Re: gratuitous failure on host address bits not zero

2017-07-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I consider the netmask to be always primary - any bits set to the right of Indeed, otherwise 192.168.0.0 would imply a /19 Stefan

Re: Queue stuck with "Host or domain name not found", needs restart

2016-12-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Beyond Viktor's recommendation to NOT chroot Postfix, another option is to > run Postfix on demand, since you appear to only be running it > in a client-only mode. I'm not sure how you'd do that on Debian, but the > general idea is to run 'master -e 60' whenever a file appears in the > maildrop

Re: Queue stuck with "Host or domain name not found", needs restart

2016-11-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Don't chroot the Postfix smtp delivery agent. It will then notice > changes in /etc/resolv.conf, rather than using a stale copy in > the chroot jail. Better don't use chroot at all, unless it is > very carefully and robustly built. Ha! # find /var -name resolv.conf

Re: Queue stuck with "Host or domain name not found", needs restart

2016-11-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
Ping? Doesn't anyone have some vague hint of where the problem may be? Is it really normal for "postqueue -f" to complain about DNS errors, whereas "/etc/init.d/postfix restart; postqueue -f" works just fine? Stefan >>>>> "Stefan" == Ste

Queue stuck with "Host or domain name not found", needs restart

2016-11-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
For the last few weeks, one of my machines (running Debian stable, with Postfix 2.11.3) gets constantly stuck with things like: % mailq -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- CDC7364F79 972 Wed Nov 16 08:12:48 monn...@iro.umontreal.ca (Host or

Where do my rejected email go

2010-09-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
[ Fourth try to send this message. Hopefully this one will get through and hopefully the other ones won't. ] [ BTW, the policy of silently discard email from non-subscribed addressesof postfix-users is really obnoxious. ] I'm using Postfix to send email (via a relayhost) from my laptop

Re: Where do my rejected email go

2010-09-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
I understand it can't send it anywhere (at least in my case, if the relayhost rejects the message, there's nowhere to send the message and/or the bounce), but can't it save the email in some local file, at least? Especially when the email originated locally (i.e. was not received via SMTP