Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2012-07-25 mouss wrote: Le 24/07/2012 08:37, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You'd think humans beings would be smart enough to follow directions and use strong passwords, AV software, etc, and not fall for phishing scams. Your adversary in this war isn't the spammers, it's not the technology, but

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Blackman
On 25 Jul 2012, at 08:20, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: On 2012-07-25 mouss wrote: Le 24/07/2012 08:37, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : You'd think humans beings would be smart enough to follow directions and use strong passwords, AV software, etc, and not fall for phishing scams. Your adversary in this

Re: Quarantine Spam Mails and Notification to User

2012-07-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 25.07.2012 04:02, schrieb Marky Yehezkiel [SNC]: Hi, Recently I got request if our mail server can notify the receiver if there is email spam and if the receiver feel it genuine email then they can release it by them self. Does postfix can do this? Or does anyone has implement this?

Re: Minimal permissions on /etc/postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.07.2012 18:58, schrieb Michael Orlitzky: Thanks, I actually tried this but ran into a problem: Jul 24 01:45:50 localhost postfix/sendmail[26795]: fatal: open /etc/postfix/main.cf: Permission denied That alone is easy to fix (allow $authorized_submit_users read access to

Re: Quarantine Spam Mails and Notification to User

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 25.07.2012 10:17, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 25.07.2012 04:02, schrieb Marky Yehezkiel [SNC]: Hi, Recently I got request if our mail server can notify the receiver if there is email spam and if the receiver feel it genuine email then they can release it by them self. Does postfix can

Re: Quarantine Spam Mails and Notification to User

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 25.07.2012 10:33, schrieb Robert Schetterer: Am 25.07.2012 10:17, schrieb Reindl Harald: Am 25.07.2012 04:02, schrieb Marky Yehezkiel [SNC]: Hi, Recently I got request if our mail server can notify the receiver if there is email spam and if the receiver feel it genuine email then they

How to store /var/log/maillog in sql database..?

2012-07-25 Thread Naval saini
I have configured postfix mail server and i use it for sending mails from my clients. when they send mails some mails are delivered, some are bounced,deferred,expire. and they report me that mails are not delevering. Now i want if we can store to,from address and status of mails in database and

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
Mark, On 2012-07-25 Mark Blackman wrote: On 25 Jul 2012, at 08:20, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: On 2012-07-25 mouss wrote: oh come on! the users excuse is wa too old. if your software accepts weak passwords, then the problem is with the software, not the user. I'd have to disagree on this one.

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Blackman
On 25 Jul 2012, at 10:09, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: Mark, Please re-read what I wrote, particularly the second half of it. Is Joseph Zebediah Average 4/1/1999 really a strong password? It is a strong password, unless you believe attackers would regard that format as a promising format to

Re: How to store /var/log/maillog in sql database..?

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 25.07.2012 11:06, schrieb Naval saini: I have configured postfix mail server and i use it for sending mails from my clients. when they send mails some mails are delivered, some are bounced,deferred,expire. and they report me that mails are not delevering. Now i want if we can store

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/24/2012 6:24 PM, mouss wrote: anvil is not an anti-spam solution. it's measure against clients gone crazy. Precisely. And that's how I advised the OP to us it: Plug the artery until surgery can be performed. Surgery in this case being disabling the account and setting a strong

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2012 4:09 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: Indeed there isn't much disagreement on what forms a strong password (in principle). I do fail to see how this could be enforced on a technical level, though. Use a plugin such as:

RE: How to store /var/log/maillog in sql database..?

