Understanding Message Headers

2009-02-04 Thread Carlos Williams
I received an email this morning that I was confused / concerned by. I am looking at the headers however I am not sure exactly how to make this out. This is obviously spam and I did not send myself spam. The sender shows my email address as well as the recipient address however when I view the full

Constant Entry in Queue

2009-02-26 Thread Carlos Williams
When I check my Postfix mail queue, I am always noticing a strange entry that sits there until I manually remove it. I really don't understand why it is even routed into my Postfix server to begin with as the recipient and domain don't match anything my server handles. The senders address looks to

Messages Are Refused

2009-03-04 Thread Carlos Williams
I am noticing that for some reason every time a specific user on my domain attempts to email a particular domain, the messages are always queued up. They don't ever appear to send for some reason and I checked the logs which don't really give any specific reason why he can't send email to this doma

Re: Messages Are Refused

2009-03-04 Thread Carlos Williams
Thanks for that info. Can someone also comment on this? I asked a friend via email and this was his response to the same issue: ** "I used nslookup to verify the address your queue is showing, and it does correspond to je.jfcom.mil. But a request for the mail-exchanger

Unable To Track Spam in Mail Logs = :(

2009-03-11 Thread Carlos Williams
I just had a ticket come in regards to a user who just last week started receiving a crazy amount of spam emails that he has never had an issue with. I checked the mail logs (/var/log/mail.log) and was unable to find anything. I checked the spam emails the user still had on his client and copied th

Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Carlos Williams
I noticed I keep getting the same spam message delivered to a building wide distribution via Postfix and I can't understand why the following are not catching it every time? Here is the message: Return-Path: X-Original-To: every...@ Delivered-To: cwilli...@ Received: by mail. (Postfi

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Terry Carmen wrote: > You'll need to post log entries showing the message being accepted. The two > you posted were both rejected. > > Terry Sorry. Does this help? It was basically everything I found in my log. mail:~# cat /var/log/mail.log | grep -i "teem...@i

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > To search the log, use the QUEUEID reported in the first Received: header > added by your system.  Note Received headers are read bottom to top, so the > first one is the lowest one with your server name. Sorry all. Let me start with posting t

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > It appears the QUEUEID you want to look for is A94B31FA4DA0. > That should be listed in the first (reading up from the bottom) Received > header in the message. I searched and found what is listed below. Are you saying that reads from bottom to

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > Here we, go again, do please look at the Received headers of the > message... Sorry - this is new to me so please bare with my confusion. I apologise again. > Now the upstream (still your system) queue-id is 910AA1FA4D9E, perhaps > this i

Re: Spam Filters Not Catching Repeating Offenders?

2009-03-30 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Can you post the full unaltered headers of the message? Change the username > part of mail addresses to protect privacy. Noel, I am guessing I just post the headers from the message as I see it with the exception of the username for privacy, c

Recommendation For Postfix Mailboxes

2009-05-07 Thread Carlos Williams
I am starting a new mail server for the company (CentOS 5.3 + Postfix) and was wondering what the best recommendation for user mailboxes are? I was once told by someone here that we should create a MySQL database / user structure on the mail server so each user is virtual or listed in MySQL rather

Re: Recommendation For Postfix Mailboxes

2009-05-07 Thread Carlos Williams
Thanks all. I think with less than 300 users & security not being a huge deal since I set everyone's shell to /sbin/nologin.

Following CentOS Postfix Config Guide

2009-05-11 Thread Carlos Williams
I just installed CentOS Wiki guide for installing & configuring Postfix restrictions & was wondering what you guys thought based on what I have listed below. I just set this machine up and appears to be working great but I trust you guys since you've been doing this for a lot longer than I have: h

Re: Following CentOS Postfix Config Guide

2009-05-12 Thread Carlos Williams
Sorry - the hostname parameter was not blank on my initial config, I just omitted it from the email when I pasted my postconf -n. I guess I should have specified that before. I removed the trailing 'permits' from the 'smtpd_*_restrictions' as shown below. Also removed blank entries like 'relayhosts

