sender IP check

hi all on my smtp out i want to put ''reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org'' since many local ADSL dynamic ips are in PBL ; is it desirable? where i can put this? this relay machine does only sending out; help appreciated

whitelist from spamhaus

Hi can i whitelist one domain from checking spamhaus ? thanks

message may be sent more than once

Mar 18 17:25:19 relay2 postfix/smtp[21383]: 5470B21265: to=<41b.4.74998426-6452...@whereverstormy.com>, relay= mail.WhereverStormy.com[173.46.193.75]:25, delay=418568, delays=418439/0.46/4.7/123, dsn=4.4.2, status=deferred (lost connection with mail.WhereverStormy.com[173.46.193.75] while sending e

Re: whitelist from spamhaus

my relay server has got multiple relay domains and i want only exempt mails to one particular domain from checking spamhaus; given below smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient reject_non_fqdn_sender reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_unknown_recipi

forwarding & redirecting

is there any difference between these two? Redirect mail to another address and Forward mail to another address ? could be a dumb confusion!

received date differs

the attached is a header of a spam mail; i found the dates are different and delivered today; but inbox date shows 13/02/2009; what could have gone wrong? Return-path: Received: from relay1.xxx.xx by xxx.xx (MDaemon.PRO.v8.1.3.R) with ESMTP id md50004123477.msg for ; Tue, 02 Jun 2009

Re: received date differs

i find myself dumb on this appreciate an explanation On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > * K bharathan : > > the attached is a header of a spam mail; i found the dates are different > and > > delivered today; bu

deferred mail -retry

hi all what's the default deferred mail retry time in postfix? can i change it? appreciate ur help

Re: deferred mail -retry

retrying time for attempting deliver the message On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > * K bharathan : > > hi all > > what's the default deferred mail retry time in postfix? > > retry time for what? >

Re: deferred mail -retry

thanks On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > * K bharathan : > > retrying time for attempting deliver the message > > I assume you're thinking of non-local delivery > > queue_run_delay = 300s > maximal_backoff_

relays not connecting msexchange

till yesterday there're no probs; suddenly two of my postfix relays not connecting the exchange2003; i cannot ping or telnet from the relays to exchange; exchange has got symantec endpoint protection and its firewall; what could've gone wrong!

Re: relays not connecting msexchange

i get the logs like the following: Jun 10 15:18:33 relay1 postfix/smtp[9353]: 574501614EC: to=, relay=none, delay=12531, delays=12501/0.28/30/0, d sn=4.4.1, status=deferred (connect to 192.168.20.240[192.168.20.240]: Connection timed out) Jun 10 15:18:33 relay1 postfix/error[9652]: 67FE8161520: t

suitable webmail

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 thanks

Re: [OT] suitable webmail

thanks for all On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Carlos Williams wrote: > 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. > > > > T

Re: suitable webmail

b 1, 2010 at 16:52, K bharathan wrote: > > 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 > > It mostly depends on the type of users you have; > > - If they like flashy GUI bullshit li

restrict nrcpt

hi all is there a way to restrict a sender to send only to a fixed no.of recipients in one mail! i want this to be kept as a general rule on my smtp out server thanks

Re: restrict nrcpt

thanks for all -bharathan On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > K bharathan: > > hi all > > is there a way to restrict a sender to send only to a fixed no.of > recipients > > in one mail! i want this to be kept as a general rule on my smtp out > s

hotmail problem

sorry for this generic mail system question i've got a problem with hotmail; when i send mail to a particular domain ( example.com) sometimes it bounce back saying : This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients failed. a...@example.com Fi

Re: hotmail problem

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Patric Falinder wrote: > K bharathan skrev 2010-04-08 10:56: > >> sorry for this generic mail system question >> i've got a problem with hotmail; when i send mail to a particular domain ( >> example.com) >> sometimes it bo

smtp out

hi all i'd like to put a smarthost using postfix; what are the min.precautions i shud put in? i've heard controls on outgoing mails are not that easily effective unlike the controls on incoming mails; also i plan to use SA and Amavis; appreciate valuable suggestions on this ty -bharathan

white list a user for smtp auth

hi all how can i whitelist a particular user (infact it's a user account which send virusalerts from the relays to the pop server) from smtp authentication. i've attached the postconf output ty help appreciated -bharathan inet_protocols = all myhostname = mail.exmaple.com myorigin = mail.examp

