DNS round robin does not give "fair" load balancing

2010-01-24 Thread ram
I try load balancing using a relayhost to a DNS A record with multiple IP's But I find that somehosts *always* get more mails than others Doesnt help if I use MX records instead of A records How do I do fair loadbalancing with postfix Thanks Ram

Re: Convert "_" to "+" on inbound addresses - Thanks!

2010-01-24 Thread Charles Boling
Thank you everyone that pointed out the use of the recipient_delimiter parameter. It took several of you pounding on my thick skull to penetrate it, but I finally looked at the parameter. This is embarrassing: I have *never* looked at that parameter -- and when the first person mentioned it I th

Re: Maildir problem2

2010-01-24 Thread Hannes Erven
Ansgar Wiechers wrote: > Well, according to your logfile the mail is delivered to the mailbox. > Either you misconfigured the destination of that delivery As a first guess, that is the case. The config file contains home_mailbox = Mailbox while the OP's file structure does look like a Maildir/

Re: Maildir problem2

2010-01-24 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
Please don't hijack threads. If you want to start a new topic: write a new mail. If you want to add information to your topic: reply to your original mail, instead of replying *again* to some unrelated thread. On 2010-01-24 netnet.hu - HelpDesk wrote: > log file contains: > > Jan 24 23:46:25 www p

Maildir problem2

2010-01-24 Thread netnet.hu - HelpDesk
log file contains: Jan 24 23:46:25 www postfix/smtpd[28521]: connect from unknown[192.168.4.9] Jan 24 23:46:25 www postfix/smtpd[28521]: 8CC4B7C703B: client=unknown[192.168.4.9] Jan 24 23:46:25 www postfix/cleanup[28533]: 8CC4B7C703B: message-id=<5b3d1a99b19240b4966c10ce3f613...@gyuri> Jan 24 2

Re: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Shawn Fee: > What is the command to check that..I've never checked the Postfix log file. > It would be extremely helpful to know. I know how to SSH into my server just > don't know all the commands. You can find suggestions for logfile trouble shooting in http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#l

Re: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Larry Stone
On 1/24/10 4:35 PM, Shawn Fee at s...@sgfitsolutions.com wrote: >Wietse said: >> What is the Postfix logfile warning message? > What is the command to check that..I've never checked the Postfix log file. > It would be extremely helpful to know. I know how to SSH into my server just > don't know a

RE: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Shawn Fee
What is the command to check that..I've never checked the Postfix log file. It would be extremely helpful to know. I know how to SSH into my server just don't know all the commands. Shawn Fee SGF IT Solutions, LLC | IT Manager 813.817.8706 s...@sgfitsolutions.com -Original Message- F

Maildir problem

2010-01-24 Thread netnet.hu - HelpDesk
Hi My maildir is /mail/netnet.hu/"username" I was configure dovecot for this using text user database in /mail/netnet.hu/user.txt currently gy...@netnet.hu is an existing adress at /mail/netnet.hu/gyuri. Content is: cur dovecot.index dovecot.index.cache dovecot.index.log new tmp I

Re: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Shawn Fee: > Sorry I meant Plesk 9.3.0. And the problem was suppose to be fixed in this > realease. What is the Postfix logfile warning message? Wietse

RE: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Shawn Fee
Sorry I meant Plesk 9.3.0. And the problem was suppose to be fixed in this realease. Shawn Fee SGF IT Solutions, LLC | IT Manager 813.817.8706 s...@sgfitsolutions.com -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Sahil Ta

Re: smtpd skips command line parameters from master.cf?

2010-01-24 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* SZÉKELYI Szabolcs : > Hi, > > I can't figure out why but to me it looks like smtpd instances started > from master.cf don't pick up all the parameter assignments. I have an > smtpd transport defined as: > > 10.121.8.1:smtp inet n - n - - smtpd > -o local_transport=v

smtpd skips command line parameters from master.cf?

2010-01-24 Thread SZÉKELYI Szabolcs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I can't figure out why but to me it looks like smtpd instances started from master.cf don't pick up all the parameter assignments. I have an smtpd transport defined as: 10.121.8.1:smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o local_tr

Re: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Shawn Fee: > Is there a fix for the "451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error" yet? I > heard to increase the smtp_proxy_timeout = 600s in the main.cf file, but > then I heard that can run down your server. You have a configuration error, and you need to look in the Postfix mail logfile for details

Re: greylisting question

2010-01-24 Thread J.D. Bronson
On 1/24/10 8:09 AM, Martin Strand wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:00:21 +0100, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have noticed (at times) that sometimes email gets greylisted when the user doesn't exist in my system. The mail ultimately get's rejected, but I cant figure out why it's greylisting when it's inv

Re: greylisting question

2010-01-24 Thread Martin Strand
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:00:21 +0100, J.D. Bronson wrote: I have noticed (at times) that sometimes email gets greylisted when the user doesn't exist in my system. The mail ultimately get's rejected, but I cant figure out why it's greylisting when it's invalid to begin with? Greylisting, to me..s

greylisting question

2010-01-24 Thread J.D. Bronson
I have noticed (at times) that sometimes email gets greylisted when the user doesn't exist in my system. The mail ultimately get's rejected, but I cant figure out why it's greylisting when it's invalid to begin with? Greylisting, to me..should be the last resort.. I have this way up near the t

Re: Putting $data_directory on a RAM filesystem

2010-01-24 Thread Stefan Foerster
* Victor Duchovni : > On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 06:08:40PM +0100, Stefan Foerster wrote: > > In case of severe server "overload", with postscreen(8) complaining > > about lookup and update times around 400ms almost every mail, is it > > (reasonably) safe as a last desperate measure to put $data_direc

Re: 451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error

2010-01-24 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Shawn Fee wrote: > Is there a fix for the "451 4.3.0 Error: queue file write error" yet? > I heard to increase the smtp_proxy_timeout = 600s in the main.cf file, > but then I heard that can run down your server. The 451 sent from your server to SMTP clients is purposely vague