On 6/23/23 17:13, Christian Kivalo via Postfix-users wrote:
Your lookup key is missing the [ ] you used for the relayhost setting.
This results in no authentication to the dnsexit relay.
This is described in the section "Enabling SASL authentication in the
Postfix SMTP/LMTP client" of the SASL
Hey all. Recently my ISP (Spectrum) decided (after this was working for
me for almost 20 years) to make it impossible for a self hosted domain
to relay through their SMTP server unless it was actually a spectrum.com
email address being used. After going back and forth with them to try
to find
> On Nov 4, 2013, at 10:43 PM, LuKreme wrote:
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>> On 04 Nov 2013, at 16:50 , Jim Wright wrote:
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>> Normally, bouncing undeliverable messages is the proper behavior for a good
>> netizen.
>
> *NEVER* Bounce. Ever.
>
> Reject, yes.
On Nov 4, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Ian Evans wrote:
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> I've read tutorials and the backscatter/local recipient pages and my postfix
> is still sending out bounce message instead of just dropping the connections.
> I want to be a good netizen so want to nip this in the bud.
Normally, bouncing undeliv
On Sep 5, 2013, at 5:34 PM, FliedRice wrote:
> I have nearly ten years experience with sending emails thru a newsletter.
> BOTH of the undelivered email examples are due to INVALID EMAIL ADDRESSES.
The next task will to find out why your server is sending to invalid addresses,
too much of this
On May 31, 2013, at 3:56 PM, wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote:
> After the confusion that Postfix 2.10 is not Postfix 2.1, maybe it is time to
> change the release numbering scheme.
If they can't figure it out, they shouldn't be running a mail server. There is
nothing wrong with the
On Dec 6, 2012, at 6:08 AM, Giuseppe De Nicolo' wrote:
> the mx responsible for this domain is mx.191.biz ( Telecom Italia - God save
> us all ) I checked my server logs for any evidence of this
>
> grep mx.191.biz /var/log/maillog* and this is the output :
>
> /var/log/maillog.1:Nov 27 12:42
On Oct 5, 2012, at 12:41 PM, Alumno Etsii wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've been looking for techniques to avoid SpamBot connections to the SMTP
> server (or at least to limit them or identify them easily). One of them was
> the 'Delayed greeting (220) procedure', as a big number of spambots start
> sendi
On Jul 18, 2012, at 3:22 AM, Jim Reid wrote:
> I think too you've compiled in lots of cruft you don't need or understand.
> Your posting suggests you don't care about having a postfix that uses SASL or
> MySQL or PCRE and are just blindly following the recipe on this web page
> instead of readi
Hey all. I'm working on moving my server from 10.6 to 10.7, I've made a backup
of my system and I'm working to get everything to build properly before and
document my upgrade before doing my live server. I've run into an odd snag
that I can't seem to figure out.
I've only found one web page g
Hi, James. I use this here, but mine is a small server. When I see what looks
like a real message that was blocked, I usually email the postmaster of the
other system with a canned letter advising them of the issue and how to fix it.
It's usually just a line in their config that sets the helo
On Nov 24, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Keith Steensma
wrote:
> Anyone have a recommendation for a 'free' client for a mac os x that works
> when communicating to a unix/linux server? I haven't found anything when
> 'googling' for an answer.
Terminal works just fine.
Also, how is this a Postfix questi
It's a terrible way to block spam. It's a GREAT way to block email. Huge
difference there... ;)
Jim
On May 23, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Janantha Marasinghe wrote:
> Dear All Postfix users who replied.
>
> Thanks all for your support. I got the mail admin at the otherend to white
> list the IP ra
Tell the postmaster at the receiving end that they are blocking legitimate mail
thanks to overly aggressive (ie. brain dead) settings from Barracuda. It
should not matter at all the IP address of the person sending an email.
Jim
On May 22, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Janantha Marasinghe wrote:
> Hi,
>
On May 1, 2011, at 10:47 AM, James wrote:
> Why does the barracuda think the "Client host" is ISP2.smtp but it
> blocks the IP of my server?
