How to restrict ACCESS not RELAY to the SMTP daemon?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas
Hello, i try to figure out how to restrict ACCESS to the SMTP daemon. With that, i mean something like the tcpwrapper for SMTP/SMTPS ... For what? I have several root-Servers, vServer and Xen domains - only one is the mail system and should be available for mail from the internet. The others

Re: How to restrict ACCESS not RELAY to the SMTP daemon?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas
Thomas wrote: Hello, i try to figure out how to restrict ACCESS to the SMTP daemon. With that, i mean something like the tcpwrapper for SMTP/SMTPS ... I found that about a similar solution: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2007-05/0343.html There, the following is written

Re: How to restrict ACCESS not RELAY to the SMTP daemon?

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas
Wietse Venema wrote: http://www.postfix.org/SMTPD_ACCESS_README.html http://www.postfix.org/access.5.html http://www.postfix.org/cidr_table.5.html /etc/postfix/main.cf smtpd_client_restrictions = check_client_access cidr:/etc/postfix/client_access /etc/postfix/client_access 192.168.0.0/2

Re: Send-Only Server Config?

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas
maddae...@gmail.com wrote: I've been asked to build a mail server for the purpose of sending mail from various machines within a LAN to anywhere on the Net. I'm guessing that this would be considered a "relay" in a sense, since the server will not be receiving mail from the outside, but please c

Re: Share postfix config directory

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas
I never had a problem to do exactly this ... For what do you need the hostname of the server? My main.cf does not contain a hostname - it can easily be used over an NFS share: mkdir /data mount server:/data /data /etc/init.d/postfix stop cp -rp /etc/postfix /data/postfix_nfs mv /etc/postfix /e

Re: Using SASL - dovecot sasl

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas
secSwami wrote: So after trying and trying other methods of making postfix send emails for the SASL authenticated users to work, I am trying to now use dovecot sasl config. My main purpose is that I should be able to SEND email from anywhere on the internet using my POSTFIX mail server. There

Re: Using SASL - dovecot sasl

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas
secSwami wrote: Thanks for you suggestion, could you please me get your dovecot.conf info too? and do you startup "saslauthd" service? As you wish: grep -v ^\# dovecot.conf | grep -v "^ *\#" | grep -v ^$ protocols =imaps disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_ce

Re: Using SASL - dovecot sasl

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas
secSwami wrote: Thanks for you suggestion, could you please me get your dovecot.conf info too? and do you startup "saslauthd" service? As you wish: grep -v ^\# dovecot.conf | grep -v "^ *\#" | grep -v ^$ protocols =imaps disable_plaintext_auth = yes log_timestamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S " ssl_ce

Re: Using SASL - dovecot sasl

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas
secSwami wrote: Thanks a bunch Thomas!! One more thing do you create users on the system itself or use users and password from a file? Thanks again...much much appreciated. So far, i only use regular Unix users from /etc/passswd, nothing virtual ... Does it work for you?

Re: turn off bounce messages?

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas
I do not realy understand the problem here ... When a mail is send to a remote SMTP server, wrong addresses get rejected with 550 ... But that IS of course a Mail that returns to the send - it has the title "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" and contains a message like "Recipient address

Re: turn off bounce messages?

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas
Wietse Venema wrote: Accepting mail for a non-existent user and then dropping the bounce is the wrong solution for the wrong problem. I will fight tooth and nail against the idiots that encourage such preposterous configuration. I know that :) I was just saying that there ARE numerous mai

Re: turn off bounce messages?

2009-01-16 Thread Thomas
I think, this is going offtopic ... Also, don´t assume, that i want to do something like this - i just say, the OP is free to do so.

Re: Feature request

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas
mouss wrote: check_parameter() { postconf $1 2>&1 | grep -vq "unknown parameter" return $? } or check_parameter() { postconf $1 2>/dev/null | grep -q = return $? } Then, you need an exit-code wrapper for "grep" too, it seems :) check_result() { RESULT=$( grep "${1}" "${2}" 2>/d

Re: To [ and ] or not to [ and ] in relayhost entries ...

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas
Thomas Ackermann wrote: So, does anybody know what technically is the difference between the use with and without the signs? I mean, what network things may happen or not happen? Nobody knows the technical differences? :-(

Re: Feature request

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas
J.P. Trosclair wrote: This is really off topic, but grep already returns a success and failure code based on if there were any matches which mouss's code uses from what I can tell. There's really no reason to look at grep's stdout, if it has a match the return code is 0, it doesn't it's != 0.

