Re: Rules on incoming email

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jos Chrispijn put forth on 9/19/2010 11:11 AM: I have this email client that takes care of distrubition of email to different mail folders. As I now started to read my email with a mobile phone, there is a load of messages that aren't sorted, as my 'home client' hasn't taken care of that.

Maximum Concurrent Connections

2010-09-20 Thread Avinash Pawar // Viva
Hi, I want to know how we can increase the maximum number of concurrent connections. So please tell me at what extent I can increase value and where it is stored? -- Incase of any further queries, Please feel free to mail me or contact me on the numbers provided below. Thanks Regards,

Re: Maximum Concurrent Connections

2010-09-20 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Avinash Pawar // Viva avin...@vivainfomedia.com: Hi, I want to know how we can increase the maximum number of concurrent connections. So please tell me at what extent I can increase value and where it is stored? Have a look for default_process_limit

SPF Softfail question

2010-09-20 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
Hi All, Not really Postfix related, but maybe you can share your thoughts... Received a mail today from a user that sent a e-mail which immediately bounced.. The bounce message said: host bla.bla.bla[xxx.xxx.xxx] said: 550-SPF check SOFT fail. Your are not allowed to send mail from 550

Re: SPF Softfail question

2010-09-20 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 20 September 2010 14:18:16 Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: Not really Postfix related, but maybe you can share your thoughts... Definitely not Postfix related. As far as I understand from the whole SPF perspective, shouldn't a Soft Fail be a 4** error and re-try,

Re: SPF Softfail question

2010-09-20 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/20/2010 09:29 AM, Simon Waters wrote: On Monday 20 September 2010 14:18:16 Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: Not really Postfix related, but maybe you can share your thoughts... Definitely not Postfix related. As far as I understand from the whole SPF perspective, shouldn't

Re: Rules on incoming email

2010-09-20 Thread Jorge Armando Medina
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Sun, 2010-09-19 at 18:11 +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have this email client that takes care of distrubition of email to different mail folders. As I now started to read my email with a mobile phone, there is a load of messages that aren't sorted, as my

Re: Rules on incoming email

2010-09-20 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 20-9-2010 9:11, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I was in a similar situation not long ago using TBird rules to do my message sorting into IMAP folders. When accessing my mail vi my Roundcube webmail server nothing was sorted. I grew tired of this. I was already using Dovecot for my IMAP server, so I

Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory before it acknowledges successful receipt of an email? -- Yang Zhang http://yz.mit.edu/

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Yang Zhang: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? This is required by internet mail RFC and therefore not configurable. Wietse E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory before it acknowledges successful receipt of an email?

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/20/2010 08:37 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory No, but it does guarantee durability from the receiving SMTP session to the delivering process. This CAN be

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

2010-09-20 Thread Brian Pribis
Ok, let me do this another way, since I'm clearly not understanding how this is suppose to work. I read: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_REWRITING_README.html#virtual Am I understanding this correctly? If I put addr...@virtual_domain m...@gmail.com Shouldn't it simply forward email from the

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: On 09/20/2010 08:37 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory No, but it does guarantee durability from

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
Can you pinpoint the exact RFC section you're referring to? Thanks. On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Yang Zhang: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? This is required by internet mail RFC and therefore not configurable.    

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Yang Zhang: Just to be clear, if I have this Maildir in my mailbox postmap: j...@mydomain.com joe/ and most other settings are the Ubuntu 10.04 postfix defaults, then postfix will have done an fsync by the time the 250 OK: queued as 12345 comes back, such that if I then immediately

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Yang Zhang: Can you pinpoint the exact RFC section you're referring to? Thanks. I will give you as home work to study the following documents: RFC 821 RFC 2821 RFC 5321 These have lots of other good stuff about Internet mail. Wietse On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Wietse Venema

Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread bper
Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see a lot of 'relaying denied', 'noqueue reject', 'too many errors

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread Matt Hayes
On 9/20/2010 4:29 PM, bper wrote: Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see a lot of 'relaying

