Re: Funny headers_checks matching

2010-09-16 Thread Terry Carmen
Quoting Jure Simsic : Hi I'm trying to replace To: header with header_checks regexp rule. The funny thing is, as I've figured out, the rule works perfectly if the Received: header is after the To: header (or missing), but does nothing if it is before the To: header. I've tried running in d

Re: Limit RCPT TO in Postfix

2010-09-07 Thread Terry Carmen
Quoting Claudio Prono : > Hello all, > > I use Postfix with mysql database for the users lookup. I have recently > found an information leak with the RCPT TO command. > > Here is an example: > > telnet mailserver 25 > Trying XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX... > Connected to mailserver. > Escape character is '^]'.

Re: Spam Attack on my outgoing server

2010-01-12 Thread Terry Carmen
On 01/12/2010 09:50 AM, Damian Rivas wrote: Yeah, I've figured out that the problem was a Firewall vulnerability issue, port 25 was open to anyone. I've fixed that and problem solved! Thanks to you all for your help and my apologies because it was not a Postfix issue at all, Don't feel bad.

Re: possible problem with postfix/local??

2009-12-28 Thread Terry Carmen
On 12/27/2009 11:28 PM, Satish Kumar P wrote: 1. "unknown user" (this is really strange, if the user were unknown, postfix/smtpd would have rejected the recipient at SMTP connection itself) 2. "mail forwarding loop" for x...@domain.com (though we are pretty sure that the mail came to this server

Bypass some header_checks rules for a specific user?

2009-12-16 Thread Terry Carmen
Is there any way to bypass header_checks rules for a specific sender? What I'd like to do is simply not process the rest of the header_checks file if the sender matches "u...@dom.ain". However this doesn't seem to be possible, since header_checks only works on a single line at a time. Any sug

Re: Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-10 Thread Terry Carmen
> http://forum.qmailrocks.org/archive/index.php/t-1623.html > > I found the above link when looking for a how to for configuring postfix > to bounce email BEFORE the initial MTA transaction is complete. I can't > seem to find one for postfix. I want a sending MTAs to get a 550 error > if spamc/spa

Re: Two MX servers with load balancing

2009-12-08 Thread Terry Carmen
Osmany wrote: Hi everyone, I have two relay servers currently working with load balancing. I want to configure both servers so that each MX relays only certain domain and the rest of the mail throws it to the other MX. Here is the idea: You can use a transport table entry as: /etc/postfix/t

Re: Filtering e-mail headers : To,Cc and Bcc

2009-12-08 Thread Terry Carmen
ant for message delivery. The recipient information is envelope information, which is transmitted during the SMTP protocol. If you really want to only allow single recipient messages, I'd suggest writing a custom plugin for a mail filter like amavis. Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC http://cnysupport.com

Re: OT: need some advice as to distro

2009-12-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> Centos 5.4 - while it looks like a good choice, there has been some > political infighting going on recently which makes us a little nervous > about its future. In addition we have found that a number of the core > packages we wish to use are out of date (postfix, dovecot, amavisd-new > among the

Re: Postfix/Cyrus Forwarding Question

2009-11-25 Thread Terry Carmen
Dennis Putnam wrote: I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question but I don't know where else to start. I am running Postfix/Cyrus on the same server that contains user home directories. The forwarding mechanism (.forward) is, of course, working and I understand it. What I don't

Re: 4KB of disk space burning on a single email

2009-11-20 Thread Terry Carmen
Arora, Sumit wrote: You are right Joost, 4KB will be the block size... But my question is who is taking this disk space, because email is deleted already. Please show Postfix log entries showing the message being delivered to the content filter and successfully accepted and deleted as: Nov

Re: query about "holding" mails for review...

2009-10-20 Thread Terry Carmen
Johan Andersson wrote: Hi, We have a slight problem with accounts being phished/hacked and spammers using them for their stuff. Servers are as safe as the customer will make them at the moment... which sadly means that some of the very mixed staff answers phishing mails and gives out their pa

Re: deflecting attacks

2009-08-22 Thread Terry Carmen
> AMP Admin wrote: >> Does anyone use iptables or something to defend against attacks? Like >> if x amount of requests per x amount of time send away. If so I would >> love some examples. Thanks! > > Probably based on Glenn English's work (in another email) I found this > during a brute force s

Re: is my server an open relay?"

