It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
ellations of network infrastructure, is outside the scope of this list. There are lists for the discussion of such issues, although in my experience the useful ones are not public. -- Fred Morris

Re: the strictest antispam laws?

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
then they run the risk of being perceived as cesspools of spam and throwaway accounts. -- Fred Morris On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Wesley Peng wrote: [...] I saw a trend that, every ESP has taken hard work on antispam policy. [...] Does this mean every country has taken the strictest antispam laws

Re: It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
One more thing... On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Fred Morris wrote: Since I run my own mail servers I'm probably not a good person to ask. I don't find it particularly hard work. I set account limits, provide some tools and also disincentives to make safety and privacy the easier course and at the end

Re: It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Merrick wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 2:25 AM, Fred Morris wrote: I'll hazard that the reputation of particular domains whether they're TLDs or PseudoTLDs, registrars, or particular constellations of network infrastructure, is outside the scope of this list

Re: config check

2019-12-10 Thread Fred Morris
I run a copy of TruAlias naked exposed to the internet as a demo as well. Theoretically I suspect you could lock up a core, but it hasn't happened; I'd notice. It's the system's fault... -- Fred Morris

TCP maps security risks & mitigations; Trualias alias mapping

2019-10-21 Thread Fred Morris
le by design as a matter of course. What's the chief security concern with TCP tables, and does the operational environment impact it? Is there an underlying vulnerability in postfix itself, or is it a general allergy to running unencrypted internet services even on loopback? Respectfully... -- Fred Morris

Could someone, i.e. Viktor, please contact me regarding TCP maps?

2019-10-18 Thread Fred Morris
I'm working on something, I've seen Viktor on some relevant changes. I would like to discuss TCP maps, security implications, etc. Viktor should know I'm one of the 50 kooks who care from dns-ops. Thanks in advance... -- Fred Morris

Calling a SMTP Milter before local_recipient_maps

2020-01-24 Thread Fred Morris
t in local_recipient_maps? The objective is to preserve the ability to reject recipients during the SMTP conversation. Thanks in advance... -- Fred Morris

Fast forwarding Milters Re: Calling a SMTP Milter before local_recipient_maps

2020-01-28 Thread Fred Morris
4/20 10:49 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:04:26AM -0800, Fred Morris wrote: > >> I want to call a milter as a "bump in the wire" before this check to >> potentially alter local recipients prior to them ricocheting off of

Analysis of lookup map security model, making an untrusted mapper trusted

2020-02-21 Thread Fred Morris
founds the discussion about real issues. Based on past reception I have no intention of continuing the discussion here, if you have issues with the analysis you're welcome to open an issue. https://github.com/m3047/trualias/blob/master/install/table_security_analysis.md -- Fred Morris

Re: Are there plans for a buld-in support of REDIS-tables?

2020-01-09 Thread Fred Morris
e equally hackerish measure of disabling security checks and recompiling then I'd love to hear about it.) -- Fred Morris

Re: Rejecting emails based on address extension?

2020-04-10 Thread Fred Morris
haven't seen any abuse (a company bought or repurposed an address) except for 1 specific incident. Tom's experience is very different from mine or that of Andrew Lewman, whose blog is referenced in the README.md for that project. -- Fred Morris

Re: Rejecting emails based on address extension?

2020-04-10 Thread Fred Morris
r the vast majority of cases. I think I've carved out a large enough exception for public use by publishing this project, and I provided tests with the notion that someone might want to reimplement in mind. -- Fred Morris

Re: Rejecting emails based on address extension?

2020-04-10 Thread Fred Morris
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, Wietse Venema wrote: Fred Morris: The "destination address" is extracted from which header? To: would be the naive choice, but Delivered-To: is probably better. If it isn't munged, the envelop address (RCPT) becomes the Delivered-To: address does it not? -- Fred

Re: Replace null sender addresses?