Re: Following CentOS Postfix Config Guide

2009-05-13 Thread Carlos Williams
Guys - After implementing the main.cf on my Postfix server, I noticed a increase in spam from before I modified my main.cf. Do you guys know what could be causing this based on the changes I made to main.cf below? ***OLD*** myhostname = mail.ideorlando.org alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases alias_dat

Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Carlos Williams wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Brian Collins > wrote: >>> I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to >>> get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help. >> >> Simon Mudd picks up th

Sent Mail Shows FQDN in Email Address

2009-05-17 Thread Carlos Williams
I am using a new Postfix server and when I send an email to anyone, it shows the FQDN as follows: u...@mail.myserver.com When it should display: u...@myserver.com Now in my Postfix main.cf file, I made sure to check I have: [code]myorigin = $mydomain[/code] Now obviously mydomain = myserver.c

Re: Following CentOS Postfix Config Guide

2009-05-17 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Carlos Williams wrote: >> relayhost = > > The default value is empty, so no need to redefine it. I was told to add this value and leave it blank so that Postfix will not be used as an open relay. Are yo

Re: Webmail

2009-05-19 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Just E. Mail wrote: > I am posting this message here because I want Postfix uses to suggest a > webmail application best suited with Postfix. This question has been asked > and answered several times but since LINUX is changing so fast, I am asking > again. > > Sy

Re: Webmail

2009-05-19 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Just E. Mail wrote: > Thank you all. > > I am going with roundcube:  http://www.roundcube.net It's really eacy to install. Main thing is making sure you have PHP 5.2+ installed on Apache and also configuring your MySQL database which is super easy if you follow th

Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-19 Thread Carlos Williams
> I'll see if I can make some time to build some 2.6 rpms, but am likely > to respond more if there are people who show an interest in these rpms > I build. I too am interested and would like to try it. I have never used anything beyond the vendor supplied version of Postfix but am tired of waitin

Consistent Entry Stuck in Queue

2009-05-21 Thread Carlos Williams
Can someone please help me understand why I am seeing this entry over and over in my Postfix queue? Is this dangerous or does this mean I have been compromised? I am seeing this over and over in my queue even after I remove it with the "postsuper -d" command: 502E97782FC 4527 Thu May 21 16:48

Re: Consistent Entry Stuck in Queue

2009-05-21 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: > No need to be alarmist; search the logs for further enlightenment. I checked the logs and found the following when I search for the message ID: May 21 16:48:04 mail postfix/smtpd[22513]: 502E97782FC: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] M

Re: Consistent Entry Stuck in Queue

2009-05-22 Thread Carlos Williams
Thanks for all the info and I guess I am still worried because the user who the logs indicate is sending this message is 100% not sending this. She has been on vacation for the past 2 weeks as no webmail activity either. I used "postcat -q" to check the message ID and the output is listed below: O

Re: How is it: mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 yet local network users are able to send.

2009-06-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Sthu Pous wrote: > Good day. > > Could You please, explain me how it is possible for the users from local net > to > send mail if we have in main.cf: > > mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8 You want / need to also add the network parameter for which your local clients are o

Added a Check - Asking for a Review

2010-01-20 Thread Carlos Williams
Today I downloaded Ralph Hildebrandt's Postfix example and used his 'check_helo_access' example in my configuration. I have not 'reloaded' Postfix yet because I want to make sure that I did not add this in and cause any redundant checks or worse, break something. Can you guys please review my main.

Re: Added a Check - Asking for a Review

2010-01-20 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > why not use soft_bounce = yes :) ? I have never used it before. That sounds like a good idea. >> check_helo_access     pcre:/etc/postfix/helo_checks.pcre, > And what is the content of the file? [r...@mail postfix]# cat helo_checks.pcre

Re: Added a Check - Asking for a Review

2010-01-20 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > I would merge: > > smtpd_helo_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, > permit_sasl_authenticated,    reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname, > reject_invalid_helo_hostname > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, > permit_sasl_authenticate

Best Suggestion For Blacklisting Senders

2010-01-21 Thread Carlos Williams
Everyday I have a notification from my virus scanner that a Virus / Trojan was received from a specific IP: *** A virus was found: Trojan.Delf-5385 Banned name: .exe,.exe-ms,postcard.htm ... .exe Scanner detecting a virus: ClamAV-clamd Content typ

