Re: Illegal seek

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Steve Heaven: We have noticed several entries like: postfix/postdrop[5917]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek in our logs. Is this anything we should be worried about? The crystal ball isn't working. What file system is this? What Postfix version is this? What were you doing (submitting

Re: Feature Request

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Phillip Smith: Where is the best place to file a feature request? I can't find anything on the website, although I may be a little slow in that regard! Discuss it on the mailing list. Wietse

Re: Illegal seek

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Heaven
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 06:41 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Steve Heaven: We have noticed several entries like: postfix/postdrop[5917]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek in our logs. Is this anything we should be worried about? The crystal ball isn't working. What file system is this?

Re: Illegal seek

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Steve Heaven: On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 06:41 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Steve Heaven: We have noticed several entries like: postfix/postdrop[5917]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek in our logs. Is this anything we should be worried about? The crystal ball isn't working.

Re: Illegal seek

2009-10-07 Thread Steve Heaven
On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:07 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: This is fixed with Postfix 2.3 patch 09, released April 2007. Thanks -- thorNET Internet Services, Consultancy Training www.thornet.co.uk

Bounce queue times

2009-10-07 Thread Neil Smith
I run Postfix to handle my personal mail. I also act as a backup MX host for a friend. To give him time to return from holiday and fix a broken Postfix installation, I want to keep messages for the backup domains for up to 21 days. However, I want undeliverable messages for other domains

Re: Bounce queue times

2009-10-07 Thread Noel Jones
Neil Smith wrote: I run Postfix to handle my personal mail. I also act as a backup MX host for a friend. To give him time to return from holiday and fix a broken Postfix installation, I want to keep messages for the backup domains for up to 21 days. However, I want undeliverable messages

queue file write error

2009-10-07 Thread K bharathan
hi all i got a notice from my relay saying queue file write error; the details are as follows: - From:mailer-dae...@relay1.example.com (Mail Delivery System) To:postmas...@example.com(Postmaster) Date:07/10/2009 11:44 AM Subject:Postfix SMTP server: errors from

Re: queue file write error

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
K bharathan: hi all i got a notice from my relay saying queue file write error; the details are as follows: Postfix logs the details to syslogd. If your syslogging is spread out across separate files for normal, warning and error, you will have to look in all those files. Wietse

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-07 Thread LuKreme
On 6-Oct-2009, at 09:37, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Your time in this regard would be much better spent building a new supercharged 440 Hemi to drop into a '70 Barracuda that you've redone from the frame rails up. ;) That's a much more worthy use of your time. Yeah, I have to agree, and I didn't

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-07 Thread Paul Cockings
LuKreme wrote: On 6-Oct-2009, at 09:37, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Your time in this regard would be much better spent building a new supercharged 440 Hemi to drop into a '70 Barracuda that you've redone from the frame rails up. ;) That's a much more worthy use of your time. Yeah, I have to agree,

Re: queue file write error

2009-10-07 Thread K bharathan
thanks Mr.Wietse for ur time details are logged into log files named - warn,mail.error,mail and mail.info; i checked all of these for this particular error but not available; only information related to the message from mail.info is as follows: Oct 7 10:35:23 relay1 postfix/smtpd[827]: connect

Re: queue file write error

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
K bharathan: thanks Mr.Wietse for ur time details are logged into log files named - warn,mail.error,mail and mail.info; i checked all of these for this particular error but not available; only information related to the message from mail.info is as follows: Postfix sends queue file write

newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet

2009-10-07 Thread Owen Townsend
subject: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet Hope someone can help me with the postfix configuration file. I want to mail from Linux logged in user accounts to the internet and more importantly from Korn shell scripts to the internet. so scripts running by cron could

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-07 Thread LuKreme
On 6-Oct-2009, at 15:02, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: In real life almost ALL mails are base64 encoded... Wait, what? $ grep -ir ^Content-Transfer-Encoding . | wc -l 198485 $ grep -ir ^Content-Transfer-Encoding . | grep -v base64 | wc -l 195574 Looking at my mail spool almost ALL mail is either

Re: Bounce queue times

2009-10-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Neil Smith wrote: I run Postfix to handle my personal mail. I also act as a backup MX host for a friend. To give him time to return from holiday and fix a broken Postfix installation, I want to keep messages for the backup domains for up to 21 days. However, I want undeliverable messages

Re: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet

2009-10-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 10/7/2009, Owen Townsend (o...@uvsoftware.ca) wrote: In maillog1 I saw 'No route to host (port 25)' and thought my router firewall might be blocking, so I set my router to DMZ for my linux computer 192.168.0.4 ran test2 to create maillog2, but I still see 'No route to host (port 25)' -