2020-05-02 Thread Fred Morris
a lot of your mail to be undeliverable in practice. -- Fred Morris

Re: Warning about non-existent MX for destination domain

2020-03-10 Thread Fred Morris
omain and they choose to send your submission silently to /dev/null your message was "successfully" delivered. -- Fred Morris

Re: strangely incoming mails

2020-09-13 Thread Fred Morris
specific questions which I assume would be answered by the output from postconf -n, such as what ports you are running SMTP auth on.) -- Fred Morris

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Morris
ng an SOA or equivalently immediately below a zone cut". -- Fred Morris

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Morris
Hello. Real example of someone with this setup, and all records for the FQDNs in question, or it didn't happen. On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, @lbutlr wrote: On 13 Oct 2020, at 12:03, Fred Morris wrote: Notwithstanding, any "fully qualified domain name" (FQDN) can have email sent to it; typi

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Fred Morris
On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, Bill Cole wrote: On 13 Oct 2020, at 15:02, Fred Morris wrote: Hello. Real example of someone with this setup, and all records for the FQDNs in question, or it didn't happen. Waving at Fred... billmail.scconsult.com. 10800 IN MX 0 clues.scconsult.com

Trualias: tcp_virtual_server doesn't require patching local(8)

2020-10-15 Thread Fred Morris
/trualias Regards... -- Fred Morris

Re: Trualias: tcp_virtual_server doesn't require patching local(8)

2020-10-16 Thread Fred Morris
... -- Fred Morris

virtual_alias_maps doesn't require domains to be in virtual_alias_domains

2020-10-14 Thread Fred Morris
With postfix 3.3.1 it appears that mappings in virtual_alias_maps are honored without the domains being listed in virtual_alias_domains. Just want to confirm that this is correct and intended behavior going forward. Thanks in advance... -- Fred Morris

Re: postfix and MX

2020-09-17 Thread Fred Morris
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Antonio Leding wrote: TILT: MX records are not required for email to work — WOOT… Not required for SPF either. You can list the IP address(es). Of course if you have MX then for SPF it's simple "+mx". -- Fred Morris

Re: valid ipv4 hostaddr?

2020-06-18 Thread Fred Morris
): dnsName Port 110 are close, are running only with smtps and imaps. -- Fred Morris

Re: multiple relay servers

2020-10-21 Thread Fred Morris
If DNSSEC isn't required for the domain(s) in question (or at least postfix in this specific case) you might look at RPZ as a way of rewriting just a single record in the zone: https://www.dnsrpz.info/ On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, IL Ka wrote: I think you can install the DNS server locally (on the

Re: Can send but not receive

2021-07-09 Thread Fred Morris
including DNS, mail, web in almost all cases and then whatever they care to add to differentiate themselves. Central rule of networks after #0: "the network is not reliable"... is "my network my rules" and if stuff originates with their VPS then it originates under their rules. -- Fred Morris m3...@m3047.net

Re: Postfix Helo reverse Exception

2021-03-27 Thread Fred Morris
ts of infrastructure hints are generally suggestive, nothing of this sort is a reliable positive, or negative, test for spam. I've got stuff in the email processing chain to account for it, but I'm not expecting Postfix to do it. -- Fred Morris

Re: Rootless postfix

2021-02-25 Thread Fred Morris
. ... in Docker is root on your machine. Trust me on that... or don't. There is currently some interest in microkernels for VMs, I'm kind of in the "wait and see" phase. -- Fred Morris

Re: Policy Server Development

2021-04-17 Thread Fred Morris
;-) (I'm sure you've double and triple-checked that you're not leaving something unread or unwritten, and flushing all output buffers if that's what it takes.) -- Fred Morris

Re: Send to mailbox + alias??

2021-12-12 Thread Fred Morris
-> bobs.b...@bosses.com <mailto:bobs.b...@bosses.com> [...] This would be given that both email accounts are set up as virtual_users in MySql. It looks like that would be always_bcc, can you elaborate? -- Fred Morris

Re: recipient_bcc_maps using mysql

2021-12-13 Thread Fred Morris
http://www.postfix.org/MYSQL_README.html On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, post...@aecperformance.com wrote: I'm trying to set up a mysql table for: recipient_bcc_maps I've read this, repeatedly: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html recipient_bcc_maps It doesn't really help me.

Re: Google and UK.COM domains

2021-12-14 Thread Fred Morris
Let's all take a deep breath and recall that the origins of the PSL are in web browsing, and directly tied to that invention so necessary to our collective privacy: the cookie. It was a list, originally maintained by Mozilla, of domains (or stems) that you can't set cookies for. -- Fred

Re: Can i run postfix on my home IP

2022-01-12 Thread Fred Morris
If you've got a static IP and there's no games being played, it should work as long as the connection is "always on" and accepts connections (SYN) on port 25 from the outside world. -- FWM On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Yamadaえりな wrote: I have got a DSL from the ISP, having a static IP. Can I run

Re: TLS enforcement options?

