Re: Case sensitive local user accounts

2013-01-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 01/07/2013 07:17 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Randy Ramsdell: >> What is the configuration forces postfix to honor what is found in >> virtual_alias_maps ? >> >> e.g. >> >> support@$domain.com LocalAccount > > It does. > &

Case sensitive local user accounts

2013-01-07 Thread Randy Ramsdell
What is the configuration forces postfix to honor what is found in virtual_alias_maps ? e.g. support@$domain.com LocalAccount Thanks.

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-27 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/27/11 09:33, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/27/2011 8:03 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: /etc/postfix/virtual: #f...@example.com stays itself. f...@example.comf...@example.com #b...@example.com goes elsewhere. b...@example.comother@elsewhere /etc/postfix

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-27 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/26/11 16:12, Wietse Venema wrote: Randy Ramsdell: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] On 09/26/11 14:36, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/26/2011 1:31 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: On 09/26/11 14:18, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/26/2011 1:00 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: On 09/22/11 13:45

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-26 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/26/11 14:36, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/26/2011 1:31 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: On 09/26/11 14:18, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/26/2011 1:00 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: On 09/22/11 13:45, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I cannot find the the way to grab all "to's" rewritten to go to a single

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-26 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/26/11 14:18, Noel Jones wrote: On 9/26/2011 1:00 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: On 09/22/11 13:45, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I cannot find the the way to grab all "to's" rewritten to go to a single "to:". We need to send all mail coming out of our QA environment

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-26 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/22/11 13:45, Randy Ramsdell wrote: I cannot find the the way to grab all "to's" rewritten to go to a single "to:". We need to send all mail coming out of our QA environment and send that to a single, probably, local address. The list of senders will be in the

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-23 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/23/11 13:35, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Please disregard. Typo but I doubt you've seen the last issue regarding this configuration. :)

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-23 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/22/11 16:33, Wietse Venema wrote: Randy Ramsdell: /etc/postfix/main.cf: virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual /etc/postfix/virtual: # All example.com users become mails...@example.net. @example.com mails...@example.net # Except for f...@example.com

Re: Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-22 Thread Randy Ramsdell
On 09/22/11 15:51, Wietse Venema wrote: Randy Ramsdell: I cannot find the the way to grab all "to's" rewritten to go to a single "to:". We need to send all mail coming out of our QA environment and send that to a single, probably, local address. The list of senders wil

Many to one address rewriting, exceptions exist.

2011-09-22 Thread Randy Ramsdell
as to be configured. We will also select a few "to's" where we send these off as normal. No external to our network mail we need to be routed. So far I read about transport maps and the address rewriting but don't see a way or the best way to accomplish this. Advice appreciated, Randy Ramsdell

Re: E-mail file location

2011-06-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Wietse Venema wrote: Randy Ramsdell: Looking through our logs, I see a java process connecting to a bulk-mail server but cannot find any mail it is sending. How do you know that it is sending email? Postfix logs all email transactions, including rejects and deliveries. Wietse I do

E-mail file location

2011-06-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Looking through our logs, I see a java process connecting to a bulk-mail server but cannot find any mail it is sending. The logs are as follows and this continues for a long time. Jun 29 10:36:43 dfbbl05 postfix/smtpd[2905]: disconnect from dfbbl9.shared.activedatatech.net[192.168.22.109] Jun

Re: Sending Bulk Mails

2011-06-06 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Wietse Venema wrote: Stan Hoeppner: On 6/4/2011 6:25 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: My recommendation to the OP is to consider outsourcing this. It will not cost that much, and a reputable email service provider can be well worth what they charge. Conversely to do it inhouse I would recommend tearing

Re: Selective "RCPT TO" restrictions.

2011-05-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: I am trying to configure a very selective list on who can send to a certain local accounts ( could be many and currently contains maybe 30 ). Currently, this is covered by: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix

Re: Selective "RCPT TO" restrictions.

2011-05-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Randy Ramsdell wrote: I am trying to configure a very selective list on who can send to a certain local accounts ( could be many and currently contains maybe 30 ). Currently, this is covered by: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/protected_lists

Selective "RCPT TO" restrictions.

