Re: Local delivery rejected
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Terry Gilsenan wrote: > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On > Behalf Of Paul McGougan [paul.mcgou...@braintree.com.au] > Sent: Friday, 4 June 2010 12:42 PM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: Local delivery rejected > > On 4/06/2010 12:37 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > > > > A better solution is for you to configure your MUA to AUTH with > > mail.limedomains.net. > > > > > > Hi Sahil. > > I did originally use their SMTP servers for sending, however they have > now been blacklisted by so many people because there are so many > spammers using their hosting, that I changed away from using them as my > SMTP about a year ago. The same goes for all of my family whose email > accounts are the only things hosted on that domain. > > So that's not really a possibility unfortunately. > > If your ISP is spam friendly, then your connectivity will suffer. Go to > another ISP. > Switching to a new ISP is not a bad idea. beside hosting solutions now a days is cheap (it also depends on how many users do you have). Cheers
Re: Repeated mails
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Matt Hayes wrote: > On 10/13/2010 10:17 PM, Alberto Lepe wrote: > >> Yes Matt, I agree with you. >> >> However, for some reason a customer is complaining that some people are >> receiving several copies (in one case up to 15 copies) with exactly the >> same content, when he/she sent just one mail. >> >> I thought at the beginning it may be a problem with his mail client but >> after checking the logs I didn't see anything strange but those repeated >> lines. >> >> I now understand that those repeated logs are normal as the filter is >> re-injecting them into postfix. The only irregular thing I saw is that >> his/her mails are being marked as SPAM (but not rejected), which then >> are sent to quarantine. As far as I know, I have to manually "release" >> them from quarantine in order to be send, right? >> For now, I use those emails in quarantine to adjust the values of >> spamassassin until I can reach some comfortable setup in order to start >> blocking emails. >> >> Is there any other way I could analyze the "duplicated mails" problem? >> >> Thanks again. >> > > > What email client is the client using? > > -Matt > If you find that the problem is only on that user, I think you have to check his/her email client. if it's M$ outlook/express kindly check the pst/dbx file size of the user. cases that the MUA reaches its max size of 2gb (for M$ outlook 2003 below) the tendency is MUA can't write additional entry to pst/dbx and thus it remains to outbox. So if the users tries to send/receive the MUA re-send it to the recipient co'z the MUA assumed that there is still mail seating on the outbox. However if everybody is experiencing this problem then you have investigate more on your logs. -Ryan
Re: Repeated mails
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Alberto Lepe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM, captain_claw wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Matt Hayes wrote: >> >>> On 10/13/2010 10:17 PM, Alberto Lepe wrote: >>> >>>> Yes Matt, I agree with you. >>>> >>>> However, for some reason a customer is complaining that some people are >>>> receiving several copies (in one case up to 15 copies) with exactly the >>>> same content, when he/she sent just one mail. >>>> >>>> I thought at the beginning it may be a problem with his mail client but >>>> after checking the logs I didn't see anything strange but those repeated >>>> lines. >>>> >>>> I now understand that those repeated logs are normal as the filter is >>>> re-injecting them into postfix. The only irregular thing I saw is that >>>> his/her mails are being marked as SPAM (but not rejected), which then >>>> are sent to quarantine. As far as I know, I have to manually "release" >>>> them from quarantine in order to be send, right? >>>> For now, I use those emails in quarantine to adjust the values of >>>> spamassassin until I can reach some comfortable setup in order to start >>>> blocking emails. >>>> >>>> Is there any other way I could analyze the "duplicated mails" problem? >>>> >>>> Thanks again. >>>> >>> >>> >>> What email client is the client using? >>> >>> -Matt >>> >> >> If you find that the problem is only on that user, I think you have to >> check his/her email client. if it's M$ outlook/express kindly check the >> pst/dbx file size of the user. cases that the MUA reaches its max size of >> 2gb (for M$ outlook 2003 below) the tendency is MUA can't write additional >> entry to pst/dbx and thus it remains to outbox. So if the users tries to >> send/receive the MUA re-send it to the recipient co'z the MUA assumed that >> there is still mail seating on the outbox. However if everybody is >> experiencing this problem then you have investigate more on your logs. >> >> -Ryan >> >> >> > The email client is M$ Outlook. I don't have the exact version yet (Is > there a way to get that from logs?). However, I don't think their pst/dbx > file is that large as the email account is few months old, and according to > the logs, this user have sent 605 emails with a total size of 567MB. (very > interesting though... I will take note of that. Thank you Ryan!) > > Actually analyzing those logs to get the total size, helped me to found > something I didn't notice before (which is repeated several times in that > specific account (I haven't check others)): > > A fragment of the summary of sent mail: > > ... > Oct 11 16:55:27 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 4A48F1CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 16:55:29 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 8A58A1CD0B: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214840, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 16:58:22 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: D2C821CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 16:58:23 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 4CD5B1CD0B: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214840, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:01:09 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 99ABF1CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:01:11 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: B02BC1CD0B: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214840, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:03:56 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 3272A1CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:03:56 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 6E4671CD0B: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214840, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:06:42 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: B80AB1CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:06:45 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 329751CD0B: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214840, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:09:29 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: AC4FC1CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:09:30 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: 2C09A1CD0B: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214840, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:12:16 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: AC4B31CD09: from=< > nak...@example.com>, size=4214332, nrcpt=1 (queue active) > Oct 11 17:12:18 mail postfix/qmgr[5276]: C29611CD0B: from=< > nak...@ex
Re: [SOLVED] Re: Repeated mails
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Alberto Lepe wrote: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:38 PM, captain_claw wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Matt Hayes wrote: >> >>> On 10/13/2010 10:17 PM, Alberto Lepe wrote: >>> >>>> Yes Matt, I agree with you. >>>> >>>> However, for some reason a customer is complaining that some people are >>>> receiving several copies (in one case up to 15 copies) with exactly the >>>> same content, when he/she sent just one mail. >>>> >>>> I thought at the beginning it may be a problem with his mail client but >>>> after checking the logs I didn't see anything strange but those repeated >>>> lines. >>>> >>>> I now understand that those repeated logs are normal as the filter is >>>> re-injecting them into postfix. The only irregular thing I saw is that >>>> his/her mails are being marked as SPAM (but not rejected), which then >>>> are sent to quarantine. As far as I know, I have to manually "release" >>>> them from quarantine in order to be send, right? >>>> For now, I use those emails in quarantine to adjust the values of >>>> spamassassin until I can reach some comfortable setup in order to start >>>> blocking emails. >>>> >>>> Is there any other way I could analyze the "duplicated mails" problem? >>>> >>>> Thanks again. >>>> >>> >>> >>> What email client is the client using? >>> >>> -Matt >>> >> >> If you find that the problem is only on that user, I think you have to >> check his/her email client. if it's M$ outlook/express kindly check the >> pst/dbx file size of the user. cases that the MUA reaches its max size of >> 2gb (for M$ outlook 2003 below) the tendency is MUA can't write additional >> entry to pst/dbx and thus it remains to outbox. So if the users tries to >> send/receive the MUA re-send it to the recipient co'z the MUA assumed that >> there is still mail seating on the outbox. However if everybody is >> experiencing this problem then you have investigate more on your logs. >> >> -Ryan >> >> >> > Ryan, Thank you!! you were right! After all, and even it sounds odd, > several users in that domain had the same problem: their PST file was around > 2GB. The customer confirmed that the problem is gone now. > > Thank you for your time (to everybody). > > That's a great news indeed. Ryan
