postfixadmin-devel

[Postfixadmin-devel] Show analyze alias gotos and display?

[Farkas L. <lf...@bp...>]

hi,
i already ask it on the forum but didn't get any answer:-(
what is this show_status and how does it works? there is a short
description in the conf file, but it's not enough for me:-( so how does
this things supposed to work?
- what is show_undeliverable_exceptions?
- what is the show_custom_count?
- what is show_custom_domains?
thanks.

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Show analyze alias gotos and display?

[Greg C <ag...@gm...>]

On 10/12/07, Farkas Levente <lf...@bp...> wrote:
>
> hi,
> i already ask it on the forum but didn't get any answer:-(
> what is this show_status and how does it works? there is a short
> description in the conf file, but it's not enough for me:-( so how does
> this things supposed to work?


This feature examines  the addresses that aliases and mailboxes deliver to
and will mark them as "undeliverable" if they are sent to destinations not
on your postfix server (ie, not found in the database).  In the case where
MOST of the aliases ans mailboxes should be delivered locally, it can help
you find errors such as typos or an alias that delivers to a deleted
account.

It is designed to help mail admins to easily see the status of accounts
while browsing through multiple pages of aliases and mailboxes, but it will
only be helpful where 99% of mail is delivered to local postfix accounts and
a handful of other destinations.  If a high percentage of mail is delivered
to places like yahoo.com, hotmail.com, gmail.com, or other mail systems, all
those domains will be marked as undeliverable or they  have to be added to
the exceptions list so they are not flagged.

- what is show_undeliverable_exceptions?


There may be some delivery destinations that  do not appear in your
database, but are valid destinations for your situation.  The code will only
look for the domains specified in show_undeliverable_exceptions, as it
cannot verify the username at that domain.  For example, our postfix server
delivers many mailboxes to a MS exchange server.   The exchange server is
called exchange.ourdomain.com and we deliver mailboxes to
us...@ex....  I added exchange.ourdomain.com to the
exceptions list so those accounts aren't flagged as undeliverable.


- what is the show_custom_count?
> - what is show_custom_domains?
> thanks.


show_custom_count is the size of the show_custom_domains array.
show_custom_domains contains domain names like the
exchange.ourdomain.comexample above.  The result is that I can easily
identify exchange accounts
when browsing through mailboxes.


The undeliverable, POP/IMAP, and custom statuses can be individually
enabled/disabled.  Maybe only one or two of them make sense for your
situation and the others can be set to "NO"


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Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Show analyze alias gotos and display?

[Farkas L. <lf...@bp...>]

Greg C wrote:
> This feature examines  the addresses that aliases and mailboxes deliver
> to and will mark them as "undeliverable" if they are sent to
> destinations not on your postfix server (ie, not found in the
> database).  In the case where MOST of the aliases ans mailboxes should
> be delivered locally, it can help you find errors such as typos or an
> alias that delivers to a deleted account.

at the same time it'd be much easier if i can add alias from a pull down
menu or a list to the aliases when i edit alias. imho it'd be good
feature in stead of the current text field.

>     - what is the show_custom_count?
>     - what is show_custom_domains?
>     thanks.
> 
> 
> show_custom_count is the size of the show_custom_domains array. 
> show_custom_domains contains domain names like the
> exchange.ourdomain.com <http://exchange.ourdomain.com> example above. 
> The result is that I can easily identify exchange accounts when browsing
> through mailboxes.

so show_custom_domains is a subset of show_undeliverable_exceptions?

> The undeliverable, POP/IMAP, and custom statuses can be individually
> enabled/disabled.  Maybe only one or two of them make sense for your
> situation and the others can be set to "NO"

this makes things clear (and would be useful to document somewhere:-)

ps. some of our users keep locally his mails but at the same time they
also deliver to some external mail address. so set alias_control to yes.
in this case i edit the mailbox's alias and also add the external
address(es). the above color code get a little bit confusing in this
case. since normal mailbox pop3/imap has a gray box, external address
(eg from show_custom_domains) has lightblue box. but in this case imho
both lightblue _and_ gray box should have to be there, but only
lightblue is present.

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Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Show analyze alias gotos and display?

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007 schrieb Greg C:
[...]
> It is designed to help mail admins to easily see the status of
> accounts while browsing through multiple pages of aliases and
> mailboxes, but it will only be helpful where 99% of mail is delivered
> to local postfix accounts and a handful of other destinations.  If a
> high percentage of mail is delivered to places like yahoo.com,
> hotmail.com, gmail.com, or other mail systems, all those domains will
> be marked as undeliverable or they  have to be added to the
> exceptions list so they are not flagged.

Which leads to a feature request from me: can we have another option to 
only flag aliases that point to non-existing _local_ mailboxes?

> - what is the show_custom_count?
>
> > - what is show_custom_domains?
> > thanks.
>
> show_custom_count is the size of the show_custom_domains array.

Why don't you simply use   count($show_custom_domains)   ? ;-)
One error-prone config option less.


Another note: This should be documented somewhere in SVN. Maybe the best 
place is directly in config.inc.php ;-)


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Show analyze alias gotos and display?

[Farkas L. <lf...@bp...>]

Christian Boltz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2007 schrieb Greg C:
> [...]
>> It is designed to help mail admins to easily see the status of
>> accounts while browsing through multiple pages of aliases and
>> mailboxes, but it will only be helpful where 99% of mail is delivered
>> to local postfix accounts and a handful of other destinations.  If a
>> high percentage of mail is delivered to places like yahoo.com,
>> hotmail.com, gmail.com, or other mail systems, all those domains will
>> be marked as undeliverable or they  have to be added to the
>> exceptions list so they are not flagged.
> 
> Which leads to a feature request from me: can we have another option to 
> only flag aliases that point to non-existing _local_ mailboxes?
> 
>> - what is the show_custom_count?
>>
>>> - what is show_custom_domains?
>>> thanks.
>> show_custom_count is the size of the show_custom_domains array.
> 
> Why don't you simply use   count($show_custom_domains)   ? ;-)
> One error-prone config option less.
> 
> 
> Another note: This should be documented somewhere in SVN. Maybe the best 
> place is directly in config.inc.php ;-)

agree all of the above:-)

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