Re: MIME Parser Error - Can't Send Email

2011-11-02 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > MIME::Parser is a Perl module. Postfix is not written in Perl. > >http://search.cpan.org/~dskoll/MIME-tools-5.502/lib/MIME/Parser.pm > > Are you using a content filter that is written in Perl? I'm aware Postfix isn't coded in Perl. I'm g

Re: MIME Parser Error - Can't Send Email

2011-11-02 Thread Carlos Mennens
Is there a command in Postfix to remove / delete all messages in the queue? All I could find is using 'postsuper -d .

Re: MIME Parser Error - Can't Send Email

2011-11-02 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > That's probably amavis, not postfix > Look at the amavis messages in your mail.log I think you're right. Postfix appears to be working fine. I'll view the logs and hit up the Amavisd-new mailing list. Sadly nothing in /var/log/maillog show

MIME Parser Error - Can't Send Email

2011-11-02 Thread Carlos Mennens
Today for some reason my company Postfix server is no longer working. I'm running 'postfix-2.3.3-2.3.el5_6' & have not made any changes and or updates to the server. I checked the queue in Postfix using 'postqueue -p' and it's backed up with the following error: (host 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] said: 45

Re: Request For Port 587

2011-08-18 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Matt Hayes wrote: > Carlos, > > This is a direct quote from a bot running in #postfix on freenode: > > Port 587 is submission, for user submission of mail, NOT suitable for mail > exchange. See the commented example in master.cf. also >                      see !ms

Request For Port 587

2011-08-18 Thread Carlos Mennens
Today I received a ticket for altering the way my Postfix server handles mail and I don't understand it. The ticket / request is pasted below: ** According to RFC 4409 client mail submission to an email server is supposed to use port 587. Server to serve

Re: Port 587 Per RFC 4409

2011-06-21 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > please provide configuration and NOT netstat > > [root@testserver:/buildserver/autotest/parts/ffmpeg]$ cat > /etc/postfix/master.cf | grep submission > submission      inet  n       -       n       -       20      smtpd -o > smtpd_client_c

Port 587 Per RFC 4409

2011-06-21 Thread Carlos Mennens
I got a request today from someone on the software development team that reads as follows: "According to RFC 4409 client mail submission to an email server is supposed to use port 587. Server to server SMTP relays are to use port 25. When I am not on site, I can't email via my work account via my

Re: Understand Why Message Was Rejected

2011-04-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> or would the error just be rejected based on header / body / footer >> (excluding any attachment(s))? > > I don't run their servers, you know? I do know that much but I wasn't sure if there was a standard for that error regardless of wh

Re: Understand Why Message Was Rejected

2011-04-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > They simply don't like the content. Does that include the possibility of attachment(s) or would the error just be rejected based on header / body / footer (excluding any attachment(s))?

Understand Why Message Was Rejected

2011-04-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
I'm having a user email saying that are attempting to mail someone on a remote server and it came back undeliverable. My end user has had successful email transmission to the remote server in the past but when I look at the delivery failure message, I really don't understand why the message was kic

Postmaster Account Getting Spam

2011-04-18 Thread Carlos Mennens
My default account is getting hammered with spam. I've got SA / Amavisd-new working and tagging the messages as ***spam*** however I've just re-configured SA to be a little more aggressive on scoring the messages. My question to the Postfix group is if I can configure a restriction in /etc/postfix

Do I Want SASL

2011-03-24 Thread Carlos Mennens
So I have Postfix working great and I've always used webmail if I needed to send email from PC's outside of $mynetworks. So fast forward to today where I got my 1st Android powered mobile phone and I can configure the Android mail client to send/receive IMAP email but my question is do I need to be

Re: Unable To Send Email

2011-01-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Gary Chambers wrote: > This is definitely not a Postfix problem.  For the record, the OP needs to > choose whether or not they wish to authenticate (via submission (587) or > SMTPS (465)) or send mail with plain SMTP.  To fix the problem as described > by the OP:

Unable To Send Email

2011-01-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
My Postfix server wont allow SMTP from my web server (running RoundCube webmail) which happens to be on the same network / subnet as my Postfix mail server. My mail server is running only Postfix & Dovecot while my web server has Apache, RoundCube, & PostgreSQL installed: mail = 192.168.0.200/24 w

Re: Issue With Relay Access Denied

2010-12-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > We do not need verbose logs unless you were asked for them. Nobody asked for them but I assumed they could shed some light on the issue. My apologies for the inconvenience.

