Re: postgrey vs postscreen

2012-05-02 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 01.05.2012 21:14, schrieb Postfix Support Mail: I'm currently running postgrey, but a recent thread here got me thinking about postscreen, which I hadn't considered before. What are the pros and cons of one versus the other? Are there advantages of one over the other for a given

multiple check_helo_access

2012-05-02 Thread Marko Weber
hello, is there any benefit of multiple check_helo_access? i see in some configs check_helo_access is in smtpd_helo- smtpd_sender- smtpd_recipient_restrictions. my understanding is that check_helo_access is in smtpd_helo_restrictions enough. am i wrong? thanks, marko

Re: multiple check_helo_access

2012-05-02 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Marko Weber we...@zackbummfertig.de: hello, is there any benefit of multiple check_helo_access? i see in some configs check_helo_access is in smtpd_helo- smtpd_sender- smtpd_recipient_restrictions. my understanding is that check_helo_access is in smtpd_helo_restrictions enough. am i

Re: Running on idle systems

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
02.05.2012 00:14, Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Tokarev: [using unix instead of fifo] And yes, I verified the socket code (instead of pipe code) on linux a few days ago and it appears to work fine there too. So indeed, this is a very good possibility too, but it does not cover solaris well.

virtual mailboxes BUT NOT virtual domain

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Hellwig
I've been butting my head against this one for quite some time now. Given: a system that used to be running courier-mta which started getting on my nerves like crazy, which is why I decided to switch to the postfix/dovecot combo that almost everyone seems to use nowadays. What I had on the

Re: Running on idle systems

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Tokarev: The preferred pickup/qmgr IPC type (fifo or unix) can be a main.cf parameter setting (with an OS-dependent default value, e.g., fifo for Solaris and unix for everything else), and post-install can be updated to edit master.cf accordingly. Maybe this is something which

Re: virtual mailboxes BUT NOT virtual domain

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Hellwig: I've been butting my head against this one for quite some time now. You might want to read this document: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html This decribes what is needed to avoid user unknown and relay access denied errors. After this, setting up a suitable

Re: virtual mailboxes BUT NOT virtual domain

2012-05-02 Thread The Eye
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:03AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Hellwig: I've been butting my head against this one for quite some time now. You might want to read this document: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html This decribes what is needed to avoid user unknown

Re: virtual mailboxes BUT NOT virtual domain

2012-05-02 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von The Eye mhell...@in-ulm.de: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:03AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Hellwig: I've been butting my head against this one for quite some time now. You might want to read this document: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html This decribes

Re: virtual mailboxes BUT NOT virtual domain

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:03AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Hellwig: I've been butting my head against this one for quite some time now. You might want to read this document: http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html This decribes what is

Re: notification messages

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: For example, if the application uses PHP, you can force an envelope sender like this; sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -i -r bounce.addr...@server.domain.tld The envelope sender may also be specified via additional parameters to the mail() function.

Re: Searching for config directives and having epic fail (virtual domains)

2012-05-02 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 02/05/2012 16:28, Peter Berghold wrote: I remember reading in either the postfix book or on a website somewhere a method that would allow postfix to put mail from multiple domains into separate directories looking like: /var `-- mailboxes |-- domaina.tld | |-- user1 | |--

Postfix Configuration Update

2012-05-02 Thread Marko Weber
Hello List, is an postfix reload performing an postfix upgrade-configuration ? Or do i have to execute postfix upgrade-configuration seperately? when do i have to use postfix upgrade-configuration? normal edits in the main.cf / master.cf i can activate with postfix reload, or? thank you,

Re: Postfix Configuration Update

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Marko Weber: when do i have to use postfix upgrade-configuration? After installing/upgrading a Postfix release. Use postfix reload when YOU edit main/master.cf. Wietse

connect to transport hash: No such file or directory

2012-05-02 Thread Mohamed Tahoon
HI, i am configuring my postfix daemon to forward mails to two different destinations mail servers (example1.com, example2.com) while the folllowing warning messages appears every minute: # tail -10 mail.warn Apr 23 21:43:53 myservername postfix/qmgr[27933]: warning: connect to transport hash:

Re: connect to transport hash: No such file or directory

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Mohamed Tahoon: relay_transport = hash:/etc/postfix/transport Specify a mail delivery transport (local, smtp, etc.), not a lookup table. Wietse http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#transport relay_transport (default: relay) The default mail delivery transport and next-hop

Re: Searching for config directives and having epic fail (virtual domains)

2012-05-02 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/2/2012 8:28 AM, Peter Berghold wrote: I remember reading in either the postfix book or on a website somewhere a method that would allow postfix to put mail from multiple domains into separate directories looking like: /var read up on virtual mailbox domains. Start here:

Re: multiple check_helo_access

2012-05-02 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:45:21AM +0200, Marko Weber wrote: is there any benefit of multiple check_helo_access? Maybe. What are you trying to do? HELO checks are very effective against spam zombies, but not very useful otherwise. i see in some configs check_helo_access is in smtpd_helo-

Exploring conditional local log and external firewall control. Best practices?

