What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I have to setup a virtual postfix server and I wonder what would be the best / most efficient choice for the DB backend ? The server will be a small one supporting approx 1000 mailboxes the machine is a virtual one hosted at OVH (France) running Ubuntu 10.4 LTS with 4 Gb of dedicated

Re: What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Hello I have to setup a virtual postfix server and I wonder what would be the best / most efficient choice for the DB backend ? The server will be a small one supporting approx 1000 mailboxes the machine is a virtual one hosted at OVH (France) running

Re: What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread postfix
Hi Frank this may depend on admin tools you need/have to maintain your background DB. Because we in our domain have an LDAP-Web Client , we chose LDAP as backgroung DB. Others may have sofisticated MySQL clients, which makes them choose MySQL as background DB. suomi On 2011-11-16 10:03,

Re: What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Le 11/16/2011 10:20 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit : Zitat von Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Hello I have to setup a virtual postfix server and I wonder what would be the best / most efficient choice for the DB backend ? The server will be a small one supporting approx 1000 mailboxes the

Re: What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Le 11/16/2011 10:20 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit : Zitat von Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Hello I have to setup a virtual postfix server and I wonder what would be the best / most efficient choice for the DB backend ? The server will be a

Re: What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread Frank Bonnet
Le 11/16/2011 11:00 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit : Zitat von Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Le 11/16/2011 10:20 AM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit : Zitat von Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr: Hello I have to setup a virtual postfix server and I wonder what would be the best / most

Postfix ignores mydestination

2011-11-16 Thread Denis Witt
Hi, I'm using Postfix 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 with OpenLDAP. Everything works fine except one thing. If I send an E-Mail to $myname@$nonlocaldomain.com it's delivered to my local postbox. This becomes a major problem when you need to send E-Mails to role-accounts like abuse, postmaster or info. ;)

Re: Postfix ignores mydestination

2011-11-16 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-11-16 6:57 AM, Denis Witt denis.w...@concepts-and-training.de wrote: Hi, I'm using Postfix 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 with OpenLDAP. Everything works fine except one thing. If I send an E-Mail to $myname@$nonlocaldomain.com it's delivered to my local postbox. This becomes a major problem when

STARTTLS problem with Lotus Domino v8.5.1 - Domino as a client fails to send own certificate

2011-11-16 Thread gmx Ralf Hauser
Hi, In our postfix server, we see SSL_accept error from hgrs-mail01.hgrs.tld.dom[161.x.y.z]: 0 Nov 16 08:54:52 postfix2cc/smtpd[18662]: warning: TLS library problem: 18662:error:140943E8:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:reason(1000):s3_pkt.c:1053:SSL alert number 0: This error message apparently

Re: Postfix ignores mydestination

2011-11-16 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/16/2011 5:57 AM, Denis Witt wrote: Hi, I'm using Postfix 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 with OpenLDAP. Everything works fine except one thing. If I send an E-Mail to $myname@$nonlocaldomain.com it's delivered to my local postbox. This becomes a major problem when you need to send E-Mails to

postfix multiple instances

2011-11-16 Thread Amira Othman
Hi all I am using postfix 2.8 and I have configured two postfix instances. I want to display ip of sending domain in log . I tried smtp_bind_address but this didn't work. Any suggestions about this ? Regards

Re: postfix multiple instances

2011-11-16 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/16/2011 7:07 AM, Amira Othman wrote: Hi all I am using postfix 2.8 and I have configured two postfix instances. I want to display ip of sending domain in log . I tried smtp_bind_address but this didn’t work. Any suggestions about this ? Regards Postfix does not log the

Re: Postfix ignores mydestination

2011-11-16 Thread Denis Witt
On 16.11.2011 13:54, Noel Jones wrote: One of your LDAP lookups is broken, matching more than it should. Test your lookups with postmap -q myn...@nonlocal.example.com ldap:table to find what's returning an answer when it shouldn't. Hi Noel, thanks for the hint. Now it's working. Best

Re: What DB would you choose for a (small) virtual server ?

2011-11-16 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 03:03:42 Frank Bonnet wrote: I have to setup a virtual postfix server and I wonder what would be the best / most efficient choice for the DB backend ? Best is subjective. All choices have good and bad points. Local files, however, have the advantage of not relying

more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
Hi, I'd like to have an ACCEPT action for *header_checks and body_checks. This was requested before: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-02/1116.html I've read the replies in that thread, and I continue to think that adding an ACCEPT action for *header_checks and body_checks is

Re: postfix multiple instances

2011-11-16 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 2011-11-16 15:43, Amira Othman wrote: How can I separate logs of the instances to be different files? Postfix logs to syslog; where these logs end up is not under postfix's control. -- J.

