RE: Timing question

2009-02-13 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Sorry for the delay.. Could you explain - in the same terms - how is quantified the time before a message is passed to the queue manager, after it is processed by the content filter? The time to deliver is measured as the time between MAIL FROM and end-of-data.

Holiday/out of office message

2009-02-13 Thread Schwalbe, Oliver
Hello Newsgroup, i will implement a holiday/out of office message in my postfix. the user should sent a message to holiday@domain.de and the holiday/out of office notification for the mailsender are active. with a 2. mail to holiday@domain.de the notification will be inactive. Can anybody

throtling / queue management system

2009-02-13 Thread Gerardo Herzig
Hi all. Im want something for throtling msgs, say if user X sends more than 10 emails/minute, then requeue next msgs from user X with some lower priority. Policyd is not bad, but it rejects emails when the limit is reached. Anyone knows an application like this? Will involve hacking/patching

About filtering mail with mailq

2009-02-13 Thread deconya
Hi Im new postfix and Im learning how to use. My first problem is about the spam because in my server are incoming mails with my domain but using bad adresses and making copy to the aol.com domain. Im making: #postqueue -p | grep ' Feb @aol.com' | sed 's/*//' | awk '{print $1}' spam.txt but

Re: Problem with sending email to multiple recipients

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009, sim085 (sim...@hotmail.com) wrote: Any suggestions? You'll get a lot more help if you follow the instructions that were in the welcome message you got when you signed up to the list... Specifically and for starters, output of postconf -n and logs exhibiting the problem? -- Best

header_checks check_sender_access don't work

2009-02-13 Thread ddaas
Hi there, I have 2 problems I want to discuss with you guys. 1. I want to block e-mails from some specific address. So I used header_checks = regexp:/usr/local/etc/postfix/header_checks and in header_checks I have: /^From: badaddr...@domain.com/ REJECT message But nothing happens. 2. I

Re: About filtering mail with mailq

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009 6:36 AM, deconya wrote: Im new postfix and Im learning how to use. My first problem is about the spam because in my server are incoming mails with my domain but using bad adresses and making copy to the aol.com http://aol.com domain. Im making: Don't accept messages for invalid

Re: How disk I/O affect postfix performance ?

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Yu (Irvin) Fan: Hi, We're building a box to run two postfix instances to receive and send high volume of emails. According to the documentation it's better to run the two instances on separate disks for performance reason. I'm trying to understand how exactly does the

More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
Hello again, I just want to confirm before I change this that I'm not missing something that will cause me some pain... Currently I have all of my restrictions under smtpd_recipient_restrictions, but after seeing some questions about these on the list, I'm thinking that there are two that should

Re: throtling / queue management system

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Gerardo Herzig: Wietse Venema wrote: Gerardo Herzig: Hi all. Im want something for throtling msgs, say if user X sends more than 10 emails/minute, then requeue next msgs from user X with some lower priority. Postfix has no queue priotity. When the street to the airport is

Re: No virtual alias with diferent cleanup for submission service

2009-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
rafa wrote: Hello everyone, I created a second cleanup for the submission service to have separate header checks from incoming emails. cleanup-out unix n - - - 0 cleanup -o header_checks=pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks-out -o

unknown mail transport error

2009-02-13 Thread Henri Chevreton
Hi, I have a simple postfix server that was working fine for more than one year. I have now many mail transport error that seems to begin after an update, and I do need some help ! Thanks in advance This server is a debian etch and postfix is 2.3.8-2+etch1 A strange thing : I've send e-mail

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2/13/2009, Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf.hildebra...@charite.de) wrote: I'm thinking it would be better to move the check_client_access check to smtpd_client_restrictions, and the check_sender_access check to smtpd_sender_restrictions, so I'd then have:

Re: header_checks check_sender_access don't work

2009-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
ddaas wrote: Hi there, I have 2 problems I want to discuss with you guys. 1. I want to block e-mails from some specific address. So I used header_checks = regexp:/usr/local/etc/postfix/header_checks and in header_checks I have: /^From: badaddr...@domain.com/ REJECT message But nothing

Re: No virtual alias with diferent cleanup for submission service

2009-02-13 Thread rafa
Noel Jones wrote: To fix this, just add -o receive_override_options= (ie. an empty value) to your submission service. Now it's working. Thanks. rafael.

