Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Wietse Venema
Victor Duchovni: > > SwiftMail is submitting via SMTP. > > It sure looks like the SwiftMail engine is either not very swift, or > is configured well below peak throughput. Postfix is input-starved, > not output saturated. Does SwiftMail implement SMTP PIPELINING, do > you have verbose logging enab

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 11:17:38 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: www.facebook.com 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 00 2 It seems unlikely that facebook has @www.facebook.com email addresses, I'd expect those to be @facebook.com. maybe dkim signed ?, is this not parent matches subdomain ?

Re: possible compromised system

2011-07-27 Thread Julian Opificius
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 23:21 +0200, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 2011-07-27 23:10, Julian Opificius wrote: > > When I connect to my Postfix server using ssh from a remote location, > > postings show up as something like (suitably modified for security): > > > > Jul 27 15:50:35 winston postfix/smtpd[28

Re: possible compromised system

2011-07-27 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 27.07.2011 23:22, schrieb Wietse Venema: > > Is this machine running a webserver? Look in the access logs if this is the reason consider disable smtp on 127.0.0.1 because most of dumb injected scripts are trying this instead the network address! disable php's mail()-function and every funct

Re: possible compromised system

2011-07-27 Thread Wietse Venema
Is this machine running a webserver? Look in the access logs. Wietse

Re: possible compromised system

2011-07-27 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 2011-07-27 23:10, Julian Opificius wrote: When I connect to my Postfix server using ssh from a remote location, postings show up as something like (suitably modified for security): Jul 27 15:50:35 winston postfix/smtpd[28303]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Jul 27 15:50:36 winston postfix/

possible compromised system

2011-07-27 Thread Julian Opificius
When I connect to my Postfix server using ssh from a remote location, postings show up as something like (suitably modified for security): Jul 27 15:50:35 winston postfix/smtpd[28303]: connect from localhost[127.0.0.1] Jul 27 15:50:36 winston postfix/smtpd[28303]: 57A5A220BA: client=localhost[127.

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hi Steve, Unfortunately fqrdns.pcre doesn't help with deliveries. ;) On 7/26/2011 5:32 PM, Steve Jenkins wrote: > We send a moderately decent amount of legitimate mail to our > subscribers (about 400K opt-in newsletter members) using Postfix. ... > But it still takes the better part of a day to

Re: Tackling looping auto-reply / auto-forward mails

2011-07-27 Thread Roger Goh
If users send mails to abc@postfix_pop3.com, I don't get this looping problem; it's only when they send mails to abc@exchange_pop3.com. Also, previously when POP3 was enabled on Exchange 2003 server & "auto-forwarding" was not set up on the Exchange mailbox, I don't get this looping mails issue.

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:17:38AM -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: > > QSHAPE is one tool we were already using, and the good news is that > > even during a send process (one of which is going on right now), the > > active queue is generally very small. Like so: > > > > T 5 10

Tackling looping auto-reply / auto-forward mails

2011-07-27 Thread Roger Goh
My apologies if this is not the right group to post but I'm getting desperate. Currently I have a mailbox (let's refer to it as abc@exchange_pop3.com) hosted in our corporate IS MS Exchange server. This old Exchange 2003 server permits POP3 so that my CRM app can download mails from this mailbox

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 05:17:49PM -0700, Steve Jenkins wrote: > > http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#mailing_tips > > QSHAPE is one tool we were already using, and the good news is that > even during a send process (one of which is going on right now), the > active queue is generally ver

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Steve Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Steve Jenkins : > >> QSHAPE is one tool we were already using, and the good news is that >> even during a send process (one of which is going on right now), the >> active queue is generally very small. Like so: > > The output looks very

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Steve Jenkins
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:26 AM, wrote: > Dual-Proc with around 50% percent usage looks like a saturated cpu core. Is > SwiftMail single process/thread at some point. What is the CPU usage per > process? Watching a "top," CPU usage per process on the PHP script that is running the mailer hovers

