Re: unknown mail transport error

2010-12-09 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Dec 9, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Sufian Hameed wrote: Dec 9 14:18:18 esprimo postfix/qmgr[8828]: warning: transport smtp failure -- see a previous warning/fatal/panic logfile record for the problem description what does this log entry say ?

Re: smtpd_sender_login_maps with aliases?

2010-11-03 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:14 AM, Edward Carraro wrote: I would like to set up SMTP, allowing the user to authenticate as their main address, but still continue to send mail using their alias (without disabling reject_sender_login_mismatch, as discussed here

Re: How can i test my local_recipient_maps

2010-10-26 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:47 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: jeffrey j donovan: greetings How can I test my local recipient map. Im looking for something similar to a postmap -q us...@example.com hash:/etc/postfix/myfile here is my map statement. local_recipient_maps =

Re: Aliases LDAP maps from the MX ?

2010-10-08 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Oct 8, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I would like to use LDAP ( OpenLDAP ) aliases from our MX server in order to forward emails to the internal mailhub. The MX use the transport utility to forward emails to the mailhub and does not perform local deliveries. Thanks

Re: Routing emails through multiple postfix servers

2010-10-06 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Oct 6, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 10/05/2010 12:04 PM, Avinash Pawar // Viva wrote: Hi, Please suggest me solution on following requirements : User will send emails on one postfix server then this server will route email traffic to multiple postfix servers. For

Re: Routing emails through multiple postfix servers

2010-10-05 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Oct 5, 2010, at 6:04 AM, Avinash Pawar // Viva wrote: Hi, Please suggest me solution on following requirements : User will send emails on one postfix server then this server will route email traffic to multiple postfix servers. How we can implement this feature ? Should we use

Re: Scanning Mails Relayed via Postfix Server/Spamassassin

2010-09-30 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Cimoni Enwis Ogwujiakwu wrote: Hello, I have setup a postfix server for scanning mails for spam relayed through it and I have redirected all port 25 traffic through it from my firewall but when I try sending mails through telnet for example smtp.gmail.com 25

Ldap multiple server_host config

2010-09-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
greetings I was reading http://linux.die.net/man/5/ldap_table and was trying to get a clear picture of what the config would look like, and is postmap required? would this work server_host = 127.0.0.1 server_host = 192.168.1.1 server_host = 192.168.1.2 search_base = dc=my,dc=example,dc=com

Re: Ldap multiple server_host config

2010-09-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 09/29/2010 02:35 AM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: greetings I was reading http://linux.die.net/man/5/ldap_table and was trying to get a clear picture of what the config would look like, and is postmap required? server_host (default

Re: Suspected SPAM:Re: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Troy Campbell wrote: The first two lines were commented out but when I looked at the server that used to host mail it was uncommented so I uncommented it on this new machine and recreated the hash i.e., postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport snip this did not

Re: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-27 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 27, 2010, at 6:57 PM, Troy Campbell wrote: Sorry, this is probably a newbie question but I’m having an issue where I see a bunch of emails with an “*” next to them when I run postqueue –p but not being delivered to the local machine. What does the “*” mean. I also noticed “!”

Re: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix

2010-09-13 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 11, 2010, at 9:04 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:49 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: greetings i just upgraded postfix to 2.7.1 on a OSX 10.6.4 machine. From what I have

warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix

2010-09-10 Thread donovan jeffrey j
greetings i just upgraded postfix to 2.7.1 on a OSX 10.6.4 machine. From what I have read in the archives it may be an incorrect user or permission but it's not harmful. How do i clear the warning ? I used macports Sep 10 22:00:22 mx1 postfix/master[191]: daemon started -- version 2.7.1,

Re: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix

2010-09-10 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:05 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: greetings i just upgraded postfix to 2.7.1 on a OSX 10.6.4 machine. From what I have read in the archives it may be an incorrect user or permission but it's not harmful. How do i clear the warning ? I used macports Sep 10 22

Re: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix

2010-09-10 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: greetings i just upgraded postfix to 2.7.1 on a OSX 10.6.4 machine. From what I have read in the archives it may be an incorrect user or permission but it's not harmful. How do i clear the warning ? I used macports

Re: warning: bogus file name: maildrop/.turd_postfix

2010-09-10 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:49 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:30 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: greetings i just upgraded postfix to 2.7.1 on a OSX 10.6.4 machine. From what I have read in the archives it may be an incorrect user or permission but it's

Re: How common is reverse DNS checking?

