[lug] postfix "policy" question

Chip Atkinson chip at pupman.com
Sun Nov 28 20:48:10 MST 2004



On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Lee Woodworth wrote:

> Chip Atkinson wrote:
> > Thanks so much!  The one thing that I was missing, 
> > greylist unix - n n - - spawn 
> > where "greylist" replace the word "policy" is the key/answer to the
> > problem that I was having.
> What isn't obvious in master.cf, is that the service "names" are either 
> unix socket file names or internet port numbers. For unix services, the 
> private/public setting determines whether the socket is in 
> /var/spool/postfix/{public,private}. For inet services, the name is the 
> port the service listens on.

It's good to hear you say it's not obvious.  I'd look at the readme files
and they seemed awfully vague and the examples were rather stripped down
or genericized to the extent that I couldn't tell what was meant.

> 
> > It wasn't clear how to have more than one filter in place.
> > 
> > On a similar topic, does anyone have any favorite books on postfix?
> > I see that O'Reilly has one, but one of the reviews was rather poor.
> Do you mean: Postfix: the Defintive Guide, Kyle Dent, 2004? I have it, 
> and think it is a pretty good introduction to the system. Doesn't cover 
> some of the new features since 2.1. The poor review may be more due to 
> postfix's config parameters not being as orthogonal as they could be.

Yeah, I was thinking of that very book.  The reviewer's main complaints
were that not all the config params were listed and that some of the
sections seemed to stop before getting into too much detail.

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