[Dovecot] recipient_delimiter

Phil Howard ttiphil at gmail.com
Fri May 28 20:00:52 EEST 2010


On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:11, Jerry <dovecot.user at seibercom.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010 11:25:17 -0400
> Phil Howard <ttiphil at gmail.com> articulated:
>
>
>> My main.cf file has the comments (my own that explains why settings
>> are there, not the default comments).  It is the easier to read file.
>> Even then, I was also reading the postconf -n output and just didn't
>> see the subtle difference (I was thinking more along the lines of
>> "what else is needed").  What might be needed to avoid things like
>> this is something to compare them.  Or maybe postfix giving an error
>> when a conflicting setting is encountered (or is there some basis for
>> always allowing settings that change previous settings).
>
> In the Postfix "main.cf" file, the last entry wins. This is one of the
> reasons to use "postconf -n" and NOT what you think the correct entry
> is. The output of "postconf -n" shows what Postfix sees.
>
> To sum it up:
>
> Provide output from the postfinger tool. This can be found at
> http://ftp.wl0.org/SOURCES/postfinger.
>
> If the problem is SASL related, consider including the output from the
> saslfinger tool. This can be found at
> http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/.
>
> If the problem is about too much mail in the queue, consider including
> output from the qshape tool, as described in the QSHAPE_README file.
>
> If the problem is protocol related (connections time out, or an SMTP
> server complains about syntax errors etc.) consider recording a session
> with tcpdump, as described in the DEBUG_README document.

Have you seen any config check tools?


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