[pfx] Re: Forward mail

2024-04-15 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
y well be scarred but I suspect you meant scared! :-) -- Chris Green ___ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org

[pfx] Re: [ext] Why can't I get /etc/aliases to do anything?

2023-12-05 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 11:53:24AM -0500, Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote: > Ralf Hildebrandt via Postfix-users: > > * Chris Green via Postfix-users : > > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:41:11PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt via > > > Postfix-users wrote: > > &g

[pfx] Re: [ext] Why can't I get /etc/aliases to do anything?

2023-12-05 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:41:11PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt via Postfix-users wrote: > * Chris Green via Postfix-users : > > > mydestination = > > no mail is delivered locally. Thus "/etc/aliases" doesn't get to do > anything > Ah, that explains it.

[pfx] Why can't I get /etc/aliases to do anything?

2023-12-05 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
= noanonymous smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd message_size_limit = 12048 This particular main.cf is on a Beaglebone Black in France. /etc/aliases is:- postmaster:root root: ch...@isbd.co.uk chris: ch...@isbd.co.uk If I send a message

[pfx] Can one override use of myorigin for an unqualified recipient?

2023-07-13 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
the domain that is appended to an unqualified recipient address to some value other than myorigin? I have a number of 'send only' systems running Postfix and I want mail sent to 'chris' to be sent to my home server not to user chris on the sending system. However I need myorigin set to the name

[pfx] Re: How to configure minimal POP3/IMAP server with postfix?

2023-07-10 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 10:54:19AM +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via Postfix-users wrote: > Dnia 10.07.2023 o godz. 09:10:32 Chris Green via Postfix-users pisze: > > > > What's the simplest way to do this? I looked in the "Postfix Howtos > > and FAQs" page but there didn'

[pfx] How to configure minimal POP3/IMAP server with postfix?

2023-07-10 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
the simplest way to do this? I looked in the "Postfix Howtos and FAQs" page but there didn't seem to be any 'minimal' sort of setups there. They also seemed rather old. So, can I just install and configure Dovecot with Postifx delivering mail to /var/mail? ... and is Dovecot the way to go?

[pfx] Re: Please remove mailing list tag

2023-03-15 Thread Chris Green via Postfix-users
Postfix's appears and I have to tune my filter configuration slightly to remove them again! :-) -- Chris Green ___ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Chris Green
ips in the spf > of isbd.co.uk (ip4, ip6, include, ...) so that it is authorized > to send emails in the name of @isbd.co.uk. > Brilliant explanation, thank you. In reality the envelope sender for E-Mail sent out of my home server is s...@zbmc.eu as I have a mailbox of that name a

Re: A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 04:55:45PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 14.01.23 11:02, Chris Green wrote: > >I use postfix on my home server and deliver mail by connecting to my > >hosting providers' "smart host" using authenticated SMTP. > > > >My ho

A little help/clarification on what SPF does please

2023-01-14 Thread Chris Green
SPF record simply confirms the SMTP relay host's IP and that it is meant to be relaying mail for that IP. -- Chris Green

Re: Do I need to install an MUA as well as Postfix to send test messages from command line?

2022-11-22 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 03:03:09PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > I have postfix installed on all of my systems and mostly they have at > > least mailx as well which is handy for sending tests. However one > > system doesn't even have mailx, do Ihave to

Do I need to install an MUA as well as Postfix to send test messages from command line?

2022-11-22 Thread Chris Green
the basic postfix installation? -- Chris Green

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

2022-01-18 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 07:52:23AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > If I add a second line to .forward, e.g. make it something like:- > > > > | /home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter.py > > | /home/chris/dev/bin/filter.py > > > > Then, if (

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

2022-01-18 Thread Chris Green
This is a possibly naive question. Currently I deliver local mail to myself on my linux (xubuntu 21.10) system using a ~/.forward file as follows:- | /home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter.py I'm looking for a simple way to test new versions of filter.py and I'm not coming up with easy answers. If I