Re: To [ and ] or not to [ and ] in relayhost entries ...

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas
Duane Hill wrote: Care to take a look at the Postfix documentation? http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#relayhost As i wrote, i read the documentation i found - it was exactly this small entry about relayhost! The answer from Noel Jones contains quite some more and deeper information -

Re: To [ and ] or not to [ and ] in relayhost entries ...

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas
Noel Jones wrote: ... more likely nobody cares, because postfix behavior is documented. When the relayhost is a hostname enclosed by "[ ]" brackets, postfix asks for an A record and does not ask for an MX record. If relayhost is an IP address enclosed by brackets, postfix uses that IP with n

Re: Feature request

2009-01-24 Thread Thomas
mouss wrote: what version of grep do you use? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/grep.html ... -q Quiet. Do not write anything to the standard output, regardless of matching lines. Exit with zero status if an input line is selected. ... That again begins to go offtopic

Re: myorigin = $mydomain, but where is mydomain defined?

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas
MountainX wrote: You need to set mydomain yourself! Othwise, mydomain defaults to the string "localdomain": postconf -d mydomain mydomain = localdomain Just set mydomain correctly and then use "myorigin = $mydomain": mydomain = my-own-domain.com myorigin = $mydomain Nothing more needed :)

Re: myorigin = $mydomain, but where is mydomain defined?

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas
And NO, you do not need a myhostname entry!

smtp_*_restrictions and syntax access-files

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas
Hello, the command "postconf smtpd_client_restrictions smtpd_sender_restrictions" shows the following: smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_invalid_hostname check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/client_access smtpd_sender_restrictions = reject_unknown_address check_sender_access hash:/etc/postf

Re: smtp_*_restrictions and syntax access-files

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas
Thomas wrote: But if i try to send a mail to an address listed in client_access, it get happily queued and delivered :-( I suspect that i used the wrong restriction, the wrong hash/... thing or whatever ... Could you give a hint in the right direction? Found it

Re: smtp_*_restrictions and syntax access-files

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas
ghe wrote: James Berwick wrote: From the documentation: check_client_access type:table Search the specified access database for the client hostname, parent domains, client IP address, or networks obtained by stripping least significant octets. See the access(5) manual page for details. Yo

Re: smtp_*_restrictions and syntax access-files

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas
Victor Duchovni wrote: If you do that, you will notice that there is no documentation for "reject_unknown_address", hence you should not use it (there is no such restriction, if that is not clear by now). Uh. Thanx! I changed to the following: smtpd_sender_restrictions = check_sender_acces

Re: Mailgateway

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas
Ansgar Wiechers schrieb: $myhostname and localhost.$mydomain should go into $mydestination, not into $relay_domains. You can forward all mail to valid local addresses to your internal host via entries in $alias_maps. I changed than, thank you! Also, i moved "localhost" to $mydestination, which

Re: Mailgateway

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas
Noel Jones schrieb: data_directory = /var/lib/postfix then type: # mkdir /var/lib/postfix # chown postfix /var/lib/postfix Changed that too ... Although i dont realy understand, why /var/lib/postfix should be better than /var/spool/postfix What shall i do with the old stuff in var/spool/po

SMTP authentication not working (but works via telnet)

2009-07-16 Thread thomas
r/sbin/sendmail setgid_group = _postdrop smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = login smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550 Any help appreciated. thanks, Thomas

Re: SMTP authentication not working (but works via telnet) [FIXED]

2009-07-17 Thread thomas
> forget that and set $smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter to filter GSSAPI away and > choose from the remaining mechanisms. Thanks, this was indeed the problem. Adding the smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter with the appropriate mechanisms fixed it. Thomas

Re: [OT] Spam Prevention

2009-08-02 Thread Thomas
Hey, [..] Yes, I use that too - but I like a quick summary on demand. See: <http://www.mikecappella.com/logwatch/> You can use the scripts _without_ logwatch and get an instant summary of your mail.log. Cheers, Thomas

