Re: cleanup process ?

2011-05-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/6/2011 1:53 PM, Jack wrote: Is there anything I can do to process that a little quicker and not choke the box to death? In lie of seeing the information requested in the debug readme, I'll make an educated guess that the server in question is receiving mail from internet hosts, your

Re: Blocking mail supposedly from my domain

2011-05-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/7/2011 12:52 PM, Dennis Carr wrote: Being that the issue seems to be stemming from an issue in HELO, wouldn't it be more logical to work with smtpd_helo_restrictions? What would be logical is for you to provide us with relevant log entries, per the welcome message you received when

Re: Blocking mail supposedly from my domain

2011-05-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/7/2011 1:01 PM, Dennis Carr wrote: I'm ultimately trying to reject any mail from servers that say they are me and are distinctively NOT. Ultimately, the proper way to separate public connections from private connections is to create separate smtpd listeners (or use a separate server

Re: relay home postfix on dynamic ip to postfix server?

2011-05-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/10/2011 8:39 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 10:56 pm, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Voytek Eymontli...@sbt.net.au: Unfortunately you excluded the only recommended solution. Either use Postfix client side authentication if you like it more complex use certificate

Re: comments in mynetworks file

2011-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 6:59 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Jan-Frode Myklebust: We just got bitten by a strange problem with our mynetworks-file. In main.cf we have mynetworks = /etc/postfix/mynetworks, and the /etc/postfix/mynetworks has been used to both include and exclude networks for ages... using the

Re: Archiving with postfix

2011-05-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/12/2011 8:11 PM, jeffrey j donovan wrote: can in include an if $user=fred dev/null else /^.. http://linux.die.net/man/5/pcre_table or simply execute /$ man 5 pcre_table -- Stan

Re: Google 7720 Error

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/14/2011 4:01 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I can connect to you mailserver: # telnet mail.kasdivi.com 25 Trying 209.160.65.133... Connected to mail.kasdivi.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 tuna.theoceanwindow-bv.com Same here, from my Postfix host at 65.41.216.221: ~$ telnet

Re: Google 7720 Error

2011-05-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Please keep replies on list Jason. Forwarding... On 5/14/2011 11:38 AM, jason hirsh wrote: On May 14, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 5/14/2011 4:01 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I can connect to you mailserver: # telnet mail.kasdivi.com 25 Trying 209.160.65.133... Connected

Re: Google 7720 Error [thread resumed due to useful data]

2011-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2011 9:47 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: If the netmask is mis-configured (say, 0xff00) then that explains why we see no responses to connection attempts from 209.85.210.182 (and other 209.* IP addresses). Wietse's amazing crystal ball strikes again! :) Well, ya know, one just might

Re: Google 7720 Error [thread resumed due to useful data]

2011-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2011 10:38 AM, jason hirsh wrote: I have a lot more to learn Nah, you've just spent too much time under water breathing through a tube. Eats away at the brain ya know. You demonstrated this when you contemplated switching to Sendmail to solve this problem. ;) -- Stan

Re: Google 7720 Error [thread resumed due to useful data]

2011-05-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/16/2011 7:10 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: Jason, I am glad your problem was solved. Also, I hope this thread taught you a valuable lesson: instead of spreading misinformation and questioning the 'quality' of free advice, you could focus your efforts on the very basics of system

Re: Which Linux have the most recent Postfix ?

2011-05-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/23/2011 2:10 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: OK OK I am not a Linux specialist most of my servers are running FreeBSD , but I have to build a Linux server for a friend ( who is not a UNIX specialist ). So I posted in that list which count many Linux specialists ;-) Selecting an operating system

Re: AW: root-alias Problem

2011-05-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/27/2011 2:26 AM, Finzel, Heiko wrote: Yes , it does. Sorry I forgot to mention that or to post parts of my main.fc Do not post main.cf snippets. Post your un-obfuscated 'postconf -n' output, and un-obfuscated log entries, as you were instructed by the list welcome message. [snip] --

Re: Join my network on LinkedIn

2011-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/27/2011 6:49 AM, Thijssen wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 00:08, m...@smtp.fakessh.eu wrote: On Fri, 27 May 2011 00:03:26 +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 05/26/2011 11:58 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: can somebody please remove the idiots from LinkedIn from mailing-lists? s/from