Re: limiting messages sent from command line

2011-07-27 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:30:09AM -0300, Alexandre Biancalana wrote: > I need to limit the quantity of messages sent by my users from > command line (calling sendmail directly), ie: 100 messages by day per > user. What would you do with additional messages sent by a local user? Do you allow the

Re: blocked mail

2011-07-27 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 02:45:26PM +0200, Salvatore wrote: > "Ansgar Wiechers" wrote: > > > - output of "postconf -n" > > - log excerpt showing an entire mail transaction from the point where > > the spam mail enters Postfix to the point where Postfix attempts the > > delivery > > > [root@ma

RE: blocked mail

2011-07-27 Thread Salvatore
"Ansgar Wiechers" wrote: > - output of "postconf -n" > - log excerpt showing an entire mail transaction from the point where > the spam mail enters Postfix to the point where Postfix attempts the > delivery [root@mail scripts]# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash

Re: blocked mail

2011-07-27 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2011-07-27 Salvatore wrote: > I can not understand why mail is forwarded from the address: > > aw...@winner.com We can't either, because you have yet to post anything that would enable us to understand what your actual problem is. Please follow the advice you received from rob0, otherwise you

blocked mail

2011-07-27 Thread Salvatore
Hello, I can not understand why mail is forwarded from the address: aw...@winner.com although in local.cf I have: blacklist_from aw...@winner.com Now in log I have: Wed Jul 27 13:14:25 936A82D400B 601090 aw...@winner.com (Temporarily suspended delivery: host-Mailin 02.mx.aol.com [64.12.139.193

Re: limiting messages sent from command line

2011-07-27 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:15:51AM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Alexandre Biancalana : > > > > I need to limit the quantity of messages sent by my users from > > command line (calling sendmail directly), ie: 100 messages by > > day per user. > > You'd need to write a sendmail wrapper for t

Re: blocked mail

2011-07-27 Thread /dev/rob0
Meta-issues first: 1. You hijacked an old thread here, posting about an unrelated matter. Bad form. Please open a NEW message in your MUA when you want to start a new thread. 2. The logs should be posted inline with your message, not as pastebin links. 3. See http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_R

Re: Forwarding deferred queue to different server

2011-07-27 Thread debian
Thu, Jul 21, 2011 ve 07:09:16AM -0400, Wietse Venema napsal: > deb...@orthank.net: > > Hi, > > > > we are using couple of servers with postfix to send newsletter > > to clients. Sending is pretty fast but after a short time every > > server is beign occupied with handling deferred mails. > > > >

Re: Forwarding deferred queue to different server

2011-07-27 Thread Ondra Kudlik
Thu, Jul 21, 2011 ve 01:31:29PM +0200, Robert Schetterer napsal: > Am 21.07.2011 12:55, schrieb deb...@orthank.net: > > Hi, > > > > we are using couple of servers with postfix to send newsletter > > to clients. Sending is pretty fast but after a short time every > > server is beign occupied with

blocked mail

2011-07-27 Thread Salvatore
Hello, on my mail server a few days pass through a lot of mails where the sender does not belong to any my domain and also the recipient does not belong to any of my domains. This behavior is strange because I use for send email the SMTP authentication, below log about mail: http://pastebin.com/SD

Re: limiting messages sent from command line

2011-07-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Alexandre Biancalana : > Hi list, > > I need to limit the quantity of messages sent by my users from > command line (calling sendmail directly), ie: 100 messages by day per > user. You'd need to write a sendmail wrapper for that -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Steve Jenkins : > QSHAPE is one tool we were already using, and the good news is that > even during a send process (one of which is going on right now), the > active queue is generally very small. Like so: The output looks very good. No room for optimization! > We do this one, because each mes

Re: Tool(s) for locating Postfix Bottlenecks to increase performance?

2011-07-27 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Steve Jenkins : The machine we're running on is a dual-proc 3Ghz machine, with 3GB of memory, and we've got .5GB free when all three SwiftMail processes are sending, and no swap being used: top - 17:12:36 up 85 days, 20:48, 5 users, load average: 2.09, 2.55, 2.75 Tasks: 228 total,