RE: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-03 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Andy, [] >> My understanding is that as we are sending email from our own domain >> e.g "example.com" its complaining because the PTR is ovh.net not example.com? > No, there is no requirement for the PTR record to match the From: > address of the email. They just want it to not look

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 12:46:04PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Can I clarify my understanding of an issue with a Debian Postfix server > please. We have a mail server which is a VPS running Debian hosted by OVH. > Its hostname is of the form vps-xyz.vps.ovh.net the PTR for the IP

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Andrew Wood
On 02/06/2023 13:01, Dan Ritter wrote: Ask OVH to set the PTR to one of your domains, and make sure you have an MX in each of your domains that points back to that domain. i.e.: PTR mail.longterm.com MX for longterm: 50 mail.longterm.com MX for otherdomain: 30 mail.otherdomain.com 50

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Andrew Wood wrote: > Hi > > Can I clarify my understanding of an issue with a Debian Postfix server > please. We have a mail server which is a VPS running Debian hosted by OVH. > Its hostname is of the form vps-xyz.vps.ovh.net the PTR for the IP resolves > to that. > &

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 juin 2023 Andrew Wood a écrit : > The the issue is our server sends mail for our own domains and we are getting > mail rejected from some recipient servers with 550 PTR rejected: Please use a > non-generic PTR (in reply to RCPT TO command. Give the full message for better understanding but

PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Andrew Wood
Hi Can I clarify my understanding of an issue with a Debian Postfix server please. We have a mail server which is a VPS running Debian hosted by OVH. Its hostname is of the form vps-xyz.vps.ovh.net the PTR for the IP resolves to that. The the issue is our server sends mail for our own

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 5:09 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and mailing list service. ... After considering all the suggestions, I have prepared a plan, using a bit of pseudo code, to describe what I believe I need to do.

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 11:04 AM Henning Follmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:47:36AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann ... > For years I operated a couple of sendmail installations. That and the > O'Reilly Sendmail book tought me a lot. > Today

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 12:36:38 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian wrote: > > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian wrote: > ... > > Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
ot; (such as │ or ). It should be a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) that you are entitled to use. │ │ For instance, to allow the local host to generate mail with addresses such as , set the │ system mail name to "example.org". So, I guess I can trust opensmtpd to do the right thing if I set up it

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Brian wrote: > On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 11:22:58 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:36 Brian wrote: ... > Thanks, I will read the page in detail later. Meanwhile, I did a quick > search on the page for "mailname" and didn't get anything.

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Brian
ware of the function > > of /etc/mailname in its sending of mail. What does /etc/mailname do on > > OpenSMTPD? > > > The source of my info is in this link: > > > https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-dovecot-and-rspamd/?utm_source=s

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
this link: https://poolp.org/posts/2019-09-14/setting-up-a-mail-server-with-opensmtpd-dovecot-and-rspamd/?utm_source=share_medium=ios_app_name=iossmf -Tom

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:47:36AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann > wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote: > > ... > > > Don't do THAT! > > > > RFC2181 section 10.3 says you can't point your MX record to a CNAME > > >

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Brian
On Fri 21 Feb 2020 at 05:09:47 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and > mailing list service. > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:37 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote: ... > Don't do THAT! > > RFC2181 section 10.3 says you can't point your MX record to a CNAME > Maybe that's why Namecheap has the MXE record that points to an IP. Besides the

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:38:45PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 2/21/2020 12:09 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and > > mailing list service. > > > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > > servers

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Joe
On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:46:59 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:29 Joe wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:00:14 -0600 > > Tom Browder wrote: > > ... > > > > As I understand it, a mail server has to use smtp to physically > &

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:29 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:00:14 -0600 > Tom Browder wrote: ... > > As I understand it, a mail server has to use smtp to physically > > transfer mail between physical hosts and that requires one name that > > will resolve to a

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
gt; Depends on the purpose of the name(s). > > ... > > Thanks, Jonas, that makes good sense. Based on that I should use > "mail" and maybe "mail2" for my backup mail server. Only if by "backup" you mean mirror of mail services generally - i.e. also fo

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:17 Michael Howard wrote: ... > I don't know your use case but using 'regular' names like smtp.example.com, > imap.example.com, pop3.example.com etc, help with the auto config > processes used on devices, thus making it easier for users to setup > accounts on their

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Joe
ase) multiple > domains hosted across multiple servers which I also fully control (no > sharing, full root control). > > As I understand it, a mail server has to use smtp to physically > transfer mail between physical hosts and that requires one name that > will resolve to an IP.

