On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
It would have been helpful, if you had
Arun Khan wrote:
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
It would have been helpful, if you had described briefly what was your
sendmail setup e.g.
On 09/13/2013 11:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote:
The fact you do not understand the documentation does not mean it is
bad.
It is pretty good evidence that swapping it as the default because
'sendmail is hard' was
On 9/14/2013 12:00 AM, natxo asenjo wrote:
and where is in the centos wiki or in the redhat documentation or in the
sendmail documentation the info to accomplish that? Do you care to give
me a url to those (un)official sources? In the sendmail doc I can find
how to use tls and certificates,
On 09/14/2013 09:08 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 9/14/2013 12:00 AM, natxo asenjo wrote:
and where is in the centos wiki or in the redhat documentation or in the
sendmail documentation the info to accomplish that? Do you care to give
me a url to those (un)official sources? In the sendmail doc I
Ned Slider wrote:
I didn't find anything wrong in the document in question
(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix),
except that a couple of packages mentioned
(ystem-change-mail*) don't seem to exist in CentOS-6.
That was for switching the default MTA in EL5. As Postfix is already the
natxo asenjo wrote:
The CentOS document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6.
Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation
for CentOS-6?
no. Maybe you can write one after you figure it out :-)
I'll be happy to
On 09/13/2013 12:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Ned Slider wrote:
I didn't find anything wrong in the document in question
(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix),
except that a couple of packages mentioned
(ystem-change-mail*) don't seem to exist in CentOS-6.
That was for switching the
On 09/13/2013 12:56 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
If you upgrade from CentOS-5 to CentOS-6,
which I imagine the vast majority of people did,
then sendmail remains the current MTA.
that's a lot to assume. Most people I know professionally do not upgrade
their rhel/centos servers. The debian crowd
On 09/13/2013 01:37 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
natxo asenjo wrote:
Postfix's target audience is not the average joe user but e-mail
administrators. It is assumed you know some stuff about how smtp e-mail
works.
I wonder if that is, or should be, any longer the case?
I would have guessed
natxo asenjo wrote:
Firstly, after following the instructions meticulously,
I found that I could not send out mail
because (according to /var/log/maillog)
the From address was
tim@localhost.localdomain , and this was
rejected by the recipient host or rather his ISP.
natxo asenjo wrote:
I do run centos (even in my laptop) but
my main use is professional. And frankly, I do not know anyone in my
personal environment with a linux computer (tablets/phones don't count).
I can't parse this.
You are saying you are running centos on a laptop,
but don't know
On 09/13/2013 03:59 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
natxo asenjo wrote:
If you mean myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf
then as I just said it is set to the fqdn.
Also I should point out that sendmail has been working perfectly there,
without any such messages in /var/log/maillog .
obviosly
On 09/13/2013 04:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
natxo asenjo wrote:
I do run centos (even in my laptop) but
my main use is professional. And frankly, I do not know anyone in my
personal environment with a linux computer (tablets/phones don't count).
I can't parse this.
You are saying you are
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, natxo asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote:
The fact you do not understand the documentation does not mean it is
bad.
It is pretty good evidence that swapping it as the default because
'sendmail is hard' was misguided, though. Sendmail works and isn't
On Sep 13, 2013 7:02 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, natxo asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com
wrote:
The fact you do not understand the documentation does not mean it is
bad.
It is pretty good evidence that swapping it as the default because
natxo asenjo wrote:
I went to check what you posted there, and I can see the problem with
myhostname:
myhostname = alfred.gayleard.eu
but that host does not exist:
$ host alfred.gayleard.eu
Host alfred.gayleard.eu not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
---
[tim@rose ~]$ dig
Natxo Asenjo wrote
Of course you can always find an obscure howto somewhere on the net and
then complain that it does not work. I prefer to stick with the official
docs.
1. If you are referring to me, I have explained several times
that I was following the CentOS document
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote:
The fact you do not understand the documentation does not mean it is
bad.
