[pfx] Re: reliable RBL

2024-04-10 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
On 10/04/24 22:50, Matus UHLAR - fantomas via Postfix-users wrote: On 10.04.24 17:46, Mr. Peng via Postfix-users wrote: I have been using spamhaus, spamcop, sorbs as the RBL providers for antispam. But some of the customers speak to me about the FP issues caused by RBL. Do you think the three

[pfx] Re: IPv6 and Cloud server CPU

2023-11-22 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
On 23/11/23 17:20, Peter via Postfix-users wrote: On 23/11/23 14:22, Gerald Galster via Postfix-users wrote: Q2: given the minuscule work-load, is there any preference/preclusion between employing the 'usual' x86 processor or 2 Arm Ampere processors? Both offer Linux. Cost is effectively

[pfx] Re: IPv6 and Cloud server CPU

2023-11-22 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
On 23/11/23 11:56, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote: DL Neil via Postfix-users: Slightly off-topic. My bottom-of-the-line VPS is being deprecated. Making me grumpy because it has been working so well (+updates) for all these years! ... Q1: can an email server be run off IPv6

[pfx] IPv6 and Cloud server CPU

2023-11-22 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
Slightly off-topic. My bottom-of-the-line VPS is being deprecated. Making me grumpy because it has been working so well (+updates) for all these years! Very low volume Postfix/Dovecot for a half-dozen domains, plus a rarely-used Apache serving only static pages, and the occasional

[pfx] UGFzc3dvcmQ6

2023-09-12 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
Have been updating the .cf files (mostly ciphers, but also...) Our old friend "UGFzc3dvcmQ6" is back. (previously bounced-off without appearing in daily pflogsumm) Grrr! ... unknown[146.247.146.134]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: UGFzc3dvcmQ6 14-0-135-011.static.pccw-hkt.com[14.0.135.11]:

[pfx] Disappointments at https://www.postfix.org/docs.html

2023-08-13 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
The "Postfix Howtos and FAQs" is out-dated and requires correction/editing. To assist the web-master:- FAQs Ralf Hildebrandt's Postfix shrine [not found] Training Idea & Innovation Consulting [SedoParking] MS Exchange Integration Running a PERL-based LDAP client [page not

[pfx] Re: Thunderbird not connecting in-time

2023-03-12 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
Thanks - will re-focus investigation. (evidently web-searching led in wrong direction) -- Regards =dn ___ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org

[pfx] Re: MySQL error from not all the receiver

2023-03-12 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
On 13/03/2023 12.05, Scott Kitterman via Postfix-users wrote: On Sunday, March 12, 2023 7:02:41 PM EDT Gerald Galster via Postfix-users wrote: ... My recommendation to the OP would be to reconsider what they are trying to accomplish and what's the simplest way to do so. Through this thread I

[pfx] Thunderbird not connecting in-time

2023-03-12 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
Which setting will extend the amount of time allowed for Thunderbird to connect to send and/or receive messages from Postfix? NB postfix uses Submission -> smtpd (I've found references to Relay cf Submission but don't appreciate difference) or should it be an lmtp setting vis-a-vis Dovecot?

[pfx] Re: MySQL error from not all the receiver

2023-03-12 Thread DL Neil via Postfix-users
On 13/03/2023 02.10, Antonino Di Mauro via Postfix-users wrote: unfortunately I don't know this topic, but I'm really willing to study. Please do you have any documentation on this? https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/ I'm no expert on Postfix, but can talk about databases. To help with

[P-U] Re: Postfix lists are migrating to a new list server

2023-03-07 Thread DL Neil < via Postfix-users
On 08/03/2023 01.09, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: * Phil Stracchino : On 3/6/23 11:08, Wietse Venema wrote: This week, the Postfix mailing lists will be migrated from Majordomo at Cloud9.net to Mailman at Sys4.de. Thanks to Cloud9.net for hosting the Postfix lists for 24 years, and thanks to

Re: Simple forwarder, part two

2023-01-11 Thread DL Neil
On 12/01/2023 13.16, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 12:46:03PM +1300, DL Neil wrote: That depends on whether you used virtual_alias_maps or alias_maps. Also, there is a limit on the queue file size (with a name message_size_limit that would more accurately