Re: Relay access denied

2011-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/28/2011 5:22 AM, Wojciech Giel wrote: when I'm sending mail from my domain, localhost, to external recipients it works fine but when I'm trying to send from home (my isp domain) I get I'm guessing you didn't enable the 587 listener in master.cf, which is what enables authenticated

Re: SORBS and mailing lists

2011-05-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/31/2011 5:18 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hello, sorry if this mail does not belong here, but maybe some other admins share the same burden. :-) Correct. This subject is totally off topic here. Asking for help configuring Postfix to use a DNSBL is on topic. Discussion WRT being

Re: Sending Bulk Mails

2011-06-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/4/2011 6:25 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: My recommendation to the OP is to consider outsourcing this. It will not cost that much, and a reputable email service provider can be well worth what they charge. Conversely to do it inhouse I would recommend tearing it all down and starting over

Re: Sending Bulk Mails

2011-06-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/5/2011 8:36 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Stan Hoeppner: On 6/4/2011 6:25 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: My recommendation to the OP is to consider outsourcing this. It will not cost that much, and a reputable email service provider can be well worth what they charge. Conversely to do it inhouse I

Re: fqrdns.regexp

2011-06-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/8/2011 7:35 AM, Бак Микаел wrote: Steve Jenkins wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Бак Микаел mikael@yandex.ru wrote: Hi list, Reading the archives I saw that there is a nice regexp with dynamic hostnames available here: www.hardwarefreak.com/fqrdns.regexp Unfortunately this

Re: fqrdns.regexp

2011-06-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/8/2011 3:06 PM, mouss wrote: I am not sure Stan made it public. he provided it to a limited audience. if the whome internet starts downloading it every second, he'll get angry... It's intended to be public, free for anyone to use. Mouss, if what you described were to occur, you wouldn't

Re: Combine access, transport, and header_checks?

2011-06-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/15/2011 7:21 AM, Dyonisius Visser wrote: Hi guys At the moment we use local spamfiltering on our MX smtp.terena.org. I would like to test out a new mail filtering product, which is a hosted solution. This system is configured to accept mail for our domains, and deliver it to

Re: Milter does not process from postfix 2.7.1-1 (Debian Squeeze)

2011-06-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 6/16/2011 2:39 AM, J4K wrote: On 06/15/2011 09:27 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: When something stops working, then something has changed. You need to find out what has changed. Postfix does not change spontaneously. Wietse You are quite correct. Something did change, but I don't recall

Re: SMTP AUTH for all users except for our mailing-lists ?

2011-07-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/3/2011 3:14 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I would like to force all my real users to use SMTP AUTH ( SASL + LDAP ) but we have many internal mailing lists running and I wonder if it is possible to add an exception for that purpose , I think it would be possible with mynetwork

Re: fqrdns.pcre and IPv6

2011-07-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/6/2011 12:08 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Some table types such as CIDR ignore the domain name. With table types such as CIDR, regexp and pcre, check_client_access does no prefix/suffix lookups. Given this, a pcre rule with ``/:/ DUNNO'' is sufficient to skip IPv6 addresses. Thanks for

Re: fqrdns.pcre and IPv6

2011-07-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/7/2011 5:58 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:36:02AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I received a request to ignore IPv4 addresses as well in order to improve performance. But given the extensive IF loops it seems we'd only save something like a few picoseconds of CPU time

Re: fqrdns.pcre and IPv6

2011-07-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/7/2011 10:14 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 08:24:42AM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: On 7/7/2011 7:48 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 06:44:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/7/2011 5:58 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: The anchors at both ends mean you are safe. You start

Re: Postfix/cleanup warning

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 4:17 AM, Rytec wrote: So I'm afraid pcre is not available Strange that Debian installs postfix-pcre by default but Ubuntu doesn't. They both seem to include all the others. Or I can install the postfix-pcre module in Ubuntu but Would it do harm or willI have to reconfigure

Re: Relay host auth not working

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 8:12 PM, Ron Garret wrote: I'm trying to set up a relay host with authentication according to these instructions: http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/postfix-as-relay-to-a-smtp-requiring-authentication/ but it's not working. I know my SMTP server is set up

