Illegal seek

2009-10-06 Thread Steve Heaven
We have noticed several entries like: postfix/postdrop[5917]: warning: uid=0: Illegal seek in our logs. Is this anything we should be worried about? Thanks Steve -- thorNET Internet Services, Consultancy & Training www.thornet.co.uk

Feature Request

2009-10-06 Thread Phillip Smith
Where is the best place to file a feature request? I can't find anything on the website, although I may be a little slow in that regard!

Re: So--how do I set up localhost to not require authentication

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/6/2009 8:06 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Sahil Tandon wrote: Is the order significant, i.e. is permit_mynetworks, The order of restrictions is generally significant. permit_sasl_authenticated the same as permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks? No. The first example does not al

Re: So--how do I set up localhost to not require authentication

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
Sahil Tandon wrote: Is the order significant, i.e. is permit_mynetworks, The order of restrictions is generally significant. permit_sasl_authenticated the same as permit_sasl_authenticated,permit_mynetworks? No. The first example does not allow networks

Re: So--how do I set up localhost to not require authentication

2009-10-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Patrick Horgan wrote: > Noel Jones wrote: > ># main.cf > >mynetworks = 127.0.0.1 > > > >and everywhere that you have "permit_sasl_authenticated", make > >sure it now says "permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated". > Is the order significant, i.e. is permit_mynetworks, Th

Re: So--how do I set up localhost to not require authentication

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
Noel Jones wrote: # main.cf mynetworks = 127.0.0.1 and everywhere that you have "permit_sasl_authenticated", make sure it now says "permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated". Is the order significant, i.e. is permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated the same as permit_sasl_authenticat

Re: So--how do I set up localhost to not require authentication

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/6/2009 7:16 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: I'd like email from localhost to not require certificates or authentication--especially since we assume that people on the machine, or tunneling to the machine have already passed some level of authentication. How do I do it? Patrick # main.cf mynet

So--how do I set up localhost to not require authentication

2009-10-06 Thread Patrick Horgan
I'd like email from localhost to not require certificates or authentication--especially since we assume that people on the machine, or tunneling to the machine have already passed some level of authentication. How do I do it? Patrick

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-06 Thread Dave Täht
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes: > Dave T?ht: >> d...@teklibre.org (Dave T?ht) writes: >> >> One unanswered question from this series of emails: >> >> >> Dave Taht: >> > >> > Would you take a patch that would let a crazed administrator disable >> > *sending* mail on different protoco

Re: postfix mail.cf help please

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/6/2009 4:42 PM, Owen Townsend wrote: Hi postfix-users@postfix.org: Note - This email is same as prior email (subject mail.cf help please) - resending because I had not complete the list subscription process when I sent the 1st 1 (saw a note that said such emails would be ignored)

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rich Shepard put forth on 10/6/2009 4:38 PM: > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > >>>I want to examine delivered messages that contain >>> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" in the header. >> >> Basically that would be all messages... > > Ralf, > > I asked locally about that be

postfix mail.cf help please

2009-10-06 Thread Owen Townsend
Hi postfix-users@postfix.org: Note - This email is same as prior email (subject mail.cf help please) - resending because I had not complete the list subscription process when I sent the 1st 1 (saw a note that said such emails would be ignored) --- same as prior email (if y

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Wietse Venema wrote: Perhaps "warn" is not the right concept for inspecting mail. Options more directly related to mail inspection would be: holdFreeze the mail in the queue until acted upon. Frozen mail can be inspected with "postcat -q queueid", or deleted/requeued

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I want to examine delivered messages that contain "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" in the header. Basically that would be all messages... Ralf, I asked locally about that because much of the spam I receive is coded base64 while almost all

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Shepard: > The Postfix book tells me that using the WARN option on a restriction > (such as in the /etc/postfix/header_checks file) logs the warning while > delivering the message. However, there is apparently no marking of the > message so it's clearly identified as one that tripped that

Re: Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Rich Shepard : >The Postfix book tells me that using the WARN option on a restriction > (such as in the /etc/postfix/header_checks file) logs the warning while > delivering the message. However, there is apparently no marking of the > message so it's clearly identified as one that tripped tha

