On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:07 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote:
As clearly documented in postconf(5),
How exactly does one get to that man page?
man postconf
That of course works.
man postconf(5)
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
man postconf5
No manual entry for postconf5
Does t
On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:33 PM, email builder wrote:
I am wondering if anyone has advice on where there are any email
health checks online. I used to use dnsstuff.com but they have
since gone commercial.
You have been given links and other suggestions for this that are
sound, I would foll
On Aug 4, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Chookiex wrote:
Hi All,
I want to do a test with postfix.
For example, I will relay many mails to postfix and postfix delivery
maiils to mda.
But you know, mda may not be stable enough, so mda would not work
occasionally.
At this time, the postfix would bounce m
I don't think that's a terribly good idea, but anyway:
main.cf:
smtpd_client_restrictions = check_client_access pcre:/path/to/file
/path/to/file:
/(ppp|dialup|adsl)/ REJECT
You can move the check_client_access restriction to any other
smtpd_xxx_restrictions if you want. You probably
On Jul 18, 2009, at 4:38 AM, Damian Myerscough wrote:
Hello,
Just out of curiosity how do you let your users change their
passwords?
Adding to this, do you have a forgot password feature that perhaps
gives them passwords to a master control panel of some form?
Did you distribute their
On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tim Legg wrote:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
timothylegg.com.9220IN MX 10 mail.timothylegg.com.
My hostname is genex.timothylegg.com on my machine and my MX record
points
to mail.timothylegg.com
I was wondering if the MX record should point to the
Hello. I am looking for clarification on RFC 5068 3.2 or any related/
updated/replaced RFC's. Outside of those, general best practice ideas
for moving forward would be appreciated.
In regards to AUTH on ports 25 and 587, I was under the impression we
should be trying to migrate all clients
On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:07 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Scott Haneda:
Thanks for the estimation. Comparing a working transaction with one
that does not work, shows no difference. The one part I need even
more debug log data, only states "start tls" and then "failure". I
someho
On Jul 11, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Barney Desmond wrote:
2009/7/11 Wietse Venema :
system.log:Jul 10 00:07:57 trex postfix/smtpd[45598]: warning: TLS
library problem: 45598:error:140760FC:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_srvr.c:571:
This is openssl's way of saying that the c
On Jul 10, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Scott Haneda wrote:
system.log:Jul 10 00:07:57 trex postfix/smtpd[45598]: warning: TLS
library problem: 45598:error:140760FC:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_srvr.c:571:
Debug the proxy. What is
On Jul 10, 2009, at 10:49 PM, priscilla wrote:
In domain x.com i want to authenticate all users who needs to send
mail.
For some users alone (i will specify them in a seperate text file) i
dont want to authenticate the sender.
For example a...@x.com should provide password for sending mail.
Hello, I am seeing a lot of these in my syslog logs. I am not sure
what they mean, google did not yield a lot other than people calling
out an incorrctly named cert/key
system.log:Jul 10 00:07:57 trex postfix/smtpd[45598]: warning: TLS
library problem: 45598:error:140760FC:SSL
routines:S
Hello, I have been looking into this for the better part of today. I
am using a proxy in front of postfix. In order to be able to AUTH a
user through the proxy, the proxy needs the 250-AUTH credentials to
show up.
I discovered that mynetworks disables this for those hosts listed in
myne
On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:00 PM, ram wrote:
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 19:10 +0200, Ignacio Garcia wrote:
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Hi guys. I've been googling around looking for info on this without
much
sucess. Here we are: Some of my customers insist on sending bulk-
email
fr
On May 23, 2009, at 5:10 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Scott Haneda:
I have a test server about ready to become a live server, version
2.5.5. Is it correct that prior to the 2.6 release, that 2.5.7 would
be the latest I want to run?
Unlike other products, you are not expected to stop using
I have a test server about ready to become a live server, version
2.5.5. Is it correct that prior to the 2.6 release, that 2.5.7 would
be the latest I want to run?
I see http://www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-2.5.7.html shows
what I would call minor issues for the 2.5.7 release set.
