Re: Rewriting envelope sender for aliases

2010-01-14 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:39:11AM +0100, Hector Martin wrote: > Victor Duchovni wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Hector Martin wrote: > > Perhaps with an SRS milter, or similar content filter, assuming these > > take extreme caution to avoid loops (never rewrite "<>" to a non

Re: Rewriting envelope sender for aliases

2010-01-14 Thread Hector Martin
Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:11:17AM +0100, Hector Martin wrote: > Perhaps with an SRS milter, or similar content filter, assuming these > take extreme caution to avoid loops (never rewrite "<>" to a non empty > return path) and provide appropriate means for bounces to come b

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Wendigo Thompson: > Okay, I have some updates. Reducing the concurrency down (and > ultimately to 1) increased performance: it seems the delays I was > seeing were related to concurrency inside SQL. However, I am still > seeing half second delays in local delivery while my insertion > application

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wendigo Thompson put forth on 1/14/2010 6:39 PM: > Okay, I have some updates. Reducing the concurrency down (and > ultimately to 1) increased performance: it seems the delays I was > seeing were related to concurrency inside SQL. However, I am still > seeing half second delays in local delivery w

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wendigo Thompson
Okay, I have some updates. Reducing the concurrency down (and ultimately to 1) increased performance: it seems the delays I was seeing were related to concurrency inside SQL. However, I am still seeing half second delays in local delivery while my insertion application is showing ~.003s processin

Re: Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Martinec
On Thursday January 14 2010 20:14:48 Victor Duchovni wrote: > It may be prudent to also treat: > From: > From: > as synonymous with: > From: , > the implied meaning is that the people with those email addresses, > co-authored the email. ...or treated with utmost suspicion, as

Run levels question

2010-01-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
While investigating why postgrey wasn't running on our fedora box, I checked to see what run levels it was set to run at, and indeed it wasn't set up to run at any. Then, since there wasn't any useful information in the /etc/init.d/postgrey file about what run levels it should start at, I che

Re: a little bit of help with aliases

2010-01-14 Thread mouss
toneeeda...@googlemail.com a écrit : > Hi, > > I wonder if anyone can help with what will probably be a very simple > problem. > > I have setup postfix and am now just trying to setup my system so that > all emails to root get redirected to an external address, this is done > in teh aliases file

Re: Can't send from script and don't understand NOQUEUE error

2010-01-14 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-01-14 Patrick Horgan wrote: > Jan 14 15:03:44 s2 postfix/smtpd[10535]: connect from > adsl-99-61-74-22.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net[99.61.74.22] > Jan 14 15:03:44 s2 postfix/smtpd[10535]: warning: connect to > 127.0.0.1:6: Connection refused > Jan 14 15:03:44 s2 postfix/smtpd[10535]: wa

Re: Can't send from script and don't understand NOQUEUE error

2010-01-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
Patrick Horgan wrote: I'm setting up a python script to do some sysadmin stuff and if it detects a problem I want it to email. It does the email, but the server rejects it. Taking python out of the picture, I did this: I've "fixed" this. postgrey was not running, but I don't know why it wasn

Re: Can't send from script and don't understand NOQUEUE error

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel V. Reinhardt
- Original Message > From: Patrick Horgan > To: postfix users list > Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 11:10:52 PM > Subject: Can't send from script and don't understand NOQUEUE error > > I'm setting up a python script to do some sysadmin stuff and if it detects a > problem I want it t

Re: Can't send from script and don't understand NOQUEUE error

2010-01-14 Thread mouss
Patrick Horgan a écrit : > I'm setting up a python script to do some sysadmin stuff and if it > detects a problem I want it to email. It does the email, but the server > rejects it. Taking python out of the picture, I did this: > > telnet s2.ootbcomp.com 25 > Trying 66.201.42.40... > Connected t

Can't send from script and don't understand NOQUEUE error

2010-01-14 Thread Patrick Horgan
I'm setting up a python script to do some sysadmin stuff and if it detects a problem I want it to email. It does the email, but the server rejects it. Taking python out of the picture, I did this: telnet s2.ootbcomp.com 25 Trying 66.201.42.40... Connected to s2.ootbcomp.com. Escape character

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Wendigo Thompson: > Wietse: > > Sadly I generally don't keep logs at this granular of a level > (mail.crit is what I usually store forever) but I can turn logging > back on after the queue empties over the weekend and see if the delay > is persisting. I know the command itself is completing qui

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wendigo Thompson
Wietse: Sadly I generally don't keep logs at this granular of a level (mail.crit is what I usually store forever) but I can turn logging back on after the queue empties over the weekend and see if the delay is persisting. I know the command itself is completing quickly -- it seems like somethin

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Wendigo Thompson: > Wietse: > > I know who you are -- big fan of yours ever since tcpwrappers :-) Hah! (As for my claim, of course other people also wrote parts of Postfix, in particular Victor has been a major contributor). > The only reason I wrote in is that this queueing of mail issue >

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wendigo Thompson
Wietse: I know who you are -- big fan of yours ever since tcpwrappers :-) The only reason I wrote in is that this queueing of mail issue appeared fairly recently, and other times when I have had to collect large volumes of mail from this client my system has been fine. Below I have pasted so

