Good morning list.
Firstly, I apologize for the question if it is a wate of your time.
I come from an exim background and as such, am still finding my feet
with Postfix.
What I would like to achieve is that any IP which connects to any mail
server which has one of our clients IP's
gets rbl s
On 2010/08/17 10:32 AM, Ansgar Wiechers wrote:
On 2010-08-17 Tom Kinghorn wrote:
What I would like to achieve is that any IP which connects to any mail
server which has one of our clients IP's
gets rbl scanned.
/external_ip [spammer] {Client host [193.138.93.1] listed at
dnsbl.njab
On 2010/09/02 10:24 AM, Aniruddha wrote:
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Aniruddha wrote:
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Ralf Hildebrandt
wrote:
That is true :) I meant that there is no error in my postfix
configuration. This error needs to be solved by the person providing
the DNS serve
Good afternoon list
This is probably a stupid question, for which I apologize.
Is there a way to log the username which failed to authenticate using
postfix?
My logs show alot of messages like: /SASL LOGIN authentication failed:
authentication failure
/I would like to know which username
On 2010/09/15 03:03 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
. Meanwhile, snapshot 20100913 is problem free.
Postfix snapshot 20100915 fixes this trivial problem, and has been
uploaded to ftp.porcupipine.org.
Wietse
I gather that is supposed to read ftp.porcupine.org
;o)
On 2010/09/15 03:03 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Wietse Venema:
The postscreen in snapshot 20100914 has a problem where it terminates
...
There is no loss of mail (or even delay of mail) but I'll try to fix it
today. Meanwhile, snapshot 20100913 is problem free.
Postfix snapshot 20100915 fixes t
Good afternoon list.
I apologise for this post.
I am new to postfix and battling to block a sender who keeps changing
digits in the sending address.
I would like to block the sender using the regex
westcoast[0-9]...@gmail.com (to block sender address of
westcoast...@gmail.com etc..).
How
On 2010/10/04 02:11 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
However, adding it to the smtpd_sender_restrictions is not working
/^westcoast[0-9]...@gmail\.com$/ DISCARD
or
/^westcoast[0-9]...@gmail\.com$/ REJECT
You're lacking the //
works 100%.
Thats 1 slap for me for missing the //'s
Thank you very
Good morning List.
I just wanted to know if it is possible to add a recipient to a
message which is queued?
I come from an exim background where we could do so using exim -Mar message-id new-recipient-address.
Thanks in advance.
Tom
Morning list.
Apologies for the post.
I have alot of queued mail and would like to know if it is possible
to serach for a string in the body of mails which are queued?
i.e, i would like to find the message-id's of all queued mail with
"reply if we ca
On 2010/10/12 01:05 PM, Noel Jones wrote:
I come from an exim background where we could do so using
*exim -Ma*r /message-id/ *new-recipient-address*.
Thanks in advance.
Tom
Postfix has no such mechanism.
Thanks for the response Noel.
Regards
Tom
On 2010/10/13 03:18 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:
On 2010-10-12 4:04 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote:
There is nothing wrong with him asking, and it is not really any of your
business why he wants to do it, although explaining why might reveal
that there is an alternative way to accomplish his goal...
T
On 2010/11/11 07:59 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi,
is there a way to grep for sender email address using mailq command ?
i did sudo mailq | grep senderemailaddress didnot worked
Thanks
Kaushal
If you want to see the top sender in the queue, say for Today, use:
mailq | grep "Nov 11" | awk
Good afternoon list.
We have a problem of a number of our clients which appear to have been
affected by malware/bots.
these clients use our servers as a smarthost.
The messages are similar, so creating a spam filter for spamassassin has
been done.
I have noticed that the sender is either a
Good afternoon list.
We have a number of clients who have misconfigured applications on their
network, which is sending
anything from warning to info messages to the developer.
Our servers are used as an outbound relay (smarthost) for our clients.
Is there a way to filter messages before the
On 3/24/2011 3:09 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:54:03AM +0200, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
If you can figure out how to do this without relying on content,
other options are available, including restriction classes and
policy servers:
http://www.postfix.org
On 3/24/2011 3:10 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
If you make the rule too specific, no-one will fix their application.
The following moves the pain to the party that is making the problem:
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
smtpd_client_restrictions =
check_client_access hash:/etc/postfix/client_acc
On 3/24/2011 3:33 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
Then trigger on the sender address.
/etc/postfix/main.cf:
smtpd_sender_restrictions =
check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/client_access
/etc/postfix/sender_access:
user@example 450 4.7.0 Please see http://www.example/whatever for
Good morning List.
Is it possible to rate limit based on individual network ranges?
We have multiple network ranges (3G, DSL& leased line) and I would like
to setup a different sending rate limit for the individual networks.