2009-08-20 Thread Terry Carmen
Israel Garcia wrote: This is the postconf -n on my smarthost server. server:/etc/postfix# postconf -n append_dot_mydomain = no biff = no config_directory = /etc/postfix inet_interfaces = all mailbox_size_limit = 1024000 mydestination = myhostname = server.domain mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 xx.xx.x

Re: Black magic rejecting header Subjects

2009-08-03 Thread Terry Carmen
> It rejects the reception of eMails from within cleanup with the error > code > 5.7.1 message content rejected > and the log reports > [postfix/cleanup] 99C2312CEAC: reject: header Subject: ferte e What does postconf -n say? Terry

Re: not receiving forwarded mail from postfix, all logs seem fine

2009-07-30 Thread Terry Carmen
> > Hi all, > > My setup is simply this: > - Email sent to my domain is received by postfix on my Debian box > - All email at this domain is delivered locally to me (user dan) > - Using a simple .forward file, this email gets forwarded to my gmail > account > > Maybe not the most graceful approach

Re: Email Not To or From My Domain Stuck in Queue

2009-07-29 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix > List wrote: >> The server mx.dr1.us.army.mil basically said: >> "This seems bogus to us. We don't want it, but you're welcome to try again" > > Thats understandable but I guess I am confused as to why > mx.dr1.us.army.mil is telling my Pos

Re: Exclude a domain from processing, and forward?

2009-07-23 Thread Terry Carmen
> Perhaps you could use multiple postfix instances; use use > foo_transport (instead of content_filter) to route mail to amavisd- > new. For domains or recipients that should skip the filter, use a > transport_map entry to route directly from first -> second instance of > Postfix, bypassing amavis

Re: Exclude a domain from processing, and forward?

2009-07-23 Thread Terry Carmen
> Terry Carmen a écrit : >> I asked a similar question on the Amavis list, but as I think about it, it >> might be more appropriate to handle in postfix, before the mail ever gets to >> amavis. >> >> Currently postfix accepts mail for a number of domains, an

Exclude a domain from processing, and forward?

2009-07-23 Thread Terry Carmen
I asked a similar question on the Amavis list, but as I think about it, it might be more appropriate to handle in postfix, before the mail ever gets to amavis. Currently postfix accepts mail for a number of domains, and all mail gets sent though amavisd-new using the configuration below, and is th

Re: Postfix and IDENT (RFC1413)

2009-07-19 Thread Terry Carmen
> Still not support? > > Postfix implements the SMTP protocol. Why would you expect it to implement Ident? Terry

Re: postscreen test

2009-07-16 Thread Terry Carmen
> * Wietse Venema : >> I'm still open for program name suggestions. If someone has a better >> name than "swatter" or "halligan" let me know. Once the name changes, >> all the configuration parameters will change, too. > > "prefix"? It fixes things before they become a problem... > Great name! I l

Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread Terry Carmen
> I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my > configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. > For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network > concerned! I set out below > 1. Details of test with abuse.net > 2. maillog entries for the test > 3. network requireme

OT: Re: Strategies to Prevent Abuse in Bulk-Mailing?

2009-07-08 Thread Terry Carmen
>>> 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 >>> from their web php sites (you know, bulletins and such). My worst >>> nightmare would be having our servers listed in any RBL list because of >

Re: Strategies to Prevent Abuse in Bulk-Mailing?

2009-07-08 Thread Terry Carmen
> 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 > from their web php sites (you know, bulletins and such). My worst > nightmare would be having our servers listed in any RBL list because of > this. H

Re: Open Relay (???)

2009-07-07 Thread Terry Carmen
> Jul 7 17:54:01 mx postfix/smtpd[31079]: disconnect from > localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] It looks like the mail is coming from a process running on your server (localhost). Do you host any websites, run webmail or have any local users? If you're lucky, the "cleanup" line will contain a mes

Re: Open Relay (???)

2009-07-07 Thread Terry Carmen
> Hi People > Very strange what is happening today, so I see my server seems to be > accepting connections from outside to send e-mail, the message as shown > below (pfqueue) > > 5x message_arrival_time: Tue Jul 7 05:40:57 2009 > > > 9x create_time: Tue Jul 7 05:40:57 2009 > Please post the

Re: Postfix Manual

2009-07-02 Thread Terry Carmen
> Hi > > I know that If I ask this stupid question all of you will sendme to man or > here: http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html > > But I wonder if any of you knows about a begining manual for dummy sysadmins > to let them to work with already postfix installation. It's not a dumb question.

