Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-26 Thread Erick Calder
haha, clearly my regex is borked. I tried replying and got the mail back with: This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason: Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server. The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why each recipie

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-26 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 26, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Erick Calder: so I tried this: /^([^._\/-]*)[._\/-](.*)@arix\.com$/ ${1}+$...@arix.com Unfortunately, this causes Postfix to accept mail for non-existent recipients (the virtual alias matches a bogus of username portion, and Postfix discovers

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Erick Calder: > so I tried this: > > /^([^._\/-]*)[._\/-](.*)@arix\.com$/ ${1}+$...@arix.com Unfortunately, this causes Postfix to accept mail for non-existent recipients (the virtual alias matches a bogus of username portion, and Postfix discovers only upon delivery that the address is no good).

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-26 Thread Erick Calder
On Sep 26, 2009, at 12:30 PM, mouss wrote: == virtual_alias_maps: /^(joe|jim|jane)-(.*)@(example\.net|example\.com)$/$1...@$3 this converts joe-...@example.com to joe+...@example.com If you don't want to generate the file (and update it when you add users), you can use mysql or friends.

Re: Virtual Aliases Usage and Syntax Question

2009-09-26 Thread Erick Calder
so I tried this: /^([^._\/-]*)[._\/-](.*)@arix\.com$/ ${1}+$...@arix.com which seemed to work fine, except for the underscores. thinking that they might be meaningful to the set declaration I tried: /^e_j...@arix.com$/ e...@arix.com which also failed... so I'm mystified but I'm happy that

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Stan Hoeppner: > Victor Duchovni put forth on 9/26/2009 1:36 PM: > > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote: > > > >> Am 26.09.2009 16:18 schrieb Wietse Venema: > >>> OK, so you send out IP packets with your static IP source address > >>> out over the dynamic interface. >

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Victor Duchovni put forth on 9/26/2009 1:36 PM: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote: > >> Am 26.09.2009 16:18 schrieb Wietse Venema: >>> OK, so you send out IP packets with your static IP source address >>> out over the dynamic interface. >> no, and there's the proble

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-26 Thread mouss
Erick Calder wrote: > On Sep 25, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > >> Erick Calder: >>> On Sep 25, 2009, at 2:30 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > You can't replace the delimiter. That would break other people's transit mail, among many things. >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand...

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 05:36:30PM +0200, Sven Strickroth wrote: > Am 26.09.2009 16:18 schrieb Wietse Venema: > > OK, so you send out IP packets with your static IP source address > > out over the dynamic interface. > > no, and there's the problem. if the static-ip connection is down, > postfix r

Any way to avoid message duplication after mailing list expansion?

2009-09-26 Thread Gianni Sandigliano
Is there any way to avoid message duplication after mailing list expansion? A quick example: A message is sent:to: al...@mycompany.com cc: theb...@mycompany.com Because theboss is included in Alist (and the sender does not know it...) two copies of the m

Larger Messages Failing to Send

2009-09-26 Thread Trekker101
Hi I am new to postfix and I am experiencing a problem sending larger e- mails through google mail. Small messages go through without any problem. However, when sending mails of more than two or three lines in length I get the following message in the log. Sep 21 20:22:06 server postfix

Re: Semi-OT: recipient delimiter spec/std?

2009-09-26 Thread LuKreme
On Sep 26, 2009, at 0:08, Barney Desmond wrote: LuKreme: sure, it's easy to describe the generally-expected behaviour, but I suspect Wietse's point is that you're welcome to write the patch and make sure nothing breaks. *grin* Aye, there's the rub.

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Sven Strickroth: > Hi, > > I've a server with multiple ip addresses (all dial-in). But only one > static ip-address. So if the static ip line is down postfix prints out > "warning: smtp_connect_addr: bind x.x.x.x: Cannot assign requested > address" and uses the other (dynamic) ip for sending. > >

Re: postfix nodup daemon configuration

2009-09-26 Thread Noel Jones
On 9/26/2009 7:24 AM, Gianni Sandigliano wrote: I am trying to implement nodup postfix daemon on my linux (Fedora) box with no success up2now... Not surprising it doesn't work since there is no such software. The old message you found is proposed documentation for a non-existent feature on t

Re: Larger Messages Failing to Send

2009-09-26 Thread mouss
Trekker101 a écrit : > Hi > > I am new to postfix and I am experiencing a problem sending larger e- > mails through google mail. > > > Small messages go through without any problem. However, when sending > mails of more than two or three lines in length I get the following > message in the

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Sven Strickroth
Am 26.09.2009 16:18 schrieb Wietse Venema: > OK, so you send out IP packets with your static IP source address > out over the dynamic interface. no, and there's the problem. if the static-ip connection is down, postfix reports "warning: smtp_connect_addr: bind x.x.x.x: Cannot assign requested addr

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Wietse Venema
Sven Strickroth: > Hi, > > Am 26.09.2009 15:04 schrieb Wietse Venema: > >> Is it possible to tell postfix not to send mails if the > >> smtp_bind_address is not available? > > > All reasonable TCP/IP stacks will automatically use the right source > > IP address when sending out mail over the dial

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Sven Strickroth
Hi, Am 26.09.2009 15:04 schrieb Wietse Venema: >> Is it possible to tell postfix not to send mails if the >> smtp_bind_address is not available? > All reasonable TCP/IP stacks will automatically use the right source > IP address when sending out mail over the dialup link or over the > local netwo

Re: use smtp_bind_address or defer

2009-09-26 Thread Sven Strickroth
Hi, Am 26.09.2009 04:37 schrieb Victor Duchovni: > Not without source code changes: I thought that... > Why does the address get de-configured? You should be able to bind > it provided the interface is administratively up, even if it is not > working. I've two DSL lines and use RP-PPPoE. The IP

postfix nodup daemon configuration

2009-09-26 Thread Gianni Sandigliano
I am trying to implement nodup postfix daemon on my linux (Fedora) box with no success up2now... Here shortly described what I've done: 0) I've found some documentation on this page (or on similar pages...): http://osdir.com/ml/mail.postfix.devel/2007-05/msg00010.html 1) On another intern