Re: Best Suggestion For Blacklisting Senders

2010-01-21 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > This is a client IP not a sender, e. g. 'MAIL FROM: br...@example.com' > > The IP should go into a file referenced by a check_client_access > restriction. So when I generate a 'check_client_access' file in '/etc/postfix', I need

Re: Best Suggestion For Blacklisting Senders

2010-01-21 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > Since you have 'smtpd_delay_reject = yes', it does not matter. > All restrictions are processed during 'RCPT TO' time with this (default) > setting. > All information about client, helo, sender and recipient are available > in th

Re: Best Suggestion For Blacklisting Senders

2010-01-22 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > This is a client IP not a sender, e. g. 'MAIL FROM: br...@example.com' > > The IP should go into a file referenced by a check_client_access > restriction. I think I still don't have a understanding at how to properly read / und

Re: suitable webmail

2010-02-01 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:52 AM, K bharathan wrote: > hi all > of course this is a non postfix topic; but i'd like to know from the > experienced which webmail is best for a postfix pop server > i'd also have it configured for user soft quota > guidance appreciated Postfix is not the POP/IMAP ser

Re: [OT] suitable webmail

2010-02-02 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-02-01 7:17 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> All of that said, I don't find I'm lacking any functionality with my current >> version of Roundcube. > > Then you haven't looked at it... the new features are really nice... I would say this is

2.7 RPM

2010-02-22 Thread Carlos Williams
Does anyone happen to know if anyone is kindly dedicating their time to creating a Postfix 2.7 RPM for download? I know this is extremely time consuming but I am really interested to try out Postfix 2.7 on my CentOS x64 server. I realize Simon was responsible for creating the previous RPM's availab

Planning An Upgrade

2010-02-25 Thread Carlos Williams
I am getting ready to step up my Postfix version from postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 (Package maintainers version) to Simon's binary RPM 2.7.0 package. Currently I checked out the 'Release Notes": http://de.postfix.org/ftpmirror/official/postfix-2.7.0.RELEASE_NOTES >From what I read, no functionalist ha

Re: Spam Attack on Postmaster

2010-02-28 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > Or you can have postfix add it to main.cf for you by typing the command: > > # postconf -e 'address_verify_sender=$double_bounce_sender' I added the above parameter (address_verify_sender=$double_bounce_sender) in my main.cf to keep spammers fr

Re: Added a Check - Asking for a Review

2010-02-28 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: >> /^localhost$/                     550 Don't use my own domain (localhost)! >> /^iamghost.\com$/                 550 Don't use my own domain! >> /^64\.95\.64\.198$/             550 Your spam was rejected because you're >> forging my IP.

Re: Spam Attack on Postmaster

2010-02-28 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Carlos, I think it's time you join spam-l and learn all the tricks to > fighting spam.  http://spam-l.com/mailman/listinfo/spam-l Thanks. I will research this and see what I can learn from that list. > You could have blocked this spam with

Re: Spam Attack on Postmaster

2010-03-01 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > That parameter doesn't prevent spammers from sending junk to postmaster, it > prevents mail to postmaster from bypassing your existing anti-spam controls. >  Big difference. It looks like it does pass my 'anti-spam' controls however & I am not s

Re: Spam Attack on Postmaster

2010-03-01 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > It "slips past" because there are no rules to block it. > You can add "postmas...@your_domain   REJECT" to this list if you want. I am assuming I would add this to 'sender_access', correct? On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 1:31 AM, LuKreme wrote: > Oft

Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-06-15 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Simon J Mudd wrote: > sjm...@pobox.com (Simon J Mudd) writes: > >> For those interested I've updated the packages and you should be able >> to find: >>         postfix-2.6.0-1.src.rpm and >>         postfix-2.6.0-1.rhel5.x86_64.rpm > > Updated to 2.6.1 as I hadn't s

/var/mail

2009-06-19 Thread Carlos Williams
I notice that when I create a user in my Postfix server, I also create a file located in /var/spool/mail: [r...@mail mail]# ls -l total 0 -rw-rw 1 user1mail 0 Jun 8 11:35 user1 -rw-rw 1 user2mail 0 Jun 5 08:41

