Re: has yahoo mailservers problems ?

2008-11-13 Thread tôba
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:14:25 +0100 Martin Strand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:14:56 +0100, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Horne wrote: At least a couple of times per year, some large mail provider makes me jump through their hoops to get my users' mail to them

Re: has yahoo mailservers problems ?

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
Martin Strand wrote: And that's _your_ choice and view. Dan is right - it's ridiculous for any provider to say sorry, we can't deliver mail to one of the largest email providers on the planet, and we're not trying to get around the problem. End users don't care about technical details, they

Strange behavior from postfix..

2008-11-13 Thread Nick
I run a postfix 2.2.3 server (centOS 5.2) with the whole mySQL virtual users/domains setup, which works just fine except for a few small issues, which strangely affect only a few users. Basically, the server after recieving the mail, does a few checks then delivers it to the final destination

postdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68

2008-11-13 Thread Rajkumar S
Hi, I get this error when I tried to send a mail via postdrop. vhs3:~# cat signedmail.txt | postdrop queue_id4BAE870402Fpostdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68 The signedmail.txt contains the following (edited) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; snip Return-Path: [EMAIL

Re: smtpd banner

2008-11-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Res: Hi All, Is there a way to insert line breaks in the banner? On Sendmail we use \n, which does not work on Postfix. Postfix smtpd_banner behaves as documented. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_banner Wietse

Re: Strange behavior from postfix..

2008-11-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/13/2008, Nick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Basically, the server after recieving the mail, does a few checks then delivers it to the final destination just fine, but for a few users (for a reason I'm not able to understand) it sends a delivery report after successful deliveries (obviously

Re: smtpd banner

2008-11-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Res: On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Wietse Venema wrote: Is there a way to insert line breaks in the banner? On Sendmail we use \n, which does not work on Postfix. Postfix smtpd_banner behaves as documented. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_banner Already read and an hour'd on

Re: Why I set a specific transport parameter on show up?

2008-11-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/13/2008, Jacky Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I would like to set a specific tranport for mail sending to yahoo, which slow it down to avoid getting greylisted. I set a dedicated transport in master.cf like slow unix - - n - 1 smtp And set the

Why I set a specific transport parameter on show up?

2008-11-13 Thread Jacky Chan
Hi all, I would like to set a specific tranport for mail sending to yahoo, which slow it down to avoid getting greylisted. I set a dedicated transport in master.cf like slow unix - - n - 1 smtp And set the pre-transport parameters in main.cf like

Re: postdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68

2008-11-13 Thread Rajkumar S
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Wietse Venema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rajkumar S: Hi, I get this error when I tried to send a mail via postdrop. vhs3:~# cat signedmail.txt | postdrop queue_id4BAE870402Fpostdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68 The postdrop command behaves as

Re: postdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68

2008-11-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Rajkumar S: Hi, I get this error when I tried to send a mail via postdrop. vhs3:~# cat signedmail.txt | postdrop queue_id4BAE870402Fpostdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68 The postdrop command behaves as documented. http://www.postfix.org/postdrop.1.html In particular, see

Re: postdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68

2008-11-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Rajkumar S: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Wietse Venema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rajkumar S: Hi, I get this error when I tried to send a mail via postdrop. vhs3:~# cat signedmail.txt | postdrop queue_id4BAE870402Fpostdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68 The

Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread D G Teed
Occassionally I see a spamcop.net report on backscattered email. Our MXes forward to three other servers, so we use virtual_alias_maps, set up with a mapping for every email account, and we set smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_unlisted_recipient amongst other restrictions. I'll report the

spamassassin spampref problem with alias

2008-11-13 Thread nik600
Hi to all. I've go a problem: i've set up postfix to call a script in master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filterunix - n n - 20 pipe flags=Rq user=filter

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread Charles Marcus
On 11/13/2008, D G Teed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'll report the smtpd related details here so those who want to know how it is set up can see. postconf -n output is preferred... all of it... -- Best regards, Charles

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
D G Teed wrote: [snip] Is there anything more I can be doing? what is your problem exactly? are you listed on spamcop? if so, what IP are you talking about? what makes you believe you are listed because of backscatter? and why do you send backscatter (and what kind of bs)? Does anyone

Re: spamassassin spampref problem with alias

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
nik600 wrote: Hi to all. I've go a problem: i've set up postfix to call a script in master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filterunix - n n - 20 pipe flags=Rq user=filter

Re: Why I set a specific transport parameter on show up?

