spam tags

2012-04-19 Thread K bharathan
hi all am getting spams with ***Spam*** tags in the subject line; esp lottery spams; anybody know an effective measure to prevent these i run amavis-new /postscreen on postfix relays and spam levels are tolerable so far except some creep i like the above -bharathan

postfix log

2012-03-22 Thread K bharathan
: domain lookup hits=20 miss=20 success=50% Mar 22 21:07:36 relay0 postfix/scache[61795]: statistics: address lookup hits=0 miss=20 success=0% why it is saying 'success=50%' ! am running a local resolver (unbound) -bharathan

postscreen

2012-03-19 Thread K bharathan
postscreen_bare_newline_enable = yes is there any way to whitelist sender domain or recipient domain i don't get any clue on the above; appreciate assistance thanks -bharathan

Re: postscreen

2012-03-19 Thread K bharathan
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:59:51AM +0200, K bharathan wrote: with postscreen i experience the following problem: it blocks mail from hotmal as following (from mail log) Mar 19 10:17:19 relay1 postfix/postscreen[10619

mime header checks

2011-11-15 Thread K bharathan
on the above thanks -bharathan

Re: mime header checks

2011-11-15 Thread K bharathan
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: On 2011-11-15 21:13, K bharathan wrote: hi all added a following regular expression for mime_header check /^Subject:.*LOANS OFFER/ REJECT spam #1 if i understand correctly cleanup service is doing the rejection; how

Light A Candle With SocialKonnekt And Pray For Japan

2011-03-24 Thread bharathan
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MS AD integration

2011-01-09 Thread K bharathan
hi all is there any way to postfix could query the mail users directly from Active Directory? what is required for this thanks -bharathan

Re: MS AD integration

2011-01-09 Thread K bharathan
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jan Johansson j...@mupp.net wrote: hi all is there any way to postfix could query the mail users directly from Active Directory? what is required for this Thanks Sure, plenty of ways, but do you _*really*_ want this? The reason I myself prefer to

spamtrap

2010-12-29 Thread K bharathan
hi all how can i get (trap) spam messages recd by my mail users or users can send to a particular email-id the messages that they consider spam so that i can make these messages available to spamassassin for learning appreciate the guidance -bharathan

Re: spamtrap

2010-12-29 Thread K bharathan
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:35 PM, mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net wrote: Le 29/12/2010 16:07, Jeroen Geilman a écrit : On 12/29/10 10:55 AM, K bharathan wrote: hi all how can i get (trap) spam messages recd by my mail users or users can send to a particular email-id the messages

Character in Email address

2010-12-17 Thread K bharathan
hi all can i use '' character in the local part of the email address ? thanks -bharathan

white list a user for smtp auth

2010-11-19 Thread K bharathan
hi all how can i whitelist a particular user (infact it's a user account which send virusalerts from the relays to the pop server) from smtp authentication. i've attached the postconf output ty help appreciated -bharathan inet_protocols = all myhostname = mail.exmaple.com myorigin

smtp out

2010-10-04 Thread K bharathan
hi all i'd like to put a smarthost using postfix; what are the min.precautions i shud put in? i've heard controls on outgoing mails are not that easily effective unlike the controls on incoming mails; also i plan to use SA and Amavis; appreciate valuable suggestions on this ty -bharathan

hotmail problem

2010-04-08 Thread K bharathan
clue about this! appreciate some guidance -bharathan

Re: hotmail problem

2010-04-08 Thread K bharathan
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Patric Falinder patric.falin...@omg.nuwrote: K bharathan skrev 2010-04-08 10:56: sorry for this generic mail system question i've got a problem with hotmail; when i send mail to a particular domain ( example.com) sometimes it bounce back saying

Re: restrict nrcpt

2010-03-20 Thread K bharathan
thanks for all -bharathan On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: K bharathan: hi all is there a way to restrict a sender to send only to a fixed no.of recipients in one mail! i want this to be kept as a general rule on my smtp out server Other

restrict nrcpt

2010-03-19 Thread K bharathan
hi all is there a way to restrict a sender to send only to a fixed no.of recipients in one mail! i want this to be kept as a general rule on my smtp out server thanks

