Re: [courier-users] SPF oddity

2008-08-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Bowie Bailey writes: Sam Varshavchik wrote: As such, since the whole process is under the complete control of the recipient, the recipient must then recognize that SPF will not be functional on forwarded mail. The recipient must concede to disabling SPF as he

Re: [courier-users] SPF oddity

2008-08-25 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alessandro Vesely wrote: Currently, the only way that one can concede forwarding is by IP address. This may make sense for a fully controlled backup MX. In general, the same IP address can be used to forward a message as well as to submit a new one. The forwarded-to recipient has no way to

Re: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 432 Mail filters temporarily unavailable

2008-07-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
, but Courier merely refuses to wait for a 129th connection to be accepted by C::F and rejects the message with a temporary SMTP status code (432 Mail filters temporarily unavailable). The filter in question is pureperlfilter, which is written by Julian Mehnle, who has requested that support

Re: [courier-users] u control field supprt; support for filters modifying message text

2008-03-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Gordon Messmer writes: As far as I can tell, filters won't see the COMCTLFILE_MSGSOURCE (u) line *most* of the time. It'll be in the first control file if there were enough recipients to require more than one, but otherwise the line is written after the filters are

Re: [courier-users] u control field supprt; support for filters modifying message text

2008-03-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Gordon Messmer wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Sam, now that 0.58 has been released in November, is there any chance that you will look into these two related issues for the next Courier release? I believe they were resolved in 0.57.1. Wow. I wonder why that wasn't announced big time, given

Re: [courier-users] Courier::Filter Message.pm invalid encoding crash

2007-11-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
Vincent, I just saw that you had reported this to the courier-users mailing list a year ago already. I am sorry that haven't had much time (and momentum) to work on C::F. Vincent Schonau wrote: Occasionally, the Courier::Filter 0.17 pureperlfilter will crash for me, leaving the following

[courier-users] u control field supprt; support for filters modifying message text; determining Courier version? (was: Proposed extension: SKIPMAILFILTER)

2007-11-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Gordon Messmer writes: As far as I can tell, filters won't see the COMCTLFILE_MSGSOURCE (u) line *most* of the time. It'll be in the first control file if there were enough recipients to require more than one, but otherwise the line is written after the filters are

Re: [courier-users] Problem with two SPF TXT records

2007-06-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alessandro Vesely wrote: Marco Balmer wrote: But why did courier not accept it anyway, because ip4 address in the spf record is matching the incoming connection in my case? Is mx prefered? Setting many references to further DNS records has been feared as a way to put DoS attacks to a

Re: [courier-users] Problem with two SPF TXT records

2007-06-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Marco Balmer writes: Does courier support spf2 records? No. SPF2 is patent-encumbered. For the record, it's really just the PRA algorithm (RFC 4407) that's patent-encumbered, and given that the algorithm is really just an application of Resent-* header logic from

[courier-users] 3 dashes limit in localparts

2007-04-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam, I'd like to feed back that I just wasted about three hours trying to figure out why I was getting 550 User unknown errors from my Courier server when submitting messages for a (newly created) local user who has 4 dashes in their name. This 3 dashes limit isn't documented anywhere but in

Re: [courier-users] Filter API

2007-01-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Gordon Messmer wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Ironically, this, too, defies Courier's attempts at being efficient There's nothing ironic about it. My point being, I think Courier should offer a mode where it parses messages' MIME structure only _after_ having called the courierfilters

Re: [courier-users] DomainKeys on Courier?

2007-01-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jeff wrote: I was wondering if anyone has done anything related or knows if DomainKeys will be implemented on Courier any time in the future? No, since DomainKeys is patented by Yahoo, on GPL-incompatible terms. I believe it is dual-licensed under either Yahoo's license -or- GPL, so

Re: [courier-users] Filter API

2007-01-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Lorenzo Perone wrote: I do this by calling spamc over a courierfilter for a pre-scan, using a systemwide bayes db and systemwide settings, rejecting anything over a certain threshold, and then calling it again as xfilter over maildrop, using user bayes and user settings. In this second run SA

Re: [courier-users] Concern over SPF HELO results

2005-05-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
Bill Taroli wrote: Hmm not sure why I'd be seeing this lookup result come back, since as far as I can tell all my DNS setup is correct. This isn't resulting in a failure to deliver mail, at least, because the MAILFROM test still passes... but I wouldn't expect to be getting an error on

Re: [courier-users] Configurable Max Recipient List Limits?