Re: header checks not working

2009-07-01 Thread Terry Carmen
> Rob Brandt wrote, On 7/1/2009 9:09 AM: > >> >> Excellent, I now get a match using postmap. If the spam doesn't cease, >> I'll be back. Thanks everyone! >> >> Rob >> > > Nuts. I am still getting spam. Is there any reason header_checks might > not be enabled? Is header_checks being run before

Re: Bounce / NDR messages - how to stop them

2009-06-29 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 14:24 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: > > Whilst Wietse's Postfix mostly rocks you need to drop that 'God' like > arse licking Terry. It makes you look a tit dude. If something sucks it > sucks. No matter who wrote it, who's project it i

Re: Bounce / NDR messages - how to stop them

2009-06-29 Thread Terry Carmen
>> >> Steve, you know the answer to this question: I will repeat it once >> more time. Don't reject mail after accepting it. >> >> Wietse > Wietse, > > You are, of course, correct. It would be totally retarded to be able to > switch of bounce/ndr messages. Mail admins are totally perfect an

Re: rule to manually put on hold

2009-06-19 Thread Terry Carmen
> Hi, > > How can I set a rule to put manually on HOLD all email sent to > temporarydeaddomain.com ? I understand that postfix will automatically > sent the emails in the deferred and deal with them from time to time but > as I know that the domain is dead for a while, I'd like to move them > dire

Re: Regular expression with fighting against spam

2009-06-19 Thread Terry Carmen
> Received: from ost1-v-4-63.static.adsl.vol.cz > (ost1-v-4-63.static.adsl.vol.cz [62.177.85.63])??by > smtp66.swiftinter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEC657112BF2??for > <|arl.b...@domain_name.com>; Fri, 19 from > ost1-v-4-63.static.adsl.vol.cz[62.177.85.63]; > from=<|arl.b...@domain_name.com> to=

Re: Regular expression with fighting against spam

2009-06-19 Thread Terry Carmen
> Hi. > > As I'm new on that group I would like to welcome everyone. > > I've noticed that in my SMTP filtering server a lot of spam try to get > through. I want to block it but the problem is all these emails starts > from | (pipe). How to block it then ? > > I've tried to add /^From: |(*)/ REJE

Re: Defer All INET

2009-06-18 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 12:42 -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp >> >> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours >> >> >> >> You might want to do a little log exploration

Re: Defer All INET

2009-06-18 Thread Terry Carmen
>> >> >> # /etc/postfix/deferall.regexp >> /^/ DEFER Please try again during business hours >> You might want to do a little log exploration and see if 100% of everything you receive after hours is spam Not all mail received after hours is spam. Quite a bit is automated (package tracking, machin

Re: Problem with 450 bounce notices

2009-06-15 Thread Terry Carmen
> I'm hoping someone knows the key to this. > > I use a backup MX service to accompany my Postfix mail server. Right now > the Backup MX service has more than 1,200 messages waiting to be > delivered. As near as I can tell (from the Postfix logs) all of them are > addressed to addresses that eithe

Re: Problem with 450 bounce notices

2009-06-15 Thread Terry Carmen
> I use a backup MX service to accompany my Postfix mail server. Right now > the Backup MX service has more than 1,200 messages waiting to be > delivered. As near as I can tell (from the Postfix logs) all of them are > addressed to addresses that either never existed or no longer exist. The > Postf

Re: anvil

2009-06-11 Thread Terry Carmen
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:34:15PM +0100, Simon Jones wrote: > >> Thanks guys, fail2ban looks great - config is being a bitch though but >> i have anvil working now! > > Presumably as an anti-DoS service. It is not an anti-spam feature, > and should not be used that way. The anti-DoS use-case is

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have postfix 2.3.3 installed and have just found some info on > Anvil(8) which looks like it should be good as part of my anti-spam implementation. I can see anvil in /usr/libexec/postfix/ but when i enable the config within main.cf smtpd_error_sleep_time = 1s and grep on maillog there's no e

Re: handling non MX entry domains

2009-06-09 Thread Terry Carmen
>> > > postsuper -d QUEUE_ID >> > >> > >> > ok. now i want to inform the user about this action. >> HOW can i do >> > that? anyway for sending a notification at this >> point >> >> There is no need to manual delete mail from the queue that >> way. > > > i agree. But now i have to do it with po

