Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-18 Thread @lbutlr
> On 15 Dec 2020, at 10:50, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:57:45 PM CET, Benny Pedersen wrote: >> why do you accept your own domain in port 25 as envelope sender ? > > because i want to receive my own posts in this or any other mailing list. That is not relevant. Message

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Noel Jones
On 12/15/2020 5:17 AM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: The received mail had headers that looked like this: ... Received: from p27.eu (unknown [185.222.57.81])     by nantes-1.p27.eu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFC8FF74D     for ; Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:58:03 +0100 (CET) One safe thing you

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 15.12.2020 o godz. 19:01:34 Benny Pedersen pisze: > > reject local domains in envelope sender is safe The only case when this may cause trouble is when someone with mail account outside your domain (say u...@isp.net) is forwarding mail to your domain (say to us...@yourdomain.com), and you se

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:50:59PM +0100, Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:57:45 PM CET, Benny Pedersen wrote: > > Why do you accept your own domain in port 25 as envelope sender? > > Because I want to receive my own posts in this or any other mailing list. Mailing lists as postfi

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
Michael skrev den 2020-12-15 18:50: On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:57:45 PM CET, Benny Pedersen wrote: why do you accept your own domain in port 25 as envelope sender ? because i want to receive my own posts in this or any other mailing list. envelope sender is not mail from , you should r

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, December 15, 2020 5:57:45 PM CET, Benny Pedersen wrote: why do you accept your own domain in port 25 as envelope sender ? because i want to receive my own posts in this or any other mailing list. , you should reject this only if you want to prevent receiving your own post to thi

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Benny Pedersen
Jeff Abrahamson skrev den 2020-12-15 12:17: I received an obvious fishing mail today from ad...@p27.eu (my own domain). I appear not to be running an open relay (say the sorts of websites that offer to check these things), and yet this happened: why do you accept your own domain in port 25 as

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2020-12-15 Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > On 15/12/2020 12:36, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: >> Spoofing the envelope from address (Return-Path: ) is >> actually valid (per the SMTP protocol) and a common occurrence for >> mail sent by bad actors. > > Is prohibiting spoofing envelope from recommended?  I'm n

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
On 15/12/2020 12:36, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: > On 2020-12-15 Jeff Abrahamson wrote: >> I received an obvious fishing mail today from ad...@p27.eu (my own >> domain).  I appear not to be running an open relay [...] >> >> Am I reading this wrong?  Why was that able to happen?  I would have >> expected

Re: not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2020-12-15 Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > I received an obvious fishing mail today from ad...@p27.eu (my own > domain).  I appear not to be running an open relay (say the sorts of > websites that offer to check these things), and yet this happened: > > Dec 15 11:58:03 nantes-1 postfix/smtpd[31118

not an open relay, but something happened

2020-12-15 Thread Jeff Abrahamson
I received an obvious fishing mail today from ad...@p27.eu (my own domain).  I appear not to be running an open relay (say the sorts of websites that offer to check these things), and yet this happened: Dec 15 11:58:03 nantes-1 postfix/smtpd[31118]: warning: hostname hosted-by.rootlayer.ne