2011-05-02 Thread Randy Ramsdell
I am trying to configure a very selective list on who can send to a certain local accounts ( could be many and currently contains maybe 30 ). Currently, this is covered by: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/protected_lists,permit_mynetworks,permit_sasl_au

Re: how to flush frozen email from queue

2011-04-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
/dev/rob0 wrote: As you can see, sendmail does not appear ... How can I fix it? This could be ugly. Installation from source, even correctly done, interferes with OS features like this "alternatives" thing. It is well worth your while to spend some time learning how properly to manage your

Re: Am I sending backscatter?

2011-04-15 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Steve Jenkins wrote: I saw this in my maillog just now: Apr 15 09:03:00 carbonfiber postfix/qmgr[28665]: 53D87104259C: from=, size=16858, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Apr 15 09:03:01 carbonfiber amavis[28076]: (28076-20) Blocked BAD-HEADER, [50.22.180.134] [50.22.180.134] -> , Message-ID: <3297072511

Re: Reject /Discard outbound domain?

2011-04-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Noel Jones wrote: On 4/12/2011 10:41 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Noel Jones wrote: Sorry, this is simply related to file format it appears. Ah! A question! Well, not really. main.cf smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/protected_lists protected_lists

Re: acquire Postfix statistics

2011-04-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Zhou, Yan wrote: Hi There, How do you gather statistics for messages delivered and processed via Postfix (both inbound and outbound)? For instance, to show on a daily basis, how many messages we have received from each domain, how many messages we have delivered to each domain, etc. I have see

Re: Reject /Discard outbound domain?

2011-04-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Noel Jones wrote: On 4/12/2011 10:12 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Noel Jones wrote: On 4/12/2011 8:28 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Hi, I am trying to block all mail going to a certain domain. We use smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/protected_lists and it

Re: Reject /Discard outbound domain?

2011-04-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Noel Jones wrote: On 4/12/2011 8:28 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Hi, I am trying to block all mail going to a certain domain. We use smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/protected_lists and it counterpart: smtpd_restriction_classes = list_blocks list_blocks

Reject /Discard outbound domain?

2011-04-12 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Hi, I am trying to block all mail going to a certain domain. We use smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/protected_lists and it counterpart: smtpd_restriction_classes = list_blocks list_blocks = check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/list_members,reject The

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Dennis Guhl wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 01:04:46PM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: [..] What is the "postfix-files" that list say postmap.1 vs. If you take a peek at postfix.1 you will see a section FILES. There you can find the files referenced in this man page, including the pos

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 12:43:38PM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:49:00AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Okay every single man page, and there are MANY, is also causing an error. This are all related to opensuse's po

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:49:00AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Okay every single man page, and there are MANY, is also causing an error. This are all related to opensuse's postfix-docs rpm which does not create sym links to the gzipped page. If they change the

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:54:57AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Now I am on dict_mysql.so. So I stalled postfix-mysql, now exiting for pqsql. Is there a way to edit a configuration so the program skips certain features? No, you need to fix all

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:54:57AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Now I am on dict_mysql.so. So I stalled postfix-mysql, now exiting for pqsql. Is there a way to edit a configuration so the program skips certain features? No, you need to fix all the problems. It seems

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:02:47AM -0400, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Argh, I ran postfix upgrade-configuration but not set-permissions. When I do add the set-permissions argument, there is an error for README_FILES. postfix upgrade-configuration set-permissions chown

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Wietse Venema wrote: Randy Ramsdell: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Ralf Hildebrandt : * Randy Ramsdell : Apr 8 10:10:30 atlbl6 postfix/qmgr[11959]: warning: connect to transport private/retry: Connection refused grep retry /etc/postfix/master.cf what do you see? # grep retry /etc/postfix

Re: qmgr warning

2011-04-08 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Ralf Hildebrandt : * Randy Ramsdell : Apr 8 10:10:30 atlbl6 postfix/qmgr[11959]: warning: connect to transport private/retry: Connection refused grep retry /etc/postfix/master.cf what do you see? # grep retry /etc/postfix/master.cf retry unix

qmgr warning

2011-04-08 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Apr 8 10:10:30 atlbl6 postfix/qmgr[11959]: warning: connect to transport private/retry: Connection refused This is a new postfix server Version: 2.7.2-12.3 opensuse 11.4 Where would I begin to troubleshoot this? RCR

Re: Windows Live problems

2011-03-18 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Mark Moellering wrote: I am new to postfix. I have it set it up with dovecot on a unix box : postfix 2.8 on freebsd 8.1 While it tests fine under Thunderbird (and kde-mail), I currently can't send mail via Windows Live, although I can receive it. I have been looking at the log files. This

Re: ..::Smtp Attacks::..