Re: Issue With Relay Access Denied

2010-12-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Ravindra Gupta // Viva wrote: > > > sum changes is main.postfix file > mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.201 192.168.0.200 In my '/etc/postfix/mynetworks' file I have the following: 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/24 In my '/etc/postfix/main.cf' file I have: [r...@mai

Re: Issue With Relay Access Denied

2010-12-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > This really sounds like a DNS issue on the *client side*. > One possible solution is to add "mail.domain.tld" to /etc/hosts so your > clients points to 192.168.0.200. I adjusted the entries in /etc/hosts so now I see the followi

Issue With Relay Access Denied

2010-12-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
So I finally got around to getting a web server stood up on VMware so that I can implement 'webmail' for my mail server. I'm using Postfix 2.7.1-2 and my servers are configured as follows: mail = 192.168.0.200 / web = 192.168.0.201 / Now when my webmail service on the web server tries to send mai

Re: Block A Sender in Postfix

2010-11-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Carlos, > >  I use a badaddr file that lists domains from whom I will not accept > messages. The content looks like these: > > hostforreal.com                         550 Rejected domain D23 > nasty-mailings.com                      550 Reject

Re: Block A Sender in Postfix

2010-11-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Pete wrote: > The format of my smtp_client_access file is like so : > > .dodgyhost.tld                         REJECT Spam sewer. > .evilspammer.tld                       REJECT Spam sewer. > > The format of my smtp_sender_access file is like so : > > barrelshoot.

Re: Block A Sender in Postfix

2010-11-20 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: > However I took a peek at the digitalriver.com website and from the content > it does not look promising. From thier product literature, I suspect they > have > provided the facilities (and technology) to allow bluehornet to keep > spammin

Re: Block A Sender in Postfix

2010-11-19 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Jacqui Caren-home wrote: >> (smtp.burketown.bluehornet.com [67.216.225.254]) >>      by mail.iamghost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDF81405D7 > > Is the important line. > > They are "snowshoing" across the 67.216.224.0/23 range - nasty! What is "snowshoing" and ca

Block A Sender in Postfix

2010-11-19 Thread Carlos Mennens
So I have a company that I've regretfully registered my email address with and they wont stop sending me messages. I've tried over and over and they tell me they don't recognize my email address but clearly they're sending me promotional messages daily. I'm running Postfix 2.7.1 and would like to k

Understanding setgid_group Parameter

2010-11-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
I know this may seem simple and stupid to most of you but I was looking through my configuration and was curious what the parameter 'setgid_group = postdrop' in my main.cf actually means. Yes I've read: setgid_group (postdrop): The group ownership of set-gid Postfix commands of group-writable Post

Combine Mail & Web Server [Off-Topic'ish]

2010-11-12 Thread Carlos Mennens
I was just curious is it common in enterprise environments for Linux administrators to combine their primary email server (Postfix) with their companies web server (Apache)? I'm just more curious than anything and I know this is a relative question with random possible answers but I was just wonder

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Does 2.7 RPM Work on RHEL 6?

2010-11-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > Simon also publishes SRPMs, so you can build an equivalent RPM on any > latest/greatest release of an O/S, for which Simon has not yet uploaded > a binary package. You really should always do that, and not trust that > some downloaded colle

[OFF-TOPIC] Does 2.7 RPM Work on RHEL 6?

2010-11-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
I know there's an un-official 2.7 Postfix RPM that I believe Simon created for RHEL 5 64-bit but does anyone know if there's a RHEL 6 64-bit version available or if the RHEL 5 version will install / work on RHEL 6?

Re: Is Postfix Checking Spamhaus RBL

2010-10-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > Ah, maybe they're looking at all the headers, which is really stupid! Oh so then this is completely something configured wrong on their end using Microsoft Exchange, right? I just sent email from the same IP to my personal and friends Pos

Re: Is Postfix Checking Spamhaus RBL

2010-10-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Is it your Postfix server at IP address 74.235.192.80, rDNS > adsl-235-192-80.mco.bellsouth.net, that is being rejected by remote > hosts due to the PBL listing?  This does _not_ mean that hosts sending > mail _to_ your Postfix server will be

Is Postfix Checking Spamhaus RBL

2010-10-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
I had someone tell me today that they were unable to send email to their customer from the mail server because they got the following error: * Failed Recipient: u...@example.tld Reason: Remote host said: 554 Service unavailable; Client host [vss155.webhostin

