changes in tls problem

2009-05-28 Thread Norbert P. Copones
hello, i just upgraded from postfix 2.5 to 2.6.1 i'm using dovecot for my sasl. an excerpt of my main.cf follows: smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_authenticated_sender_login_mismatch, reject_unauthenticated_sender_login_mismatch, reject_sender_login_mismatch,

Re: changes in tls problem

2009-05-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:02:37PM +0800, Norbert P. Copones wrote: this setting is fine in 2.5 and it guarantees that smtp auth only operates in tls. this also prevents user at my domain from spoofing as it requires authentication. however, a change in 2.6 in sasl broke this setup.

nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ -- Ralf Hildebrandt Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.computerbeschimpfung.de I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck. -- Rob Pike,

Re: changes in tls problem

2009-05-28 Thread Norbert P. Copones
thanks. i already figured out the problem using 2.5 smtpd_check.c :) cheers! On 1531 0, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: Try this patch:

Re: changes in tls problem

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:02:37PM +0800, Norbert P. Copones wrote: this setting is fine in 2.5 and it guarantees that smtp auth only operates in tls. this also prevents user at my domain from spoofing as it requires authentication. however, a change in 2.6 in sasl

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread John Peach
On Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:38 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ All political; no real rational reasoning for it -- John

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ All political; no real rational reasoning for it I know, but still worth an informational message -- Ralf Hildebrandt Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155

Re: changes in tls problem

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Victor Duchovni: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:02:37PM +0800, Norbert P. Copones wrote: this setting is fine in 2.5 and it guarantees that smtp auth only operates in tls. this also prevents user at my domain from spoofing as it requires authentication. however, a

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Marcio Merlone
John Peach escreveu: On Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:38 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ All political; no real rational reasoning for it I see no technical reason, but

Re: How to safely re-inject an archived queue file?

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Curtis: In the mean time, it seems like using doing postsuper -r to re-activate old queue files would be a good alternative. Hopefully that resolves the expiration cycle issue that is caused when you inject a queue file directly into the maildrop queue? If that's

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Peach wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:38 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ All political; no real rational reasoning for it I'm not sure I would characterize a

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Marcio Merlone: John Peach escreveu: On Thu, 28 May 2009 11:56:38 +0200 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ All political; no real rational reasoning for it I see no

Illegal address syntax

2009-05-28 Thread Aravind M D
When we have done an smtp testing on one of our trading application server using the frontend smtp tool, we are not able to send out mails internally to the mailserver, as the mailserver is rejecting with the following error message. warning: Illegal address syntax from unknown[ipaddress] in

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-05-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Aravind M D aravind.divaka...@yukthi.com: When we have done an smtp testing on one of our trading application server using the frontend smtp tool, we are not able to send out mails internally to the mailserver, as the mailserver is rejecting with the following error message. warning:

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Marcio Merlone
Wietse Venema escreveu: (...) Apart from that, if they come up with a decent MTA then I welcome some competition. More motivation for me to look into postfix-lite. That would be great, I have some servers wich sends nothing but administrative mails to me, logcheck, crontab, such annoying

Re: Illegal address syntax

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Aravind M D: When we have done an smtp testing on one of our trading application server using the frontend smtp tool, we are not able to send out mails internally to the mailserver, as the mailserver is rejecting with the following error message. warning: Illegal address syntax from

Simple mail submission tool was Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Simon Waters
On Thursday 28 May 2009 14:41:30 Marcio Merlone wrote: That would be great, I have some servers wich sends nothing but administrative mails to me, logcheck, crontab, such annoying things. They need nothing more than a bare bones MTA wich is able to send mails to a relay host. Debian has

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:41:30AM -0300, Marcio Merlone wrote: Wietse Venema escreveu: (...) Apart from that, if they come up with a decent MTA then I welcome some competition. More motivation for me to look into postfix-lite. That would be great, I have some servers wich sends nothing

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread LuKreme
On 28 May 2009, at 03:56, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ Would it be approriate to ask what the issues are with postfix's license? I hate to admit it, but I've never read it.

Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread Steve
On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 19:20 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: A machine name is required for several email-related Internet standards. No problem with this; Besides, having all DNS names resolve to the same box is not normal usage. This is nothing more than an opinion as far as I can tell. It may

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:41:30AM -0300, Marcio Merlone wrote: Wietse Venema escreveu: (...) Apart from that, if they come up with a decent MTA then I welcome some competition. More motivation for me to look into postfix-lite. That would be great, I have some

Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Steve: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 19:20 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: A machine name is required for several email-related Internet standards. No problem with this; Besides, having all DNS names resolve to the same box is not normal usage. This is nothing more than an opinion as far as I can

mail forwarding loop for sample.em...@firstdomain.com

2009-05-28 Thread admin2
Hi there, I am getting error messages for mail sent to sample.em...@firstdomain.com but in the /etc/postfix/aliases file I have an entry for sample.email to send to sample.em...@anotherdomain.com . why am I getting a forwarding loop. Status: 5.4.6 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail forwarding

Re: mail forwarding loop for sample.em...@firstdomain.com

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
admin2: Hi there, I am getting error messages for mail sent to sample.em...@firstdomain.com but in the /etc/postfix/aliases file I have an entry for sample.email to send to sample.em...@anotherdomain.com . why am I getting a forwarding loop. Status: 5.4.6 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix;

hostnames are not resolving

2009-05-28 Thread admin2
Hi there, I am finding log entries with all the connections from unknown why isnt the inverse hostname places in the postfix log? May 28 11:01:58 enabled postfix/smtpd[14960]: connect from unknown[88.252.82.203]

550 No such user here

2009-05-28 Thread admin2
Hi there, Okay the top 5 google hits could not answer this. how do I place a bounce mail message in the /etc/postfix/virtual file? Similar to a sendmail virtuser file? postmas...@domain.org error:nouser 550 No such user here

Re: hostnames are not resolving

2009-05-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 11:03 AM 5/28/2009, you wrote: Hi there, I am finding log entries with all the connections from unknown why isnt the inverse hostname places in the postfix log? May 28 11:01:58 enabled postfix/smtpd[14960]: connect from unknown[88.252.82.203] No reverse DNS for that IP address. #

Re: hostnames are not resolving

2009-05-28 Thread Corey Chandler
admin2 wrote: Hi there, I am finding log entries with all the connections from unknown why isnt the inverse hostname places in the postfix log? May 28 11:01:58 enabled postfix/smtpd[14960]: connect from unknown[88.252.82.203] DNS can't resolve that ip. I can't either-- I don't show that

temporary lookup failure

2009-05-28 Thread Jon Harris
Hi List A few of our clients use our postfix server for relaying. Generally, its working really well, but several users are reporting regular 451 Temporary Lookup Failure bounce errors. This is them sending outgoing (ie non-local domains) and domains that Postfix should be relaying for, in its

Re: hostnames are not resolving

2009-05-28 Thread admin2
Corey Chandler wrote: admin2 wrote: Hi there, I am finding log entries with all the connections from unknown why isnt the inverse hostname places in the postfix log? May 28 11:01:58 enabled postfix/smtpd[14960]: connect from unknown[88.252.82.203] DNS can't resolve that ip. I can't

Re: 550 No such user here

2009-05-28 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thu May 28 2009 13:08:00 admin2 wrote: Okay the top 5 google hits could not answer this. For good reason: you have not understood the issues. how do I place a bounce mail message in the /etc/postfix/virtual file? Similar to a sendmail virtuser file? What is your /etc/postfix/virtual

Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread Steve
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 11:42 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Steve: On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 19:20 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: A machine name is required for several email-related Internet standards. No problem with this; Besides, having all DNS names resolve to the same box is not normal

Re: temporary lookup failure

2009-05-28 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Jon Harris wrote: Hi List A few of our clients use our postfix server for relaying. Generally, its working really well, but several users are reporting regular 451 Temporary Lookup Failure bounce errors. This is them sending outgoing (ie non-local domains) and domains that Postfix should be

Re: Case sensitive oddity when mail delivered.

2009-05-28 Thread Rick
Following up on my previous posts, I'm still experiencing this issue of sometimes email being delivered as upper case (which ends up in the file system as upper case). I appreciate the guidance I've received, but I hate putting fixes in place without understanding what's broken. Empirical testing

RE: Sender address rewrite

2009-05-28 Thread Matt Ausmus
Sorry for taking so long. Here's the raw email file. Return-Path: kennedydhcp...@chapman.edu X-Original-To: maus...@chapman.edu Delivered-To: maus...@chapman.edu Received: from duncan-kennedydhcp146.chapman.edu (law254.chapman.edu [206.211.146.254]) by edric.chapman.edu (Postfix) with

Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread Scott Lewis
On May 28, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Steve wrote: Perhaps you can do the same to support your 1980's view of systems administration? You need to get some help with that temper of yours. It's the handrail of the crippled mind. I lurk more than post here mostly as a facet of being in awe of the

Re: Sender address rewrite

2009-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Matt Ausmus: I'm using postfix 2.3.3 on some Centos 5.x boxes strictly to send mail for alerting purposes. I've got relaying setup to go to our main smtp server which is running FreeBSD 6.x and postfix. What I'm trying to do is for the outgoing messages to show the hostn...@chapman.edu