On May 22, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote:
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Scott Haneda wrote:
After inspection, I would want to re-queue the good ones, and leave
the
bad ones behind. Any pointers would be appreciated.
http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html
http://www.postfix.org/postcat.1
I have been reading up on how SMTP works in postfix, especially the
queue. As I am just about to toggle the switch over from a different
SMTP/POP/IMAP server to Postfix/Dovecot, I want to make sure I know
how to deal with problems that come up.
Yesterday, a user's account was phsished on m
On May 18, 2009, at 9:15 PM, LuKreme wrote:
On 18-May-2009, at 21:47, Scott Haneda wrote:
Glad you brought this up, often times I am using example.com and
then ns.example.com and imap.example.com and want to refer to
something else outside of example.com.
At least example.net and
On May 18, 2009, at 8:08 PM, LuKreme wrote:
On 17-May-2009, at 19:44, Carlos Williams wrote:
u...@mail.myserver.com
myserver.com is a real domain name. Is it YOUR domain name? Somehow
I doubt it.
Thank you for pointing this out. I feel bad for anyone at domain,
company, foo, bar, foob
On May 14, 2009, at 6:07 PM, Barney Desmond wrote:
If this turns into a high volume site, would file based aliases
fall apart
after a certain amount? I also see maintaining a alias mapping via
a file
managed by a web service to be prone to error. If anything I wold
store the
mappings in a
A client of mine has a web service where a simple web page can be made
via a browser to crete an identity for them online. Build a page with
web tools, toggle a setting to add DNS records, update the registrar
to point to the NS's, and they have a live webpage in short order.
They want to b
On May 14, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Barney Desmond wrote:
2009/5/14 Scott Haneda :
So If I am getting this correct, auto-reply is not something native
to
postfix other than in a very basic form, and I should look to 3rd
party
solutions that have matured?
Correct, it is an invention on top of
On May 13, 2009, at 2:14 PM, mouss wrote:
Thank for any info or links to other docs I am missing.
There are problems with auto-responders:
- first, there is the backscatter problem (sending the reply to a
forged
address...).
- second, most auto-responders are broken, in so many ways.
so at
On May 13, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Randy wrote:
You can still do an auto-reply using scripts. Hand off the user's
message, then send it to the new location.
I used smtpd_recipient_restrictions and created a list. I then
passed this on to the autoresponder once a user/input validation
script made
On May 13, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Fabio Viero wrote:
I need to do something like this:
Someone sends an e-mail to u...@domain.com
Someone gets a reply from postfix saying "User has moved to
newu...@newdomain.com"
I need postfix to STILL deliver the message to u...@domain.com (which
doesn't happens)
On May 6, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Philippe Le Gal wrote:
I'm a newbie to Postfix.
My Postfix server is functionnal but the stats (mailgraph) show lot
of sent
messages :
example for yesterday :
Received messages : 2818
Sent messages : 2766
I don't think that the users of the mail server sent so ma
On May 6, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Rik wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:18 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
SNIP
As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time
to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that
the
new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well
On May 5, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
I fully believe that the experts on this list have good intentions and
I appreciate the time they spend helping us. However, this scenario
has happened quite a few times.. A new user asks questions that are
vague or easily answered by the docs, e
On May 5, 2009, at 12:57 AM, Gaël Lams wrote:
What seems to happen is that some providers transparently send emails
through their own smtp server instead of allowing our users to use the
configured smtp server. The check_sender_access check is after
permit_sasl_authenticated with the idea that
On May 1, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Jorey Bump wrote:
Scott Haneda wrote, at 04/30/2009 10:11 PM:
What happens is, under heavy MTA load on port 25, I will run out of
connection slots on port 25.
Have you investigated the nature of this problem?
Thoroughly. My current email server lacks control, it
On May 1, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Jorey Bump wrote:
Scott Haneda wrote, at 04/30/2009 10:31 PM:>
On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Jorey Bump wrote:
Since one of the purposes of the submission port is to support road
warriors, I feel it should be as secure as possible and the entire
communication sho
Jorey, thanks for your email also. Sorry for the delay, but you and
Barney have been hugely instrumental in getting me on track with this.
On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:43 PM, Jorey Bump wrote:
Scott Haneda wrote, at 04/24/2009 07:41 PM:
Thanks for this, this is getting me on track, comments
more clarifications thought if you do not mind.
