Re: [policyd-users] changing reject code to 451

2007-05-21 Thread Cami Sardinha
Andy Lee wrote: I just tried defer_code=451 but my logs are still showing that defer_if_permit is using 450. Can anyone else confirm? I am running Postfix 2.1.5. This needs to go to the Postfix mailing list. Cami - This

Re: [policyd-users] Sender throttling

2007-05-24 Thread Cami Sardinha
jibie wrote: If one really wanted to do this in Policyd, you will need to run 2 instances of Policyd. (one doing sender throttling by SASL/from addresses and another instance throttling by HOST addresses). Haha =) This is exactly what I thought of initially, but I dismissed it as a bad

Re: [policyd-users] Getting 554 error on whitelisted entries

2007-05-24 Thread Cami Sardinha
Vladimir wrote: I'm having some difficulty getting policyd working under Postfix 2.3.3 under Centos. I would like to use it in the SMS gateway scenario where I limit the amount of messages that can be sent out to an external address in a period of time. I compiled, installed and started

Re: [policyd-users] postfix-policyd with MySQL accross a WAN

2007-06-15 Thread Cami Sardinha
Dean Manners wrote: - Jun 15 12:02:55 secondary postfix-policyd: connection from: 127.0.0.1 port: 49516 slots: 8 of 4096 used Jun 15 12:02:55 secondary postfix-policyd: DEBUG: fd: 8 select(): fd 8 is ready for read Jun 15 12:02:55 secondary postfix-policyd: DEBUG: fd: 8 connection got an

Re: [policyd-users] postfix-policyd with MySQL accross a WAN

2007-06-15 Thread Cami Sardinha
Dean Manners wrote: Cami, My apologies. Debian sarge (2.4.18 kernel). Policyd was backported from testing to sarge. # dpkg --list |grep policyd ii postfix-policyd 1.80-2.1 anti-spam plugin for Postfix Installed with Debians apt-get, from our custom package

Re: [policyd-users] feature request: p0f integration

2007-06-19 Thread Cami Sardinha
Chris Covington wrote: hello list, Cami, I've been using policyd since July 2005 and it's been the best thing since sliced bread for us. I would like to make a feature request (or perhaps this can be configured without changing policyd). I would like to, for domains which require very

Re: [policyd-users] feature request: p0f integration

2007-06-19 Thread Cami Sardinha
Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: Cami Sardinha escreveu: I was thinking about this feature request. I personally greylist all incoming mail but i can see merit in your idea since (apparently) up to 95% of spam originates from windows based machines. I don't have time to write this type

[policyd-users] New Policyd maintainer

2007-06-20 Thread Cami Sardinha
Hi All, With immediate effect, I'm happy to announce that Nigel Kukard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) will be taking over Policyd. He knows the code fairly well and is responsible for the non-blocking read()/write() code that was included some time ago. I'll be working together with him at the start but he

Re: [policyd-users] Developers mailing list SVN repository

2007-06-20 Thread Cami Sardinha
Nigel Kukard wrote: Policyd now has a developers mailing list, policyd-devel. The purpose of this list is to provide an environment for the developers of Policyd, entities maintaining their own patchsets or anyone with something to contribute to come and discuss. This list is aimed at the

Re: [policyd-users] Increased Spam

2007-07-06 Thread Cami Sardinha
Joe Lanager wrote: Cami, So once I've identified and added the MTA/networks I want to the whitelist I can just run a query to empty out the triplet table? Yup, TRUNCATE TABLE triplet; is the better option. Cami - This

Re: [policyd-users] Throttled email will not leave queue

2007-07-19 Thread Cami Sardinha
Matt Beckman wrote: Thanks, John. How can I determine if it is down? I opened a telnet session on port 10031 to localhost and it connected. I didn't issue any commands, though, if you have some testing suggestions. Also, the logs show that postfix-policyd connected (including showing the

Re: [policyd-users] chroot breaking name lookups

2007-07-24 Thread Cami Sardinha
Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote: We run policyd v1.81 as user/group policyd, chroot to an empty directory /var/empty/policyd/. But then policyd isn't able to resolve my MYSQLHOST hostname. If I use ip-address it works fine. It complains: policyd: connecting to mysql database:

