Firewall? My attempt at reading the postconf output suggests it should
work, though I don't know if an empty mydestination is correct.
See if you can telnet to localhost on the postfix server itself, and
check the output of netstat (`netstat -tnlp` for me) to make sure it's
listening on the
Paul Cocker wrote:
All my telneting had been by IP address, the name wasn't in DNS yet.
I've added it, but I get the same problems. As noted in my previous post
I've now found I can access the port from the postfix machine, just not
other machines.
Use netstat or lsof to see if postfix is
-Original Message-
From: Arek Czereszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2008 13:09
To: Paul Cocker
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker wrote:
All my telneting had been by IP address, the name wasn't in DNS
-Original Message-
From: Noel Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2008 13:36
To: Paul Cocker; postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker wrote:
All my telneting had been by IP address,
Paul Cocker schrieb:
-Original Message-
From: Noel Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2008 13:36
To: Paul Cocker; postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker wrote:
All my telneting had been by
Thanks for the reply! I'm going crazy here.'
I did change the setup between the set of logs in the previous e-mail. To
keep things simple, I won't this time.
# postconf -n
# shortened for relavent iformation
biff = no
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
config_directory = /etc/postfix
Hi all,
I use RBLs as you can see:
smtpd_client_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org
Moreover, I use anvil(8) with
smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit =
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Cocker
Sent: Monday, 13 October 2008 8:58 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25 - my
first config
Okay, so last week I posted an issue
-Original Message-
From: Issac Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:44:43 -0400
Subject: SMTP and SASL/TLS problem
I'm having problems with SASL and SSL on SMTP.
Here are my logs from a connection request
postfix/smtpd[2699]: connect
Thanks for the reply. Please see the answers to the questions below
starting with *SGS::.*
sgs.
mouss said the following on 10/11/2008 6:25 PM:
sgsweb a écrit :
I have a configuration of the postfix server using MySQL. I have the
postfix_virtual entry where the destination includes
Paul Cocker wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Noel Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2008 13:36
To: Paul Cocker; postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker wrote:
All my telneting had been by IP
Jordi Espasa Clofent a écrit :
Hi all,
I use RBLs as you can see:
smtpd_client_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org
and I guess you check your
Paul Cocker a écrit :
-Original Message-
From: Arek Czereszewski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2008 13:09
To: Paul Cocker
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker wrote:
All my telneting had been by IP address,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barney Desmond
Sent: 13 October 2008 11:43
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Firewall? My attempt at reading the postconf
-Original Message-
From: Udo Rader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 October 2008 15:01
To: Paul Cocker
Cc: postfix users list
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker schrieb:
-Original Message-
From: Noel Jones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mouss
Sent: 13 October 2008 16:11
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker a écrit :
-Original Message-
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noel Jones
Sent: 13 October 2008 15:51
To: postfix users list
Subject: Re: Postfix listening on 25, unable to telnet to 25
- my first config
Paul Cocker wrote:
-Original Message-
From:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:33:15AM -0400, Joey wrote:
Hello All,
I just wanted to share my success with you guys. I have been on the list
for many years running 3 postfix servers. We don't have a lot of clients,
but enough to warrant millions of connections a month by spammers.
I
Hello all,
I am trying to setup postfix so that it will start automatically at
startup. I placed the following script postfix in a text file
postfix and saved it to Library/Startupitems/Postfix. As you
probably guessed it did not work. I would be grateful for some
detailed instructions
* Jordi Espasa Clofent [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
I use RBLs as you can see:
smtpd_client_restrictions =
permit_mynetworks,
permit_sasl_authenticated,
reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org,
reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net,
reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org
Moreover, I use
-Original Message-
From: chteh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:38 AM
To: Joey
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
Dear Joey,
Thanks for your email, I am running 3 postfix mail servers too in our
research lab.
