Newb question about too many sent mail

2009-05-06 Thread Philippe Le Gal
Hi I'm a newbie to Postfix. My Postfix server is functionnal but the stats (mailgraph) show lot of sent messages : example for yesterday : Received messages : 2818 Sent messages : 2766 I don't think that the users of the mail server sent so many mails yesterday... I suppose that I've a pro

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Jonathan McMahon wrote: > > I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. > > My general feedback: > > 1. I find Postfix to be somewhat difficult, and the "google search" > documentation for my specific setup is fragmented and incomplete at best. I > d

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread Rik
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:18 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote: SNIP > As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time > to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the > new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well be the poster's own > fault for not respec

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Rik : On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:18 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote: SNIP As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well be the poster's own fault fo

Re: Postfix and mailman problems

2009-05-06 Thread Guillaume HILT
Thanks it worked :) Guillaume HILT a écrit : Hi, I'm using mailman 2.1.11 on gentoo AMD64. It's running with postfix, dspam and virtual domains/users (managed by postfixadmin). My problem is that all emails sent to a mailing list fall in the catchall. I'm using a specifig subdomain for the

SASL against multiple hosts

2009-05-06 Thread Laurent Dilain
Hello ! I'm currently migrating my mail server from an old Fedora to an Ubuntu LTS. My configuration : Server01 (old Fedora) : POP3/IMAP/SMTP ports open to Internet Postfix Server with SASL authentification against local PAM db Dovecot Server with local mailboxes Server02 (Ubunti LTS) : POP3/IM

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 6, 2009, at 12:29 AM, Rik wrote: On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 03:18 -0400, Aaron Wolfe wrote: SNIP As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well

ldap and result_filter question

2009-05-06 Thread postfix
Hi, I am using Postfix 2.5.5. I would like to test recipients against a ldap query. I have 2 mailAlternateAddress attributes for the ldap entry wich mail attribute is post...@spam3.gm.transpac.fr: # postmap -q post...@spam3.gm.transpac.fr ldap:/etc/postfix/ldapUserAccessTest.cf OK,OK Having "OK,

Frequently restarting qmgr: a problem?

2009-05-06 Thread Ulrich Zehl
In my setup, I have a hash table that's used in relay_domains, like so: relay_domains = hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/domains, hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/auto/domains Currently, this table is completely rebuilt from a database every five minutes or so, even if there are no

Re: Newb question about too many sent mail

2009-05-06 Thread Scott Haneda
On May 6, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Philippe Le Gal wrote: I'm a newbie to Postfix. My Postfix server is functionnal but the stats (mailgraph) show lot of sent messages : example for yesterday : Received messages : 2818 Sent messages : 2766 I don't think that the users of the mail server sent so ma

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/6/2009, Gaël Lams (lamsg...@gmail.com) wrote: > I modified master.cf and configure submission that way: > submission inet n - n - - smtpd > -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes > -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes > -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_a

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/6/2009, Rik (hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk) wrote: >> As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from >> time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is >> that the new user ends up feeling insulted. This may well be the >> poster's own fault for not respecting h

Re: Newb question about too many sent mail

2009-05-06 Thread Philippe Le Gal
Thank, It seems that Mailgraph count local delivery via procmail as "sent message". I'll check Mailgraph config. I think that was the problem. Philippe Le Wednesday 06 May 2009 12:31:55 Scott Haneda, vous avez écrit : > On May 6, 2009, at 12:10 AM, Philippe Le Gal wrote: > > I'm a newbie to Po

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Jorey Bump
Charles Marcus wrote, at 05/06/2009 06:38 AM: > On 5/6/2009, Gaël Lams (lamsg...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I modified master.cf and configure submission that way: >> submission inet n - n - - smtpd >> -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes >> -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes

Stopping "Considered UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL" notices

2009-05-06 Thread Michael
These are being generated by Amavis in response to spam email being sent to a client's network, using their own email addresses as the 'sender'. How can I stop Amavis from generating these messages? Michael

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/6/2009 8:37 AM, Jorey Bump wrote: >>> I modified master.cf and configure submission that way: >>> submission inet n - n - - smtpd >>> -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes >>> -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes >>> -o smtpd_client_restrictions=permit_sasl_aut

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Jorey Bump
Charles Marcus wrote, at 05/06/2009 08:48 AM: > On 5/6/2009 8:37 AM, Jorey Bump wrote: I modified master.cf and configure submission that way: submission inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_enforce_tls=yes -o smtpd_sasl_auth_enable=yes

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/6/2009 9:03 AM, Jorey Bump wrote: I believe newer versions (I'm on 2.5.6) should be something like: submission inet n - n - - smtpd -o smtpd_tls_security_level=encrypt -o smtpd_tls_auth_only=yes -o smtpd_client_restrictions=per

