Re: Question about Postfix Installation

2011-01-12 Thread Buzai Andras
Any update on this? Thank you, Buzai On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Buzai Andras wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Reindl Harald: >>> To your querstion about superuser: >>> NERVER EVER build sources as superuser necause >>> if there are bugs in the build-proce

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 02:11, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: On 2011-01-11 at 19:46:48 +, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: I will give authenticated clients direct access to the IMAP and SMTP ports on my load-balancer (No proxies). I will however only accept incoming mail from the internet via separate mx server wh

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread John Doe
From: Jonathan Tripathy > I will have 2 Postfix/Dovecot servers. Each will be configured to use a > central database and will also use an NFS mount for mail storage. Since > they will both be configured with central storage, I can use my > load-balancer to distribute load between both of th

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 10:15, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy I will have 2 Postfix/Dovecot servers. Each will be configured to use a central database and will also use an NFS mount for mail storage. Since they will both be configured with central storage, I can use my load-balancer to distrib

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 10:18, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 12/01/11 10:15, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy I will have 2 Postfix/Dovecot servers. Each will be configured to use a central database and will also use an NFS mount for mail storage. Since they will both be configured with central

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 10:18, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 12/01/11 10:15, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy I will have 2 Postfix/Dovecot servers. Each will be configured to use a central database and will also use an NFS mount for mail storage. Since they will both be configured with central

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread John Doe
From: Jonathan Tripathy > While your idea would work in HA mode, would that cause any problems if > both postfix servers were used at the same time? (i.e. load balanced) > In fact I may be able to answer my own question by saying yes, it would > cause >a problem as you're not supposed to

Re: Question about Postfix Installation

2011-01-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Buzai Andras : > > Sorry if my question may seem a stupid one but what do you mean by: > > unprivileged (but trusted) user? A user without root-privileges > > I created a user named "build" with home directory set to: /home/build > > and I compile the sources with this user inside it's home di

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 10:45, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy > While your idea would work in HA mode, would that cause any problems if both postfix servers were used at the same time? (i.e. load balanced) In fact I may be able to answer my own question by saying yes, it would cause a prob

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread John Adams
Am 12.01.2011 12:03, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: On 12/01/11 10:45, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy > While your idea would work in HA mode, would that cause any problems if both postfix servers were used at the same time? (i.e. load balanced) In fact I may be able to answer my own que

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 12:47, John Adams wrote: Am 12.01.2011 12:03, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: On 12/01/11 10:45, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy > While your idea would work in HA mode, would that cause any problems if both postfix servers were used at the same time? (i.e. load balanced) In

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:47:00 +0100 > Von: John Adams > An: postfix-users@postfix.org > Betreff: Re: Network Ideas > Am 12.01.2011 12:03, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: > > > > On 12/01/11 10:45, John Doe wrote: > >> From: Jonathan Tripathy > >> > >> > While

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 13:36, Steve wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:47:00 +0100 Von: John Adams An: postfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: Network Ideas Am 12.01.2011 12:03, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: On 12/01/11 10:45, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripathy Whi

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread John Adams
Am 12.01.2011 14:36, schrieb Steve: Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:47:00 +0100 Von: John Adams An: postfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: Network Ideas Am 12.01.2011 12:03, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: On 12/01/11 10:45, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Tripat

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 13:42, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 12/01/11 13:36, Steve wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:47:00 +0100 Von: John Adams An: postfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: Network Ideas Am 12.01.2011 12:03, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy: On 12/01/11 10:45,

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:42:14 + > Von: Jonathan Tripathy > An: postfix-users@postfix.org > Betreff: Re: Network Ideas > > On 12/01/11 13:36, Steve wrote: > > Original-Nachricht > >> Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:47:00 +0100 > >> Von:

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 12/01/11 14:00, Steve wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:42:14 + Von: Jonathan Tripathy An: postfix-users@postfix.org Betreff: Re: Network Ideas On 12/01/11 13:36, Steve wrote: Original-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:47:00 +01

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:56:37 + > Von: Jonathan Tripathy > An: postfix-users@postfix.org > Betreff: Re: Network Ideas > > On 12/01/11 13:42, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > > > On 12/01/11 13:36, Steve wrote: > >> Original-Nachricht >

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:05:54 + > Von: Jonathan Tripathy > An: postfix-users@postfix.org > Betreff: Re: Network Ideas > > On 12/01/11 14:00, Steve wrote: > > Original-Nachricht > >> Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:42:14 + > >> Von:

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
Hello Jonathan, I think what I am getting confused over is whether or not your GlusterFS node are the same are your Postfix servers. yes. They are. I did a little reading online, and from my understanding, you have 2 GlusterFS server and 2 GlusterFS clients. Correct. Does this mean

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:25:04 + > Von: Jonathan Tripathy > An: postfix-users@postfix.org > Betreff: Re: Network Ideas > > > Hello Jonathan, > > > >> I think what I am getting confused over is whether or not your > GlusterFS > >> node are the same ar

Unable To Send Email

2011-01-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
My Postfix server wont allow SMTP from my web server (running RoundCube webmail) which happens to be on the same network / subnet as my Postfix mail server. My mail server is running only Postfix & Dovecot while my web server has Apache, RoundCube, & PostgreSQL installed: mail = 192.168.0.200/24 w

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
Oh and one final question, how does GlusterFS handle split-brain? Let's say somehow the replication link became broken, but both Postfix servers continued to operate... This is documentation from 2.x series of GlusterFS but it still applies to 3.x: http://www.gluster.com/community/documentati

Re: Unable To Send Email

2011-01-12 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
On 1/12/2011 9:50 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > My Postfix server wont allow SMTP from my web server (running > RoundCube webmail) which happens to be on the same network / subnet as > my Postfix mail server. My mail server is running only Postfix & > Dovecot while my web server has Apache, RoundCube

Re: Forward all local delivered mail to specific address

2011-01-12 Thread Markus Treinen
Hi, your point is well taken. The reason for my setup is this: I wanted to have virtual addresses for all my domains, which are mapped separately to virtual users (meaning Maildirs delivered via dovecot (mainly to use sieve)). Those virtual users would generally be independant from UNIX users o

Re: Unable To Send Email

2011-01-12 Thread Gary Chambers
My Postfix server wont allow SMTP from my web server (running RoundCube webmail) which happens to be on the same network / subnet as my Postfix mail server. My mail server is running only Postfix & Dovecot while my web server has Apache, RoundCube, & PostgreSQL installed: mail = 192.168.0.200/2

Re: Unable To Send Email

2011-01-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Gary Chambers wrote: > This is definitely not a Postfix problem.  For the record, the OP needs to > choose whether or not they wish to authenticate (via submission (587) or > SMTPS (465)) or send mail with plain SMTP.  To fix the problem as described > by the OP:

postfix bounce message and not to queue them either

2011-01-12 Thread Zhou, Yan
Hi There, With Postfix set up by default, it will send a bounce message to sender if it cannot deliver the message. But I can create SPAM message with some innocent sender address and send to Postfix. Then, the innocent sender will get undelivered email from Postfix. How would I disable bounce

Re: postfix bounce message and not to queue them either

2011-01-12 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
On 1/12/2011 11:00 AM, Zhou, Yan wrote: > Hi There, > > With Postfix set up by default, it will send a bounce message to sender > if it cannot deliver the message. But I can create SPAM message with > some innocent sender address and send to Postfix. Then, the innocent > sender will get undelivere

Re: postfix bounce message and not to queue them either

2011-01-12 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Zhou, Yan wrote: > Even if we can solve the above problem without disable bounce, we still > need to do that anyway. We are exchanging only-encrypted messages > between sender & recipients, so the concept of bounce does not apply > here. If we were to gene

Re: postfix bounce message and not to queue them either

2011-01-12 Thread Wietse Venema
Zhou, Yan: > Hi There, > > With Postfix set up by default, it will send a bounce message to sender > if it cannot deliver the message. But I can create SPAM message with > some innocent sender address and send to Postfix. Then, the innocent > sender will get undelivered email from Postfix. Solu

multiple relayhosts (fallback)?

2011-01-12 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Is it possible to specify multiple relayhosts? I.e. with such entry: relayhost = [my.relay.host] any delivery will fail if my.relay.host goes down. Is it possible to somehow specify multiple relay hosts, so that if one relayhost is down, postfix tries to deliver to the next one? One "tri

Re: multiple relayhosts (fallback)?

2011-01-12 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:59:30PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Is it possible to specify multiple relayhosts? Best done via MX records. > relayhost = [relay.example.com] By removing the "[]" from the name, and adding suitably weighted MX records for "relay.example.com". relayhos

Re: multiple relayhosts (fallback)?

2011-01-12 Thread Giovani Dardani
Why not a SLB, Its a nice solution .. :) Smtp works very well with slb sorry about my bad english .. :( 2011/1/12 Tomasz Chmielewski > Is it possible to specify multiple relayhosts? > > I.e. with such entry: > > relayhost = [my.relay.host] > > > any delivery will fail if my.relay.host goes do

Re: multiple relayhosts (fallback)?

