Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Mark Goodge : I agree. Sender verification has its uses, but it is *not* suitable for use as an anti-spam tool on inbound email. At least one major webmail provider is known to blacklist hosts that employ it excessively. So use it selectively only. or use a third p

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Mark Goodge : > I agree. Sender verification has its uses, but it is *not* suitable > for use as an anti-spam tool on inbound email. At least one major > webmail provider is known to blacklist hosts that employ it > excessively. So use it selectively only. -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereic

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Mark Goodge
Charles Marcus wrote: On 10/21/2009, Chris Imrie (chris.im...@abeta.co.uk) wrote: It checks to verify the sender once, then caches the result in a database, so mail servers aren't hassled more than once per email address verification. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this could still get you black

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 10/21/2009, Chris Imrie (chris.im...@abeta.co.uk) wrote: > It checks to verify the sender once, then caches the result in a > database, so mail servers aren't hassled more than once per email > address verification. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this could still get you blacklisted... http://ww

RE: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Imrie
] On Behalf Of Charles Marcus Sent: 21 October 2009 04:43 PM To: Chris Imrie Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Postfix Sender Verify This message was received from outside of the company. On 10/21/2009, Chris Imrie (chris.im...@abeta.co.uk) wrote: > Has worked correctly, and we're

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Charles Marcus
On 10/21/2009, Chris Imrie (chris.im...@abeta.co.uk) wrote: > Has worked correctly, and we're now verifying emails as they come in. Hopefully you aren't doing this for all mail? If so, you will very likely end up being on different blacklists for abusing other people's servers, especially if yuou

RE: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Imrie
fying emails as they come in. Kind Regards Chris -Original Message- From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Hildebrandt Sent: 21 October 2009 12:23 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Postfix Sender Verify This messag

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Chris Imrie : > Hi Ralf > > Here's the output from 'postconf -n', we have the Sender Verify disabled > currently while we get the address_verify_sender configured. > > address_verify_map = btree:/etc/postfix/verified_senders > address_verify_negative_cache = no > alias_database = hash:/etc/ali

RE: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Chris Imrie
ober 2009 12:04 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Postfix Sender Verify This message was received from outside of the company. * Postflick : > > Hi Ralf > > Where would these parameters be configured. It'Äs hard to tell, it depends on other settings! > I

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Postflick : > > Hi Ralf > > Where would these parameters be configured. It'Äs hard to tell, it depends on other settings! > I have not told it to use postmaster, however, using postconf, it does > return that as the address; > > u...@spam {uk} [11:56:26] /etc/postfix: postconf -d address_ve

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Postflick
ithin 'main.cf' relating to these settings. Thanks for your help. Chris Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > * Postflick : >> >> Hi >> >> We're recently enabled Postfix Sender Verify on our mail filtering >> gateway. >> >> This has worked qu

Re: Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Postflick : > > Hi > > We're recently enabled Postfix Sender Verify on our mail filtering gateway. > > This has worked quite well, however Postfix keeps calling back to > mailservers using a non-fully qualified address, e.g. from=. Because you configured it that

Postfix Sender Verify

2009-10-21 Thread Postflick
Hi We're recently enabled Postfix Sender Verify on our mail filtering gateway. This has worked quite well, however Postfix keeps calling back to mailservers using a non-fully qualified address, e.g. from=. This then sets off spam checks on that mailserver it's calling back to, r