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Jorey Bump
Charles Marcus wrote, at 05/06/2009 09:38 AM: > On 5/6/2009 9:03 AM, Jorey Bump wrote: >> Another minor advantage is that the configuration will continue to work >> if permit_sasl_authenticated is removed from >> smtpd_recipient_restrictions in main.cf (if the decision is ever made to >> disallow

Re: question on permit_sasl_authenticated and check_sender_access

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Marcus
Thanks Jorey for taking the time to elaborate... like I said, I now have more reading to do... ;) On 5/6/2009 10:08 AM, Jorey Bump wrote: >> Understood with respect to main.cf, but we're talking about master.cf. I >> really thought that it was better to be more specific in master.cf in >> this

Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread ram
I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying mails On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other servers are delivering perfectly fine There are no body / header checks on this machine that could potentially be slowing down pickup. And apparen

Re: Stopping "Considered UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL" notices

2009-05-06 Thread Noel Jones
Michael wrote: These are being generated by Amavis in response to spam email being sent to a client's network, using their own email addresses as the 'sender'. How can I stop Amavis from generating these messages? Michael Sounds as if you've enabled the "warnspamsender" (or maybe the "warns

Re: Frequently restarting qmgr: a problem?

2009-05-06 Thread Noel Jones
Ulrich Zehl wrote: In my setup, I have a hash table that's used in relay_domains, like so: relay_domains = hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/domains, hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/auto/domains Currently, this table is completely rebuilt from a database every five minutes or so

Re: Transport Maps Ignored After Upgrade

2009-05-06 Thread Eric Cunningham
Thanks mouss. I removed $mynetworks from relay_domains and added the domains found in the transport map to relay_domains (while also keeping them in the transport map). Relaying to those specific domains now works. However, MX'd machines still suffer "relay access denied." I introduced "re

RE: Redirect messages for just one recipient

2009-05-06 Thread Rocco Scappatura
Thanks Barney, thanks Noel, All works fine. Bye, rocsva > -Original Message- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix- > us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Barney Desmond > Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:38 AM > To: postfix users list > Subject: Re: Redirect messages

Re: ldap and result_filter question

2009-05-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:54:42AM +0200, postfix wrote: > Hi, > > I am using Postfix 2.5.5. > > I would like to test recipients against a ldap query. > I have 2 mailAlternateAddress attributes for the ldap entry wich mail > attribute is post...@spam3.gm.transpac.fr: > # postmap -q post...@spam3

filter subject

2009-05-06 Thread Alberto Scarpa
Hi, I'm using postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot + amavis with virtual domains. The system work fine and users can send and read emails (tnx for the great documentation). Now I need to do: 1) prepend "[INFO]" to the subject of all incomming email that have header "To" equal to "i...@domain.tld" 2) add "B

Re: filter subject

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Alberto Scarpa wrote: > Hi, > I'm using postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot + amavis with virtual domains. > The system work fine and users can send and read emails (tnx for the great > documentation). > > Now I need to do: > 1) prepend "[INFO]" to the subject of all incomming email that have > header "To"

Re: Sending SSL/TLS state to Dovecot auth

2009-05-06 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 20:53 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > Postfix 2.6 will pass the "TLS is active flag". I have changed the > API so that we no longer need to make code changes in every SASL > plugin when another attribute is added. It works with smtps but doesn't work with STARTTLS, because tls_

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread Rik
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 06:52 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 5/6/2009, Rik (hlug090...@buzzhost.co.uk) wrote: > >> As it stands, this list gets poorly posed or lazy questions from > >> time to time, usually from new users. The trend in these cases is > >> that the new user ends up feeling insulted

Re: filter subject

2009-05-06 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > Alberto Scarpa wrote: > >> 2) add "Bcc: i...@domain.tld" to all outcomming email that have "[INFO]" in >> the subject and not "i...@domain.tld" in "To", "CC" or "Bcc" headers >> >> Missed the "outgoing" comment. Not sure how best to solve this. Postf

Re: filter subject

2009-05-06 Thread Noel Jones
Alberto Scarpa wrote: Hi, I'm using postfix 2.5.6 + dovecot + amavis with virtual domains. The system work fine and users can send and read emails (tnx for the great documentation). Now I need to do: 1) prepend "[INFO]" to the subject of all incomming email that have header "To" equal to "i.

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed May 6 2009 00:44:28 Jonathan McMahon wrote: > I'm 100% completely new to Postfix, somewhat new to *nix. The former is not a problem; Postfix documentation has you covered. Where you will find (have been finding) difficulty is in the latter. Postfix documentation does not (and IMO mostly s

Re: Frequently restarting qmgr: a problem?