Character in Email address

hi all can i use '&' character in the local part of the email address ? thanks -bharathan

spamtrap

hi all how can i get (trap) spam messages recd by my mail users or users can send to a particular email-id the messages that they consider spam so that i can make these messages available to spamassassin for learning appreciate the guidance -bharathan

Re: spamtrap

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:35 PM, mouss wrote: > Le 29/12/2010 16:07, Jeroen Geilman a écrit : > > On 12/29/10 10:55 AM, K bharathan wrote: > >> hi all > >> how can i get (trap) spam messages recd by my mail users or users can > >> send to a particular emai

MS AD integration

hi all is there any way to postfix could query the mail users directly from Active Directory? what is required for this thanks -bharathan

Re: MS AD integration

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Jan Johansson wrote: > >hi all > > >is there any way to postfix could query the mail users directly from > Active Directory? > > >what is required for this > > >Thanks > > > > Sure, plenty of ways, but do you _*really*_ want this? > > > > The reason I myself pre

Re: [ Urgent ] Problem with realy

what about 'transport' ! On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 8:51 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: > Dear list, > > Here is a very urgent problem with **relay** in my postfix. > > My postfix is allowed to relay a particular domain. I have put the > configuration as > > > relay_domain

restrict external host

my setup: external relay1 -->internal postfix mail server how can i restrict postfix to receive only mails from relay1; can i do it through a access map? help appreciated

Re: restrict external host

restrict internal relay host to accept only from external relay host(relay2.abc.com) or i miss some obvious! appreciate help On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > * K bharathan : > > my setup: > > external relay1 -->in

Re: restrict external host

it's working i've been always a reader of this list. before i pose a question, i understand, i've to be well grounded on postfix ; these ingenuities r not comparable; great! to begin with i've started with 'the book of postfix' thanks everybody On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Ville Walveranta

DKIM

hi all currently i've gota smtp out postfix server and one main and several subdomains are using it to send mails out want to put a DKIM sign on all the outbound mails; understand there are MAIL-DKIM and DKIMproxy, DKIM-milters etc.. which one i can choose for this purpose do i've to add anything t

deferred q

can i delete a deferred queue for a specific site guidance appreciated

Re: deferred q

> On Thursday, July 02, 2009 at 06:53 CEST, > K bharathan wrote: > > > can i delete a deferred queue for a specific site > > What do you mean? Do you want to delete all messages destined to a > specific domain? What problem would that solve? > > -- > Magnus Bäck > mag...@dsek.lth.se >

Re: deferred q

thnks On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Thu, July 2, 2009 9:15 am, K bharathan said: > > > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote: > > > > > What do you mean? Do you want to delete all messages destined to a > > > specific d

backscatter

the following is the log from my gateway to a subdomain; there are lot <> sender mails are going; is it backscatter?; some are rejected on the basis of header-checks; the owner of the subdomain has got a mail server; how can i prevent this Jul 3 10:25:28 relay2 postfix/cleanup[13619]: 60F3A2122

Re: backscatter

i've been running this relay gateway for 2 yrs now; i'd no problems of backscatters; have got a relay_recipient table and it take care of this; also kept a check on multiple bounces from an empty envelope sender; this particular scatter was for a customer domain and haven't kept recipient table f

sender verification

is it effective if i use sender verification; i understand there is a risk of getting blacklisted the mail server that's doing the SAV; what could be the guidelines for putting this in postfix guidance appreciated

Re: Filtering emails on server

i read about SAV in backscatterer.org and want to confirm with the list thanks On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Robert Jakob wrote: > Thank you, this was the hint I was looking for! > > Magnus Bäck schrieb: > > On Wed, July 8, 2009 1:44 pm, Robert Jakob said: >> >> >> >>> I am listed in several

