Limitation on outgoing mails

2014-01-17 Thread Marko Weber | ZBF
hi list, sorry to ask, but i CANT remember how the option is named in the main / master cf. theres an option to limit outgoing mails, lets say the mailserver has to send 1000 mails to google.com, u can say with this option "not more then 10 mails at once" to deliver. does any know what i mea

Re: Limitation on outgoing mails

2014-01-17 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 17.01.2014 10:19, schrieb Marko Weber | ZBF: > > hi list, > sorry to ask, but i CANT remember how the option is named in the main / > master cf. > theres an option to limit outgoing mails, > lets say the mailserver has to send 1000 mails to google.com, u can say > with this > option "not more t

Ratelimiting maildrop; access policy for pickup?

2014-01-17 Thread Florian Pritz
Hi, So I rate limit my own users via postfwd in case a bot steals their credentials and sends spam via SMTP auth, sadly I don't yet have a good solution for limiting mails coming in via maildrop. From what I see most people just replace the sendmail executable with a rate limited version, but I b

Out flow rate limiting?

2014-01-17 Thread Paul Reilly
Dear Postfix admins, What's the best way to rate limit our outbound mail rate ? We're using an upstream spam / virus service to filter our outbound email but they sometimes block us, when we are sending too much mail. We have been advised to send no more than 50 messages per connection, and to use

Re: Ratelimiting maildrop; access policy for pickup?

2014-01-17 Thread Wietse Venema
Florian Pritz: > What do you think about adding a simpler pickup_restrictions option and > extending the SMTP policy protocol a bit by adding a userid field which > in case of pickup (I believe only maildrop/sendmail/postdrop go into > pickup) contains the id of the sending user? > > pickup_restri

Re: Out flow rate limiting?

2014-01-17 Thread Wietse Venema
Paul Reilly: > My question is can I acheive this outflow rate limiting with the > smtp_destination_concurrency limits, or should I be using the equavellent You cannot control rates with CPONCURRENCY limits. Instead you insert delays between mail deliveries. http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#

Re: Ratelimiting maildrop; access policy for pickup?

2014-01-17 Thread Florian Pritz
On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 07:16:36 -0500 (EST) wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: > Florian Pritz: > > What do you think about adding a simpler pickup_restrictions option and > > extending the SMTP policy protocol a bit by adding a userid field which > > in case of pickup (I believe only maildro

Re: Ratelimiting maildrop; access policy for pickup?

2014-01-17 Thread Wietse Venema
Florian Pritz: > > Why don't YOU try it, and then report how well the idea works. I > > suggest that you also consider the implications of a malicious > > application sending mail with forged sender addresses, and Postfix > > then bouncing that mail to innocent people. > > That's exactly why I wa

Re: send all local mail to single email address

2014-01-17 Thread Pascal Volk
On 01/17/2014 01:39 AM Michael Barrett wrote: > Thanks Pascal- > > I tried using luser_relay, and it worked fine for non-existent users on > the system, but for system users like 'root' I couldn't get it working. > Should there be some way to make that work for all users, whether they > exist (w

Re: unknown_address_reject_code = 550 working random?

2014-01-17 Thread Benny Pedersen
Andrea skrev den 2014-01-16 17:36: I had many mails "rejected" with a 450 code for "Sender address rejected: Domain not found", and wanted to change them to a 550 code to avoid queue on the previous mta. dig +trace datasolutions.pe where is dns failing ? postfix softfails if it cant confirm

Config tools?

2014-01-17 Thread Ian Evans
Just curious if there are any config tools or analyzers that are able to parse the config files/logs and make suggestions for tweaks or point out holes, etc. Just thinking of a tool like the ones mysql has. After yrs as a qmail user, I'm not 100% confident everything is in a "best practices" state