authenticate LDAP to email server

2015-06-25 Thread robert k Wild
hi all, i have installed dovecot+ postfix email server and a LDAP server, if i create users on the LDAP server can dovecot pick up the usernames and create a mailbox for the individual users as atm if i want to create an email address for users i add the user to the email server and make a d

Re: Harddisk was full now a few messages are in queue with: status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)

2015-06-25 Thread J. Echter
Am 25.06.2015 um 19:57 schrieb Wietse Venema: J. Echter: Am 22.06.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Wietse Venema: J. Echter: Jun 22 10:26:38 mule postfix/smtp[6901]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Wietse: It was unable to query the services(5) database via the mechanism specified in nsswitch.conf. J

Re: Harddisk was full now a few messages are in queue with: status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)

2015-06-25 Thread Wietse Venema
J. Echter: > Am 22.06.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Wietse Venema: > > J. Echter: > >> Jun 22 10:26:38 mule postfix/smtp[6901]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp > > Wietse: > >> It was unable to query the services(5) database via the mechanism > >> specified in nsswitch.conf. > > J. Echter: > >> nsswitch.c

Re: Harddisk was full now a few messages are in queue with: status=deferred (unknown mail transport error)

2015-06-25 Thread J. Echter
Am 22.06.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Wietse Venema: J. Echter: Jun 22 10:26:38 mule postfix/smtp[6901]: fatal: unknown service: smtp/tcp Wietse: It was unable to query the services(5) database via the mechanism specified in nsswitch.conf. J. Echter: nsswitch.conf says: services: files This mean

Re: destination_rate_delay and deferred queue

2015-06-25 Thread Wietse Venema
sashk: > between.?5. Their response is:As > per the logs so far It your server is making more than one connection > in less than a second and this is strange as It does not seem to > be configured this way.In this scenario even tho the If they can't handle RFC 5321 which says try an alternate MX a

Re: Rule header_checks skip amavis check

2015-06-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:11:51PM +0200, Matteo Manzinello wrote: > I tried send email with CC and BCC and I checked "Received: from" field, > always work. This is terrible. What's the obstacle to doing this right, by processing the SMTP envelope address via virtual alias mapping. If some ups

Re: destination_rate_delay and deferred queue

2015-06-25 Thread sashk
Viktor,What evidence do you have for that? The error messages are aboutmessage arrival rate for the same user. I am quite familiar withthese, and they are not caused by a small number of closely spacedmessages. Rather this symptom happens when a user quickly receivesa large number of messages due t

Re: Is the development of Milters still encouraged

2015-06-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:07:37PM +0530, Ram wrote: > I see that milter.org has been shut down. A commercial decision by the new owners of Sendmail. This does not remove support for the milter API from Postfix. > Now I am wondering if milters are the recommended way for extracting data , > or

Re: destination_rate_delay and deferred queue

2015-06-25 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 08:11:45AM -0400, sashk wrote: >Is there a way for me to instruct postfix not to attempt delivery to >second MX host, if first attempt failed? That would be wrong. >According to the Google Apps support, it's exactly what causes the >temporarily ban. Nonse

Re: Rule header_checks skip amavis check

2015-06-25 Thread Matteo Manzinello
I tried send email with CC and BCC and I checked "Received: from" field, always work. I disabled the header_checks and I used sieve rules but now I have double amavis check :(. First time with the forward from original sender and the second time the internal forward from "m...@mydomain.it" to

Re: destination_rate_delay and deferred queue

2015-06-25 Thread sashk
Viktor,It did not show back-to-back delivery of two separate messages.Rather it showed a single message that tried two MX hosts insuccession, because the first MX host returned a 4XX response.Is there a way for me to instruct postfix not to attempt delivery to second MX host, if first attempt faile

Re: Is the development of Milters still encouraged

2015-06-25 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
If you need access to SMTP session *and* content at the pre-queue stage, MILTERs are the way to go. We milter a lot and we are quite satisfied how well they work. p@ Am 25.06.2015 um 10:37 schrieb Ram: > > I am currently using a custom milter to copy the mail for our > archiving software , with o

Is the development of Milters still encouraged

2015-06-25 Thread Ram
I am currently using a custom milter to copy the mail for our archiving software , with original envelope information. I see that milter.org has been shut down. Now I am wondering if milters are the recommended way for extracting data , or perform some changes to mail in transit. What are