Re: Auto-whitelist recipients

2012-09-03 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 04.09.2012 08:37, schrieb Robert Schetterer: > Am 03.09.2012 20:36, schrieb Eddy Ilg: >> Dear Postfix List, >> >> >> I'd like to continously update whitelist for spamassassin of recipients >> that my sasl users have sent mail to (i.e. when the recipients reply >> they will surely not be consider

Re: Auto-whitelist recipients

2012-09-03 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 03.09.2012 20:36, schrieb Eddy Ilg: > Dear Postfix List, > > > I'd like to continously update whitelist for spamassassin of recipients > that my sasl users have sent mail to (i.e. when the recipients reply > they will surely not be considered as spam). I am not using per-user > spamassassin co

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Daniel L. Miller
On 9/2/2012 11:14 AM, Sam Jones wrote: On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 15:39 +, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 10:43:07AM +0100, Sam Jones wrote: More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk m

Re: temporarily suspending delivery

2012-09-03 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 19:36:46 -0400, b...@bitrate.net wrote: > i have an mx which then subsequently delivers incoming mail from the > internet to another computer [ via relay_transport = > relay-mda:[mda.example.com]:smtp-relay ] for further processing. > while performing some maintenance on mda.

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/3/2012 5:44 PM, Joey Prestia wrote: > On 9/3/2012 10:43 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >> Sadly, Yahoo discriminates the Postfix connection cache which limits >> connection re-use by time rather than delivery count. Limiting by >> delivery count behaves poorly when one or more of the MX hosts for

Re: Backup MXs and databases

2012-09-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 04.09.2012 01:15, schrieb Titanus Eramius: >> where do you see a risk of silent data corruption? >> >> if this would be the case it would be simply >> impossible have a omplete dbmail-database running >> on a replication salve over 3 years with a lot of >> foreign constraints and a major schem

temporarily suspending delivery

2012-09-03 Thread btb
hi- i have an mx which then subsequently delivers incoming mail from the internet to another computer [ via relay_transport = relay-mda:[mda.example.com]:smtp-relay ] for further processing. while performing some maintenance on mda.example.com, i'd like to configure postfix on the mx to accep

Re: Backup MXs and databases

2012-09-03 Thread Titanus Eramius
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:39:08 +0200 Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 03.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Titanus Eramius: > > > > MySQL Replication, which seems a bit dodgy, with the risk of silent > > data corruption. > > where do you see a risk of silent data corruption? > > if htis would be the case it would

Re: Backup MXs and databases

2012-09-03 Thread Andrew Beverley
On Mon, 2012-09-03 at 23:56 +0200, Titanus Eramius wrote: > So, I guess my question is: How do you, good and experienced folks, > keep your backup MXs updated? > > I've looked at two solutions so far: > MySQL Replication +1 for mysql replication for backup mail servers. It's been pretty reliable

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Joey Prestia
On 9/3/2012 10:43 AM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0700, Joey Prestia wrote: > >> yahoo_destination_concurrency_limit = 20 > > This setting is trumpted by the setting below: > >> yahoo_destination_rate_delay = 1s > > You have serialized deliveries to Yahoo, they

Re: Backup MXs and databases

2012-09-03 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 03.09.2012 23:56, schrieb Titanus Eramius: > Hello good folks > > I have recently brought my very first mailserver online, and have been > testing it for the past month or so. Since the setup needs to be > redundant, I have also brought a secondary mailserver online on it's own > domain, and

Backup MXs and databases

2012-09-03 Thread Titanus Eramius
Hello good folks I have recently brought my very first mailserver online, and have been testing it for the past month or so. Since the setup needs to be redundant, I have also brought a secondary mailserver online on it's own domain, and everything seems to run smoothly. It's a Debian, Postfix, D

Auto-whitelist recipients

2012-09-03 Thread Eddy Ilg
Dear Postfix List, I'd like to continously update whitelist for spamassassin of recipients that my sasl users have sent mail to (i.e. when the recipients reply they will surely not be considered as spam). I am not using per-user spamassassin configurations (only a global configuration). I'v