Disabling a domain

2009-05-28 Thread Eduardo Júnior
Hi, I have a Postfix Server 2.4.0 with virtual domains and interface postfixadmin. I want disabling a domain through postfixadmin. There's the option ACTIVE. What this option do? Disable a domain, right? But internally, it just modify field active in the table domain in your database? And what

Re: Disabling a domain

2009-05-28 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Eduardo Júnior wrote: Hi, I have a Postfix Server 2.4.0 with virtual domains and interface postfixadmin. I want disabling a domain through postfixadmin. There's the option ACTIVE. What this option do? Disable a domain, right? But internally, it just modify field active in the table

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread mouss
LuKreme a écrit : On 28 May 2009, at 03:56, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ Would it be approriate to ask what the issues are with postfix's license? I hate to admit it, but I've never

Re: 550 No such user here

2009-05-28 Thread mouss
admin2 a écrit : Hi there, Okay the top 5 google hits could not answer this. how do I place a bounce mail message in the /etc/postfix/virtual file? Similar to a sendmail virtuser file? postmas...@domain.org error:nouser 550 No such user here you should not reject mail for

Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread mouss
Tim Legg a écrit : According to 'postconf -d', myhostname is set to genex.localdomain where genex is an arbitrary name I chose for a hostname when I installed Debian Lenny. When I look in /etc/postfix/main.cf, myhostname = genex.example1.com Is this a normal discrepancy? use 'postconf

RE: Sender address rewrite

2009-05-28 Thread Matt Ausmus
Thank you. I'll test this out. Matt Ausmus Network Administrator Chapman University 635 West Palm Street Orange, CA 92868 (714)628-2738 maus...@chapman.edu You can lead a horse to water, but if you can get him to float on his back, you've got something.

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread brian moore
On Thu, 28 May 2009 09:12:28 -0600 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: On 28 May 2009, at 03:56, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: Turns out Wietse was wrong: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334866/fffe7b1a0716c0e4/ Would it be approriate to ask what the issues are with

Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Roger Marquis
mouss wrote: but if you distribute a system that will be used by commercial vendors, things get different. and they are complex because it's not about your interpretation of the license, but about possible interpretations by the vendors/resellers/customers. Which is, interestingly enough, a

END OF THREAD: Re: nobody is going to write a new MTA

2009-05-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 07:00:43PM -0700, Roger Marquis wrote: mouss wrote: but if you distribute a system that will be used by commercial vendors, things get different. and they are complex because it's not about your interpretation of the license, but about possible interpretations by the

Re: Case sensitive oddity when mail delivered.

2009-05-28 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Rick wrote: Following up on my previous posts, I'm still experiencing this issue of sometimes email being delivered as upper case (which ends up in the file system as upper case). I appreciate the guidance I've received, but I hate putting fixes in place without

Re: Disabling a domain

2009-05-28 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Eduardo Júnior wrote: I have a Postfix Server 2.4.0 with virtual domains and interface postfixadmin. I want disabling a domain through postfixadmin. There's the option ACTIVE. What is your definition of 'disable' in this context? -- Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net

Re: Disabling a domain

2009-05-28 Thread Zhang Huangbin
Eduardo Júnior wrote: Hi, I have a Postfix Server 2.4.0 with virtual domains and interface postfixadmin. I want disabling a domain through postfixadmin. There's the option ACTIVE. You must query 'active' column in virtual domain lookup map. like this: query = SELECT domain FROM

Re: Case sensitive oddity when mail delivered.

2009-05-28 Thread postfix
At 10:14 PM 5/28/2009, Sahil Tandon wrote: Odd. I cannot reproduce that problem here, also using dovecot as virtual_transport. Just to be sure, you are passing at least the 'hu' flags to pipe(8) for dovecot's LDA, right? These two flags ensure case-folding, which local(8) does by default. I

Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread Steve
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:20 -0400, Scott Lewis wrote: On May 28, 2009, at 2:59 PM, Steve wrote: Perhaps you can do the same to support your 1980's view of systems administration? You need to get some help with that temper of yours. It's the handrail of the crippled mind. I lurk more

[ot / EOT] Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thu May 28 2009 23:21:06 Steve wrote: way of the 1980's 'is the law' that leads to entirely useless, rude and incorrect answers. Replied offlist. I think this thread should stop here. Thank you. -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless /dev/rob0 or not-spam is in Subject:

Re: [ot / EOT] Re: myhostname is different between postconf and main.cf

2009-05-28 Thread Steve
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 23:55 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Thu May 28 2009 23:21:06 Steve wrote: way of the 1980's 'is the law' that leads to entirely useless, rude and incorrect answers. Replied offlist. I think this thread should stop here. Thank you. And another 'anal' response it was too