It is pretty good evidence that swapping it as the default because
'sendmail is hard' was misguided, though. Sendmail works and isn't
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
The CentOS document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6.
On 12/09/13 11:03, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
The CentOS document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
explicitly says
Ned Slider wrote:
The CentOS document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6.
Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation
for CentOS-6?
The above probably should work, just that it wasn't written specifically
for
On 09/12/2013 12:03 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
The CentOS document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
explicitly
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'll try following the instructions in that document,
as I have had no luck with the documents on www.postfix.org .
I have switched over from sendmail to postfix, and the
most difficult part was learning how simple it is to
configure postfix. Once you get that, a quick
On 12/09/13 12:35, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 09/12/2013 12:03 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I recently, perhaps foolishly, changed over a remote server
from sendmail/procmail to postfix/amavis/spamassassin/clamd ,
and I'm finding it difficult to configure this setup.
The CentOS document
How about trying this out -
http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-centos-6.3-x86_64
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote:
Ned Slider wrote:
The CentOS document http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix
explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6.
Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation
for
Carl T. Miller wrote:
My two cents. There's a good reason postfix has been
chosen to replace sendmail as the default MTA. As with
anything new, it takes time to feel comfortable with it.
Sorry, since you don't give a reason it's not worth two cents.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard
Patrick Lists wrote:
Read Postfix: The Definitive Guide or The Book of Postfix. Years ago
I read the first and used it to setup multiple domains with virtual
accounts. Works perfectly to this day. Also heard good things about the
2nd book. Both should give you ample knowledge how to setup
Carl T. Miller wrote:
I'll try following the instructions in that document,
as I have had no luck with the documents on www.postfix.org .
I have switched over from sendmail to postfix, and the
most difficult part was learning how simple it is to
configure postfix.
Why should it be
On 12/09/13 23:04, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Carl T. Miller wrote:
I'd be surprised if anything in that document is not
right. If you find anything or you need assistance,
the list is here.
I didn't find anything wrong in the document in question
(http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix),
Brian Mathis wrote:
An important document is the architectural overview (
http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html) which is somewhat unceremoniously
indexed under Other Topics on the documentation page. That really helps
tie a lot of things together.
I did find that illuminating.
Thanks.
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This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened port 25:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
Here's an attempt to send mail:
[motor@localhost motor]# mail -v
Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened port 25:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
samle send elided
But I don't receive
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix
Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never
On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened port 25:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
Here's
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened port 25:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix
Larry Martell
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote:
On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened
Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com
wrote:
On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:25 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Larry Martell wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com
wrote:
On Oct 16, 2012, at 7:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this
, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix
Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened port 25:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp
-cent.us
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix
Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http
Does your postfix send emails directly or do you use a smarthost for
relaying? I'm asking because you're using a 10.x.y.z network
which means you use NAT for outgoing connections when delivering mails
directly to the destination server. Bad idea. Worse if the destination
server does some sanity
On 10/16/2012 04:02 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
This should be an easy one. I'm trying to get postfix going. I've
never done this before. I followed the directions at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix. I opened port 25:
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
Here's an
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Benjamin Hackl b.ha...@focusmr.com wrote:
Does your postfix send emails directly or do you use a smarthost for
relaying? I'm asking because you're using a 10.x.y.z network
which means you use NAT for outgoing connections when delivering mails
directly to the
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Benjamin Hackl b.ha...@focusmr.com wrote:
Does your postfix send emails directly or do you use a smarthost for
relaying? I'm asking because you're using a 10.x.y.z network
which
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:09 -0600
Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
I really don't know the answer to that question. The scenario is that
they run a django based web app, and they wanted me to add a password
recovery feature to it. When I did that, and it tried to send the
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Benjamin Hackl b.ha...@focusmr.com wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:09 -0600
Larry Martell larry.mart...@gmail.com wrote:
I really don't know the answer to that question. The scenario is that
they run a django based web app, and they wanted me to add a
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