2010-08-23 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Aug 23, 2010, at 11:32 AM, LuKreme wrote: On 19-Aug-2010, at 13:08, D G Teed wrote: The only place I've seen which publicly talks about the reverse DNS requirement is AOL. Craigslist requires that the reverse DNS match EXACTLY the mail server name. So, if your mailserver doubles

warn_if_reject reject_unknown_client

2010-08-12 Thread donovan jeffrey j
greetings all day long I see tons of reject warnings from different ips sample reject_warning: RCPT from unknown[65.60.20.157]: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [65.60.20.157]; when I do an nslookup or host that IP it returns a 157.20.60.65.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer

Re: warn_if_reject reject_unknown_client

2010-08-12 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:55 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 8/12/2010 1:37 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: On Aug 12, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Noel Jones wrote: On 8/12/2010 1:07 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: greetings all day long I see tons of reject warnings from different ips sample reject_warning

need help with forged To and From

2010-08-08 Thread donovan jeffrey j
greetings this weekend I have been hit with a ton of forged spam messages. here is a sample header From: realu...@beth.k12.pa.us Subject:realu...@beth.k12.pa.us 62% OFF on Pfizer! Date: August 8, 2010 9:41:57 AM EDT To: realu...@beth.k12.pa.us Return-Path:

Re: need help with forged To and From

2010-08-08 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Aug 8, 2010, at 2:16 PM, junkyardma...@verizon.net junkyardma...@verizon.net wrote: http://www.openspf.org/ thanks for the reply, since this is not postfix related. I have to go off list. but before I go i get a little confused when reading the SPF docs. It seems to easy. from what i

Re: starttls testing

2010-07-31 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jul 31, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote: On Friday, July 30, 2010 at 19:47 CEST, donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us wrote: [...] There is no smtpd.conf that defines what SASL should do for Postfix. SMTP AUTH can't work! This is bad. http://www.postfix.org

starttls testing

2010-07-30 Thread donovan jeffrey j
Greetings I have an older relay system accept ssl on port 25, it seems to be working, but when i test it, STARTTLS shows up but then the session stalls like it's waiting for me to do something. -probably i do. smtp2:/etc/postfix root# telnet 127.0.0.1 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to

Re: starttls testing

2010-07-30 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote: On Friday, July 30, 2010 at 17:33 CEST, donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us wrote: I have an older relay system accept ssl on port 25, it seems to be working, but when i test it, STARTTLS shows up but then the session stalls like

Re: too much config version 2.5.5,

2010-07-29 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jul 29, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: The simplest way to upgrade an existing configuration is: - Back up the new main.cf, master.cf, postfix-files, postfix-script and post-install files. - Install the old main.cf and old master.cf and any files that you have added to the

Re: too much config version 2.5.5,

2010-07-29 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jul 29, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: On Jul 29, 2010, at 7:16 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: The simplest way to upgrade an existing configuration is: - Back up the new main.cf, master.cf, postfix-files, postfix-script and post-install files. - Install

too much config version 2.5.5,

2010-07-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
version 2.5.5, greetings im upgrading a couple of xserves to 10.6 from 10.4. the main.cf used to be pretty straight forward. The default main.cf on 10.6 snow leopard server has overwhelmed my old eyeballs. may new lines most i understand but they pretty much list every option known to man.

Re: regular expression in header_check question

2010-05-04 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On May 4, 2010, at 3:23 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: On 2010-05-03 donovan jeffrey j wrote: im working on a header check to filter out anything that says Viagra in the From: line. My question,.. is how do I handle the quotes ? here is a sample header From: Viagra US supplier nujue7

regular expression in header_check question

2010-05-03 Thread donovan jeffrey j
Greetings im working on a header check to filter out anything that says Viagra in the From: line. My question,.. is how do I handle the quotes ? here is a sample header From: Viagra US supplier nujue7...@myfairpoint.net From: Viagra US dealer izylasaeym6...@bu.edu here is what i want to use

DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at least for me. is anyone else having any problems ? Apr 19 08:21:48 mail2 postfix/smtpd[21485]: warning: 130.60.141.41.zen.spamhaus.org: RBL lookup error: Host or domain name not found. Name

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from spamhaus, it seems it's not resolving. at least for me. is anyone else having any problems ? You might have been blocked because you

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: I certainly do not want to exceed any limits, how do i avoid that ? Well, how big is your server? oh it's about this high - - - j/k this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:58 AM, John Peach wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:53:03 -0400 donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us wrote: On Apr 19, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings i have been seeing tons of errors coming from