Testing For Open Relay

2009-06-24 Thread Carlos Williams
I just finished a new Postfix 2.6 installation on a Debian server in a co-location and just wanted to make sure I am properly testing this machine is not a 'open relay' before I open it out to the public: I was told to go to the following URL http://www.abuse.net/relay.html and I entered my extern

Question About Maildir Mailboxes

2009-07-08 Thread Carlos Williams
I am setting up a new server to run Maildir style in-boxes. In my main.cf, I added the following parameter: "home_mailbox = Maildir/" The above seems to be working fine in my main.cf. It auto created the directory upon receiving the 1st email but I was also reading I need to add the following par

Re: Question About Maildir Mailboxes

2009-07-08 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > This is the default value. You don't need this, unless someone > (perhaps an O/S distribution) supplied you with a main.cf file > that overrides the default. Hmmm... I am using the Debian provided main.cf when I used apt-get to install thei

TLS / SASL Help

2009-07-20 Thread Carlos Williams
I am unable to understand why I can't get TLS / SASL working on my Postfix server. I am using Postfix 2.3 (postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2) on CentOS 5 x64. I followed the CentOS guide and enabled this in my main.cf & dovecot.conf. When I telnet into my server, I see the following: [r...@mail /]# telnet 1

Re: TLS / SASL Help

2009-07-21 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Details of a problem are not divulged to outsiders, so the transcript > intentionally gives vague information. > > Something broken in your config. Check your logs, postfix probably tells > you where to look further there. That makes sense why

Re: TLS / SASL Help

2009-07-21 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > Without logs it's much more difficult to diagnose the problem; with no > obvious configuration errors we're reduced to guessing. Postfix logging is > handled by your system's syslog program.  Check your syslog.conf file to see > where it stores

Re: TLS / SASL Help

2009-07-21 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > Carlos Williams wrote: > Ah, that's an important detail. > > Postfix does not support password-protected certificates.  You can use > openssl to remove the password.  I forget the command offhand, but google > knows

Email Not To or From My Domain Stuck in Queue

2009-07-29 Thread Carlos Williams
I am checking my mail queue and I have noticed that mail in my queue is stuck with the following error: AA83077925B 1508 Sun Jul 26 10:22:31 rheinl...@simulationinformation.com (host mx.dr1.us.army.mil[143.69.243.34] said: 451 #4.1.8 Domain of sender address does not resolve (in reply to MAI

Re: Email Not To or From My Domain Stuck in Queue

2009-07-29 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > The server mx.dr1.us.army.mil basically said: > "This seems bogus to us. We don't want it, but you're welcome to try again" Thats understandable but I guess I am confused as to why mx.dr1.us.army.mil is telling my Postfix server.

Re: Email Not To or From My Domain Stuck in Queue

2009-07-29 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Terry Carmen wrote: > You're still missing the log entries where you accepted the message. I think this is it: Jul 26 10:22:31 mail postfix/smtpd[14344]: AA83077925B: client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1] Jul 26 10:22:31 mail postfix/cleanup[14864]: AA83077925B

Re: Email Not To or From My Domain Stuck in Queue

2009-07-29 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > Carlos Williams wrote: >> Jul 26 10:22:31 mail postfix/lmtp[14870]: 4A01E779261: >> to=, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]:10024, conn_use=3, >> delay=6.5, delays=0.08/6.2/0.01/0.29, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 >

2.6 RPM

2009-09-16 Thread Carlos Williams
I recall some months ago seeing a large discussion on someone taking their time and dedication on creating a pre-packaged RPM of 2.6.X. I was wondering if anyone has the latest RPM that I can download for my new RHEL 5 server. I am looking to use 2.6.5 from a packaged RPM however Redhat / CentOS o

Re: 2.6 RPM

2009-09-16 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Brian Collins wrote: > Simon Mudd is the man who makes these RPMs.  We mirror his site.  You can get > the RPMs here: > ftp://mirror.newnanutilities.org/pub/postfix-rpm/official/2.6/ Thanks for that info and I greatly appreciate all the time and effort Simon put