Re: postfix multiple instances

2011-11-16 Thread /dev/rob0
Please stop top-posting. Thank you. On Wednesday 16 November 2011 08:43:49 Amira Othman wrote: How can I separate logs of the instances to be different files? You asked this last week, on Thursday. Brian and I answered you. -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless /dev/rob0

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/16/2011 8:32 AM, Solar Designer wrote: Hi, I'd like to have an ACCEPT action for *header_checks and body_checks. This was requested before: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-02/1116.html I've read the replies in that thread, and I continue to think that adding

Re: Special character in email ID

2011-11-16 Thread Justin
Any one ? If virtual_users contains the following entry, what will be the postmap query to retrieve the value pair? I know postfix is RFC822 compliant as well this email ID, so i'm confident some genius will come up with a suitable query to retrieve the value. virtual_users

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:36:21AM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: On 11/16/2011 8:32 AM, Solar Designer wrote: I'd like to have an ACCEPT action for *header_checks and body_checks. This was requested before: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-02/1116.html I've read the

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 10:06:36 Solar Designer wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 09:36:21AM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: If you need more fine-grained control, use eg. SpamAssassin. I don't feel that whitelisting of PGP-encrypted messages is more fine-grained than the kind of blacklisting

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Solar Designer: [on whitelisting] State, including what message the line belongs to, is not saved between lines. Adding any kind of whole-message action would require major changes to the way cleanup works, and is unlikely to happen anytime soon. I admit I'm not familiar with the

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wednesday 16 November 2011 10:39:00 I wrote: A single reject action anywhere before acceptance causes the mail to be rejected. Numerous permit (or dunno) actions are required for acceptance; one per restriction stage, one per each header evaluated in header_checks(5), one for each line in

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2011 10:06:36 Solar Designer wrote: I admit I'm not familiar with the code and I haven't tried to implement ACCEPT yet, but aren't DISCARD and REJECT also whole-message actions? Is ACCEPT somehow very

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:48:34AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: ACCEPT is simply to explain only if it disables all further checks. Things become messy otherwise. Maybe we should call it other than ACCEPT, then - to make it clear that other restrictions elsewhere may still reject the message?

Postfix Wildcard email forwarding

2011-11-16 Thread Mark2
Hi all, I google and couldn't find any answer about how to configurate the postfix to forward wildcard emails to anther email account. I cannot use catchall account because I have 3 seperate email accounts to deal with different bounced email purpose. I tried the alias and didn't work.

Re: Postfix Wildcard email forwarding

2011-11-16 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 16/11/11 18:07, Mark2 wrote: That's what I would like to do: _re...@mymail.com -- re...@mymail.com _nore...@mymail.com -- nore...@mymail.com xxx_s...@mymail.com -- s...@mymail.com Is this format of the address a strict requirement? Otherwise, you can have them in the format

good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Bromberg
Greetings All, I am looking for the best way to do online/offsite, automated, nightly, incremental file backup for my mail server. This is admittedly a tangential topic, but I know the users here will have good insights (or at least send me in the right direction). Hoping for maybe 5

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.11.2011 18:17, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: Greetings All, I am looking for the best way to do online/offsite, automated, nightly, incremental file backup for my mail server. these days i would go ahead and move the mailserver on a VMware-vCenter and with the essentials-plus license you

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Solar Designer: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Wednesday 16 November 2011 10:06:36 Solar Designer wrote: I admit I'm not familiar with the code and I haven't tried to implement ACCEPT yet, but aren't DISCARD and REJECT also whole-message actions? Is

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Donny Brooks
We use backuppc from backuppc.sf.net for all of our backup needs. We have 6TB of storage notched out for this and here are the specs as of today: BackupPC: Host Summary This status was generated at 11/16 11:54. Pool file system was recently at 94% (11/16 11:46), todays max is 94%

openspf.org

2011-11-16 Thread David Mehler
Hello, I'm trying to get spf going on my arch postfix server. I'm wanting to get perl-policyd-spf going and am atempting to download the needed source. The issue is openspf.org appears down, anyone know why or if there's an alternative download available? Thanks. Dave.

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Solar Designer: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:48:34AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: ACCEPT is simply to explain only if it disables all further checks. Things become messy otherwise. Maybe we should call it other than ACCEPT, then - to make it clear that other restrictions elsewhere may still

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Bromberg
On 11/16/2011 12:49 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.11.2011 18:17, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: Greetings All, I am looking for the best way to do online/offsite, automated, nightly, incremental file backup for my mail server. these days i would go ahead and move the mailserver on a VMware-vCenter

Re: openspf.org

2011-11-16 Thread John Roman
unfortunately this has happened before :( http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/spf/help/34195 On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, David Mehler wrote: Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:01:33 -0500 From: David Mehler dave.meh...@gmail.com To: Postfix users postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: openspf.org Hello,

Re: openspf.org

2011-11-16 Thread Simon Brereton
On 16 November 2011 13:01, David Mehler dave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get spf going on my arch postfix server. I'm wanting to get perl-policyd-spf going and am atempting to download the needed source. The issue is openspf.org appears down, anyone know why or if there's an

