On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 11:49 -0800, bruce wrote: > hey > > I know this isn't an OS question, but I'm lost!! > > New to configuring Postfix, with a few questions about how to configure Postfix. > > I'm running Fedora, with Postfix, from the basic yum install. The > Sendmail process has been stopped. > > I can easily send a basic test mail from the cmdline. Ie: > > mail foo@xxxxxxxxx > subject: blah > test > . > Cc: > > works with no issue. However, the email on the gmail end, is in the > Spam folder, which is to be expected. > > As I understand the different articles I've seen, Postfix can be > configured to allow me to authenticate emails, to in effect, > relay/send them using the authenticaion of a valid email user/passwd > from a valid gmail account. (or from my own isp user/passwd). This > would then allow the emails to be in the Inbox folder! > > I've seen a great deal of online articles, but I'm still confused as > to exactly what's required to make this happen. > > I know that the main.cf, as well as the transports/sasl-passwd files > have to be modified. I'm confused as to whether certs are actually > required, or if TSL is/is not required.... > > So, I'm trying to figure out exactly what config files have to be > modified, as well as what has to be inserted in the config files. > > If I could see the confi files from someone who's actually gone > through this process, I could more quickly get my head around what > I've screwed up! ---- configuration on the postfix server probably factors little into the decisions made by a 'spam' filter but generally, you can check the mail headers of any e-mail in a spam folder (like on Gmail) to see if it has the 'scoring' which will tell you exactly which factors led to it scoring to a number that caused it to believe it was spam. At this stage, I simply will not accept mail from any smtp server whose forward & reverse DNS don't match. So if you are sending me e-mails from server mail.example.com you better have a reverse DNS address that tells me that your ip address points to mail.example.com. Perhaps if Gmail accepts that type of e-mail, it gets a really big scoring penalty where pretty much any other factor will push it over the top and be marked spam. You could also try to use things like SPF or domainkeys to up the trust factor of your server. Whether you used TLS to authenticate to your mail server in order to send is not too likely to affect the spam scoring and there's little reason to duplicate the excellent documentation over at postfix.org's web site which tells you what to do to implement TLS & SASL authentication, how to generate certificates, etc. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
