Re: Mail rejected on "Received From"

2010-03-18 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Kaleb Hosie wrote: > Maybe this is not the best practice, however I don't block any incoming mail > (destined for a legit address) for the same reason. I use a program called > SpamAssassin Quarantine and I let it scan for the spam. > content scanning every mess

Re: Scalable

2010-02-12 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 05:17:26PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote: > >> If you want to give your client good advice, you will have to measure >> their mail flow in a meaningful way. >> How many messages per second, minut

Re: Scalable

2010-02-12 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Thanks for all the comments. > > The reason why I said 256MB RAM, is because that is currently what my VM > has... > > If I were to take out a dedicated server with: > > 2.8 Dual Core > 2GB RAM > > how much would that han

Re: Scalable

2010-02-12 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: > Hi Folks, > > How scaleable is postfix and dovecot, using mysql for user databases, on one > server? > > My current server has 256MB RAM (It's a VM on slicehost). How many users do > you think that will handle? > > How much RAM/CPU would

Re: create new email address in postfix

2010-01-31 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:52 AM, dd1313 wrote: > > Hi GUys > > I am new to postfix, running unser ubuntu.I want to create a new email > address. > please help me do that > This is covered in the documentation. Maybe you can quote the specific part you are having trouble with? > Thanks > Dev >

Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I notice from time to time by checking my mail queue that messages get > stuck there because users send to an invalid or non existing domain. > My Postfix server attempts to hold the message in queue for later > delivery assuming the remote

Re: Blacklisted on Verizon

2009-11-10 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > /dev/rob0 put forth on 11/10/2009 7:58 PM: >> On Tuesday 10 November 2009 19:21:04 Chris Arnold wrote: >>> OK, nothing stands out from pflogsumm.pl: >> >> Nothing? >> >>> Per-Day Traffic Summary >>>     date          received  delivered   def

Re: corporate environment

2009-10-04 Thread Aaron Wolfe
2009/10/4 Peter Macko : > I have found a tutorial to configure postfix for: > > Internal emails: > - Cannot send external emails > - Can send internal emails > - Can receive external emails > - Can receive internal emails > > External emails: > - Can send external emails > - Can send internal email

Re: How should I create an email account?

2009-10-01 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:41:14 +0300 > Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> >> > RB>sussy:/var/log # postfix -n >> > postfix: invalid option -- 'n' >> > postfix: fatal: usage: postfix [-c config_dir] [-Dv] command >> > sussy:/var/log # >> >> postco

Re: Cluster

2009-08-13 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:58 PM, pch0317 wrote: > Hi > Is postfix capable to work in high-availability or load-balancing cluster? > If yes, where I can read about this. Please, give me a hint. > > Thanks > > http://www.google.com/search?q=postfix+high+availability and since you posted an identica

Re: Question about address verification in MX2 when primary MX is down...

2009-08-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 8/6/2009, Santiago Romero (srom...@servicom2000.com) wrote: >> By adding the following to my main.cf, I'll check RCPT TO addresses >> against primary MX, except when PRIMARY MX doesn't answer. In that case, >> I'll accept any destination fo

Re: Exchange --> Postfix

2009-08-04 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:53 AM, Paweł Ch. wrote: > Hello, > I want to _change_ MsExchange to Postfix in my corporation. I have 150 users > in my network. They work in Outlook 2003. We are using Active Directory to > authentification. Could you tell me what is the consequencies of making that > chan

Re: Email Not To or From My Domain Stuck in Queue

2009-07-29 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > I am checking my mail queue and I have noticed that mail in my queue > is stuck with the following error: > > AA83077925B     1508 Sun Jul 26 10:22:31  rheinl...@simulationinformation.com > (host mx.dr1.us.army.mil[143.69.243.34] said: 451 #

Re: multiple reverse DNS?

2009-07-27 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > On Mon, July 27, 2009 23:06, Halassy Zoltán wrote: > >> domain.com. MX 10 real.example.com. >> otherdomain.com. MX 10 real.example.com. >> somedomain.com. MX 10 real.example.com. >> mail.example.com. CNAME real.example.com. > > imho mx reco

Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, wrote: > Hi > > I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my > configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. > For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network > concerned! I set out below > 1. Details of test with abuse.net > 2. mai

Re: Should MX record name be same as hostname?

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Daniel L'Hommedieu wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2009, at 15:32, Scott Haneda wrote: > >> On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tim Legg wrote: >> >>> ;; ANSWER SECTION: >>> timothylegg.com.        9220    IN      MX      10 mail.timothylegg.com. >>> >>> >>> My hostname is genex.t

Re: MTA or SMTP proxy?