Re: [policyd-users] question on smtpd_recipient_restrictions order

2007-07-30 Thread Cami Sardinha
Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: I would like to greylist connections that are trying to send messages to unknown addresses. Today those connections receives 'unknown user' and policyd never heard of them. I would like them to receive the Policy Rejection because of greylist=new

Re: [policyd-users] Redundant MySQL connection

2007-08-06 Thread Cami Sardinha
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: It would be great to implement a new option in policyd. Technically it should not be difficult. The new option would list a backup MySQL server/dbname/user/password, and if it's specified, every INSERT statement is duplicated on that server. This would allow an

Re: [policyd-users] Redundant MySQL connection

2007-08-06 Thread Cami Sardinha
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote: --- Cami Sardinha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what happens when someone requests a 3rd, 4th and 5th MySQL backup option? nobody would need that :) The approach that I suggested would work perfectly for 1+1 redundancy. If someone wants a bigger redundancy

Re: [policyd-users] The table throttle_from_instance

2007-08-08 Thread Cami Sardinha
Hi Aslan, I've see more information about the table throttle_from_instance, and I found this old thread in the list. http://www.mail-archive.com/policyd-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg00221.html Cami, you said that we can truncate the table throttle_from_instance once a month, why is

Re: [policyd-users] policyd/popb4smtp problem ?

2007-08-08 Thread Cami Sardinha
Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm running Postfix with popb4smtp and policyd, it all works well. however, I've now tried sending email from my Palm hand/held over GPRS; I do a POP retrieve pass, wait, then try to send, however, Snapper mail fails to send and says like below: am I getting

Re: [policyd-users] Memory hog?

2007-08-13 Thread Cami Sardinha
Dave wrote: Policyd seems to be taking a huge chunk of memory - is there any way I can control it? Currently it runs in 34032 kB. This wasn't a problem when I had a whole server but I'm currently running on a memory-restricted VPS and I can't see why it wants so much memory. The server

Re: [policyd-users] Throttling not working well

2007-08-24 Thread Cami Sardinha
Fernando Schubert wrote: Hi everybody! I`m facing a problem with SENDERTHROTTLE I use it to enforce quota in a small mail cluster (8 servers) environment. I have large traffic and I`m encountering some problems with throttling. My defaults are 1000 mails or 40Mb of data in 24 hours. But

Re: [policyd-users] Good SPF (only ?) policy deamon ?

2007-08-24 Thread Cami Sardinha
Xavier Beaudouin wrote: Since there is not yet (is this planned?) SPF support to policyd, does someone here has a good idea for spf policy server for postfix ? This functionality will not be built into Policyd, there is a different policy server which does SPF checking. Cami

Re: [policyd-users] Error in bind()

2007-08-27 Thread Cami Sardinha
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: # # port to bind to: # # port which the policy daemon will listen on # BINDPORT=10031 I think this is correct and there is not any service in this port: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# netstat -punta | grep LISTEN tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:10024

Re: [policyd-users] SenderThrottle failures?

2007-08-27 Thread Cami Sardinha
Fernando Schubert wrote: Hi! I have a question about throttle - SENDERTHROTTLE -(one more, sorry). In the readme it states that `pass` meains a failure. I`m having thousand messages from pass like this: Aug 24 03:27:32 srv-06-lb postfix-policyd-sf: rcpt=3132219, throttle=pass And also

Re: [policyd-users] Is this throttle config possible?

2007-08-29 Thread Cami Sardinha
am.lists wrote: Recently, I was emailing a system admin at one of the major ISPs. He told me that we were blocked for going over their throttle limits, which he described as 10 simultaneous connections per IP and 100 messages per hour. Now. I use policyd 1.8x and know that I can do the

Re: [policyd-users] multiple instances of cleanup

2007-08-29 Thread Cami Sardinha
John Beaver wrote: Cami Sardinha wrote: Tobias Kreidl wrote: If one is running multiple SMTP servers, is there any harm running cleanup from each one at the same time via a cron job, or is it better to stagger the times a bit? If all your SMTP servers are connecting to the SAME / SINGLE

