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#smtp I haven't tried it yet, but I plan to. Although I used mutt often, lack of built-in SMTP

Re: Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:43:06AM -0400, Jorey Bump wrote: Vikas Rawal wrote, at 07/06/2009 07:41 PM: On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails FWIW, recent development versions of mutt support SMTP: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#smtp I haven't tried it

Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails, and fetchmail for receiving them. Postfix is setup to relay mails through gmail. I am the only user on the computer and all mails originating from the computer are sent from my account. A limitation of the present setup is that it sends

Re: Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Vikas Rawal wrote: On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails, and fetchmail for receiving them. Postfix is setup to relay mails through gmail. I am the only user on the computer and all mails originating from the computer are sent from my account. A

Re: Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

On Tue, July 7, 2009 01:41, Vikas Rawal wrote: #myorigin = /etc/mailname set this to myorigin=gmail.com fake when you use smtp auth client postfix your local unix login must then be the part before @ problem solved :) myhostname is irrelevant # appending .domain is the MUA's job.

Re: Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

I am appending my /etc/postfix/main.cf When asking for help on this mailing list, please never paste your main.cf . Instead, as directed in DEBUG_README, paste the output of 'postconf -n'. My apologies. I posted to this list after a long time, and am not, evidently, well versed with postfix

Re: Postfix Setup

Jonathan McMahon wrote: I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. My general feedback: 1. I find Postfix to be somewhat difficult, and the google search documentation for my specific setup is fragmented and incomplete at best. I did expect this given the number of possible

Re: Postfix Setup

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Jonathan McMahon jongmcma...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. My general feedback: 1. I find Postfix to be somewhat difficult, and the google search documentation for my specific setup is fragmented and incomplete at

Re: Postfix Setup

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:18 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote: SNIP As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well be the poster's own fault for not

Re: Postfix Setup

Zitat von Rik hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk: On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:18 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote: SNIP As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well be

Re: Postfix Setup

On 5/6/2009, Rik (hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk) wrote: As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well be the poster's own fault for not respecting how this

Re: Postfix Setup

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 06:52 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: On 5/6/2009, Rik (hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk) wrote: As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This

Re: Postfix Setup

On Wed May 6 2009 00:44:28 Jonathan McMahon wrote: I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. The former is not a problem; Postfix documentation has you covered. Where you will find (have been finding) difficulty is in the latter. Postfix documentation does not (and IMO mostly

THREAD CLOSED (was: Re: Postfix Setup)

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:47:37PM -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: The way it works here is that any fool like me can answer a newbie's question, and if we get it wrong, we are corrected by the ones who really know. Let's end the thread here. :-) Hopefully the OP is trying to make sense of the

Re: Postfix Setup

On 6-May-2009, at 01:29, Rik wrote: I could not agree more. To the point this is the very *LAST* place I go for help. This should be the last place you go for help. You read the docs, you google, you research, try and find the answer, and THEN you post here. I can't tell you how often

Postfix Setup

Hello, I am a newbie... I wish to use my Postfix system (v2.1.5) to accept mail for, and relay mail to another MTA. How do I go about doing this? Thank you for any help offered. Jeff It does not require many words to speak the truth. - Chief Joseph, Great Nez Perce Indian Chief

Re: Postfix Setup

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:51:58AM -0400, Jeff Bernier wrote: Hello, I am a newbie... I wish to use my Postfix system (v2.1.5) to accept mail for, and relay mail to another MTA. How do I go about doing this? http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html

Re: Postfix Setup

I don't want to sound ungrateful for pointing me at the docs, but I was hoping for a little clarification on the process. I had looked at the docs, but was still unclear on how to go about it. Jeff victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com 5/5/2009 11:00 AM On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 10:51:58AM -0400,

Re: Postfix Setup

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:32:36AM -0400, Jeff Bernier wrote: I don't want to sound ungrateful for pointing me at the docs, but I was hoping for a little clarification on the process. I had looked at the docs, but was still unclear on how to go about it. Specific questions are much easier to

Re: Postfix Setup

I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I set Postfix to accept email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one thing I need to accomplish. There's really no need to berate me and otherwise treat me like a buffoon Victor. Is there someone willing to help? Please?

Re: Postfix Setup

* Jeff Bernier jbern...@risd.edu: I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I set Postfix to accept email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one thing I need to accomplish. It's not really easy to answer that question: accept email for another MTA: why does the mail

Re: Postfix Setup

Jeff Bernier wrote: I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I set Postfix to accept email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one thing I need to accomplish. There's really no need to berate me and otherwise treat me like a buffoon Victor. Is there someone

Re: Postfix Setup

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Jeff Bernier jbern...@risd.edu wrote: I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I set Postfix to accept email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one thing I need to accomplish. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=postfix+firewall There's really

Re: Postfix Setup

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:18:18PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I?set Postfix to accept email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one thing I need to accomplish. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=postfix+firewall There's really

Re: Postfix Setup

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:18:18PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I?set Postfix to accept email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one

Re: Postfix Setup

On 5-May-2009, at 10:04, Jeff Bernier wrote: There's really no need to berate me and otherwise treat me like a buffoon Victor. Is there someone willing to help? Please? Consider two things. First, stop top-posting. Trim your quoted material and reply after, preserving the

Re: Postfix Setup

On May 5, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote: I fully believe that the experts on this list have good intentions and I appreciate the time they spend helping us. However, this scenario has happened quite a few times.. A new user asks questions that are vague or easily answered by the docs,

Re: Postfix Setup

I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. My general feedback: 1. I find Postfix to be somewhat difficult, and the google search documentation for my specific setup is fragmented and incomplete at best. I did expect this given the number of possible system permutations. 2.

Postfix setup with no true domain just a no-ip/dyndns address?

I have looked for a guide on the Internet on how to do this but I have never found one. I am wishing to run a request tracker (RT) and need postfix. Now I already have the email coming in, sent to RT by fetch mail of a gmail account. Now how can I make it so that postfix sends replies and other

Re: Postfix setup with no true domain just a no-ip/dyndns address?

So would I just tell no-ip.org (seperate from DynDNS as fair as I know, but they also have MX records.), to just put in my address or would I just throw in my ISP's SMTP server? On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, J.P. Trosclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think DynDNS.com (the folks who have

Re: Postfix setup with no true domain just a no-ip/dyndns address?

I would not point the MX record for your dynamic domain name (or any other domain name) at your ISP's server. The mail will almost certainly be rejected. Adam McCarthy wrote: So would I just tell no-ip.org (seperate from DynDNS as fair as I know, but they also have MX records.), to just put

Re: Postfix setup with no true domain just a no-ip/dyndns address?

Send us the output of postconf -n from your smtp server. If your logs didn't indicate the mail was rejected it could have been silently discarded by spam filters or something of the like. Adam McCarthy wrote: Well as far as I know SMTP is not blocked. I wanted to go through my ISP's server to

Re: Postfix setup with no true domain just a no-ip/dyndns address?

Also, have a look here: http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html Adam McCarthy wrote: Well as far as I know SMTP is not blocked. I wanted to go through my ISP's server to begin with, because places such as GMail didn't like me. Yet everyone seems to love my ISP's server. I had relayhost set