2009-07-03 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Barney Desmond wrote: > 2009/7/3 Gábor Lénárt : >> Hei, >> >> Recently I am thinking of reimplementing our MX servers. Of course rcpt >> check is a must, also I should not generate NDRs later, I should only accept > > > Huh? > > This is all very standard behaviour f

Re: adding secondary MX

2009-05-22 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Rick wrote: > > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Noel Jones wrote: >> >>> Won't the mail just be forwarded to the primary mail server, who can >>> reject it there? >> >> ... which then causes your server to generate a bounce to the (often >> forged) envelope sen

Re: adding secondary MX

2009-05-19 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, wrote: > At 11:40 AM 5/19/2009, Noel Jones wrote: >>> >>> Add an entry to /etc/postfix/relay_recipients: >>> @the.backed-up.domain.tld x >> >> Technically correct, but unwise. >> You must validate recipients for the backed-up domain. > > why "must"? > > Won't the

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Jonathan McMahon wrote: > > I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. > > My general feedback: > > 1. I find Postfix to be somewhat difficult, and the "google search" > documentation for my specific setup is fragmented and incomplete at best. I > d

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-05 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 03:18:18PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote: > >> > I had asked a fairly clear question... it was: Ho do I?set Postfix to >> > accept >> > email for, and relay email to another MTA? This is the one thing I need to >> > acc

Re: Logging Postfix Activity

2009-03-30 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Marky Yehezkiel (SNC) wrote: > Dear All, > > Is there any way to logging/record the activity pop3,IMAP when they deleted > email via IMAP and POP3 ( outlook deleted email when outlook download it > from server) > > > > I have problem when my customer he lost his em

Re: Special Characters in Address

2009-03-23 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Mischa Gresser: >> Mar 20 10:13:32 hostname postfix/smtpd[31210]: warning: Illegal address >> syntax from qw-out-2122.google.com[74.125.92.26] in RCPT command: > 1231231...@xxx.ca <4034767...@crebifax.ca>> > > The RCPT command syntax is: > >

Re: Special Characters in Address

2009-03-23 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Mischa Gresser wrote: > Is this the correct log? > > Mar 20 10:13:01 hostname postfix/qmgr[15441]: 39F9BAD0063: removed > Mar 20 10:13:31 hostname postfix/smtpd[31210]: connect from > qw-out-2122.google.com[74.125.92.26] > Mar 20 10:13:32 hostname postfix/smtpd[312

Re: Special Characters in Address

2009-03-23 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Mischa Gresser wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. Sure thing on the logs. > > 20090320 22:42:55 38236   49A2055900086768 QUEUE > From= Size=1203 Relay=192.168.xxx.xxx > > 20090320 22:42:55 38237   49A2055900086768 QUEUE > Recipient= > > 20090320 2

Re: forgery: config. flaws (2nd posting)

2009-02-07 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:54 PM, bharathan kailath wrote: > hi al > sorry for this posting; my earlier posting was incomplete as to the header > details > the following surprise me because postfix rejected this message! sill it > managed to get into inbox; the postfix logs are there; the message

Re: Aliases question - can I alias a user name to a name that is not a local user account?

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 01:37:01AM -0500, Dave wrote: > >> > No not "using generic", rather using a table that returns a fixed output >> > regardless of the input. The list of supported tables is still in the >> > same place, and looking th

Re: strange aliasing problem

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Dave wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Dave wrote: >> >> This problem only happens when I send email to r...@localhost. >> >> The email is re-addressed to d...@myolddomain.net, as so: >> >> to=, orig_to= >> >> There is no entry in aliases, generic, vi

Re: Aliases question - can I alias a user name to a name that is not a local user account?

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Dave wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Dave wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Victor Duchovni >> > wrote: &

Re: Aliases question - can I alias a user name to a name that is not a local user account?

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Dave wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Victor Duchovni > wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 09:04:48PM -0500, Dave wrote: >> >> > > Google is full of noise. Try: >> > > >> > >http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html >> > >http://www.postfix.

Re: Aliases question - can I alias a user name to a name that is not a local user account?

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Dave wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Dave (DavesTechShop.net) >> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Dave (DavesTechS

Re: Aliases question - can I alias a user name to a name that is not a local user account?

2009-01-28 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Dave (DavesTechShop.net) wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Dave (DavesTechShop.net) > wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Dave wrote: >>> >>> With my setup, Postfix send an email from my local user account ("user") >>> as u...@example.com

Re: I thought I had a send-only Postfix server, but I see someone connected to it!