Re: handling non MX entry domains

2009-06-09 Thread Terry Carmen
> Really thanks to ruben and terry... > > Let me set this setting... > > by the way, i am curious to know, if i want to delete a particular mail from > the queue (may be in active or in deferred) how can we do that. postsuper -d QUEUE_ID For more info: man postsuper you can get the queue ID from

Re: handling non MX entry domains

2009-06-09 Thread Terry Carmen
> > Thanks for the reply... > > but i didnt get any explanation on how it sends to a domain which he didnt > find the MX entry? > > If no MX record is found, the A record is used. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321 Terry

Re: Howto bounce a message in queue

2009-06-05 Thread Terry Carmen
> Noel Jones wrote: >> At 03:24 PM 2/7/2007, Dick Middleton wrote: >>> Is it possible to manually "bounce" a message in the deferred queue >>> so preempting the normal retry/timeout period? >>> >>> I've got a message sitting in the queue trying to connect to a >>> non-existent server. The sooner

Re: Relay mail server for a dial-up sat connection

2009-05-29 Thread Terry Carmen
> In the case I will use postfix, how can I check out when it has > finished sending mail to Internet (to close dialup connection)? postqueue will show the current contents of the various queues. The maillog file will show a record of everything that has happened to each message. > Both qmail and

Re: How to safely re-inject an archived queue file?

2009-05-27 Thread Terry Carmen
I've already been down this road. Forget about playing with queue file names, permissions and all the other "back door" methods of accessing the queues, and use the utilities supplied. Calling an external app to make things happen isn't quite as elegant as being able to drop files where you want t

Re: Allow Relaying, but not be an open-relay

2009-05-22 Thread Terry Carmen
> > Well, I have a ColdFusion based website that I have a few forms that > users submit to sign up for events. So they dont log in or anything. I > specified localhost in and it works for domains on my system, > but when I send the user a copy of what they submitted they dont get it. > > My main.c

Re: Allow Relaying, but not be an open-relay

2009-05-21 Thread Terry Carmen
> Well, I have a ColdFusion based website that I have a few forms that > users submit to sign up for events. So they dont log in or anything. I > specified localhost in and it works for domains on my system, > but when I send the user a copy of what they submitted they dont get it. > > My main.cf

Re: Allow Relaying, but not be an open-relay

2009-05-21 Thread Terry Carmen
> >> HI All, >> >> How can I allow e-mails to be sent from my website to external users >> (like GMail) but not be an open-relay to spammers? >> > > By default Postfix will deliver mail to it's intended destination (GMail, AOL, > etc.). but will accept mail only from IP addresses in "mynetworks".

Re: Allow Relaying, but not be an open-relay

2009-05-21 Thread Terry Carmen
> HI All, > > How can I allow e-mails to be sent from my website to external users > (like GMail) but not be an open-relay to spammers? > By default Postfix will deliver mail to it's intended destination (GMail, AOL, etc.). but will accept mail only from IP addresses in "mynetworks". I believe m

Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying > mails > > On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other > servers are delivering perfectly fine > > There are no body / header checks on this machine that could > potentially be slowing down pickup

Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying > mails > > On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other > servers are delivering perfectly fine > > There are no body / header checks on this machine that could > potentially be slowing down pickup

Re: how to detect spam attacks

2009-04-26 Thread Terry Carmen
> Hi list > > Im with the next problem: I have and old server and Im in process to migrate to a better machine, but actually Im having spam attacks in the server than saturate it. For the age of the server and because in two weeks is replaced I can't install any program like spamity or similar t

Re: Strange problem with postfix and dovecot sasl auth

2009-04-24 Thread Terry Carmen
> Hello, > > I've been trying to setup postfix with tls and smtp auth (dovecot sasl). > I'm now stuck with the smtp auth part, with a strange error. For a few > days I've tried to search information about similar problems, but found > none. Now I'm hoping somebody here could help me out. I'm runni

Re: check sent messages

2009-04-21 Thread Terry Carmen
> Last night a mail was sent to a group of recipients but it seems like > only a few persons received the message. > The command mailq says "Mail queue is empty, the mail logfile > doesn't show any errors. > > How can I check if a certain message was sent sent? > Is there a way to log every outb

Re: Info about queues

2009-04-16 Thread Terry Carmen
> How I can get more information about the messages through the different > queues ? > For example, information like input/output time. > > > How many queues, Postfix have? 5 or 6 ? > 1. active > 2. deferred > 3. hold > 4. incoming > 5. maildrop > > 6. corrupt (is a queue ?) http://www.postfix.o