Re: [policyd-users] greylisting vs postfix smtpd_hard_error_limit

2007-08-30 Thread Cami Sardinha
Cami Sardinha wrote: Geert Hendrickx wrote: Hi, has anyone experienced bad interaction between greylisting and (by default) low smtpd_hard_error_limit settings in postfix? Our smtpd_hard_error_limit has always been pretty high so I can't tell from my own experience. But with greylisting

Re: [policyd-users] greylisting vs postfix smtpd_hard_error_limit

2007-08-30 Thread Cami Sardinha
Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Cami Sardinha wrote: As Wietse has pointed out, you should be whitelisting the legitimate bulk senders.. In an ISP environment, it is not obvious to know all your legitimate smtp clients.. Indeed. We had training mode running

Re: [policyd-users] greylisting vs postfix smtpd_hard_error_limit

2007-08-30 Thread Cami Sardinha
Geert Hendrickx wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:27:08PM +0200, Cami Sardinha wrote: Indeed. We had training mode running for about 2 months in order to identify the top senders / email addresses. After that point when people complained, they were whitelisted. There was a 2 - 3 weeks

Re: [policyd-users] [CLOSED] greylisting and several rcpts

2007-09-04 Thread Cami Sardinha
Artem Bokhan wrote: You can not use greylisting without *all* the required information needed to make the triplet. Without ignorance of principles I can't ) With ignorance - I can. The result in most sutiations will be the same. If something is unclear about the last paragraph, feel free

Re: [policyd-users] [CLOSED] greylisting and several rcpts

2007-09-04 Thread Cami Sardinha
Artem Bokhan wrote: The hole comes from the fact that batch mailers / spammers who often send in batches of 25/50/100 no longer have do have greylisting applied to all the intended recipients. If the one message from the batch passes through greylisting, then reasonably to assume, that

Re: [policyd-users] policyd under high load and select()

2007-09-05 Thread Cami Sardinha
Artem Bokhan wrote: Under high load policyd (1.81) stalls with 100% cpu load and excessive select() in strace Any suggestions? What types of load? Why are there so many concurrent connections open to Policyd? What is the maximum amount of connections you've configured Policyd to allow?

Re: [policyd-users] policyd under high load and select()

2007-09-06 Thread Cami Sardinha
Artem Bokhan wrote: Cami Sardinha ?: What types of load? What do you mean? :) policyd begin to eat 100% of one cpu core, even after stopping postfix. The only way to fix that is restarting policyd. Do you only have 1 machine as your MX? Do you run Policyd on the same server as your

Re: [policyd-users] policyd under high load and select()

2007-09-06 Thread Cami Sardinha
Tobias J. Kreidl wrote: Where is the maximum number of concurrent policyd processes defined? Is it defined/restricted by the limit of file descriptors? Correct. Depending on your OS, ulimit -n will show the limit and starting Policyd up in DEBUG=3 mode will show if its managed to override that

Re: [policyd-users] policyd under high load and select()

2007-09-06 Thread Cami Sardinha
Tobias J. Kreidl wrote: So, in the case of 5k connections per minute, the server is probably saturated... does policyd log that it's reached its limit? Connections per minute do not mean much. Concurrent connections is what matters. It should log when its limit has been reached. If more

Re: [policyd-users] cleanup limits to 100000 entries

2007-10-09 Thread Cami Sardinha
Tobias Kreidl wrote: As to the choice of 100,000 as the query limit, I would think this would be machine- and database-dependent to some extent, and still think it might be a good idea to at least allow the system administrator to respecify it (but leave the default where it is). Is

Re: [policyd-users] Redundant MySQL connection

2007-10-10 Thread Cami Sardinha
Olivier Smedts wrote: I now think that policyd doesn't need even a little modification to make it work perfectly with MySQL replication. It seems that there is no need for IF EXIST or IF NOT EXIST because UPDATE and DELETE can be made on non-existent keys, and INSERT DELAYED doesn't

Re: [policyd-users] not daemonizing correctly?

