Re: greylisting generates error email?

2013-08-15 Thread Grant
A few people have told me they received an email error message after emailing me. I'm trying to get a copy of one of the error emails, but I can't imagine what would cause that besides possibly my greylisting. Has greylisting been known to lead to email error messages being sent to senders

Re: greylisting generates error email?

2013-08-15 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/15/2013 2:30 AM, Grant wrote: A few people have told me they received an email error message after emailing me. I'm trying to get a copy of one of the error emails, but I can't imagine what would cause that besides possibly my greylisting. Has greylisting been known to lead to email

Re: ldap-attribute-based routing question

2013-08-15 Thread jeffrey j donovan
On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Jonathan Engbrecht jengb...@ryerson.ca wrote: there is no mailHost attribute in ldap (or *any* attribute that is the next hop dns name). I need to map an attribute in ldap to something that *isn't* in ldap. (yes, this could be done with ldap modifications

Re: ldap-attribute-based routing question

2013-08-15 Thread Jonathan Engbrecht
Yes, I have the ability to make the required changes to our ldap. I was mostly curious if it was possible to set up a mapping in a non-hackish manner that didn't necessitate directory changes. Thanks all for the responses. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:18 AM, jeffrey j donovan

Re: Once more around with dovecot

2013-08-15 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:08:29PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: I'm pretty sure the examples in the postfix docs are for dovecot 1, and not appropriate for dovecot 2. Whilst the first part of this is true, I don't believe the second part is. You should still be able to use a Dovecot 1.x

Re: Once more around with dovecot

2013-08-15 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/15/2013 8:58 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:08:29PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: I'm pretty sure the examples in the postfix docs are for dovecot 1, and not appropriate for dovecot 2. Whilst the first part of this is true, I don't believe the second part is. You should

Auto reply/notice

2013-08-15 Thread John Allen
I am trying to retire and close down my business. I have informed all of my closest associates and those who I wish to continue correspondence with have been given my personal contact information. However, I am still getting a fairly large amount of email at my business address, I had thought

Re: greylisting generates error email?

2013-08-15 Thread LuKreme
On 15 Aug 2013, at 01:30 , Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: A few people have told me they received an email error message after emailing me. I'm trying to get a copy of one of the error emails, but I can't imagine what would cause that besides possibly my greylisting. Has greylisting

Re: Auto reply/notice

2013-08-15 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/15/2013 9:26 AM, John Allen wrote: I am trying to retire and close down my business. I have informed all of my closest associates and those who I wish to continue correspondence with have been given my personal contact information. However, I am still getting a fairly large amount of

Re: Auto reply/notice

2013-08-15 Thread John Allen
On 15/08/2013 12:54 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 8/15/2013 9:26 AM, John Allen wrote: I am trying to retire and close down my business. I have informed all of my closest associates and those who I wish to continue correspondence with have been given my personal contact information. However, I am

Re: Auto reply/notice

2013-08-15 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/15/2013 1:33 PM, John Allen wrote: Now I think I will add all the people that I KNOW I do not want to hear from to the sender checks. Would it be better simple reject or use a the code 521. A regular REJECT text... with a helpful message is fine. 521 is for rejecting with extreme

Re: Auto reply/notice

2013-08-15 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2013-08-15 2:33 PM, John Allen j...@klam.ca wrote: On 15/08/2013 12:54 PM, Noel Jones wrote: You can use the error: transport to send a custom reject message for any mail sent to that domain. # transport example.com error:I'm retired, business closed. Personal email f...@example.org

Mail server without FQDN

2013-08-15 Thread Vijay Rajah
Hello List, I have a Postfix 2.11 mail server that receives mail to some of my personal domains and delivers it via lmtp to dovecot This is a centos 6.4 server that has a hostname of vrajah-5.localdomain The myhostname parameter and the myorgin parameter in main.cf is set to the real domain name

Re: Mail server without FQDN

2013-08-15 Thread Wietse Venema
Vijay Rajah: Hello List, I have a Postfix 2.11 mail server that receives mail to some of my personal domains and delivers it via lmtp to dovecot This is a centos 6.4 server that has a hostname of vrajah-5.localdomain The myhostname parameter and the myorgin parameter in main.cf is set to

Postfix running on private IP address behind VPN

2013-08-15 Thread Thomas Herrmann
Hello Postfix-users, currently, I have two postfix servers running for my domain: - one on a physical server with a single, public IPv4 address (and proper DNS setup) that just accepts mails and delivers them to - the second one in my private LAN (where mails are delivered locally to the imap

Re: Auto reply/notice

2013-08-15 Thread John Allen
I am trying to retire and close down my business. I have informed all of my closest associates and those who I wish to continue correspondence with have been given my personal contact information. However, I am still getting a fairly large amount of email at my business address, I had thought

Re: Once more around with dovecot

2013-08-15 Thread Peter
On 08/16/2013 01:58 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: You should still be able to use a Dovecot 1.x configuration file with 2.x, which will complain in the logs about the changed syntax and suggest that you use doveconf -n to get a proper 2.x configuration file. I'm going to clarify this a bit. This

Re: Mail server without FQDN

2013-08-15 Thread King Cao
Maybe you can use your customized bounce template. There is a default bounce template: bounce.cf.default, change the sender and content with what you want. And set below setting in your main.cf: bounce_template_file = /path/to/bounce_template_file Regards, King 2013/8/16 Wietse Venema

Re: Postfix running on private IP address behind VPN

2013-08-15 Thread King Cao
received mail from Internet == L4 == private postfix == L4 == deliver to internet postfix will write hostname in received by field and remote hostname and IP in received from field. That's fine for incoming mail from internet. (you can use a proper hostname for your postfix) For outgoing mail,

Setting up SPF in Postfix for sending

2013-08-15 Thread Rob Tanner
I've googled around a quite a bit and while I can find lots of instruction on what I need in order for Postfix to validate incoming mail, I find nothing about what I need to do to make sure Postfix does whatever it needs to do to make sure the MTA receiving the mail validates it. And the