DSN: Improper sequence of commands in postfix 2.5.4

2009-02-13 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Hi! I'm using Postfix 2.5.4 and it worked well. Thanks ;-) One of my academic user received this error message Google didn't help me much Do you know what can cause this failure ? Is it cause by my server ? Thanks, Eddy Sujet : Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Date : Thu,

SMTP relay only

2009-02-13 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Hello, I need to setup a mail server for outgoing email only. I clearly would like to restrict access to my networks only. Moreover, I would like to permit only to some envelope senders to relay email trhough a such MTA. And no other envelope sender should be able to relay trhough this MTA. So

Re: unknown mail transport error

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Henri Chevreton: Feb 13 14:25:37 alty postfix/master[3972]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 19045 killed by signal 6 That is your problem. Wietse

Re: header_checks check_sender_access don't work

2009-02-13 Thread ddaas
Thank you Noel ! Your regex worked. But related the second problem, how can I block this kind of spams? Spams from remote servers From: myaddr...@myvirtualdomain.com To: myaddr...@myvirtualdomain.com? It is ok for me to block all e-mail that are comming from remote smtp servers From

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009, Justin Piszcz (jpis...@lucidpixels.com) wrote: I have one question to add to this thread, in the past it has always been up to the admin whether to put all beneath recipient restrictions (with the exception of SAV), is this still considered best-practice? Or should one follow

Re: relay through smtps

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009, gianluca...@interfree.it (gianluca...@interfree.it) wrote: Is it possible relay mail trhough smstps under postfix? Assuming you meant smtps, you can enable this in master.cf, by uncommenting these lines (I'm unsure what the last line does though): #smtps inet n -

Yahoo and spams

2009-02-13 Thread ddaas
Hello everybody ! We have a lot of clients that have yahoo e-mails. Yahoo accept e-mail from our server but by default sort them as spams. What could it be? Does anyone know what does yahoo like or dislike? They don't have words related to spams, they are not advertisment etc. Related the

Re: Yahoo and spams

2009-02-13 Thread Mark Goodge
ddaas wrote: Hello everybody ! We have a lot of clients that have yahoo e-mails. Yahoo accept e-mail from our server but by default sort them as spams. What could it be? Does anyone know what does yahoo like or dislike? If the messages are reaching the recipients' mailbox, but being sorted

Re: relay through smtps

2009-02-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:03:31AM -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2/13/2009, gianluca...@interfree.it (gianluca...@interfree.it) wrote: Is it possible relay mail trhough smstps under postfix? Assuming you meant smtps, you can enable this in master.cf, by uncommenting these lines (I'm

Re: Yahoo and spams

2009-02-13 Thread Clodoaldo Pinto Neto
2009/2/13 Mark Goodge m...@good-stuff.co.uk: ddaas wrote: Hello everybody ! We have a lot of clients that have yahoo e-mails. Yahoo accept e-mail from our server but by default sort them as spams. What could it be? Does anyone know what does yahoo like or dislike? If the messages are

Re: DSN: Improper sequence of commands in postfix 2.5.4

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Eddy Beliveau: Hi! I'm using Postfix 2.5.4 and it worked well. Thanks ;-) One of my academic user received this error message Google didn't help me much Do you know what can cause this failure ? Is it cause by my server ? Reporting-MTA: dns;bay0-imc3-s4.bay0.hotmail.com

Re: header_checks check_sender_access don't work

2009-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
ddaas wrote: But related the second problem, how can I block this kind of spams? Spams from remote servers From: myaddr...@myvirtualdomain.com To: myaddr...@myvirtualdomain.com? It is ok for me to block all e-mail that are comming from remote smtp servers From addres...@myvirtualdomains. I

Re: Question about smptd_sender_logins_map and allow to use only for several domains?

2009-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
an...@iguanait.com wrote: In this case these ips can use my email address to send messages to me. I don't want this to be possible. I want to permit the ips, but also I want them to be allowed to send mail only if they do so from a specific domain, for examle @igdomain.com. So, I need to filter

Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Carver Banks
Hello Everyone, I am seeing weird bounces on my postfix server and can't quite figure out why... It looks like it is failing while passing the mail off to a spam appliance, but from the spam appliance side I see no record of the message. Also Any ideas, I have a couple examples below? Example

In need of suggestions on how to clone/duplicate messages coming to one server to another server

2009-02-13 Thread Steven Truong
Dear, all. I have a few questions regarding how to clone/duplicate/copy an incoming/outgoing email message so that the same email got to 2 of my servers. newserver.mynetwork.com (with Postfix and local IMAP server) -- incoming/outgoing emails arrive at this server first zimbra.mynetwork.com

Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Carver Banks wrote: Hello Everyone, I am seeing weird bounces on my postfix server and can't quite figure out why... It looks like it is failing while passing the mail off to a spam appliance, but from the spam appliance side I see no record of the message. Also Any ideas, I have a couple

Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
Carver Banks wrote: Hello Everyone, I am seeing weird bounces on my postfix server and can't quite figure out why... It looks like it is failing while passing the mail off to a spam appliance, but from the spam appliance side I see no record of the message. Also Any ideas, I have a couple

Re: Yahoo and spams

2009-02-13 Thread Agnello George
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:34 PM, ddaas ddaa...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello everybody ! We have a lot of clients that have yahoo e-mails. Yahoo accept e-mail from our server but by default sort them as spams. What could it be? Does anyone know what does yahoo like or dislike? They don't have

Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:53:23PM -0500, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: Carver Banks wrote: Hello Everyone, I am seeing weird bounces on my postfix server and can't quite figure out why... It looks like it is failing while passing the mail off to a spam appliance, but from the

Re: How disk I/O affect postfix performance ?

2009-02-13 Thread Yu (Irvin) Fan
Hi Wietse, Thanks for the quick answer. Can I say that the postfix performance is affected by small file read/write speed of the disk? Anyway, I have another related question. We have an after-queue content filter written in Perl. The email is fed to the filter using pipe as suggested in the

Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Carver Banks: Hello Everyone, I am seeing weird bounces on my postfix server and can't quite figure out why... It looks like it is failing while passing the mail off to a spam appliance, but from the spam appliance side I see no record of the message. Also Any ideas, I have a couple

Relaying question

2009-02-13 Thread Joseph Mays
We have long had a postfix system for a cluster of machines that accepts incoming mail from a spam filtering system, and sends outgoing mail directly out to other servers in the world. I am currently trying to change it to send outgoing mail out through the smtp filter server, too. However, if

Re: How disk I/O affect postfix performance ?

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Yu (Irvin) Fan: Hi Wietse, Thanks for the quick answer. Can I say that the postfix performance is affected by small file read/write speed of the disk? Many email messages small. Therefore performance is dominated by rotational and seek latencies (absent a large persistent buffer between the

Re: Relaying question

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009 2:08 PM, Joseph Mays wrote: We have long had a postfix system for a cluster of machines that accepts incoming mail from a spam filtering system, and sends outgoing mail directly out to other servers in the world. I am currently trying to change it to send outgoing mail out through

Using relative paths in main.cf

2009-02-13 Thread George Forman
Hi,I have created a main.cf.auth and linked it to main.cf in /opt/zimbra/pf.auth/conf directory.I am using alternate_config_directories to specify a parent directory path, such as,alternate_config_directories = /opt/zimbra/pf.auth/confqueue_directory =

Re: Using relative paths in main.cf

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
George Forman: Hi,I have created a main.cf.auth and linked it to main.cf in /opt/zimbra/p -f.auth/conf directory.I am using alternate_config_directories to specify a p -arent directory path, such as,alternate_config_directories = /opt/zimbra/pf. -auth/confqueue_directory =

comcast mx's -- bad ssl certs?

2009-02-13 Thread J.P. Trosclair
Some of Comcast's MX servers (mx1.comcast.net, mx2.comcast.net are the ones I've verified so far) appear to be handing out test SSL certificates, at least that's the best guess I can make from the research I've done so far. I reserve the right to be absolutely wrong. I've been battling over

Re: virtual_alias_maps against local_recipient_maps

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
jakjr a écrit : Hello, I am using virtual_alias_maps to implement a simple mailing list. l...@example.com, after virtual_alias_maps is aliased to us...@example.com and us...@example.com. local_recipient_maps prevents the reception of unknown users and, in my case, disabled users too.

Re: About filtering mail with mailq

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
deconya a écrit : Hi Im new postfix and Im learning how to use. My first problem is about the spam because in my server are incoming mails with my domain but using bad adresses and making copy to the aol.com http://aol.com domain. Im making: #postqueue -p | grep ' Feb @aol.com

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
Charles Marcus a écrit : On 2/13/2009, Ralf Hildebrandt (ralf.hildebra...@charite.de) wrote: I'm thinking it would be better to move the check_client_access check to smtpd_client_restrictions, and the check_sender_access check to smtpd_sender_restrictions, so I'd then have: No, don't do it.

