Transport map lookup failures are fatal?

2009-04-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
I apologize in advance if I'm being horribly dense, but I'm seeing something that doesn't feel right. In the event that a transport map lookup fails with a "host not found" error, Postfix is bouncing the message rather than treating it as a temporary error. For my test, I have the transport map:

Re: Transport map lookup failures are fatal?

2009-04-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:47:58PM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> I apologize in advance if I'm being horribly dense, but I'm seeing >> something that doesn't feel right. In the event that a transport map >> lookup fails wi

Re: Transport map lookup failures are fatal?

2009-04-16 Thread Seth Mattinen
Victor Duchovni wrote: >> So, my question is, why is that fatal instead of temporary? Shouldn't it >> be temporary? Observed on 2.5.5 and 2.4.5. > > It should not be temporary. All lookups succeed and establish that the > destination is non-existent. Postfix correctly bounces the message. > > If

delays=a/b/c/d in docs

2010-01-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
Does anyone know offhand where the logging string "delays=a/b/c/d" is defined in the documentation? I can't seem to find it. ~Seth

Re: delays=a/b/c/d in docs

2010-01-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
Seth Mattinen wrote: > Does anyone know offhand where the logging string "delays=a/b/c/d" is > defined in the documentation? I can't seem to find it. > Nevermind, it's in RELEASE_NOTES. I would humbly suggest putting it in the DEBUG_README as well. ~Seth

Re: delays=a/b/c/d in docs

2010-01-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
Pascal Volk wrote: > On 01/06/2010 05:29 PM Seth Mattinen wrote: >> Does anyone know offhand where the logging string "delays=a/b/c/d" is >> defined in the documentation? I can't seem to find it. > > see man postconf(5): > man 5 postconf | less +/^delay_

Re: Say to Postfix which email need to be delivered locally based on the full email address and not just based on the local domain

2010-02-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 2/2/10 10:05 AM, Noel Jones wrote: > On 2/2/2010 11:11 AM, Michele Carandente wrote: >> Hi Noel, >> Thanks for the corrections... anyway this solution doen't solve the >> problem that I have. > > Sorry, that's the only solution I have to offer. > UUCP? ;) ~Seth

Re: Strange problem : email refused during the night ???

2010-06-12 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 6/12/2010 16:03, Denis BUCHER wrote: > > c) More info : > That's what I see in the logs approximately at the same time these > errors are seen : > > Jun 11 04:45:21 cirrus postfix/trivial-rewrite[3636]: warning: > dict_ldap_connect: Unable to bind to server ldap://localhost:389 as > cn=, o

Re: Virtual users pop3d suggestions

2010-09-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 9/10/2010 00:32, Nick Edwards wrote: > Good day all, > I apologize in advance if the moderators consider this slightly OT. > > We have many users moved to a MySQL database, planned for moving away > from Cyrus on Sunday Oct 3, we are almost ready to go but found a > problem with pop3 software w

Re: postfix strip ??? (highbit chars)

2009-07-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
Benny Pedersen wrote: > On Thu, July 23, 2009 01:00, Noel Jones wrote: >> Did you run "postfix reload"? > > yes > >> Do you have postfix 2.3 or later? > > 2.5.7 > >> Show evidence. "postconf -n" output, contents of your >> message, etc. > > do i really have to :/ > If you ask for help and c

Re: Forwarding Hosted Domain Mail to GMail

2009-07-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
Ryan O'Toole wrote: > > However, when I send an email to one of those addresses it never arrives > to my gmail, though I can see that postfix received and forwarded it. > > mail.log: > Jul 23 18:46:05 izardry postfix/smtp[2039]: 6BF6C3F800AD: > to=mailto:roto...@gmail.com>>, > orig_to=mailto:i...

Re: Forwarding Hosted Domain Mail to GMail

2009-07-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
Ryan O'Toole wrote: > Sure, sure. I realize Google is Google and Postfix is Postfix. > > My purpose in mailing to this list is questioning whether there are > additional steps I need to take when configuring my postfix server so > that my mail won't be blacklisted. > > I'm reading a little on rev

Re: Catchall account and lots of spam in a short period

2009-07-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
Martijn de Munnik wrote: > > Losing catchall seems to be the best solution but some of my customers > want to create an emailaddress for every website the register on. > > m...@desjors.nl > pay...@desjors.nl > deb...@desjors.nl > > etc. > > Then they use their mail client to filter the messages a

Re: Spamassassin

2009-07-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
Carl A jeptha wrote: > When setting up Postfix with Amavis, ClamAV and spamassassin, should one > see spamassassin working (I am using a Ubuntu server) > True? ~Seth

Re: Directory Harvest

2009-07-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
Roman Gelfand wrote: > It looks like somebody is trying to figure out my internal users as > evidenced by log excerpts below. Is there something I could do to, if > not prevent this, reduce it? > You could use fail2ban to look for too many "RCPT from unknown" entries and block the IP address.

Re: Directory Harvest

2009-07-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
Roman Gelfand wrote: > Should I block 1 address or subnet? > I'd start with just the IP, personally. ~Seth

What causes the "message file too big" error?

2009-07-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
I'm seeing "Error: message file too big" but I'm not sure what's causing it. The exact byte count of the message+headers is 100793284, but I have message_size_limit set to 104857600. Is there something else going into the size calculation that I'm missing? ~Seth

Re: What causes the "message file too big" error?

