Re: update: 1 mail stoped by 1 user. Now it is 2 users and I noticed something.

2013-09-23 Thread Josh Cason
I noticed something. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:04:55PM -0600, Josh Cason wrote: So this is a update. I had put a few days ago. I said 1 mail was stopped by 1 user in the incoming directory. Then goes away without a error. Well I now have 2 users. But I noticed something the other day and on this user

Re: update: 1 mail stoped by 1 user. Now it is 2 users and I noticed something.

2013-09-17 Thread Josh Cason
From: "Wietse Venema" To: "Postfix users" Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 2:24 PM Subject: Re: update: 1 mail stoped by 1 user. Now it is 2 users and I noticed something. Josh Cason: So this is a update. I had put a few days ago. I said 1 mail was stopped by 1 user in the

update: 1 mail stoped by 1 user. Now it is 2 users and I noticed something.

2013-09-17 Thread Josh Cason
So this is a update. I had put a few days ago. I said 1 mail was stopped by 1 user in the incoming directory. Then goes away without a error. Well I now have 2 users. But I noticed something the other day and on this user. It has a pair of ?? marks on it. So I did a search but still did not prov

Re: 1 mail being stuck in incoming mail queue.

2013-09-11 Thread Josh Cason
nal Message - From: "Viktor Dukhovni" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 2:44 PM Subject: Re: 1 mail being stuck in incoming mail queue. On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 02:15:34PM -0600, Josh Cason wrote: I have this 1 email from 1 company from 1 person who for some reason gets stuck i

1 mail being stuck in incoming mail queue.

2013-09-11 Thread Josh Cason
I have this 1 email from 1 company from 1 person who for some reason gets stuck in the incoming folder. Mail After it goes through. Mail Before it goes through. The maillog show the message showing up. Then that is it. The file stays in chmod 600. I found a suggestion of putting -v behind picku

one mail account that needs to foward a copy of the mail to another account

2010-08-21 Thread Josh Cason
I had a request to take a internal mail account that receives email and need to copy that information to another account. I can do a aliase but that just fowards the mail not make a copy. I'm using postfix, mysql, and postfix.admin. I will answer any other questions. Thanks, Josh -- This

re: (graylisting) better spam filter for postfix

2010-07-21 Thread Josh Cason
I treid grey listng and don't use it because too many servers were not re-sending the e-mail back asap. Alot did and there was no problem. But some took up to a day to retry the message. I remeber reading about DPSAM. Also going to look at amavisd-new and assp. I like the idea of calling it a

Better spam filter for postfix

2010-07-15 Thread Josh Cason
As most of you guys know. I use mailscanner. I would like recomendations of what else to use. I prefer a all in one package like what mailscanner does. It also utilizes clamav and spamassion. The problem is most of the information I find on the net is outdated or for projects that stops. Se

re: spam that does get through looks normal.

2010-07-07 Thread Josh Cason
I do accept mail besides postini. But when I track this mail (spam) back it is comming through postini. What I'm seeing is a spike in spam. This will normally last for 1 week or so then stop. But during that time. All heck breaks loose for me. I admin other domains besides mychoice.cc. Some

re: spam that does get through looks normal.

2010-07-06 Thread Josh Cason
No the message is different. Like this time around they look like this: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. authentical...@raisley.com Final-Recipient: rfc958;authentical...@raisley.com Action: failed Status: 1.2.0

spam that does get through looks normal.

2010-07-06 Thread Josh Cason
I have now went through my config so I will post it if needed. What I'm facing now is spam that looks normal. Looks like a reject but is not in some cases. The problem is that since these e-mails are delivered to the user account. I really don't have an example to post from the q. I use pos

Postfix helo.regexp file for stopping same to/from address

2010-06-23 Thread Josh Cason
A while back I setup a helo.regexp file. I have changed it around a bit. I'm trying to stop e-mail that is sent to/from the same e-mail address but not my system. The idea was if they are sending mail to themselves from my ip address. It would be blocked. Example from my test server: /^we

RE: (solved) Installing smtp auth did not help my spam issue Below is example

2010-06-23 Thread Josh Cason
First of all thank you so much for helping me. I found it was a hacked user account in the e-mail system. Not only did they use his e-mail account they used his webmail too. Once I changed his password. As of yet they have gave up trying. I'm amazed I did not catch this sooner. I did catch

RE: (mailscanner?) Installing smtp auth did not help my spam issue Below is example

2010-06-07 Thread Josh Cason
So did I setup mailscanner wrong or is this just one of those horrible designs. I was thining at one time that mailscanner was messing with e-mail and I temporary disabled it. But didn't change anything. Just got more spam. Also I sent that guy a e-mail asking if he mutiple listed. But I fi

RE: (grep followed msg) Installing smtp auth did not help my spam issue Below is example

