Re: Postfix - Yahoo parameters settings

2009-03-29 Thread Andrew Long
In short, the principle of the setting is to delay the delivery from your Postfix to yahoo. In which rate yahoo can accept. Basically, you may take the following steps as reference, 1. Create a seperate mail for the destination is yahoo, let's name it 'slow' queue (You may search in this

proper ordering of reject

2009-07-29 Thread Andrew Long
I am seeing from our logs that clients attempting to send mail through our system are being (correctly) rejected when listed on one of the two RBL's we use, but this is happening even for clients NOT listed in /etc/postfix/relay-ip. My concern is that we are using more overhead than needed to

multiple relay hosts in transport - syntax

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Long
I would like to define two relay hosts for one domain in our transport map, the primary and backup MTX so postfix will try the backup if the primary does not respond. Is this possible and what would be my syntax? domain.com smtp:[pri-mx.domain.com] smtp:[bak-mx.domain.com] or domain.com

Re: multiple relay hosts in transport - syntax

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Long
$ host -t mx charite.de charite.de mail is handled by 120 mail.charite.de. charite.de mail is handled by 110 mail-ausfall.charite.de. and then use: domain.de   charite.de I'm afraid I'm not quite clear on this. They're are two mx's in the dns for the domain, a la $ host -t mx domain.com

Re: multiple relay hosts in transport - syntax

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Long
It would look like Ralf already showed you. But if you are sending to example.org which has the two MX RRs, then there is no need to configure transport maps. If you do use transport maps, the lack of brackets around the nexthop means Postfix will use MX lookups when deciding which nexthop to

Re: multiple relay hosts in transport - syntax

2009-08-04 Thread Andrew Long
I apologize if this is a dupe post, but my client was not showing my previous post properly... Perhaps I left out a detail. There is actually a third mx in dns, which is THIS postfix machine. Although $ host -t mx domain.com domain.com mail is handled by 20 domain.com.bak-mx.smtpblah.com.