Re: Newbie configuration/installation question

2009-04-13 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have installed Postfix on Ubuntu to use to only send emails for my rails application. My rails application is not able to connect to it. Could this be because sendmail is listeneing at port 20? > also, what configuration would suit me best if I only want to send emails ant not receive. This i

Re: Limits for cidr files

2009-04-13 Thread Terry Carmen
> Terry Carmen: >> Does anybody know what practical limits are for cidr files? > > Postfix CIDR patterns are executed in the specified order. Therefore > the run-time processing time is linear in the number of rules. > > Each process also spends some time compi

Limits for cidr files

2009-04-12 Thread Terry Carmen
Does anybody know what practical limits are for cidr files? Specifically, would there be any problem loading it with something like uceprotect, which currently has around 2M entries? Thanks, Terry

Re: mail delivered multiple times.

2009-04-07 Thread Terry Carmen
> I wonder if anyone can help? I've done a lot of googling but still can't see > anything that relates clearly to my problem. > > When sending a newsletter to clients using Postfix as my MTA, I will get > multiple deliveries of the same email to a user, although they are only > listed once. I

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Terry Carmen
Carlos Williams wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: Here we, go again, do please look at the Received headers of the message... Sorry - this is new to me so please bare with my confusion. I apologise again. We're referring to the headers in one of the ac

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Terry Carmen
Carlos Williams wrote: On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Terry Carmen wrote: You'll need to post log entries showing the message being accepted. The two you posted were both rejected. Terry Sorry. Does this help? It was basically everything I found in my log. mail:~# cat /va

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Terry Carmen
Carlos Williams wrote: I noticed I keep getting the same spam message delivered to a building wide distribution via Postfix and I can't understand why the following are not catching it every time? You'll need to post log entries showing the message being accepted. The two you posted were both

Re: Changing virtual mailbox for large messages

2009-03-29 Thread Terry Carmen
Brian Schang wrote: Hello: I have read through the Postfix documentation and have Googled for an an answer, but I have not found a solution for the following problem... In a nutshell, I have a number of virtual_mailbox_domains and virtual_mailbox_maps and everything is working perfectly. Now

Re: Clustering

2009-03-29 Thread Terry Carmen
carconni wrote: Hi, I've been digging around and I haven't been able to find what I'm really looking for so I thought I'd go straight to the ones "who know". Can Postfix be run in a clustered environment (ie: multiple servers running postfix utilizing one data store) under any OS? I know N

Re: unusual access requirement

2009-03-27 Thread Terry Carmen
Res wrote: Hi Terry, On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: I have an internal requirement to deny access to an email address, which I'd like to do via access, however, we'd also like to accept that message for storage somewhere, I was thinking of the access BCC method, but then

Re: unusual access requirement

2009-03-27 Thread Terry Carmen
Res wrote: Hi, I have an internal requirement to deny access to an email address, which I'd like to do via access, however, we'd also like to accept that message for storage somewhere, I was thinking of the access BCC method, but then I need to also send a 5xx message in their connect transa

Re: my mailserver has been blacklisted

2009-03-26 Thread Terry Carmen
Ivan Ricotti wrote: Hi, thanks for your reply. Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: Look a few lines above this. Why did you accept mail for a non-existent user? But I do *not* accept mail for non-existent users: Mar 26 09:27:11 athene postfix/smtpd[29704]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from

Re: Am I a backscattered email source?

2009-03-26 Thread Terry Carmen
Ivan Ricotti wrote: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: ab...@elabor.homelinux.org Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain.

Re: What makes a postfix server behave this way?

2009-03-24 Thread Terry Carmen
suomi wrote: Problem is: last friday, a person complained that no messages had been sent from an application which sends the same message to about 40 mail-recipients including to this person himself. Messages are sent via php-pear-Mail-Mime, which sofar has worked correctly in all cases: si

OT Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
jeffs wrote: Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, jeffs wrote: There is the slight potential for abuse by these logged in users that one or two may figure out a way to send spam through this system by forging (not login) credentials that the database uses to sort out outbound email

Re: Best method to throttle mail to one user

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
jeffs wrote: I have a postfix system set up that works fine (well, maybe that is because it is not totally on-line yet :-\ ). But testing has been great. Once it goes live this system is going to be used to send email alerts to users based on certain database activity. Actually, a script whi

Re: Fedora10 RPM build from src fails.