Re: Best method to post master.conf

2011-07-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/11/2011 11:16 PM, jeffrey starin wrote: I am trying to use the smtp_bind_address command so that three seperate ips can be used for 3 separate clients who are using email campaign software as explained in this howto:

Re: Relay host auth not working

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 12:12 AM, Ron Garret wrote: On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2011 8:12 PM, Ron Garret wrote: I'm trying to set up a relay host with authentication according to these instructions: http://anothersysadmin.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/postfix-as-relay

Re: Relay host auth not working

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 1:09 AM, Ron Garret wrote: On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 2011-07-12 07:12, Ron Garret wrote: On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/11/2011 8:12 PM, Ron Garret wrote: I'm trying to set up a relay host with authentication according

Re: Relay host auth not working

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 1:37 AM, Ron Garret wrote: On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Mike Morris wrote: Configure smtp_tls_security_level and/or smtp_tls_policy_maps, using at least a setting of 'may'. This will allow the SMTP client to attempt STARTTLS connections with remote hosts. Ah. I thought

Re: Relay host auth not working

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 10:59 AM, Ron Garret wrote: Since this is a server to server relay of known/trusted systems, and assuming that 184.73.65.10 is static and won't change any time soon, why not simply add 184.73.65.10 to $mynetworks on secure.genesisgroup.info and forget the sasl auth junk? This

Re: Best method to post master.conf

2011-07-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/12/2011 4:22 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: smtp_bind_address is a new feature as of 2.7, clearly stated at the top No, smtp_bind_address is available in all Postfix versions since 2001. Correct. I got in hurry. Apologies. The 2.7 feature in the 'how-to' article he linked was:

Re: reject mail to undisclosed recipients and with our addresses in From:

2011-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2011 10:51 AM, Geert Mak wrote: On 13.07.2011, at 17:07, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 04:57:02PM +0200, Geert Mak wrote: is it possible to reject/redirect on postfix level (to a spam catcher account we monitor) - - all mail sent to undisclosed recipients You

Re: Backscatter Email

2011-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2011 3:08 PM, mouss wrote: Le 13/07/2011 19:04, motty.cruz a écrit : Received: from ucmx01.uzuncase.com (66-193-162-90.static.twtelecom.net [66.193.162.90]) you might start with /^(\d+\W){4}.*\.twtelecom\.net$/ REJECT generic hostname. please use your ISP or fix your

Re: Backscatter Email

2011-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2011 6:47 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: SOHO or not: ip-addresses in PTR are mostly not real mailservers The operative word here is mostly. For instance, my outbound: $ dig mx hardwarefreak.com hardwarefreak.com. IN MX 10 greer.hardwarefreak.com. greer.hardwarefreak.com.

Re: Large ISP which use Postfix

2011-07-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/14/2011 6:58 AM, Peter Tselios wrote: Hallo, I need to prepare a presentation for my company because we plan to deploy a new mail system. I need to know the names of some medium to large ISPs that uses Postfix as their SMTP server. Do you know where I can find that information?

Re: Fwd: Postfix SMTP server: errors from 118-167-100-152.dynamic.hinet.net[118.167.100.152]

2011-07-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/14/2011 7:59 AM, Rytec wrote: Dear members, Which restriction should I need to use to prevent HELO/EHLO connections with IP numbers ? This person is spoofing me. See example below. 118-167-100-152.dynamic.hinet.net[118.167.100.152] The following PCRE table is designed to block

Re: Large ISP which use Postfix

2011-07-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/14/2011 5:55 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/14/2011 6:58 AM, Peter Tselios wrote: Hallo, I need to prepare a presentation for my company because we plan to deploy a new mail system. I need to know the names of some medium to large ISPs that uses Postfix as their SMTP server. Do you

Re: Large ISP which use Postfix

2011-07-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/15/2011 8:46 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Stan Hoeppner: In this case it appears they've replaced the 500 5.5.2 unrecognized command error with with a custom message: 214 See http://www.messagelabs.com/support Some of the Synacor systems do this as well, while others have

Re: Anyone solely using SMTP Auth for outbound mail?