[LDAP] group of 'memberaddr' gives email's group as well

2009-08-04 Thread Thomas
to handle this case in LDAP_README (which is a very good doc by the way) because the example doesn't include this particular case. Or is it my damn cataract ? Cheers, Thomas -- rfc822member = memberaddr in LDAP_README dnmember = memberdm in LDAP_README

Re: [LDAP] group of 'memberaddr' gives email's group as well

2009-08-04 Thread Thomas
bute = mail A solution would be to put rfc822member as a special result attribute. special_result_attribute = dnmember, rfc822member But I don't know if it's /clean/ do to that. BTW, I'm using postfix 2.5.5 (Debian Lenny) Cheers, Thomas

email server secured data communication state of the art

2020-01-16 Thread Thomas
"from such operators: " matter that communication has chosen the unencrypted e-mail communication with all its dangers ..." Thanks Thomas

function difference between and access_recipient

2020-02-12 Thread Thomas
Hello, I habe a problem to understand function of # /etc/aliases # /etc/postfix/access_recipient It seemed to be that aliases is OK for receive emails for recipients. But what it make sence to use additional access_recipient or whats function of access_recipient. thanks Thomas

noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-23 Thread Thomas
Hallo, ich sende ab und an etwas an Ämter vorab. Die kommen mittlerweile sogar mit pdf zurecht! Vorab per Email (früher vorab per FAX), steht auch so im Briefkopf und dann zusätzlich als normalen Brief. Manchmal eben auch per Einschreiben statt Brief, kommt auf die Üblichkeit/Wichtigkeit an.

Re: noreply email technisch und f??r Empf??nger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-23 Thread Thomas
oh, sorry, I wanted to send my question to german mailing list. Thomas Am 23.05.20 um 14:17 schrieb Claus Assmann: Please use an address for which you can receive at least non delivery status information. Otherwise, why do you expect the recipient to handle your non-replyable address in any

Re: noreply email technisch und f??r Empf??nger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-23 Thread Thomas
<> USE LETTER AND STAMP or that her understand if he receive my Email, and second I should use 5XX if he answer if he will not understand? best regards Thomas

Re: noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-25 Thread Thomas
Am 24.05.20 um 17:19 schrieb @lbutlr: On 23 May 2020, at 08:52, Thomas wrote: or The norm is to use an address along the lines you describe there. I use no-reply@. Emails to that address are accepted and discarded. Do not use a fake domain or someone else's domain, of course. Yo

Re: noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-25 Thread Thomas
Am 24.05.20 um 17:19 schrieb @lbutlr: On 23 May 2020, at 08:52, Thomas wrote: or The norm is to use an address along the lines you describe there. I use no-reply@. Emails to that address are accepted and discarded. Do not use a fake domain or someone else's domain, of course. Yo

Re: noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-28 Thread Thomas
Am 27.05.20 um 17:20 schrieb @lbutlr: As I said, use a valid domain THAT YOU CONTROL. Hi, I of cource use my own domain where I pay for. thanks

Re: noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-28 Thread Thomas
Am 25.05.20 um 16:17 schrieb Jaroslaw Rafa: Dnia 25.05.2020 o godz. 14:33:36 Thomas pisze: FAX is much better because FAX is same as letter and working digital, nearly 100% yes or no. Email I did not know if it is arrived, [...] What do you actually want to achieve? Because from your

Re: noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-28 Thread Thomas
Am 28.05.20 um 23:48 schrieb @lbutlr: On 28 May 2020, at 15:29, Thomas wrote: I of cource use my own domain where I pay for. Yes, but read the rest of what I wrote, especially the parts I've highlighted: Do not create a fake address with someone else's domain. Do not use mu

Re: noreply email technisch und für Empfänger zum Ausdruck bringen

2020-05-28 Thread Thomas
Am 23.05.20 um 18:00 schrieb Ralph Seichter: From: Thomas Mustermann with the address nore...@domain.tld being *unknown* on your MX. That should result in a generic 5xx rejection. If you want more control over the rejection message, you can use something like the following: # /etc

can't send to GSuite mailserver via IPv6 protocol

2021-02-28 Thread Thomas
Postfix can't send email to gsuite's MTA via IPV6 interface. But if I change this item to: inet_protocols = ipv4 It works. Can you help explain this? Thank you.

