Re: mutt headers and postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Joerg Thuemmler
Noel Jones schrieb: Joerg Thuemmler wrote: Hi, im using postfix as mta for automatic mail sending out of our db. All db users a logged in as the same (linux) user, as it's a terminal based system. So a created mail has usually db_user@domain.tld from and return-path headers. Of course

RE: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread lars.ringh
-Original Message- I'm considering FreeBSD as an alternative, but I was wondering what people think of FreeBSD as a platform for Postfix. It's obviously not as easy to maintain as Ubuntu, but it does have a reputation for stability. Any thoughts, recommendations or experiences would

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Stefan Förster
* Guy wyldf...@gmail.com: I'm considering FreeBSD as an alternative, but I was wondering what people think of FreeBSD as a platform for Postfix. It's obviously not as easy to maintain as Ubuntu, but it does have a reputation for stability. Any thoughts, recommendations or experiences would be

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Guy
Thanks for all the input. Now that I know so many people are happy with FreeBSD as a base for their Postfix machines I'll definitely be having a look at it as a possibility for the future. Thanks again. Guy -- Don't just do something...sit there!

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Mikael Bak
Stefan Förster wrote: The documentation at http://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html#4 mentions that earlier versions of Postfix were supported on FreeBSD 2.x to 5.x. I think it's very likely that you can run recent Postfix versions on newer FreeBSD releases, too. Ack, I have FreeBSD 7.1

mysql query failed on non-existent mail address

2009-08-18 Thread Adrian Dinu
Hello, I have the following problem with my postfix configuration: If i send an email from gmail to a valid mailbox / alias on my server it works fine: Aug 18 10:57:52 server postfix/smtpd[17528]: connect from mail-bw0-f205.google.com[209.85.218.205] Aug 18 10:57:52 server postfix/smtpd[17528]:

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Erwan David
Mikael Bak wrote: Stefan Förster wrote: The documentation at http://www.postfix.org/INSTALL.html#4 mentions that earlier versions of Postfix were supported on FreeBSD 2.x to 5.x. I think it's very likely that you can run recent Postfix versions on newer FreeBSD releases, too. Ack, I

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Jordi Espasa Clofent
* Guy wyldf...@gmail.com: I'm considering FreeBSD as an alternative, but I was wondering what people think of FreeBSD as a platform for Postfix. It's obviously not as easy to maintain as Ubuntu, but it does have a reputation for stability. Any thoughts, recommendations or experiences would be

Re: Content checking - bulk emails

2009-08-18 Thread Barney Desmond
2009/8/18 Jaroslaw Grzabel ja...@meil.me: I'm wondering is there any way to configure postfix, to check content of messages which contains ... let say more than 10 recipients, scan those and check contents in looking for un.sub.scribe link (or particular words) and if found pass messages if

Re: postfix terminating on signal 15

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Jeroen van Aart wrote: Wietse Venema wrote: It's unprodictive to kill off Postfix under overload. At the very least you should increase your 35-second deadline. Yes I did increase it to 120 seconds. I understand just killing and restarting postfix is not a solution. As a test I switched

Re: postfix terminating on signal 15

2009-08-18 Thread Wietse Venema
Jeroen van Aart: Aug 15 02:55:06 prod101 postfix/master[9402]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/qmgr pid 9582 exit status 1 Good. Now look for error/fatal/warning loggings BEFORE this record. Wietse http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#logging Look for obvious signs of trouble

Re: mysql query failed on non-existent mail address

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Adrian Dinu wrote: Problem is when i send an email to an alias or mailbox that is not valid in my database: Aug 18 10:56:20 server postfix/smtpd[17528]: connect from mail-bw0-f205.google.com http://mail-bw0-f205.google.com[209.85.218.205] Aug 18 10:56:20 server postfix/smtpd[17528]: warning:

test

2009-08-18 Thread Hilel New
I can't submit to this list

Re: test

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/18/2009 9:42 AM, Hilel New wrote: I can't submit to this list You just did... -- Best regards, Charles

