[Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 24, Issue 30

[richb at pioneer.ci.net (Rich Braun)]

Daniel Hagerty suggested:
>    relay_recipient_maps.  ...must *fully enumerate* which addresses
> to accept. ... everbody's mail system is wildly
> different (e.g. the one for my mind-numbingly simple setup is 2500
> lines long, but blessedly computer generated from my alias file,
> password file, and mydomains list on the primary).

Our cases probably aren't all that different but as I think about this, every
time I've ever decided on a whim that I'd like to tweak my mail system a
little bit, I've found myself still tweaking it a month later, enduring a
couple of episodes of lost inbound or outbound email.  My current tweaking was
motivated by a change in ISPs (I now have port 25 open directly to the 'net)
and by the vague idea that maybe I could further reduce the ~50 spams a month
that still get through.

This stuff is *H*A*R*D*.  No hardly anyone still runs a personal mail server.

For me, it's back to the setup I put together about 5 years ago.  May it last
another 5 years...

-rich