Re: Preventing domain impresonation

2020-08-27 Thread Bill Cole
s. o SMTPcommandspecificrestrictionsdescribed under smtpd_client_restrictions, smtpd_helo_restrictions and smtpd_sender_restrictions. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Scanning mails against for special words

2020-08-11 Thread Bill Cole
et me ask this specific question once.) Instead of writing a new milter, can I use "proxsmtp" project for that purpose ? I'm not familiar with it, but it appears to be a SMTP proxy, not a milter. It may or may not work with Postfix's proxy interface. Whether you can m

Re: Using Postfix sendmail without having Postfix daemon running all the time?

2020-08-06 Thread Bill Cole
e facility. The timed death of the Postfix master process is in the standard distribution (-e option.) -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Enable IPv6 support in main.cf by default

2020-07-21 Thread Bill Cole
ieve that we've ever had someone come here with an actual problem rooted in Postfix not enabling IPv6 by default. Do you have such a problem or is your concern purely on principle? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.co

Re: problem connecting with android device

2020-07-19 Thread Bill Cole
sed as part of later TLS versions. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Can I further block dodgy attempts at passwording

2020-07-06 Thread Bill Cole
05606 deny tcp from 216.229.124.0/24 to any dst-port 110,143,465,587,993,995 05607 deny tcp from 217.0.0.0/8 to any dst-port 110,143,465,587,993,995 05608 deny tcp from 218.0.0.0/7 to any dst-port 110,143,465,587,993,995 05609 deny tcp from 220.0.0.0/6 to any dst-port 110,143,465,587,993,995 -

Re: Can I further block dodgy attempts at passwording

2020-07-06 Thread Bill Cole
e "unknown" refers to the lack of a verified hostname, NOT to a lack of authentication. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Postfix behind NAT -> failover IP -> wrong HELO

2020-07-02 Thread Bill Cole
On 1 Jul 2020, at 19:37, Peter wrote: On 1/07/20 11:20 am, Bill Cole wrote: Can't you just fix the DNS? Use a HELO name that resolves to both IPs and give both IPs PTR records that point back to the name you use. This won't work for FCRDNS properly. That is implementation-depend

Re: Postfix behind NAT -> failover IP -> wrong HELO

2020-07-01 Thread Bill Cole
IP address, although some tools that try to use PTR records will not know how to handle that and a larger fraction of the humans who see it will be confused. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire

Re: Postfix behind NAT -> failover IP -> wrong HELO

2020-06-30 Thread Bill Cole
f helo_host_maps ;) to resolve this. At this point, I wouldn't mind if someone pinpoints me to the right direction. Can't you just fix the DNS? Use a HELO name that resolves to both IPs and give both IPs PTR records that point back to the name you use. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.co

Re: identifying _which_ milter rejects in private logs?

2020-06-11 Thread Bill Cole
be able to tell you the specific error message, revealing to you where the issue came from. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: lightweight/milter Spamassassin-integtration options for Postfix -- current experience / faves?

2020-06-10 Thread Bill Cole
reasons to prefer the socket. I'm not a big fan of spampd because it uses the proxy model instead of milter, but at least it isn't abandonware. My favorite SA integration tool is MIMEDefang, but it is far from lightweight. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or

Re: are rsa certs/keys still needed/recommended for use in postfix? or can just ecc be relied on?

2020-06-03 Thread Bill Cole
TLSv1.0, which implies the use of badly outdated and flawed TLS implementations. I don't think it is a good idea to see how many of those (and the TLSv1.3 clients who still use RSA) will break if I narrow what Postfix will accept. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: 5 messages per second

2020-06-03 Thread Bill Cole
stfix/lmtp' that it wants to be speaking to a LMTP server. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: easiest way to reject/process emails based on Return Path

2020-05-18 Thread Bill Cole
ne message. There is no virtual replacement for a physical process server. Maybe someday that will mean robots of some sort (e.g. drones) but -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Postfix is trying to access the aliases table in my db with a wrong file name and directory. t.s.