Re: 2.6 RPM

2009-09-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Gary Smith wrote: > Carlos, > > You might want to put together a build environment and roll your own.  I tend > to do this for a lot of software (as I need to application specific business > required patches to several packages).  In most cases, you can easily se

Rejecting Reverse Hostname in Logs

2009-09-24 Thread Carlos Williams
I have someone telling me that they can't send email to my mail server. I checked the logs and it appears that Postfix is not happy with the way their client or server is sending the message to me. I want to understand what is causing this. I would like to know if anyone can please help me understa

Re: Rejecting Reverse Hostname in Logs

2009-09-24 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Martijn de Munnik wrote: > I think this is not too restrictive and the sending mailserver should > fix their rdns, YMMV. We use a policy server (policyd-weight) which > gives scores for things like no rdns, dailup ip, ip in dnsbl etc. So the problem then is that t

Spam Attack on Postmaster

2009-09-24 Thread Carlos Williams
I have a Postfix server running with also Postgrey enabled. It seems to work great however in the last week I have noticed a huge increase in spam mail that is sent to postmas...@... I am configured on the mail server to get all mail destined for Postmaster and it appears that everyone and their mo

Re: Spam Attack on Postmaster

2009-09-24 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > Some older versions of postfix give special treatment to the postmaster > address.  To disable this special treatment, add > # main.cf > address_verify_sender = $double_bounce_sender I am guessing that 2.3 which the latest version for Redhat L

Upgrade From 2.3 to 2.6

2009-10-26 Thread Carlos Williams
I am getting ready to remove my Postfix installation of 2.3 which is the latest version RHEL / CentOS have to offer for stability reasons in place for the 2.6.5-1 RPM I downloaded from Simon. I have Postgrey, Amavisd-new, Dovecot, and ClamAV all integrated or interacting with the Postfix 2.3 MTA pa

Re: Spam Attack on Postmaster

2009-10-27 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > Some older versions of postfix give special treatment to the postmaster > address.  To disable this special treatment, add > # main.cf > address_verify_sender = $double_bounce_sender So when you note "older" I am going to assume 2.3.x qualifie

What Is Causing This Failure

2009-12-01 Thread Carlos Williams
I am getting a report from someone on my network that they are getting delivery failures when attempting to send an email from my Postfix server to the remote mail server. I see the message stuck on my Postfix servers queue: CB87E778055 1337 Mon Nov 30 08:59:15 tprem...@iamghost.com

Re: What Is Causing This Failure

2009-12-01 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > Works OK. What does tracroute 198.186.193.20 return? > # traceroute 198.186.193.20 > traceroute to 198.186.193.20 (198.186.193.20), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets > ... snip ... >  4  zr-pot1-te0-0-0-3.x-win.dfn.de (188.1.144.30)  5.288 ms  

Re: What Is Causing This Failure

2009-12-01 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > What is the output of traceroute 198.186.193.20 ? I get no results from my mail server: traceroute to 198.186.193.20 (198.186.193.20), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 * * * 2 * * * 3 * * * 4 * * * 5 * * * . . . 29 * * * 30 * *

Re: What Is Causing This Failure

2009-12-01 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Terry L. Inzauro wrote: > > why all the off topic posts today? I suspected this to be Postfix or Mail related so I posted here. It was determined with the help of the list it was not a MTA issue. Simple as that! Sorry for any inconvenience.

Should Anyone Be Able To Send Telnet Email

2009-12-04 Thread Carlos Williams
I was just thinking today that if anyone knew a valid email address on my Postfix mail server, anyone could simply telnet to it (assuming they're on a trusted network / mynetworks) and send mail posed as that valid email address. I know this is not a huge security deal since it's come from a client

Re: Should Anyone Be Able To Send Telnet Email

2009-12-04 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Martijn de Munnik wrote: > If sending e-mail via telnet without a username/password is possible it is > also possible with a client. OK so from that note I gather something with my config is not secure or wide open. Is this is a Postfix issue or something 'off-top