Re: Simple forwarder, part two

2023-01-11 Thread DL Neil
On 12/01/2023 12.24, Wietse Venema wrote: DL Neil: Having managed two destinations, how far can this reasonably go? Five, six, ten addresses? Is there a limit to the number of addresses? That depends on whether you used virtual_alias_maps or alias_maps. Also, there is a limit on the queue

Simple forwarder, part two

2023-01-11 Thread DL Neil
Have followed @Dan's thread (similar subject). Started me thinking of uses for Postfix as a small-scale reflector. This domain's small-scale postfix is MySQL-based (domains, users, aliases). Postfix on CentOS (so not latest release) feeding Dovecot. Just for the learning-experience, set-up

Time to expand the server's horizons

2022-11-29 Thread DL Neil
Postfix on VPS is lightly-loaded, currently running happily with SPF, DKIM, DMARC, etc; and delivering inbound messages to Dovecot. MUAs submit outbound messages using STARTTLS and port 25. To suit certain ISPs, plan to expand to (also) enable port 465 (described as "implicit TLS") and/or

Re: migrating to aliases from flatfile to mysql

2022-11-05 Thread DL Neil
On 06/11/2022 14.33, Noah wrote: I am migrating my aliases file from a textfile to mysql. One of the things I liked about the textfile is I could comment out a line and put notes as to why I disabled the alias.  is there a similar method that I can do in mysql - disable the alias and put

EHLO rejections

2022-11-02 Thread DL Neil
The daily pflogsumm report shows that (in recent days) 60~93% of attempts to connect are rejected, and bounce-off Postfix's settings, eg 450 4.7.1 <00nyBxbT>: Helo command rejected: Host not found; proto=SMTP helo=<00nyBxbT> (total: 1) 1 115.213.249.159 (<>) The EHLO string

Re: spam emails with "to:" line missing

2022-04-16 Thread David Neil
On 16/04/2022 10.53, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 04:30:19PM -0600, @lbutlr wrote: > >> However, it is *very* common for a BBC email to have a To header with >> no email address in it at all, > > This violates RFC5322 and earlier versions. The "To:" header must > contain at

DKIM signature duplicated in headers

2022-04-14 Thread DL Neil
Have a multi-domain Postfix+Dovecot+MySQL+SpamAssassin working nicely. Added OpenDKIM and it works, passing some 'tests', but not others. I notice that outgoing mail appears to be signed twice. Is this correct? The two signatures are otherwise identical but with marginally different timestamps

Re: Creating Dovecot users from Postfix

2022-01-02 Thread DL Neil
On 03/01/2022 10.41, Felix Ingram wrote: > Thanks Max, > > I’m making something similar to a disposable email service, which is why I > need to accept mail for any user. There’s still some validation for domains, > etc, so I’m not too worried about accepting everything. I was looking to use >

Re: Debian - Postfix rejecting user (User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command))

2021-04-27 Thread Neil Farmstrong
I have commented out virtual_alias_domains and mail is now passing to Clam AV (although failing due to a Clam AV error) so this appears to be solved. Still very confused why it would be different on this server though. On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 23:31, Neil Farmstrong wrote: > > Dear

Re: Debian - Postfix rejecting user (User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command))

2021-04-27 Thread Neil Farmstrong
here any way Dovecot, Clamav or Amavis configurations might have broken something? On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 22:52, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Neil Farmstrong: > > I have set up Postfix / Dovecot on Centos a number of time, a few > > weeks ago I set up a Debian server with Postfix / D

Debian - Postfix rejecting user (User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command))

2021-04-27 Thread Neil Farmstrong
I have set up Postfix / Dovecot on Centos a number of time, a few weeks ago I set up a Debian server with Postfix / Dovecot and it went fine. I'm doing the same again today but keep getting bounces when sending to any virtual domain on the new server, with the error: Recipient address rejected:

Re: spamsources.fabel.dk

2020-12-09 Thread David Neil
On 04/12/2020 16:11, Vincent Pelletier wrote: On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 11:26 AM David Neil wrote: When I follow the instructions and attempt a "Delist request for spamsources.fabel.dk" they quickly assure me that they won't spam me, but seem to demand a GMail account. So, one secu

spamsources.fabel.dk

2020-12-03 Thread David Neil
Testing my email domain reveals all the DMARC, SPF, etc, recs are correct and working. However, there is one blacklist that lists my domain/IP-address, and has done for some time. (so there's no time-out for good behavior then! I've had the IPaddr for some years, but who knows what was

Re: Regenerating DHparams

2018-11-08 Thread David Neil
I picked this up from documentation somewhere:- /etc/cron.daily/postfix_pfs_edh_regenerate #!/bin/bash cd /etc/postfix umask 022 for legth in 512 1024 2048 do openssl dhparam -out dh_$legth.tmp $legth && mv dh_$legth.tmp dh_$legth.pem chmod 644 dh_$legth.pem done -- Regards =dn

postfix/master[]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

2016-02-04 Thread Neil Tiffin
be appreciated. Thank you. Neil [root@fairwindsoft2 ~]# postconf -d | grep mail_version mail_version = 2.10.1 The relevant log: Feb 4 15:16:12 fairwindsoft2 dovecot: pop3(neil): Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/6, size=221590 Feb 4 15:17:03 fairwindsoft2 postfix/smtp[6671

Postfix ignoring check_recipient_access

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Smith
o reject the message. But the messages still end up in my inbox. What am I missing here? How do I get check_recipient_access to reject the addresses specified in the recipient_checks table? (Postfix 2.11.0 running on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS) Thanks, Neil. Logs and config follows: /var/log/mail.lo

Re: Postfix ignoring check_recipient_access

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Smith
On Tuesday 17 Nov 2015 15:50:22 Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 03:26:55PM +0000, Neil Smith wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 Nov 2015 14:43:50 Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > > > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > > > > permit_sa

Re: Postfix ignoring check_recipient_access

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Smith
t before "check_recipient_access"? :-) If you don't mind, could you please explain why that's a problem? The recipient checks addresses aren't for any of the mxbackup domains. I don't understand how allowing forwarding of mail for backup.com will mean the acceptance of mail for example.com. Thanks, Neil.

Re: Postfix ignoring check_recipient_access

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Smith
On Tuesday 17 Nov 2015 20:50:32 Koko Wijatmoko wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:44:12 + > Neil Smith <neil.post...@njae.me.uk> wrote: > > > Postfix seems to be ignoring the smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > > check_recipient_access instruction. > > > di

Re: Postfix ignoring check_recipient_access

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Smith
On Tuesday 17 Nov 2015 21:04:00 Koko Wijatmoko wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 13:56:01 + > Neil Smith <neil.post...@njae.me.uk> wrote: > > > > did you ran postmap for the hash table? > > > > Yes, several times, and restarted postfix afterwards. > &g

RE: Unable to execute a java program from postfix

2012-10-16 Thread Neil Aggarwal
: mdcm.MailHandler. Program will exit. I don't get it. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972) 834-1565 We lend money to investors to buy or refinance single family rent houses. No origination fees, quick approval, no credit check. -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us

virtual_alias_domains not working

2012-09-16 Thread Neil Aggarwal
: warning: do not list domain in BOTH mydestination and virtual_alias_domains Any idea why the virtual_alias_domains is not working? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage

RE: virtual_alias_domains not working

2012-09-16 Thread Neil Aggarwal
any help you can offer. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges

RE: virtual_alias_domains not working

2012-09-16 Thread Neil Aggarwal
for the clarification. I updated my files and everything seems to be working great now. Thank you for the info. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges

RE: Trouble using StartSSL certificate for tls

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
which uses the same certificate so Outlook does know about the root CA. I am not sure how to fix what is going on. Any suggestions? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage

RE: Trouble using StartSSL certificate for tls

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
. If I try to send a message using the manual commands, I still get Error: no valid recipients Like I said in my earlier message to Patrick, Outlook does not complain about the certificate when I use pop3s to get a message. I am not sure what to do now. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil -- Neil

RE: Trouble using StartSSL certificate for tls

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
. I am going to investigate, but appreciate if you have any suggestions. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us