2005-05-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Pete Toscano wrote: Some mail sent to us is bouncing because the sender is putting a huge list of recipients in the header. Yeah, it's bad form. Yeah, it'd be great if they'd stop doing it, but changing them is not an option -- sadly. Is there any way to change this outside of patching the

Re: [courier-users] Configurable Max Recipient List Limits?

2005-05-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Pete Toscano wrote: [bofh/maxrcpts] Sweet. Is there a way to turn it off? IOW, can you set it to something like 0 and have it just disregard this check? Good question; I don't know. Sam? From what I can tell, you can't set this on a per-domain basis, correct? Correct.

RE: [courier-users] how to configure SPF records?

2005-05-01 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ricardo Kleemann wrote: I've never configured SPF, I don't even know if my version of courier supports SPF (I'm using 0.44.2) No, it doesn't. The first version of Courier that supported SPF _checking_ was 0.47.0. However, that doesn't matter in this case, because it was another server, not

RE: [courier-users] courierfilter and Courier::Filter problems

2005-05-01 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jay Lee wrote: Julian Mehnle said: Jay Lee wrote: I created the link in /usr/lib/courier/libexec/filters myself so that I could use filterctl. I'd also tried creating the /etc/courier/filters/active/pureperlfilter link manually myself. courierfilter starts pureperlfilter

RE: [courier-users] Filtering based on SMTP authentication

2005-04-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ben Kennedy wrote: Modified to: '^Received: from .*\s+\(.*\)\s+\((.* )?AUTH\:\ ' This is how Courier::Message[1] from Courier::Filter does it: sub authenticated { my ($message) = @_; return $message-{authenticated} if defined($message-{authenticated}); TRY: { #

RE: [courier-users] courierfilter and Courier::Filter problems

2005-04-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jay Lee wrote: I created the link in /usr/lib/courier/libexec/filters myself so that I could use filterctl. I'd also tried creating the /etc/courier/filters/active/pureperlfilter link manually myself. courierfilter starts pureperlfilter but it doesn't seem to have any affect on incoming

RE: [courier-users] Filter not cleaning up its socket

2005-04-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alessandro Vesely wrote: Ben Kennedy wrote: In this example, pureperlfilter is cleaning up its socket (though sometimes for whatever reason the socket stays around causing it to refuse to launch subsequently); perlfilter is not removing its. IMHO, the latter is correct. But again, I have

RE: [courier-users] [newbie] Sender-verification in Courier

2005-04-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Wladimir Mutel wrote: In Exim, there is nice facility of sender verification by smtp-callback. Helps to reject a lot of spam. Could you please advise how to implement the same in Courier ? You could simply write a call-back filter module for Courier::Filter (Courier::Filter::Module::CallBack)

RE: [courier-users] courierfilter and Courier::Filter problems

2005-04-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jay Lee wrote: I'm having trouble getting global filtering working using Courier::Filter. I've installed Courier::Filter and dependencies. I can successfully use test-filter-module to verify Courer::Filter is working. I can start and stop pureperlfilter with filterctl and /var/log/maillog

RE: [courier-users] Can Courier::Filter only look at headers and ignore the body?

2005-04-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Lloyd Zusman wrote: If possible, I'd like Courier::Filter to only read the set of headers for each message, and to never attempt to read any of the bodies. Well, the message text is only read into memory when any of the text(), header(), or body() methods of a Courier::Message object are

RE: [courier-users] success story?

2005-03-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Antuan Avdioukhine wrote: Is there any comparasions or success stories of courier-IMAP? I'm preparing an upgrade plan and want to change current POP3 sever up to courier POP/IMAP, but my co-workers want to see wy courier is the best choice ;) Courier IMAP may or may not be the best choice,

RE: [courier-users] SpamAssassin during SMTP dialog

2005-03-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Dirk Kulmsee wrote: We all would love to block spam at the earliest stage, but at least here in Good ol' Germany you are half way in Jail if you do so. Mail letters are PERSONAL and you may not intrude. This is nonsense. Just put a clause into your AGB (Terms and Conditions), then you're

