RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-21 Thread Jumping Mouse
> Ouch. Line ends are a Good Thing. Also, please don't top-post replies, > as it makes the archives hard to follow. Thank you. > > Anyway, I assume that the PIX "fixup" was the whole problem. This is a > well-known and common issue, with just about any site behind a PIX. > Complain to your vendo

Re: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-21 Thread /dev/rob0
On Saturday 18 July 2009 08:28:35 Jumping Mouse top-posted: > Here is my postconf -n output: > > ~$ postconf -nalias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, > hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliasesbiff = nobroken_sasl_auth_clients = Ouch. Line ends are a Good Thing. Also, please don't top-post replies, as it makes

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-21 Thread Jumping Mouse
Ok I took a tcpdumpt on a "delay" occassion, it takes about 22 seconds to send a small message with no attachments.. Will also monitor timeouts and send tcp dump of this. r...@mail:/home/adnim1# tcpdump -n port 587tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decodelis

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-21 Thread Jumping Mouse
> > > > I think it may be... I will check. you think this might be an issue > > with delays? > Some antivirus and Cisco "FixUp" are examples of security by obscurity. > Many of which do it poorly. > > It is recommended to turn off Cisco SMTP fixup because it does not > protect anything truly s

Re: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-21 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Jumping Mouse wrote: > > > > I get a very quick banner response when I telnet to port 25 and port > > > 587 I do get different banners > > > for port 25 I get: > > > 220 * > > > > > Cisco Pix running SMTP 'Fixup' ? > > > > > > I think it may be... I will

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-21 Thread Jumping Mouse
> > > > > > > I get a very quick banner response when I telnet to port 25 and port > > 587 I do get different banners > > for port 25 I get: > > 220 * > > > Cisco Pix running SMTP 'Fixup' ? > > I think it may be... I will check. you think t

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-20 Thread Clunk Werclick
> > > I get a very quick banner response when I telnet to port 25 and port > 587 I do get different banners > for port 25 I get: > 220 * > Cisco Pix running SMTP 'Fixup' ?

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-20 Thread Jumping Mouse
g on the machines that this could cause delays I will disable smtp port scanning and see if this helps. I am also going to be looking through my mail.logs to see if there is anything strange during the smtp time outs and delays. I am

Re: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-18 Thread mouss
Jumping Mouse a écrit : > Thanks again mouss. > > most of my users are in an office network behind a firewall and are > using an ms server 2003 dns for local lookups my isp's dns server for > non local lookups. My ISP is also hosting the dns records for the > postfix server. > > How can I test

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-18 Thread Jumping Mouse
rg > Subject: Re: smtp time outs and delays > > On 7/18/2009, Jumping Mouse (kafr...@hotmail.com) wrote: > > Here is my main.cf > > > > # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format > > postconf -n output only pleas

Re: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 7/18/2009, Jumping Mouse (kafr...@hotmail.com) wrote: > Here is my main.cf > > # Postfix master process configuration file. For details on the format postconf -n output only please... -- Best regards, Charles

RE: smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-18 Thread Jumping Mouse
Thanks again mouss. most of my users are in an office network behind a firewall and are using an ms server 2003 dns for local lookups my isp's dns server for non local lookups. My ISP is also hosting the dns records for the postfix server. How can I test if postfix is getting an NXDOMAIN quic

smtp time outs and delays

2009-07-18 Thread Jumping Mouse
continued from "smtp time outs and delays + spamc being called when using amavis-new" mouss wrote: "hard to tell, but a first bet is reverse DNS lookup. if the clients use a private IP space, make sure your DNS server answers for thecorresponding reverse zone so that postfix g

RE: smtp time outs and delays + spamc being called when using amavis-new

2009-07-18 Thread Jumping Mouse
Ok thanks mouss willl split this message into two requests 1. smtp time outs and delays 2. spamc being called when using amavis-new and close this message... so everyone please consider this message closed it will will be continued with subjects "smtp time outs and delays" and &qu

Re: smtp time outs and delays + spamc being called when using amavis-new

2009-07-18 Thread mouss
ome help here. when you have completely unrelated issues, it is better to send two different posts. otherwise, people who might want to answer one question only may be discouraged. (and it is also better for the archives). so I am spli > > Issue 1. > > Many of my users have been encou

smtp time outs and delays + spamc being called when using amavis-new

2009-07-17 Thread Jumping Mouse
encountering smtp time outs and delays (most are using thunderbird latest version) .Most of the time smtp is very responsive but at times there are these delays of 10-30 seconds and sometimes the connection times out. delays occur on both port 25 and 587. I have noted that smtp processes are not at