On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:44:15 +0200, Stefan Förster
<cite+amavis-us...@incertum.net> wrote:
> * Jeff Grossman <j...@stikman.com> wrote:
>> I am running Postfix 2.6.2 and Amavis 2.6.4 together. Everything is
>> running smoothly except for one problem. When a user connects remotely
>> and
>> sends a message, I get the following line in my amavis-logwatch output:
>> 
>> 1   *Warning: Security risk
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>> 1      Open relay? Nonlocal recips but not originating: recip1
> 
> The mail passed to amavisd-new doesn't have it's "originating" flag
> set to true. This happens e.g. if you don't separate mail submission
> (users sending mail through your server) and the receiving of mail
> (read: MX functionality).
> 
> Define a second port in amavisd-new and tie it to a policy bank which
> sets the "originating" flag. Have your users submit mail to ports 587
> or 465, and in Postfix's master.cf, have those two services use the
> newly defined port to inject mail to amavisd-new.
> 
> 
> Ciao
> Stefan

Thanks.  My external users submit all mail via port 587.  I will need to
figure out how to do the policy bank as you describe.  I guess that is my
project for this evening.  Thanks again for the help with this.

Jeff

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