Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread Bill Cole
On 23 May 2013, at 10:49, Deeztek Support wrote: On another topic, I had an issue the other day where an outside sender was trying to send e-mail to an internal recipient and their e-mail was getting delayed due to a DNS issue on their end. The exact error was: (Host or domain name not found.

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/23/2013 10:23 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Deeztek Support: >> On another topic, I had an issue the other day where an outside >> sender was trying to send e-mail to an internal recipient and their >> e-mail was getting delayed due to a DNS issue on their end. The >> exact error was: >> >> (Host

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread LuKreme
On 22 May 2013, at 14:33 , Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'll make an educated guess that many folks here have configured > postscreen simply because it was/is "the new thing", without considering > whether they -needed- it or not. Many have run into the same address > based whitelisting problem mentio

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Deeztek Support: > > Manual whitelisting. > > > /etc/postfix/main.cf: > >smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > >... > >reject_unauth_destination > >check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access > >reject_unknown_sender_domain > > > /etc/postfix/sender_access:

RE: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread Deeztek Support
> Manual whitelisting. > /etc/postfix/main.cf: >smtpd_recipient_restrictions = >... >reject_unauth_destination >check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/sender_access >reject_unknown_sender_domain > /etc/postfix/sender_access: >rotary.org OK So check_sender

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread Wietse Venema
Deeztek Support: > On another topic, I had an issue the other day where an outside > sender was trying to send e-mail to an internal recipient and their > e-mail was getting delayed due to a DNS issue on their end. The > exact error was: > > (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for na

RE: postscreen questions

2013-05-23 Thread Deeztek Support
postfix-us...@postfix.org] on behalf of Stan Hoeppner [s...@hardwarefreak.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:33 PM To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: postscreen questions On 5/22/2013 10:02 AM, Noel Jones wrote: ... > Secondly, remember postscreen is intended as a quick-and-simple > zombie

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-22 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/22/2013 10:02 AM, Noel Jones wrote: ... > Secondly, remember postscreen is intended as a quick-and-simple > zombie killer, its only purpose is to reduce the workload on the > more complex filters further downstream. This fact is not emphasized often enough. Many people forget the intended pu

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-22 Thread Bill Cole
On 22 May 2013, at 11:02, Noel Jones wrote: so, the RBLs are getting utilized by postscreen before it even hits the smtp service. So, am I right to assume that the reject_rbl_client lines in my smtpd_recipient_restrictions are no longer needed? No, not needed. But some folks like to leave t

Re: postscreen questions

2013-05-22 Thread Noel Jones
On 5/22/2013 8:41 AM, Deeztek Support wrote: > I'm trying out postscreen and I have a couple of questions. First > off, here's my postscreen setup: > > postscreen_access_list = permit_mynetworks > postscreen_blacklist_action = enforce > postscreen_dnsbl_action = enforce > postscreen_greet_action =

Re: Postscreen questions

2011-11-20 Thread Wietse Venema
Alex: > Hi, > > >> - Is PREGREET always a sign of a zombie connection or misconfigured > >> client, or is it possible for properly configured clients to also > >> speak before their turn? > > > > It's safe. The only drawback is the pain of delaying mail. > > So you would recommend blacklist, gree

Re: Postscreen questions

2011-11-20 Thread Alex
Hi, >> - Is PREGREET always a sign of a zombie connection or misconfigured >> client, or is it possible for properly configured clients to also >> speak before their turn? > > It's safe. The only drawback is the pain of delaying mail. So you would recommend blacklist, greet, and dnsbl be safely s

Re: Postscreen questions

2011-11-19 Thread /dev/rob0
On Saturday 19 November 2011 23:30:21 Alex wrote: > I have two postfix-v2.8.5 hosts for one domain and have configured > postscreen on both of them using 'ignore' for all options while I > experiment. I have a few questions that I hoped someone could help > me to answer: > > - Do I still need the

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Robert Schetterer : Am 28.05.2010 14:13, schrieb lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von LuKreme : On 27-May-2010, at 07:34, Andy Dills wrote: I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) tha

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wietse Venema wrote: Roderick A. Anderson: Also, would postscreen_cache_map work with a mysql backend? postscreen needs very low latency (I put in explicit tests for this). Also, postscreen requires read, write, iterate support which is implemented only for file-based databases. If table acce

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 28.05.2010 14:13, schrieb lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: > Zitat von LuKreme : > >> On 27-May-2010, at 07:34, Andy Dills wrote: >>> >>> I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed >>> for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) >>> that had a lot of

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Roderick A. Anderson: > >>> Also, would postscreen_cache_map work with a mysql backend? > >> postscreen needs very low latency (I put in explicit tests for > >> this). Also, postscreen requires read, write, iterate support > >> which is implemented only for file-based databases. > >> > >> If table

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Andy Dills wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010, Wietse Venema wrote: Andy Dills: I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just th

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von LuKreme : On 27-May-2010, at 07:34, Andy Dills wrote: I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just throw hardwa

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Andy Dills
On Thu, 27 May 2010, Wietse Venema wrote: > Andy Dills: > > > > I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed > > for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) > > that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just > >

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-27 Thread LuKreme
On 27-May-2010, at 07:34, Andy Dills wrote: > > I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed > for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) > that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just > throw hardware at the p

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-27 Thread Nataraj
Andy Dills wrote: I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just throw hardware at the problem, and we've had a whole cluste

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-27 Thread Wietse Venema
Andy Dills: > > I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed > for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) > that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just > throw hardware at the problem, and we've had a whole cl

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-27 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 27.05.2010 15:34, schrieb Andy Dills: > > I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed > for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) > that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just > throw hardware at the prob