2020-05-14 Thread Bill Cole
f -d' shows you Postfix's *default values* for every setting. If you want to see what Postfix is actually using that diverges from the defaults, use '-n' instead. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Postfix "IPv6-only" - experience/recommendation question

2020-05-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 May 2020, at 17:26, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Bill Cole: > >> The boutique hosting/connectivity/services provider I work with [...] >> can provide native IPv6 to customers. None ever has ever asked for it. > > That's quite a sweeping statement, and I don'

Re: Postfix "IPv6-only" - experience/recommendation question

2020-05-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 8 May 2020, at 15:06, Ralph Seichter wrote: * Bill Cole: Some have IPv6 connectivity and address space but no motivation to make their mail systems use IPv6. A case of what we call Public Servant Mikado (whoever moves first has lost). ;-) Yes. Seriously, I think that if one can

Re: Postfix "IPv6-only" - experience/recommendation question

2020-05-08 Thread Bill Cole
6 connectivity and address space but no motivation to make their mail systems use IPv6. There are reasons to avoid sending over IPv6 and very few if any significant reasons to want to send or receive over IPv6. If one has a working IPv4-only mail system, adding IPv6 is pure work for no discerni

Re: Is it necessary to declare "alias_maps" in the main.cf? t.s.

2020-05-08 Thread Bill Cole
it looks to or does it just not look at alias_maps if not declared? As the postconf(5) man page says, this is system-dependent. To see what the default is on your system, run 'postconf -d alias_maps' To see what the current value is on your system, run 'postconf alias_maps'

Re: why DMARC PASS even SPF got failed

2020-04-28 Thread Bill Cole
h is modulated by DMARC record parameters. Any single "failure" of DKIM or SPF to validate the domains they purport to validate is adequate to force a failure of DMARC, which only fails if ALL mechanisms fail or are absent for the author address domain. -- Bill Cole b.

Re: delaying postfix until/unless VPN is up/connected

2020-04-17 Thread Bill Cole
On 17 Apr 2020, at 2:52, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: > On 2020-04-17 Bill Cole wrote: >> On 17 Apr 2020, at 0:57, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 17:19:42 -0400 (EDT) Wietse Venema wrote: >>>> #!/bin/sh >>>> >>>> while : >>&g

Re: delaying postfix until/unless VPN is up/connected

2020-04-16 Thread Bill Cole
tax error: line 10: [: : integer expression expected Line10: is the following line: *UP*) if [ "$prev" -ne up ] Any help? Make that line: *UP*) if [ "$prev" = up ] Also replace '-ne' in line 16 with '=' -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or bill

Re: Rejecting emails based on address extension?

2020-04-08 Thread Bill Cole
On 9 Apr 2020, at 0:43, Bill Cole wrote: On 8 Apr 2020, at 19:01, @lbutlr wrote: Given an email address of user+ama...@example.com how can I reject all emails to that address that do not come from amazon.com? I think I did something like this once but if I did, I didn’t keep notes

Re: Rejecting emails based on address extension?

2020-04-08 Thread Bill Cole
cept mail for it if the client name and sender name match legitimate Amazon patterns. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: question on gmail smtp relay

2020-04-02 Thread Bill Cole
ite support channels. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Setting short minutes in delay_warning_time triggers warningu

2020-03-11 Thread Bill Cole
7;t include the odd assertion that "Your message could not be delivered for more than 0 hour(s)" then the answer is no. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Warning about non-existent MX for destination domain

2020-03-10 Thread Bill Cole
Time units: s (seconds), m (minutes), h (hours), d (days), w (weeks). The default time unit is h (hours). See also: delay_notice_recipient, notify_classes, confirm_delay_cleared. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.sccons

Re: What is this?