2011-03-14 Thread Randy Ramsdell
mouss wrote: Le 13/03/2011 17:57, Alfonso Alejandro Reyes Jimenez a écrit : Hi everyone. I'm sending this email because I'm looking for a reference regarding smtp attacks, this is because I'm working to create some smtp signatures for the snort solution. It's not directly with snort, I'm wil

Re: message id is a unique number?

2011-03-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:05:18PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: Postfix uses the inode number in the name, because the name needs to be unique across the incoming, active, and deferred directories. Postfix could lengthen the time before reuse, by including more time infor

Re: Postix Newbie: Send all outbound mail to another postfix server

2011-03-09 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Randy Ramsdell put forth on 3/8/2011 3:57 PM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: FYI, the PBL isn't limited to dynamic listings. Many corporations add their unused IP space to the PBL, along with other IPs within their netblocks that shouldn't be sending direct mail. They

Re: Postix Newbie: Send all outbound mail to another postfix server

2011-03-08 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Dennis Guhl put forth on 3/8/2011 11:52 AM: If you are blocked because of Spamhaus' PBL you are on an consumer dial up (http://www.spamhaus.org/pbl/) FYI, the PBL isn't limited to dynamic listings. Many corporations add their unused IP space to the PBL, along with other

Re: Question on how to setup amavisd with dovecot

2011-03-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Islam, Towhid wrote: I am trying to set up a mail system with postfix being the core (smtp) and dovecot for imap/pop3 for end-user mail delivery/retrieval. While I have configured spam and virus scanning for my postfix based mail relay hosts, I’m not sure how to incorporate amavisd (for clamav

Re: mysql GPL/postfix IPL incompatibility

2011-03-03 Thread Randy Ramsdell
mouss wrote: Le 01/03/2011 11:25, Matthias Andree a écrit : Am 28.02.2011 23:57, schrieb Quanah Gibson-Mount: The main issue I see at the moment really is the inability to legally link Postfix to MySQL, removing a valuable piece of Postfix functionality. Not a loss. If MySQL and Postfix turn

Re: Work-in-progress: trickle attack defense

2011-01-27 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Wietse Venema wrote: I added the following entry to the wip.html file on the Postfix website. Wietse Trickle attack defense The postscreen daemon, available with Postfix 2.8 and later, already implements time limits to receive one complete SMTP command line

Re: Work-in-progress: trickle attack defense

2011-01-27 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Wietse Venema wrote: I added the following entry to the wip.html file on the Postfix website. Wietse Trickle attack defense The postscreen daemon, available with Postfix 2.8 and later, already implements time limits to receive one complete SMTP command line. Postscreen uses a default t

Re: Relay config assistance

2011-01-20 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Cameron Smith wrote: Hello, I have a VPS with postfix as my MTA. vps.sweetwise.com My MX is handled by another remote server and mail accounts for my domain are configured there. sweetwise.com . 3600 IN MX 0 smtp.secureserver.net

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-11 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Jonathan Tripathy wrote: On 11/01/11 16:34, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: On 2011-01-11 at 16:25:38 +, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: So have my entire email system run on 2 boxes alone? What if the postfix box were to go down? What if the Dovecot box were to go down? In my solution, if a box (or VM

Re: mycingular listed on xbl

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 01:01:25PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Yes, they should be listed. Why should they? They have mail servers too. I just don't get this. The individual phones sending directly to your MX host should be black-listed. The ISP's out

Re: mycingular listed on xbl

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 12:37:24PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: It appears mycingular ( iphone ) ips are listed on spamhaus ( XBL and PBL ) for 8 days. I have reject at the smtpd level if found. So my users are complaining and I am stuck on the phone with ATT to get

Re: mycingular listed on xbl

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Noel Jones wrote: On 12/21/2010 11:37 AM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: It appears mycingular ( iphone ) ips are listed on spamhaus ( XBL and PBL ) for 8 days. Yes, they should be listed. Why should they? They have mail servers too. I just don't get this. I have reject at the smtpd lev

mycingular listed on xbl

2010-12-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
? Thanks, Randy Ramsdell

Re: CC all messages relayed through postfix

2010-12-14 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Jeroen Geilman wrote: On 12/14/10 4:04 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote: Matt Hayes wrote: BCC'ing all of your user's email is unethical IMHO. Scan outgoing and incoming email for spam; done. That way you aren't compromising your users' private information nor possible secu

Re: CC all messages relayed through postfix

2010-12-14 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Matt Hayes wrote: On 12/13/2010 9:31 PM, Jerrale G wrote: How would you store a CC of all mailings relayed through postfix, sent by our users. We have plenty of logs but they dont tell us if someone sends spam and how much, so that we may reprimand the user early before ending up on spam lists.

