Re: flush daemon

2008-12-29 Thread punit jain
Don't look under the hood unless you know what you are looking at. I agree with you Viktor but i am just trying to get a clear picture of postfix as a novice. What my concern is what will happen after setting fast_flush_domains to relay domains and flushing the queue say at the time when

Re: flush daemon

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
punit jain: Don't look under the hood unless you know what you are looking at. I agree with you Viktor but i am just trying to get a clear picture of postfix as a novice. What my concern is what will happen after setting fast_flush_domains to relay domains and flushing the queue say

Re: Reject/Discard mails to a Receipient

2008-12-29 Thread Linux Addict
Wietse Venema wrote: Linux Addict: Sahil Tandon wrote: Linux Addict wrote: Hello, I have clients sending mails to an non-existent email address/domain, emailerm...@exchange.example.net. I want to discard any mail sent to this address. I looked at

Re: Enforcing sending domain from the inside network

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
D. Karapiperis a écrit : Hi All I have a question regarding postfix restrictions. Is there a way for Postfix to enforce some kind of policy so that all the outgoing (allowed) mails be @business.com and all the others be rejected. Of course this policy should be enforced only to the

Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in uppercase. This surprised me, because the linux user accounts are in

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in uppercase. This surprised me, because the linux user

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Xn Nooby: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Bryan Irvine
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the accounts that are in

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Noel Jones
Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all email addresses to lowercase, so I cannot receive mail to the

VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Jesper Dybdal
I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient address provided by Mailman is

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Jesper Dybdal: I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient address provided

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Xn Nooby: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase. Apparently Postfix converts all

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Noel Jones
Xn Nooby wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: Bryan Irvine wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I am using Postfix to replace an existing email system, and I am inheriting usernames that are in uppercase.

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Jesper Dybdal a écrit : I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient address

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Sahil Tandon
Xn Nooby wrote: Probably the easiest solution would be to write a script to create aliases in lower case. -Bryan No, that won't fix the problem. The best solution is to not use upper-case usernames. If that's not possible, the other solutions are: a) patch postfix local

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
Hi Sahil, I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it. Below is my main.cf and aliases file. Also, should I post my replies to emails at the top or the bottom? (a few years ago some people got really mad at

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Xn Nooby
Your options are: 1) Create lower-case UNIX password file entries with the same numerical UID and GID fields as the upper-case names, and with a * password. I was able to resolve my problem by creating the duplicate entry in the /etc/passwd file, I will use this method. I might uses

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Xn Nooby a écrit : Hi Sahil, I am looking in to how to create the duplicate passwd file entries, I am assuming I cannot just edit the file without corrupting it. you forgot to tell us which OS you run. let's assume your sudo ... as a hint ;-p - save the following as doit.sh #!/bin/sh

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:21:41 -0500 (EST), wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: I do not understand why you would send mail to a recipient address other than the recipient subscribed to the Mailman list. Example: My server (for Mailman and Postfix and some local mailboxes) is named

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:30:53 +0100, mouss mo...@netoyen.net wrote: Jesper Dybdal a écrit : Since mailing list software using XVERP needs to recognize the address from the envelope return path as being equal to the subscribed address, Really? AFAIK, most list managers use the From: header. The

Re: Trying to use uppercase names in Postfix.

2008-12-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Xn Nooby: Your options are: 1) Create lower-case UNIX password file entries with the same numerical UID and GID fields as the upper-case names, and with a * password. I was able to resolve my problem by creating the duplicate entry in the /etc/passwd file, I will use this method.

Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

2008-12-29 Thread mouss
Jesper Dybdal a écrit : On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:30:53 +0100, mouss mo...@netoyen.net wrote: Jesper Dybdal a écrit : Since mailing list software using XVERP needs to recognize the address from the envelope return path as being equal to the subscribed address, Really? AFAIK, most list managers

postfix: set up pop3 / imap with postfix..

2008-12-29 Thread vivek.agrawal
hello everyone, I want to use postfix to send and receive mail for my web application. Currently i am able to send email using gmail as relay host. now i am trying to get email comming to same gmail account which i am using for relay host. on some sites i have read that i need to configure pop3