Re: Can i run postfix on my home IP

2022-01-13 Thread Chris Green
y hosting service which is where most of the domains that I actually use for my 'public' E-Mails reside. For outgoing E-Mail my postfix server just sends everything out to my ISP's 'smarthost'. -- Chris Green

Re: Google and UK.COM domains

2021-12-14 Thread Chris Green
and the other in France. As far as I'm aware they could all be hosted on the same provider. Surely it's the provider of the hosting who gets blacklisted not the 'name' of the host. -- Chris Green

Re: TLS client certs question

2021-08-09 Thread Chris Bamford
Thanks guys. I'd like to know about both sender and recipient domain. Chris On Aug 8, 2021, 18:30, at 18:30, Wietse Venema wrote: >Viktor Dukhovni: >> On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 10:50:48AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: >> >> > I suppose that each client certif

Re: TLS client certs question

2021-08-07 Thread Chris Bamford
Thanks Wietse, I missed this first time, this must be the walkthrough that Viktor mentioned. Very useful, I will take a closer look on Monday. Best, Chris On Aug 7, 2021, 15:19, at 15:19, Wietse Venema wrote: >Chris Bamford: >> Hello, >> >> I would like to know how P

Re: TLS client certs question

2021-08-07 Thread Chris Bamford
Thanks Viktor, That's good to know. Where can I find this walkthrough? Chris On Aug 7, 2021, 17:25, at 17:25, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >On Sat, Aug 07, 2021 at 11:10:39AM +0100, Chris Bamford wrote: > >> I would like to know how Postfix handles client certificates for >delive

TLS client certs question

2021-08-07 Thread Chris Bamford
Hello, I would like to know how Postfix handles client certificates for delivery i.e. when it makes a remote connection to deliver email. Is it possible to control the certificate that is used per domain? Thanks, - Chris

Re: Unable to connect to IMAP - Exceeded Maximum Number of Connections

2021-06-23 Thread Chris Green
eed to read > logs and/or get correct error messages out of your client. "Unable to > connect" sounds like: I can't open a TCP connection, so it might be your > routing. > > I don't even think this is Cyrus related, so your best bet is the > Thunderbird support. > Yes, in my experience it's a pretty standard problem with Thunderbird. -- Chris Green

Re: Message sent by SMTP get lost whereas those via pickup(sendmail) are OK

2021-05-17 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 10:14:45PM +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Dnia 16.05.2021 o godz. 13:58:22 Bob Proulx pisze: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > I am trying to debug it by connecting directly to port 25 on localhost > > > using telnet and composing mail that way. > &g

Message sent by SMTP get lost whereas those via pickup(sendmail) are OK

2021-05-16 Thread Chris Green
; May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1316]: 2AEBF2C01EB: from=, size=2507, nrcpt=1 (queue active) May 16 16:55:50 esprimo postfix/local[190332]: 2AEBF2C01EB: to=, relay=local, delay=0.49, delays=0.43/0/0/0.06, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to command: /home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter

Re: Speaking of Firefox and HTTP^H^H^H^HFTP...

2021-04-23 Thread Chris Green
ams that do one thing well I've always used [nc]ftp on Unix and Linux systems. -- Chris Green

Re: File-format for Included Files for main.cf Options

2021-02-12 Thread Chris Green
# Debian GNU/Linux specific: Specifying a file name will cause the # first line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default # is /etc/mailname. # #myorigin = /etc/mailname -- Chris Green

Re: How to deal with sending mail from host isbd.uk?

2021-02-12 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:33:53AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > Just a quickie, how do I configure /etc/hostname etc. for a system at > > isbd.uk? > > > > It really *is* just isbd.uk:- > > > > chris$ host isbd.uk > > isbd.uk

How to deal with sending mail from host isbd.uk?