2009-07-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
Wietse Venema wrote: > Wietse Venema: >> Seth Mattinen: >>> I'm seeing "Error: message file too big" but I'm not sure what's causing >>> it. The exact byte count of the message+headers is 100793284, but I have >>> message_size_limit set

Re: What causes the "message file too big" error?

2009-07-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
LuKreme wrote: > On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:42 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: >> The exact byte count of the message+headers is 100793284 > > Seriously? 96MB emails? I hope that's internal only. > Nope, not internal. Why does that matter? I only noticed this one because the idi

Re: latest postfix vs. postfix 2.3 package?

2009-09-06 Thread Seth Mattinen
Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm running postfix 2.3 via rpm package. This is on a centos box. I > know that there are later versions out, and am wondering if there's a > feature add-ons page, not just a changelog, something very detailed version > to version, that goes in to detail? I'm trying to

Re: feature request: deliver to compressed files on Maildir boxes

2009-09-08 Thread Seth Mattinen
mouss wrote: > Leonardo Rodrigues a écrit : >> >> http://wiki.dovecot.org/Plugins/Zlib >> > > I don't wanna sound negative, but > - since dovecot solves the problem... > - this can also be handled at fielsystem level > - every time I hear "zlib", someting like "vulnerability" hits my ears. > so if

Re: Formatting of 544- ... lines in "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"

2009-09-11 Thread Seth Mattinen
Multiline responses in SMTP are (as far as I know) not allowed. I'm sure Wietse will correct me it I'm wrong, but I can't ever recall it. ~Seth

Re: Formatting of 544- ... lines in "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"

2009-09-13 Thread Seth Mattinen
Wietse Venema wrote: > Seth Mattinen: >> Multiline responses in SMTP are (as far as I know) not allowed. I'm sure >> Wietse will correct me it I'm wrong, but I can't ever recall it. > > They are allowed. In fact, most EHLO server responses are multi-line. >

Re: How should I create an email account?

2009-10-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:15:52 +0300 > Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> Ricky Tompu Breaky kirjoitti: >>> On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:59:51 +0300 >>> Eero Volotinen wrote: >>> >>> ... Well, default config on suse? is really messy, maybe you can take basic config from

Re: SMTP-AUTH *without* SASL/PAM?

2009-10-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
Keith Palmer wrote: > OK, thanks... but that doesn't answer my question. > >>> Is it possible to configure Postfix for SMTP-AUTH *without* using >>> SASL/PAM? > > I'd like to *not run SASL at all* rather than have it do the lookups. > Use the dovecot auth method. In spite of the name in the doc

Re: How to reduce memory footpring?

2009-10-29 Thread Seth Mattinen
Rene Bartsch wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:10:27AM +0100, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: >> >> It looks like a "heap" to me. Some library is allocating a lot of virtual >> memory. It could be via Postfix, or via an NSS module, perhaps "db" >> entries in nsswitch.conf, just to close out the Berke

Re: SMTP-AUTH *without* SASL/PAM?

2009-10-30 Thread Seth Mattinen
Barney Desmond wrote: > 2009/10/30 Seth Mattinen : >> Keith Palmer wrote: >>> OK, thanks... but that doesn't answer my question. >>> >>>>> Is it possible to configure Postfix for SMTP-AUTH *without* using >>>>> SASL/PAM? >>&g

Re: How to override an MX value for a particular domain only?

2009-11-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
Eric B. wrote: > > Is there no way to direct Postfix to a different DNS server (as opposed to > the ones specified in resolve.conf) either for a particular domain, or for > all domains altogether? > No, that's outside of the purview of Postfix. You could probably do something with BIND views t

Re: how to increase throughput of postfix to local user?

2009-11-07 Thread Seth Mattinen
devel anaconda wrote: > > It disables fsync() on each incoming mail. Plus, if I mount my ext3 partition > with option commit=30 or even commit=100, can it helps a bit? > Have you tried a filesystem other than ext3 like Reiser or XFS? The performance of ext3 really, really sucks if you have a l

Re: how to increase throughput of postfix to local user?

2009-11-07 Thread Seth Mattinen
Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:18:35AM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> Have you tried a filesystem other than ext3 like Reiser or XFS? The >> performance of ext3 really, really sucks if you have a lot of files in >> one directory as a mail spool is

Re: OT: need some advice as to distro

2009-12-01 Thread Seth Mattinen
David Koski wrote: > On Tuesday 01 December 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> BTW, don't you really mean? >> >> # apt-get purge exim >> # apt-get install postfix > > Last I tried I couldn't remove the MTA without replacement. The > onliner "apt-get --purge install postfix" installs postfix and purge

Re: A question about Postfix and virus scanning

2009-12-02 Thread Seth Mattinen
Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:33:51 -0500 > Michael Katz replied: > >> Responding to support lists is not a sales strategy, and if it was it >> would be the worst strategy imaginable because it doesn't work. We >> sell software because we have to make a living but answering on lists >>

Re: Bounce at SMTPD level

2009-12-10 Thread Seth Mattinen
Thomas Bolioli wrote: http://forum.qmailrocks.org/archive/index.php/t-1623.html I found the above link when looking for a how to for configuring postfix to bounce email BEFORE the initial MTA transaction is complete. I can't seem to find one for postfix. I want a sending MTAs to get a 550 erro