2011-07-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/15/2011 3:15 PM, l...@airstreamcomm.net wrote: To summarize, we think SMTP Auth is the simplest and most useful way to allow people to send mail through our outbound mail system, and we are hoping to get some feedback from the community regarding this perspective. If I understand your

Re: Large ISP which use Postfix

2011-07-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/15/2011 5:55 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Frank Bonnet Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:08 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Large ISP which use Postfix

Re: Large ISP which use Postfix

2011-07-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/15/2011 6:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: A. Newer versions of eCelerity use a different MTA B. They changed the code to make the help message user configurable C. Stan didn't read the return codes thoroughly enough. I believe the correct answer is C. :( -- Stan

Re: Filtering with subject and certain recipient

2011-07-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/18/2011 1:29 AM, Marky Yehezkiel[SNC] wrote: I am using postfix and want to certain recipient only receive email from outside with certain subject. such as t...@mydomain.com only receive email with subject test 1 and test 2 Is it possible? If yes does anyone has done it ? and how to

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hi Steve, Unfortunately fqrdns.pcre doesn't help with deliveries. ;) On 7/26/2011 5:32 PM, Steve Jenkins wrote: We send a moderately decent amount of legitimate mail to our subscribers (about 400K opt-in newsletter members) using Postfix. ... But it still takes the better part of a day to

Re: misunderstanding with dovecot

2011-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/29/2011 4:40 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:34:54PM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: This is not difficult, as long as you don't override postfix' default behaviour with silly transport_maps that don't work. Without transport_maps it doesn't works. If I set

Re: misunderstanding with dovecot

2011-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/30/2011 2:27 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: 587 inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes -o smtpd_client_restrictions= -o smtpd_helo_restrictions= -o smtpd_sender_restrictions= -o

Re: misunderstanding with dovecot

2011-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/30/2011 3:23 AM, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:40 PM, Victor Duchovni victor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:34:54PM +0200, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: This is not difficult, as long as you don't override postfix' default behaviour with

Re: Postfix rejecting all incoming emails sent from outside localhost

2011-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/30/2011 5:29 AM, Miguel Guedes wrote: Hi, I've recently followed a guide I found online [1] and installed Postfix and Courier on my server machine. I can send emails from the server to any email address but unfortunately I can only receive emails sent from the server - it's only

Re: postscreen unable to log spamhaus URL

2011-08-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/2/2011 9:32 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Jeetu: i get this in log Aug 2 17:27:52 inbound-in-1 postfix/postscreen[24480]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from [x.x.x.x]:17847: 550 5.7.1 Service unavailable; client [x.x.x.x] blocked using zen.spamhaus.org; from=s...@xxx.com, to=ka...@yyy.net,

Re: misunderstanding with dovecot

2011-08-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/3/2011 2:56 AM, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: If I set virtual_transport = dovecot outbound emails are always deferred. I gave you the correct fix for this a few days ago: 587 submission. -- Stan

Re: misunderstanding with dovecot

2011-08-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/3/2011 9:04 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 05:19:10 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/3/2011 2:56 AM, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: If I set virtual_transport = dovecot outbound emails are always deferred. I gave you the correct fix for this a few days ago: 587 submission

Re: got local delivery where there should be delivery via dovecot to virtual mbox

2012-07-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/8/2012 3:20 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: Jul 8 22:09:28 mail postfix/local[1999]: 144761410: to=test@muellerbackwaren.local, relay=local, delay=0.97, delays=0.54/0.03/0/0.4, dsn=5.1.1, status=bounced (unknown user: test) By default, for local delivery, Postfix looks up user names in

Re: rate limit incoming mail by originating domain

2012-07-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/13/2012 3:04 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote: Good morning List. Hay Tom, I have a question regarding rate-limiting. I know how to rate limit outbound mail by destination domain BUT am unable to find any information or example on how to do the same incoming?? at certain times of the month,

Re: rate limiting issue

2012-07-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/14/2012 11:40 PM, Ryan Pugatch wrote: I am running Zimbra which means my MTAs are running Postfix 2.6.7. At work, our mail systems were hosted within our office but as of yesterday they are hosted externally at a data center. When everyone would get to the MTA while the system was in

Re: rate limiting issue

2012-07-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/15/2012 9:53 AM, Ryan Pugatch wrote: There is an ASA firewall in the office and an ASA firewall in the new datacenter. Upon seeing this I thought Aha! Then I read: No esmtp fixup though. That fixup is often the cause of such goofy problems. Nonetheless, it is a good idea to eliminate

