Re: [OT] What is a condition for ideal mail server?

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Byung-Hee HWANG a écrit : > mouss wrote: >> Byung-Hee HWANG a écrit : > [...] >> - Use the submission port (587) with TLS+SASL. > > What is different between using 25 and using 587? > 587 has been reserved for mail submission. It is a good practice to separate the flows. some advantages: - you

Factoring no_address_mappings?

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
I was thinking about using something like this receive_override_options=${content_filter:no_address_mappings} in main.cf, to avoid risking to have a misconfiguration if the content_filter setting is changed in master.cf or in main.cf. an alternative would be receive_override_options=${no_addres

Re: Factoring no_address_mappings?

2008-10-24 Thread Wietse Venema
mouss: > I was thinking about using something like this > > receive_override_options=${content_filter:no_address_mappings} > > in main.cf, to avoid risking to have a misconfiguration if the > content_filter setting is changed in master.cf or in main.cf. > > an alternative would be > > receive_o

RE: Postfix - altermime - amavis - Too many hops

2008-10-24 Thread Jevos, Peter
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-postfix- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Martinec > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 6:24 PM > To: postfix-users@postfix.org > Subject: Re: Postfix - altermime - amavis - Too many hops > > Peter, > > > > >>> disclaimer

sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Joao Ferreira
Hello all, Does anyone out there have some megabytes of real life production postfix logs (mail accepted, received, sent, refused, etc, etc)... and wouln't minf sharing them with me :) I'dd like to see how postfix logs this type of information. thx Joao

Virtual delivery + procmail

2008-10-24 Thread Dan Phiffer
Hello list, I'm pretty new to Postfix still, but I've been reading through the documentation on postfix.org and have come to the conclusion that the setup guide I followed (http://articles.slicehost.com/email) offers a pretty good starting point. However, I'd like to use procmail in some

Re: Postfix - altermime - amavis - Too many hops

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Jevos, Peter a écrit : > > I know about this opttion but the problem is that I'm using maia > mailguread and it uses amavisd-new 2.3 and your features come from 2.5.x > version > Therefore I decided to do it on the postfix side through the filters. > But I cannot understand how cannot distinguishe

Re: Virtual delivery + procmail

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Dan Phiffer a écrit : > Hello list, > > I'm pretty new to Postfix still, but I've been reading through the > documentation on postfix.org and have come to the conclusion that the > setup guide I followed (http://articles.slicehost.com/email) offers a > pretty good starting point. However, I'd like

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Terry Carmen
Joao Ferreira wrote: Hello all, Does anyone out there have some megabytes of real life production postfix logs (mail accepted, received, sent, refused, etc, etc)... and wouln't minf sharing them with me :) I'dd like to see how postfix logs this type of information. That would be unlikely

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Joao Ferreira a écrit : > Hello all, > > Does anyone out there have some megabytes of real life production > postfix logs (mail accepted, received, sent, refused, etc, etc)... > > and wouln't minf sharing them with me :) > > > I'dd like to see how postfix logs this type of information. > if y

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:16:21PM -0400, Terry Carmen wrote: > Joao Ferreira wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >Does anyone out there have some megabytes of real life production > >postfix logs (mail accepted, received, sent, refused, etc, etc)... > > > >and wouln't minf sharing them with me :) > > > >

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Ofer Inbar
Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incoming mail is logged by smtpd(8)/pickup(8) and cleanup(8). Mail > (re)entering the active queue is logged by the queue manager, which > logs the sender address. Deliveries to recipients are logged by delivery ... one thing I've sometimes wished for i

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 01:55:05PM -0400, Ofer Inbar wrote: > Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Incoming mail is logged by smtpd(8)/pickup(8) and cleanup(8). Mail > > (re)entering the active queue is logged by the queue manager, which > > logs the sender address. Deliveries to recipie

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Wietse Venema
There is no guarantee that mail goes from incoming->qmgr only once. Whenever the qmgr is restarted, mail goes back from active queue to incoming queue, so that it doesn't drown in a sea of deferred mail. If your problem is a large incoming queue, then I suggest that you take the necessary step to