RE: [courier-users] SpamAssassin during SMTP dialog

2005-03-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jay Lee wrote: with some perl scripting, one could probably get something similar with Spamassassin at SMTP time A simple SpamAssassin module for Courier::Filter might look like the following. I just hacked it together off the top of my head, so it hasn't been tested, but I will probably

RE: [courier-users] SpamAssassin during SMTP dialog

2005-03-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Dirk Kulmsee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle schrieb: For rejecting spam, I rely solely on reputation systems (i.e. blacklists) and I recommend to my users that they use the SpamCop reporting service[2] to report spam. In my opinion this is not the (always) the way to go. It bears

RE: [courier-users] Eliminating duplicate recipient addresses for local mail delivery

2005-03-02 Thread Julian Mehnle
Gordon Messmer wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Even if you looked at the envelope recipients, what you are trying to do is generally impossible, because in the end it is not the delivered-to _recipient_address_ that counts (as you already noticed) but the delivered-to _mailbox_, which cannot

RE: [courier-users] Eliminating duplicate recipient addresses for local mail delivery

2005-03-01 Thread Julian Mehnle
Chuck Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using default mail delivery to ./Maildir in each user's home directory, and I've got several distribution lists set up up as multiple-recipient aliases (defined in Webadmin). If a specific recipient occurs directly or indirectly in a message, that

RE: [courier-users] Filtering messages

2005-02-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Lucio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alessandro Vesely wrote: Courier already has a big-brother option. Yes, I know. But I need the users to be aware of the fact that their messages are being sniffed, so I have to force them to send CCs of thier messages to the big-brother address. When I read

RE: [courier-users] Filtering messages

2005-02-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Julian Mehnle wrote: Your filter (or filter module, if you decide to use one of the modular frameworks) would need to check the list of envelope recipients (the headers aren't exactly authoritative as far as actual message delivery is concerned) for the copy address, and then either return

RE: [courier-users] reliable recipient-specific content filtering without bounces

2005-02-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: The strategy in [draft-varshavchik-exdata-smtpext] has been in Courier for years. Courier has an internal API for recipient-specific content filters. If enabled, Courier will begin behaving exactly as that document describes. How can this be enabled? To what extent

RE: [courier-users] reliable recipient-specific content filtering without bounces

2005-02-08 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: How can this be enabled? man localmailfilter Oh, that. Now I see the connection. Thanks for the pointer. The draft also describes, exactly, what to do with mailing list traffic. It really describes what Courier's been doing, for quite some

RE: [courier-users] 127.0.0.1 DNS-records

2005-02-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sander Holthaus wrote: Would it be possible or would you consider making a bofh-option to refuse such addresses? Why don't you do what Sam already suggested on 2005-01-19? Sam Varshavchik wrote: I'm not aware of anything that technically prohibits such an MX record. But they can be easily

RE: [courier-users] Courier's Received: header format?

2005-02-01 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 Also, am I right that the various items can be split on /,\s+/, and that this pattern and closing parentheses ()) won't appear in them? Or do I have to handle balanced

[courier-users] Courier's Received: header format?

2005-01-31 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi Sam, how is Courier's Received: header format specified? I do know the general Received: header format; I am especially interested in the second from comment field: | Received: from nova (p549A64A3.dip.t-dialin.net [:::84.154.100.163]) | (AUTH: LOGIN [EMAIL PROTECTED], TLS:

RE: [courier-users] Courier's Received: header format?

2005-01-31 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: Here, it is AUTH: LOGIN [EMAIL PROTECTED], TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,128bits,RC4-MD5. But what's the general format? What assumptions can I make when trying to parse the AUTH part? There are a couple of other things that can appear there, but there's

RE: [courier-users] Courier and pgsql

2005-01-29 Thread Julian Mehnle
db [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can courier read domains, relay domains, addresses and so on from a (pgsql) db? Yes. If yes, can you direct me to some tutorial? I've read most of the doc on http://www.courier-mta.org/, also the doc about authlib, but I can't find anything. There is no tutorial

RE: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-24 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mark Bucciarelli wrote: [taking off list, as I think I have borked my setup.] No, unfortunately this is a general issue with IO::InnerFile. See below. Julian Mehnle wrote: Try 0.11 as soon as it appears on CPAN (which should be within the next few hours). That got me futher, but I'm

RE: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 15:03, Julian Mehnle wrote: * Added the ClamAVd filter module for malware filtering using a ClamAV `clamd` dameon. Looks like this modules required ClamAV::Client? I was not able to retrieve it using CPAN. Below

RE: [courier-users] Re: Esmtp on multiple IP addresses ?