2020-02-27 Thread Bill Cole
a flooding attack untraceable. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: check_sender_access not working on local senders

2020-02-08 Thread Bill Cole
horized_submit_users' directive. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: From header local mail

2020-02-07 Thread Bill Cole
ation directives that you *think* are relevant is much less useful than your actual "postconf -n output." -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: auth=0/1

2020-01-27 Thread Bill Cole
On 27 Jan 2020, at 14:27, @lbutlr wrote: On 27 Jan 2020, at 06:42, Bill Cole wrote: It means that they attempted authentication 1 time but failed. Sometimes I see auth=0/2 or auth=0/3. Which means they tried 2 or 3 times. Hmm. I see blocks like these throughout my logs: Jan 27 11:40:25

Re: auth=0/1

2020-01-27 Thread Bill Cole
usually no need to support authentication on port 25 if you have submission instances on ports 587 and/or 465, and if "smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no" there's no excuse for any SMTP client to even try AUTH. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and

Re: Bounce mails manually

2020-01-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jan 2020, at 14:55, Emanuel wrote: my question arose because of a user on my server who sent to many recipients without MX Perhaps you just need to add reject_unknown_recipient_domain to smtpd_recipient_restrictions? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA

Re: Port 25 closed on bulk sending servers

2020-01-15 Thread Bill Cole
omous systems. This can simplify the configuration of each system and make securing them less challenging. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Is the milter API function smfi_setsymlist supported?

2020-01-14 Thread Bill Cole
mimedefang daemon is compiled C, linked with libmilter. In this case, v8.15.2. Beginning to get a little confused ... I can understand why. Is it certain that the macro you want is non-null when you're asking for it? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and

Re: Is the milter API function smfi_setsymlist supported?

2020-01-14 Thread Bill Cole
. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: postfix fails to start during macOS with fatal: message about port 25 in use

2020-01-10 Thread Bill Cole
versions (i.e. those for which Apple no longer releases updates) to disable their Postfix entirely and replace it with your custom one by symlinking /etc/postfix/, /var/spool/postfix/ and /usr/sbin/sendmail to your custom build's equivalents. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@ap

Re: Rejecting email based upon MAIL FROM:, RCPT TO: and From: values

2019-12-18 Thread Bill Cole
via check_policy_service; I don't believe so. I see nothing in the policy protocol documents that provides access to message headers or body. This could be done with a Milter such as milter-regex or MIMEDefang. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and

Re: Rewriting e-mail headers (recipients) in Postfix (not header_checks) depending on complex logic

2019-12-18 Thread Bill Cole
an implement as a Perl snippet. In addition to manipulating messages and their routing, it also has hooks for SpamAssassin and a wide range of AV tools, which are its most common uses. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: Whitelisting refuses to work

2019-12-17 Thread Bill Cole
i miss? These instructions for seeking help here: http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Recipient address rejected for recipient address in virtual

2019-12-02 Thread Bill Cole
On 2 Dec 2019, at 21:31, @lbutlr wrote: On 02 Dec 2019, at 09:47, Bill Cole wrote: Have you considered doing as recommended at http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail to make it easier for us to understand your issue? Logs, postconf output, postmap -q output, what am I missing? I

Re: Recipient address rejected for recipient address in virtual

2019-12-02 Thread Bill Cole
thing altogether. http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html#classes -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Recipient address rejected for recipient address in virtual

2019-12-02 Thread Bill Cole
you considered doing as recommended at http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail to make it easier for us to understand your issue? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: how to setup a privacy oriented mailserver

2019-11-26 Thread Bill Cole
it Unix epoch...) in 2038 -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not For Hire (currently)

Re: how to setup a privacy oriented mailserver

2019-11-25 Thread Bill Cole
Postfix would be a likely component...) because it could have very different answers depending on the specific needs of a site and issues like scale, threat model, risk tolerances, and available resources. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many

Re: how to setup storage for two different MX in different locations

2019-11-19 Thread Bill Cole
mmuniGate Pro. I hear Microsoft has some sort of supposed multi-node mail system as well... One might expect a commercial solution to be a simpler tool to support but one might be surprised. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Client host rejected