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0700, Joey Prestia wrote: > yahoo_destination_concurrency_limit = 20 This setting is trumpted by the setting below: > yahoo_destination_rate_delay = 1s You have serialized deliveries to Yahoo, they happen one at a time. Given that each delivery takes ~5s, the

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Sam Jones
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 22:46 +0200, Lorens Kockum wrote: > The exact same question was sent by someone calling himself > "Ron White" to the exim mailing list at almost exactly the same > time. Peddling one's services by soliciting comparisons with > competitors is so passé . . . > Yes, it was. Well

Re: headers_check confusion

2012-09-03 Thread Wietse Venema
an...@isac.gov.in: > Dear List, > > I have following header_check > > /^X-ABC:.*XYZ.*/ DUNNO This matches X-ABC: followed by whatever, followed by XYZ. > !/^X-ABC:.*XYZ.*/ FILTER smtp:a.b.c.d: This matches ALL OTHER MESSAGE HEADERS. Wietse

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
DTNX Postmaster wrote: They aren't my perfect world criteria, but a direct quote from Sam Jones' earlier buzzword compliant reply. It was meant to illustrate the often ridiculous nature of vendor benchmarks, how useless they are in real world situations, and therefore how silly it is to pick s

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Joey Prestia
On 9/3/2012 3:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/2/2012 10:07 PM, Joey Prestia wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am familiar with yahoo being difficult to send email to > > [snip] > >> Can anyone offer any guidance on what direction I need to go? > > Start here: > http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/p

headers_check confusion

2012-09-03 Thread anant
Dear List, I have following header_check /^X-ABC:.*XYZ.*/ DUNNO !/^X-ABC:.*XYZ.*/ FILTER smtp:a.b.c.d: I tried these header checks with warn, and only one is getting matched based on headers which I send. But, what I find is, when actual mail is sent, always second header gets acti

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread DTNX Postmaster
On Sep 3, 2012, at 13:05, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/3/2012 12:02 AM, DTNX Postmaster wrote: > >> In other words, if 'we strip this back to hypothetical and assume a >> perfect world without any issues', this 'GreenArrow' maxes out at >> 300,000 messages per hour. Postfix can send 10,8 million

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/3/2012 12:02 AM, DTNX Postmaster wrote: > In other words, if 'we strip this back to hypothetical and assume a > perfect world without any issues', this 'GreenArrow' maxes out at > 300,000 messages per hour. Postfix can send 10,8 million messages per > hour, more than 35 times as fast*. In

Re: The Yahoo trickle

2012-09-03 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/2/2012 10:07 PM, Joey Prestia wrote: > Hi all, > > I am familiar with yahoo being difficult to send email to [snip] > Can anyone offer any guidance on what direction I need to go? Start here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/bulkv2.html -- Stan

Re: SMTP authentication issue

2012-09-03 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:28:06AM +0200, Helga Mayer wrote: [...] > >user name jhondoe > >password 12345678 > > > >but when user authenticate 12345678__-- authenticate again. > > > >but when users enter a12345678 can't authenticate > The first 8 characters matter. This looks like a problem of the

Re: SMTP authentication issue

2012-09-03 Thread Helga Mayer
On 09/03/2012 09:51 AM, Selcuk Yazar wrote: Hi, we have weird issue on postfix smtp authenticaion(postfix-openldap-dovecot). one user enter wrong characters after his correct password authentication again. i mean user name jhondoe password 12345678 but when user authenticate 12345678__--

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Viktor Dukhovni : > Running a high volume bulk email platform is not a software problem. > It is a logistics problem. Enrolling on the whitelists and feedback > loops of various large email providers, handling bounce-backs, > jumping through rate-limit hoops, ... Absolutely. -- Ralf Hildebran

Re: Bulk Mailing Performance

2012-09-03 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Sam Jones : > More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about > the performance that could be squeezed out of Postfix in a bulk mailing > capacity. The problem is mostly on the receiving side, when the receiving system starts throtteling you. > I have a client that cur