Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-06 Thread Wietse Venema
Charlie Orford: >I know I am starting to sound like a broken record but I really >think a sensible, clean method to run a secondary mx that is capable >of verifying recipients and accepting mail (rather than deferring) >with or without the primary being up would be a nice feature to >have. Indeed,

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: Noel Jones To: postfix-users@postfix.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 12:25 AM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >To run a policy service on all addresses, add the >check_policy_service directive to your smtpd restrictions a

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Noel Jones
On 7/5/2011 4:00 PM, Charlie Orford wrote: > For the above to work, I assume you could give check_recipient_access a > table containing: *@ on the left and the policy script on the right (i.e. to > force it > to fire the policy script for every recipient). Not sure if that actually > works or is

Fw: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: Reindl Harald To: postfix-users@postfix.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 11:03 PM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >hm why not using mysql for the list of valid users and replication? >mysql-replication supports SSL, the

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.07.2011 23:00, schrieb Charlie Orford: > > > > > - Original Message - > From: Noel Jones > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 8:49 PM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > >> Mayb

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: Noel Jones To: postfix-users@postfix.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 8:49 PM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >Maybe a compromise? >How about running on the main MX >postmap -s btree:/path/verify | grep ':250 &

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: Wietse Venema To: Postfix users Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 8:38 PM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >Fundamentally, both approaches rely on talking to the primary MX, >and therefore both approaches would suffer from err

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: /dev/rob0 To: postfix-users@postfix.org Cc: Sent: Monday, July 4, 2011 3:06 PM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:48:44AM -0700, Charlie Orford wrote: >> unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = perm

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Noel Jones
On 7/5/2011 1:38 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Charlie Orford: >> I will run the tests and get the output for you later tonight but >> my suspicion is that there was likely nothing wrong with the >> address cache, just that a lot of addresses had never been probed >> by the secondary mx as the primary

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Charlie Orford: > I will run the tests and get the output for you later tonight but > my suspicion is that there was likely nothing wrong with the > address cache, just that a lot of addresses had never been probed > by the secondary mx as the primary mx is up virtually 99.9% of > the time. Wietse

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: Wietse Venema To: Postfix users Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 6:46 PM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >>Charlie Orford: >> I will run the tests and get the output for you later tonight but my >> suspicion >>

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Charlie Orford: > I will run the tests and get the output for you later tonight but my suspicion > is that there was likely nothing wrong with the address cache, just that > a lot of addresses had never been probed by the secondary mx as the > primary mx is up virtually 99.9% of the time. In that

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - >From: Wietse Venema >To: Postfix users >Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 5:38 PM >Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > >>Reindl Harald: >> Am 05.07.2011 16:55, schrieb Wietse Venema: >> > If no such pro

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Reindl Harald: > Am 05.07.2011 16:55, schrieb Wietse Venema: > > If no such problem exists, then we know that cache expiration > > has nothing to do with the issue and we can move on. > > > > When the address verify cache works properly, it should become > > populated over time (by spammers, by le

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.07.2011 16:55, schrieb Wietse Venema: > If no such problem exists, then we know that cache expiration > has nothing to do with the issue and we can move on. > > When the address verify cache works properly, it should become > populated over time (by spammers, by legitimate sites that have

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Charlie Orford: >Hi Wietse, > >Although the address caching should have worked as you describe, >we found that it failed for a number of addresses despite the fact >that these addresses had received email in the last 31 days (most >had in fact received mail in the last 24 hours). To report a probl

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
- Original Message - From: Charlie Orford To: Postfix users Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 10:45 AM Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >Hi Wietse, > >Although the address caching should have worked as you describe, we >found that it failed for a number

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-05 Thread Charlie Orford
>From: Wietse Venema >Sent: Monday, July 4, 2011 9:10 PM >Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > >My previous reply suffered from damage while editing. This is an >attempt to fix it. > >The problem with recipients not in the verify cache is easily

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Jerry: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:48:44 -0700 (PDT) > Charlie Orford articulated: > > > unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit? would have solved this > > problem with the small penalty of a brief period of potential > > backscatter. > > The "potential

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-04 Thread Wietse Venema
Jerry: > On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:48:44 -0700 (PDT) > Charlie Orford articulated: > > > unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit? would have solved this > > problem with the small penalty of a brief period of potential > > backscatter. > > The "potential

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-04 Thread /dev/rob0
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 04:48:44AM -0700, Charlie Orford wrote: > unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permitĀ  would have solved > this problem with the small penalty of a brief period of potential > backscatter. > > Where is the down side? That "small penalty"

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-04 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Charlie Orford articulated: > unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permitĀ  would have solved this > problem with the small penalty of a brief period of potential > backscatter. The "potential backscatter" is enough to turn me off on th