Re: can't send to GSuite mailserver via IPv6 protocol

2021-03-01 Thread Thomas
No I don't have reverse DNS record for IPv6. I will try that. thank you. On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, at 4:44 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 01/03/2021 à 07:01, Philip a écrit : > > > > If IPv4 works then maybe IPv6 isn't set up? > > > > ping6 ipv6.google.com >

Re: can't send to GSuite mailserver via IPv6 protocol

2021-03-01 Thread Thomas
Please see this description which is similar to mine: https://serverfault.com/questions/655250/gmail-bouncing-mail-sent-over-ipv6-ipv4-working And the answers look interesting. Regards.

fetchmail-postfix-relay and filter

2015-09-05 Thread Thomas
Hi, i am pretty new to postfix, i have set up a postfix sever that forwards mail over a relay host (gmail.com), which comes from another external server with fetchmail. That all works, but what i want to do is to forward only mail from certain sender adresses(whitelist). So where do i have to

fetchmail-postfix-relay and filter

2015-09-05 Thread Thomas
Hi, i am pretty new to postfix, i have set up a postfix sever that forwards mail over a relay host (gmail.com), which comes from another external server with fetchmail. That all works, but what i want to do is to forward only mail from certain sender adresses(whitelist). So where do i have to

Selective relaying to internal office server

2008-12-17 Thread Thomas Broda
in" settings on office.example.com a little, but I think I'm completely wrong there since Postfix keeps complaining about unknown local users. What would be the correct way to set up such a relaying? -- Thomas

Rewrite recipient dependent on sender address

2008-12-18 Thread Thomas Broda
REDIRECT foo.example.org to the check_sender_access lookup table, but Postfix will ignore this and deliver the mail to the original recipient. -- Thomas

Re: Share postfix config directory

2009-01-15 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Rocco Scappatura schrieb: myhostname = mydomain = If the hostname is not valid, postfix fails to start. It have to be resolved by DNS and the IP must be the IP of one of the interface of the server which run Postfix. So I have to use a name that is resolved in many different IPs,

recipient_delimiter and rejecting certain recipients ...

2009-01-19 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Hello, i use the recipient_delimiter (with a ".") quite often. Some of those sub-recipients(?) of accounts are already spammed. I would like to reject Mails to them ... For example: name.post...@$mydomain would be OK, while name.s...@$mydomain should be rejected ... What is the best way to con

smtpd_client_restrictions is EMPTY, beside setting in main.cf

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Hello, i seem to be unable to set the "smtpd_client_restrictions" Variable! In master.cf, there is an option for smtps that sets this to "permit_sasl_authenticated,reject". In main.cf, i try to set this to "reject_invalid_hostname". In "postconf -n" the variable is empty! So, i assume that th

Re: smtpd_client_restrictions is EMPTY, beside setting in main.cf

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Ralf Hildebrandt schrieb: postconf -n shows main.cf settings, not master.cf settings Why not use: postconf -e "smtpd_client_restrictions=reject_invalid_hostname" But as far as i understand, this just sets the variable in main.cf - and there, it is already included! To show this: r...@l

Re: smtpd_client_restrictions is EMPTY, beside setting in main.cf

2009-01-20 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Brian Evans - Postfix List schrieb: 'Postconf -d' means "show me the DEFAULTS not what is current". Uh.. I already feared a realy stupid mistake on my side :) I used it in this sense, so far - but assumed that this default will be overwritten (and displayed) when actually set in main.cf S

More than one host in relayhost = ...?

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Hello, normally, you can say "relayhost = domain" and postfix searches the MX record for that domain in DNS to get the list of relayhosts. For domains where no MX record is configured into the DNS, i would need to use more than one relayhost ... Is that possible? The configuration seems not

Re: More than one host in relayhost = ...?

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Maybe i should better explain the reasons behind this question: We have some domains, where the mail-relay is mapped to several IP-Adresses (and servers) over an DNS entry. That is, we have ONE mailrelay that can be configured as relayhost. So far, so good. BUT, we also have systems without D

Re: How to reject mispelled recipient domain

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Eddy Beliveau schrieb: I know that I can try to find all individual combinations and write them in some reject file to be used in check_recipient_access Is there some way to define a rule based on phonetic or another solution which detect mispelled words ? I would recommend against that idea :

Re: More than one host in relayhost = ...?