2022-01-10 Thread Fred Morris
the default; but as the internet has become more centralized, is it truly still the default? The real issue is control. -- Fred Morris, internet plumber -- [0] I can't speak to the legal requirements in different jurisdictions. I can say that on my network it's my rules, and I pay my upstreams to ship coded electrons not process the data.

Re: Adding a second line to .forward, can one prevent errors feeding back to sender?

2022-01-18 Thread Fred Morris
aildir" mailbox; this is your "corpus". You might consider doing this upstream, e.g. in aliases. * Find something to process that corpus back into individual messages for reprocessing, e.g. formail. * Build a proper test suite. ;-) * Test, test, test! -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

TIL Re: How can I build a reliable distribution list?

2022-01-16 Thread Fred Morris
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 06:56:40PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: With Postfix aliases(5), if mail is sent to an alias 'foo', and there also is an alias 'owner-foo', then the enveloope sender address will be set to owner-foo. This behavior already existed in Sendmail. Good to know! -- Fred

Re: password security

2022-04-26 Thread Fred Morris
is a practice and a fabric, not a shiny end state.) -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

Re: Mail looping issue

2022-05-21 Thread Fred Morris
On Sat, 21 May 2022, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: You don't have to accept such mail [...] Don't forward mail that for which the input MTA is expected to be the final destination. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but my interpretation is that the question is "why are you accepting that mail?" and

Re: Mail looping issue

2022-05-19 Thread Fred Morris
Hi. On Thu, 19 May 2022, Jeremy Hansen wrote: When a prober tries sending email to Is the prober a hostile or friendly actor? @, the mail tries to bounce back About that "bounce back" thing... maybe they shouldn't be able to send that mail? Is your MTA an MX for that domain?

Re: Spammer succeeded in relaying through my server

2022-12-23 Thread Fred Morris
ion of that environment is not discussed here. -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

Re: run script on new connection?

2022-12-27 Thread Fred Morris
a condition occurs. You need to be able to identify prior conditions to inform subsequent actions or even to claim that their occurrence is related to anything. I believe the phrase "logs or it didn't happen" arose subsequently to the invention of punch cards, but it's a good one. -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

Re: helo command rejected

2022-12-02 Thread Fred Morris
://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31067059 -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

Re: dig reports NXDOMAIN but Postfix thinks otherwiese

2022-12-06 Thread Fred Morris
statistical monitoring of DNS traffic is a useful practice. -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

Re: secondary MX and SPF

2022-11-23 Thread Fred Morris
my opinion. -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

[pfx] Re: Postfix mails accepted for delivery, but never received

2023-09-10 Thread Fred Morris via Postfix-users
the TTL as sent.) -- Fred Morris ___ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org

[pfx] Re: Postfix mails accepted for delivery, but never received

2023-09-10 Thread Fred Morris via Postfix-users
On Sun, 10 Sep 2023, Erwan David via Postfix-users wrote: On Sun, 10 Sep 2023, postfix--- via Postfix-users wrote: Try a telnet connection to those host (gmail/mail-tester) on 25 and see who actually answers. 1) Send SYNs with varying TTLs to determine the number of hops to alleged   

[pfx] Re: Postfix mails accepted for delivery, but never received

2023-09-11 Thread Fred Morris via Postfix-users
of scope for a mailing list devoted to an MTA. It appears that traffic improbably ends up at 192.168.20.20. That's probably good enough, digging into the /why/ could become a hobby. (I helped build a malware detonation sandbox in another life.) -- Fred Morris, internet plumber

[pfx] Re: Recommendation for dkim signing

2023-11-05 Thread Fred Morris via Postfix-users
Let's step out of the echo chamber or petri dish or whatever. On Sun, 5 Nov 2023, Jaroslaw Rafa via Postfix-users wrote: Dnia 5.11.2023 o godz. 13:53:46 Noel Butler via Postfix-users pisze: If correctly forwarded it does not break SPF, since correctly forwarding rewrites the sender It's a

[pfx] Re: local sending

2023-07-11 Thread Fred Morris via Postfix-users
a service. Sometimes checks for whether "home" translates to a service are done at the application level, but oftentimes it's left to all of that directory service machinery. Don't assume that it happens the same everywhere, all the time. -- Fred Morris _

[pfx] Re: Server etiquette

2024-02-07 Thread Fred Morris via Postfix-users
Here are a couple more jails + filters. Be aware that email can wrap things. The first failregex is three lines, the second one is one line (the lines end in "\b") -- Fred Morris, internet plumber -- :: jail.d/pf-connect.local :: [pf-connect] enabled = tru