Apparent buffer overflow from huge headers

2008-08-12 Thread Robert Cohen
Ive recently hit what appears to be a bug in postfix. But theres no obvious bug reporting mechanism on the web page. So I'll start by describing it here. If theres a better bug reporting mechanism, please let me know. I would have sent it to postfix-devel but the web page specificly says its not f

About maildir

2008-08-12 Thread Ismail OZATAY
Hello all, I am using maildir with postfix. I have to copy lots of e-mail from a user's inbox to another. I am trying to copy all mails in cur and new folder to another but after this action inbox does not work. How can i transfrer these mails. Thanks ismail

Outbound rate throttling

2008-08-12 Thread MacShane, Tracy
I realise this has been covered before, but I'm having a problem with getting outbound mail to a destination domain. The ISP in question has an interesting policy of refusing messages sent to a single email address in excess of 30/min. Their servers also go on and offline at random intervals, due t

Tarpit on

2008-08-12 Thread Adrian Overbury
I know that tarpitting in Postfix is looked down upon in some circles, but I've got a security measure I want t implement on my Postfix servers that I've been authorised to do *only* if I can make Postfix tarpit that session, not simply terminate it. I want to do sender_login_mismastch checkin

Re: postfix via cyberoam

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Vikas Rawal wrote: I use postfix on my laptop to send mail using gmail's smtp servers. The laptop runs ubuntu 8.04. I shall be grateful if I could get help in resolving the following two problems. 1. The setup works well when used from home where I do not have a proxy server. However, in my

postfix via cyberoam

2008-08-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
I use postfix on my laptop to send mail using gmail's smtp servers. The laptop runs ubuntu 8.04. I shall be grateful if I could get help in resolving the following two problems. 1. The setup works well when used from home where I do not have a proxy server. However, in my office, I have to work t

Re: Auto blacklist for repeat offenders

2008-08-12 Thread DJ Lucas
DJ Lucas wrote: Good idea or bad? Thanks for the responses. General consensus sounds not such a good idea...I'll leave it behind. Thanks again. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Mark Martinec
Justin, > Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from > localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] > > # See the following URL for cache_on_demand: > # > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg11500.html > smtp_connection_cache_on_demand = no You were on the right

Re: Getting a mailing loop on mailman delivery host

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Tanner
On 8/12/08 2:50 PM, Noel Jones wrote: Rob Tanner wrote: Problem partially solved. The transport map was "* smtp:smtp.linfield.edu" and so everything was immediately relayed to that server and it, in turn,sent it right back. If I remove the transport entry in main.cf, the mail gets delivere

Re: mail stuck in mailq q

2008-08-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Mon, August 11, 2008 11:50 am, Sahil Tandon wrote: >> # mailq >> -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- >> 119B8B44871 2035 Tue Aug 5 12:56:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for >> name=meriden.nsw.edu.au type=MX: Host n

Re: Getting a mailing loop on mailman delivery host

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Rob Tanner wrote: Problem partially solved. The transport map was "* smtp:smtp.linfield.edu" and so everything was immediately relayed to that server and it, in turn,sent it right back. If I remove the transport entry in main.cf, the mail gets delivered to mailman but when mailman responds,

Re: Getting a mailing loop on mailman delivery host

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Tanner
Problem partially solved. The transport map was "* smtp:smtp.linfield.edu" and so everything was immediately relayed to that server and it, in turn,sent it right back. If I remove the transport entry in main.cf, the mail gets delivered to mailman but when mailman responds, postfix doesn't see

Re: recipient restriction on known address?

2008-08-12 Thread Wesley
carconni wrote: Actually Wesley, it does. You see, if you continue to send undeliverable mail to an ISP like Yahoo, you can get flagged. See here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-01.html & http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-31.html. If y

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: I'd think that amavisd-new may have problems. What does amavisd-new log at a hight log_level? Of course, it has not recurred since I enabled log_level 5, I will wait and then follow-up once it happens again, thanks. The mail causing the problem

Re: Recipient Address Verification Not Happening

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Michael Katz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any idea why recipient verifications do not happen with these checks? I am assuming it something with the order of checks but I am not certain. Thank You smtpd_data_restrictions = check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:9998 smtpd

Re: recipient verification depending on relay (internal vs. external source)

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Jeff wrote: We have an email gateway appliance at the network edge for spam/virus filtering. It relays mail to multiple postfix+imap servers behind the firewall. The back-end servers communicate directly with each other for internal mail accoss our VPN. The appliance will do smtp level recipient

Re: recipient restriction on known address?

2008-08-12 Thread carconni
Actually Wesley, it does. You see, if you continue to send undeliverable mail to an ISP like Yahoo, you can get flagged. See here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/ postmaster-01.html & http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/ postmaster-31.html. If you send to to

Recipient Address Verification Not Happening

2008-08-12 Thread Michael Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any idea why recipient verifications do not happen with these checks? I am assuming it something with the order of checks but I am not certain. Thank You smtpd_data_restrictions = check_policy_service inet:127.0.0.1:9998 smtpd_recipient_restriction

recipient verification depending on relay (internal vs. external source)

2008-08-12 Thread Jeff
We have an email gateway appliance at the network edge for spam/virus filtering. It relays mail to multiple postfix+imap servers behind the firewall. The back-end servers communicate directly with each other for internal mail accoss our VPN. The appliance will do smtp level recipient verification p

Re: recipient restriction on known address?

