Re: postqueue -f delayed

2020-10-26 Thread Peter Blair
At 26 October, 2020 Ron Wheeler wrote: > If you are very old, you will remember when networking was young and e-mail > was sent over dial-up connections that connected only once or twice a day. > The email system has to deal with the historical world where connections > where not "always on" so

Re: possible bottlenecks

2020-10-17 Thread Peter Blair
At 17 October, 2020 Demi M. Obenour wrote: > > Postfix is not an HTTP server handling tens to hundreds of thousands of > > requests > > per second, and does not benefit from the optimisations needed for those > > kinds > > of workloads. Premature optimisations that sacrifice robustness and >

Re: 421 service not available (connection refused, too many connections): ALL servers

2012-03-05 Thread Peter Blair
2012/3/5 Stanisław Findeisen stf.list.postfix-us...@eisenbits.com: My bad suspicion is that they are in the process of installing some (more or less crappy) mail intercepting facility (i.e. to spy on users) and that this is probably the government who ordered that. This is Europe (Poland) but

Re: spam to postmaster

2012-02-17 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote: how do other people act with such braindead sh**t? Look into greylisting it. You'll find that greylisting could very well deal with most of the bots that things like zen.spamhaus.org would normally deal with. And

Re: Including state information in Received fields

2012-01-11 Thread Peter Blair
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:10 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy m...@cloudmark.com wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:46 PM To: Postfix users Subject: Re:

Re: Vacation problems (again)

2011-12-19 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Claudio Prono claudio.pr...@atpss.net wrote: I have thinked also to this, so i have deleted the .vacation.db, re-do vacation -I [user] then do cat 1324286018.V811I1ea270M489235.mail | strace /usr/bin/vacation -t1 testmedia But no way, no results at all

Re: Printing received mails

2011-11-03 Thread Peter Blair
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Daniel L. Miller dmil...@amfes.com wrote: We're now using a hosted fax service and receive our faxes via email to a dedicated address.  Is there a method via Postfix I can have these printed when received?  Or do I handle this via mda scripting (at the moment,

Re: Issue with getting listed in spam again and again.

2011-10-04 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:55 AM, Dhanraj Wadhe dhanraj.wa...@gmail.com wrote: We are public email provider with postfix at backend. We are facing issue with getting black listed again and again. Currently we have setup reverse lookup, DKIIM and SPF to avoid getting listed into rbl's and

Re: automatic reply

2011-09-30 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Amira Othman a.oth...@cairosource.com wrote: Hi all, I want  to configure automatic message but different one for different user. As I am not using MySQL in my postfix configuration and installation I didn’t use any other plug-in that may use MySQl too. I am

Re: Off Topic: Auto-whitelisting from sent mail?

2011-09-20 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: On 9/19/2011 5:38 PM, john wrote: I think this is off topic. I am running Ubuntu 11.04 as a SOHO server with postfix/dovecot/Amavis-new/Spamassassin/Clamav setup as my email service. Does anybody know of a

Re: Inject email from web server to postfix queue

2011-09-12 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Jon Harris j.har...@digital-ink.co.uk wrote: Hi List I don't know if this is possible It's not. Search the list archives, and there are plenty of people wanting an API for dropping mail straight into the postfix queue. I thought if I could generate a

Re: Switch to new server and forward existing mail from old server

2011-09-12 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Clarence Brown clabrown...@gmail.com wrote: On rare occasions I have had to manually mess around with the mail files, ie using an editor to remove a corrupt message messing up pop3. There is one file per user mailbox. [ ya, no longer on topic for postfix... ]

Re: DKIM milter

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Blair
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Steve Jenkins stevejenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: This means they broke it (assuming you aren't doing special processing for Mail.RU etc. destinations). Agreed. I generally test by sending a

Re: Postfix talking smtp through stdio command?

2011-09-06 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Matthias Andree matthias.and...@gmx.de wrote: The problem is this: - I cannot connect to the remote SMTP relayhost via plain TCP, it's firewalled on all ports. - The relayhost does not offer submission STARTTLS or SSL-wrapped legacy ports. - I *can* (and am

Re: postscreen stats

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Homer Parker hpar...@homershut.net wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 21:33 +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: I disabled greylisting since I started using postscreen and the spam ratio did not increase, but the immediacy at which mails from new senders arrive did.