2007-12-03 Thread Cami Sardinha
Arvinn Løkkebakken wrote: Michael Brennen wrote: On Monday 03 December 2007, Arvinn Løkkebakken wrote: I have set DAEMON=1 in the config. I have some troubles with running policyd as a daemon though. Every time after starting policyd in a ssh terminal I am not able to end the ssh

Re: [policyd-users] OPTINOUT and OPTINOUTALL

2007-12-12 Thread Cami Sardinha
Arvinn Løkkebakken wrote: What am I trying to do? I am trying to internally in policyd pick certain recipient domains that will not be subjected to greylisting. I want all other recipient domains to be subjected to greylisting. I however do not want to maintain a list of all my recipient

Re: [policyd-users] cant get sender throttle blacklisting working

2007-12-13 Thread Cami Sardinha
Artem Bokhan wrote: Quota works but _abuse_tot doen't change. It does change. Can somebody point me the reason of such behavior? _abuse_tot counts the number of times a specific email address / domain has been blacklisted. This is used for internal Policyd use only. Cami

Re: [policyd-users] cleanup reports incorrect settings?

2008-02-04 Thread Cami Sardinha
Tobias Kreidl wrote: Why 0 days and 1h? These look like the default, rather than the actual values in the policyd.conf file. Is there a bug in cleanup or am I doing something incorrectly? None. Its strictly a cosmetic DEBUG printf()/logmessage() that was left behind. Things are working as it

Re: [policyd-users] policyd and throttling

2008-02-18 Thread Cami Sardinha
Sebastian Tymków wrote: I wonder if it's normal behaviour that when I try to send email with few addresses policyd counts only last one insted of all emails. Maybe my configuration is wrong ? Is there any workaround to count all emails ? Please supply DEBUG=3 Postfix logging that

Re: [policyd-users] cleanup performance optimization

2008-03-18 Thread Cami Sardinha
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: The triplet table currently contains 5.5M entries and every hour ~250k entries are expired. Without maintenance this took some minutes now. So I tried a mysqlcheck -r on the database (which took only two minutes) and after this cleanup runs much faster. 5.5M entries

Re: [policyd-users] cleanup performance optimization

2008-03-18 Thread Cami Sardinha
Roland Rosenfeld wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Cami Sardinha wrote: Policyd was test/written for MySQL 4.x. This doesn't mean it shouldn't behave the same for v5. Unless i'm mistake (or things have changed between versions), using DELETE QUICK on an auto-incrementing row is where holes

Re: [policyd-users] policyd don't work

2008-03-25 Thread Cami Sardinha
Alexandru Constantinescu wrote: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, check_recipient_access mysql:/etc/postfix/mysql-recipient.cf, reject_unauth_destination, permit_mx_backup, permit_auth_destination, check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:10031, The

Re: [policyd-users] cleanup performance optimization

2008-04-01 Thread Cami Sardinha
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Cami I would be willing to try, though it would require some manpower and thus has to be planned in advance because more than one team is affected (we do not administer the SQL server, only Postfix and relevant processes). As Nigel has pointed out, changing it

Re: [policyd-users] cleanup performance optimization

2008-04-01 Thread Cami Sardinha
Dominique Feyer wrote: We use a setup with an InnoDB on our cluster (10'000 domains, 100'000 accounts). We convert MyISAM to InnoDB without problem. The only one chage in Policyd is the INSERT DELAY - INSERT With a policyd database size of 3.4Go on a dual xenon 2.4Ghz 6Go RAM it

Re: [policyd-users] two instances of policyd: greylisting and throttling

2008-04-04 Thread Cami Sardinha
Edi Füllemann wrote: invalid triplet_array[8][2]: (recipient throttle): As I have turned off everything except throttling, I do not expect policyd to care about triplets. The server is debian etch with policyd version 1.80 This is from main.cf smtpd_recipient_restrictions =

Re: [policyd-users] two instances of policyd: greylisting and throttling

2008-04-07 Thread Cami Sardinha
Nigel Kukard wrote: Recipient Throttling can not work at smtpd_end_of_data_restrictions. What happens when 1 message has multiple recipients? Cami Yes, the problem arises as soon as there is a message with more than one recipient. As far as I know, Postfix does not pass multiple

Re: [policyd-users] a point of clarification

2008-06-10 Thread Cami Sardinha
Joe Sloan wrote: [bump] no one has any idea? Joe Sloan wrote: One thing that is not clear to me despite reading the docs, is this: When a domain or address is whitelisted, is it exempted from all tests, or from greylisting only? In Policyd v1, all tests. Cami