Re: suitable webmail

2010-02-09 Thread K bharathan
, 2010 at 16:52, K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com wrote: of course this is a non postfix topic; but i'd like to know from the experienced which webmail is best for a postfix pop server It mostly depends on the type of users you have; - If they like flashy GUI bullshit like HTML-mail

Re: [OT] suitable webmail

2010-02-02 Thread K bharathan
thanks for all On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2010-02-01 7:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: All of that said, I don't find I'm lacking any functionality with my

Re: backscatter

2009-11-24 Thread K bharathan
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.comwrote: Noel Jones wrote: On 11/23/2009 3:25 PM, K bharathan wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM, /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk mailto:r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Robert Schetterer

backscatter

2009-11-23 Thread K bharathan
; appreciate ur assistance upon this thanks -bharathan

Re: backscatter

2009-11-23 Thread K bharathan
in my access map 'mydomains' alongwith other allowed domains i've put an entry as follows: OK example.com OK is the above null sender is required ?! will this cause any harm? i think i'd try config sasl-auth -bharathan On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Robert Schetterer

Re: backscatter

2009-11-23 Thread K bharathan
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM, /dev/rob0 r...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: the server got a list of domains (those domains mail servers use this server as relayhost)to relay out and does only smtp out; what could be wrong in the

server configuration error

2009-11-18 Thread K bharathan
hi all the following is the log from my relay for example.com; this is read receipt which failed; this is happening only with this client domain; Nov 18 20:13:59 relay2 postfix/smtpd[4225]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ex.2n.cz[90.182.112.11]: 451 4.3.5 Server configuration error; from= to=

Re: server configuration error

2009-11-18 Thread K bharathan
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.orgwrote: K bharathan: [90.182.112.11] Nov 18 20:06:10 relay1 postfix/smtpd[21876]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ex.2n.cz[90.182.112.11]: 451 4.3.5 Server configurati Now try: grep 21876 /the/log/file Wietse grep

Re: server configuration error

2009-11-18 Thread K bharathan
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Eray Aslan eray.as...@caf.com.tr wrote: On 19.11.2009 06:02, K bharathan wrote: now i understand ; in my check_client_access cidr:/etc/postfix/spam_cidr there was a block of IPs: 90.150.32.0/19 http://90.150.32.0/19REJECT 90.150.64.0

Re: relay and transport

2009-11-04 Thread K bharathan
thanks! On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: On 11/4/2009 12:51 AM, K bharathan wrote: hi all i understand i can transport an email id in the transport map; so i can put: a...@example.com mailto:a...@example.com smtp:[192.168.0.1] example.com http

relay and transport

2009-11-03 Thread K bharathan
hi all i understand i can transport an email id in the transport map; so i can put: a...@example.com smtp:[192.168.0.1] example.com smtp:[192.168.0.12] my doubt : with the above all mails to example.com will go to 192.168.0.12; will it include a...@example.com? or that particular mail

one domain and 2 mail servers

2009-10-21 Thread K bharathan
hi all i've to keep two postfix mail server; one at head office and another at regional office; both users will be using example.com domain; head office mail server has got hostname/ mx/rdns etc..in the public dns; head office has got seperate internet connection the regional office has got

queue file write error

2009-10-07 Thread K bharathan
.obsmtp.com[64.18.3.84] client is trying to connect from different ips; is it spam attack! this keep on happening on the server while i'm sending this mail help appreciated -bharathan

Re: queue file write error

2009-10-07 Thread K bharathan
from na3sys009aog105.obsmtp.com[74.125.149.75] Oct 7 10:35:38 relay1 postfix/smtpd[827]: D49D21613C4: client= na3sys009aog105.obsmtp.com[74.125.149.75] Oct 7 11:44:28 relay1 postfix/smtpd[827]: disconnect from na3sys009aog105.obsmtp.com[74.125.149.75] bharathan On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM

relayhost and authentication

2009-09-15 Thread K bharathan
/sasl_passwd: smtp.example.com userid:password is it the proper way of doing it? guidance appreciated bharathan

postfix listen on a particular IP

2009-08-22 Thread K bharathan
i've got a host with 2 network interfaces with two IPs (192.168.2.100 and 192.168.2.101) want postfix listen only to 192.168.2.101 (mail.example.com) can i put in main.cf intet_interfaces = IP or mail.exmaple.com help appreciated