Re: Should Anyone Be Able To Send Telnet Email

2009-12-04 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Matt Hayes wrote: > The question is, are you trying to 'relay' through the server or sending > to a domain that the server hosts? > > -Matt I don't know how to answer this. The Postfix server is on the same network as the clients connecting to it. The clients simpl

Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Carlos Williams
I notice from time to time by checking my mail queue that messages get stuck there because users send to an invalid or non existing domain. My Postfix server attempts to hold the message in queue for later delivery assuming the remote server could be experiencing issues right his moment. My questio

Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote: > I think you might be trying to solve the wrong problem.  Why queue > mail for destinations that don't have MX records (typoed domain part, > etc)?  Better to return undeliverable to senders I would think.  This > is different than mail to domai

Re: Force Delivery Failure

2009-12-18 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > "postconf -d" shows built-in defaults, not the settings currently used.  For > current settings, use "postconf". Woops. > These are temporary errors that postfix rightfully keeps in the queue.  A > computer can't tell the difference between a

TLS Configuration on Postfix

2009-12-21 Thread Carlos Williams
I have TLS / SASL working on my email server. My question is in my main.cf on Postfix, I have the following parameter for TLS: smtpd_tls_security_level = may In my VIM editor, every parameter except the one listed above is in color. The above parameter is just in white. I assumed that this was be

Re: TLS Configuration on Postfix

2009-12-29 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > Yes, sorry, the rest of OP's message was about smtpd(8), failed to notice > this was smtp(8). Yes: > >    smtp_tls_security_level = may So are you suggestion in my current 'main.cf' I need to change the parameter from "smtpd_tls_security_

Postfix Bootcamp / School

2008-07-28 Thread Carlos Williams
Does anyone know if there is a recommended U.S. school / training camp that offers a Postfix support? I checked the Postfix website and there appears to be some but they're international. My company has training funds & the only thing I would really like to have a better understanding of is Postf

Re: Postfix Bootcamp / School

2008-07-28 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:59 PM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and you're where? and you'd pay what? I am in Orlando, FL. Price depends on the length of training. I guess I would like to leave that open to see what that is worth. Ideally we would pay to have a consultant come down to Orlando

Re: Postfix Bootcamp / School

2008-07-28 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Daniel L. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmmm...I always wanted to see Florida To be clear, I am fully capable of installing a vanilla Postfix server up and getting it to send and receive email. I am looking for someone who has extensive Postfix understand

Virtual Mailboxes

2008-07-31 Thread Carlos Williams
I was speaking with someone about Postfix and they suggested I use "virtual" mailboxes rather than system accounts for mailboxes. They indicated there is no point in utilzing UID's for mailusers and system accounts simply for Postfix however there appears to be hundreds / thousands of available UID

Re: Virtual Mailboxes

2008-07-31 Thread Carlos Williams
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jorey Bump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never liked the idea of creating system users just for email, although I > did it for years. Even with unusable login shells, home directories can get > pretty untidy and challenging to back up for mail purposes (although M

Postfix GAL Options

2008-08-15 Thread Carlos Williams
My biggest complaint at work is that there is no global address book for everyone to use. Obviously a file I create will be outdated weekly based on the users I add and remove from my Postfix email server. My Postfix email server does not do any kind of fancy authentication with LDAP or do I have a

What Creates mbox File

2008-08-17 Thread Carlos Williams
I built a new Postfix server this weekend and I noticed that even though I specified Maildir style mailboxes, for some reason I continuously get a file in a users home directory called "mbox". I am trying to avoid this file being created. It was my understanding that if you specify Maildir/ style m

Re: What Creates mbox File

2008-08-17 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Daryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What IMAP server are you using. I have Dovecot, and ammend > /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf (on Debian) > and configure mail_location variable. Which will probably help you! I am not using a Imap server yet. This simply occurs with P

Re: What Creates mbox File

2008-08-17 Thread Carlos Williams
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Eduardo Júnior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe some config of mutt. > I don't know too, but by their description, that is a possibility. If anyone logs into their Postfix server as their regular user and runs the "mail" command, does it self generate a mbox fil

Unable To Enable Checks

2008-09-03 Thread Carlos Williams
On my Postfix server, I am unable to enable smtpd_*_restrictions in my main.cf. With the following commented out, I can send and receive email all day long with no problems but when I uncomment the following lines, I get errors trying to send email from my email server... #smtpd_recipient_restrict

