Re: main.cf best practices

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Atkins satk...@skircr.com wrote: My main goal is to figure out what I should have in each section of main.cf (smptd/client restrictions to help stop spam and not to be a open relay or back scatter host. You won't be successful in stopping spam with any

main.cf best practices

2011-08-08 Thread Stephen Atkins
Thanks again for the help everyone. I setup these postfix servers about 5 years ago. I've pretty much ignored then except for postfix updates since then. I know this probably wasn't the best idea but I got moved into a different department and could barely keep up. Now I'm back and have

Re: main.cf best practices

2011-08-08 Thread Wietse Venema
Stephen Atkins: My main goal is to figure out what I should have in each section of main.cf (smptd/client restrictions to help stop spam There is no universal solution against spam. Some people don't tolerate false negatives (spam not blocked), and some people don't tolerate false positives