2009-01-27 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > MountainX: >> Like many other people today, I am aware of important environmental issues, >> the breakdown of the health care system, the huge political changes taken >> place now, the financial crisis, and other events that will have a huge

Re: backscattering

2009-01-13 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Bruno GRANDJEAN wrote: >> >> thks for replying to me so quickly, I will add a: >> reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org >> in my /etc/postfix/main.cf >> I already added : >> reject_rbl_client ips.backscatterer.org >> >> how can I reject mail from o

Re: Backup MX for multiple domains

2008-12-18 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Terry Carmen wrote: > > DJ Lucas wrote: >> >> Hi guys, I believe that I already have the answer to this pretty basic >> setup, but I just wanted to do a quick sanity check. >> >> I'm setting up a backup MX, and for one of the domains that it will relay >> to, it sh

Re: DNSWL

2008-12-18 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:37 AM, mouss wrote: > Adrian Overbury a écrit : >> Does anyone here make use of the DNS Whitelist? If so, what's your >> experience with it? Do you find it helpful in speeding up the delivery >> of legitimate mail, > > I use it to avoid FPs, not to speed up delivery. >

Re: Redundant remote server

2008-11-24 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 7:04 AM, bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > > I am actually working for an African country where the electricity is not as > stable as one could expect - even in the infrastructure of the historical > telco operator… > > With all the care that we have been abl

Re: Finally blocking some spam

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Wolfe
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: Fina

Re: Finally blocking some spam

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Wolfe
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 >>>

Re: Finally blocking some spam

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Wolfe
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? >>

Re: Finally blocking some spam

2008-10-13 Thread Aaron Wolfe
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.jp

Re: cannot find reverse hostname for ip with enormous result

2008-10-12 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 7:24 PM, MacShane, Tracy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aaron Wolfe >> Sent: Saturday, 11 October 2008 5:58 AM >> To: postfix-users@postfix

Re: cannot find reverse hostname for ip with enormous result

2008-10-10 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Aaron Wolfe escreveu: >> >> NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[216.163.249.229]: 450 4.7.1 Client >> host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname, [216.163.249.229]

Re: cannot find reverse hostname for ip with enormous result

2008-10-10 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Aaron Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > * Aaron Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >

Re: cannot find reverse hostname for ip with enormous result

2008-10-10 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Aaron Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hello, >> >> We use reject_unknown_client to fail messages from hosts with no rDNS. > > That's wrong. > reject_unknown_reverse_cl

cannot find reverse hostname for ip with enormous result

2008-10-10 Thread Aaron Wolfe
Hello, We use reject_unknown_client to fail messages from hosts with no rDNS. We have a situation with the host 216.163.249.229, which give the following results: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[216.163.249.229]: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your reverse hostname, [216.163.249

Re: Greylist query...

2008-10-08 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Johan Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MailingListe wrote: >> >> Zitat von Johan Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> We are thinking to implement some form of greylisting at one of our >>> sites and wonder which one of the many flavors out there >

Re: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
; -- Forwarded message -- > From: Aaron Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:55 PM > Subject: Re: outgoing SPAM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Robert Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In

Re: outgoing SPAM

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Robert Lopez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past months there have been instances where pfishing was used to get > account credentials and use the victim's account to send massive quantities > of SPAM. > > Is there a way to configure postfix to detect such an ev

Re: Proposing postfix to mgmt as an Exchange replacement

2008-09-09 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The below isn't meant to shoot down your idea, but I'm an Open Source > groupware developer and am very familiar with the Exchange-vs-XYZ > equation. > >> As per the subject, I am about to pitch the idea of dumping Ex

Re: FW: Virtual Interface

2008-09-02 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Marcel Grandemange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a server that has one real ip and a virtual second ip. > > Both are connected to the same isp but have different addresses. > > > > The plan was one is used for all normall traffic but the second only for > m

Re: *Slightly OT* DNSBL Opinions.

2008-08-20 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Adam C. Mathews wrote: > >> Presenting using the following blacklists... >> >> dul.dnsbl.sorbs.net >> psbl.surriel.com >> zen.spamhaus.org >> >> >> These do a good job for me, but I wanted to look for opi

Re: Setting the source port for outgoing email

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > Blocking outbound SMTP traffic from sources other than your mail server >> will prevent you from being blacklisted, plain and simple, unless of course >> you are sending

Re: Setting the source port for outgoing email

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > If your network is doing things to get itself blacklisted, fix the >> problem! Filter outbound SMTP, cleanup your network clients, whatever. >> > > Been there, don

Re: Setting the source port for outgoing email

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aaron Wolfe wrote: > > What makes you think postfix is choosing the wrong interface? >> > > The Received line added by the upstream mailserver receiving the test > messages from this box

Re: Setting the source port for outgoing email

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Leggett wrote: > > Because traffic from machines behind the box can cause the mailserver's IP >> to be blacklisted, the mailserver machine has two IP addresses, one for the >> mailserver, and one for NAT. >> > > Ju

Re: Setting the source port for outgoing email

2008-08-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 6:16 PM, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a machine that is both a postfix mailserver, and a NAT router for a > number of machines behind the box. > > Because traffic from machines behind the box can cause the mailserver's IP > to be blacklisted

Re: mail delivery via alternate IP gateway

2008-07-31 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Michal Soltys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luigi Rosa wrote: > >> Given a Linux server with three network cards: >> >>eth0: 192.168.1.1 (local LAN) >>eth1: 20.20.20.20 (default GW, hi speed Internet, dynamic address) >>eth2: 30.30.30.30 (Internet, reser