2021-02-12 Thread Chris Green
Just a quickie, how do I configure /etc/hostname etc. for a system at isbd.uk? It really *is* just isbd.uk:- chris$ host isbd.uk isbd.uk has address 92.243.2.29 isbd.uk mail is handled by 0 mail.vhdns.net. So, if I set /etc/hostname to isbd.uk then postfix thinks the domain name

Re: Cloud9.net related responses

2021-02-12 Thread Chris Green
nation of things. My filter currently relies on a single filtering string so it can't do this but, on thinking about it, it wouldn't be that difficult to come up with a 'double match' approach. However, whether it's worth the effort I'm not sure, it's "good enough" at the moment. -- Chris Green

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-12 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 02:16:19PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > >chris@isbdGandi$ more /etc/hosts > > > >127.0.0.1 isbdGandi.isbd.uk isbdGandi isbd localhost > > > > > > no n

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-12 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 07:26:27PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 11 Feb 2021, at 12:56, Chris Green wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:53PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > >> On 11 Feb 2021, at 04:45, Chris Green wrote: > >>> Yes, I think this is what it co

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-11 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 12:12:53PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 11 Feb 2021, at 04:45, Chris Green wrote: > > Yes, I think this is what it comes down to, *something* needs to be > > changed for each system. I was just hoping that postfix could use > > something that was there

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-11 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 11:36:24AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On 10.02.21 15:55, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I could just edit the value in each system, but then all the main.cf > > > > files would be different. > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 a

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
it sometimes. -- Chris Green

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 01:11:49PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > Chris Green wrote: > > > > Local hostname doesn't have FQDN by default though:- > > > > > > > > chris@isbdGandi$ host

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 02:13:22PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:41:49PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > OK, what I want to do is as follows:- > > > > I have several headless machines which need to be able to send error > > and other m

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 10:37:15AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 10 Feb 2021, at 10:05, Chris Green wrote: > > but this doesn't seem to have worked. What am I doing wrong now? (I > > have run 'newaliases'). > > what does > > postconf -d myhostname mydomain myorigin

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 12:17:47PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:05:52PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > This may be a good time to clearly (re)state what problem you're trying > to solve, now that you're apparently able to assign the desired mydomain >

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 11:36:42AM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:01:44PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > Local hostname doesn't have FQDN by default though:- > > > > chris@isbdGandi$ hostname > > isbdGandi > &

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:31:47PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Dnia 10.02.2021 o godz. 15:10:09 Chris Green pisze: > > > > > > > > These systems are all systemd'ed so I can't just run postfix as above. > > > > However will 'postc

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 04:40:13PM +0100, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > Dnia 10.02.2021 o godz. 15:10:09 Chris Green pisze: > > > > These systems are all systemd'ed so I can't just run postfix as above. > > However will 'postconf "myhostname = $(dnsdomainname)"' actuall

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 09:53:02AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:14:11PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On 10.02.21 13:57, Chris Green wrote: > > > > It would be really handy if I could get postfix to

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 10.02.21 14:36, Chris Green wrote: > > Apart from the TLS/SASL bits the main.cf for all these headless > > systems is:- > > > >mydomain = zbmc.eu > >myorigin = $mydomain > &

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:14:11PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 10.02.21 13:57, Chris Green wrote: > > It would be really handy if I could get postfix to use the value > > returned by the dnsdomainname command for its mydomain value as I > > could then use

Re: Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 03:03:47PM +0100, ludic...@gmail.com wrote: > > Von: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org Im > > Auftrag von Chris Green > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2021 14:57 > > An: postfix-users@postfix.org > > Betreff: Can I get postfix to use wh

Can I get postfix to use what's returned by dnsdomainname for mydomain?

2021-02-10 Thread Chris Green
. There isn't an 'include' type directive in postfix configuration so I can't see any way of doing this by capturing the output of dnsdomainname at startup and then including this in main.cf. Has anyone else wanted to do anything like this and come up with a solution? -- Chris Green

Re: User script for modifying main.cf and other config files

2021-02-07 Thread Chris Green
your system. The user may not know > how, but at this point all that remains is just security by obscurity. > Is some sort of sudo access possible, i.e. only the specific users you want to enable are able to run the script with sudo privilege. The /etc/sudoers file and associated configuration is somewhat arcane but actually very flexible in what's possible. -- Chris Green

Re: Copying settings in main.cf from postfix 3.5.6 to postfix 3.3.0 - any major issues?

