Re: address_verification probes -- are they supposed to work for aliases & +plus addresses?

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
jaso...@mail-central.com: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016, at 05:13 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > 3) qmgr selects a delivery agent. > > > > 4) The delivery agent does a partial delivery attempt and reports > >results to the verify daemon. > > IIUC, looking at that^ and > > http://www.postfix.org/OVE

unverified_recipient_reject_code is not used to reject

2016-04-21 Thread lists42
Hola. I installed PostFix 3.1. I added these to the main.cf configuration file: unverified_recipient_reject_reason = bad address unverified_recipient_defer_code = 450 unverified_recipient_reject_code = 550 So a unverified_recipient rejection I think should respond by a 550. When I send the tes

Client not sending EHLO for certain server banner

2016-04-21 Thread Thomas Zäch
Hi All, when attempting to enforce TLS with a remote server i saw it failing. The reason turned out to be with the remote server-banner consisting of '*'-characters only. The local postfix-smtp in this case insisted to send "HELO". I'ld like to understand if i can override/force postfix-smtp to se

Re: Client not sending EHLO for certain server banner

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Thomas Z?ch: > Hi All, > > when attempting to enforce TLS with a remote server i saw it failing. > The reason turned out to be with the remote server-banner consisting > of '*'-characters only. The local postfix-smtp in this case insisted The server is behind a CISCO PIX (or CISCO ASA) device wit

Re: unverified_recipient_reject_code is not used to reject

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
list...@tutanota.com: > Hola. > > I installed PostFix 3.1. > > I added these to the main.cf configuration file: > > unverified_recipient_reject_reason = bad address > unverified_recipient_defer_code = 450 > unverified_recipient_reject_code = 550 > > So a unverified_recipient rejection I think s

Re: unverified_recipient_reject_code is not used to reject

2016-04-21 Thread lists42
21. Apr 2016 10:01 by wie...@porcupine.org: > Postfix WILL NOT use unverified_recipient_reject_code if the > verification result was a soft error. Okay you have explained > Can someone tell me what the diffrence is between these (as postfixsee's > them).    Errors are permanent or temporary.

Re: unverified_recipient_reject_code is not used to reject

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
list...@tutanota.com: > 21. Apr 2016 10:01 by wie...@porcupine.org: > > > Postfix WILL NOT use unverified_recipient_reject_code if the > > verification result was a soft error. > > > > Okay you have explained > > > Can someone tell me what the diffrence is between these (as postfixsee's > > t

Re: Client not sending EHLO for certain server banner

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > Thomas Z?ch: > > Hi All, > > > > when attempting to enforce TLS with a remote server i saw it failing. > > The reason turned out to be with the remote server-banner consisting > > of '*'-characters only. The local postfix-smtp in this case insisted > > The server is behind a CISC

Re: unverified_recipient_reject_code is not used to reject

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: > list...@tutanota.com: > > 21. Apr 2016 10:01 by wie...@porcupine.org: > > > > > Postfix WILL NOT use unverified_recipient_reject_code if the > > > verification result was a soft error. > > > > > > > > Okay you have explained > > > > > Can someone tell me what the diffrence is

Re: Client not sending EHLO for certain server banner

2016-04-21 Thread Thomas Zäch
> I just remember from years ago that some CISCOS in fixup mode will > reject EHLO, and some will reject STARTTLS, depending on configuration. > > On the upside, one does not have to worry about TLS downgrade atttacks. > > Wietse Thanks for your background information, advice - and postfix

Re: unverified_recipient_reject_code is not used to reject

2016-04-21 Thread lists42
21. Apr 2016 10:52 by wie...@porcupine.org: >> TURN OFF unverified_recipient_reject_code and you will see why it is >> reported as >> a temporary error. > That should be: turn off unverified_recipient_reject_reason. > Okay I read that unverified_recipient_reject_reason is good for privacy but

Is the reason for this "connect from unknown[65.181.123.80]" from NXDOMAIN? Is it safe to reject it always?

2016-04-21 Thread lists42
Hola. I added the postscreen function to my PostFix server. I get emails now and lots of spams are blocked by it. In the log is     Apr 21 12:33:19 tanzer postfix/postscreen[12944]: connect from unknown[65.181.123.80] And after the email continues to be delivered okay. What is "unknown" in t

Re: Is the reason for this "connect from unknown[65.181.123.80]" from NXDOMAIN? Is it safe to reject it always?

2016-04-21 Thread Jim Reid
> On 21 Apr 2016, at 20:46, wrote: > > What is "unknown" in this case? > > I think it is the RDNS that is not there? Yes. There’s no reverse DNS for the connecting IP address. > host 65.181.123.80 > Host 80.123.181.65.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) You should really use di

Re: Is the reason for this "connect from unknown[65.181.123.80]" from NXDOMAIN? Is it safe to reject it always?

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
list...@tutanota.com: > Hola. > > I added the postscreen function to my PostFix server. > > I get emails now and lots of spams are blocked by it. > > In the log is > > Apr 21 12:33:19 tanzer postfix/postscreen[12944]: connect from > unknown[65.181.123.80] postscreen logging looks like this:

Re: Is the reason for this "connect from unknown[65.181.123.80]" from NXDOMAIN? Is it safe to reject it always?

2016-04-21 Thread lists42
21. Apr 2016 12:56 by j...@rfc1035.com: > You should really use dig for DNS troubleshooting. Accept no subsitutes. > Well, apart from delv or drill if you’re troubleshooting Secure DNS errors. dig I know and can use. Those other ones are new tools to me.  Ill look for them > SMTP co

Re: Is the reason for this "connect from unknown[65.181.123.80]" from NXDOMAIN? Is it safe to reject it always?

2016-04-21 Thread lists42
> You appear to have copied the smtpd executable over the postscreen > executable. You are right I made the same sort of bad mistake in the set up.  Thanks for catching it. I fixed it, and separated the smtpd for postscreen, and named it so I can follow it. So now I see in log     Apr 21 13:

Re: Is the reason for this "connect from unknown[65.181.123.80]" from NXDOMAIN? Is it safe to reject it always?

2016-04-21 Thread Wietse Venema
list...@tutanota.com: > > smtpd logs "unknown" when the IP address has no name, or when the name does > > not resolve to the remote SMTP client IP address. > > Okay so the log is acting right, and recording the event. > > Now I must make and control the decision when it happens for each case. >