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
James A R Brown wrote: Hi Alan, Have you managed a temporary workaround to build the rpm? ie there a way of changing the build root directory which is indexed I guess by rpm --eval '%{_sourcedir}' Or is this hard compiled into the RPM program? If what you are saying is the case, bit concerned

Re: header_checks for a specific client or sender

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
Martin Strand wrote: On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:28:03 +0100, Terry Carmen wrote: Martin Strand wrote: Is it possible to make a header_checks rule apply only to a certain client? I've got an annoying piece of software which sends messages through Postfix. This software insis

Re: header_checks for a specific client or sender

2009-03-23 Thread Terry Carmen
Martin Strand wrote: Is it possible to make a header_checks rule apply only to a certain client? I've got an annoying piece of software which sends messages through Postfix. This software insists on including a "Sender" header that I wish to filter out with Postfix, but only for this certain cl

Re: How to index maildir

2009-03-21 Thread Terry Carmen
Jeff Huang wrote: Hi,my mailserver is postfix and the mailbox is set to /Maildir. But I found if there are too many email in maildir,the imap is very slow. Can we set the Maildir indexing?So we can accelerate to read/find the email from Maildir. Postfix doesn't do IMAP. You might have b

Re: Performance tuning

2009-03-21 Thread Terry Carmen
Brandon Hilkert wrote: So tmpfs does use the ram ? I as able to get tmpfs to work, but there was some notion that it too uses the disk. It uses RAM, but will swap to disk if it needs to. There's no guarantee that it won't cause disk activity. Terry

Re: Move queue to RAMFS

2009-03-20 Thread Terry Carmen
Brandon Hilkert wrote: I'm trying to get my queue to ramfs. I mounted a volume. When I send mail to it, it tells me there's insufficient storage. Not sure about the error, but in general RAMFS sounds like a bad idea for a number of reasons including the ability to crash your machine if it fil

Re: Dropping rejected mail from a transport server

2009-03-17 Thread Terry Carmen
Chris Cameron wrote: I have a Postfix server that sits in front of Exchange. Exchange has anti-spam software running that will reject what it deems as spam. This is creating a problem for Postfix, which accepts a message, and tries to send it to Exchange, who then rejects it. That leaves Postfix

Re: Unable To Track Spam in Mail Logs = :(

2009-03-11 Thread Terry Carmen
ts contain: syslog_facility = mail What do you get with: grep mail /etc/syslog.conf Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC http://cnysupport.com

Multiple HOLD Queues?

2009-03-10 Thread Terry Carmen
Is it possible to implement multiple HOLD queues for different types of content that requires inspection (spam, file attachments, etc?) Thanks! Terry

Re: Accept undeliverable mails and send NDR

2009-03-05 Thread Terry Carmen
ram wrote: One of my clients sends mail using a custom application which *cannot* recognize a smtpd error message .. like user-not-found, or invalid-domain etc Now they want our postfix server to accept all mails without checks and send NDR's for undeliverable mails. Even if you can make thi

Re: OT: Diagnose blocked mail

2009-03-04 Thread Terry Carmen
Sorry, I should have filled in all this information before hand :( Server is live and fully functional. it deals with thousands of messages per day and has for over a year. One user can't receive messages from one contact. That contact doesn't even show up in the logs as spam or lost connection

Re: OT: Diagnose blocked mail

2009-03-04 Thread Terry Carmen
Ray wrote: Hello, I'm having an issue with mail being blocked (I think) and I was hoping that someone here would give me an idea on where to get started. here's the situation. (Made up names) server is postfix with amavis-new, spam-assassin and dovecot. logs are fairly verbose. Alice (al..

Re: denyhosts-like postfix brute force block?

2009-03-03 Thread Terry Carmen
Cameron Camp wrote: I've been happily using denyhosts for ssh brute force attacks, 1. What are best practices for the same functionality for Postfix 2. Are there "gotcha's" for trying to use denyhosts/fail2ban for this 3. Should I use something else? I'd like to stop attacks at the iptable/tcp

Re: How can I change from header format?

