Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

Le 21/10/2010 03:59, Christopher Koeber a écrit : On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt mailto:ralf.hildebra...@charite.de>> wrote: * Christopher Koeber mailto:ckoe...@gmail.com>>: > inet_interfaces = all default > mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

Le 18/10/2010 22:22, Charles Marcus a écrit : On 2010-10-18 4:02 PM, Christopher Koeber wrote: OK, based on the config below I have achieved what I set out to do below. I'm far from expert, but some comments... First - you are explicitly setting a lot of settings to their defaults - this clutt

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM, Victor Duchovni < victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > > No. It does no harm, and possibly a tiny bit of good. There > is nothing wrong with MX records even when an A record is present > for the same domain, and the MX points the domain at itself. > > -- >

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > > I wouldn't - but then again, I wouldn't run a mail server on the domain A > record either :) > Why not? Regards, Christopher koeber > > There are MTAs that want a mail *sender* to have an MX record (which is > silly), but it should ne

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 10/22/2010 06:54 AM, Christopher Koeber wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeroen Geilman > wrote: No. foo.bar MX 10 foo.bar is unnecessary, as any valid A record can receive mail. Since foo.bar has to be an A record (you're using it as the MX

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:54:22AM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: > I never knew that if an A record points to the mail host then you don't need > the MX record for said host. > > Should I remove the record? No. It does no harm, and possibly a tiny bit of good. There is nothing wrong with MX r

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > > No. > > foo.bar MX 10 foo.bar is unnecessary, as any valid A record can receive > mail. > Since foo.bar has to be an A record (you're using it as the MX value) the > MX record is superfluous. > > -- > J. > > I guess I am being overly ca

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 10/21/2010 04:02 AM, Christopher Koeber wrote: On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jeroen Geilman > wrote: On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main domain, which appears to be the

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Victor Duchovni < victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: > > > After making the changes where only I was explicitly setting things to > what > > I needed them to be versus the default the post

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:49:32PM -0400, Christopher Koeber wrote: > After making the changes where only I was explicitly setting things to what > I needed them to be versus the default the postfix system seems faster, too! This is an optical illusion. Removing default settings simplifies your c

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > > Do you understand what I meant by ^^^ that? It really does make working > with postfix easier if you comment out 'defaults'... I cut my postconf > -n output in half by doing this. > > Just compare output of postconf -d (gives you the defau

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > >> Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main >> domain, which appears to be the case here: >> >> ;; ANSWER SECTION: >> wesleyseminary.edu. 43098 IN MX 10

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > * Christopher Koeber : > > > inet_interfaces = all > default > > > mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu > > myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu > > I'd say myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu > wh

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 10/19/2010 06:12 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Not if the students subdomain has different MX details to the main domain, which appears to be the case here: ;; ANSWER SECTION: wesleyseminary.edu. 43098 IN MX 10 mail1.no-ip.com. wesleyseminary.edu. 43098 IN MX 15 mail

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On 19/10/10 8:04 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Christopher Koeber : > >> inet_interfaces = all > default > >> mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu >> myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu > > I'd say myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu > which implies mydomain = wesleyseminary.edu >

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* Christopher Koeber : > inet_interfaces = all default > mydomain = students.wesleyseminary.edu > myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu I'd say myhostname = students.wesleyseminary.edu which implies mydomain = wesleyseminary.edu Setting mydomain equal to myhostname strikes me as being odd.

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 2010-10-18 4:02 PM, Christopher Koeber wrote: > OK, based on the config below I have achieved what I set out to do > below. I'm far from expert, but some comments... First - you are explicitly setting a lot of settings to their defaults - this clutters postconf -n output needlessly. > postcon

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

OK, based on the config below I have achieved what I set out to do below. Everything is done properly. For getting mailman to work with postfix with the local domains and without the need for subdomains I used transport maps to switch for local to virtual. See below if people need help with it. I

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 7/10/10 6:49 AM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 10/06/2010 09:48 PM, Larry Stone wrote: >> >> To call all mailing list managers "listservs" is as wrong as calling >> all MTAs "Postfixes". :-) > > That would not be a bad idea. Yes it would, we'd end up in a world where people genuinely thought that

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 10/06/2010 09:48 PM, Larry Stone wrote: On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jeroen Geilman wrote: If the lists are managed by a listserv software such as mailman ... Please excuse the brief aside but as someone who has been involved slightly with Mailman (as the author of some installation instructions)

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jeroen Geilman wrote: If the lists are managed by a listserv software such as mailman ... Please excuse the brief aside but as someone who has been involved slightly with Mailman (as the author of some installation instructions), please do not use "listserv" as a generic

Re: Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

On 10/05/2010 08:35 PM, Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: Hello, I have emailed about integrating my Postfix installation with Mailman and discovered that I will need to redesign my Postfix configuration to make it work. Therefore, I am asking for assistance in this task. Here is what my mail

Request for help with redesign of Postfix Configuration File ...

Hello, I have emailed about integrating my Postfix installation with Mailman and discovered that I will need to redesign my Postfix configuration to make it work. Therefore, I am asking for assistance in this task. Here is what my mailserver needs to do: . The mail system must host