2012-07-25 Thread Aaron Bennett
Look at rsyslog -- it's a syslog daemon (that you might use and not know, it's the native one in a lot of distros). It can log directly to MySQL.. http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/set-up-rsyslog-to-store-syslog-messages-in-mysql/1174 --- Aaron Bennett Manager of Systems

configuration of mailman with postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Smith
Hi I have the following versions mailman 1:2.1.14-3 on postfix 2.9.1-5 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS My installation is for lists on virtual domains NOT foobar.fruitcom.com but complete virtual domains, in this example foobar.com When I configure with the following instructions such as this one:

Re: configuration of mailman with postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 25.07.2012 14:30, schrieb Eric Smith: Hi I have the following versions mailman 1:2.1.14-3 on postfix 2.9.1-5 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS My installation is for lists on virtual domains NOT foobar.fruitcom.com but complete virtual domains, in this example foobar.com When I configure

Re: configuration of mailman with postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 02:36:40 PM Robert Schetterer wrote: Am 25.07.2012 14:30, schrieb Eric Smith: Hi I have the following versions mailman 1:2.1.14-3 on postfix 2.9.1-5 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS My installation is for lists on virtual domains NOT foobar.fruitcom.com but

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2012-07-25 Mark Blackman wrote: On 25 Jul 2012, at 10:09, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: Please re-read what I wrote, particularly the second half of it. Is Joseph Zebediah Average 4/1/1999 really a strong password? It is a strong password, unless you believe attackers would regard that format

off-topic discussions

2012-07-25 Thread Jim Reid
Please take your debate about password selection policies elsewhere. It has nothing to do with postfix.

anvil

2012-07-25 Thread Tom Kinghorn
Good afternoon Apologies for the question but it is baffling me. does Anvil record all connections? I am receiving massive amounts of incoming mail (freakin status updates) from facebookmail.com and was hoping to check the connection rate via anvil in the logs. However, there are no suck

Re: anvil

2012-07-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Tom Kinghorn: Good afternoon Apologies for the question but it is baffling me. does Anvil record all connections? As documented anvil counts the events within a time window. Once the end of the time window is reached, the counters are reset to zero and the next time window begins. I am

Re: Minimal permissions on /etc/postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29:44AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: the main config AFAIK needs 644 Correct, the main.cf and master.cf files should be world-readable. sensible files can be done with proxymap and so restricted http://www.postfix.org/proxymap.8.html Proxymap does not matter

Re: Minimal permissions on /etc/postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Viktor Dukhovni: On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:29:44AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: the main config AFAIK needs 644 Correct, the main.cf and master.cf files should be world-readable. sensible files can be done with proxymap and so restricted http://www.postfix.org/proxymap.8.html

Rewrite envelope recipient only for specific SMTP client machines?

2012-07-25 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Hi, Short version: Is there a way to apply recipient canonical mappings (or any other mappings that rewrite the envelope recipient) for specific SMTP client machines in a null client/central mailhub environment? Background: In our development infrastructure we have a few mail hubs which accept

Re: Minimal permissions on /etc/postfix

2012-07-25 Thread DTNX Postmaster
On Jul 24, 2012, at 18:24, DTNX Postmaster wrote: This works for us; $ ls -ald /etc/postfix drwxr-x--- 5 root postcfg 4096 Jul 24 18:05 /etc/postfix The postfix user is a member of the 'postcfg' group. Any admin accounts that need access to the contents can also be added if needs be.

Re: configuration of mailman with postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Eric Smith
Thanks Robert (Scott) I have upgraded, checked and followed the Ubuntu docs. transport in master.cf corrected (I had a typo that gave the error with the user expansion), now it is like this; [root@pepper ~] $ grep -A1 mailman /etc/postfix/master.cf mailman unix - n n -

Re: configuration of mailman with postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, July 25, 2012 08:55:52 PM Eric Smith wrote: Thanks Robert (Scott) I have upgraded, checked and followed the Ubuntu docs. transport in master.cf corrected (I had a typo that gave the error with the user expansion), now it is like this; [root@pepper ~] $ grep -A1 mailman

Re: configuration of mailman with postfix

2012-07-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Eric Smith: to=|/var/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post fres...@fruitcom.com, \ Sorry, with Postfix, |command is never a valid email address. That was a security hole before many people on this list were born. Destinations such as |command are allowed ONLY in alias_maps (NOT: virtual_alias_maps)

Re: anvil

2012-07-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2012 8:02 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote: I am receiving massive amounts of incoming mail (freakin status updates) from facebookmail.com and was hoping to check the connection rate via anvil in the logs. However, there are no suck entries in the log. I am trying to gets stats so that I can