For example, is it possible limit the 3G network to 300 mails per da
On 14/06/2011 08:47, kibirango moses wrote:
Hello,
I log on to squirrelmail web ok but when I try to send a message I get
the following error.
ERROR: Message not sent. Server replied
How can i fix this Thanx in advance
way to little information.
please provide detailed logs.
thx
Tom
Good morning all.
what would be the best way to block (or substitute) profanity in the
Subject & body of mails.
The system I inherited is running postfix & amavisd-new.
thanks in advance.
Tom
On 20/06/2011 12:19, Mark Goodge wrote:
Scunthorpe problem
Problem noted.
Thanks for the response.
regards
Tom
Hi List.
I have a string issue whereby the old queue files appear to remain
behind after the delivery.
The queue, therefore appears to be growing, even though it is not.
has anyone experienced the same problem?
If yes, how can I rectify this.
mail_version = 2.5.6
SpamAssassin Server version
On 11/07/2011 15:01, Wietse Venema wrote:
Rule number one: present actual evidence of the problem. In this
case, present actual evidence that mail stays in the Postfix queue.
Wietse
Apologies
It was in the queues/incoming directory
#ls -la queues/incoming/ | wc -l
384
# perl qshape
On 12/07/2011 08:16, Jeroen Geilman wrote:
What would cause the old files in the queues directory not to be
cleared out.
That situation is unlikely to occur, if ever.
If they are not picked up, they were not sent either.
Hi List
On further investigation, I noticed that the files which re
On 12/07/2011 13:03, Wietse Venema wrote:
How many times per week do you execute "postfix stop"?
Wietse
I myself very rarely do, but I am unsure how many times the
other admin's do.
They love writing scripts to do all sorts of things.
restarting postfix is probably one of them.
But th
On 12/07/2011 14:28, Wietse Venema wrote:
Wietse Venema:
Tom Kinghorn:
Jul 12 12:05:29 mx1 postfix/smtpd[27176]: 461D2412E34:
client=localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jul 12 12:05:29 mx1 postfix/master[1687]: warning: process
/usr/lib/postfix/cleanup pid 16159 killed by signal 6
"signal 6" mean
On 12/07/2011 14:28, Wietse Venema wrote:
Wietse Venema:
If it's an abort in a library routine, then these instructions
may help to identify the culprit.
http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#gdb
Wietse
morning List
The output of the debugging as advised by Wietse produces as err
Good afternoon List.
Apologies for posting again.
I have a strange issue with my sender_access_maps where the DISCARD
& REJECTS work as expected, yet a hold does not
I am seeing this in the logs.
Dec 9 12:57:39 mx1 postfix/smtpd[395]:
NOQUE
Morning List.
Sorry for the trivial question.
I was just wondering where the best place for the fqrdns.regexp
"check_client_access".
I see on the systems I have inherited, it is in the
"smtpd_client_restrictions" which makes sense however
it is placed before the "permit_sasl_authenticated" l
On 09/12/2011 14:51, Noel Jones wrote:
On 12/9/2011 5:05 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
Looks OK. What's not working as expected?
-- Noel Jones
Hi Noel
Apologies for the extremely late response.
The mail appears to be send to /dev/null instead of being held in the queue.
thanks
Tom
On 10/02/2012 09:28, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* kshitij mali:
cat /var/log/maillog | egrep -i 'from=<.*@yahoo\.com>'
Why waste processing cycles, just use egrep instead of using cat first.
egrep -i 'from=<.*@yahoo\.com>' /var/log/maillog
Good afternoon list
In Postfix, is it possible to use memcache to store IP & helo infomation
for a helo_access ?
We receive alot of spam from a single IP address using multiple helo's.
I would like to check the helo name against the memcache entry.
If it does not match, then REJECT / DISCARD.
On 01/06/2012 11:49, Zagalo Nanda Mardani wrote:
On 6/1/2012 1:32 PM, Ram wrote:
Thanks
Ram
My server was experienced the same issue today...
Email to Gmail was showed in both active and deferred queue...
T 5 10 20 40 80 160 320 640
On 01/06/2012 12:01, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
Hi List.
I had the same problem here but seems to have improved substantially
since removing gmail.com from the smtp_connection_cache_destinations.
Maybe its just coincidence but worth a shot if you have it in your
configuration.
regards
Tom
On 18/06/2012 15:26, Amira Othman wrote:
Hi all
I need to manage message in hold queue according to domain of recipient
address. How can I do that ? I thought of edit mailq command but it's not
readable when I tried to edit .any suggestions?
man postsuper
-h queue_id
Put
Good morning List.
I have a question regarding rate-limiting.
I know how to rate limit outbound mail by destination domain BUT am unable
to find any information or example on how to do the same incoming??
at certain times of the month, our users, which have subscribed to
various new-letters, r
On 13/07/2012 10:31, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 13.07.2012 10:04, schrieb Tom Kinghorn:
you may use general rate limt per ip/client
perhaps look here
http://www.e-rave.nl/rate-limit-incoming-mail-on-postfix
Thanks for this.