> Shouldn't relayhost make the barracuda see the "Client host" AND IP as
> ISP2.smtp?
My experience is that the barracude will look at where the message ori
On Jul 3, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Asai wrote:
> Thank you for your responses. Is there anything I can do on my end?
To put it simply, you're going to need to find a way to contact them postmaster
on the other end and let them know that legitimate mail is being blocked. You
will first need to find a
On Jun 3, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Moe wrote:
> My point is: When 'myhostname' and 'mydomainname' are left out of main.cf
> then postfix makes an attempt to auto-detect them.
There's your problem. Fix that. See my original reply at the start of this
thread.
On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jim Wright:
>> OS X 10.6.3, attempting to build 2.7.1-RC1:
>>
>> (snip)
>> In file included from dns_lookup.c:152:
>> dns.h:26:28: error: nameser_compat.h: No such file or directory
>> make: *** [dns_lookup
OS X 10.6.3, attempting to build 2.7.1-RC1:
(snip)
In file included from dns_lookup.c:152:
dns.h:26:28: error: nameser_compat.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [dns_lookup.o] Error 1
make: *** [update] Error 1
In my 2.7 build, I referenced this file: arpa/nameser_compat.h
Jim
On Jun 1,
Failure to properly configure Postfix isn't a bug. Documentation exists for a
reason, if a config doesn't work, fix the config. Don't complain because magic
doesn't happen.
I know nothing about debian, and can't speak to any allowanced postfix does or
doesn't make on that platform. I run pos
On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Jim Wright wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Jim Wright wrote:
>
>> I'm setting up a new server completely from scratch on Snow Leopard, Mac OS
>> X 10.6.3, trying to compile Postfix 2.7. During make, I get this:
>>
>> In
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
What is the output from the following commands on this machine?
uname -s
uname -r
uname -v
In case this is useful. From Leopard 10.5 not Snow Leopard 10.6.
I had no issues (that
On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Jim Wright wrote:
I'm setting up a new server completely from scratch on Snow Leopard,
Mac OS X 10.6.3, trying to compile Postfix 2.7. During make, I get
this:
In file included from dns_lookup.c:152:
dns.h:23:29: error: nameser8_compat.h: No such fi
I'm setting up a new server completely from scratch on Snow Leopard,
Mac OS X 10.6.3, trying to compile Postfix 2.7. During make, I get
this:
In file included from dns_lookup.c:152:
dns.h:23:29: error: nameser8_compat.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [dns_lookup.o] Error 1
make: *** [u
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Eero Volotinen :
I have Postfix 2.1.5 running on Mac Server 10.4.11. I would like
to upgrade Postfix. Which version would you recommend?
Thanks in advance for advise.
How about latest stable version (2.7) ?
Since Apple made a signi
On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:17 AM, Dimitrios Karapiperis wrote:
I attach some pieces of logs for better understanding
Feb 1 08:44:18 smtp postfix/smtpd[17200]: connect from
serial.domain.tld[111.222.333.444]
Feb 1 08:44:18 smtp postfix/qmgr[27864]: 88B76180FE: from=>, size=1997, nrcpt=2 (queue act
On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Noel Jones wrote:
Mail from yahoo.com is now rejected with:
Aug 28 16:24:05 mgate2 postfix/smtpd[53002]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT
from web34202.mail.mud.yahoo.com[66.163.178.117]: 554 5.7.1
: Helo command rejected: Malformed DNS
server reply; from= to= proto=SMTP
On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Ivan Ricotti wrote:
I suspect that some windows users in my network is sending spam... and
the question is: how can I prevent this acting on postfix?
Two options. 1, Eliminate windows users from your network. 2, scan
outgoing mail for spam before accepting it f
So, you send a lot of mails to XYZ Consulting? I'm sure that their
xyz.com domain can't be causing that many issues? Or were you just
using that as a generic example? If so, example.com is traditionally
used for such uses.
Regarding the hard bounces, a hard bounce is when a mail is bounc
On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Ashwin Muni wrote:
Ex: I'm sending a mail to xyz.com and my server could not connect to
the xyz.com smtp server. My mail gets deffered and then it tries as
per my setting but later another user of mine tries to send mail to
the same domain and it happens again.
