Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:33 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. > It would have been helpful, if you had described briefly

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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,

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On 09/13/2013 11:52 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Natxo Asenjo 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 misguid

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Natxo Asenjo 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 >> particu

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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) >> --

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On Sep 13, 2013 7:02 PM, "Les Mikesell" wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, natxo asenjo 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,

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:18 AM, natxo asenjo 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 particularly hard if you sti

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 sayi

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 se

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 any

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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. >

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 g

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 cro

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 f

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

natxo asenjo wrote: >> The CentOS document >> 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 b

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 alre

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On 09/12/2013 11:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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. migrating is always a pain. > The CentOS document

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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.

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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/postf

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 se

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: > > >> The CentOS document > >> explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6. > >> Does anyone know of reasonably simple postfix documentation > >> for CentOS-6? >

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

How about trying this out -> http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-centos-6.3-x86_64 -- View this message in context: http://centos.1050465.n5.nabble.com/CentOS-Setting-up-postfix-under-CentOS-6-tp5720727p5720736.html Sent from

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 w

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 > expli

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

Ned Slider wrote: >> The CentOS document >> 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 specifi

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under 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 > explicitly

[CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

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 explicitly says that its instructions may not work in CentOS-6

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Benjamin Hackl wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:09 -0600 > Larry Martell 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

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:19:09 -0600 Larry Martell 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 > recovery link to the user,

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Benjamin Hackl 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 connecti

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Benjamin Hackl 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 destination serve

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

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

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

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 che

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

;From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" >> >>To: CentOS mailing list >> >>Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM >> >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix >> > > >> >>Larry Martell wrote: >> >> This should be an easy one. I'

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On 16 October 2012 17:14, Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" > >>To: CentOS mailing list > >>Sent:

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:25 AM, wrote: > Larry Martell wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Craig White >> 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 di

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

Larry Martell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Craig White > 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/post

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Craig White 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 port 25: >> >>

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > > > > > >From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:49 AM >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix > >

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 8:49 AM, 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 --dport 25

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

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 > > He

Re: [CentOS] setting up postfix

>From: "m.r...@5-cent.us" >To: CentOS mailing list >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 goi

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 -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT > > But I don't receive the mail. In

[CentOS] setting up postfix

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 la