Re: Notification of non-delivery

2009-08-18 Thread Wietse Venema
Eduardo J?nior: and I have some doubts. This: With Postfix 2.4 and later, a message is returned as either message/rfc822 (the complete original) or as text/rfc822-headers (the headers only) does means that if my postifxis 2.4 the body of the message sent doesn't included in the bounce

Re: sending large number of emails

2009-08-18 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Hilel New hile...@gmail.com: I am looking for reading material about sending bulk mail. Tips and tricks, things to avoid, etc. Can you recommend one? Use a MLM (like Mailman) Use VERP Read

Re: 450 temp error when 550 perm error is possible

2009-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 17-Aug-2009, at 03:25, Martijn de Munnik wrote: The 450 error triggers the spammer to retry sending the mail. In point of fact, if it is a spammer sending you the mail, a 450 error is often enough to dissuade them. This is the principle behind greylisting. However, if these are real

Re: test

2009-08-18 Thread LuKreme
On 18-Aug-2009, at 07:42, Hilel New wrote: I can't submit to this list LIES! -- When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

RBLS and Hangup

2009-08-18 Thread LuKreme
After reading (and implementing) http://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html#hangup I was wondering if there is any reason not to extend this behavior to 127.0.0.4-8 (the XBL)? Also, why would I want: 8 rbl_reply_maps = ${stress?hash:/etc/postfix/rbl_reply_maps} Is there a reason I would

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2009-08-18 Thread Len Conrad
mail_version = 2.3.3 postconf | egrep virtual_alias_maps proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps, $mydestination, $virtual_alias_maps, $virtual_alias_domains, $virtual_mailbox_maps, $virtual_mailbox_domains, $relay_recipient_maps, $relay_domains, $canonical_maps, $sender_canonical_maps,

strange virtual alias problem

2009-08-18 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com Reply-To: lcon...@go2france.com Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:08:59 +0200 mail_version = 2.3.3 postconf | egrep virtual_alias_maps proxy_read_maps = $local_recipient_maps, $mydestination,

Re: RBLS and Hangup

2009-08-18 Thread Noel Jones
LuKreme wrote: After reading (and implementing) http://www.postfix.org/STRESS_README.html#hangup I was wondering if there is any reason not to extend this behavior to 127.0.0.4-8 (the XBL)? Also, why would I want: 8 rbl_reply_maps = ${stress?hash:/etc/postfix/rbl_reply_maps} Is there a

combine permit_sasl_authenticated with check_sender_access

2009-08-18 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
Hi, i'd like to protect some internal accounts as described at http://www.postfix.org/RESTRICTION_CLASS_README.html Currently, I have the following setup: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining permit_inet_interfaces permit_sasl_authenticated reject_non_fqdn_hostname

Re: strange virtual alias problem

2009-08-18 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Brian Evans - Postfix List grkni...@scent-team.com Reply-To: Postfix users postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:58:43 -0400 Len Conrad wrote: -- Original Message -- From:

Re: postfix terminating on signal 15

2009-08-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: This is the real problem. Search the logs just before this for a qmgr[9582] (error|fatal|panic). Thanks for the pointer. I don't find any indication that qmgr was having a problem, below are the last log entries: Aug 15 02:08:31 prod101 postfix/qmgr[9582]:

Re: strange virtual alias problem

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Len Conrad wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Brian Evans - Postfix List grkni...@scent-team.com Reply-To: Postfix users postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:58:43 -0400 Len Conrad wrote: -- Original Message

Re: RBLS and Hangup

2009-08-18 Thread Noel Jones
LuKreme wrote: On 18-Aug-2009, at 10:42, Noel Jones wrote: The STRESS_README was written before postfix supported 521 as a hangup action, so yes, it's reasonable to disconnect after any RBL hit during stress. I am somewhat hesitant to recommend using 521 as your standard RBL reject code

Re: combine permit_sasl_authenticated with check_sender_access

2009-08-18 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Stephan A. Rickauer stephan.ricka...@startek.ch: Hi, i'd like to protect some internal accounts as described at http://www.postfix.org/RESTRICTION_CLASS_README.html Currently, I have the following setup: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining

Re: RBLS and Hangup

2009-08-18 Thread d . hill
Quoting LuKreme krem...@kreme.com: On 18-Aug-2009, at 10:42, Noel Jones wrote: The STRESS_README was written before postfix supported 521 as a hangup action, so yes, it's reasonable to disconnect after any RBL hit during stress. I am somewhat hesitant to recommend using 521 as your

Re: postfix terminating on signal 15

2009-08-18 Thread Wietse Venema
Jeroen van Aart: That's it until Aug 15 02:55:06 prod101 postfix/master[9402]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/qmgr pid 9582 exit status 1 I don't think so. Instead of YOU filtering by hand a long file, let the COMPUTER do the work for you: egrep '(warning|error|fatal|panic):'

Re: postfix performance

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Mark Johnson wrote: Here is the postconf -n [r...@mail postfix]# postconf -n This seems fine, mostly using defaults. Can you please provide a non-verbose, log of a mail transaction you feel is affected? Barney had mentioned this too and it is quite important. Do you have a DNS caching

Re: postfix performance

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
I spoke too soon Mark Johnson wrote: hopcount_limit = 500 This seems a bit unreasonable due to this exists to stop mail loops and overload. The default of 50 works in many, many situations. maximal_queue_lifetime = 5h Why so short? This can generate many, many bounces due to

safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread Robert Lopez
Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. I have removed one email gateway running postfix from the MX records for our college. It still has a few hundred mail in the queues and some spam is still coming in. What is the best way to stop the incoming email and allow the

Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: safe way to retire postfix gateway From: Robert Lopez rlopez...@gmail.com To: Postfix users postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:52:11 PM Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. I have removed one

Re: Looking for opinions on FreeBSD OS for Postfix

2009-08-18 Thread Charles Sprickman
This is probably drifting off-topic, but I have a few questions regarding your setup... On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: 85.000 aprox. mail account here (spanish web-hosting company) using: * 25 FreeBSD 7.x as reception-only mailservers (3500 accounts per server aprox) * 3

Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread Blake Hudson
What about adding this to main.cf?: inet_interfaces = loopback-only I believe that that would work as well. Basically, the idea is to cut off outside access to postfix so that new messages don't get in the queue. Simultaneously, postfix is attempting to empty the queue as normal.

Re: postfix terminating on signal 15

2009-08-18 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Wietse Venema wrote: I don't think so. Instead of YOU filtering by hand a long file, let the COMPUTER do the work for you: egrep '(warning|error|fatal|panic):' /the/log/file | grep qmgr I read the links provided and that's what I did. I filtered by hand first and then grepped the logs to

Re: sending large number of emails

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Ralf Hildebrandt a écrit : * Hilel New hile...@gmail.com: I am looking for reading material about sending bulk mail. Tips and tricks, things to avoid, etc. Can you recommend one? Use a MLM (like Mailman) Use VERP Read

Re: mysql query failed on non-existent mail address

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Adrian Dinu a écrit : Hello, I have the following problem with my postfix configuration: [snip] Aug 18 10:56:20 server postfix/smtpd[17528]: warning: mysql query failed: Unknown column 'email' in 'where clause' it said: unknown column. you're asking postfix to use a column that does not

Re: postfix + procmail master.cf question

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Jeff Lacki a écrit : Im having problems with the mail file being produced when I setup procmail + postfix: Ive setup global procmail with the following in my master.cf file: procmail unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRX user=jeff argv=/usr/bin/procmail -t -o

Re: Content checking - bulk emails

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Jaroslaw Grzabel a écrit : Hi guys, I'm wondering is there any way to configure postfix, to check content of messages which contains ... let say more than 10 recipients, scan those and check contents in looking for un.sub.scribe link (or particular words) and if found pass messages if not

Re: safe way to retire postfix gateway

2009-08-18 Thread mouss
Robert Lopez a écrit : Having built new email gateways, it is time to retire the old ones. I have removed one email gateway running postfix from the MX records for our college. It still has a few hundred mail in the queues and some spam is still coming in. What is the best way to stop