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Yang Zhang: Can you pinpoint the exact RFC section you're referring to? Thanks. I will give you as home work to study the following documents: RFC 821 RFC 2821 RFC 5321 These have lots of other good stuff about

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bper put forth on 9/20/2010 3:29 PM: Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see a lot of 'relaying

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Yang Zhang
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Yang Zhang: Just to be clear, if I have this Maildir in my mailbox postmap:   j...@mydomain.com joe/ and most other settings are the Ubuntu 10.04 postfix defaults, then postfix will have done an fsync by the time

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread Noel Jones
On 9/20/2010 3:29 PM, bper wrote: Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working OK. The only thing is that when I view my logs, I see a lot of 'relaying denied',

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Yang Zhang yanghates...@gmail.com: No. Postfix replies 250 OK: queued as 12345 when the message is QUEUED. Doesn't this contradict your original reply that durability is guaranteed? If there's no fsync, then the message may not have been persisted to non-volatile storage, and will be

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Yang Zhang put forth on 9/20/2010 3:46 PM: On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Yang Zhang: Can you pinpoint the exact RFC section you're referring to? Thanks. I will give you as home work to study the following documents: RFC 821 RFC 2821 RFC 5321

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralf Hildebrandt: * Yang Zhang yanghates...@gmail.com: No. Postfix replies 250 OK: queued as 12345 when the message is QUEUED. Doesn't this contradict your original reply that durability is guaranteed? If there's no fsync, then the message may not have been persisted to non-volatile

transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Curtis
In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] ...and the customer uses round robin dns for mail.customer.domain so that it points to multiple IPs like this: mail.customer.domain. 900 IN A

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] ...and the customer uses round robin dns for mail.customer.domain so that it points to multiple IPs like

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:10:49AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] ...and the customer uses round robin dns

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/21/2010 12:52 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:10:49AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:56:14AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: Yes, when traffic to the destination is light (message deliveries are spaced multiple seconds or more apart) or is very heavy (message deliveries are many in each interval equal to the delivery of a single message). When traffic

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Victor Duchovni put forth on 9/20/2010 6:01 PM: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:56:14AM +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: Yes, when traffic to the destination is light (message deliveries are spaced multiple seconds or more apart) or is very heavy (message deliveries are many in each interval equal to

Re: transport_maps and round robin dns

2010-09-20 Thread Curtis
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM, Jeroen Geilman jer...@adaptr.nl wrote: On 09/21/2010 12:07 AM, Curtis wrote: In the case where transport_maps is used to designate the next hop destination of a message like this: customer.domain smtp:[mail.customer.domain] ...and the customer uses round

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread mouss
Le 20/09/2010 22:46, Yang Zhang a écrit : On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Wietse Venemawie...@porcupine.org wrote: Yang Zhang: Can you pinpoint the exact RFC section you're referring to? Thanks. I will give you as home work to study the following documents: RFC 821 RFC 2821 RFC 5321

Re: Can postfix guarantee durability (fsync)?

2010-09-20 Thread mouss
Le 20/09/2010 21:15, Yang Zhang a écrit : On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Jeroen Geilmanjer...@adaptr.nl wrote: On 09/20/2010 08:37 PM, Yang Zhang wrote: Can postfix be configured to guarantee durable email receipt? E.g., can it be sure to fsync the mbox/Maildir file and/or directory

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

2010-09-20 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:15:37PM -0400, Brian Pribis wrote: If I put addr...@virtual_domain m...@gmail.com Shouldn't it simply forward email from the first address to my gmail account? Yes. What happens is the mail does go to gmail but if I hit reply it tries to mail back to

Re: Please Help Me Secure My Mail Server

2010-09-20 Thread fakessh
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:56:35 -0500, Noel Jones njo...@megan.vbhcs.org wrote: On 9/20/2010 3:29 PM, bper wrote: Hello, I have set up a postfix-dovecot server with smtp-auth using sasl by following this link: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html It seems to be working