2010-06-07 Thread Josh Cason
Now this has always been puzzling. This looks like a spam from a customers machine. They swear up an down there machine is clean. The are also a good friend of the boss. Well he knowns them. What I did was grep the 2E3F10D8005 and then did another grep when 7F92C10D8193 via mailscanner. T

RE: (updated main.cf file) Installing smtp auth did not help my spam issue Below is example

2010-06-07 Thread Josh Cason
Current Config file. Running since friday. Now I have had major problems posting maillog files that was either not enough info, too large, or not in -V format. The first post was not in -v format because if I leave my system in that. It messes up logwatch. Plus I still tried to follow a mess

RE: (updated main.cf file) Installing smtp auth did not help my spam issue Below is example

2010-06-07 Thread Josh Cason
Current Config file. Running since friday. Now I have had major problems posting maillog files that was either not enough info, too large, or not in -V format. The first post was not in -v format because if I leave my system in that. It messes up logwatch. Plus I still tried to follow a mess

Installing smtp auth did not help my spam issue Below is example

2010-06-07 Thread Josh Cason
So I got rid of pop-before-smtp. I setup smtpd sasl. But like clockwork I'm still getting spam. I don't get it. I even found a program called test-relay-pro and it showed 16 problems until I added the sasl stuff. What I don't understand is why the difference between one of my costmers e-mai

Convert access list to cidr but have some extra stuff. Can it go into sender_access?

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Cason
Okay So I want to convert my access list into a cidr list. Since postini has a simple cidr. The problem is I have some nos...@nospam.com addresses in the access list as well as ip numbers. Can I move the addresses to the check_sender_access list? This is what is in my access list. But from

RE: (more info plz from Victor D.)Postini, Has bad idea for adding ip numbers. This is sendmail example

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Cason
I'm just a tad confused. I currently only have one check client access file. That is /etc/postfix/access. Do I need another check client access file with postini's ip range? As below I do have a senders access list. But I don't have a recipient access list because this is mysql under virt

Postini, Has bad idea for adding ip numbers. This is sendmail example

2010-06-04 Thread Josh Cason
So postini wants me to add there servers into the my_network list. To only accept e-mail from there servers. To me this is wrong. For send mail they wanted the below setup. Now from what I could find. Should I not be able to add the ip numbers or ranges to my access file. check_client_acces

re: (update)ip range other than mynetworks

2010-06-03 Thread Josh Cason
I called and talk to globalpops. It is not a range. it is a ip number like this ex: 192.168.1.0 --- notice the zero. So I don't think that will work. They actually recomend what I'm going and that is smtp-auth. But still any response would be appricated. thanks, josh -- This message h

ip range other than mynetworks

2010-06-03 Thread Josh Cason
I decided to impliment some new security and remove pop-before-smtp. But I have some dialup users and some of them use email. The company I'm going through is global pops. I would like to add there iprange to postfix as allowed users. I looked at /etc/postfix/access list example 192.168.0.1

postfix, relayhost, and dynamic ip range though it is static

2010-05-29 Thread Josh Cason
postfix, relayhost, and dynamic ip range though it is static So after fighting with rdns and sorbs issues. Well mostly sorb issues. I decided to route through our isp server. I think this fixed sorbs for complaints about it thinking it is a dynamic ip. I'll find out more. But from what I co

Delayed email after leaving my server?

2010-05-19 Thread Josh Cason
I don't know how to explain this. Have you guys every heard of a problem were email is sent to another server and go stray for hours before being delivered? The only network I had problems on was verizion text message. You send a text msg from your e-mail and it goes into the verizion serve

reject_unverified_sender in postfix woud like to over ride with email address

2010-05-18 Thread Josh Cason
reject unverified sender is nice way to block spam. But it also blocks my other servers that really are not e-mail servers. I have tried to get around this with no luck. I have two backup servers that are not really e-mail servers. There is no route to them but they do send out information

postmaster problem with virtual and mysql

2010-05-18 Thread Josh Cason
A while back I changed my aliases to use the mysql database. Well I thought everything was fine until I had a changed and relized the postmaster address was not working. Okay no problem I'll just link a postmaster address to the support account of my system. Well that is great if I send a m

confused about different smtpd information in main.cf

2010-05-18 Thread Josh Cason
I'm confused about the following in the main.cf smtpd_receipient_restrictions smtpd_sender_restrictions smtpd_client_restrictions smtpd_data_restrictions this I pretty much get smtpd_helo_restrictions this I pretty much get Now with postfix all of these are blank except smtpd_recei

RE: overidding with my networks. Better way of doing it?

2010-05-15 Thread Josh Cason
Thank you for the help. Let me clear up a few things. First of all they are talking to my e-mail server but the servers we are monitoring is the customers servers These servers have one static ip from qwest. We have no control over that and have not asked qwest to fix the wrong dns issue. I

overidding with my networks. Better way of doing it?

