Re: Staying on the safe side while sending mass emails

2009-04-22 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed April 22 2009 17:36:56 Harsh Jain wrote: > I am choosing the following settings to be on the safe side, so as > to not get blocked by any ISP for being aggressive. I would suggest, rather, that you simply not send any unsolicited bulk email. Use industry standards for confirmation of Web

Re: Plus Addressing

2009-04-22 Thread Jeff Grossman
On 4/22/2009 12:17 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: Jeff, One more thing I noticed today also. All messages which have the "+" in the e-mail are sent to Dovecot's Deliver twice. So, I receive the message twice in the folder. All other messages are only sent to Deliver once. Any idea what I have

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* wiskbr...@hotmail.com : > Does this mean that if a remote site has this set to 450 that I will > keep trying for 5 days, or however long my "maximal_queue_lifetime" is > set for? Exactly. > What do I do in the case of misconfigured (are they?) MTA's? Wait 5 days. Or contact the idiot sysadmin

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* wiskbr...@hotmail.com : > What about for "undeliverable address: unknown user:"? I set > delay_warning_time to 120m and after 2 hours never received any > warnings at all that my email was rejected due to being sent to an > undeliverable address, user unknown in this case. Logs? > Finally, p

Staying on the safe side while sending mass emails

2009-04-22 Thread Harsh Jain
Hi, I am choosing the following settings to be on the safe side, so as to not get blocked by any ISP for being aggressive. - We expect to deliver around 50K mails per day. - We do not want to reattempt delivery of bounced or failed deliveries. Please let me know if this won't affect us otherwise

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Noel Jones
Mark Johnson wrote: Finally, I figure out under mynetwork, I need to add 127.0.0.0 and it works now. Reading the documentation would have made this much easier to figure out. http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#relay_from http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mynetworks

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Johnson
Finally, I figure out under mynetwork, I need to add 127.0.0.0 and it works now. For transport table /eetc/postfix/transprot I wonder the format will like this and the mail will forward to this server? mydomain.comsmtp: 192.168.1.155 myanotherone.comsmtp: 192.168.1.155 onedomain.com

Another SMTP protocol breakage by ASA

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Martinec
Ralf, here is another one for your list of Cisco PIX and ASA problems with inspection of a SMTP protocol (actually, parsing of a mail header section): http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/postfix_cisco_pix_bugs.shtml CSCsy28792 SMTP session disconnects due to improper parsing of a DKIM header fie

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 4/22/2009, wiskbr...@hotmail.com (wiskbr...@hotmail.com) wrote: > Does this mean that if a remote site has this set to 450 that I will > keep trying for 5 days, or however long my "maximal_queue_lifetime" > is set for? Yes... > What do I do in the case of misconfigured (are they?) MTA's? All

Re: Plus Addressing

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Martinec
Jeff, > >> One more thing I noticed today also. All messages which have the "+" in > >> the e-mail are sent to Dovecot's Deliver twice. So, I receive the > >> message twice in the folder. All other messages are only sent to > >> Deliver once. Any idea what I have configured wrong for the messa

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Johnson
The purpose for the postfix is only for mail relay. Also after I comment out #mynetwork = 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.x,192.168.1.10x and I can use the command cat maillog | mail m...@x.com -s maillog to send mail out. --- On Wed, 4/22/09, Victor Duchovni wrote: > From: Victor Duchovni >

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Martinec
Jørn, > As I said in the first email, I control both ends (both the sender- and > the receiver-server). But I do not control neither network-connectivity > or Internet-connectivity at either sites. > > I did try turning of Window Scaling at both ends, but it did not help at > all. It still won't d

RE: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread wiskbroom
>> From: cmar...@... > >> On 4/22/2009, wiskbr...@... (wiskbr...@...) wrote: >>> What about for "undeliverable address: unknown user:"? I set >>> delay_warning_time to 120m and after 2 hours never received any >>> warnings at all that my email was rejected due to being sent to an >>> undeliverabl

Re: Max Size Not Working Correctly?