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should well be within the limits. We're execeeding the limit at about 30k users. Maybe you're using your ISPs

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: this system in question picks up mail ( primary MX ) for about 2000 users. This should

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:36 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:31:19AM -0400, donovan jeffrey j wrote: abuseat.org is working fine. I'm only having trouble with zen. Apr 19 08:29:12 mail2 postfix/smtpd[21642]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[117.201.68.108]: 554 Service

Re: DNS RBL error ::solved::

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: by the time i typed this email. i got an authoritative answer; dns:~ root# nslookup 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org Server: 209.96.96.2 Address:209.96.96.2#53 You should do such tests as a non-root user

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: Rather test with: 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org which should return: 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.2 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10 yes this is working

Re: DNS RBL error

2010-04-19 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 19, 2010, at 9:22 PM, Steve wrote: You can run that caching DNS where ever you want as long as you secure that DNS. If you use BIND and are using forwarders to your ISP name servers then that caching will not necessarily help much if your ISP's NS are the problem. thanks for the

Re: Configuration Backup Script

2010-04-09 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: On 2010-04-08 donovan jeffrey j wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:57 PM, osmcr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Suse 10.3 Server and looking for a script like this that DOH! my bad,.. I saw 10.3 Server with one eye, thought he was speaking mac

Re: Configuration Backup Script

2010-04-08 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:57 PM, osmcr...@gmail.com wrote: I’m running Suse 10.3 Server and looking for a script like this that will backup all the system config files and any others that I would want, this is a db and mailbox users backup for my mail server ….. But I plan migrating to a new

Re: Out: 452 Insufficient system storage

2010-03-03 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Mar 3, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: donovan jeffrey j: SNIP 5468961666% 13235578 6836202 66% / And that's 26 GBytes as well. It would be interesting to see what Postfix smtpd logs. You can turn it on selectively postconf -e debug_peer_list=127.0.0.1 postfix

Re: Out: 452 Insufficient system storage

2010-03-02 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:56 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von donovan jeffrey j dono...@beth.k12.pa.us: Greetings I had several of these on my primary MX this weekend and one just popped up. Can someone explain where this Insufficient system storage is ? both mail queues are empty

Re: Out: 452 Insufficient system storage

2010-03-02 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Mar 2, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Daniel V. Reinhardt wrote: this is default on all my systems. MX1 /dev/disk1s3 77G51G26G66%/ MX2 /dev/disk0s3 234G46G 187G20%/ Can you show the partitioning of these systems? Thanks thats all i

Re: Out: 452 Insufficient system storage

2010-03-02 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Mar 2, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: It may be worthwhile to run the Postfix fsspace test program. - Download any Postfix source code that compiles on your system. - cd into the source tree, then execute the following commands: make makefiles cd src/util make fsspace

Out: 452 Insufficient system storage

2010-03-01 Thread donovan jeffrey j
Greetings I had several of these on my primary MX this weekend and one just popped up. Can someone explain where this Insufficient system storage is ? both mail queues are empty, and DF shows 20% on the reporting system. Out: 220 mx2.beth.k12.pa.us ESMTP Postfix In: EHLO

Re: load balancing among mail servers

2010-02-16 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:09 AM, aa wrote: Someone advised me to insert in the DNS zone a list of MX records defined with the same level of priority so the DNS server will choose one of them without invoking always the same mail server It could be an idea, in my opinion, but I'd prefer a

Re: Pflogsumm Status

2010-01-14 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: Hi All, As many of you may be aware, about a year ago I emailed the list asking if anybody would be interested in taking over maintenance of Pflogsumm. Several people volunteered. In the mean-time, after un-loading a bit (basically taking a

Re: Accept null HELO/EHLO

2009-10-22 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Oct 22, 2009, at 6:50 AM, ram wrote: On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 09:07 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: ram: A lotus notes server of our clients in hugely misconfigured to send just a empty HELO. And we are supposed to relay mails for this client. I know getting the lotus admin to set his MTA is

Re: Not receive mail error

2009-10-09 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Oct 9, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Mark Johnson wrote: All, We have an application server to generate mail and use postfix as relay mail server for outgoing mail. We ran the test and postfix did catch the error. However, it didn't report back to application server. We used sendmail as relay mail

Re: SMTP connectivity problem

2009-07-08 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jul 8, 2009, at 2:16 PM, New Old Stk wrote: Looks like I spoke to early about tricky Cisco router. Just had our modem/router equipment replaced, hoping it would fix the problem but to no avail! I give up. in the cisco box , did you remove any fixup smtp protocols / ports ? On Wed,