From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ph9ue-00008f-5G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:04:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B7F3E0851; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www01.badapple.net (www01.badapple.net [64.79.219.163]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0370DE0851 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:02:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [76.14.68.122]) (Authenticated sender: ramin@badapple.net) by www01.badapple.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3F563844E07A for ; Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:02:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D3CC19A.9080100@badapple.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:02:34 -0800 From: kashani User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay References: <4D3B4D53.7000209@wonkology.org> <4D3C8041.2070105@wonkology.org> <4D3C87D1.7040307@badapple.net> <201101232220.43766.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201101232220.43766.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b1e54c7d43f7c8b44d4a4875b4b3afe7 On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't > really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and finding > the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is > really hard. > > I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* > Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends on > to Postfix as fast as it can, and Postfix transparently relays to recipient. I > get best of both worlds :-) I can't say I've ever needed anything more than mailq | grep |awk | postsuper -d - in order to delete mail from the Postfix queues. What sort of things are your trying to do other than delete a lot of spam or bounces? kashani