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, LuKreme wrote: Looking at my mail spool almost ALL mail is either 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable. That's what I've seen here, too. Regardless, when I put those base64 messages on hold and looked at them this morning, none was base64 Content-Transfer-Encoded. I'm

Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rich Shepard put forth on 10/7/2009 1:38 PM: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, LuKreme wrote: Looking at my mail spool almost ALL mail is either 7bit, 8bit, or quoted-printable. That's what I've seen here, too. Regardless, when I put those base64 messages on hold and looked at them this morning,

Re: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet

2009-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Charles Marcus put forth on 10/7/2009 1:32 PM: You can fix this by setting relayhost = [smtp.myisp.com] If they're blocking outbound TCP 25 from his CPE, how is changing from a dotted decimal address in relayhost to an fqdn going to help? _It won't_. What he's going to need to do is one (or

Re: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet

2009-10-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 10/7/2009, Stan Hoeppner (s...@hardwarefreak.com) wrote: If they're blocking outbound TCP 25 from his CPE, how is changing from a dotted decimal address in relayhost to an fqdn going to help? _It won't_. Right, sorry, I read too quickly, I thought webfaction was his domain, not his ISP...

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dave Täht put forth on 10/7/2009 2:40 PM: I imagine you all were big fans of NETBUI and IPX/SPX too. That's a bit like comparing a German Shepherd and a Poodle to a Pig and a Giraffe. IPv4/IPv6 share the same architecture (same species) and base protocol, but use different addressing. IPv6

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Täht
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: Dave Täht put forth on 10/7/2009 2:40 PM: I imagine you all were big fans of NETBUI and IPX/SPX too. That's a bit like comparing a German Shepherd and a Poodle to a Pig and a Giraffe. IPv4/IPv6 share the same architecture (same species) and

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-07 Thread Dave Täht
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes: Stan Hoeppner: Dave T?ht put forth on 10/7/2009 2:40 PM: I imagine you all were big fans of NETBUI and IPX/SPX too. That's a bit like comparing a German Shepherd and a Poodle to a Pig and a Giraffe. IPv4/IPv6 share the same architecture

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Stan Hoeppner: Dave T?ht put forth on 10/7/2009 2:40 PM: I imagine you all were big fans of NETBUI and IPX/SPX too. That's a bit like comparing a German Shepherd and a Poodle to a Pig and a Giraffe. IPv4/IPv6 share the same architecture (same species) and base protocol, but use

recipient_bcc_maps seem to be ignored in master.cf

2009-10-07 Thread Halassy Zoltán
Hello! In main.cf I am using a global blind carbon copy table: recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/global_bcc I would like to ignore this table, when trusted user sends a mail so i wrote this into master.cf: smtps inet n - n - - smtpd -o

Re: recipient_bcc_maps seem to be ignored in master.cf

2009-10-07 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Oct 7, 2009, at 6:09 PM, Halassy Zoltán zhala...@loginet.hu wrote: Hello! In main.cf I am using a global blind carbon copy table: recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/global_bcc I would like to ignore this table, when trusted user sends a mail so i wrote this into master.cf: smtps

Re: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet

2009-10-07 Thread mouss
Owen Townsend a écrit : subject: newbie config main.cf to send mail thru router to internet Hope someone can help me with the postfix configuration file. I want to mail from Linux logged in user accounts to the internet and more importantly from Korn shell scripts to the internet. so

Re: recipient_bcc_maps seem to be ignored in master.cf

2009-10-07 Thread Halassy Zoltán
This is useless here because recipient_bcc_maps are handled by cleanup(8) and not smtpd(8). You need to use a different cleanup(8) instance which overrides the default bcc maps setting for mail coming through this special smtpd(8) listener. Cool! So i wrote this, and working! Thank you! smtps

Re: Feature Request

2009-10-07 Thread Phillip Smith
2009/10/7 Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org: Phillip Smith: Where is the best place to file a feature request? I can't find anything on the website, although I may be a little slow in that regard! Discuss it on the mailing list. Thanks for the reply Wietse, here goes :) I was wondering

Re: Feature Request

2009-10-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Phillip Smith: 2009/10/7 Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org: Phillip Smith: Where is the best place to file a feature request? I can't find anything on the website, although I may be a little slow in that regard! Discuss it on the mailing list. Thanks for the reply Wietse, here

Re: Feature Request

2009-10-07 Thread Phillip Smith
2009/10/8 Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org This could easily be scripted and run from cron. Massage the output from host(1) or dig(1) to extract hosts, and use an expect script to do the talking, like http://www.cymru.com/Tools/mtaprobe.exp. The whole thing should not take more than a dozen