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 16.11.2011 19:04, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: and making a restore request goes to their sysadmin ticketing system and takes days and days. :-( if this happens they are not useable for any business i fear you will get no hosting with direct access to the VMware-level because this would mean

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Bromberg
On 11/16/2011 1:16 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.11.2011 19:04, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: and making a restore request goes to their sysadmin ticketing system and takes days and days. :-( if this happens they are not useable for any business i fear you will get no hosting with direct access

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Martin Schütte
On 11/16/11 18:17, Daniel Bromberg wrote: I was wondering what data backup systems people use? I found that filesystem snapshots are the easiest solution. Depending on disk space I keep several snapshots around and at night one is used for an incremental backup with dump(8). -- Martin

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Bromberg
On 11/16/2011 1:36 PM, Martin Schütte wrote: On 11/16/11 18:17, Daniel Bromberg wrote: I was wondering what data backup systems people use? I found that filesystem snapshots are the easiest solution. Depending on disk space I keep several snapshots around and at night one is used for an

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Reid Thompson
may be of interest. works with postfix http://archiveopteryx.org/postfix

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread John Hinton
On 11/16/2011 1:36 PM, Martin Schütte wrote: On 11/16/11 18:17, Daniel Bromberg wrote: I was wondering what data backup systems people use? I found that filesystem snapshots are the easiest solution. Depending on disk space I keep several snapshots around and at night one is used for an

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
Wietse, Thank you for your comments and explanation! On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:04:10PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: I must confess that I no longer understand what the purpose is of ACCEPT in header_checks, if the purpose is other than skipping all further lookups of all header_checks tables.

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Daniel Bromberg dan...@basezen.com: On 11/16/2011 12:49 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.11.2011 18:17, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: Greetings All, I am looking for the best way to do online/offsite, automated, nightly, incremental file backup for my mail server. these days i would go

Re: good data backup system for a mail server?

2011-11-16 Thread Daniel Bromberg
On 11/16/2011 3:40 PM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Daniel Bromberg dan...@basezen.com: On 11/16/2011 12:49 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 16.11.2011 18:17, schrieb Daniel Bromberg: Greetings All, I am looking for the best way to do online/offsite, automated, nightly, incremental

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Solar Designer: Wietse, Thank you for your comments and explanation! On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:04:10PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: I must confess that I no longer understand what the purpose is of ACCEPT in header_checks, if the purpose is other than skipping all further lookups of

Re: Postfix Wildcard email forwarding

2011-11-16 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 2011-11-16 18:07, Mark2 wrote: Hi all, I google and couldn't find any answer about how to configurate the postfix to forward wildcard emails to anther email account. I cannot use catchall account because I have 3 seperate email accounts to deal with different bounced email purpose. I tried

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:11:17PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: As I explained in a different response, there is no this table concept outside the low-level (pcre, hash, etc.) table itself. At higher levels, there is a lookup result without source attribution. Considering Postfix's drive to

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Wietse Venema
Solar Designer: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:11:17PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: As I explained in a different response, there is no this table concept outside the low-level (pcre, hash, etc.) table itself. At higher levels, there is a lookup result without source attribution.

Re: more actions for *header_checks/body_checks

2011-11-16 Thread Solar Designer
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:02:03PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: Solar Designer: OK. I took a look at the code and I see those difficulties now. How about something like the attached patch? It's totally untested other than that it compiles, and it's probably wrong (especially considering

Increasing number of connections?

2011-11-16 Thread Alex
Hi, I built a dual-Xeon quad-core box with 8GB using fedora15 and postfix-v2.8.5 and during various times during the day connections to port 25 timeout or are very slow. The majority of times this happens is under peak loads, but even times when it's not at capacity it may do this. I have a

Re: Increasing number of connections?

2011-11-16 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/16/2011 7:56 PM, Alex wrote: Hi, I built a dual-Xeon quad-core box with 8GB using fedora15 and postfix-v2.8.5 and during various times during the day connections to port 25 timeout or are very slow. The majority of times this happens is under peak loads, but even times when it's not at

Re: openspf.org

2011-11-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
On 11/16/2011 01:01 PM, David Mehler wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get spf going on my arch postfix server. I'm wanting to get perl-policyd-spf going and am atempting to download the needed source. The issue is openspf.org appears down, anyone know why or if there's an alternative download

Re: STARTTLS problem with Lotus Domino v8.5.1 - Domino as a client fails to send own certificate

2011-11-16 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:27:29PM +0100, gmx Ralf Hauser wrote: Any hints how to do a client certificate authentication TLS-handshake between IBM's v8.51 as the client and postfix/openssl on the server side would be highly appreciated. If you want to validate client certs, you have to ask

Re: Increasing number of connections?

2011-11-16 Thread Alex
Hi, I built a dual-Xeon quad-core box with 8GB using fedora15 and postfix-v2.8.5 and during various times during the day connections to port 25 timeout or are very slow. The majority of times this happens is under peak loads, but even times when it's not at capacity it may do this. Often