Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-23 Thread mouss
Le 18/10/2010 22:22, Charles Marcus a écrit : On 2010-10-18 4:02 PM, Christopher Koeber wrote: OK, based on the config below I have achieved what I set out to do below. I'm far from expert, but some comments... First - you are explicitly setting a lot of settings to their defaults - this

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-23 Thread mouss
Le 21/10/2010 03:59, Christopher Koeber a écrit : On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de mailto:ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * Christopher Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com mailto:ckoe...@gmail.com: inet_interfaces = all default mydomain

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:54:22AM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: I never knew that if an A record points to the mail host then you don't need the MX record for said host. Should I remove the record? No. It does no harm, and possibly a tiny bit of good. There is nothing wrong with MX

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-22 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 10/22/2010 06:54 AM, Christopher Koeber wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl mailto:jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: No. foo.bar MX 10 foo.bar is unnecessary, as any valid A record can receive mail. Since foo.bar has to be an A record (you're using

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: I wouldn't - but then again, I wouldn't run a mail server on the domain A record either :) Why not? Regards, Christopher koeber There are MTAs that want a mail *sender* to have an MX record (which is silly), but it

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-22 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: No. It does no harm, and possibly a tiny bit of good. There is nothing wrong with MX records even when an A record is present for the same domain, and the MX points the domain at itself. --

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.comwrote: Do you understand what I meant by ^^^ that? It really does make working with postfix easier if you comment out 'defaults'... I cut my postconf -n output in half by doing this. Just compare output of postconf -d

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-21 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: After making the changes where only I was explicitly setting things to what I needed them to be versus the default the postfix system seems faster, too! This is an optical illusion. Removing default settings simplifies your

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: After making the changes where only I was explicitly setting things to what I needed them to be versus the default the postfix

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-21 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 10/21/2010 04:02 AM, Christopher Koeber wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl mailto:jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main domain, which

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-21 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: No. foo.bar MX 10 foo.bar is unnecessary, as any valid A record can receive mail. Since foo.bar has to be an A record (you're using it as the MX value) the MX record is superfluous. -- J. I guess I am being

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-20 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * Christopher Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com: inet_interfaces = all default mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu I'd say myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-20 Thread Christopher Koeber
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main domain, which appears to be the case here: ;; ANSWER SECTION: wesleyseminary.edu. 43098 IN MX

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-19 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 19/10/10 8:04 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Christopher Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com: inet_interfaces = all default mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu I'd say myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu which implies mydomain =

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-19 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main domain, which appears to be the case here: ;; ANSWER SECTION: wesleyseminary.edu. 43098 IN MX 10 mail1.no-ip.com. wesleyseminary.edu. 43098 IN MX 15

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-18 Thread Christopher Koeber
OK, based on the config below I have achieved what I set out to do below. Everything is done properly. For getting mailman to work with postfix with the local domains and without the need for subdomains I used transport maps to switch for local to virtual. See below if people need help with it.

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-10-18 4:02 PM, Christopher Koeber wrote: OK, based on the config below I have achieved what I set out to do below. I'm far from expert, but some comments... First - you are explicitly setting a lot of settings to their defaults - this clutters postconf -n output needlessly. postconf

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Christopher Koeber ckoe...@gmail.com: inet_interfaces = all default mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu I'd say myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu which implies mydomain = wesleyseminary.edu Setting mydomain equal to myhostname strikes me

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-06 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 10/05/2010 08:35 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: Hello, I have emailed about integrating my Postfix installation with Mailman and discovered that I will need to redesign my Postfix configuration to make it work. Therefore, I am asking for assistance in this task. Here is what my

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-06 Thread Larry Stone
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jeroen Geilman wrote: If the lists are managed by a listserv software such as mailman ... Please excuse the brief aside but as someone who has been involved slightly with Mailman (as the author of some installation instructions), please do not use listserv as a generic

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-06 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 10/06/2010 09:48 PM, Larry Stone wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jeroen Geilman wrote: If the lists are managed by a listserv software such as mailman ... Please excuse the brief aside but as someone who has been involved slightly with Mailman (as the author of some installation

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

2010-10-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 6:49 AM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 10/06/2010 09:48 PM, Larry Stone wrote: To call all mailing list managers listservs is as wrong as calling all MTAs Postfixes. :-) That would not be a bad idea. Yes it would, we'd end up in a world where people genuinely thought that Exchange or