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/23/2012 4:16 PM, CSS wrote: I'd like to take some measures to limit what an authenticated sender can do but not limit legitimate use. See: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit You would apply this to your submission service, eg: 587 inet n

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/24/2012 12:44 AM, CSS wrote: On Jul 24, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 7/23/2012 4:16 PM, CSS wrote: I'd like to take some measures to limit what an authenticated sender can do but not limit legitimate use. See: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/24/2012 2:08 AM, CSS wrote: Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this, but I was under the impression that the anvil limits were all enforced on a per-connection or per-IP limit. I'm really after something that can track a particular sasl-authenticated user and punish them (and not other

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/24/2012 6:24 PM, mouss wrote: anvil is not an anti-spam solution. it's measure against clients gone crazy. Precisely. And that's how I advised the OP to us it: Plug the artery until surgery can be performed. Surgery in this case being disabling the account and setting a strong

Re: BCP on throttling outbound mail

2012-07-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2012 4:09 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote: Indeed there isn't much disagreement on what forms a strong password (in principle). I do fail to see how this could be enforced on a technical level, though. Use a plugin such as:

Re: anvil

2012-07-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2012 8:02 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote: I am receiving massive amounts of incoming mail (freakin status updates) from facebookmail.com and was hoping to check the connection rate via anvil in the logs. However, there are no suck entries in the log. I am trying to gets stats so that I can

Re: the mail server from source problem

2012-07-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/27/2012 10:18 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Dennis Clarke: Do you think I can figure that one out ? No way. What I do find is vast amounts of info about how to put in ClamAV and SSL bits and auth bits and endless web pages that point to apt-get and RHEL yum this that and the other

Re: no route to host

2012-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/29/2012 6:57 PM, Engin qwert wrote: Actually it is not router. It is only BPL modem. After Static IP hiring the ISP send me an email how to configure the server with this IP addresses information. The 10.138.9.201 internal IP address selection was not made by myself. Engin what

Re: no route to host

2012-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/30/2012 8:19 AM, Nerijus Kislauskas wrote: On 07/30/2012 03:34 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Engin what country are you in? Who is your ISP? Stan, *whois* your friend: netname: MTRNT-NET descr: Metronet Iletisim Teknoloji A.S. country: TR TR stands

Re: no route to host

2012-07-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/31/2012 4:12 AM, Engin qwert wrote: Engin what country are you in? Who is your ISP? I am living in Turkey, Istanbul Tuzla. and my ISP is Metronet. (Sorry for shutting downing the server since last post.) I also want to re send the IP information that is relevant to situation.

Re: post screen - temp whitelist TTL

2012-08-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/2/2012 6:26 AM, Chad M Stewart wrote: On Aug 2, 2012, at 6:07 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Chad M Stewart: I am not understanding something correctly. I'm using postscreen and noticed that a recently connected IP had was not marked as PASS OLD but rather PASS NEW. See log entires

how long does smtpd leave connection open?

2012-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Would someone kindly point me to the docs that describe the behavior of smtpd socket open time in relation to clients that do connection caching? I've been assisting in a troubleshooting effort. A sendmail/mailman based list server is opening more than 4 concurrent connections to my MX even when

Re: how long does smtpd leave connection open?

2012-08-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2012 9:19 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: Stan Hoeppner: Would someone kindly point me to the docs that describe the behavior of smtpd socket open time in relation to clients that do connection caching? http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#smtpd_timeout It's stress-dependent. Thanks

Re: post screen - temp whitelist TTL

2012-08-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/4/2012 10:08 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: postscreen_client_connection_count_limit = 10 I'm not sure why you did this. Some MTAs, notably qmail, are likely to assault you with many simultaneous connections. This non-default setting might cause difficulty at times in receiving legitimate

Re: post screen - temp whitelist TTL

2012-08-06 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/5/2012 10:53 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 07:48:56AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/4/2012 10:08 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: postscreen_client_connection_count_limit = 10 I'm not sure why you did this. Some MTAs, notably qmail, are likely to assault you with many

Re: Best way to protect backup-mx?