2009-01-22 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Wietse Venema schrieb: That is a bug in your operating system. That made me test all of them :) I used several runs of "ping" against the hostname after including it with two entries into /etc/hosts Cannot use "getaddrinfo" ... Solaris 8 and 9: Only uses the first IP in /etc/hosts (with "

Feature request

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas Ackermann
As older postfix installations have a "fallback_relay" variable and newer installations have a "smtp_fallback_relay", i wanted to use postconf to check, which version is supported. Usally, i would expect a program to return with a non-zero exit-code at such a failure: r...@localhost# postcon

To [ and ] or not to [ and ] in relayhost entries ...

2009-01-23 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Hello, i read the documentation about the usage of "[" and "]" in relayhost entries ... I still not quite sure what happens or not happens when using an IP with or without such signs... relayhost = 1.2.3.4 may use MX records from DNS? What if there is no nameserver configured? Will there be

Re: smtp_*_restrictions and syntax access-files

2009-01-29 Thread Thomas Ackermann
Victor Duchovni schrieb: I can't honestly recommend anything other than start with the default: I suspect, you are right :) After another check of my logfiles, i reduced my restriction lists to the following: smtpd_client_restrictions = reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname, check_clien

Massive Double Bounce problems

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
es a double bounce. I just deleted 15 messages on each of our mail relays and 2 on erld671x. Can someone explain me what goes wrong here and if it is a configuration problem or a known problem of postfix version 2.1.1? Thomas

Re: Massive Double Bounce problems

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Wietse, * Wietse Venema [090210 14:55]: > Thomas Glanzmann: > > Out: 220 erld671x.erlf.siemens.de ESMTP Postfix > > In: EHLO erld603x.erlf.siemens.de > > Out: 250-erld671x.erlf.siemens.de > > Out: 250-PIPELINING > > Out: 250-SIZE 104857600 >

Re: Massive Double Bounce problems

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
later? Again this was with postfix version 2.1.1. > Not if you turn on postmaster notification for resource problems. I was unaware of that option. Thank you for explicitly mention it: (erld603x) [~] postconf | grep -i notify notify_classes = resource, software Thomas

Blocking email from own domain on From: header

2009-03-05 Thread Thomas Ledbetter
OK.. How about this one: I have had good luck blocking SPAM email which has a MAIL FROM: address in my own domain, by blocking all email from my domain in an access map on 'smtpd_sender_restrictions', and then listing 'permit_mynetworks' and 'permit_sasl_authenticated' first. I call this

Re: Postfix doesn't create maildirs

2009-05-02 Thread Thomas Pfaff
/ ) to $MAILDIR/.Unsure to $MAILDIR/ There's a lot more there to put mail from various mailing lists into the appropriate folder, but this should give you an idea. Thomas

tracking sender/recipients including BCC recipients

2009-05-15 Thread Thomas Ledbetter
27;d like to be able to tack on a header which shows full list of recipients including BCC addresses. Anyone else come up with a solution for this? -- __ Thomas Ledbetter http://www.revel

Updating to 2.6.1 on Suse 11.1

2009-05-23 Thread Thomas Bergstam
Refering to the earlier subjects on RPMs and 2.6: I have Suse 11.1 which includes Postfix 2.5.5. It is not easy to uninstall that (YAST wants to replace it with EXIM or SENDMAIL) due to dependencies. Is it possible to just upgrade it if I manually compile 2.6.1 and replace the old one? Or do

Re: anti spam measures

2010-01-05 Thread Thomas Harold
On 1/4/2010 5:40 PM, Roman Gelfand wrote: Well, it looks like, perhaps, I found the missing link. After adding s25r rules and HELO response verification in main.cf, no spam has siped through. I think that mostly it was HELO response verification that did it. BTW, is there a reason not block ema

Re: Sender Authentication

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Polliard
> > I'm pretty sure I already know the answer , just need confirmation. > > Is this statement true or false? You cannot restrict sending mail to > authenticated sessions without also restricting incoming mail as well. > > False

Re: Sender Authentication

2010-06-12 Thread Thomas Polliard
On Jun 12, 2010, at 3:20 AM, Thomas Polliard wrote: >> >> I'm pretty sure I already know the answer , just need confirmation. >> >> Is this statement true or false? You cannot restrict sending mail to >> authenticated sessions without also restricting incomi