On Jan 29, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Magnus Bäck wrote:
You can easily find the relevant log entries by grepping your
maillog for the queue id, which is found in the first Received:
header added by your system. In this case look at this header:
Received: from TRXOMOPC (unknown [77.81.179.110]) b
On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Mark Watts wrote:
I have a requirement to split a postfix relay installation across
two servers.
It may be easier to explain the actual requirements, I doubt that the
above statement is the ACTUAL requirement.
On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Paweł Leśniak wrote:
I may be wrong, but I think I should not block sender on helo basis?
Most of what will be blocked are zombie systems that send no
legitimate mail, a very small number of legitimate mails 'may' be
blocked. It's a personal preference, I boun
On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Paweł Leśniak wrote:
Jim Wright pisze:
On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Paweł Leśniak wrote:
One of our users is getting lots of returned mails because his
email address is used as return-path by spammer(s).
I would guess that your system accepting mail from
On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Paweł Leśniak wrote:
One of our users is getting lots of returned mails because his email
address is used as return-path by spammer(s).
I would guess that your system accepting mail from unknown servers?
Start blocking those, and you'll find that these bounces
On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
450 : Recipient address rejected: User
unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command))
if there is an invalid, non existing mail address there. However
they argues that they would like us not to try to deliver mails
again a
On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Norm Mackey wrote:
I had been under the impression that I should tell users to use the
domain "example.com" (or example.org) as default settings in
software being tested and developed, in order that the software not
generate email which would be a problem for
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:11 PM, postmas...@klam.ca wrote:
I am not quit sure what that means. My ISP is Velcom's and all of
their ips have been blocked, so is Spamhaus saying that Velcom
itself are the N.A. branch of Ukrainian cybercrime spammers or that
the spammers are using Velcom's servic
David, you've sent so many messages and replies that quoting anything
at this point is just wasting bandwidth. I'm going to jump in with a
few notes on what I've read here:
First, you are fixating on the wrong problem. If you have bounces
that are queued up, this is because you are accept
On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Hwan Dong wrote:
much thanks for your comments. I looked at the backoff. But it is to
delay the undelieverable messages, is there any way to delay all the
following message for the SAME destination domain?
i.e. if one email to a...@hotmail.com is rejected, I sti
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Hwan Dong wrote:
after there is some rejection, add "sleep/delay" before resuming
sending, this timer could be different from previous "constant
sending delay" as flow-control, this rejection delay is more like
"ok, it seems you are not happy or too busy, I am
On Dec 7, 2008, at 5:45 PM, LuKreme wrote:
The iPhone and itouch are maniacal about forcing top posting.
File a bug report with Apple. If they get enough requests, something
might get done about it.
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/bugrptform.html
On Nov 17, 2008, at 2:50 AM, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
¿how can I know _when_ the SMTP sender will try to deliver the
rejected message again?
That is entirely up to the configuration of the sending system,
anywhere from Never to 24 hours or more.
On Nov 2, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Norberto Bensa wrote:
On Sunday November 2 2008 12:17:39 Tom Allison wrote:
I'm trying to install from scrath on a mac.
I'm not Mac user but...
I am. ;)
I am not through the entire configuration by any means, but I'm
starting
with an error that says the C co
On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Larry Stone wrote:
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Jim Wright wrote:
If you have compiled your own version of Postfix, this update will
overwrite it. Be prepared to reinstall your own version, or at
minimum restore any configuration files you've changed fro
On Oct 17, 2008, at 12:03 PM, Larry Stone wrote:
I rejoined the list earlier this week thinking I might see some
mention of this but as I haven't, here goes. I run Postfix on my
Macintosh running Mac OS X 10.5.5 to serve mail for my domain. This
is the standard (client) version of OS X, not
On Oct 13, 2008, at 5:01 AM, Rupert Reid wrote:
I am trying to setup postfix so that it will start automatically at
startup. I placed the following script "postfix" in a text file
"postfix" and saved it to Library/Startupitems/Postfix. As you
probably guessed it did not work. I would be g
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