Re: sender verification

sorry i posted my reply in some other thread; i read about SAV in backscatterer.org and want to confirm with list thanks On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Wed, July 8, 2009 8:57 am, K bharathan said: > > > is it effective if i use sender verification; i underst

warning:address not listed

i get the following warning from the relay log; this happens when this client connect to my relay; always i get this Jul 15 17:06:07 relay1 postfix/qmgr[3664]: 5CA7F16135E: from=, size=483945, nrcpt=2 (queue active) Jul 15 17:13:59 relay1 postfix/smtpd[16344]: warning: 192.168.2.35: address not li

Re: warning:address not listed

thnaks On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > K bharathan wrote: > >> i get the following warning from the relay log; this happens when this >> client connect to my relay; always i get this >> >> Jul 15 17:06:07 relay1 postfix/qmgr[3664]: 5CA7F1

dsn

i always see in the postfix maillog the following: dsn=2.6.0,dsn=2.0.0,dsn=4.0.0, understand this is the status of the delivery; what is the significance of these numbers after dsn?; (e.g. dsn=2.0.0 i understand status sent ok) i googled for it but could not manage to get any info about this; som

Re: dsn

thnks On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > K bharathan: > > i always see in the postfix maillog the following: > > > > dsn=2.6.0,dsn=2.0.0,dsn=4.0.0, > > > > understand this is the status of the delivery; what is the significance > of >

distribution list

hi can i make a distribution list in postfix? is it with aliasing? how can i do it? appreciate the guidance

Re: distribution list

in fact the setup is virtual users/mysql with postfixadmin; how can i put a virtual alias map? i feel sql to be queried for expanding the list members; i'm not getting that part properly.. On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jose Alberto wrote: > I create the list in ldap with groups. > > in my ma

Re: distribution list

thanks all i'll check with postfixadmin On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 14:43 CEST, > K bharathan wrote: > > > in fact the setup is virtual users/mysql with postfixadmin; how can i > > put a virtual alias map

Bcc problem

mail server is postfix with virtual users and postfix admin for domain example.com; server fetches mail from an ISP mail server; it works fine; but if anybody send a Bcc to someb...@example.com it is immediately sent to postmaster ; it does not deliver to someb...@example.com; this happens only fo

postfix listen on a particular IP

i've got a host with 2 network interfaces with two IPs (192.168.2.100 and 192.168.2.101) want postfix listen only to 192.168.2.101 (mail.example.com) can i put in main.cf intet_interfaces = IP or mail.exmaple.com help appreciated

relayhost and authentication

if the relay host has got a username and password how can i specify these in the main.cf a google on this showed me the following: relayhost = smtp.example.com:25 smtp_sasl_auth_enable=yes smtp_sasl_password_maps=hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options= /etc/postfix/sasl_pa

queue file write error

hi all i got a notice from my relay saying queue file write error; the details are as follows: - From:mailer-dae...@relay1.example.com (Mail Delivery System) To:postmas...@example.com(Postmaster) Date:07/10/2009 11:44 AM Subject:Postfix SMTP server: errors from na3sys009ao

Re: queue file write error

, Wietse Venema wrote: > K bharathan: > > hi all > > i got a notice from my relay saying queue file write error; the details > are > > as follows: > > Postfix logs the details to syslogd. If your syslogging is spread out > across separate files for normal, warning a

one domain and 2 mail servers

hi all i've to keep two postfix mail server; one at head office and another at regional office; both users will be using example.com domain; head office mail server has got hostname/ mx/rdns etc..in the public dns; head office has got seperate internet connection the regional office has got sepera

relay and transport

hi all i understand i can transport an email id in the transport map; so i can put: a...@example.com smtp:[192.168.0.1] example.com smtp:[192.168.0.12] my doubt : with the above all mails to example.com will go to 192.168.0.12; will it include a...@example.com? or that particular mail w

