too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
Hi, During the night, for many hours, we logged several thousand of such entries(always the same server): Nov 7 04:04:52 vmail postfix/smtpd[3100]: connect from mail.videco.com.ar[190.220.14.235] Nov 7 04:04:52 vmail postfix/smtpd[3197]: connect from mail.videco.com.ar[190.220.14.235] Nov

Re: too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 7/11/2012 3:46 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: connectionsexcept only from our gateway serverand requires AUTHfor all others,do the above log entries depictfailed login As a side note: sorry for the word jamming in the message; it is due to a relatively recent Thunderbird bug (those interested m

Re: too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 7/11/2012 3:46 μμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: Since this server does not accept unauthenticated smtp connections except only from our gateway server and requires AUTH for all others Server config: [root@vmail etc]# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/postfix/aliases, hash:/etc/postfix/alias

Re: too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 03:46:38PM +0200, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > During the night, for many hours, we logged several thousand of such > entries(always the same server): > > Nov 7 04:04:52 vmail postfix/smtpd[3100]: connect from > mail.videco.com.ar[190.220.14.235] > Nov 7 04:04:55 vmail postfix

Re: mail alias

2012-11-07 Thread Ramesh
Hi Nick Thank you very much. it worked, i'm able to restrict.  -Ramesh From: Nikolaos Milas To: Ramesh Cc: Postfix users Sent: Wednesday, 7 November 2012 12:55 PM Subject: Re: mail alias On 7/11/2012 8:07 πμ, Ramesh wrote: > to block mail to alias fr

Re: too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 7/11/2012 6:10 μμ, /dev/rob0 wrote: Is this a submission port (587) or smtp (25)? You should use "-o syslog_name=postfix/submission" for submission in master.cf, to distinguish logging of smtp vs. submission. Thanks for the reply. I do; this is smtp, not submission. ISTM that if submissi

Re: too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/7/2012 10:50 AM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 7/11/2012 6:10 μμ, /dev/rob0 wrote: > >> Is this a submission port (587) or smtp (25)? You should use "-o >> syslog_name=postfix/submission" for submission in master.cf, to >> distinguish logging of smtp vs. submission. > > Thanks for the reply. >

Re: Technical question to Postfix

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 4/11/2012 8:17 μμ, Wietse Venema wrote: Or use "reject_unverified_recipient", which uses a cache of previous decisions so it won't hammer the mailbox server. A clarification: Does the cache of "reject_unverified_recipient" decisions include the result of "relay_recipient_maps" lookups? T

Re: too many errors after AUTH

2012-11-07 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 7/11/2012 7:47 μμ, Noel Jones wrote: You can check your log for things like "authentication failed" for a failed AUTH, or "sasl_username=" when successful.My fail2ban filter contains: warning: .*\[\](?::\d+)?: SASL \S+ authentication failed: Thanks Noel, I am using: failregex = (?i):

Re: Technical question to Postfix

2012-11-07 Thread Christian Rößner
>> Or use "reject_unverified_recipient", which uses a cache >> of previous decisions so it won't hammer the mailbox server. > > A clarification: Does the cache of "reject_unverified_recipient" decisions > include the result of "relay_recipient_maps" lookups? > > This might be esp. useful in case

Playing nice with Yahoo.com

2012-11-07 Thread Peter Pauly
Our non-profit organization has been sending out both occasional and mass-emails for several years without any trouble to our patrons. (These are opt-in and not spam). We use SPF text records but do not use DKIM. Starting last week, the queue started piling up with messages to yahoo.com. We're get

Re: Technical question to Postfix

2012-11-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Nikolaos Milas: > On 4/11/2012 8:17 ??, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > Or use "reject_unverified_recipient", which uses a cache > > of previous decisions so it won't hammer the mailbox server. > > A clarification: Does the cache of "reject_unverified_recipient" > decisions include the result of "rel

Re: Playing nice with Yahoo.com

2012-11-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Peter Pauly: > I suspect that yahoo has internally blacklisted us, but only from that > one email server on our end. Here's why I think that: Instead of speculating, why not read the Yahoo postmaster guideline. http://www.google.com/?q=yahoo+postmaster Wietse

Mail queue not being cleared per setting

2012-11-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Folks, We had to restore a mailing list (mailman) from an old backup. This means it included hundreds of now-invalid email addresses. As such, I set up mailmain to remove addresses on the first b0unce, and set up postfix to b0unce outgoing messages on the first refusal (I thought). The way I di

Re: Mail queue not being cleared per setting

2012-11-07 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/7/2012 2:47 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > Folks, > > We had to restore a mailing list (mailman) from an old backup. This > means it included hundreds of now-invalid email addresses. > > As such, I set up mailmain to remove addresses on the first b0unce, and > set up postfix to b0unce outgoing m

Re: Mail queue not being cleared per setting

2012-11-07 Thread Josh Berkus
> Non-deliverable mail is returned to sender when either the remote > server gives a 5xx "undeliverable" response, or $max_queue_lifetime > expires. > > Undelivered mail will hang around in the queue if the remote server > gives a 4xx "retry" response, or the remote server exists but is > unreach

Re: Mail queue not being cleared per setting

2012-11-07 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 11/07/2012 10:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Non-deliverable mail is returned to sender when either the remote server gives a 5xx "undeliverable" response, or $max_queue_lifetime expires. Undelivered mail will hang around in the queue if the remote server gives a 4xx "retry" response, or the remot

Re: Mail queue not being cleared per setting

2012-11-07 Thread Josh Berkus
On 11/7/12 6:37 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 11/07/2012 10:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: >>> Non-deliverable mail is returned to sender when either the remote >>> server gives a 5xx "undeliverable" response, or $max_queue_lifetime >>> expires. >>> >>> Undelivered mail will hang around in the queue if

Re: Mail queue not being cleared per setting

2012-11-07 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/7/2012 8:47 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 11/7/12 6:37 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: >> On 11/07/2012 10:03 PM, Josh Berkus wrote: Non-deliverable mail is returned to sender when either the remote server gives a 5xx "undeliverable" response, or $max_queue_lifetime expires.