Re: Automating regular checks that incoming outgoing mails are still working

2011-08-23 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Thomas Harold thomas-li...@nybeta.com wrote: On 8/21/2011 10:03 AM, Roger Goh wrote: There's often problem with our postfix mail server (that runs Cyrus / Cyrus-imapd) : I have scripts (using mutt) to send hourly mails out (  from another postfix server, I

Re: Write a mail directly to postfix queue

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Ram r...@netcore.co.in wrote: On 08/19/2011 07:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 19.08.2011 16:05, schrieb Ram: I dont want to make smtpd connections in the app because that slows down the app significantly and also this is a serialized process. So sending

Re: using header_checks to change message-id header

2011-08-16 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:35 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * Peter Blair popc...@snickers.org: /Message-Id:\s+(.*?)@my.domain.com/   REPLACE Message-Id: $1...@my.domain.net Warning: this might also alter Resent-Message-Id: into Message-Id:!!! -1s/might

Re: using header_checks to change message-id header

2011-08-15 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Jerico2day jerico2...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have postfix dynamically change my.domain.com only on Message-Id header  to some arbitrary domain that would be public-facing for all outgoing mail and change it back for incoming mail. Unfortunately, I'm

Re: mail server on vm

2011-08-12 Thread Peter Blair
The RFC stipulates that only an A record is required. Mind you, your /etc/hosts file isn't equivalent to an A record. Configure an override in your transport file for testing. Oh, and try not to send HTML mails to mailing lists. On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Amira Othman

Re: Sending massive mails

2011-08-10 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Bjron Mork bjron.m...@gmail.com wrote: I do have the same concerns, is there any way to implement users bases sending policies through postfix … Not really. Postfix accepts messages into one of its queues, and will pick those messages up (depending on its retry

Re: main.cf best practices

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Stephen Atkins satk...@skircr.com wrote: My main goal is to figure out what I should have in each section of main.cf (smptd/client restrictions to help stop spam and not to be a open relay or back scatter host. You won't be successful in stopping spam with any

Re: sending mass mail

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * Amira Othman a.oth...@cairosource.com: Hi all I want to send mails to all users I have in my database and I am using postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6. I am afraid that ISPs consider me spammer and add me to black

Re: multiple content filter settings

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Sharma, Ashish ashish.shar...@hp.com wrote: I have a Postfix mail server that needs to be set for two content filters as I have two content filters. One from AmaVis and another a custom content filter. Can you not have amavis feed to your second content

Re: multiple content filter settings

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Blair
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Sharma, Ashish ashish.shar...@hp.com wrote: Peter, I don't know how to do it, please post some sample for doing what you are suggesting. Read an Amavis document, and instead of pointing it to the postfix reinjection port, send it to your other content

Re: Postfix Deployment

2009-11-27 Thread Peter Blair
Well, I see no reason to have a MTA running on a public IP. As stated above in the thread, as long as your server is HELO'ing out as the name associated with the PTR record for its SRC-NAT, then you should be fine. On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Roman Gelfand rgelfa...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: outgoing spam

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Blair
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 4:40 AM, Martin Schiøtz mali...@gmail.com wrote: Can I do any outgoing spam checks with postfix or I'm forced to install lots of Amavis, spamassassin, etc. software to do that job. I'm sorry to tell you that blocking outbound spam is at least harder than blocking

Re: Newbie configuration/installation question

2009-04-13 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Tashfeen Ekram ga...@rocketmail.com wrote: I have installed Postfix on Ubuntu to use to only send emails for my rails application. My rails application is not able to connect to it. Could this be because sendmail is listeneing at port 20? also, what

Re: RBL problems affect mail reception

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Blair
On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Oguz Yilmaz oguzyilmazl...@gmail.com wrote: On my postfix mail server I have RBL definitions at smtpd_client_restrictions phase. At the moment 2 of 4 rbl's waiting until tcp timeout without an answer when I try with nslookup. It sounds like your dns recursor is