2012-05-02 Thread karf96
My recently installed Postfix works as I'd hoped; I moved it into full production as our corporate server yesterday. There's one annoyance, and I admit that's all it is, that I'd like to get rid of. *Noisy* pests. They irritate me. I'm interested in what others do in similar circumstance. My

Re: Exploring conditional local log and external firewall control. Best practices?

2012-05-02 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/2/2012 12:53 PM, kar...@mailcan.com wrote: My recently installed Postfix works as I'd hoped; I moved it into full production as our corporate server yesterday. There's one annoyance, and I admit that's all it is, that I'd like to get rid of. *Noisy* pests. They irritate me. I'm

Re: Exploring conditional local log and external firewall control. Best practices?

2012-05-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 02-05-12 19:53, kar...@mailcan.com wrote: My recently installed Postfix works as I'd hoped; I moved it into full production as our corporate server yesterday. There's one annoyance, and I admit that's all it is, that I'd like to get rid of. *Noisy* pests. They irritate me. I'm

Re: Searching for config directives and having epic fail (virtual domains)

2012-05-02 Thread Tolga
On 05/02/2012 04:28 PM, Peter Berghold wrote: I remember reading in either the postfix book or on a website somewhere a method that would allow postfix to put mail from multiple domains into separate directories looking like: /var `-- mailboxes |-- domaina.tld | |-- user1 | |--

need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread ghe
I've been having an interesting (to me) problem. I'm getting auth.log entries like this: May 2 14:02:15 server dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=be rhost= every 10 minutes. Note the empty rhost= data. 'be' was a username

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread Gary Chambers
Glenn, May 2 14:02:15 server dovecot-auth: pam_unix(dovecot:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=dovecot ruser=be rhost= If this is an Ubuntu system, it could be a problem with the dovecot PAM authentication configuration. I saw this problem a couple of years ago, fixed

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread ghe
On 5/2/12 2:57 PM, Gary Chambers wrote: If this is an Ubuntu system, it could be a problem with the dovecot PAM authentication configuration. Well, it's Debian -- that's pretty close :-) I saw this problem a couple of years ago, fixed it (but don't remember how), but then an update to my

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread Tom Hendrikx
On 02-05-12 22:45, ghe wrote: I've asked on several lists, googled, and read books. I can't figure out what's going on. I thought the lack of rhost= indicated one of my monit monitors. So I turned them all off, and the entries came right in. Sorry for being an arse, but I fail to see why

Re: need some OT help

2012-05-02 Thread Glenn English
On May 2, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Tom Hendrikx wrote: Sorry for being an arse, but I fail to see why you don't simply follow up on my advise (and report back) over at [sdlu] about this I did what you suggested (turning on the verbose auth logging in Dovecot) and replied about it. Thanked you

Queue file write error

2012-05-02 Thread Nikolaos Milas
Hi, Tonight we are getting frequent (at times, otherwise occasional) errors coming in to the postmaster, like the following (see below). Note: the session is from our mail gateway machine to the final (internal) destination one (Postfix). I would say that these errors (which we have not

Re: Queue file write error

2012-05-02 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
are you using postscreen by any chance? it's seems like the network layer between the client and the server is fine. can you see anything on the maillog when the session was started? is this happening on every session or just part of them? as i remember a 4XX errors aborted transmissions will

Re: Queue file write error

2012-05-02 Thread Wietse Venema
Nikolaos Milas: In: DATA Out: 354 End data with CRLF.CRLF Out: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error Session aborted, reason: lost connection For other details, see the local mail logfile Look at the last line! Wietse

Multiple IP

2012-05-02 Thread Kirill Bychkov
Hi all, I need create server with 5 IP addresses (interfaces) and postfix(es). The role of this server is relay. If message delivered into my mail server on one ip address, for example, 172.16.35.35, so this message should be sent from same ip: 172.16.35.35. In other words, on which interface the