I am quite interested with your
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Victor Duchovni
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 11:38 AM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:33:15AM -0400, Joey wrote:
Hello All,
Okay, so last week I posted an issue about the above with lots of errors
and it turns out I hadn't generated the relevant .db files, along with a
couple of other problems. So, I sorted all that out and fired up
postfix, checked that the server was listening on port 25 and then tried
to telnet:
Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 11:57 AM:
For us greylisting was a problem because it put a big delay on email when you
were sitting waiting for a message from someone you were talking to, but that
catches A LOT of email.
Consider Nolisting. It doesn't have the delay associated with
greylisting,
sgsweb a écrit :
Thanks for the reply. Please see the answers to the questions below
starting with
Do you want help or do you want to impress us with bold blue?
Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 01:42 PM:
You reach a point where the money we think we are profiting from
services sucks up all our time and resources and somehow we have to
reduce that overhead and SPAM. Imagine that we are blocking millions
of spam messages a month through various methods and we
-Original Message-
From: Jorey Bump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 2:35 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 01:42 PM:
You reach a point where the money we think we are profiting
Are you really trying to be this anal or were you born that way? What
part of my response did you not understand? I tried to be as specific
as I can with the response. What did you not understand? Were you
offended (or confused) by the two different colors? Please explain.
sgs.
mouss
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 12:54 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
A spamhaus data feed for 1-5,000 commercial users is $1850/year... You
really should consider subscribing, rather than fighting spam with
country blocks...
I am still
Joey wrote:
I have at this point had NO false positives and have seen in my own personal
spam a reduction of 90%.
You will never see any false positives - those who aren't spammers
simply think that your server gone away, even they aren't able to say to
you anything...
This method won't be
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
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:19:46 -0400
sgsweb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you really trying to be this anal or were you born that way? What
part of my response did you not understand? I tried to be as specific
as I can with the response. What did you not understand? Were you
offended (or
Those are nice links, but when I subscribed to this list, I did not see
that as a requirement or a stipulation on my confirmation e-mail nor are
those links pertaining to postfix.org listserves. Maybe when you see
something that is not right, you can give them the benefit of the doubt
and
Joey a écrit :
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Zbigniew Szalbot
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 12:06 PM
To: Postfix users
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
I am still using spamhaus at the RBL level wouldn't that be the same?
Joey a écrit :
One thing I didn't think of on this, is that the list from spamhaus will be
the same I am already rejecting via RBL and while it is local, it would
still not include all the IP's I am using from these other heavy spam
countries.
you can build your own reputation list. it's
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 happy, no?
--issac kelly
sgsweb wrote:
Thanks for the reply. Please see the answers to the questions below
starting with *SGS::.*
sgs.
mouss said the following on 10/11/2008 6:25 PM:
sgsweb a écrit :
I have a configuration of the postfix server using MySQL. I have the
postfix_virtual entry where the
If you are overseas on Business you shouldn't be using any networks in that
nation to begin with. Use something else.
Daniel Reinhardt
Website: www.cryptodan.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Junior Network Security Engineer
- Original Message
From: Jorey Bump [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Joey
sgsweb a écrit :
Those are nice links, but when I subscribed to this list, I did not see
that as a requirement or a stipulation on my confirmation e-mail nor are
those links pertaining to postfix.org listserves.
you can search the archives to see what others think about it.
Maybe when you
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 04:44:42PM -0400, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote:
-RELAY ERROR LOG
Oct 11 13:49:02 mail01 postfix/smtpd[4202]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
web33504.mail.mud.yahoo.com[68.142.206.153]: 554
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Relay access denied;
Joey said:
I would like to know everyone's techniques... but yes there goes that
completive advantage you mentioned.
I get no spam whatsoever (zero, nil, zip) because my mailer rejects email
from *all* countries.
:-)
Seriously, rejecting emails from a complete country is overkill. Might
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Issac Kelly
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 4:44 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
I agree that it doesn't make sense to ban an entire country, but what about
banning an ISP that won't crack down
mouss wrote:
Joey a écrit :
One thing I didn't think of on this, is that the list from spamhaus will be
the same I am already rejecting via RBL and while it is local, it would
still not include all the IP's I am using from these other heavy spam
countries.
you can build your own
On 10/13/2008, Joey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Somewhere government ( which I dont want them to control, but is the
only one that can step in ) has to step in and setup hard and fast
laws and rules based on a committee of knowledgable people ( Wietse
etc ) to create a system which requires
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of J Sloan
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:20 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
mouss wrote:
Joey a écrit :
One thing I didn't think of on this, is that the
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Charles Marcus
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:28 PM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
On 10/13/2008, Joey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Somewhere government (
Im from the US, and i do not get that 403.