2008-08-12 Thread Wesley
carconni wrote: I need to set up a "blacklist" of sorts on our mail server. One of our client servers handles approximately a million emails a day and we've been experiencing some delivery delays. In addition, we occasionally get blocked for SPAM and while getting unlisted is easy, I'd lik

Re: recipient restriction on known address?

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
carconni wrote: I need to set up a "blacklist" of sorts on our mail server. One of our client servers handles approximately a million emails a day and we've been experiencing some delivery delays. In addition, we occasionally get blocked for SPAM and while getting unlisted is easy, I'd like

recipient restriction on known address?

2008-08-12 Thread carconni
I need to set up a "blacklist" of sorts on our mail server. One of our client servers handles approximately a million emails a day and we've been experiencing some delivery delays. In addition, we occasionally get blocked for SPAM and while getting unlisted is easy, I'd like to find mor

Re: Mixing Postfix lookup table types (mysql+ db)

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Arnaud JAYET wrote: Hello, I have a question about "mixing" Postfix lookup table types : For a transport lookup table i wish to set up an MySQL lookup table (as primary lookup) and a standard .db lookup table (the text and .db file are periodically generated by a shell script querying the datab

Mixing Postfix lookup table types (mysql+ db)

2008-08-12 Thread Arnaud JAYET
Hello, I have a question about "mixing" Postfix lookup table types : For a transport lookup table i wish to set up an MySQL lookup table (as primary lookup) and a standard .db lookup table (the text and .db file are periodically generated by a shell script querying the database) as a rescue tabl

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I'd think that amavisd-new may have problems. What does amavisd-new >> log at a hight log_level? > > Of course, it has not recurred since I enabled log_level 5, I will wait > and then follow-up once it happens again, thanks. The mail causing the problem usu

Getting a mailing loop on mailman delivery host

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Tanner
Hi, I am hosting the mailman mailing list manager on a machine named socrates.linfield.edu. Any mail addressed to name>@mailman.linfield.edu is forwarded to this box by the two edge servers. But, instead of accepting the mail, postfix is forwarding it of to my primary internal smtp server wh

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: What is the program that feeds postfix? amavisd-new I'd think that amavisd-new may have problems. What does amavisd-new log at a hight log_level? Of course, it has not recurred since I enabled log_level

Re: sender_dependent_relayhost_maps

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Wadeegh Hendricks wrote: I thought I would resend this as it may be old and nobody looking at it, if not and I am just being ignored then my aplogies :-) My scenario is as follows: I have an SMTP server setup to relay all mail to a server on the internet that does virus and SPAM scanning as w

Re: migrating main.cf to a new server Q

2008-08-12 Thread Noel Jones
Voytek Eymont wrote: I currently have Postfix 2.4.5 running; I'm setting up a new machine that is meant to eventually replace the current system on Centos 5 with Postfix 2.5.2 what the best way to 'migrate' current server settings main.cf and possibly master.cf from the working 2.4.5 server to

migrating main.cf to a new server Q

2008-08-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
I currently have Postfix 2.4.5 running; I'm setting up a new machine that is meant to eventually replace the current system on Centos 5 with Postfix 2.5.2 what the best way to 'migrate' current server settings main.cf and possibly master.cf from the working 2.4.5 server to the new 2.5.2 server ?

Re: srpm mysql devel dependencies Q

2008-08-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Tue, August 12, 2008 11:49 pm, Pintér Tibor wrote: >> what am I doing wrong, do I need to 'export POSTFIX_MYSQL_REDHAT=1' >> instead ? > > mysql != MySQL (centos/redhat/fedora version vs mysql.com version) > try with --nodeps thanks, I've tried again with: export POSTFIX_MYSQL=0 export POSTF

Re: srpm mysql devel dependencies Q

2008-08-12 Thread Pintér Tibor
Voytek Eymont írta: I'm trying to build an RPM from Simon Mudd's postfix-2.5.2-1.src.rpm on Centos 5 with: $ export POSTFIX_MYSQL=1 $ export POSTFIX_PCRE=1 $ export POSTFIX_RBL_MAPS=1 $ export POSTFIX_SASL=2 $ export POSTFIX_TLS=1 it stops with: $ rpmbuild -ba postfix.spec error: Failed bui

srpm mysql devel dependencies Q

2008-08-12 Thread Voytek Eymont
I'm trying to build an RPM from Simon Mudd's postfix-2.5.2-1.src.rpm on Centos 5 with: $ export POSTFIX_MYSQL=1 $ export POSTFIX_PCRE=1 $ export POSTFIX_RBL_MAPS=1 $ export POSTFIX_SASL=2 $ export POSTFIX_TLS=1 it stops with: $ rpmbuild -ba postfix.spec error: Failed build dependencies:

Re: Recipient whitelist

2008-08-12 Thread mleal
Ok Noel. I'll carefully check the docs again. Thanks to your reply. __ Marcus Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enviado Por: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/08/2008 19:32 Favor responder a postfix users list Para: postfix-users@postfix.org cc: Assunto:Re: Recipient w

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> What is the program that feeds postfix? >> > > amavisd-new I'd think that amavisd-new may have problems. What does amavisd-new log at a hight log_level? -- Ralf Hildebrandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und

sender_dependent_relayhost_maps

2008-08-12 Thread Wadeegh Hendricks
I thought I would resend this as it may be old and nobody looking at it, if not and I am just being ignored then my aplogies :-) My scenario is as follows: I have an SMTP server setup to relay all mail to a server on the internet that does virus and SPAM scanning as well as adding the relevant di

header_checks FILTER dont work with pickup

2008-08-12 Thread ram
This is related to the previous post I want to send all mails from MAILER-DAEMON to a different server. So I put in the header_checks file /^From: MAILER-DAEMON/ FILTER smtp:host This works fine with mails deivered on smtpd. But for mails delivered via uucp ( pickup ) the FILTER option does no

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Wietse Venema wrote: Thanks Wietse, Per http://www.postfix.org/smtpd.8.html Which parameter needs to be tweaked for the smtpd process so these timeouts no longer occur? I am using pos

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Wietse Venema wrote: > >> Justin Piszcz: >>> Regarding the timeout... >>> Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from >>> localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] >>> Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: d

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Wietse Venema wrote: Justin Piszcz: Regarding the timeout... Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] That is

Re: How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Meyer, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Reading it now! > Thanks. Sorry for the double post. Not sure what the delay was. We COULD look at the headers, but we are lazy :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49

RE: How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Meyer, Bruce
Reading it now! Thanks. Sorry for the double post. Not sure what the delay was. --Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Ralf Hildebrandt Sent: Tue 8/12/2008 7:27 AM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: How do I retrieve email? * Meyer, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Wietse Venema
Justin Piszcz: > Regarding the timeout... > Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from > localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] > Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: disconnect from > localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] That is the SMTP server, the program that RECE

postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain

2008-08-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
Regarding the timeout... Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: timeout after END-OF-MESSAGE from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Aug 11 19:02:23 p34 postfix/smtpd[19254]: disconnect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] # See the following URL for cache_on_demand: # http://www.mail-archive

Re: How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Meyer, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hopefully this isn't a duplicate post. After 30 minutes or so, I never saw it > appear... It is :) -- Ralf Hildebrandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.a

How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Meyer, Bruce
Hopefully this isn't a duplicate post. After 30 minutes or so, I never saw it appear... I have postfix up and running. I can send email to the mail server, and when I tail /var/log/maillog I see it process. What I am at a lost on what to do next is, 'how to I retrieve email form the server?

Re: How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Terry Allen
On 12/08/2008, at 8:24 PM, Meyer, Bruce wrote: I am setting up postfix on a server, that is behind an endian firewall running spamassasin, amavis-new and clamav. I can send email to an account on the mail server, and seeit being accepted in /var/log/maillog, so I presume inbound email is

Re: How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Meyer, Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am setting up postfix on a server, that is behind an endian firewall > running spamassasin, amavis-new and clamav. > > I can send email to an account on the mail server, and seeit being > accepted in /var/log/maillog, so I presume inbound email is workin

How do I retrieve email?

2008-08-12 Thread Meyer, Bruce
I am setting up postfix on a server, that is behind an endian firewall running spamassasin, amavis-new and clamav. I can send email to an account on the mail server, and seeit being accepted in /var/log/maillog, so I presume inbound email is working fine. I have the nostarch book on postfix, r

Re: check_sender_access for mails via uucp

2008-08-12 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* ram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I use in my main.cf > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > check_sender_access regexp:/etc/postfix/sender_transport > > and in sender_transport I use FILTER to redirect mails as required > > > If a mail is coming in via uucp then this will not work. Can something

check_sender_access for mails via uucp

2008-08-12 Thread ram
I use in my main.cf smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_sender_access regexp:/etc/postfix/sender_transport and in sender_transport I use FILTER to redirect mails as required If a mail is coming in via uucp then this will not work. Can something be done to get it working Thanks Ram

Re: "Command died with signal 10" using pipe and a C script

2008-08-12 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
hi, YOUR PROGRAM crashes, not Postfix. Do not blame the messenger who I know that. I don't want to undermine anyone's work. Actually, what i said was. is there any bad information at all that i'm sending from my script which makes postfix crash?

Re: Relaying mail based on sender address

2008-08-12 Thread Wadeegh Hendricks
Maybe I should clarify what I mean as I dont think I have. If I need all mail coming from a particular address internally to bypass the default relayhost and be sent directly to the internet, how do I do that. For example: my internal domain and network: *foobar.com* all outgoing mail to be relay