RE: Trouble using StartSSL certificate for tls

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
on the server. I guess I will have to configure postfix to use that. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us

RE: Trouble using StartSSL certificate for tls

2012-06-23 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Wietse: I see, port 587 is the submission port. I will use that. Thanks for the info! Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges -Original Message- The (legacy) smtps

Trouble using StartSSL certificate for tls

2012-06-22 Thread Neil Aggarwal
this certificate as a CA signed certificate? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (972)834-1565, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/centos Virtual private server with CentOS 6 preinstalled Unmetered bandwidth = no overage charges

Verify Outgoing From Address

2011-03-15 Thread Neil
Hi, A while back I accidentally configured my mail client to send my email as user@example (instead of u...@example.com), leading to me sending out about two dozen messages before I started getting mail back from people saying they couldn't reply and had to retype my address. I was wondering if

Submission on an additional port

2010-09-28 Thread Neil
Hi, I want to have postfix listen on an additional port (say 785) for SMTP submission by clients. At first I thought all I had to do was add another line in master.cf that looked the same as the submission line, but change the port somewhere. But then I read in the docs for master.cf it seemed

Re: Submission on an additional port

2010-09-28 Thread Neil
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.comwrote: On 2010-09-28 6:04 AM, Neil wrote: I want to have postfix listen on an additional port (say 785) for SMTP submission by clients. You mean in *addition* to the submission port (587)? Or was that a typo and you

Re: Bounce queue times

2009-10-08 Thread Neil Smith
are sent to try us. I'll probably give it a go when Ubuntu 9.10 comes out, which should include Postfix 2.6. Thanks, both, for the suggestions. Neil. -- Neil Smith http://www.njae.me.uk Milton Keynes Roleplaying Games Club http://www.mk-rpg.org.uk

Bounce queue times

2009-10-07 Thread Neil Smith
= permit_mynetworks permit_mx_backup \ reject_unauth_destination permit_mx_backup_networks = other.com other.org maximal_queue_lifetime = 21d bounce_queue_lifetime = 3d Any suggestions? (It's Posfix 2.5.1) Thanks, Neil. -- Neil Smith

sender-dependent bcc's?

2009-06-19 Thread Neil
on the from address. Now what I want is to do that, but also send a copy of all (outgoing) mail that isn't sent by a certain address to that addresses mailbox (which would basically give me an always up-to-date backup that I could use to read mail at when the need arises). Thanks, Neil

Re: Multiple SMTP relays based on sender's domain

2009-01-14 Thread Neil
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Gilles Albusac gilles.albu...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Is it possible to set up Postfix to choose an SMTP relayhost when routing outbound mail based on the domain name of the sender ? If you're okay with using addresses instead of domains, I think

Submission port SSL issues

2009-01-13 Thread Neil
I'm having some trouble configuring my server for SSL on the submission port. I think it's my SSL configuration because using TLS on Thunderbird worked fine, but SSL on Thunderbird (and Mail.app) fails. I suspect it has to do with the error listed below; which I got by trying to send a mail

Re: Submission port SSL issues

2009-01-13 Thread Neil
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:36:58AM -0800, Neil wrote: I'm having some trouble configuring my server for SSL on the submission port. I think it's my SSL configuration because using TLS on Thunderbird

Re: Submission port SSL issues

2009-01-13 Thread Neil
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 02:37:37PM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: Neil wrote: Okay, how can I get SSL enabled/working then? Uncomment the smtps entries in your master.cf It should looks pretty much like

Re: Evolution unable to login mail server.

2008-11-17 Thread Neil
On 17 Nov 2008, at 05:05, Stephen Liu wrote: --- Daniel V. Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Stephen Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 9:49:21 AM Subject: Evolution unable to login mail server. [snip] #

Re: [OT] postmaster@ for customers' domains?

2008-11-08 Thread Neil
. But, to be clear, I'm not advocating monitoring his personal mailbox, whatever it may be. Neil.

Re: OT: Sender Header

2008-11-07 Thread Neil
On 7 Nov 2008, at 02:54, mouss wrote: Neil wrote: By pure luck, I had an epiphany and figured it out. good. Can you provide details so that other people who get into the same problem find the answer in the archives? Well, it's very setup-specific... The short of it is that I used

Re: [OT] postmaster@ for customers' domains?