Daniel Reinhardt
Website: www.cryptodan.com
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Junior Network Security Engineer
- Original Message
From: Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 9:33:16 PM
Subject: RE:
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
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:37 PM
To: Joey
Subject: RE: Finally blocking some spam
What anti-spam measurements do you currently use?
What does your main.cf look like?
(Snip)
1st: Firewall using IPlists
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:45 PM, J Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Daniel V. Reinhardt wrote:
Just to make sure I'm not crazy here, you can't get access to
http://www.okean.com ?
Links to screenshots of what I see ( right now )
http://web56.net/images/download/screenshot1.jpg
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:37 PM
To: Joey
Subject: RE: Finally blocking some spam
What anti-spam measurements do you currently use?
What does your
Joey wrote:
The best list I have found is http://www.okean.com/ which is only known
spammers from those countries.
I don't see anywhere on that web site that they claim to list
only spammers.
In fact, they claim to list *all* Chinese and Korean IP
network blocks.
If you want to block
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
Daniel V. Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Im from the US, and i do not get that 403.
I am in the US, and I am receiving a '403' error.
--
Gerard
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Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 05:10 PM:
I can only tell you that in 4 days we have blocked at the firewall level (
on only 1 server )
161,166 connections from Poland
1,184,747 connections from Turkey
418,162 connections from Russia
53,656 connections from Czech
1,613,636 connections from Asia
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:56 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
you might want to consider the invaluement Anti-Spam DNSBL
http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/
It does
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Joey wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:37 PM
To: Joey
Subject: RE: Finally blocking some spam
What anti-spam
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Aaron Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:56 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
you might want to consider the
-Original Message-
From: Jorey Bump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:09 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
I don't think anyone can argue that these numbers are not the pattern of
NORMAL servers, or of
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Joey wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 5:37 PM
To: Joey
Subject: RE: Finally
-Original Message-
From: Jorey Bump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:09 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: Re: Finally blocking some spam
Joey wrote, at 10/13/2008 05:10 PM:
Make sure you count the hosts, not the number of packets that
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:06 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: RE: Finally blocking some spam
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Joey wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Joey wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 6:06 PM
To: Joey
Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: RE: Finally blocking some spam
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Joey wrote:
-Original Message-
I have some more details now:
postfix/smtpd[11997]: warning: (outside host): SASL PLAIN authentication
failed: authentication failure
postfix/smtpd[11997]: (outside host): 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication
failed: authentication failure
postfix/smtpd[11997]: watchdog_pat: 0x9ab5680
I have a Mailman list that contains a number of addresses at
a major ISP that lists 7 MX hosts. When delivering mail to
addresses at that ISP, all the MX hosts but one readily accept
the mail. That one recalcitrant host soft-rejects (gray-lists)
mail for about 1 hour.
Is there any way to
Jim Garrison:
I have a Mailman list that contains a number of addresses at
a major ISP that lists 7 MX hosts. When delivering mail to
addresses at that ISP, all the MX hosts but one readily accept
the mail. That one recalcitrant host soft-rejects (gray-lists)
mail for about 1 hour.
Is
Hi all,
Does anyone know where I could find information on the commonly seen
messages in maillog so that I can begin to better understand the log file?
Many thanks
Kate
Hi all
We run Postfix on most servers and would like to have accurate monitoring of
the various processes that are running.
The monitoring has configuration for processes that must be running (and
will alert if they are not) and those allowed to be running (and will
alert if anything not present
Lists wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know where I could find information on the commonly seen
messages in maillog so that I can begin to better understand the log file?
Many thanks
Kate
Here's a brief tutorial on reading postfix logs:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/22/postfix.html
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