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
Jacky Chan wrote: Hi all, I would like to set a specific tranport for mail sending to yahoo, which slow it down to avoid getting greylisted. why? unless you send a lot of mail, just let it go. and if you send a lot of mail, you'll ned to get whitelisted. I set a dedicated transport in

Re: postdrop: fatal: uid=0: unexpected record type: 68

2008-11-13 Thread Rajkumar S
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Wietse Venema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As documented, postdrop implements a protocol that is internal to Postfix. You are therefore not supposed to use it. Thanks for the clue stick! raj

Re: Why I set a specific transport parameter on show up?

2008-11-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:09:25AM -0800, Jacky Chan wrote: I would like to set a specific tranport for mail sending to yahoo, which slow it down to avoid getting greylisted. I set a dedicated transport in master.cf like slow unix - - n - 1 smtp And

Re: spamassassin spampref problem with alias

2008-11-13 Thread nik600
master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy 9009 inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filterunix - n n - 20 pipe flags=Rq

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread D G Teed
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D G Teed wrote: [snip] Is there anything more I can be doing? what is your problem exactly? are you listed on spamcop? We are not listed on spam cop. There have been a couple of external reports I've seen in the last year.

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread Jim Berwick
D G Teed wrote: We send non-delivery responses. If someone emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], it will reject, saying that user doesn't exist. Our users expect this feature. If we told them bad addresses will cause email to be lost without notification, they would not be happy.

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread D G Teed
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On 11/13/2008, D G Teed ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'll report the smtpd related details here so those who want to know how it is set up can see. postconf -n output is preferred... all of it... OK - IP, domain,

Re: spamassassin spampref problem with alias

2008-11-13 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
nik600 wrote: master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy 9009 inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filterunix - n n - 20 pipe

Re: has yahoo mailservers problems ?

2008-11-13 Thread Bill Weiss
t??ba([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:00:54AM +0300: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:14:25 +0100 Martin Strand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, they expect you to setup your servers properly with SPF/DKIM/etc but you probably already know about that. Martin But why yahoo do

Re: spamassassin spampref problem with alias

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
nik600 wrote: master.cf: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy 9009 inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filterunix - n n - 20 pipe

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
D G Teed wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:05 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D G Teed wrote: [snip] Is there anything more I can be doing? what is your problem exactly? are you listed on spamcop? We are not listed on spam cop. There have been a couple of external reports I've seen

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread D G Teed
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D G Teed wrote: What makes you believe I'm listed? I got a single report of a complaint. Have you not used the spamcop web interface before? never ever. should I? No, but as you said, some people report the wrong problem

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
D G Teed wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone emailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], it will reject, saying that user doesn't exist. Our users expect this feature.

Multiple message problem

2008-11-13 Thread Rob Klingsten
Hi folks -- I've got a problem and I can't seem to find the cause. Basically, if I address a message with: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each recipient gets the same number of copies of the message as there are recipients... so 3 recipients, they each get 3

Re: Multiple message problem

2008-11-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:03:17PM -0500, Rob Klingsten wrote: Hi folks -- I've got a problem and I can't seem to find the cause. Basically, if I address a message with: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each recipient gets the same number of copies of the

Re: Multiple message problem

2008-11-13 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Rob Klingsten wrote: Hi folks -- I've got a problem and I can't seem to find the cause. Basically, if I address a message with: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each recipient gets the same number of copies of the message as there are recipients... so 3

Queue ID gets reused? Not unique?