2021-01-21 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 04:33:07PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > I currently have mail for ch...@isbd.co.uk and c...@isbd.net forwarded > > by my hosting service to a Postfix server on my desktop machine (which > > is zbmc.eu). The Postfix configuration i

Copying settings in main.cf from postfix 3.5.6 to postfix 3.3.0 - any major issues?

2021-01-21 Thread Chris Green
3.3, my desktop has version 3.5.6, am I likely to encounter any problems with a similar main.cf on the older version? I realise I have to change the myorigin, mydestination and myhostname but I'm hoping that's basically all. -- Chris Green

Re: Can I somehow customise the From: address when root sends mail?

2020-12-09 Thread Chris Green
root and a couple of other user accounts. However on the other (mostly headless) systems on the LAN a way to catch *any* mail sent and fire it off to me on my desktop is handy. -- Chris Green

Re: Can I somehow customise the From: address when root sends mail?

2020-12-09 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 04:55:13AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 09 Dec 2020, at 03:00, Chris Green wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 02:33:37AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > >> On 08 Dec 2020, at 13:04, Chris Green wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:39:07PM -0700, @

Re: Can I somehow customise the From: address when root sends mail?

2020-12-09 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 02:33:37AM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > On 08 Dec 2020, at 13:04, Chris Green wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 12:39:07PM -0700, @lbutlr wrote: > >> On 08 Dec 2020, at 10:56, Chris Green wrote: > >>> While I can look through the E-Mail h

Re: Can I somehow customise the From: address when root sends mail?

2020-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 20:03:27 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > > root:*:0:0:Charlie Baobab &:/root:/bin/csh > > > > > So does anything in the GCOS field appear in the From: header? &

Re: Can I somehow customise the From: address when root sends mail?

2020-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 07:36:57PM +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 17:56:33 + > Chris Green wrote: > > > So, is there something I can configure in postfix to always add some > > text of some sort (the hostname is the obvious thing) to one of From

Can I somehow customise the From: address when root sends mail?

2020-12-08 Thread Chris Green
normally see (From:, To: and Subject:) include something that indicates where the message is from. So, is there something I can configure in postfix to always add some text of some sort (the hostname is the obvious thing) to one of From:, To: or Subject: ? -- Chris Green

Re: 'Send only' postfix configuration works on Ubuntu but not on Rasberry Pi - missing TLS library?

2020-12-07 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:34:14PM +, Dominic Raferd wrote: > On 07/12/2020 13:11, Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 01:01:16PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > > > While I'm about it why am I getting identical mail.log an

Re: 'Send only' postfix configuration works on Ubuntu but not on Rasberry Pi - missing TLS library?

2020-12-07 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 01:01:16PM +, Chris Green wrote: [snip] > > Presumably this means there's a SASL/TLS library I need to install on > the Pi, can anyone tell me what it is please. Oh, I have run 'postmap > /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd' on both systems. > Typical! Almost im

'Send only' postfix configuration works on Ubuntu but not on Rasberry Pi - missing TLS library?

2020-12-07 Thread Chris Green
anyone tell me what it is please. Oh, I have run 'postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd' on both systems. While I'm about it why am I getting identical mail.log and mail.info files created in /var/log on the Pi? -- Chris Green

Re: How to keep several Postfix installations in step with each other?

2020-12-06 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 12:09:06PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Green: > > I run postfix on my main desktop machine both for sending mail (via my > > hosting provider 'smarthost') and for receiving mail. > > > > I want to use postfix to provide /usr/bin/sendma

Filename in main.cf, specifically myorigin = /etc/mailname

2020-12-06 Thread Chris Green
configurations' question as one can set myorigin = /etc/mailname in every system and just set /etc/mailname to the required name on each system. I couldn't find any reference to this (use of a file) in man 5 postconf. -- Chris Green

Re: How to keep several Postfix installations in step with each other?