Re: Unable To Enable Checks

2008-09-03 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:30 PM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > show 'postconf -n' _after_ uncommenting the lines. we can't help you > troubleshoot problems in setups that work! Enabled in main.cf. Below is my postconf -n: email:~# postconf -n alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = ha

Re: Unable To Enable Checks

2008-09-03 Thread Carlos Williams
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is caused by not having permit_mynetworks as the first restriction. > First restriction wins and this is being rejected by > reject_unauth_destination because you told it to ignore people on your > network.

Re: new to postfix

2008-09-12 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:59 AM, David Ballano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people, > > I'm new Here, and I have a lot of questions for you, thanks in advance :) > > > I'm configuring a postfix 2.3 server in a debian etch, I'ts my first > time so I would like to do a simple configuration. F

Unable To Send Emails From Web Server

2008-09-16 Thread Carlos Williams
My email server died last week (hardware) so I took the opportunity to move the system (Postfix) to a different version of Linux (Debian). Everything is working fine and all users are 100% happy with the new machine / Postfix install except I have one web server on my LAN (DMZ) which is unable to s

Re: Unable To Send Emails From Web Server

2008-09-16 Thread Carlos Williams
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe you should change the mail server back to /16 before you do any more > troubleshooting. Then read up on networking and netmasks. Thanks for helping me. I reverted back to the /16 and it works fine.

Out Of Office Utility

2008-10-06 Thread Carlos Williams
I had a user ask me if the Postfix email server can auto respond w/ "Out of Office" reply rather than do this on his client in case his machine is rebooted and or shut off. I Google'd this first and found a program called "Vacation" which appears to be somewhat compatible however I am not sure sinc

Re: Out Of Office Utility

2008-10-06 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your delivering to a Cyrus IMAPd server then SIEVE has very nice > facilities to handle vacation messages for you. Several rather nice > UI/clients are available as well so users can setup their own messages. Sadl

Refused Message from RCPT TO

2008-10-10 Thread Carlos Williams
I am seeing in my logs several of the following: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- 9D3DB1FA461C 1046060 Fri Oct 10 09:37:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (host mx2.east.saic.com[198.151.13.25] said: 452 Deferred - [X.X.X.X] (in reply to RCPT TO command))

Re: Refused Message from RCPT TO

2008-10-10 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Brian Evans - Postfix List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A 452 response is generally a temporary error and will be retried. > > Is the recipient yours or a remote? > This can be some form of greylisting or other not in your control issue > if remote. Thanks Brian &

Re: Refused Message from RCPT TO

2008-10-10 Thread Carlos Williams
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Brian Evans - Postfix List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply grep out the Queue ID from your log. > The status parameter will tell you if it was sent, bounced, or delayed > again. Thanks - so basically this is not specifically something my Postfix server is doin

Certificates Invalid in Main.cf (Possibly Off Topic'ish)

2008-11-10 Thread Carlos Williams
It appears that my postfix server is using invalid TLS certs from /etc/postfix/main.cf. When I set up my client to use TLS, I get an invalid certificate error from Outlook that tells me the hostname and domain of the server which are wrong. I renamed the FQDN at some point however I must have re-us

Re: Certificates Invalid in Main.cf (Possibly Off Topic'ish)

2008-11-10 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, the FQDN of the server is encoded in the certificate. If you rename > the server, you must get a new certificate (or generate a new one if > self-signed). > > If your existing verisign certificate is a "server" type cert

Re: Certificates Invalid in Main.cf (Possibly Off Topic'ish)

2008-11-11 Thread Carlos Williams
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Noel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If your existing verisign certificate is a "server" type certificate with >> > the right FQDN, you should be able to use it with postfix. I bel

Access Restriction Not Working

2008-11-21 Thread Carlos Williams
In my attempt to block my Postfix email server from receiving and sending email to gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol, and msn email accounts, I created the following: vim /etc/postfix/main.cf smtpd_sender_restrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/access reject_unauth_destination = hash:/etc/postfix/access Then

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