2008-11-07 Thread Neil
to you. -Neil.

OT: Sender Header

2008-11-06 Thread Neil
At what point does the Sender: header usually get added to the mail? Because some (and so far the only pattern is It shows up when subscribing to the SpamAssassin Mailing List.) of my mails at getting that header attached (and with a bad address) and it's annoying me... Sorry for being

Re: OT: Sender Header

2008-11-06 Thread Neil
On 6 Nov 2008, at 10:07, mouss wrote: Neil wrote: Because some (and so far the only pattern is It shows up when subscribing to the SpamAssassin Mailing List.) of my mails at getting that header attached (and with a bad address) and it's annoying me... what do you exactly mean? almost

Re: OT: Sender Header

2008-11-06 Thread Neil
On 6 Nov 2008, at 13:47, Neil wrote: On 6 Nov 2008, at 09:23, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: Neil wrote: At what point does the Sender: header usually get added to the mail? Because some (and so far the only pattern is It shows up when subscribing to the SpamAssassin Mailing List

Re: Indirect relay on direct error

2008-10-22 Thread Neil
On 20 Oct 2008, at 10:24, Wietse Venema wrote: Michele: Hi list, I have a system that receive mails from internal network and deliver them directly on Internet. Sometimes mx server for some domains, refuse mails for users. It's there the possibility, by postfix, to relay that mails to a

Re: Likely Spam.

2008-10-20 Thread Neil
On 20 Oct 2008, at 18:24, Linux Addict wrote: Hi, Looks like our MX servers are hit hard by a specific email address which is sending frequent mails trying to use our relay effectively many mail servers seems to be blacklisting. Oct 20 18:20:05 mx01 postfix/qmgr[6512]: DBB784BE68E:

Re: Likely Spam.

2008-10-20 Thread Neil
On 20 Oct 2008, at 18:45, Linux Addict wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Oct 2008, at 18:39, Linux Addict wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20 Oct 2008, at 18:24, Linux Addict wrote: Hi, Looks like our MX

Re: Finally blocking some spam

2008-10-13 Thread Neil
On 13 Oct 2008, at 15:00, Joey wrote: Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 01:42 PM: Many school and government sites (not to mention China) can't seem to configure rDNS and FCrDNS properly. I have given up trying to contact offending sites. Too often, they decide the solution is simply to drop the

Re: Finally blocking some spam

2008-10-13 Thread Neil
On Oct 13, 2008, at 16:43, Issac Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree that it doesn't make sense to ban an entire country, but what about banning an ISP that won't crack down on spammers? Then, if you're running a legit business, don't work with ISPs that have lax rules, and everybody is

Re: Running A Mail Server

2008-09-24 Thread Neil
On 21 Sep 2008, at 05:39, mouss wrote: My current config is: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination you can at leats add (after reject_unauth_destination) # reject unknown addresses before querying dnsbls

How spammy is my mail?

2008-09-24 Thread Neil
What's the best way to see what spam traits my mail server and mails are exhibiting? Is there some place I can submit a mail or send a test mail and get back some sort of report, or the like?

Re: Running A Mail Server

2008-09-21 Thread Neil
(To avoid a couple separate mails, I merged some of the list replies. Also, apologies for the delay.) On 15 Sep 2008, at 06:52, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:59 -0300, Diego Ledesma wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently

Running A Mail Server

2008-09-12 Thread Neil
and on a network administered by someone else.) At the moment, I haven't even put a webserver on the VPS because I'm afraid it will raise the risk profile to my server. =\ Any advice? What are your thoughts on this? Thanks, Neil. (While I know list etiquette is generally to send your replies

Re: Never deliver outbound mail for a specified domain

2008-09-06 Thread Neil
How do you know it's not someone who honestly wants a webmail account..? -N. On Sep 6, 2008, at 5:35 AM, Andrea Gozzi wrote: Hi all. Some time ago I set up a spammers' trap in the way of a fake webmail service where they can register for a free account. Up until now I was just saving their