Re: relay and transport

thanks! On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Noel Jones wrote: > On 11/4/2009 12:51 AM, K bharathan wrote: > >> hi all >> i understand i can transport an email id in the transport map; so i can >> put: >> >> a...@example.com <mailto:a...@example.com>

server configuration error

hi all the following is the log from my relay for example.com; this is read receipt which failed; this is happening only with this client domain; Nov 18 20:13:59 relay2 postfix/smtpd[4225]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ex.2n.cz[90.182.112.11]: 451 4.3.5 Server configuration error; from=<> to=< a...@

Re: server configuration error

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > K bharathan put forth on 11/18/2009 1:36 PM: > > > -is anything wrong with my settings?! > > help appreciated > > Try: > > grep warning: /the/maillog/file > > -- > Stan > when i do a fgrep 2n.cz /va

Re: server configuration error

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > K bharathan: > > [90.182.112.11] > > Nov 18 20:06:10 relay1 postfix/smtpd[21876]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > > ex.2n.cz[90.182.112.11]: 451 4.3.5 Server configurati > > Now try: > grep 21876 /the/log/file &

Re: server configuration error

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Eray Aslan wrote: > On 19.11.2009 06:02, K bharathan wrote: > > now i understand ; > > in my check_client_access cidr:/etc/postfix/spam_cidr there was a block > > of IPs: > > > > 90.150.32.0/19 <http://90.150.32.0/19>

backscatter

hi all my relay smtp out got listed with backscatterer.org; the following is my postconf: alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases biff = no canonical_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/canonical command_directory = /usr/sbin config_directory = /etc/postfix content_filter = amavisd-new:[127.0.0.1]:10024 daemon_direct

Re: backscatter

3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Robert Schetterer wrote: > K bharathan schrieb: > > hi all > > my relay smtp out got listed with backscatterer.org > > <http://backscatterer.org>; the following is my postconf: > > > > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases > > biff = no > > c

Re: backscatter

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > > the server got a list of domains (those domains mail servers use this > > > server as relayhost)to relay out and does only smtp out; what could be > > > wrong in the above

Re: backscatter

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Noel Jones wrote: > >> On 11/23/2009 3:25 PM, K bharathan wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:02 PM, /dev/rob0 >> <mailto:r...@gmx.co.uk>> wrote: >>> >

mime header checks

hi all added a following regular expression for mime_header check /^Subject:.*LOANS OFFER/ REJECT spam #1 if i understand correctly cleanup service is doing the rejection; how can i stop notify the sender; is there any difference in mime_header check and header_check request for some clarity on

Re: mime header checks

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 2011-11-15 21:13, K bharathan wrote: > >> hi all >> added a following regular expression for mime_header check >> >> /^Subject:.*LOANS OFFER/ REJECT spam #1 >> if i understand correctly cleanup

postscreen

hi all with postscreen i experience the following problem: it blocks mail from hotmal as following (from mail log) Mar 19 10:17:19 relay1 postfix/postscreen[10619]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from [65.55.116.21]:55820: 450 4.3.2 Service currently unavailable; from=< x...@hotmail.com>, to=, proto=ESMTP,

Re: postscreen

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:07 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:59:51AM +0200, K bharathan wrote: > > with postscreen i experience the following problem: > > it blocks mail from hotmal as following (from mail log) > > > > Mar 19 10:17:19 relay1 postfix

postfix log

hi appreciate if somebody could help interpret the following log: Mar 22 21:07:25 relay0 postfix/smtpd[61707]: disconnect from unknown[69.167.155.81] Mar 22 21:07:36 relay0 postfix/scache[61795]: statistics: start interval Mar 22 21:03:29 Mar 22 21:07:36 relay0 postfix/scache[61795]: statistics: d

spam tags

hi all am getting spams with ***Spam*** tags in the subject line; esp lottery spams; anybody know an effective measure to prevent these i run amavis-new /postscreen on postfix relays and spam levels are tolerable so far except some creep i like the above -bharathan