2009-02-20 Thread Terry Carmen
header like From: "Jon Doe" <mailto:john...@somethingsomething.com>> This is a mail client issue, not a server issue. You need to fix the "from" address in whatever is creating the message. Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC 315.382.3939 http://cnysupport.com

Re: Holiday/out of office message

2009-02-13 Thread Terry Carmen
Schwalbe, Oliver wrote: Hello Newsgroup, i will implement a holiday/out of office message in my postfix. the user should sent a message to holiday@ and the holiday/out of office notification for the mailsender are active. with a 2. mail to holiday@ the notification will be inactive. Can any

Re: Mail Received But Not Delivered

2009-02-11 Thread Terry Carmen
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: Postfix delivered it to procmail, so postfix is done with it. I saw that, but there's nothing in ~/procmail/log since 2007. Time to look further. Yep. That's definitely a good place to start. At a minimum the pr

Re: Mail Received But Not Delivered

2009-02-11 Thread Terry Carmen
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: What do you get with: grep E4041AAE /var/log/maillog Terry, Feb 9 11:43:58 salmo postfix/smtpd[17963]: E4041AAE: client=vms173007pub.verizon.net[206.46.173.7] Feb 9 11:43:59 salmo postfix/cleanup[17966]: E4041AAE: message-id

Re: Mail Received But Not Delivered

2009-02-11 Thread Terry Carmen
21684]: 8BA1AF50: from=, size=4839, nrcpt=1 (queue active) I've replace the actual username. There should be nothing in procmail that prevents delivery so I'm really puzzled where these went. Thanks, Rich What do you get with: grep E4041AAE /var/log/maillog and postqueue -p ? T

Re: Assistance with email error

2009-02-11 Thread Terry Carmen
Joey wrote: Hello All, I have researched this without a 100% clear reason that an exchange server would return this error: The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 #5.1.0 Address rejected My guess is it’s an invalid email address that we attempted to be delivered to, but I w

Re: Building postfix for packaging

2009-02-09 Thread Terry Carmen
Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: We currently use postfix as a part of our overall product, which means that it ends up being packaged inside our own RPM (or deb, etc) packages, and then redeployed when our product is installed. One thing I've noticed about the postfix build system in this is that it

Re: Delaying some email addresses

2009-02-09 Thread Terry Carmen
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:44:09PM +, Jo?o Miguel Neves wrote: Good morning, I'm using spamassassin thru amavisd. I also have a bunch of spamtraps (addresses that were never used by persons, but that receive spam regularly) feeding automatically its bayes filter.

Re: whitelisting not working

2009-02-08 Thread Terry Carmen
David Cottle wrote: Sent from my iPhone On 09/02/2009, at 10:38, Terry Carmen wrote: David Cottle wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have got RBL tests and I got a client on godaddy. Naturally their outgoing server (secureserver.net) is listed. I made

Re: whitelisting not working

2009-02-08 Thread Terry Carmen
David Cottle wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have got RBL tests and I got a client on godaddy. Naturally their outgoing server (secureserver.net) is listed. I made changes to postfix but its still rejecting, here is the extract of the main.cf and the rules. I don

Re: Postfix installation problem

2009-02-01 Thread Terry Carmen
issing on a precompiled version of postfix. If you actually need mysql, you should make sure that mysql and the mysql client libraries are installed. Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC http://cnysupport.com

Re: Mail backup for malfunctioning MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Terry Carmen
Melvyn Sopacua wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2009 08:03:17 Wietse Venema wrote: Melvyn Sopacua: The problem is that postfix will see "success" initially: - client sends - postfix receives - postfix relays, gets OK > postfix deletes queued message - exchange checks quota, decides

Re: Mail backup for malfunctioning MTA

2009-01-31 Thread Terry Carmen
Melvyn Sopacua wrote: The reason is that a client has unsolved ongoing configuration issues with their Exchange server and can no longer afford to loose mail because of it. The Exchange server is not my problem(tm). . . . 4) Magically catch the accepted mail that bounces after completed tra

Re: Multiple SMTP relays based on sender's domain

2009-01-14 Thread Terry Carmen
transport" If you really mean sender, I'm not sure what you would use. Terry -- Terry Carmen CNY Support, LLC 315.382.3939 http://cnysupport.com

Re: how to block arabic emails ?

2009-01-14 Thread Terry Carmen
Murat Ugur EMINOGLU wrote: Dear All, How i can block all arabic emails? example email : header and body content : اضافه مهمه ومثيرة لبرنامج الاوت لوك thanks, best regards. You need to post the actual message headers (View->Options in Outlook, View->Message Source in almost everything else.

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