Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Sep 2014, at 13:40, Brad Knowles wrote: On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Bill Cole mmlist-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: There are inherently hard problems with transparent SMTP proxies, some of which can be avoided by carefully harmonizing proxy MTA settings. There's probably

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-08 Thread Brad Knowles
On Sep 8, 2014, at 11:56 AM, Bill Cole mmlist-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: You forgot to mention: one of the most uniformly respected and liked participants in the often prickly history of that community. Thank you very much. However, I think you're the first person, and only

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-05 Thread Bill Cole
On 5 Sep 2014, at 0:57, John Grasty wrote: Benny and Bill, Thanks. Mr. Cole, you nailed it. I changed from opensmtpd (which I love) to postfix, and I went from an outsourced spam filtering to ASSP, a behemoth of a perl script that is a transparent proxy. So far it has done a great job at

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
On Sep 5, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Bill Cole mmlist-20120...@billmail.scconsult.com wrote: There are inherently hard problems with transparent SMTP proxies, some of which can be avoided by carefully harmonizing proxy MTA settings. There's probably more hope for making ASSP work than Cisco's

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-05 Thread John Grasty
Mr. Cole and Mr. Knowles, Thank you so much both of you for your wisdom on this subject. I will definitely file this away for later. Since ASSP is working so well currently at filtering spam, I may try to get this one issue debugged. I've been grepping the logs, and besides the 4-5 times that

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-05 Thread Brad Knowles
On Sep 5, 2014, at 1:44 PM, John Grasty john+mailm...@needfaith.org wrote: At some point, I'm sure I'll get antsy and want to try out spam assassin. I was hesitant as I heard that it can be a resource hog if not properly tuned. It can be, sure. But it's not too hard to tune for reasonable

[MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-04 Thread John Grasty
Hey Benny and all, I've been using Mailmate for a while. I really love it. I've just made a change to my mail server, and I'm running into an SMTP timeout issue...but only with Mailmate, none of my other clients. Every once in a while a message will timeout and not get sent. The activity

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-04 Thread Benny Kjær Nielsen
On 4 Sep 2014, at 22:18, John Grasty wrote: Every once in a while a message will timeout and not get sent. The activity log shows everything down to the closing . , but the mail server never seems to receive the . It's not a known issue. Could you send me an example of such a log? Off list

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-04 Thread Bill Cole
On 4 Sep 2014, at 17:03, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote: On 4 Sep 2014, at 22:18, John Grasty wrote: Every once in a while a message will timeout and not get sent. The activity log shows everything down to the closing . , but the mail server never seems to receive the . It's not a known issue.

Re: [MlMt] SMTP Timeout

2014-09-04 Thread John Grasty
Benny and Bill, Thanks. Mr. Cole, you nailed it. I changed from opensmtpd (which I love) to postfix, and I went from an outsourced spam filtering to ASSP, a behemoth of a perl script that is a transparent proxy. So far it has done a great job at filtering, but this certainly seems to be their