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Ofer Inbar
Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is not difficult to solve. Write a progressive parser that saves > state just for messages that are not yet done (still in the queue). For [...] That's sort of what I described in my second paragraph. It's a workaround, but it's far from perfect,

Re: sample postfix logs

2008-10-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:31:32PM -0400, Ofer Inbar wrote: > Wietse Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no guarantee that mail goes from incoming->qmgr only once. > > Whenever the qmgr is restarted, mail goes back from active queue > > to incoming queue, so that it doesn't drown in a s

Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Yves Kreis
Good evening, Short version of the question: If I am rewriting sender addresses using: /^(.+)@pt\.lu$/ $1+pt.lu:[EMAIL PROTECTED] /^(.+)+pt.lu:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] How important is the risk to be used as open relay? Long version of the problem: The Luxembourgish Internet Provider

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address rewriting. For example, we don't want "relay access denied" when a virtual alias changes an address in a local domain into a remote address. Wietse

Re: Any good way to make this mail setup work

2008-10-24 Thread Kris Deugau
Paul Cocker wrote: Under the existing setup the postfix (secondary MX) doesn't deliver mail internally, it passes it on to the Barracuda. The idea being that should the Barracuda fail we can allow temporary internal delivery from this server but for 99% of the time manage all mail via a single in

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Yves Kreis
??? My rewriting idea works for my purpose. I am just trying to investigate the risk... Best Regards, Yves On 24.10.2008, at 22:28, Wietse Venema wrote: Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address rewriting. For example, we don't want "relay access denied" when a virtu

Re: Virtual delivery + procmail

2008-10-24 Thread Dan Phiffer
On Oct 24, 2008, at 1:13 PM, mouss wrote: Dan Phiffer a écrit : Hello list, I'm pretty new to Postfix still, but I've been reading through the documentation on postfix.org and have come to the conclusion that the setup guide I followed (http://articles.slicehost.com/email) offers a pretty good

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: > Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address > rewriting. > > For example, we don't want "relay access denied" when a virtual > alias changes an address in a local domain into a remote address. Yves Kreis: > My rewriting idea works for my purpose. I am just trying to

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Yves Kreis
Re, I don't use it for relay permission but for the destination server to accept the mail. Best Regards, Yves On 24.10.2008, at 23:12, Wietse Venema wrote: Wietse: Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address rewriting. For example, we don't want "relay access denied" w

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse: > Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address > rewriting. > > For example, we don't want "relay access denied" when a virtual > alias changes an address in a local domain into a remote address. Yves Kreis: > My rewriting idea works for my purpose. I am just trying to >

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Yves Kreis
Wietse: Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address rewriting. For example, we don't want "relay access denied" when a virtual alias changes an address in a local domain into a remote address. Yves Kreis: My rewriting idea works for my purpose. I am just trying to investiga

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Yves Kreis a écrit : > Yes it is about postfix address rewriting (which can be done as well > though sender_canonical_maps afaik). > > And yes it is about Postfix becoming an open relay. The rule > /^(.+)+pt.lu:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > forwards all mails sent to xxx+pt.lu:[EMAIL PROT

RE: Postfix - altermime - amavis - Too many hops

2008-10-24 Thread Jevos, Peter
> > > > I know about this opttion but the problem is that I'm using maia > > mailguread and it uses amavisd-new 2.3 and your features come from > 2.5.x > > version > > Therefore I decided to do it on the postfix side through the filters. > > But I cannot understand how cannot distinguished the inco

Re: Risk of Address Rewriting causing Open Relay?

2008-10-24 Thread Wietse Venema
Yves Kreis: > > Wietse: > >> Postfix relay permission is decided before (recipient) address > >> rewriting. > >> > >> For example, we don't want "relay access denied" when a virtual > >> alias changes an address in a local domain into a remote address. > > > > Yves Kreis: > >> My rewriting idea wor

Re: Alternatives to sendmail and milter to control SMTP connections

2008-10-24 Thread Kelly Jones
This thread is long dead, but I'm surprised no one suggested mimedefang. -- We're just a Bunch Of Regular Guys, a collective group that's trying to understand and assimilate technology. We feel that resistance to new ideas and technology is unwise and ultimately futile. On 12/6/06, Kelly Jones <