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
uld use "mail" and maybe "mail2" for my backup mail server. One of the reasons I asked was I know Gmail used to use something like " smtp.gmail.com" for its smtp server and thought that might be popular among sysadmins with such servers. -Tom

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Michael Howard
On 21/02/2020 11:09, Tom Browder wrote: I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and mailing list service. I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled domains. The

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
or any other > choice? Depends on the purpose of the name(s). If you run everything on a single host, then mail.example.com. If you need to distinguish mail routing from other tasks (e.g. when running a spam filter on a different host and you want to tell other smtp servers to

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
l root control). As I understand it, a mail server has to use smtp to physically transfer mail between physical hosts and that requires one name that will resolve to an IP. Even if the server is hosting multiple domains, the mail for each still has to use the one "mailname" for transport. H

Re: Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread john doe
On 2/21/2020 12:09 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and > mailing list service. > > I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two > servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled >

Choice of "mailname" for mail server: suggestions welcome

2020-02-21 Thread Tom Browder
I am preparing servers to use with OpenSMTPD and Sympa to provide mail and mailing list service. I need to settle on names to define as the "mailname" for each the two servers I will designate for the DNS MX records for all my mail-enabled domains. The mailnames should be "fully qualified domain

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The script needs more work it is not exim4-exploiters, it is for repeated failed logins. As it is now, it will treat any single failure as one to ban and that is only going to cause trouble. Although users should be logged in normally and will

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Slightly improved shell script, uses iprange once and conflates both lists together. #!/bin/bash declare -a tcp25_set tcp465_set tcp_25_465_set banned_ports_list=25,465,993,995 logwatch_file=/var/log/exim4/logwatch-email-20190622a.eml # NB

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 22/6/19 6:24 pm, john doe wrote: >> I've blacklisted quite a number of IP addresses and CIDR blocks >> from delivering email to my server with entries in the >> /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist file. >> >> Is there any config file that I

Re: blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread john doe
> Hi, > > I've blacklisted quite a number of IP addresses and CIDR blocks from > delivering email to my server with entries in the > /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist file. > > Is there any config file that I can easily use to block 465 login > attempts from bad IP addresses and CIDR blocks? > > If

blocking 465 connections to mail server for specific IP address without using fail2ban

2019-06-22 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I've blacklisted quite a number of IP addresses and CIDR blocks from delivering email to my server with entries in the /etc/exim4/local_host_blacklist file. Is there any config file that I can easily use to block 465 login attempts from bad IP

Re: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>

2018-02-19 Thread Curt
of its >>>> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >>>> >>>>debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>> SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT >>>> TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>: >>>>

Re: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>

2018-02-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
ddress(es) failed: >>> >>>debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT >>> TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>: >>> host bendel.debian.org [82.195.75.100]: 554 5.1.8 >>> <gldu-debian-use...@m.gmane

Re: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>

2018-02-19 Thread Curt
On 2018-02-18, Karol Augustin <ka...@augustin.pl> wrote: >> >> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its >> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >> >>debian-user@lists.debian.org >>

Re: SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>

2018-02-18 Thread Karol Augustin
his is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > >debian-user@lists.debian.org > SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT > TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>: > host bendel.debian.org [82.195.75.100]: 554 5.1.8 > <gldu-debian-use...@m.gmane

SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>

2018-02-18 Thread Curt Saltzman
-user@lists.debian.org SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<debian-user@lists.debian.org>: host bendel.debian.org [82.195.75.100]: 554 5.1.8 <gldu-debian-use...@m.gmane.org>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found Domain not found. This is quite sudde

Mail server needs upgrade

2014-03-03 Thread Arnold Bird
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mail server ayarları

2012-09-24 Thread Mehmet Ak
Merhaba arkadaşlar. Bir acentenin mail server işi için teklif vermem lazım. 2 milyon email adresi var. Spama takılmadan mail gönderebilrmesi için nasıl bir sistem kurmalıyım . Yardımlarınız için şimdiden teşekkürler.