2008-11-13 Thread Durk Strooisma
Hi all, I was examining my Postfix logs and saw two sequential sessions using the same queue ID. I was a bit surprised as I had the assumption that queue IDs were generated randomly, which means they should be practically unique. Okay, so this could be a wrong assumption... My question is, how

Re: Queue ID gets reused? Not unique?

2008-11-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:36:10PM +0100, Durk Strooisma wrote: I was examining my Postfix logs and saw two sequential sessions using the same queue ID. I was a bit surprised as I had the assumption that queue IDs were generated randomly, which means they should be practically unique. They

Re: Multiple message problem

2008-11-13 Thread Rob Klingsten
I've got a problem and I can't seem to find the cause. Basically, if I address a message with: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each recipient gets the same number of copies of the message as there are recipients... so 3 recipients, they each get 3 copies. If it

Re: Multiple message problem

2008-11-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 04:53:54PM -0500, Rob Klingsten wrote: I've got a problem and I can't seem to find the cause. Basically, if I address a message with: TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each recipient gets the same number of copies of the message as there

Re: Queue ID gets reused? Not unique?

2008-11-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Durk Strooisma: Hi all, I was examining my Postfix logs and saw two sequential sessions using the same queue ID. I was a bit surprised as I had the assumption that queue IDs were generated randomly, which means they should be practically unique. Postfix behaves as documented. Please point

smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext with dovecot?

2008-11-13 Thread Rich Winkel
I have postfix-2.5.4 and dovecot-1.1.2. I'd like to use: smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext It barfs on this with: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms and smtpd doesn't start. Of course I don't want people sending their passwords in plaintext over the net. Am I missing something?

Re: smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext with dovecot?

2008-11-13 Thread Noel Jones
Rich Winkel wrote: I have postfix-2.5.4 and dovecot-1.1.2. I'd like to use: smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext It barfs on this with: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms and smtpd doesn't start. Of course I don't want people sending their passwords in plaintext over the net. Am I

Simple mail authentication

2008-11-13 Thread N. Yaakov Ziskind
I have a simple (I'll post postconf -n if it would help) Postfix box that basically takes in mail and hands it off. I have one user that would like to send and receive mail from the outside. I'm ok with receiving mail, but I have to (I think) set up some authentication so that I don't become an

Re: Simple mail authentication

2008-11-13 Thread Noel Jones
N. Yaakov Ziskind wrote: I have a simple (I'll post postconf -n if it would help) Postfix box that basically takes in mail and hands it off. I have one user that would like to send and receive mail from the outside. I'm ok with receiving mail, but I have to (I think) set up some authentication

Re: smtpd_sasl_security_options = noplaintext with dovecot?

2008-11-13 Thread Rich Winkel
Thanks! That's just what I needed! Rich On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:58:45PM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: Most folks use smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes to require STARTTLS before AUTH since some popular mail clients only support plaintext methods (plain and/or login), rather than disabling

Re: Simple mail authentication

2008-11-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
N. Yaakov Ziskind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple (I'll post postconf -n if it would help) Postfix box that basically takes in mail and hands it off. I have one user that would like to send and receive mail from the outside. I'm ok with receiving mail, but I have to (I think) set

How can setup a dedicated transport to slow down output-rate to yahoo in Postfix 2.3?

2008-11-13 Thread Jacky Chan
Victor Duchovni wrote: If your prorblem is output-rate or destination concurrency, you are using the wrong tool. As subject, yeap, I actually want to setup such kind of transport to avoid getting greylist from yahoo. As I know, Postfix 2.5 has destination_rate_delay, it can slow down

Re: Why I set a specific transport parameter on show up?

2008-11-13 Thread Jacky Chan
Yes, so how can I know the user-defined parameter takes effect? Thank you mouss-2 wrote: Jacky Chan wrote: Hi all, I would like to set a specific tranport for mail sending to yahoo, which slow it down to avoid getting greylisted. why? unless you send a lot of mail, just let it go.