2009-04-22 Thread Duane Hill
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Rick Duval wrote: I have Postfix installed as part of a Virtualmin installation and I'm having some emails reject because of size (so the reject says, pasted below logs from the sending server) 2009-04-22 11:33:58 1LweSG-0004iM-Sn ** rdu...@csm-ltd.com R=deliver_clean T=re

Re: Max Size Not Working Correctly?

2009-04-22 Thread Johannes Huning
See message_size_limit and its default value: http://www.postfix.org/resource.html On Apr 22, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Rick Duval wrote: I have Postfix installed as part of a Virtualmin installation and I'm having some emails reject because of size (so the reject says, pasted below logs from the send

Max Size Not Working Correctly?

2009-04-22 Thread Rick Duval
I have Postfix installed as part of a Virtualmin installation and I'm having some emails reject because of size (so the reject says, pasted below logs from the sending server) 2009-04-22 11:33:58 1LweSG-0004iM-Sn ** rdu...@csm-ltd.com R=deliver_clean T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail ser

RE: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread wiskbroom
> From: cmar...@... > On 4/22/2009, wiskbr...@... (wiskbr...@...) wrote: >> What about for "undeliverable address: unknown user:"? I set >> delay_warning_time to 120m and after 2 hours never received any >> warnings at all that my email was rejected due to being sent to an >> undeliverable addres

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 4/22/2009, wiskbr...@hotmail.com (wiskbr...@hotmail.com) wrote: > What about for "undeliverable address: unknown user:"? I set > delay_warning_time to 120m and after 2 hours never received any > warnings at all that my email was rejected due to being sent to an > undeliverable address, user unk

RE: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread wiskbroom
> From: ralf.hildebra...@... > * wiskbr...@... : >> >> >> Hello; >> >> My users NDR's are not arriving until the 5 day retry period has lapsed, >> creating issues whereby time critical emails are not getting out due to >> their unawareness of this matter. > > Normal in certain cases (typoed do

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:14:24AM -0700, Mark Johnson wrote: > maximal_queue_lifetime = 5h This looks rather unwise, unless you never send to Internet domains. > minimal_backoff_time = 1000s Just delete from main.cf and use the default value. > mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* wiskbr...@hotmail.com : > > > Hello; > > My users NDR's are not arriving until the 5 day retry period has lapsed, > creating issues whereby time critical emails are not getting out due to their > unawareness of this matter. Normal in certain cases (typoed domains, mostly). Why not use: dela

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Johnson
Here you go: alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix debug_peer_level = 2 delay_warning_time = 4h html_directory = no inet_interfaces = all mail_owner = postfix mailq_pat

Re: postfix with large majordomo mailing list.

2009-04-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Steve Head: > One difference I can see, when doing a postcat of a queue file of a > smaller list which also has a deferred recipient. > [snip] > sender: owner-@infoxchange.net.au > named_attribute: rewrite_context=local > original_recipient: -mj-list > done_recipient: $us...@infoxchange.net

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Wietse Venema
J?rn Odberg: > Would I need to do this at the sender or the receiver? Or both ends? You can run tcpdump at one end first. If we can't figure out what is happening, then we may also need the other end to see if something is messing around with the packets. Some "firewalls" have incomplete TCP impl

RE: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread wiskbroom
> From: victor.ducho...@... > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:57:27AM -0400, wiskbr...@... wrote: > >> My users NDR's are not arriving until the 5 day retry period has lapsed, > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4.1 Thanks, I've been needing to re-read lots of other RFC's lately :-( >

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 09:12:04AM -0700, Mark Johnson wrote: > I am newbie with Postfix and have couple questions: > > 1. Allow relay from trusted servers within same network (using IP > address) How can I do that? http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html#relay_from > I tried

Re: Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/4/23 Mark Johnson : > 1. Allow relay from trusted servers within same network (using IP address) > How can I do that? I tried this with mynetworks = 192.168.1.100, > 192.168.1.102, 192.168.1.103 and it won't work. It's not even able to send > mail out from postfix itself. > 2. With Sendmail