2009-05-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:02:35PM +0200, Ulrich Zehl wrote: > In my setup, I have a hash table that's used in relay_domains, like so: > > relay_domains = > hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/domains, > hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/auto/domains > > Currently, this table is compl

Re: Frequently restarting qmgr: a problem?

2009-05-06 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed May 6 2009 05:02:35 Ulrich Zehl wrote: > In my setup, I have a hash table that's used in relay_domains, like > so: > > relay_domains = > hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/domains, > hash:/etc/postfix-incoming/maps/auto/domains > > Currently, this table is completely rebuilt fro

THREAD CLOSED (was: Re: Postfix Setup)

2009-05-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:47:37PM -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote: > The way it works here is that any fool > like me can answer a newbie's question, and if we get it wrong, we are > corrected by the ones who really know. Let's end the thread here. :-) Hopefully the OP is trying to make sense of the do

Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying > mails > > On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other > servers are delivering perfectly fine > > There are no body / header checks on this machine that could > potentially be slowing down pickup

Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread Terry Carmen
> I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying > mails > > On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other > servers are delivering perfectly fine > > There are no body / header checks on this machine that could > potentially be slowing down pickup

Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:01:25PM +0530, ram wrote: > I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying > mails > > On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other > servers are delivering perfectly fine > > There are no body / header checks on thi

Configuring SMTP Auth with SASL + MySQL for virtual domains

2009-05-06 Thread Gurunandan R. Bhat
Hi, I am configuring Virtual domains and mailboxes on CentOS 5.5 using MySQL for data maps and SASL for SMTP Auth. As far as I can say, I have followed The Book of Postfix. Dovecot and Postfix both use the same tables for authentication and POP authentication works perfectly. However an

Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-06 Thread Charles Marcus
Hi everyone, Ok, I have a question... First, I've never claimed to be smarter than the average amoeba (although I think possibly I grill a better steak), and I do seem to recall some time ago someone (mouss, was that you?) saying that the way I was blocking senders might have unintended consequen

Re: Transport Maps Ignored After Upgrade

2009-05-06 Thread mouss
Eric Cunningham a écrit : > Thanks mouss. I removed $mynetworks from relay_domains and added the > domains found in the transport map to relay_domains (while also keeping > them in the transport map). Relaying to those specific domains now works. > > However, MX'd machines still suffer "relay a

Re: Postfix 2.6.0-RC3 and 2.7-20090428 available

2009-05-06 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:40 AM -0400 Wietse Venema wrote: Postfix 2.6 stable release candidate 3 is available. If this has no problems, then Postfix 2.6.0 will happen soon. The same code is also available as Postfix 2.7 experimental release 20090428. Although the download link is cor

Re: Re: backup email

2009-05-06 Thread Jeff Huang
Another way,I want the mail server to deliver all the receiveing mails to two mailBox server(maybe tow pop server). I found the transport_maps can set the relay host that next hop. I set it as: domain1.comrelay:[server1.domian1.com],[server2.domain2.com] But it failed,How can I do for it?

Re: Postfix Setup

2009-05-06 Thread LuKreme
On 6-May-2009, at 01:29, Rik wrote: I could not agree more. To the point this is the very *LAST* place I go for help. This should be the last place you go for help. You read the docs, you google, you research, try and find the answer, and THEN you post here. I can't tell you how often I'

Re: Re: backup email

2009-05-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Thu, 07 May 2009, Jeff Huang wrote: > Another way,I want the mail server to deliver all the receiveing mails to > two mailBox server(maybe tow pop server). > > I found the transport_maps can set the relay host that next hop. > > I set it as: > > domain1.comrelay:[server1.domian1.com],[se

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-06 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Wed, 06 May 2009, Charles Marcus wrote: > I sent him a farewell 'frak off' email directly (yeah, I know, childish > of me), then smtp rejected anything from his address (using a > 'check_sender_access' hash with his email address in it (simple reject > applied, otherwise nothing offensive): >

Solved > Re: Configuring SMTP Auth with SASL + MySQL for virtual domains

2009-05-06 Thread Gurunandan R. Bhat
Sorry - this was my mistake. The server's arch was 64 and the sasl expected smtpd.conf in /usr/lib64/sasl2/, not in /usr/lib/sasl2/. Once I symlinked the two, SASL authenticated correctly. Thank you for the attention, Regards Gurunandan On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 01:28 +0530, Gurunandan R. Bhat w

Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-06 Thread ram
On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:23 -0400, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 09:01:25PM +0530, ram wrote: > > > I have multiple almost identically configured postfix servers relaying > > mails > > > > On one of the servers the mails get stuck in incoming queue. All other > > servers are