Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Bastian Blank wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > What's the best configuration for a web server that does not receive > > mail but needs to send mail? > > Send only does not exist. Every e-mail can produce bounces, which are > sent to the sender of the original e-mail and needs to be handled > somewh

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:39:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > What's the best configuration for a web server that does not receive > mail but needs to send mail? Send only does not exist. Every e-mail can produce bounces, which are sent to the sender of the original e-mail and needs to be handled

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Kris Deugau wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The problem is *other* sites. I am starting to get a trickle of > > complaints from people who are not receiving password reset emails. > > And the problem seems to be other sites that are requiring that > > senders have MX records, and the rest of the as

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-24 Thread Kris Deugau
Bob Proulx wrote: The problem is *other* sites. I am starting to get a trickle of complaints from people who are not receiving password reset emails. And the problem seems to be other sites that are requiring that senders have MX records, and the rest of the associated incoming mail server set

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Doug Hardie wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Sigh. I was hoping to be able to avoid this. But both of the > > responses were basically, set up something to handle incoming mail. > > Check and see if DMA, Dragonfly mail agent, is available for your > machine. It is a very simple send only mail ser

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-23 Thread Doug Hardie
> On 23 September 2020, at 22:32, Bob Proulx wrote: > > John Stoffel wrote: >> Bob> What's the best configuration for a web server that does not >> Bob> receive mail but needs to send mail? Password resets. Bug >> Bob> ticket update notifications. That type of email. >> >> I would push all

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Proulx
Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:39:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > What's the best configuration for a web server that does not receive > > mail but needs to send mail? > > Send via a smarthost relay. Use a valid envelope sender domain that > will receive (and, as appropriat

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Proulx
John Stoffel wrote: > Bob> What's the best configuration for a web server that does not > Bob> receive mail but needs to send mail? Password resets. Bug > Bob> ticket update notifications. That type of email. > > I would push all the email to the mailserver for the domain served by > that web s

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-18 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 04:39:12PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > What's the best configuration for a web server that does not receive > mail but needs to send mail? Send via a smarthost relay. Use a valid envelope sender domain that will receive (and, as appropriate, take note of) bounces. Use a v

Re: Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-17 Thread John Stoffel
> "Bob" == Bob Proulx writes: Bob> What's the best configuration for a web server that does not Bob> receive mail but needs to send mail? Password resets. Bug Bob> ticket update notifications. That type of email. (Plus admin Bob> mail such as cron output to root. But I can ensure that is

Send only configuration best practices?

2020-09-16 Thread Bob Proulx
What's the best configuration for a web server that does not receive mail but needs to send mail? Password resets. Bug ticket update notifications. That type of email. (Plus admin mail such as cron output to root. But I can ensure that is delivered to me and read.) But the host never needs to