2012-08-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/7/2012 11:45 AM, tobi wrote: Hi list, I'm currently doing some brainstorming on how to protect backup-mx servers from being directly contacted by clients. I found that postscreen can do this, but as far as I read only if the backup runs on the same machine. Another idea that came in

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-07 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/7/2012 5:32 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 12:58:41AM +0300, Nikolaos Milas wrote: ... A second question: Is anyone aware of any (Linux) smart script automating (at least to some extent) reliably enough detection of a mail server failure (to avoid re-inventing the

Re: Failover gateway server

2012-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/8/2012 4:24 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: On 8/8/2012 3:41 πμ, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Yes, this is not a Postfix issue but a mail store issue. Nikolaos, what mail server are you using? Cyrus, Dovecot, other? As Viktor points out, building an HA mail server is not trivial. But we can

Re: Postfix MailScanner Error

2012-08-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2012 7:31 AM, Noel Jones wrote: On 8/10/2012 7:23 AM, Vishal Agarwal wrote: Hi, As most of us are using postfix, I feel that I can get help for MailScanner problem also here. For mailscanner support, please contact the mailscanner user list. Also worth noting, from:

Re: OT: dsbl.org queries return 'false positives'

2012-08-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2012 8:31 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote: what are current 'recommended' rbl lists that people use ? This thread could potentially explode with responses. Probably best to nip it in the bud now. This subject is decidedly off topic for the Postfix list. Please discuss this in an

Re: Where's the best place to get help configuring Postfix?

2012-08-10 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/10/2012 10:53 AM, Pete wrote: My postfix server is logging status=SOFTBOUNCE after I have set up an alias and sent mail to said alias. It logs this message every hour, which is also triggering a script to fire every hour. Is this the correct forum to ask for some guidance on this issue?

Re: Can we balance the load of outgoing emails from Haproxy with heartbeat

2012-08-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/14/2012 4:06 AM, Naval saini wrote: I want to relay 100 mails per day from my server for this purpose i want to use haproxy load balancing can go with this.? please if any one can suggest me the best way to do this i appreciate the suggestions. When someone says relay 1 million

Re: Problem with eMail on Cloud Servers

2012-08-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/15/2012 11:44 PM, Rich wrote: I have wondered why you would want your email in one file. I have always thought it was better to have a setup like cyrus that uses skiplist or berkley.db. sounds like that is what you have. You have some sort of mailstore. check to see if its cyrus MTA.

Re: Directing messages to Enkive Mail Archive Server

2012-08-17 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/17/2012 9:36 PM, අයි. ඩී. චාමින්ද ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් wrote: smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy filter unix - n n - - pipe flags=Rq user=nobody null_sender= argv=/etc/postfix/enkive-socket-filter 192.168.2.66 2527 ${sender} ${recipient}

Re: Directing messages to Enkive Mail Archive Server

2012-08-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/18/2012 8:51 PM, අයි. ඩී. චාමින්ද ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් wrote: Thank you very much for your help... On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:01:17 -0400 (EDT) Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Dear All, I have configured Enkive Mail Archive Server and pointed Messages of my mail server to Enkive as

Re: high-speed postfix configuration

2012-08-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/23/2012 7:29 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Mike Mitchell: The first issue I know is being reported is seemingly a throttling of submissions to the server--we can send about 50, then we're made to wait almost exactly 6 seconds, then we can send about 50 more. This is a built-in safety

Re: high-speed postfix configuration

2012-08-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/24/2012 10:05 AM, Mike Mitchell wrote: On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:11 AM, francis picabia fpica...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Mike Mitchell m...@mitchellzone.org wrote: I am attempting to configure a postfix server to handle really high-speed mail delivery. This means

Re: high-speed postfix configuration

2012-08-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I'm copying this response back to the list, as this discussion needs to be in the various list archives for other who may intend to follow in your footsteps. On 8/27/2012 8:09 AM, Mike Mitchell wrote: I do have to say, I was originally hoping that I could optimize things merely with some

Re: high-speed postfix configuration

2012-08-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/28/2012 8:16 AM, Mike wrote: The first thing that comes to mind is using a ramdisk for the queue directories. But I'm doubting Postfix will work with queue directories on a ramdisk. Wietse can answer this. There's no reason Postfix won't work with /var/spool/postfix mounted from