2020-12-06 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 05:24:39PM +0100, Jeff Abrahamson wrote: > On 06/12/2020 16:44, Chris Green wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 04:18:13PM +0100, Julian Kippels wrote: > >> Am Sun, 6 Dec 2020 15:10:12 + > >> schrieb Chris Green : [snip] > >> Might

Re: How to keep several Postfix installations in step with each other?

2020-12-06 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 04:18:13PM +0100, Julian Kippels wrote: > Am Sun, 6 Dec 2020 15:10:12 + > schrieb Chris Green : > > > I run postfix on my main desktop machine both for sending mail (via my > > hosting provider 'smarthost') and for receiving mail. > >

How to keep several Postfix installations in step with each other?

2020-12-06 Thread Chris Green
machine for it to work? Does *anything* need to be different? -- Chris Green

Re: Getting 'Relay access denied' from one LAN host but not from another - why?

2020-11-11 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:43:48AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: [snip] > > this message is not relayed, but delivered locally. > [snip] > > this message is not to be delivered locally, but to relayed. > Of course, thanks Matus, one was to chris@esprimo wherea

Getting 'Relay access denied' from one LAN host but not from another - why?

2020-11-11 Thread Chris Green
ommand: /home/chris/.mutt/bin/filter.py) Nov 11 10:10:39 esprimo postfix/qmgr[1320]: D36AC2C059A: removed However E-Mail sent from another system on the LAN (a Draytek 2820n router) is being rejected with "Relay access denied" and I don't understand why. Here is the mail.log output:-

Re: Mail server without MX record.

2020-10-13 Thread Chris Green
whatever you need (home system, virtual host, whatever) but the MX record is left pointing at the hosting company's mail servers. It's quite a rarity in the general run of things that the MX record gets changed. -- Chris Green

Re: Preferred/maintained greylisting options?

2020-05-26 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> Contrary to someone else's experience related in this thread, I > still see a significant amount of spam that greylisting blocks, and > extremely few spammers retry and get through. I concurn, as reported, I curently see greylisting reduce spam by a factor of 4. > I have only had one known

Re: Preferred/maintained greylisting options?

2020-05-25 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> Greylisting has become pretty much useless. When I disabled it a > couple years ago, the spam levers did not increase by any measurable > amount. We now use just 3 RBLs and that seems to be a relatively > acceptable level of spam. Checking for %ge of messages that "return after defer" I see:

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

2020-02-15 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 09:23:18PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 01:53:37PM -0500, Ian Evans wrote: > > > [2]https://marlam.de/msmtp/ > > > > > I'm not totally convinced that any of the simple/null mailers does > > the &

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

2020-02-15 Thread Chris Green
gt; configuration, it has 'just worked' ever since. > -- > Chris Green > >Thanks. Getting back to another part of my question, it's a bit unclear >what I should set as the myhostname and mydomain in the config files. >The machine name is buster. But its

Re: Using Postfix to send home server alerts

2020-02-15 Thread Chris Green
ail telling me. After trying several 'simple' mailers I ended up installing Postfix and, after somw quite simple configuration, it has 'just worked' ever since. -- Chris Green

Re: DMARC usage opinion

2019-12-17 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> DMARC policy is best avoided unless you're a bank, or other brand > that is concerned about phishing of your customers. or have a domain that spammers use as the from/reply-to address

Re: Validation DMARC

2019-11-24 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> Or in short: DMARC intentionally breaks every mailinglist and every > mail-forwarding. So, if a mail-provider uses a strict DMARC-policy, > it effectively says: "Our mail-addresses may not be used for > mailinglists." this message (i am replying to) from you on this mailing list is not broken

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Chris Green
iltered, to an off-site system using my hosting service's mail forwarding. I can at least ready all my E-Mail there. I actually turned this off recently because I so rarely needed it, maybe I should turn it back on. Anything else? Thanks for the feedback so far, all useful stuff. -- Chris Green