Re: postmaster@ and spam

2009-03-26 Thread Peter Blair
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:55 PM, LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: Obviously I can't disable the account as it is required, but is there something that I can do to stop the connections for messages like this: Return-Path: postmas...@covisp.net X-Original-To: postmas...@covisp.net

Re: Looking for Anti-spam setting: local username/external IP

2009-03-20 Thread Peter Blair
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:28 PM, David A. Gershman dagershman_...@dagertech.net wrote: from an external source.  I'm trying to see if there is a setting in master.cf (or other .cf file) which will reject any email from an external IP (other than my own) *and* is claiming to be from a local

Re: Dropping rejected mail from a transport server

2009-03-17 Thread Peter Blair
If the exchange server is doing anti-spam analysis, then can't you setup the exchange server to be a before queue content filter? This will mean that your postfix server will still do all of the RBL and recipient checks, but the 5XX series block sent by postfix will be relayed via postfix to the

Re: Intercepting Bounced Backs

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Blair
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chris Dos ch...@chrisdos.com wrote: I've been tasked to figure out a way for our three postfix relay servers to intercept every hard bounced back e-mail and process it for our web application. We have about nine servers relaying mail through our three

Re: Intercepting Bounced Backs

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Blair
it to the address in the envelope. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Chris Dos ch...@chrisdos.com wrote: Peter Blair wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Chris Dos ch...@chrisdos.com wrote: I've been tasked to figure out a way for our three postfix relay servers to intercept every hard bounced back

Re: choosing random ip address for outgoing smtp connection

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
It's easier to do with a src-nat within network gear. But let me tell you that this is referred to as snowshoeing as it expands your IP footprint, and is seen in the deliverability world as a slimy thing to do. People do it to mitigate the effects of their IP addresses being blacklisted. But

Re: Policy for outgoing messages

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Rocco Scappatura rocco.scappat...@infracom.it wrote: Thanks Peter, My aim, anyway, is to apply a such policy for outgoing messages (including internal-to-internal messages). So I have to define a group which contains the IPs enabled for relay through my

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
I'm certain that you should rephrase that to: Best way to NOT setup an open relay Feel free to test your config against: http://www.abuse.net/relay.html To ensure that your host isn't an open-relay to the Internet (Say hi to hinet if it is) On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Rich

Re: Best way to set up an open relay postfix

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
0/0 is the entire internet. Take the approach of least privileges. The idea that laptop users VPN in if they want to be given a free ride (no auth) etc works, since you can place your VPN subnet into mynetworks. Perhaps your initial posting was too ambiguous. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:00 PM,

Re: choosing random ip address for outgoing smtp connection

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Bokhan Artem art...@academ.org wrote: Peter Blair пишет: It's easier to do with a src-nat within network gear. I understand, I just wanted to know if there is an intelligence way to bind every ip address its own helo. Well, you could place a slim smtp proxy

Re: choosing random ip address for outgoing smtp connection

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
True enough-- but that won't help your HELO matching up with the reverse of the IP that its bound to. 2009/2/19 Bokhan Artem art...@academ.org: Peter Blair пишет: Well, you could place a slim smtp proxy between postfix and the Internet. It's easier to write a small tcp server for tcp_table

Re: choosing random ip address for outgoing smtp connection

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Blair
2009/2/19 Bokhan Artem art...@academ.org: smtp1 unix - - n - 100 smtp -o smtp_helo_name=smtpout1.do -o smtp_bind_address=1.1.1.1 smtp2 unix - - n - 100 smtp -o smtp_helo_name=smtpout2.do -o smtp_bind_address=2.2.2.2

Re: rbl clients.

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Blair
http://stats.dnsbl.com/ As victor said, ZEN is usually enough for most people, but it's always good to know why you're not using the rest. On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Linux Addict linuxaddi...@gmail.com wrote: Please see below my smtpd_recipient_restrictions. On my rbl client list I have

Re: filtering mail

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Blair
Including every solicited bulk email. They usually create unique bounce addresses to track dead target mailboxes etc. On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Michael Katz mkn...@messagepartners.com wrote: Ilo Lorusso wrote: Hi is their a way I can reject messages when its from address does not