2011-01-12 Thread Giovani Dardani
http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ works for me .. :) 2011/1/12 Giovani Dardani > Why not a SLB, Its a nice solution .. :) > > Smtp works very well with slb > > sorry about my bad english .. :( > > > 2011/1/12 Tomasz Chmielewski > > Is it possible to specify multiple relayhosts? >> >> I.e. w

Re: multiple relayhosts (fallback)?

2011-01-12 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:38:28 -0200 > Von: Giovani Dardani > An: Tomasz Chmielewski > CC: postfix-us...@cloud9.net > Betreff: Re: multiple relayhosts (fallback)? > Why not a SLB, Its a nice solution .. :) > What is SLB? > Smtp works very well with sl

Re: multiple relayhosts (fallback)?

2011-01-12 Thread Giovani Dardani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_balancing_%28computing%29 :) 2011/1/12 Steve > > Original-Nachricht > > Datum: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:38:28 -0200 > > Von: Giovani Dardani > > An: Tomasz Chmielewski > > CC: postfix-us...@cloud9.net > > Betreff: Re: multiple relayhosts (fallbac

COMMAND PIPELINING from [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT ?

2011-01-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
Today I found this in my log: Jan 12 22:39:39 mail postfix/postscreen[17030]: COMMAND PIPELINING from [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT So I wondered -- "after QUIT?" and had a look at the client: mail:~# host 216.46.18.51 51.18.46.216.in-addr.arpa is an alias for 51.32/27.18.46.216.in-addr.arpa.

Re: COMMAND PIPELINING from [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT ?

2011-01-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt : > Today I found this in my log: > Jan 12 22:39:39 mail postfix/postscreen[17030]: COMMAND PIPELINING from > [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT > > So I wondered -- "after QUIT?" and had a look at the client: > > mail:~# host 216.46.18.51 > 51.18.46.216.in-addr.arpa is an alias

Re: COMMAND PIPELINING from [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT ?

2011-01-12 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralf Hildebrandt: > Today I found this in my log: > Jan 12 22:39:39 mail postfix/postscreen[17030]: COMMAND PIPELINING from > [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT > > So I wondered -- "after QUIT?" and had a look at the client: > > mail:~# host 216.46.18.51 > 51.18.46.216.in-addr.arpa is an alias for

Re: COMMAND PIPELINING from [216.46.18.51]:58366 after QUIT ?

2011-01-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Wietse Venema : > postscreen reports COMMAND PIPELINING when the READ operation > returned more input after QUIT. > > You have no evidence that Postfix actually sent that. It could be > a NAT firewall in front of other systems. That could be, it was just one random pick. I performed the same

Re: something like recipient_delimiter?

2011-01-12 Thread mouss
Le 12/01/2011 00:09, Andy Spiegl a écrit : >> More specifically, "u...@example.com" is a defined email address and >> you want to accept all "prefix.u...@example.com" variants for valid >> users and arbitrary prefixes? > Exactly! > >> Well, it is not really an "extension", rather a prefix. > Oops

Re: something like recipient_delimiter?

2011-01-12 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 02:27:45AM +0100, mouss wrote: > the idea is No, the idea is rather different. > mysql> select substring_index("joe@example", ".", -1); > +-+ > | substring_index("joe@example", ".", -1) | > +-

HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jaques Cochet
Hi I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I have at least 2 of every server (webmail, pop3, imap, relay and smtp (postfix)) for which i

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 05:36, Jaques Cochet wrote: Hi I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I have at least 2 of every server (webmail, pop3,

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Bryan Horstmann-Allen
+-- | On 2011-01-13 07:36:12, Jaques Cochet wrote: | | I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting | of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA | and performance are both

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 05:42, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 13/01/11 05:36, Jaques Cochet wrote: Hi I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I h

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-12 Thread Jaques Cochet
Thank you both, and sorry for not noticing Jonathan's recent post. I'll read a bit and get back. Omar On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > > > On 13/01/11 05:42, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: >> >> On 13/01/11 05:36, Jaques Cochet wrote: >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I'm working on a mail

smtp content_filter help needed (Vacation.pl)

2011-01-12 Thread Mark (Lunatechnologies)
Hi there, I'm using a virtual vacation script (version 3.2), which runs as a content filter for a while - but I have one makjor problem. It works fine as an auotreply script for users who are on vacation, but stops all other users from sending and receiving their mail. After many hours trouble