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Chris Green
wn, >especially as MUAs do not necessarily (or ever?) wait and retry. > Not really an issue for me, I'm the only user of the local postfix and I can send mail from elsewhere if I get desperate. -- Chris Green

Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Chris Green
a backup machine here at home with Postfix configured on it to take over if I know I'm doing an upgrade on the main machine. All I would need to do to swap would be to change the port forwarding destination on my router. Does anyone here do something like this and are there any 'gotchas'? -- Chris

Re: Remove duplicate header 'MIME-Version'

2019-10-21 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> Is there a way to remove the duplicate header in Postfix? it might (should) be possible with a milter > Alternatively, is it possible to remove the MIME-Version header(s) > altogether? Would this break the message (or the mail client from > the recipient)? it depends, it might break things

Re: base64 encoded emails

2019-10-17 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> What is the legitimate reason to use base64 encoded emails ? i see quite a lot of legitimate email as base64 encoded > Seems to me, it is only being used by spammers to complicate > body_checks any modern checker can and will decode base64 or indeed other message details (the cost of doing so

Re: Suggestions for less spam

2019-09-24 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> > # reject clients without PTR > > reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname FWIW i log/report such things but don't reject; there is some percentage of real email that comes from sources with broken PTR or missing records

Re: Refuse mail from hosts with closed port 25

2019-09-16 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> How can I refuse mail from hosts who don't have an open port 25? > > What do you think from such a check? i have tried this, it's not useful, so i didn't leave the check in place it's very common, perhaps even the norm that the IP address which delivers mail to me itself will not accept an

Re: Mail forwarding through a relay

2019-09-12 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> but note in the DMARC record that you quote: ' p=none': Gmail is > telling other servers *not* to block (or quarantine) emails from > @gmail.com that do not obey SPF or DKIM rules. Yahoo by contrast: > > # dig +short _dmarc.yahoo.com TXT > "v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100;

Re: Mail forwarding through a relay

2019-09-12 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> I have a postfix-3.2.6 system that acts as a mail server and > pop/imap using dovecot for a small domain. The problem is that > people are increasingly using it as a relay to a personal account, > such as Gmail and Yahoo. perhaps i misunderstand they are sending email from gmail/yahoo

Re: postfix milter body chunk length

2019-08-20 Thread Chris Wedgwood
i did a quick test using tcp, i see significant no difference in performance vs using a unix domain socket

Re: postfix milter body chunk length

2019-08-19 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:34:51AM +0200, Matthias Schneider wrote: > Chris, can you tell me your postfix version/settings? mail_version = 3.4.5 milter_protocol = 6 (not sure what other settings are relevant here) > But postfix (3.3.0 and 3.4.5) only sends about 24 body chunks per &g

Re: postfix milter body chunk length

2019-08-16 Thread Chris Wedgwood
> Postfix with default milter body chunk size 65535: > > mail processing time 1m30.154298259s > > Postfix with milter body chunk size 1048576: > > mail processing time 17.52360866s it looks to me like postfix is able to feed a milter very quickly i just did a couple of quick tests here, an ~83

Re: Gave up on my ISP, trying to get GMail to work but get - host smtp.gmail.com[64.233.168.108] said: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required.

2019-06-23 Thread Chris Pollock
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 08:00 +1200, Peter wrote: > On 24/06/19 3:38 AM, Chris Pollock wrote: > > I still have some that are going to /var/spool/mail/nobody however. > > Headers below: > > And your logs show what exactly? > > > Peter The pastes are from my mail.log

Re: Gave up on my ISP, trying to get GMail to work but get - host smtp.gmail.com[64.233.168.108] said: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required.

2019-06-23 Thread Chris Pollock
On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 01:21 -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 08:56:35PM -0500, Chris Pollock wrote: > > > I've spent 3hrs going over and over my settings and can't find > > where > > I've got a problem. My /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd file contains: >

Re: Gave up on my ISP, trying to get GMail to work but get - host smtp.gmail.com[64.233.168.108] said: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required.