On Apr 24, 2009, at 9:35 PM, Barney Desmond wrote:
2009/4/25 Scott Haneda :
If you do not like a lack of TLS enforcement on the submission port
what do
[snip... on SSL/TLS methods]
think most are on 587 as a result of most ISP's filteri
On Apr 29, 2009, at 1:31 AM, Nasser Heidari wrote:
Hi,
This is Nasser.
I'm running postfix-2.5.5,1 on FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE .
Today I take a look at my graphs and see there are about 1500 Email in
Queue.
Then I run mailq on the server and see lots of messages like this:
(delivery temporarily suspe
I'm not sure if you can on your hardware, but some of my most
effective countermeasures are ehlo/helo checking for hostname does not
contain a ".". This can cause a very small amount of false positives
so please do check your logs first.
Second is greylisting.
Third is checking if the ehlo
As a test, I have disabled authenticated SMTP on port 25. I just
fired up thunderbird, set the SMTP port to 25, and enabled SSL.
Sending a test email, and I get an error back from the Thunderbird.
Thunderbird chewed on this for a long time. My concern is what was in
the logs. If a custo
On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:50 PM, Larry Stone wrote:
On 4/24/09 6:41 PM, Scott Haneda at talkli...@newgeo.com wrote:
If you do not like a lack of TLS enforcement on the submission port
what do you suggest for users who just do not care enough to use any
TLS? You let them work on port 25? I could
Thanks for this, this is getting me on track, comments interspersed
below...
On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:51 AM, Jorey Bump wrote:
Scott Haneda wrote, at 04/24/2009 07:58 AM:
I am a little confused about main.cf and master.cf. Is there
overlap in
some of the settings? Do some settings exist in
On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:15 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Scott Haneda:
Those seem to be the bulk of the log lines. What is this error
in
regards to, and any ideas on how to solve it?
Don't turn on VERBOSE LOGGING.
Ahh, thanks. In the log, how does one tell the difference between
n
On Apr 24, 2009, at 5:07 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Scott Haneda:
On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Still working on getting postfix and dovecot playing nice, current
issue I am trying to understand and solve is this error:
Apr 24 02:14:58 catalyst postfix/smtpd[358]: private
On Apr 23, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Scott Haneda wrote:
Looking at the log, I hit an error:
Apr 23 16:28:02 postfix/qmgr[49216]: 0B073225D0D: from=>, size=410, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr 23 16:28:02 postfix/qmgr[49216]: 11803227FEE: from=>, size=419, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr 23 16:28:02 p
On Apr 24, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Still working on getting postfix and dovecot playing nice, current
issue I am trying to understand and solve is this error:
Apr 24 02:14:58 catalyst postfix/smtpd[358]: private/anvil: wanted
attribute: status
I have 123 log lines of that, they
Hello, mail_version = 2.5.5, Dovecot for pop and imap, myqsl as the
auth backend.
I am a little confused about main.cf and master.cf. Is there overlap
in some of the settings? Do some settings exist in both files, or at
least are interchangable? If this is the case, under what conditions
Still working on getting postfix and dovecot playing nice, current
issue I am trying to understand and solve is this error:
Apr 24 02:14:58 catalyst postfix/smtpd[358]: private/anvil: wanted
attribute: status
I have 123 log lines of that, they vary somewhat:
wanted attribute: count
wanted a
On Apr 23, 2009, at 7:21 PM, MacShane, Tracy wrote:
-Original Message-
From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org
[mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Scott Haneda
Sent: Friday, 24 April 2009 11:54 AM
To: postfix-users@postfix.org
Subject: How to change the log location
I
I think I have traveled from one end of the internet to the other on
this one :) How do you change the log location for postfix?
Currently, the log is sent to /var/log/mail.log on Mac OS X. I would
like to move it to /opt/local/var/log/postfix/mail.log since that is
where postfix is.
OS
Hello, this is a new install of postfix with dovecot and mysql as an
auth db for me. I have built everything in /opt/local/.
Currently, I have pop, smtp, imap working, auth'ing against mysql. I
can pop login, smtp login, and imap login.
When I make a telnet conenction to port 25, I am all
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