2005-01-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Peter Holm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3780089 is this still true? Is _what_ still true? You could use chroots (or jails if you're on BSD) which only expose a single IP address of the host system each, so Courier would have no chance but use

RE: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Courier::Filter 0.16 has been released on CPAN[1]. The most important changes are: * Added the ClamAVd filter module for malware filtering using a ClamAV `clamd` dameon. Before I dive into this new release, does that mean

RE: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alexander Lazic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mit 19.01.2005 12:59, Julian Mehnle wrote: The point of using Courier::Filter is that it is very flexible and supports arbitrary filter modules and complex filter module configurations, not just ClamAV scanning. But at the moment the quequefile

RE: [courier-users] To MX or not...

2005-01-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jay Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So here's my question, would it be risky to drop the backup MX completely? We're on a T1 that has been extremely reliable the past few years. Should we have an outage, we'd have 4 hours I believe until most mailservers would start generating delayed

RE: [courier-users] To MX or not...

2005-01-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jay Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle said: If it's a cost issue, run just one (i.e. drop the differently configured secondary MX). That's what I actually do. Have you ever had issues with downtime or lost mail? Nothing where a secondary MX would have helped. Martijn Lievaart

RE: [courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No -- the problem that prevents this from working is that by that time the message's MIME structure is already parsed. If, suddenly the message's contents change, the pre-parsed offsets of various MIME entities in the message will result in a corrupted

[courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.16

2005-01-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, Courier::Filter 0.16 has been released on CPAN[1]. The most important changes are: * Added the ClamAVd filter module for malware filtering using a ClamAV `clamd` dameon. * Added the SPFout filter module for outbound SPF filtering. * Some changes to the classic SPF filter

RE: [courier-users] Lindsay Haisley perlfilter

2005-01-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Yvonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Samedi 15 Janvier 2005 12:47, Stefan Hornburg a écrit : You need to install the Perl module MIME::Parser. Sorry for the question but where can I find the Perl module MIME::Parser and how can I install il ? Install the p5-MIME-Tools port:

RE: [courier-users] Lindsay Haisley perlfilter

2005-01-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Yvonne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok : I do a pkg_add -r P5-MIME-Tools and the filter works. The problem is that the mail is not delivered to the quarantine folder ... Sorry, I can't help you with that as I don't know Lindsay's filter. Perhaps Lindsay can?

[courier-users] RE: Courier mailing list server appears in SORBS

2005-01-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
Lindsay Haisley wrote: I had the same problem a while back with a couple of other lists, one a gentoo list and one on sourceforge. Seems they were using servers in Italy which had been compromised and were being used to send out spam. The listings were with SpamCop, which I had to remove from

[courier-users] RE: ssl serving multiple domains

2005-01-13 Thread Julian Mehnle
chester c young wrote: does anyone have any idea on how to have ssl with multiple domains? in imapd-ssl, for example, a certificate is generated for one domain - that works fine, but when a second domain logs in, the mail client (thunderbird) gives a big warning that the certificate does not

RE: [courier-users] Courier::Filter on Debian Woody

2005-01-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mark Bucciarelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Woody is ships with Perl 5.6. Courier::Filter requires 5.8. If I build and put perl 5.8 in /usr/local/bin and 5.6 in /usr/bin (e ...), will pureperlfilter and Courier::Filter then work? You'd then have to change the `perl` path in

RE: [courier-users] self-signed certificates

2005-01-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Kaare Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still no problem, but it apparantly flushes the accept for the email reception. Next time I want to poll for email, I have to accept the certificate again. I use SSL for reception and TLS for SMTP. Is this a feature, a bug in the client (kmail) or

RE: [courier-users] self-signed certificates

2005-01-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 2005-01-11 14:45:41, schrieb Kaare Rasmussen: Is this a feature, a bug in the client (kmail) or do I just have to accept the situation ? Do you have imported the Certificat into kMail ? It seems not. As far as I am concerned, I have a

RE: [courier-users] maildrop at other things

2005-01-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
David Aspinall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] What surprises me is that I think a filter pass should be made before the pass off to the MDA. I think what I really wanted was a specific global place to plug in virus/spam scanners regardless of the final MDA. You can do that anyway: just