Bcc problem

2009-08-14 Thread K bharathan
mail server is postfix with virtual users and postfix admin for domain example.com; server fetches mail from an ISP mail server; it works fine; but if anybody send a Bcc to someb...@example.com it is immediately sent to postmaster ; it does not deliver to someb...@example.com; this happens only

distribution list

2009-08-05 Thread K bharathan
hi can i make a distribution list in postfix? is it with aliasing? how can i do it? appreciate the guidance

Re: distribution list

2009-08-05 Thread K bharathan
in fact the setup is virtual users/mysql with postfixadmin; how can i put a virtual alias map? i feel sql to be queried for expanding the list members; i'm not getting that part properly.. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jose Alberto joseper...@gmail.com wrote: I create the list in ldap with

Re: distribution list

2009-08-05 Thread K bharathan
thanks all i'll check with postfixadmin On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Magnus Bäck mag...@dsek.lth.se wrote: On Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 14:43 CEST, K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com wrote: in fact the setup is virtual users/mysql with postfixadmin; how can i put a virtual alias

dsn

2009-07-18 Thread K bharathan
i always see in the postfix maillog the following: dsn=2.6.0,dsn=2.0.0,dsn=4.0.0, understand this is the status of the delivery; what is the significance of these numbers after dsn?; (e.g. dsn=2.0.0 i understand status sent ok) i googled for it but could not manage to get any info about this;

warning:address not listed

2009-07-15 Thread K bharathan
i get the following warning from the relay log; this happens when this client connect to my relay; always i get this Jul 15 17:06:07 relay1 postfix/qmgr[3664]: 5CA7F16135E: from=a...@foo.com, size=483945, nrcpt=2 (queue active) Jul 15 17:13:59 relay1 postfix/smtpd[16344]: warning: 192.168.2.35:

Re: warning:address not listed

2009-07-15 Thread K bharathan
thnaks On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: K bharathan wrote: i get the following warning from the relay log; this happens when this client connect to my relay; always i get this Jul 15 17:06:07 relay1 postfix/qmgr[3664]: 5CA7F16135E: from

sender verification

2009-07-08 Thread K bharathan
is it effective if i use sender verification; i understand there is a risk of getting blacklisted the mail server that's doing the SAV; what could be the guidelines for putting this in postfix guidance appreciated

backscatter

2009-07-03 Thread K bharathan
the following is the log from my gateway to a subdomain; there are lot sender mails are going; is it backscatter?; some are rejected on the basis of header-checks; the owner of the subdomain has got a mail server; how can i prevent this Jul 3 10:25:28 relay2 postfix/cleanup[13619]:

Re: backscatter

2009-07-03 Thread K bharathan
i've been running this relay gateway for 2 yrs now; i'd no problems of backscatters; have got a relay_recipient table and it take care of this; also kept a check on multiple bounces from an empty envelope sender; this particular scatter was for a customer domain and haven't kept recipient table

Re: deferred q

2009-07-02 Thread K bharathan
wrote: On Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 06:53 CEST, K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com wrote: can i delete a deferred queue for a specific site What do you mean? Do you want to delete all messages destined to a specific domain? What problem would that solve? -- Magnus Bäck mag

Re: deferred q

2009-07-02 Thread K bharathan
thnks On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Magnus Bäck mag...@dsek.lth.se wrote: On Thu, July 2, 2009 9:15 am, K bharathan said: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Magnus Bäck mag...@dsek.lth.se wrote: What do you mean? Do you want to delete all messages destined to a specific domain? What

deferred q

2009-07-01 Thread K bharathan
can i delete a deferred queue for a specific site guidance appreciated

DKIM

2009-06-29 Thread K bharathan
hi all currently i've gota smtp out postfix server and one main and several subdomains are using it to send mails out want to put a DKIM sign on all the outbound mails; understand there are MAIL-DKIM and DKIMproxy, DKIM-milters etc.. which one i can choose for this purpose do i've to add anything