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-07-04 Thread Charlie Orford
yed to doesn't accept the user). Backscatter > is usually caused by spam of course, because spam is sent to all kinds of > users @example.com. > > I had in mind to use recipient address verification to avoid that and then > set "unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = p

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-14 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
On 2011-06-12 Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > From: "Reindl Harald" >> Am 11.06.2011 16:55, schrieb Wiebe Cazemier: >>> That's not what I meant. I meant that 99% of the time, the primary >>> server will be up and recipient address verification will work to >>> reject (spam) messages to unknown users. Thos

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.06.2011 11:50, schrieb Manuel Riel: > I also kept a list of valid recipients on my backup mx for quite some time, > but this is no elegant solution. I need to collect the list from various SLQ- > and LDAP sources every few hours. man mysql replication man mysql ssl if your configurati

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-12 Thread Manuel Riel
On 12 Jun 2011, at 11:23, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Reindl Harald" >> To: postfix-users@postfix.org >> Sent: Sunday, 12 June, 2011 10:04:02 AM >> Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit >> &g

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-12 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Reindl Harald" > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Sent: Sunday, 12 June, 2011 10:04:02 AM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > > > > Am 12.06.2011 09:06, schrieb Wiebe Cazemier: > >> so yo

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-12 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 12.06.2011 09:06, schrieb Wiebe Cazemier: >> so you do not need any backup-MX because if your primary >> is not available the deferring happens on the sender >> >> this is the way smtp works > > Default defer time for most SMTP servers is only 3 to 5 days, that is not > long enough for me.

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-11 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Reindl Harald" > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Sent: Saturday, 11 June, 2011 6:23:59 PM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > > > > Am 11.06.2011 16:55, schrieb Wiebe Cazemier: > > That

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-11 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 11.06.2011 16:55, schrieb Wiebe Cazemier: > That's not what I meant. I meant that 99% of the time, the primary server > will be up and recipient address verification will work to reject (spam) > messages to unknown users. Those two scenario's you mentioned are when > the primary is down or

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-11 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Wietse Venema" > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > Sent: Friday, 10 June, 2011 9:37:39 PM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > > Wiebe Cazemier: > > That's wh

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Wiebe Cazemier: > That's why I was asking if it wouldn't be a good idea to have > 'permit' be a viable option for unverified_recipient_tempfail_action. unverified_recipient_tempfail_action is triggered when: - The backup MX could not reach the primary MX. - The primary MX replied with a 4xx resp

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-10 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:35:03PM +0200, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > > It can't. Never before seen recipients will be deferred, recipients > > validated while the primary MX was up and cached (for 7-14 days) will > > however be accepted. This is good enough, and the best you can do > > without gettin

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-10 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Victor Duchovni" > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > Sent: Friday, 10 June, 2011 5:04:09 PM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2011

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-10 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 05:00:16PM +0200, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: "Wietse Venema" > > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > > Sent: Friday, 10 June, 2011 2:50:34 PM > > Subje

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-10 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Wietse Venema" > To: "Wiebe Cazemier" > Cc: postfix-users@postfix.org > Sent: Friday, 10 June, 2011 2:50:34 PM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > > Wiebe Cazemier: > > - The serve

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Wiebe Cazemier: > - The server is backup MX for mail hosts that I don't know anything > about. In that case, the backup MX needs to ask the primary MX if the recipient is valid. Otherwise, you become a backscatter source. Wietse

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-09 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
- Original Message - > From: "Ansgar Wiechers" > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Sent: Friday, 10 June, 2011 12:47:35 AM > Subject: Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit > > On 2011-06-10 Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > > Ansgar Wiechers wrote:

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-09 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
t; accept the user). Backscatter is usually caused by spam of course, >>> because spam is sent to all kinds of users @example.com. >>> >>> I had in mind to use recipient address verification to avoid that and >>> then set "unverified_recipient_tempfail

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-09 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
> (bounces of messages because the server that is relayed to doesn't > accept the user). Backscatter is usually caused by spam of course, > because spam is sent to all kinds of users @example.com. > > I had in mind to use recipient address verification to avoid that and >

Re: unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-09 Thread Ansgar Wiechers
; > I had in mind to use recipient address verification to avoid that and > then set "unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit". The idea > behind this was: > > - Prevent backscatter mail when the primary host is up because every > address is verified first. >

unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit

2011-06-09 Thread Wiebe Cazemier
s of users @example.com. I had in mind to use recipient address verification to avoid that and then set "unverified_recipient_tempfail_action = permit". The idea behind this was: - Prevent backscatter mail when the primary host is up because every address is verified first. - Acce