2010-05-13 Thread Josh Cason
I have three servers that need to send me e-mail. Two of the servers won't send say avast reports and what not. I get the following error From one server: warning: 71.39.113.15: address not listed for hostname sbs.rtgis.com From the other server: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[71.39.117

Re: update to Small amount of spam still routed through server and another problem with spam

2010-04-26 Thread Josh Cason
After working on some other issues. I came back to this spam problem. I once again do not have the -v. The spam I was looking at came in last wensday (I disabled the -v for a few weeks now until I can get back to it) and one difference I noticed is it does not have a hold header on it. It d

What does postfix need to be in a dmz zone?

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Cason
I have a dmz zone on my network. The postfix sits behind the dmz zone. The public IP address is translated (nat) to the dmz zone. I asked about the proxy interfaces command in the main.cf file. I was told I needed to put in the public ip address for the server. What does this do since it di

Re: Pop-Before-Smtp let spam through Answered More on Firewall with postfix?

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Cason
Major question: First of all can you be a little more clear on the fw setting. I need to get with my firewall guy and check with him. I'm pretty sure it is wrong. It is doing src and nat translation. I cannot get more specific since I didn't setup the fw. Better explination: I think we a

re: pop-before-smtp why I use.

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Cason
When I built the server after doing tons of research. (the old servers ran sendmail and I didn't have a hand in setting them up.) pop-before-smtp worked great for customers outside the network. If I disabled pop-before-smtp they would not work. Just internal users. So without any changes to

re: pop-before-smtp should not put localhost/server ip in the list then?

2010-04-05 Thread Josh Cason
So then from I could tell. Pop-Before-Smtp should not list 127.0.0.1 and the server ip number then. I guess what I'm asking is. I have this server doing multiple duties including sending logwatch and webmail from the server via localhost. This works great. But I think it might be a cause to

re: (still same spam problem) Pop-Before Smtpd question and also can you quicky check the log file for issues?

2010-04-05 Thread Josh Cason
The pop-before-smtp has other ip numbers in the list. I'm able to create a list using the pop-before-smtp --list command and > into a file. Then read through the ip numbers. That is how I know what is listed including 127.0.0.1 and the internal server ip number. Compared to the test server

re: (still same spam problem) Pop-Before Smtpd question and also can you quicky check the log file for issues?

2010-04-02 Thread Josh Cason
Back to the question. I was looking at a detailed log on postfix. When it goes through the list of tests. It rejects everything until it hits pop-before-smtp. Then it says okay. When I check the database of ip numbers. It lists my server and my localhost 127.0.0.1 number. This isn't correct?

Proxy Setting in Main.cf + Another question (with log snippit)

2010-03-31 Thread Josh Cason
My mailserver is behing a firewall that also does nat tranlastion. So the inside has a dmz zone. When you hit from the oustide you hit the outside / public ip numbers. You are hitting the firewall box. Then going in to the dmz zone. The firewall is setup to route the proper ports back and f

RE: A little bit of spam is getting through

2010-03-25 Thread Josh Cason
I don't have time to post alot more info since I'm off of work on friday. But going back and looking at my log. I thought of a question a few months ago. But had not place to ask. We are behind a firewall that is doing nat translation. I got the impression that when this spam hits. It looks

Re: update: Small amount of spam still routed through server and another problem with spam

2010-03-25 Thread Josh Cason
I checked a few setting as explained. I have a stupid question and also my results. First of all it is not just comming from postini. It once in a while wonders in from the outside. Not that I know how since all my mx records points to postini. Just random junk I suspose. The next thing i

Re: Log files this time! Small amount of spam still routed through server and another problem with spam

2010-03-25 Thread Josh Cason
Thanks for the help so far. I already posted my config file in the very first post. However, I will repost it. Plus an additional log file of the attack. Yes to me it seems like an open relay. As stated before when I run tests they say closed relay. As for reading the howto's. I have been t

Re: Small amount of spam still routed through server and another problem with spam

2010-03-24 Thread Josh Cason
It isn't just aol. It is any isp system that they seem to be spamming. As I said a person connnects up. (not one of the email users). Just a random ip number. Sometimes it is postini (we use postini), aol, etc, etc. That sends one message in with mutiple reciepients. Then it sends out like

Re: Small amount of spam still routed through server and anotherproblem with spam

2010-03-24 Thread Josh Cason
First I hope I'm posting a reply back. I'll try to explain better. Since I cannot find the log I need to post. The spam comes from any place. Mostly just foreign IP numbers. Yea we could block the ip numbers but they change. We also use postini and to my surprise it even show up through the

Small amount of spam still routed through server and another problem with spam

2010-03-24 Thread Josh Cason
I have two problems. I built a new postfix e-mail system that worked great for about 1 year. Then I started getting spam that comes into our system as one msg and is then routed out to mutiple e-mail addresses like aol.com. I have since update my postfix config file to block even more spam