Re: mail server

2012-07-31 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
of emails on our mail server and in case of email lost we can not recover it since we have no backup. so my proposal to my management is if we place a centralized mail server we can make backup of users email from our mail server and old mail can also be restored. you can call it migrating

Re: mail server

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
to migrate the e-mails and other stuff from Outlook clients to the new e-mailing service? ok our 20 users fetching their emails from our hosted server. which is maintained by our service provider. and we are keeping 3 months of emails on our mail server and in case of email lost we can

Re: mail server

2012-07-29 Thread Camaleón
mail server unintentionally mailer daemon comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on linux.since i have just started to shift from Microsoft to Linux. there is lot to learn. I first switched -time ago- from MDaemon (v3.2) when I installed a Linux system and had

Re: mail server

2012-07-29 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when ever some one say a name mail server unintentionally mailer daemon comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on linux.since i have just started to shift from Microsoft to Linux. there is lot to learn. I first switched -time ago

Re: mail server

2012-07-29 Thread Joe
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:21:53 +0500 Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: ok our 20 users fetching their emails from our hosted server. which is maintained by our service provider. and we are keeping 3 months of emails on our mail server and in case of email lost we can not recover

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
there are few populer mail servers like postfix, sandmail etc out there. here is some details about my office. 1. 20 users. 2. pop from main server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 28 iul 12, 12:53:19, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools -postfidx -dovecot -postfixadmin (web interface) -roundcube -spamassassin -clamv btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the question raising

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Muhammad Yousuf Khan: btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the question raising in my mind if postfix is the complete server then why we have to add several other tools like mentioned above (dovecot,spamassassin etc) ? When Unix/Linux people talk about mail servers

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: -postfidx -dovecot -postfixadmin (web interface) -roundcube -spamassassin -clamv btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail server. but the question raising in my mind if postfix is the complete server

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when ever some one say a name mail server unintentionally mailer daemon comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on linux.since i have just started to shift from Microsoft to Linux. there is lot to learn

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:53 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: -postfidx -dovecot -postfixadmin (web interface) -roundcube -spamassassin -clamv btw i have a question in my mind . postfix is mail

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, good example. if i say ISPs which provide SMTP relay. are using MTA where they dont want to store emails (unlike i have to do in office) rather just relay all the messages to destination. Correct? Generally

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when ever some one say a name mail server unintentionally mailer daemon comes in my mind. this is my first time that i am implementing MTA on linux.since i have

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 18:01:09 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: actually i have spent 3 years working with Mailer daemon v7.0 so when ever some one say a name mail server unintentionally mailer daemon comes in my mind

Re: Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Clive Standbridge
is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools -postfidx -dovecot -postfixadmin (web interface) -roundcube -spamassassin -clamv Most of that list is covered by the tutorials at http://workaround.org/ispmail/ I have used the tutorial for Debian Lenny and found it very

Re: mail server

2012-07-28 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please trim your posts.] On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 12:53:19PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any good howto on Debian Squeeze on following tools Google is your friend. It also corrects spelling mistakes. :) -postfidx Web Results 1 - 10 of about 276,000 for +squeeze +postfidx

Re: mail server

2012-07-27 Thread Brad Alexander
there. here is some details about my office. 1. 20 users. 2. pop from main server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base

Re: mail server

2012-07-26 Thread Denis Witt
On 25.07.2012 22:14, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for letting me know these matters but i am not using it publicly i will be downloading my emails from my hosted mail server. Then you will have to add a tool like fetchmail to your list to download the mails and put them into the local

Re: mail server

2012-07-26 Thread Denis Witt
On 25.07.2012 22:17, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: how you perform basic tasks like mail-ques checking, logs, mail box create, delete, mail restriction .etc.? With postfix there is the command postqueue which will show you the current queue. With the postsuper command you can delete Mails

Re: mail server

2012-07-26 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 01:17:15 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:52:25 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: need suggestions, i know there are few populer mail servers like postfix, sandmail etc out

Re: mail server

2012-07-26 Thread Denis Witt
On 26.07.2012 16:25, Camaleón wrote: how you perform basic tasks like mail-ques checking, logs, mail box create, delete, mail restriction .etc.? IIRC, last time I checked years ago, there were some GUI based frontends to perform the usual operations with Cyrus and Postfix (and also