Using Postfix WARN Action Properly

2009-10-06 Thread Rich Shepard
The Postfix book tells me that using the WARN option on a restriction (such as in the /etc/postfix/header_checks file) logs the warning while delivering the message. However, there is apparently no marking of the message so it's clearly identified as one that tripped that warning. I want to

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Dave T?ht: > d...@teklibre.org (Dave T?ht) writes: > > One unanswered question from this series of emails: > > >> Dave Taht: > > > > Would you take a patch that would let a crazed administrator disable > > *sending* mail on different protocols? > > > > The simplest version would implement somethi

Re: Postfix 2.6.x slow

2009-10-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 05:17:54PM -0700, Eric Vaughn wrote: > Are there any new features to postfix 2.6.x that would cause it to be > slow? Eric your post premature. You don't yet have measurements showing Postfix 2.6 to be "slow". Lets get the volume comparisons, and tcpdump captures of both th

Re: Error message delivery status: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [207.xxx.xxx.xxx]

2009-10-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
Carl A jeptha kirjoitti: Some of our clients contacts are getting the above message. I have check the hostname and ip number and they do not correspond. Are we being to restrictive??? If required I will post my config file. You are rejecting clients with non working dns (A and PTR must point

Re: Error message delivery status: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [207.xxx.xxx.xxx]

2009-10-06 Thread Noel Jones
On 10/6/2009 10:58 AM, Carl A jeptha wrote: Some of our clients contacts are getting the above message. I have check the hostname and ip number and they do not correspond. Are we being to restrictive??? If you're rejecting mail you want, then you're being too restrictive. If required I wi

Re: Error message delivery status: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [207.xxx.xxx.xxx]

2009-10-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
Carl A jeptha kirjoitti: Some of our clients contacts are getting the above message. I have check the hostname and ip number and they do not correspond. Are we being to restrictive??? If required I will post my config file. Sounds like reverse problem in dns. Post your config file (postconf -

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-06 Thread Dave Täht
Stan Hoeppner writes: > Dave Täht put forth on 10/6/2009 10:02 AM: >> d...@teklibre.org (Dave Täht) writes: >> >> One unanswered question from this series of emails: >> Dave Taht: >>> Would you take a patch that would let a crazed administrator disable >>> *sending* mail on different proto

Error message delivery status: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [207.xxx.xxx.xxx]

2009-10-06 Thread Carl A jeptha
Some of our clients contacts are getting the above message. I have check the hostname and ip number and they do not correspond. Are we being to restrictive??? If required I will post my config file. -- You have a Good Day now, Carl A Jeptha http://www.airnet.ca Office Phone: 905 349-2084 Offi

ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dave Täht put forth on 10/6/2009 10:02 AM: > d...@teklibre.org (Dave Täht) writes: > > One unanswered question from this series of emails: > >>> Dave Taht: >> Would you take a patch that would let a crazed administrator disable >> *sending* mail on different protocols? >> >> The simplest version

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-06 Thread Dave Täht
d...@teklibre.org (Dave Täht) writes: One unanswered question from this series of emails: >> Dave Taht: > > Would you take a patch that would let a crazed administrator disable > *sending* mail on different protocols? > > The simplest version would implement something like: > > smtp_try_sendproto

Re: ipv6 and smart(er) relaying

2009-10-06 Thread Dave Täht
wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes: > Dave T?ht: >> wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) writes: >> >> > Dave Taht: >> >> So what I think I want to do is setup fallback relaying as follows: >> >> >> >> MX 5 mylaptop.example.org # if my laptop's up send mail there >> >> MX 10 mytinyarmb

Re: Postfix 2.6.x slow

2009-10-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Eric Vaughn: > The list of changes (we upgraded a spare server to swap in as a replacement): > OLD NEW > Centos 5.0. Centos 5.3 (yum update all) > i386. x64 > 2.4 ghrz cpu. 2.83 ghrz cpu > 4 gigs ram. 4 gigs ram > Op

Re: Postfix 2.6.x slow

2009-10-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Eric Vaughn put forth on 10/5/2009 7:17 PM: > Are there any new features to postfix 2.6.x that would cause it to be slow? > > Other than the obvious suspects; stress adaptive behavior, logging, > ulimit (running out of file descriptors). > > We are a very high volume site, we use postfix only as