Re: high-speed postfix configuration

2012-08-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/28/2012 1:13 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:48:19AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: So maybe for this particular application a ramdisk isn't a horrible idea. But he still has the problem of implementing parallel submission in his java application, otherwise it won't

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/2/2012 10:07 PM, Joey Prestia wrote: Hi all, I am familiar with yahoo being difficult to send email to [snip] Can anyone offer any guidance on what direction I need to go? Start here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html -- Stan

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/3/2012 12:02 AM, DTNX Postmaster wrote: In other words, if 'we strip this back to hypothetical and assume a perfect world without any issues', this 'GreenArrow' maxes out at 300,000 messages per hour. Postfix can send 10,8 million messages per hour, more than 35 times as fast*. In

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/3/2012 5:44 PM, Joey Prestia wrote: On 9/3/2012 10:43 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: Sadly, Yahoo discriminates the Postfix connection cache which limits connection re-use by time rather than delivery count. Limiting by delivery count behaves poorly when one or more of the MX hosts for a

Re: Alternative smtp_fallback_relay mechanism

2012-09-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/8/2012 8:43 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 10:01:13AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: When sending lots of mails (mass mailings) via many machines, one quickly realizes that the current concept of smtp_fallback_relay is a bit problematic: If one thinks harder, one

Re: REJECT and save a copy of spam?

2012-09-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/13/2012 9:59 PM, Chris Adams wrote: I'm configuring Postfix with SpamAssassin, using Spampd as a before-queue filter. I put /^X-Spam-Flag: YES/ REJECT Spam detected in /etc/postfix/header_checks, and that works (spam is rejected during SMTP as desired). However, it would be nice to

Re: sporadic bouts of lost connections to exchange 2010 hub transport

2012-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/24/2012 3:32 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I'm running 2.3.3 on CentOS 5 as a mail relay; most of my mail is delivered to an internal Exchange 2010 environment with two Hub Transport machines clustered behind Windows NLB under the same hostname. We have the same setup, but with a more

Re: sporadic bouts of lost connections to exchange 2010 hub transport

2012-09-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/25/2012 8:29 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Mikael Bak m...@inbox.lv: Hi Stan, On 09/25/2012 08:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Apparently Linux and Windows TCP window scaling doesn't always work reliably together. Try disabling TCP window scaling on the Linux box(en): [snip] Perhaps

Re: AW: How to change queue id?

2012-10-04 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/3/2012 4:30 PM, Steffen Schebesta wrote: Thanks for all the insightful answers. So, I actually use the long_queue_ids options and I save the queue_ids to a database to later compare them to the queue_ids found in the mail log to parse and mark the bounces. The problem - and thus the

Re: AW: AW: How to change queue id?

2012-10-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/8/2012 3:25 AM, Steffen Schebesta wrote: Hello Wietse, ok, here is my problem in detail: This isn't the answer to the question Wietse, and myself, asked you. You've failed to understand the nature of our question 3 times now. 10,000 ft view means you're in an airplane at altitude

Re: Unable to execute a java program from postfix

2012-10-16 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/16/2012 9:17 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: I am trying to execute a java program from postfix using a pipe alias. When I send an email to the alias, I get this back from postfix: Command died with status 1: /root/webapps/cbsweb/WEB-INF/bin/mdcm/mailHandler. Command output:

Re: Unable to execute a java program from postfix

2012-10-18 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/17/2012 3:53 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 09:33:38PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 10/16/2012 9:17 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Here is my alias in /etc/aliases: # Forward mdcm messages to mail handler mdcm: |/root/webapps/cbsweb/WEB-INF/bin/mdcm/mailHandler You're

mike.thomas-dlre...@cool.fr.nf needs the boot

2012-10-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
He's made 6 posts since joining less than 24 hours ago. All have been 100% off topic, argumentative and/or preachy. It is clear he didn't join this list to receive help with Postfix, or to help others with Postfix. He should take the opportunity to remove himself before Wietse performs this

Re: Email Server Topology

2012-10-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 10/23/2012 12:07 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: Can a postscript server Postscript is a printer language similar to PCL, but much older. You meant to say Postfix. The former has existed more than a decade longer than Postfix which is an SMTP mail transfer agent, or MTA. -- Stan

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