Re: mail server

2012-07-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 26 iul 12, 10:17:38, Denis Witt wrote: On 25.07.2012 22:14, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Thanks for letting me know these matters but i am not using it publicly i will be downloading my emails from my hosted mail server. Then you will have to add a tool like fetchmail to your list

mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
need suggestions, i know there are few populer mail servers like postfix, sandmail etc out there. here is some details about my office. 1. 20 users. 2. pop from main server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called zimbra. but i think debian is not natively supporting it. any help would be appreciable

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread J. B
from main server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread ew
am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called zimbra. but i think debian is not natively supporting it. any help would

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Denis Witt
On 25.07.2012 13:52, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: here is some details about my office. 1. 20 users. 2. pop from main server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Camaleón
i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called zimbra. but i think debian is not natively supporting it. Ugh... I would

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called zimbra. but i think

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called zimbra. but i think debian is not natively supporting it. Hi, you will need at least two things

Re: mail server

2012-07-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
from main server 3. send via SMTP 4. local mail distribution IMAP i am not looking in to easy or hard mail server. what i am looking is it should be good for my carrier and for my office too. secure, stable, web base console etc. btw, i have heard that there is a mailserver called zimbra

Re: Exim4: incoming Internet mail to internal mail server

2012-03-12 Thread Camaleón
, mydomain.example has to be routeable and accesible worldwide otherwise nobody would be able to exchange messages with your host but from your own local network. and forward to another mail server (internal.existingdomain.example). How can I configure Exim4 to do that? (...) I think you want

Re: [SOLVED] Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-19 Thread Joel Rees
Stan, just out of curiosity, in such a case as this would it be worth trying to log in to the admin port on the router and muck with the settings? Or is there a subtext of owned router in the conversation here? Joel On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Olivier BATARD obat...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [SOLVED] Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-16 Thread Olivier BATARD
2011/11/15 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: On 11/15/2011 10:07 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: mynetworks = !192.168.150.254 192.168.150.0/24 The ! excludes the address. Thanks that solve my problem You're welcome.  Due to the NAT source address rewrite problem, the previous mynetworks

My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Olivier BATARD
HI, I'm a little in double because my postfix server is used to send an huge amount of spam, generating huge logs like that : postfix/error[2120]: 993AE145D: to=xbee...@yahoo.com.tw, relay=none, delay=101, delays=100/0.07/0/0.31, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host

Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Kevin Ross
are secured with strong password, town can I stop that ? thanks, Some log entries from when the message was submitted from the spammer into your mail system would be more useful, instead of the log entries from when your mail server then tried to deliver it. Is it possible you have an account

Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Kevin Ross
.html) I'm running squeeze, my account are secured with strong password, town can I stop that ? thanks, Some log entries from when the message was submitted from the spammer into your mail system would be more useful, instead of the log entries from when your mail server then tried to deliver

Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Olivier BATARD
be more useful, instead of the log entries from when your mail server then tried to deliver it. Is it possible you have an account on your system with an easy to guess (or empty) password?  Look in your system log for when the connection came in from the spammer, and see if it shows they actually

Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/15/2011 5:44 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: Thanks for the answer, when I run a grep -e connect from on the syslog I got this : Nov 15 12:32:47 VOLTALIAMSG postfix/smtpd[31110]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.150.254] Nov 15 12:32:49 VOLTALIAMSG postfix/smtpd[31102]: connect from

[SOLVED] Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Olivier BATARD
2011/11/15 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com: On 11/15/2011 5:44 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: Thanks for the answer, when I run a grep -e connect from on the syslog I got this : Nov 15 12:32:47 VOLTALIAMSG postfix/smtpd[31110]: disconnect from unknown[192.168.150.254] Nov 15 12:32:49

Re: [SOLVED] Re: My post mail server is used for spam

2011-11-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/15/2011 10:07 AM, Olivier BATARD wrote: mynetworks = !192.168.150.254 192.168.150.0/24 The ! excludes the address. Thanks that solve my problem You're welcome. Due to the NAT source address rewrite problem, the previous mynetworks configuration made Postfix a wide open relay. I'm