2019-11-19 Thread Bill Cole
local caching recursive resolver on a mail server have become quite weak. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: IP addresses in helo

2019-11-18 Thread Bill Cole
a requirement that a HELO/EHLO argument must contain letters and do not recall ever seeing a legitimate mail source using an IP literal or bare IP in HELO/EHLO in cases where such a restriction was impossible. Obviously your mail stream may differ, particularly if you accommodate submission on po

Re: IP addresses in helo

2019-11-18 Thread Bill Cole
alify that claim? /^[^a-z]*$/ REJECT USE YOUR WORDS LIKE A GROWN-UP! # # Places I absolutely do not want any mail from. [REDACTED: VALID-ISH NAMES IN NOMINALLY LEGIT DOMAINS THAT ONLY SEND SPAM] -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: IP addresses in helo

2019-11-18 Thread Bill Cole
(printers, antique Cisco gear, random IoT devices) which may not be able to do port 587 or 465 and can't contain the concept of their very own real hostname. Generally these are rare enough these days that it is feasible to handle them as exceptions. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or

Re: lots of connections that make no sense

2019-11-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Nov 2019, at 11:16, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim wrote: On Fri, 15 Nov 2019, 22:26 Bill Cole, < postfixlists-070...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: [...] It is also worth noting that at least one MTA has made the same assumption about appropriate client behavior, offering a swit

Re: lots of connections that make no sense

2019-11-15 Thread Bill Cole
L LOGIN authentication failed: VXNlcm5hbWU6" which indicates a failure at the first stage of the LOGIN mechanism. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: lots of connections that make no sense

2019-11-15 Thread Bill Cole
nt on and off but NOT actually disabling authentication when not advertising it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-12 Thread Bill Cole
On 12 Nov 2019, at 14:26, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Nov 11, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Bill Cole wrote: mail.namase.de is the HELO (EHLO) name. You must not reject mail when helo name differs from DNS name (RFC violation). True. For the record, it is NOT an RFC violation for the EHLO name to

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-11 Thread Bill Cole
particular spammers or spamming tools. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Warning on Connection time

2019-11-02 Thread Bill Cole
eries to each of them and seeing if any stand out as persistently slow. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: What am I missing? DNSBL on submission port?

2019-10-31 Thread Bill Cole
=yes -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject -o milter_macro_daemon_name=ORIGINATING -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Problem with new installation

2019-10-23 Thread Bill Cole
o not just fix the CNAME record, follow the RFCs and use an A record. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Recipient address RESTRICTIONS are applied twice to the same e-mail with different parameters

2019-10-21 Thread Bill Cole
sformatted HTML message is not it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: how to add warning / banner in email body ?

2019-10-21 Thread Bill Cole
stages of milter<->MTA interaction. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Bill Cole
frequency of non-ASCII characters. From a code standpoint, just doing Base64 is simpler and more robust. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Bill Cole
uleset included many that identify malformed HTML, gratuitous Base64 or QP encoding, and other technical quirks that correlate to mail being spam. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Postfix is not open relay but send spam

2019-10-15 Thread Bill Cole
ith a spammer authenticating on port 465, auth is disabled on port 25. (As it should be.) Am Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2019, 11:30:42 CEST schrieb Bill Cole: On 15 Oct 2019, at 11:15, Julien Michaux wrote: Do you have a way to test authentification with smtps ? openssl s_client -connect :465 That

Re: Postfix is not open relay but send spam

2019-10-15 Thread Bill Cole
telnet :25' -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: How to avoid being classified as spam by Google?