Re: restrict external host

2009-06-21 Thread K bharathan
how can i restrict internal relay host to accept only from external relay host(relay2.abc.com) or i miss some obvious! appreciate help On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com: my setup: external relay1 --internal

Re: restrict external host

2009-06-21 Thread K bharathan
it's working i've been always a reader of this list. before i pose a question, i understand, i've to be well grounded on postfix ; these ingenuities r not comparable; great! to begin with i've started with 'the book of postfix' thanks everybody On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Ville Walveranta

deferred mail -retry

2009-06-09 Thread K bharathan
hi all what's the default deferred mail retry time in postfix? can i change it? appreciate ur help

Re: deferred mail -retry

2009-06-09 Thread K bharathan
retrying time for attempting deliver the message On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com: hi all what's the default deferred mail retry time in postfix? retry time for what? -- Ralf Hildebrandt Postfix

Re: deferred mail -retry

2009-06-09 Thread K bharathan
thanks On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com: retrying time for attempting deliver the message I assume you're thinking of non-local delivery queue_run_delay = 300s maximal_backoff_time = 4000s

received date differs

2009-06-02 Thread K bharathan
the attached is a header of a spam mail; i found the dates are different and delivered today; but inbox date shows 13/02/2009; what could have gone wrong? Return-path: suning125n...@yahoo.com.hk Received: from relay1.xxx.xx by xxx.xx (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.3.R) with ESMTP id md50004123477.msg

Re: received date differs

2009-06-02 Thread K bharathan
i find myself dumb on this appreciate an explanation On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * K bharathan kbhara...@gmail.com: the attached is a header of a spam mail; i found the dates are different and delivered today; but inbox date

forwarding redirecting

2009-05-21 Thread K bharathan
is there any difference between these two? Redirect mail to another address and Forward mail to another address ? could be a dumb confusion!

whitelist from spamhaus

2009-03-18 Thread K bharathan
Hi can i whitelist one domain from checking spamhaus ? thanks

message may be sent more than once

2009-03-18 Thread K bharathan
Mar 18 17:25:19 relay2 postfix/smtp[21383]: 5470B21265: to=41b.4.74998426-6452...@whereverstormy.com, relay= mail.WhereverStormy.com[173.46.193.75]:25, delay=418568, delays=418439/0.46/4.7/123, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with mail.WhereverStormy.com[173.46.193.75] while sending

Re: whitelist from spamhaus

2009-03-18 Thread K bharathan
my relay server has got multiple relay domains and i want only exempt mails to one particular domain from checking spamhaus; given below smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_unknown_sender_domain

sender IP check

2009-03-09 Thread K bharathan
hi all on my smtp out i want to put ''reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org'' since many local ADSL dynamic ips are in PBL ; is it desirable? where i can put this? this relay machine does only sending out; help appreciated

Re: bounced msg

2009-02-17 Thread bharathan kailath
i understood but why two folders 'defer' and 'deferred'! using OpenSuse 10.3 thanks On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: bharathan kailath wrote: Hi my ignorances: where can i find the contents of bounced messages in postfix? i see under /var/spool

spams from live.com

2009-02-16 Thread bharathan kailath
hi is there anyway i can prevent spams from live.com with internal filters of postfix help appreciated thanks

forgery: config. flaws

2009-02-07 Thread bharathan kailath
hi al the following surprise me because postfix rejected this message! sill it managed to get into inbox; the postfix logs are there; the message got first rejected and again gone throu amavis (q ids are same) (IPs are different); i don't know what is misconfigured; help appreciated Sat, 7

forgery: config. flaws (2nd posting)

2009-02-07 Thread bharathan kailath
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 got first rejected and again gone throu amavis (q ids are same)

strict domain

2009-02-02 Thread bharathan kailath
hi the following implemented on the postfix relay for stopping forgery and it work great! but from one of our subsidiary company's mail server one of the email id forwarding thru this postfix relay; whatever comes from yahoo/hotmail get rejected; can we put some exceptions to the particular

fax to inbox

2009-01-29 Thread bharathan kailath
hi trying to implement a fax store and forward with cisco AS5300. but while forwarding fax to the MTA it format recipient address as 'FAX= 3690...@example.com';the server that is receiving this message is not allowing to put '=' in the alias name to the recipient (it is not a postfix server