Messages w/ No Subject

2010-10-11 Thread Carlos Mennens
I was wondering how mail administrators using Postfix handle messages w/o any subject material? I don't know if this is an RFC guideline that requires email to have a subject but I find it extremely annoying when email doesn't have a subject. I don't know if that's just personal preference or if it

Mail Statistics (OFF TOPIC)

2010-10-06 Thread Carlos Mennens
Guys I apologize if this doesn't belong here but I did a 'Google' search and I decided it would be best to ask the community who uses Postfix from an 'administrative' perspective. I am looking for a statistics utility for mail. I don't really have any specific requirements but anything that can giv

Client Access Reject List

2010-04-28 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have a /etc/postfix/client_access file which holds IP's are known clients that refuse to stop sending my junk. I submit the IP in the file as follows: 68.69.110.81REJECT executiveonlinelearning.com My question is as the list grows in length, is it correct to be able to identify the

Re: Bounce Queue Not Working

2010-04-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > If you want to help out folks who type in vaild-but-dead domain names, such > as tehnews.com, you can add transport_maps entries to immediately  bounce > the mail. > # transport_maps > tehnews.com  error:5.1.2 not a working domain I really lik

Bounce Queue Not Working

2010-04-27 Thread Carlos Mennens
I have the Postfix parameter 'bounce_queue_lifetime' configured in 'main.cf' to 1 day. This I assume tells Postfix to only attempt to deliver a message stuck in the queue for whatever reason for 24 hours (1 day) before it is considered "undeliverable" and returned to sender, right? I want to make s

Reject Notification

2010-04-21 Thread Carlos Mennens
I was wondering if there is a simple way to have Postfix send all 'reject' messages regardless of the reason to a specific email like 'rej...@mydomain.tld' and then in my /etc/aliases file just route all mail to 'reject' to a known recipient? I was looking to see what the best suggestion would be f

Re: TLS Parameter Confusion

2010-03-23 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 02:23:30PM -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > >> In my Postfix main.cf, I have the following TLS parameters: >> >> smtpd_use_tls = yes #announce STARTTLS support to SMTP clients, but do >

Re: Should I update Postfix?

2010-03-23 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Kaleb Hosie wrote: > I am running CentOS 5.4 and the latest version of Postfix it has on the > repository is version 2.3.3. After looking at the Postfix site I found out > that that version is no longer updated. > > Is it worth downloading the source code for the

TLS Parameter Confusion

2010-03-23 Thread Carlos Mennens
I am confused by the following Postfix definition of 'smtpd_tls_auth_only' & 'smtpd_tls_security_level' & would appreciate if someone could please help me understand this. TLS configuration is new to me so I appologise for my ignorance and I did bother to review: http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.

Re: No STARTTLS in EHLO Response

2010-03-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > Your new firewall is the culprit; it's obstructing STARTTLS.  See archives > (this was recently discussed) for more. Yes it is. I just replaced my PIX this weekend for a newer Cisco product (ASA) and I disabled esmtp fixup. Worked like a char

No STARTTLS in EHLO Response

2010-03-22 Thread Carlos Mennens
I noticed that I am no longer able to send email via Postfix with STARTTLS enabled on my server. I have not changed anything on my Postfix server over the weekend. I only changed my Firewall appliance but everything appears to be in order. I don't understand why Postfix can't send emails any more v

Re: Remove Postfix From Message Headers

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:25 PM, mouss wrote: > Don't try to hide. if you're not ready to fight, find another job. Very encouraging but my Postfix server is used by a .mil TLD and the U.S. Army... I am always ready to fight and help save lives in the process. I am not hiding the fact I am using

Remove Postfix From Message Headers

2010-03-17 Thread Carlos Mennens
Is it possible to alter the fact that my message headers indicate that my MTA is a Postfix server? I don't know if this is possible and while I don't specifically want to hide the fact that I use Postfix because I love this software more than I could express, I just don't feel the risk to share wit

Can I Omit Same Values

2010-03-16 Thread Carlos Mennens
I noticed today that many items expressed in main.cf appear to be what "I think" is default value and should not be expressed. I was wondering if this logic is correct: If the following two values are identical, can I simply remove the parameter from 'main.cf'? r...@mail:~# postconf -n | grep "se