Re: Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:07:34PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * K??rlis Repsons : > > > > According to RFC 5322: > > > > > >from= "From:" mailbox-list CRLF > > >mailbox-list= (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list > > > > > > Thus, one From: header may contai

Re: Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Kārlis Repsons : > > According to RFC 5322: > > > >from= "From:" mailbox-list CRLF > >mailbox-list= (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list > > > > Thus, one From: header may contain multiple addresses. > > Well, another possible trouble I was about to ask later,

Re: Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread Kārlis Repsons
On Thursday 14 January 2010 11:59:16 Wietse Venema wrote: > > Is that possible for mail headers field to continue multiple /^From: .*/ > > speaking in terms of maildrop and PCRE? > > According to RFC 5322: > >from= "From:" mailbox-list CRLF >mailbox-list= (mailbox *(",

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Wendigo Thompson: > Victor: > > I wanted to use Postfix as a delivery mechanism so that I would be > able to queue and hold mail during database outages and other > maintenance -- a job that it does very well. Is there really no > advice available on how to increase the speed of Postfix's local

Re: a little bit of help with aliases

2010-01-14 Thread Daniel V. Reinhardt
> >From: "toneeeda...@googlemail.com" >To: postfix-users@postfix.org >Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 2:46:47 PM >Subject: a little bit of help with aliases > >Hi, > >I wonder if anyone can help with what will probably be a very simple problem. > >I have setup postfix and am now just trying to set

Re: a little bit of help with aliases

2010-01-14 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2010-01-14 toneeeda...@googlemail.com wrote: > I have setup postfix and am now just trying to setup my system so that > all emails to root get redirected to an external address, this is done > in teh aliases file ine /etc/ > > i have then ran newalises and all seems to be fine. > > If i then s

Re: Speeding up Local Delivery

2010-01-14 Thread Wendigo Thompson
Victor: I wanted to use Postfix as a delivery mechanism so that I would be able to queue and hold mail during database outages and other maintenance -- a job that it does very well. Is there really no advice available on how to increase the speed of Postfix's local mail delivery? Thanks, Wendy

Re: Use VERP always

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > ram: > > I need to configure a postfix server that relays mails from a windows > > based App. > > The App is an age old custom application written and has no options to > > configure except an outgoing IP :-( > > > > But I need to manage the bounces and so I was thinking of chang

a little bit of help with aliases

2010-01-14 Thread toneeedavis
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help with what will probably be a very simple problem. I have setup postfix and am now just trying to setup my system so that all emails to root get redirected to an external address, this is done in teh aliases file ine /etc/ i have then ran newalises and all seems to

Re: Use VERP always

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
ram: > I need to configure a postfix server that relays mails from a windows > based App. > The App is an age old custom application written and has no options to > configure except an outgoing IP :-( > > But I need to manage the bounces and so I was thinking of changing the > env from to a VERP

Re: Pflogsumm Status

2010-01-14 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Jan 13, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: Hi All, As many of you may be aware, about a year ago I emailed the list asking if anybody would be interested in taking over maintenance of Pflogsumm. Several people volunteered. In the mean-time, after un-loading a bit (basically taking a hi

Re: Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread LuKreme
On 14-Jan-2010, at 04:59, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Is that possible for mail headers field to continue multiple /^From: .*/ >> speaking in terms of maildrop and PCRE? > > According to RFC 5322: > > from= "From:" mailbox-list CRLF > mailbox-list= (mailbox *("," mailbox)) /

Re: Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread Wietse Venema
> Is that possible for mail headers field to continue multiple /^From: .*/ > speaking in terms of maildrop and PCRE? According to RFC 5322: from= "From:" mailbox-list CRLF mailbox-list= (mailbox *("," mailbox)) / obs-mbox-list Thus, one From: header may contain multipl

Multiple "From:" in a mail header?

2010-01-14 Thread Kārlis Repsons
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Re: Understanding Postfix and smtpd_recipient_restrictions priorities

2010-01-14 Thread RaSca
Il giorno Gio 14 Gen 2010 09:55:06 CET, Steve ha scritto: [...] You probably have a service listening on port 10025 (probably a greylisting service or such) and you forgot to start that service or the service crashed. Can you restart that service and then issue a "postsuper -r ALL"? [...] Of

Re: Understanding Postfix and smtpd_recipient_restrictions priorities

2010-01-14 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 09:19:05 +0100 > Von: RaSca > An: Postfix users > Betreff: Re: Understanding Postfix and smtpd_recipient_restrictions priorities > Il giorno Mer 13 Gen 2010 18:52:58 CET, Brian Evans - Postfix List ha > scritto: > [...] > > In addi

Use VERP always

2010-01-14 Thread ram
I need to configure a postfix server that relays mails from a windows based App. The App is an age old custom application written and has no options to configure except an outgoing IP :-( But I need to manage the bounces and so I was thinking of changing the env from to a VERP format. How do I c

Re: Understanding Postfix and smtpd_recipient_restrictions priorities

2010-01-14 Thread RaSca
Il giorno Mer 13 Gen 2010 18:52:58 CET, Brian Evans - Postfix List ha scritto: [...] In addition, list.dsbl.org is dead and gone for some time now. You are just adding a DNS lookup that will never return anything valuable. Thanks everybody for the suggestions, I've got another problem now: thi