Re: Postfix vrfy

2009-07-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, July 25, 2009 19:41, mouss wrote: > That said, I personally disable it because I don't see the value it > brings. but that doesn't make me feel more secure. you prefer to see the probe email if probed ? :) maybe i dont understand the power of vrfy :/ -- xpoint

Re: Postfix vrfy

2009-07-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, July 25, 2009 19:00, Damian Myerscough wrote: > VRFY command because it allow attackers to see what users > were valid e.g. local users could be identified. imho it does not make sense, what happend if sender try sending email to recipient and parse the results ? -- xpoint

Re: self signed ssl certs

2009-07-25 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, July 25, 2009 17:47, mouss wrote: > cacert is free too, but since it is not trusted by clients, it is > unclear whether it is worth the pain. cacert is trusted in gentoo / ubuntu currently, might something happend lately ? again my firefox does work with my own cert that is signed with c

Re: Postfix vrfy

2009-07-25 Thread mouss
Damian Myerscough a écrit : > Hello, > > I have been recently playing with Postfix a lot and I was curious of the > consequences of disabling the VRFY command. I have disabled the > VRFY command because it allow attackers to see what users > were valid e.g. local users could be identified. > the

Re: [Re: virtual_alias_maps works with hash but not LDAP (Postfix 2.5.1)]

2009-07-25 Thread mouss
John Mok a écrit : > Hi Mouss, > > Thank you for your prompt reply. > > The following is the smptd verbose log, next time, do not show verbose logs unless asked. the less we have to read, the better. > [snip] Are you using a proxy_filter? if so, take a look at http://www.postfix.org/

Postfix vrfy

2009-07-25 Thread Damian Myerscough
Hello, I have been recently playing with Postfix a lot and I was curious of the consequences of disabling the VRFY command. I have disabled the VRFY command because it allow attackers to see what users were valid e.g. local users could be identified. -- Regards, Damian Myerscough

Re: self signed ssl certs

2009-07-25 Thread mouss
LuKreme a écrit : > On Jul 22, 2009, at 16:51, "Benny Pedersen" wrote: >> yes this is clear to me its is so, but i dont know why self signed ssl >> is being used so much when there is plenty of good trusted >> signers :/ > > Because a selfsigned cert is good enough and FREE. > you can also run

[Re: virtual_alias_maps works with hash but not LDAP (Postfix 2.5.1)]

2009-07-25 Thread John Mok
Hi Mouss, Thank you for your prompt reply. The following is the smptd verbose log, but I do not see any clue from it :- === begin of mail log === < Jul 24 14:15:59 imapsv02 postfix/smtpd[17966]: connect from imapsv02.auth.hk1.sml.citizen.co.jp[10.144.1.50] < Jul 24 14:15:59 imapsv02 postfix/s

Re: mydomain and alias questions

2009-07-25 Thread Rodman Frowert
Gotcha... Wasn't thinking about threaded views. Sorry about that. Rodman > Rodman Frowert a écrit : >> Mouss wrote, >> >>> please do not hijack threads. send a new message instead of replying to >>> an unrelated one. >> >> I started this thread. > > you replied to Noel's post (in the "Disabling

Re: mydomain and alias questions

2009-07-25 Thread mouss
Rodman Frowert a écrit : > Mouss wrote, > >> please do not hijack threads. send a new message instead of replying to >> an unrelated one. > > I started this thread. you replied to Noel's post (in the "Disabling SSLv2..." thread). changing the subject is not enough: check your post and you'll s

Re: postfix maildrop username with dots

2009-07-25 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, l...@ngc.net.ua wrote: > Hello people, > sorry may be for stupid question, but I`m stuck... > I`m using postfix+maildrop for virtual domains. > Problem is: > for u...@domain - ok > for user.surn...@domain - i get error: > > Jul 25 14:45:37 hvost postfix/pipe[16333]: D112111A5

postfix maildrop username with dots

2009-07-25 Thread link
Hello people, sorry may be for stupid question, but I`m stuck... I`m using postfix+maildrop for virtual domains. Problem is: for u...@domain - ok for user.surn...@domain - i get error: Jul 25 14:45:37 hvost postfix/pipe[16333]: D112111A5C4: to=, relay=maildrop, delay=0.37, delays=0.05/0.05/0/0.27,

Re: mydomain and alias questions

2009-07-25 Thread Rodman Frowert
Mouss wrote, > please do not hijack threads. send a new message instead of replying to > an unrelated one. I started this thread. Not sure what thread I purportedly hijacked you are referring to. > if you want virtual users, then the way to go is virtual_mailbox_domains > (after removing $mydom

Re: Disabling SSLv2 on Postfox 2.5.1

2009-07-25 Thread Wietse Venema
Jake Vickers: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > Noel Jones wrote: > > Jake Vickers wrote: > >> > >> I also tried these settings (smtpd_tls_mandatory_protocols = !SSLv2) > >> on a Debian build (running 2.3.8) with a self-signed cert and am > >> still getting a SSLv2 connection. I'm su

Forward mail to unknown users non virtual domain @domain.com to unkn...@domain com

2009-07-25 Thread Михаил Евстратов
*I have :* Postfix - virual users in Openldap Main.cf > local_transport = maildrop maildrop_destination_recipient_limit = 1 local_recipient_maps = Master.cf > maildrop unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=vmail argv=/usr/bin/maildrop -d ${recipient} Openldap Maildrop - non config files Authlib

Re: mydomain and alias questions

2009-07-25 Thread mouss
please do not hijack threads. send a new message instead of replying to an unrelated one. Rodman Frowert a écrit : > Noel, > > I understand that anything for "mydomain" is looked up in /etc/passwd > which is a type of local recipitant table. But what if I want to feed > that "lookup system" anot

Re: virtual_alias_maps works with hash but not LDAP (Postfix 2.5.1)

2009-07-25 Thread mouss
John/SML a écrit : > [snip] > > It worked well by storing the virtual_alias_maps in hash table, but it > failed when changed to LDAP with an error "Error : 4.3.0 queue file > write error...". Show postfix _logs_. see the DEBUG README. >[snip]

Re: Many SQL Lookups on outbounding mails

2009-07-25 Thread Simon J Mudd
clunk.wercl...@wibblywobblyteapot.co.uk (Clunk Werclick) writes: > > >> >>> It seems lots of lookups per message and I'm not sure that mysql > > >> >>> will not crash like this > > > > Who's to say what "a lot" of lookups are? Why do you think mysql will > > Just Crash? You're far better off loo