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009 3:42 PM, mouss wrote: you can do this smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/moved-employees, Ah! I never even considered I could put check_recipient_access under smtpd_sender_restrictions... but if I can put check_client_access under

Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Carver Banks: -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:57 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

Re: DSN: Improper sequence of commands in postfix 2.5.4

2009-02-13 Thread Eddy Beliveau
Message original Sujet : Re: DSN: Improper sequence of commands in postfix 2.5.4 De : wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Pour : Eddy Beliveau eddy.beliv...@hec.ca Copie à : postfix-users@postfix.org Date : 2009-02-13 12:19 Eddy Beliveau: Hi! I'm using Postfix 2.5.4 and it

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
Charles Marcus a écrit : On 2/13/2009 3:42 PM, mouss wrote: you can do this smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/moved-employees, Ah! I never even considered I could put check_recipient_access under smtpd_sender_restrictions... but if I can put

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009 4:23 PM, mouss wrote: smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/moved-employees, Ah! I never even considered I could put check_recipient_access under smtpd_sender_restrictions... but if I can put check_client_access under smtpd_recipient_restrictions,

Re: DSN: Improper sequence of commands in postfix 2.5.4

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
Eddy Beliveau a écrit : Message original Sujet : Re: DSN: Improper sequence of commands in postfix 2.5.4 De : wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) Pour : Eddy Beliveau eddy.beliv...@hec.ca Copie à : postfix-users@postfix.org Date : 2009-02-13 12:19 Eddy Beliveau: Hi!

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
Charles Marcus a écrit : On 2/13/2009 4:23 PM, mouss wrote: smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/moved-employees, Ah! I never even considered I could put check_recipient_access under smtpd_sender_restrictions... but if I can put check_client_access under

RE: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Carver Banks
I am kinda new to postfix Would I use the following line in my main.cf? smtp_discard_ehlo_keyword_address_maps = 175.21.0.67 Carver Banks Vesta Corporation 11950 SW Garden Place Portland, OR 97223 Direct: (503) 552-4045 Mobile: (503) 679-6363 -Original Message-

Re: relay through smtps

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
gianluca...@interfree.it a écrit : hi Is it possible relay mail trhough smstps under postfix? you mean forward mail to a remote smtps server? not with postfix alone. you can use stunnel: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2007-03/1350.html

Re: rbl clients.

2009-02-13 Thread Res
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Linux Addict wrote: reject_rbl_client blackholes.easynet.nl,reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org,reject_rbl_client proxies.blackholes.wirehub.net, reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,reject_rbl_client sbl.spamhaus.org, reject_rbl_client dnsbl.njabl.org,

Re: More main.cf cleanup

2009-02-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2/13/2009, mouss (mo...@ml.netoyen.net) wrote: because in your original post, the check in question was before permit_*, so doesn't need a permit_* when moved. Actually, I guess that was confusing, but... The check that is above the permit_* in my original post was the

Re: Yahoo and spams

2009-02-13 Thread mouss
ddaas a écrit : Hello everybody ! We have a lot of clients that have yahoo e-mails. Yahoo accept e-mail from our server but by default sort them as spams. What could it be? Does anyone know what does yahoo like or dislike? They don't have words related to spams, they are not advertisment

Re: Protocol error: host said: 250 2.0.0 Ok (in reply to DATA command)

2009-02-13 Thread Noel Jones
Carver Banks wrote: I am kinda new to postfix Would I use the following line in my main.cf? smtp_discard_ehlo_keyword_address_maps = 175.21.0.67 Carver Banks Please don't top post. When advice from me and Wietse differs, my first choice is Wietse. add to your main.cf:

in reply to RCPT TO command fix

2009-02-13 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, How do I configure postfix properly so I no longer get mail daemon messages with the following error? host said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, (in reply to RCPT TO command) Thank you for your help. James

Re: Problem with sending email to multiple recipients

2009-02-13 Thread sim085
hi mouss, Thank you very much for your answer. I did have a feeling the problem was with the catch-all-email setting and was wondering if anyone uses this setting with mail servers! The problem is that I can not understand how to configure fetchmail without having this setting on (I can turn it

Re: in reply to RCPT TO command fix

2009-02-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, James D. Parra wrote: How do I configure postfix properly so I no longer get mail daemon messages with the following error? host said: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, (in reply to RCPT TO command) Show full log and see DEBUG_README for hints on

Open Relay??

2009-02-13 Thread Goutam Baul
Dear List, I am finding a large numbers of mails in the output of postqueue -p where neither the sender nor the recipient of the mail is my user. Apparently these mails are reaching postfix from the loop back address. I am giving the entries for one such message from the maillog: Feb 14 04:08:32

Re: Open Relay??

2009-02-13 Thread Matt Hayes
Goutam Baul wrote: Dear List, I am finding a large numbers of mails in the output of postqueue -p where neither the sender nor the recipient of the mail is my user. Apparently these mails are reaching postfix from the loop back address. I am giving the entries for one such message from the