Error between two postfix "Command not recognized", RCPT is cut in two words

2010-07-09 Thread Thomas POINDESSOUS
6c PT.TO:.ORCPT=rfc82 How can I solve this problem ? Thanks in advance. -- Thomas Poindessous

PATCH: defer when pipe command dies

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Arnett
HISTORY, 20061207: Compatibility with Postfix < 2.3: undo the change to bounce instead of defer after pipe-to-command delivery fails with a signal. File: global/pipe_command.c. Part 1: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.user/154616 Part 2 (tested with Postfix 2.6.6): --- src/

Re: PATCH: defer when pipe command dies

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Arnett
On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:03 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > What are the symptoms of the problem? postfix/pipe[22169]: 5991748: to=, relay=dovecot, delay=1.9, delays=1.8/0.05/0/0.03, dsn=5.3.0, status=bounced (Command died with signal 7: "/usr/libexec/dovecot/deliver") postfix/bounce[22171]: 5991748: s

Re: PATCH: defer when pipe command dies

2010-07-15 Thread Thomas Arnett
Jeroen Geilman adaptr.nl> writes: > I completely agree that non-delivery to a (presumably dependable) MDA > should never error out, but I thought a soft solution would be better > than choosing the more extreme route (of altering working code). I believe the code is not working as intended and

PATCH: defer when pipe command dies

2010-07-19 Thread Thomas Arnett
Victor Duchovni morganstanley.com> writes: > Wietse, if I understand correctly, wants to ensure that the issue is > clearly defined, so we don't solve the wrong one, and is worth fixing. Naturally. > Why does your Dovecot intermittently SIGBUS? It doesn't. The deliver binary was truncated, maki

Howto tell postfix to don't reread it's configuration file automatically

2010-08-24 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
27;t break anything while failing. However I would like to know if there is configuration option that tells postfix to do not automatically reload it's configuration file. Thomas

Re: Howto tell postfix to don't reread it's configuration file automatically

2010-08-24 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, > > a way to tell postfix to don't re-read the config files > No. By design Postfix daemons periodically commit suicide and, when > restarted, have no option but to read the configuration files. I thought so. Thanks a lot. Thomas

Upgrading from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 is causing me a headache.

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Løcke
rday, trying to figure out what it is I'm doing wrong. Regards, Thomas

Re: Upgrading from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2 is causing me a headache.

2010-11-26 Thread Thomas Løcke
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:06 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > Alan's a good ol' boy and friend and colleague of mine, but I told > him that hardcoding the version into those pathnames is a bad idea. > Sure enough, he won't listen to me. :) I got rid of all the versioning stuff, cleaned out the old package

Re: safe etrn

2009-07-09 Thread Thomas Gelf
ith no clear answers. ATRN/ODMR is afaik not provided by Postfix, you could give a quick look at http://plonk.de/sw/odmr/ - however I never tried it. Regards, Thomas Gelf

Re: Verisign Cert

2009-07-15 Thread Thomas Gelf
I assume you're using this certificate for TLS, so the answer is NO, no single mails will be encrypted - TLS is "only" there to allow MTA's to encrypt their transport layer. If no restrictions are configured this happens automagically if both endpoints support TLS. Best

Re: Many SQL Lookups on outbounding mails

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Gelf
but that's mostly as of disaster recovery and failover reasons - you could handle similar traffic also on a single host (using recent server hardware). A certain percentage of queries could of course be avoided if Postfix where optimized for DB usage. As we know it isn't - this design choice however keeps it flexible and simple. Best regards, Thomas Gelf

Re: Many SQL Lookups on outbounding mails

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Gelf
Clunk Werclick wrote: > That is very reassuring Thomas, thank you. > > Now I don't know if I should stay with SQL or drop to maps ? It is > easier to configure with SQL from a web based front end - but to get SQL > to dump to flat files and Postmap is also only a few Perl lin

Re: Many SQL Lookups on outbounding mails

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Gelf
Clunk Werclick wrote: > Thank you Thomas. I stick with Mysql and worry if I ever have to set up > a server so big it fails. If that happens I have lots of £$£ and pay > someone else to do it whilst I sit on beach sipping wine. Once that happens: let me know! I'll join you at

Re: what is ESMTP (Nemesis)