Re: Empty From when generating bounce

2010-12-07 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Trigve Siver wrote: From: Michael Tokarev To: Trigve Siver Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org Sent: Tue, December 7, 2010 10:08:04 AM Subject: Re: Empty From when generating bounce 07.12.2010 11:21, Trigve Siver wrote: [] yes I know but I'm not in charge of realyhost and they (who are in charge

Re: Getting connection timed out error

2010-12-07 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Avinash Pawar wrote: Hello, I am getting the following error whenever try to send email to gmail : connect to alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.79.27]: Connection timed out (port 25) And for rediff : connect to mx.rediffmail.rediff.akadns.net

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 03:01:45PM -0500, Randy Ramsdell wrote: So to rephrase, what would be the best practices way given I have to do forward this email and am powerless to change the design other than our setup which may only include trying to mitigate backskatter

Re: Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Zitat von Randy Ramsdell : Hi, I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail from one of our aliases. The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot match its spam/UCE rules so our server backskatters mail. One way would

Drop the rejects from a forwarded alias

2010-11-29 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Hi, I am going to have to implement something that drops rejected mail from one of our aliases. The scenario is that we forward to a external server and cannot match its spam/UCE rules so our server backskatters mail. One way would be to drop all rejects. I think this will work because our

Re: Postfix Optimization

2010-11-19 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 06:05:12PM +0530, Avinash Pawar // Viva wrote: I also noticed the number of TCP connections by *ss -s *command Whenever it goes beyond 900 then mail sending speed is 5-6 mails per second. When the connections are below 900 then the mail sending s

Re: postfix won't start, no messages anywhere

2010-11-19 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Len Conrad wrote: Len Conrad: At 09:12 AM 11/19/2010, you wrote: Len Conrad: The scan dir ownership was fixed by running postfix-install. not sure how another guy detected that scan was bad ownership, since that finding was not logged after I moved the scan/* msgs out. I've moved the 2176 ms

Re: A question about myorigin, myhostname, etc.

2010-11-16 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Chris G wrote: I have a small SoHo network of machines and I have postfix installed on most of them for sending mail. The machines sit behind a NAT router which connects them to the internet, the domain name (as seen from the outside world) is zbmc.eu. All the machines are running xubuntu 10.0

Re: Forwarding pending emails

2010-11-08 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 09:32:00PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: When all links are down, you have a loop 1-2-3-4-5-2-3-4-5 going at local network speeds. But at least this will end really quickly :) Mail should queue, not loop and bounce. But what t

Re: Forwarding pending emails

2010-11-08 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 08:43:07PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: The fallback relays MUST be loop-free. Thus machine4 must NOT forward back to machine1. I was assuming that at least one machine CAN send mail :) Your assumption is unwarranted, and fails to take into ac

Re: SPF enforcement opinions?

2010-11-04 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have SPF setup and Postfix is rejecting mail from explicitly unauthorized servers. If a customer wants me to customize the configuration so that they can receive mail from that server, is that wrong? Their current SPF TXT record contains a hard fail as ... "v=spf1

Re: problem sending outside of local machine

2010-07-30 Thread Randy Ramsdell
appreciate any help. Try: $ telnet your.host.name smtp from a different machine. You may need to update a firewall rule before Postfix can receive mail from outside. Wietse Is it even bound to an ip other than 127.0.0.1? Randy Ramsdell

Re: postfix as forwarder and backscatterer problem

2010-07-22 Thread Randy Ramsdell
Vasya Pupkin wrote: Hello. First, I have spent two days reading articles and searching web for solution but failed there. I am using postfix as an mx for my domains, it accpets mail for different addresses withing my domains which is then forwarded to other external domains, i.e. google.com and

Re: Best Practise

2010-07-21 Thread Randy Ramsdell
mouss wrote: Simone Caruso a écrit : Il 19/07/2010 22:04, Jonathan Tripathy ha scritto: On 19/07/10 18:07, Angelo Amoruso wrote: On 16/07/2010 10.10, Jonathan Tripathy wrote: Hi Everyone, I have set up a mail server (on a VM) as per this article: http://workaround.org/