2019-10-06 Thread Bill Cole
of course doesn't care about us. The MailOp list is probably a better choice: https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop Actual Google mail admins respond to such queries there. Really. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmai

Re: Blocking an address from submission mail

2019-10-04 Thread Bill Cole
le to send email to it? Nope. How about if there is a specific list of users who are not allowed to send mail to that email address? Use a restriction class: see the RESTRICTION_CLASS_README. That would also work for the simpler case if you don't want to fiddle in master.cf. -- Bill C

Re: Prevent sender address spoofing

2019-09-30 Thread Bill Cole
On 29 Sep 2019, at 20:30, Hugo Florentino wrote: El vie, 27-09-2019 a las 09:33 -0400, Bill Cole escribió: [...] Because, as documented, header_checks (and the other built-in content filtering in Postfix) does not support restrictions or restriction classes as results of a pattern match

Re: Suggestions for submission protection

2019-09-29 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 Sep 2019, at 18:50, Daniel Miller wrote: On 9/22/2019 12:59 PM, Bill Cole wrote: [...] If you do use a manual local blacklist for this (as I do on my personal system) it is most useful to apply it at the network level: either in your router/firewall or in a host-local packet filter

Re: Is there a version 2.11 or higher of postfix supportting cyrus ?

2019-09-27 Thread Bill Cole
t cyrus.Is there a version 2.11 or higher of postfix supportting cyrus ? Yes. Just built: $ postconf mail_version mail_version = 3.4.6 $ postconf -A cyrus $ postconf -a cyrus dovecot -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Prevent sender address spoofing

2019-09-27 Thread Bill Cole
On 27 Sep 2019, at 11:33, Hugo Florentino wrote: El vie, 27-09-2019 a las 09:33 -0400, Bill Cole escribió: On 27 Sep 2019, at 7:06, Hugo Florentino wrote: [...] The most important element in doing this is to separate mail submission from inbound SMTP mail. In 2019 there is no reasonable

Re: Prevent sender address spoofing

2019-09-27 Thread Bill Cole
to do. If you want to allow exceptions to this policy (which some systems learn that they need after deploying an absolute block) you will need to use a more sophisticated external content filtering tool. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: copy of mails with specific From-field

2019-09-27 Thread Bill Cole
something done by an IMAP server component like Dovecot's "pigeonhole" sieve implementation or a delivery agent like procmail, NOT by Postfix. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Suggestions for submission protection

2019-09-22 Thread Bill Cole
; users who might log in from anywhere in the world, there are still some very large networks that host lots of credential-stuffers and no legitimate mail submission or IMAP users than can be blocked safely to good effect: AWS, Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean, etc. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.c

Re: transport map from ldap

2019-09-19 Thread Bill Cole
t" in the same man page. If they all contain both attributes, pick one. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Refuse mail from hosts with closed port 25

2019-09-16 Thread Bill Cole
, it does not do that. #check_email_and_mx.pl m...@junc.eu Check Valid MX (Net::ValidMX v2.2.0) m...@junc.eu Valid MX? True - Passed -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Refuse mail from hosts with closed port 25

2019-09-16 Thread Bill Cole
tions that have mail going out from a shared NAT address but coming in via a dedicated IP. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Refuse mail from hosts with closed port 25

2019-09-16 Thread Bill Cole
et::validMX does anything more *at the domain level* than Postfix's built-in reject_unknown_sender_domain restriction. Its check_email_validity() may be a bit more strict than Postfix's built-in address sanity checks. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@a

Re: 4xx when host not found

2019-09-16 Thread Bill Cole
different from what you expect. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: EHLO restrictions and address literals

2019-09-11 Thread Bill Cole
s formally allowable to EHLO as 'localhost.localdomain') but no legitimate mail server speaking to the world at large should ever be doing that. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Question regarding DNSBL behaviour

2019-09-10 Thread Bill Cole
zen.spamhaus.org zone includes many names that have as many records as they do A records and if your resolvers tries one of those, you get a message as above. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: about MTA's 4xx response code

2019-08-28 Thread Bill Cole
seeing in error messages. That is a generic, intentionally vague, and perfectly valid status code. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: build failure with glibc-2.30

2019-08-20 Thread Bill Cole
uilds designed for the broadest possible audience and maintained by an expert team. This is more commonly seen in the BSD world, but it is not infeasible with Linux. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: What's with all the "l*.it" connections?

