Recommendation for remove check statement and inner logging statement under certain circumstances.

Our team researches on consistent update of Postfix during evolution. And we have figured out several spots that may be missed.  By mining historical patches, we suggest that logging statement and corresponding control statement should be removed if the control statement validates whether retu

Re: Recommendation for remove check statement and inner logging statement under certain circumstances.

??: > Our team researches on consistent update of Postfix during evolution. > And we have figured out several spots that may be missed.? > Postfix 3.2 adds a missing error check and logging message to the virtual(8) delivery agent. This triggers when it fails to seek to the end of a mailbox file.

Re: ot: MySQL config/tuning advice

On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 21:13:36 -0500, Phil Stracchino stated: >On 01/05/18 20:55, @lbutlr wrote: >> On 4 Jan 2018, at 14:40, Phil Stracchino ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote: >>> The principal shortcoming of mysqldump is that it is a benightedly stupid >>> tool that cannot walk and chew gum at the same

Re: ot: MySQL config/tuning advice

On 01/06/18 11:20, Postfix User wrote: > I have never used that application. I have been using "mysqlbackup" > for my MySQL databases. It > seems to work fine for me. mysqlbackup is a wrapper script around mysqldump. -- Phil Stracchino Babylo

Best practice when setting up a mail relay

Good evening, I am in the process of setting up a smtp-relay for a hosting provider. Basically, the relay should relay emails from hundreds of servers out to the net. I do want some "protection" against if a website is hacked and starts to spew out thousands of emails. For example: www.siteA.xyz

Re: Best practice when setting up a mail relay

Jonathan S?lea: > Good evening, > > I am in the process of setting up a smtp-relay for a hosting provider. > > Basically, the relay should relay emails from hundreds of servers out to > the net. I do want some "protection" against if a website is hacked and > starts to spew out thousands of email

Re: Best practice when setting up a mail relay

Hello, Depending on the volume of mail, you might want to consider having a pool of outbound servers with a DNS round-robin, along with a dedicated fallback server that only handles bounces. So that your primary queues are only handling active deliveries, and your fallback just handles the bo

Re: Best practice when setting up a mail relay

> Jonathan S?lea: >> Good evening, >> >> I am in the process of setting up a smtp-relay for a hosting provider. >> >> Basically, the relay should relay emails from hundreds of servers out to >> the net. I do want some "protection" against if a website is hacked and >> starts to spew out thousands o

Re: Best practice when setting up a mail relay

Thanks both of you, and Glenn English that answered my first email. I will consider postfw, it looks like it suit me needs at the moment :) I currently use mailscanner - it works OK but that functionality I just asked for is missing in that package. I have never thought about having a fallback se

Re: Best practice when setting up a mail relay

On 06/01/18 18:27, Jonathan Sélea wrote: > For example: > www.siteA.xyz on ServerY is hacked and someone is using mail() in order > to send hundreds of thousands email via localhost - that is relayed to > the smtp relay (that only accepts mail from internal servers). And > instead of relaying th

Re: Microsoft silently discarding emails after recepit

TL;DR: IF YOU ARE STILL EXPERIENCING DELIVERABILITY ISSUES, CONTACT OUTLOOK.COM DELIVERABILITY SUPPORT: I have contacted Outlook.com Deliverability Support and will report back to the list if the results from the interaction are of public interest.

Re: Microsoft silently discarding emails after recepit

> On 6 Jan 2018, at 22:42, Yuval Levy wrote: > On 2018-01-06 02:19 AM, Peter wrote: >> It's not the first time I've seen MS accused of dropping mail. > > Mine (first post in thread) were not accusations. They were > corroborated test results. In case English isn't your first language: • To y

Re: cleanup Adds From: Using Comment Syntax for GECOS Name.

Quick update: I've done a brain-dead simple, but correct, implementation that always quotes the name (just like qmail, BTW). If needed, it can be made smarter later. There 's some draft documentation below. Wietse header_from_format (default: standard) The format of the Postfix-ge

Re: Re: Recommendation for remove check statement and inner logging statement under certain circumstances.

> -Original Messages- > From: "Wietse Venema" > Sent Time: 2018-01-07 00:15:36 (Sunday) > To: "Postfix users" > Cc: > Subject: Re: Recommendation for remove check statement and inner logging > statement under certain circumstances. > > ??: > > Our team researches on consistent updat

Re: Microsoft silently discarding emails after recepit

On 2018-01-06 05:42 PM, Yuval Levy wrote: > I have contacted Outlook.com Deliverability Support and will report back > to the list if the results from the interaction are of public interest. I am still digesting the response received. In essence, they say that they "have reviewed [my] IP(s) (XXX.

Re: Microsoft silently discarding emails after recepit

> On Jan 7, 2018, at 12:11 AM, Yuval Levy wrote: > > Bottom line, I think the problem is more ethical than technical. Unlikely. Far more likely your problem does not rise to the level of negative impact for Microsoft's customer base at large for them to attempt to tune their filter to solve i

Re: Microsoft silently discarding emails after recepit

Our alternative was always to just set relays for "poorly behaved" domains to go through the ISP email servers. It was slower but more reliable since the ISP had an artificially inflated reputation and more time to complain when it's email was.blocked.