RE: [courier-users] Strange SPF error message sequence

2005-01-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jason L. Buberel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found the following sequence in my logs this AM (courier v0.47). What I found odd was that courier reported the SPF failure in the logs after reporting that the message had been delivered: [...] There is no evidence of another message in the queue

RE: [courier-users] Strange SPF error message sequence

2005-01-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
Jason L. Buberel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here is the header/envelope information on a message that also generated an SPF failure in my logs. Based on the Received-SPF headers, it looks like everything passed. Yet the log output corresponding to this message indicates otherwise (see below):

RE: [courier-users] determine BCC original recipient

2005-01-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
Ben Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In other words, if you are trying to BCC something to both me and my enemy, it is incumbent upon your outbound service to keep them separate and private. If both my enemy and I happened to live on the same host, our inbound SMTP would be providing a

RE: [courier-users] DomainKeys

2004-12-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
Randy PerlStalker Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am continuing my quixotic attempt to stop spam from coming into my mail server. Having seen the effectiveness of SPF, I'm now looking into implementing DomainKeys (http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys). If you think that SPF or DK will stop

RE: [courier-users] SPF keyword question

2004-12-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Randy PerlStalker Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Varshavchik wrote: There's been several different versions of SPF documentation floating around. Courier uses the logic documented in draft-mengwong-spf-01.txt, see that document for the definition of these results. Are there any

RE: [courier-users] Courier relay mails of nonexistent account!

2004-12-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Adrián Fabricio Gutiérrez wrote: I could make work Courier::Filter with SPF but I could not obtain that it verifies if a user is valid in the SMTP server. Due to my lack of time because of my work I am myself forced to render to me, since I cannot obtain that protocol SPF works to avoid this

RE: [courier-users] Courier relay mails of nonexistent account!

2004-12-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Adrián Fabricio Gutiérrez wrote: All is OK except for a problem in the installation of Courier::Filter my /var/log/maillog file it appears the message: courierfilter: Unable to create socket /var/lib/courier/allfilters/.pureperlfilter at /usr/share/courier-filter-perl/perl5/Courier/Filter.pm

RE: [courier-users] Any way for Courier to run dot-courier before returning status code on SMTP layer?

2004-12-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Martijn Lievaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, so the filters are run for every locally delivered message. But can I whitelist some recipients unconditionally, no bloclists applied, or do I have to use BLOCK2. Courier does not currently support applying DNS blocklists to certain recipients

RE: [courier-users] Postini problem w. Courier

2004-12-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Julian Mehnle on Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:19AM CST Why don't you do what Jerry did, i.e. contact Postini and get them fix their servers? I've already written [EMAIL PROTECTED] about it, and the other address I have for them, [EMAIL

RE: [courier-users] Postini problem w. Courier

2004-12-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Lindsay Haisley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Jerry Amundson on Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:44:21PM CST I've turned off security for their domains... psknet.com: psknet.com/SECURITY=NONE in etc/esmtproutes, as they seem to have some kind of STARTTLS issue. For what it's worth, I'm

RE: [courier-users] Error 534 - Header...

2004-12-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff Jansen writes: First, fetchmail should be bouncing these messages back to the sender if it gets a hard (5XX) error from courier. No, it shouldn't. As you know, the return address on spam is forged, so all you'll be doing is annoying innocent

RE: [courier-users] Courier relay mails of nonexistent account!

2004-12-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Adrián Fabricio Gutiérrez wrote: I can [use] Courier::Filter only for this problem? or I need other additional components (SPF parts, perl others, etc.) No, you don't need to use the other modules. If you use the SPF filter module, of course you need to install the Mail::SPF::Query Perl

[courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.15

2004-12-09 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, Courier::Filter is now included in the Debian distribution, with the package name courier-filter-perl[1], beginning with the newly released version 0.15 -- which will of course also be available from CPAN[2] within the next day. 0.15 is only a minor bugfix release. The changes are: *

RE: [courier-users] Courier relay mails of nonexistent account!