2019-08-19 Thread Bill Cole
ut any "l*.it" bot. Look up any of the miscreant IP's at the CBL site to get a long explanation, e.g. https://www.abuseat.org/lookup.cgi?ip=1.212.181.131 -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Postfix for three domains on one host

2019-08-15 Thread Bill Cole
lients and append_at_myorigin sections. It also is used in some map lookup protocols to detect when to look up bare username parts of qualified addresses. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Question respecting the headers?

2019-07-24 Thread Bill Cole
[31.172.134.4]) How did they get 'from theguardian.com' into the Received header generated by our mx? The token immediately following the "from" in a Received header generated by Postfix is the name offered in the EHLO or HELO command from the SMTP client. -- Bill Cole b

Re: Basic kind of question

2019-07-17 Thread Bill Cole
ix - - n - 1 anvil scacheunix - - n - 1 scache -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: SPF failure

2019-07-15 Thread Bill Cole
On 15 Jul 2019, at 15:44, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 7/15/19 3:29 PM, Bill Cole wrote: On 15 Jul 2019, at 14:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: And here's the log of the last failure: [...] Jul 15 13:49:11 minbar policyd-spf[25139]: Starting Jul 15 13:49:11 minbar policyd-spf[25139]: C

Re: SPF failure

2019-07-15 Thread Bill Cole
27;debugLevel': 3, 'HELO_reject': 'SPF_Not_Pass', 'Mail_From_reject': 'SPF_Not_Pass', AHA! Config! 'PermError_reject': 'True', I would guess that means that you have *explicitly chosen* to reject mail when hitting a "PermError." Don't do that. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: Duplicate spamd lines in Postfix log file

2019-07-01 Thread Bill Cole
that uses spamd with per-user configurations, I am hesitant to make a definitive assertion. I am almost certain that you can get a more definitive answer on the right mailing list. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addr

Re: NDR when failed to forward mail to external address, now blacklisted on backscatterer

2019-06-28 Thread Bill Cole
ackage messages as attachments inside entirely new messages, which isn't really forwarding but remailing. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: authenticate o365 users with postfix without smtp auth

2019-06-16 Thread Bill Cole
On 16 Jun 2019, at 16:27, @lbutlr wrote: On 16 Jun2019, at 12:05, Bill Cole wrote: [...] As the OP says, they support an outbound "smarthost" connector, Not a term I’ve heard before. The term "smarthost" dates from the days when it was fairly common for some host

Re: authenticate o365 users with postfix without smtp auth

2019-06-16 Thread Bill Cole
you might get an answer for free even if you were not a paying customer. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire

Re: authenticate o365 users with postfix without smtp auth

2019-06-16 Thread Bill Cole
sender address is one you intend to service, how reliably is the mail authenticated by those 2 elements together? Is the mail DKIM signed? -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: authenticate o365 users with postfix without smtp auth

2019-06-16 Thread Bill Cole
ep away from the mail system handling mailboxes. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: Trying to resolve Client host rejected: Access denied errors

2019-06-12 Thread Bill Cole
test mail submission session with the "Connection Doctor" feature. That log will show whether you are getting the right responses to EHLO from Postfix before and after TLS establishment that would tell Mail.app to try to authenticate. The log should look something like the attached examp

Re: How to reject mails where from address and to address is myself.

2019-06-04 Thread Bill Cole
address as the From header. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: postfix/smtp Connection timeout

2019-06-04 Thread Bill Cole
ng the issue more complex, some providers have implemented port 25 blocking unevenly, so that some of their customers or networks are unblocked despite the official practice. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)

Re: SMTPS Submission

2019-06-02 Thread Bill Cole
need smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_authenticated,reject' because you have 'permit_sasl_authenticated,*,reject' in restriction lists that are evaluated later. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Available For Hire

Re: OT: Postscreen and scoring/blocking by ISP

2019-05-31 Thread Bill Cole
mplex logic, that's available as well. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Available For Hire

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