Re: forged spam mails

2009-01-25 Thread bharathan kailath
it is only in the From Header yahoo domain appears! On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, bharathan kailath wrote: i get spam mails that pretend to be from yahoo (eg.from yahoo.it, yahoo.nl) on my postfix relay; how can i prevent

strict domains

2009-01-24 Thread bharathan kailath
the following i got from this userlist and i tried to implement it without ful understanding Existing primitives can do this already. The example stops mail from yahoo.com/hotmail.com unless it comes from specific systems. Wietse smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_access

forged outlook html

2009-01-23 Thread bharathan kailath
X-Spam-Status: No, score=2.797 tagged_above=2 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, FORGED_MUA_OUTLOOK=3.116, FORGED_OUTLOOK_HTML=0.001, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, MIME_HTML_ONLY=1.457, MSOE_MID_WRONG_CASE=0.82, NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP=0.001] the above header details are of a message which was a spam; what does

forged spam mails

2009-01-23 Thread bharathan kailath
i get spam mails that pretend to be from yahoo (eg.from yahoo.it, yahoo.nl) on my postfix relay; how can i prevent such kind of foregeries help appreciated thanks

Nigerian 419 spam

2009-01-22 Thread bharathan kailath
hi how can i take some measures to stop this so called Nigerian 419 spam ;i've got two postfix relays with amavisd; but still i get some emails like Nigerian 419 spam help appreciated**

relay config

2009-01-22 Thread bharathan kailath
the following is my main.cf === relay_recipient_maps =hash:/etc/postfix/relay_recipients mime_header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/mime_header_checks disable_dns_lookups = no mailbox_command = mailbox_transport = strict_8bitmime = no disable_mime_output_conversion = no

bulk mails

2009-01-19 Thread bharathan kailath
Hi one of our customer send mass mails thru our postfix server; is it possible to restrict number of mail recipient for a particular sender! help appreciated. thanks

forwarding problem

2009-01-15 Thread bharathan kailath
hi in smtp out server i configured the following: smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/mydomains reject_unauth_destination it works but later on i realised that one email user is using smtp out server to forward mails to his another id; and these mails get

multiple relayhosts

2009-01-15 Thread bharathan kailath
hi i've got smtpout1 and smtpout2 servers; can i specify a particular domain to send thru smtpout1 (as relayhost) and another domain thru smtpout2 (as relayhost) in postfix!?

Re: forged address

2009-01-14 Thread bharathan kailath
it works is this enought to prevent forging the email ids?! thanks On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: bharathan kailath wrote: 've a postfix server act as smtp out; i've allowed certain networks in mynetworks; my domain example.com http://example.com

Re: delay - this is what?

2009-01-14 Thread bharathan kailath
thanks On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: * bharathan kailath kbhara...@gmail.com: delay=85, delays=59/0.01/17/8.9, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok: queued as 67C7D1AB30F) i find this in postfix log; what does this mean? Total

ETRN

2009-01-14 Thread bharathan kailath
we've got a gateway postfix server with which we provide mails to hosted domains; postfix is configured with Separate Domains with System Accounts (virtual alias domains and virtual alias maps); clients mail server pop up and collect all the their mails; it works great; but one of the client using

connection timeout on win2007 exchange

2009-01-14 Thread bharathan kailath
Hi Jan 13 15:43:41 relay1 postfix/smtp[18476]: 5BF411611EE: to= valer...@example.com, relay=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[1xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ]:25, delay=101565, delays=100962/0.02/3.4/600, dsn=4.4.1, status=deferred (host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 421 4 .4.1 Connection timed out (in reply to end of

forged address

2009-01-13 Thread bharathan kailath
've a postfix server act as smtp out; i've allowed certain networks in mynetworks; my domain example.com; my problem is from the allowed networks one can send mails (e.g m...@gmail.com to someb...@yahoo.com); it should not have accepted mails other than one of the sender/receiver belong to