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-16 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rubbish. ;) There is no technical difference between a static IP and dynamic WRT SMTP, thus one can properly run a mail server for both sending and receiving directly. The problem one runs into here, which is probably what you meant to say, is merely receiver policy

Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Jason Hsu
This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. All I'm trying to do right now is send and receive email messages through my free DynDNS account. Let's say it's subdomain1.dyndns-free.com . The OS is Debian Lenny. The mail

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Jo Galara
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do I need an MX hostname? There are so many unknowns that I don't know where to begin. Yes, you need a MX hostname and reverse DNS. Set the reverse DNS hostname to the HELO hostname your SMTP server uses, as well as your MX hostname. About the

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Joe
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 01:13:57 -0500 Jason Hsu jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com wrote: This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. All I'm trying to do right now is send and receive email messages through my free DynDNS account

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jason Hsu put forth on 3/15/2011 1:13 AM: This is my first time ever working with a mail server. Thus, I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm trying to learn. This is bad because you're trying to do it with DynDNS. This prevents you from being able to setup a standard internet mail host

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Andrew McGlashan
is that the MX record has a corresponding A record as well. Also, as has been mentioned already, it is highly advisable to have rDNS {reverse DNS) -- without it, you should be using smart host, ie your ISP as an upstream sender. Using dynamic IP means that you can't properly run your own mail

Re: Help needed for my first mail server

2011-03-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
setup relay via SMTP auth to his ISPs relays. Using dynamic IP means that you can't properly run your own mail server for both sending and receiving directly. Rubbish. ;) There is no technical difference between a static IP and dynamic WRT SMTP, thus one can properly run a mail server for both

Re: help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

2011-03-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:58:01 -0600, mike cutie and maia wrote: I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server

help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

2011-02-28 Thread mike cutie and maia
Hi all, I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

2011-02-28 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 03/01/2011 07:28 AM, mike cutie and maia wrote: Hi all, I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server any

Re: Three mail server questions

2011-02-26 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: Right, thats what merrimac is doing (managing for the domain). What I am not understanding, is since everything should be going to the mailboxes on merrimac, why it is trying to contact hornet again. The mail flow, as I

Re: Three mail server questions

2011-02-26 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:25:51 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: Right, thats what merrimac is doing (managing for the domain). What I am not understanding, is since everything should be going to the mailboxes on merrimac, why it is trying

Re: Three mail server questions

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:58:35 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: I have three mail server questions, if I might. (...) On the mail server: Feb 24 13:16:06 merrimac postfix/qmgr[14271]: A5D97F1852: from= r...@hornet.bar.com, size=1143, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Feb 24 13:16:06 merrimac postfix/smtp

Re: Three mail server questions

2011-02-25 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-02-25 a las 13:47 -0500, Brad Alexander escribió: (resending to the list) On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) r...@hornet.bar.com, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.04/0.01/0/0, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to hornet.bar.com[192.168.1.13]:25:

Three mail server questions

2011-02-24 Thread Brad Alexander
I have three mail server questions, if I might. 1. I have set up most of the systems on my network to use my mail server for internal mail, things like ossec messages, apticron, etc. Most hosts run exim, so I have them set up with the mail server as my smarthost. However, one box, running Proxmox

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-11-02 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:10:10AM +0530, Abdullah wrote: I want to setup a mailserver on a debian machine. please help me as i have not got a perfect answer by googling. I wuld like to use squirrelmail. please help. First set up a nameserver, see /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/DNS-HOWTO.gz.

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-11-01 Thread Abdullah
I want to setup a mailserver on a debian machine. please help me as i have not got a perfect answer by googling. I wuld like to use squirrelmail. please help. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Carlos Mennens carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com wrote: I like Postfix and Dovecot :-) I think Postfix is the best open source MTA available on Linux hands down. I have used Sendmail, Qmail, and Exim and none of them have given me the

Re: Mail server recommendations

2010-10-27 Thread Rod James Bio
Postfix + Cyrus + SASL for simple users. You can add spamassassin + pyzor/rzor config your SASL to use LDAP or other auth method. For me postfix + cyrus is just a better combi. On Wednesday, 27 October, 2010 04:13 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: On 26/10/10 13:20, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Tue, Oct

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