2004-12-07 Thread Julian Mehnle
Gordon Messmer wrote: Adrián Fabricio Gutiérrez wrote: All work OK except when I send a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], courier permit send, no has control about identity of nonexistent-user that send mail =(. SMTP doesn't define a mechanism for verifying return

RE: [courier-users] extended addresses [SOLVED]

2004-12-04 Thread Julian Mehnle
Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I could leave Postfix out of this were it not for the fact that I have no idea how to do the spam control in Courier MTA; I can't find documentation for this. Depending on what kind of spam control you want, there's a variety of solutions (and

RE: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-22 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: [...] Now someone at pobox.com (which is SPF protected) sends me a message to my cpan.org address. The cpan.org MTA forwards the message to the mehnle.net MTA, which sees the pobox.com envelope sender being used

RE: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-19 Thread Julian Mehnle
Alessandro Vesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is still not clear why one would rewrite senders. SPF should work if everybody takes the burden of declaring what are the mail servers they use. Suppose I have an account with the CPAN project and thus have the e-mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED].

RE: [courier-users] SPF and backup MX

2004-11-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does courier handle SPF when mail come from backup MX:s? I couldn't find anything in the documentation about this and the only mx related code I found was for handling the mx-entries in the SPF record. Adding the backup MX:s to the access list with

RE: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: Huh? Do I understand you right that you think adding SRS support to Courier would unconditionally turn it into an open relay? Pretty much. This has been discussed before. Well, SRS is considered to be safe by the SPF project

RE: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-18 Thread Julian Mehnle
Pierre Ossman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current solution would be to turn of SPF checks for the mail servers where you can receive relayed mail from. But this is not something people are comfortable with if it is a public relaying service. It is your _only_ choice if no sender rewriting is

RE: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Ossman writes: I just wanted to know what the plans are for adding SRS support to courier. Since courier recently got SPF support I've been starting to add it to the sites I administer. Unfortunatly I use forwarding in a number of places

RE: [courier-users] Status of SRS (SPF forwarding fix)

2004-11-17 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pierre Ossman writes: I just wanted to know what the plans are for adding SRS support to courier. [...] Is this something that is going to be added in the near future? Or are No. Because adding it will turn the mail server into an open relay.

[courier-users] RE: Empty messages halting POP downloads

2004-11-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mark Constable wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 08:54, Julian Mehnle wrote: If you are willing to install Courier::Filter (Perl 5.8 required), you can try using this filter module for a while to see whether it catches all the broken messages that you and your users have a problem

RE: [courier-users] OpenBSD 3.6 and Courier 0.47: Outbound

2004-11-15 Thread Julian Mehnle
Sam Varshavchik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan Ubuni writes: I anxiously await your arrogant/elitist repsonse. Here's my arrogant/elitist response: [...] Here, I'll even write the code for you: #include stdio.h void main() { int i; for (i=0; i256; i++) {

RE: [courier-users] Empty messages halting POP downloads

2004-11-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mark Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the last 2 months we've been getting an increasing amount of incoming messages with incomplete headers and an empty message body. They prevent POP users from downloading their email. I suspect we are not the only ones and was wondering if there was

RE: [courier-users] Empty messages halting POP downloads

2004-11-14 Thread Julian Mehnle
Mark Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 01:06, Julian Mehnle wrote: I guess those of your users who are having problems with such [empty-body] messages are using Outlook, right? I have one example that appears to be a download attempt from Mozilla so it may have

[courier-users] RE: Empty messages... again

2004-11-12 Thread Julian Mehnle
Kóczán Péter wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Kóczán Péter wrote: Again. Is it somehow possible to filter thos messages who have null body? Please define to filter. To filter = to deliver messages with null body into somewhere else. You could try writing a maildrop filter which detects

[courier-users] RE: Empty messages... again

2004-11-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Kóczán Péter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again. Is it somehow possible to filter thos messages who have null body? Please define to filter. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE

[courier-users] maillog: courierfilter: exec: No such file or directory

2004-11-10 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi Sam, Bernard Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've finally installed [Courier::Filter 0.14]. This is what I shows up in my maillog after I run /usr/local/courier/sbin/courierfilter start: Nov 10 09:45:55 mail courierfilter: Starting pureperlfilter Nov 10 09:45:55 mail courierfilter: exec:

[courier-users] RE: How to remove singlequotes from incoming/outgoing mail

2004-10-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Robert Pfister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got some users that keep adding singlequotes to their usernames. I'm not sure how they manage it, but I suspect they are cutting pasting from outlook, or something. The result is, of course that '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' isn't the same as [EMAIL

