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Apparently, though unproven, at 21:56 on Sunday 23 January 2011, kashani did |
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opine thusly: |
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> On 1/23/2011 11:23 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Relaying does not work yet, I get a "Relay access denied (in reply to |
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> > RCPT TO command)" error. But my initial goal is reached, I can send mail |
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> > to {root,wonko}@wonkology.org. That's all I wanted. |
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> > Many many thanks kashani! Your howto is much more than I expected, it is |
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> > much appreciated. I realize that postfix is not too complicated, so I |
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> > will play more with it when I have some spare time. |
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> Postifx is definitely worth the investment and people always seem |
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> surprised to find that 5-15 lines of config is all they need. You're |
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> welcome for the config. I spent most of last week learning the ins and |
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> out of authentication and relay hosts that hard way when I changed the |
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> domain of our servers and needed to update everything. |
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> I'm using a lot of EC2 machines and didn't want to maintain IP lists |
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so |
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> I auth all servers trying to relay against my two Postfix servers. This |
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> config reflects that and might need some changes for your environment. |
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> kashani |
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Side note: |
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Agreed on Postfix. |
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I always think of the Postfix devs as people who take Unix philosophy |
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seriously. The code does one thing and does it very very well: |
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It sends and receives mail. It receives it in a way that is hard to hurt the |
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sender and hard to crash Postfix, and sends it in a way that does not hurt |
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itself and does not hurt the recipient. Oh, and it natively does a few sanity |
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checks on the sender, mostly because it's convenient to do it there. |
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And the config is simplicity itself - define a hostname, domain and a few |
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other things and the odds are excellent it will work well out of the box as |
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one of the few setups that 98% of people with mail servers want. |
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It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't |
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really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and finding |
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the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is |
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really hard. |
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I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* |
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Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends on |
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to Postfix as fast as it can, and Postfix transparently relays to recipient. I |
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get best of both worlds :-) |
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Now let's contrast Postfix with sendmail. No, wait, let's rather not.... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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