2009-07-31 Thread Thomas Gelf
to your main.cd to read > 220 I think ESMTP is a prehistorical protocol Lay back and wait for some nerd having fun with your response. Or save the time, enjoy the weekend, drink some beer, do some sport - get a live ;-) Cheers, Thomas

Re: Reverse DNS requirement

2009-08-03 Thread Thomas Gelf
meet missconfigured hosts, and be prepared to add exceptions to your config (Hash file, DB, whatever). Many public entities are running badly configured systems - they'll NOT fix them and your customers will insist on receiving their mail. Therefore you will need a "whitelist"-feature. Best regards, Thomas Gelf

Re: Reverse DNS requirement

2009-08-04 Thread Thomas Gelf
ite is behaving wrong, you are just enforcing MTAs to respect a small subset of current standards. Regards, Thomas Gelf

Re: Reverse DNS requirement

2009-08-04 Thread Thomas Gelf
brian moore wrote: > There is always the "AOL Rule". Yeah, we are sometimes also using AOL as an example, even if where I live nearly nobody is using it... > (Hotmail and Gmail have similar rules, I just don't know where they > spell them out.) Hotmail: http://postmaster.msn.com/Guidelines.aspx

Re: Reverse DNS requirement

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Gelf
LuKreme wrote: > On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:42, Thomas Gelf wrote: > >> the person who did not correctly set up the network is to be blamed, >> if you have equipment acting as MTA it should be configured the right >> way, otherwise use a relay server > > SHOULD be b

Re: Alternative to syslog?

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Gelf
specifying an alternative to > syslog. Is there any way to do this? You should keep syslog, there are many reasons why it is better than "just a file". But replace your syslogd with syslog-ng or rsyslog, and then write logs for your parser to a pipe. Best regards, Thomas Gelf

Re: how to have amavisd-new dkimproxy and implemented in master.cf and main.cf

2009-08-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
http://www.google.com http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.bing.com http://www.yahoo.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine fake...@fakessh.eu wrote: > how to have amavisd-new dkimproxy , and implemented > in master.cf and main.cf

Re: need to add custom header parameter/value to postfix logging.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Gelf
hose X-Info-MessageID headers in his mail headers, what he wants is Postfix to do is writing them to syslog. While this would probably be pretty easy with Amavis, I have no idea if and how he could do so using Postfix only. Best regards, Thomas Gelf

Re: need to add custom header parameter/value to postfix logging.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Gelf
Thomas Gelf schrieb: > If I didn't missunderstand him he already has those X-Info-MessageID > headers in his mail headers, what he wants is Postfix to do is writing > them to syslog. That's what happens if you're at phone while writing :-/ It should read: "...alrea

Re: need to add custom header parameter/value to postfix logging.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Gelf
-Info-Messageid: l6oL1rHPRUyklkQzdkW3kg from > client.example.com[192.168.1.123]; from= > to= proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.1.123]> Does it automagically log the whole matching header? Or do I need to add some backreference to "WARN optional text..."? Regards, Thomas

Re: need to add custom header parameter/value to postfix logging.

2009-08-12 Thread Thomas Gelf
Noel Jones wrote: > The entire header (up to a sanity limit) is logged; no further action is > necessary. Great, thanks again!

distribution list with postfix

2009-09-08 Thread Thomas Koch
n the table. It is important that the To: header of the mail contains the expanded address, not the original one so that the resulting mails looks exactly as if the user would have send them individually to each recipient. Thanks for your time! Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro

Re: Postfix DKIM

2009-09-09 Thread Thomas Gelf
t is needed to folks starting to use > DKIM. Actually, at least, i needed that progress (reading RFCs) ;; I did so. I've entirely read RFC 4871, 5617, 5672, many others and also current drafts regarding DKIM deployments. I can confirm that the answer to his question is not to be found in any

Re: Writing an after-queue content filter in php

2009-09-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
;s going on. Stream handling in PHP can be a mess ;-) Cheers, Thomas -- mail: tho...@gelf.net web: http://thomas.gelf.net/

Re: Writing an after-queue content filter in php

2009-09-10 Thread Thomas Gelf
Wietse Venema wrote: > This is an output buffering problem. You need to flush output > after each reply, perhaps by calling the flush() function. Good catch, I guess this could most likely be his problem! -- mail: tho...@gelf.net web: http://thomas.gelf.net/

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