Re: How can setup a dedicated transport to slow down output-rate to yahoo in Postfix 2.3?

2008-11-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Jacky Chan: Victor Duchovni wrote: If your prorblem is output-rate or destination concurrency, you are using the wrong tool. As subject, yeap, I actually want to setup such kind of transport to avoid getting greylist from yahoo. As I know, Postfix 2.5 has

OpenLDAP version with Postfix?

2008-11-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
What is the best OpenLDAP version to use with Postfix at the moment? I'm mainly wondering whether OpenLDAP 2.4 has any significant problem issues with Postfix? As always, thanks for any insights! Ville

Re: OpenLDAP version with Postfix?

2008-11-13 Thread tôba
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:34:30 -0600 Ville Walveranta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best OpenLDAP version to use with Postfix at the moment? I'm mainly wondering whether OpenLDAP 2.4 has any significant problem issues with Postfix? As always, thanks for any insights! In my Ubuntu

Authenticating aginst ActiveDirectory?

2008-11-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
There is very little on the topic on the web and on the Postfix Users archives. The little I find seems to imply it's very difficult to extract password information from AD (say, to sync to OpenLDAP). Since the last thread about this topic in this group is from last year, I'm asking whether a

RE: Authenticating aginst ActiveDirectory?

2008-11-13 Thread MacShane, Tracy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ville Walveranta Sent: Friday, 14 November 2008 3:27 PM To: Postfix users Subject: Authenticating aginst ActiveDirectory? There is very little on the topic on the web and on the Postfix Users

Re: Name service error

2008-11-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
Jeffrey Shawn Klotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having DNS issues when delivering mail on a postfix server. The server seems to run fine for several hours. After a while, emails start to stay in the queue with the following error for all domains: postqueue -p *D63998D18BF88122

Re: Authenticating aginst ActiveDirectory?

2008-11-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:32 PM, MacShane, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry, why do you need to sync passwords to relay mail to your Exchange servers? To do relay recipient validation, you just need to do a simple LDAP lookup to the AD to verify valid email addresses. Since you only

OpenLDAP version with Postfix?

2008-11-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
(copying the list; this went initially out to tôba only) I'm not aware of any any problems — I'm thinking that there probably would not be any, but various packages have prerequisites or support for 2.3 or 2.2. That is not to say, of course, that they wouldn't work with the latest version, and

RE: Authenticating aginst ActiveDirectory?

2008-11-13 Thread MacShane, Tracy
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ville Walveranta Sent: Friday, 14 November 2008 4:29 PM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Authenticating aginst ActiveDirectory? On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:32 PM, MacShane, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Body checks and warning log

2008-11-13 Thread MacShane, Tracy
I'm trying to create a very simple body check for a limited time to get an indicative idea of how many users may be sending credit card numbers via email. I have a simple pcre body_check map that is logging a warning when it encounters a match. Unfortunately, the entire message line that triggers

Re: Body checks and warning log

2008-11-13 Thread Ville Walveranta
This is probably a too complex solution but I mention it anyway. In late July there was a discussion here about rewriting the subject line. I'm using an external spam filtering service (Katharion), and if I choose spams to be delivered (rather than quarantined), they're tagged with **SPAM** in

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
D G Teed wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:14 PM, mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We send non-delivery responses. if these are user does not exist or filter thinks this is spam/virus and the like, then you are a backscatter source. I don't think we send NDRs as emails originating here. I think

Re: Spamcop's position on backscatter

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: D G Teed wrote: We user virtual_alias_maps and smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_unlisted_recipient is at the beginning of our list of restrictions. client restrictions are checked on connect. In the default setup (smtpd_delay_reject=yes), client, helo,

Re: Body checks and warning log

2008-11-13 Thread mouss
MacShane, Tracy wrote: I'm trying to create a very simple body check for a limited time to get an indicative idea of how many users may be sending credit card numbers via email. I have a simple pcre body_check map that is logging a warning when it encounters a match. Unfortunately, the entire