2019-06-22 Thread Chris Pollock
On Sat, 2019-06-22 at 19:12 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Chris Pollock: > > Checking application/pgp-signature: FAILURE > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > In my previous post - "How to tell my ISP there's a problem" I > > wasn't > > able to figure out t

Gave up on my ISP, trying to get GMail to work but get - host smtp.gmail.com[64.233.168.108] said: 530-5.5.1 Authentication Required.

2019-06-22 Thread Chris Pollock
've pasted the complete output of a test run below: https://pastebin.com/fLBqL1e0 Here is my main.cf https://pastebin.com/1mmEP89b I'm sure I have something just not right but I can't see what it is. Thanks for any advise Chris -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092

Re: How to tell my ISP there's a problem

2019-06-19 Thread Chris Pollock
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 21:15 -0500, Chris Pollock wrote: > On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 13:29 +1000, Richard James Salts wrote: > > On Monday, 17 June 2019 7:48:05 PM AEST Chris Pollock wrote: > > > Apologies if the subject is vague however I'll attempt to explain > > > fur

Re: How to tell my ISP there's a problem

2019-06-18 Thread Chris Pollock
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 13:29 +1000, Richard James Salts wrote: > On Monday, 17 June 2019 7:48:05 PM AEST Chris Pollock wrote: > > Apologies if the subject is vague however I'll attempt to explain > > further. I run a cron job once a day that updates my Spamassassin > > rul

How to tell my ISP there's a problem

2019-06-17 Thread Chris Pollock
it. https://pastebin.com/v0rMErQh Thanks for any suggestions -- Chris KeyID 0xE372A7DA98E6705C 31.11972; -97.90167 (Elev. 1092 ft) 17:58:24 up 1:02, 1 user, load average: 0.95, 0.82, 0.71 Description:Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS, kernel 4.18.0-22-generic signature.asc Description

unknown tls certificate problem: EVP_MD_size:message digest is null

2019-04-19 Thread Chris Thomas
is null:crypto/evp/evp_lib.c:316: I have tried to search google for this error, but I haven't been able to find anything. Can anybody explain it or knows what it means? Chris

Re: I need some help with the correct value for myhostname in main.cf

2019-04-07 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 10:01:15PM +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Chris Green: > > > However, as you can see in the headers here, there are still > > references to esprimo.zbmc.eu in my outgoing E-Mail headers. > > Actually, I can't see that. ;-) What I do see is that

Re: I need some help with the correct value for myhostname in main.cf

2019-04-07 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Apr 07, 2019 at 08:23:59PM +0200, Ralph Seichter wrote: > * Chris Green: > > > At the moment (and it's been that way for some years) I have > > myhostname in main.cf set as follows:- > > > > myhostname = esprimo.zbmc.eu > > That's fine. Use http://www.

I need some help with the correct value for myhostname in main.cf

2019-04-07 Thread Chris Green
LAN? On my LAN I see:- root@esprimo# host zbmc.eu zbmc.eu has address 192.168.1.3 root@esprimo# host esprimo.zbmc.eu esprimo.zbmc.eu has address 127.0.0.1 root@esprimo# -- Chris Green

Re: Can't enable SASL authentication

2018-09-29 Thread Chris Walker
Ah. That would explain why the value isn't changing for my configuration. Thanks for pointing this out, It's getting kind of late here and I'm getting a bit loopy. -- Sent from: http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/Postfix-Users-f2.html

Can't enable SASL authentication

2018-09-29 Thread Chris Walker
help, Chris -- Sent from: http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/Postfix-Users-f2.html

Re: [OT]: Grammar, plural quantifiers

2018-01-09 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 08:55:11AM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > > > > On Jan 9, 2018, at 4:48 AM, Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > > “When this constraint is violated, or any of the digest records *IS* > > malformed, > > d

Re: Minor grammar mistake in man 5 postconf

2018-01-09 Thread Chris Green
gility will *BE* disabled” > Strictly correctly it should be:- “When this constraint is violated, or any of the digest records *IS* malformed, digest algorithm agility will *BE* disabled” ... but that's just me being pedantic. :-) -- Chris Green

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