[courier-users] RE: How to remove singlequotes from incoming/outgoing mail

2004-10-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Robert Pfister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I'd like to do is remove the outside most pairs of apostrophe's. The logic being that the trailing apostrophe would cause the message to be bounced anyhow. If Sam Varshavchik changed Courier to do this, next week someone would come and request that

[courier-users] RE: How to remove singlequotes from incoming/outgoing mail

2004-10-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Martijn Lievaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234 Sure, the client (MUA) could sent to the others and after the user corrected the address send it to the address that was originally faulty. It could even include the full cc list

[courier-users] RE: How to remove singlequotes from incoming/outgoing mail

2004-10-26 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi Robert, hi Sam, Robert Pfister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julian Mehnle wrote: Why can't your users' mail clients (or whatever produces those misformatted e-mail addresses) just conform to the standards? My previous attempts to get Microsoft to conform to standards haven't been

[courier-users] RE: courierfilter documentation clarification

2004-10-23 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi Sam, Sam Varshavchik wrote: Julian Mehnle writes: Now I fixed the bug in my code, I suggest clarifying the courierfilter documentation. I would submit a patch if I knew what the authoritative instance of the doc is -- there's at least a manpage and an HTML file. Well, I guess you can

[courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.14

2004-10-21 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, there's a minor bugfix release, 0.14, of Courier::Filter on CPAN[1]. The changes are: * Added documentation for the test-filter-module and pureperlfilter executables. * test-filter-module: - Fixed the command-line parsing and handling of control file names. - Made the

[courier-users] RE: Setting up courier -- some newbie questions

2004-10-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Bernard Hurley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to set up mailing systems on Debian GNU/Linux boxes and I would like to use Courier because of its wide range of features. I have installed all the Debian courier packages version 0.37.3-2.5 [...] Oh my. I recommend not using Debian

[courier-users] RE: Setting up courier -- some newbie questions

2004-10-20 Thread Julian Mehnle
Grzegorz Janoszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Julian Mehnle wrote: Oh my. I recommend not using Debian Woody anymore, it's already beyond ancient, as is version 0.37 of Courier. Try using a more recent version of Courier (and maybe Debian). Debian/testing contains

[courier-users] RE: outgoing smtp authentication

2004-10-16 Thread Julian Mehnle
Tom Eicher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to tell courier-esmtpd to use smtp authentication when sending out relayed mail? Use the esmtpauthclient configuration file, which is described in the `courier` manpage: http://www.courier-mta.org/courier.html

[courier-users] RE: reject unknown users on mx backup servers

2004-10-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A completely different solution that more and more people use is not have any backup MXen! Make all mailservers primary (same prio) and have them all on site. If any of them fails you're covered, another will take over. If your Internet connection fails, the sending

[courier-users] RE: courier filter question

2004-10-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Robert Penz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where can I find a documentation of the control file. I currently know only that tags which are implemented in pythonfilter. I'm specially searching for a way to detect the mails which are sent via smtp auth, as I want to whitelist them. Generally, the

[courier-users] RE: Empty Subject field - how to blacklist

2004-10-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Polarcom Webmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to blacklist messages with empty Subject field? You could use Courier::Filter[1] and the included Header filter module to match messages with empty subjects and reject those. References: 1. http://search.cpan.org/dist/Courier-Filter

[courier-users] RE: Hostname-Based filtering

2004-10-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
Arturo Buanzo Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to deny relaying from a computer which sets it's hostname to SOMENAME (fdns; $HOSTNAME ([ipaddr]) , etc). Even although random valid SMTP AUTH is issued (free mail service), I want to deny relaying. Is there any possible way of

[courier-users] RE: courier filter question

2004-10-11 Thread Julian Mehnle
I wrote: Robert Penz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: where can I find a documentation of the control file. I currently know only that tags which are implemented in pythonfilter. I'm specially searching for a way to detect the mails which are sent via smtp auth, as I want to whitelist them.

[courier-users] Courier::Filter 0.13

2004-10-05 Thread Julian Mehnle
Hi all, after several months I have finally been able to release[1] version 0.13 of Courier::Filter on CPAN. The most important changes: * This release fixes the mysterious ``Can't call method close on an undefined value at Filter.pm line 299?? bug that caused Courier::Filter to fail

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