Newbie with Postfix - Relay and Mailertable

2009-04-22 Thread Mark Johnson
All, I am newbie with Postfix and have couple questions: 1. Allow relay from trusted servers within same network (using IP address) How can I do that? I tried this with mynetworks = 192.168.1.100, 192.168.1.102, 192.168.1.103 and it won't work. It's not even able to send mail out from postfix

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Charles Marcus
On 4/22/2009 11:57 AM, wiskbr...@hotmail.com wrote: > > Hello; > > My users NDR's are not arriving until the 5 day retry period has lapsed, > creating issues whereby time critical emails are not getting out due to their > unawareness of this matter. > > I've tried several changes in my main.cf

Re: NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:57:27AM -0400, wiskbr...@hotmail.com wrote: > My users NDR's are not arriving until the 5 day retry period has lapsed, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.4.1 > creating issues whereby time critical emails are not getting out due to > their unawareness o

NDR's Not being Delivered Until 5 Days have Lapsed

2009-04-22 Thread wiskbroom
Hello; My users NDR's are not arriving until the 5 day retry period has lapsed, creating issues whereby time critical emails are not getting out due to their unawareness of this matter. I've tried several changes in my main.cf, none seem to do the trick for me. Here is some of my postconf ou

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 11:57:30PM +1000, Barney Desmond wrote: > > As I said in the first email, I control both ends (both the sender- and the > > receiver-server). But I do not control neither network-connectivity or > > Internet-connectivity at either sites. > > > > I did try turning of Window

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/4/22 Jørn Odberg : > As I said in the first email, I control both ends (both the sender- and the > receiver-server). But I do not control neither network-connectivity or > Internet-connectivity at either sites. > > I did try turning of Window Scaling at both ends, but it did not help at > all.

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Jørn Odberg
Hello Sahil, and thanks for your reply. As I said in the first email, I control both ends (both the sender- and the receiver-server). But I do not control neither network-connectivity or Internet-connectivity at either sites. I did try turning of Window Scaling at both ends, but it did not h

Re: postfix with large majordomo mailing list.

2009-04-22 Thread Steve Head
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 07:53:01AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Steve Head: > > This all works well for most of the lists we have, however on the > > largish list (without fail in my testing today) I get for the first > > three deliveries (which all happen to be local): 550 Mailbox unknown, > > 25

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Jørn Odberg wrote: > Would I need to do this at the sender or the receiver? Or both ends? Do it on your end, which is what you control. -- Sahil Tandon

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Jørn Odberg
Would I need to do this at the sender or the receiver? Or both ends? Thanks for the reply, Wietse. And thanks for Postfix. :-) Kind regards from Norway, Jørn Odberg Wietse Venema skrev: Turn off TCP window scaling. http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+window+scaling Wietse -- _

Re: Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Turn off TCP window scaling. http://www.google.com/search?q=tcp+window+scaling Wietse

Re: postfix with large majordomo mailing list.

2009-04-22 Thread Wietse Venema
Steve Head: > This all works well for most of the lists we have, however on the > largish list (without fail in my testing today) I get for the first > three deliveries (which all happen to be local): 550 Mailbox unknown, > 250 Successful delivery, followed by a 452 Over quota. and then postfix > i

Conversation with DOMAIN timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once

2009-04-22 Thread Jørn Odberg
Ok, I've seen a couple of this on the mailinglist earlier. But as I understand, each case is pretty much unique. The case is: We're hosting a lot of linux-boxes around Norway, spread on different locations, working as library servers. Everyone running postfix. And we seldom have anything to d

postfix with large majordomo mailing list.

2009-04-22 Thread Steve Head
G'day, I've got a bit of a problem, I've rtfm'ed the bits I believe I need to have read but I'm still stuck (or not understanding the bits I've read...). We've got postfix 2.5.5 running on Debian with majordomo installed and working successfully. I've tested majordomo and it's working fine (in