However, I would only like to limit the known monthly mass-mail
Good afternoon
Apologies for the question but it is baffling me.
does Anvil record all connections?
I am receiving massive amounts of incoming mail (freakin status updates)
from facebookmail.com and was hoping to check the connection rate via
anvil in the logs.
However, there are no suck ent
On 25/07/2012 23:00, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
On 7/25/2012 8:02 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
I am trying to gets stats so that I can tweak:
smtpd_client_connection_rate_limit
smtpd_client_message_rate_limit
smtpd_client_recipient_rate_limit
Or you could use postfwd. But in practice I don'
On 01/08/2012 13:42, Jerry wrote:
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 08:30:28 +0200
Benny Pedersen articulated:
I admit it, I am clueless as to what that reply is all about.
Ditto
On 19/09/2012 11:58, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
To conclude: this domain was isn't registered yet but was probably
preconfigured on some authoritative DNS server(s).
I wonder why dnstrace and dig + trace found me the entries.
I would think more that the domain was registered and has now been
de
Good morning List.
I have a problem with a service provider rejecting connections due to
"too many concurrent connections".
They have a huge hosting platform with thousands of domains served by
their mail servers.
Is there a way to set the smtp_concurrency_limit for these domains
without cre
On 02/10/2012 10:39, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Tom Kinghorn :
domainname domainname:
domainname is a copy of the "smtp...smtp" line in master, renamed to
"domainname...smtp"
and then use domainname_concurrency_limit
Thanks Ralph.
I think my explanatio
On 02/10/2012 11:21, Robert Schetterer wrote:
guess this might be better
check_recipient_mx_access type:table
Search the specified access(5) database for the MX hosts for the
RCPT TO domain, and execute the corresponding action. Note: a result of
"OK" is not allowed for safety reasons. Inst
Good afternoon list
Today, i have started seeing alot of connection time-outs on queued mail.
I have noticed miss-typed domain names, which have all been regsitered
elsewhere, with NO MX records, but A records.
as such, the mails are just sitting in the queues, doing nothing.
How would one d
On 11/10/2012 13:30, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 11.10.2012 13:23, schrieb Tom Kinghorn:
you can not deal with this expect create a error-transport
for such domains manually - but be aware if this domain
get later working mailservices to remove it!
a domain does not need a MX record, that is how
On 11/10/2012 13:38, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
* Reindl Harald :
but be careful remove the error-transport if the domain
becomes active mail-services!
Oh yes!
looking at the domains, they all have a SOA record as
ns1.sedoparking.com
wish we could ban any domain hosted at sedoparking.
Morning List.
I was wondering id there is any way to specify a
destination_concurrency_limit for clients which have used SMTP_AUTH and
whose source is
not on the $mynetworks.
We currently have a problem where the accounts of clients (who have used
weak passwords), are being used to spam.
I
On 11/10/2012 14:48, Wietse Venema wrote:
Tom Kinghorn:
check_sender_ns_access type:table
Search the specified access(5) database for the DNS servers for
the MAIL FROM address, and execute the corresponding action.
Note: a result of "OK" is not allowed for safe
On 17/10/2012 10:14, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
On 10/17/12 10:05 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
You're testing NS records for the recipient address here, not the sender.
i tested using ad...@cpf.co.za
cpf.co.za is hosted at sedoparking.com
in the recipient_ns_host file I have
sedoparkin
On 17/10/2012 15:18, Noel Jones wrote:
Show "postconf -n" and the postfix logs of your test. -- Noel Jones
Hi Noel.
I guess I should have done that at the start, my apologies.
Just an update.
when doing a test via the CLI, it seems to work.
So I am guessing a permit statement further down is
On 18/10/2012 12:55, Jerry wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:04:37 +0200
Tom Kinghorn articulated:
{While you are at it, could you lose the urge to send posts in HTML
format. "GMail" is perfectly capable of sending in plain text format.
Thank you!
Formatting changed.
Apologies.
On 18/10/2012 14:41, Noel Jones wrote:
On 10/18/2012 5:04 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
DO NOT send debug log files unless specifically requested. Normal
log files are sufficient.
And a friendly reminder that splitting required troubleshooting info
up between multiple messages greatly reduces the
On 18/10/2012 14:41, Noel Jones wrote:
On 10/18/2012 5:04 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
DO NOT send debug log files unless specifically requested. Normal
log files are sufficient.
And a friendly reminder that splitting required troubleshooting info
up between multiple messages greatly reduces
On 22/10/2012 15:32, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 22.10.2012 15:29, schrieb Tom Kinghorn:
On 18/10/2012 14:41, Noel Jones wrote:
On 10/18/2012 5:04 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
DO NOT send debug log files unless specifically requested. Normal
log files are sufficient.
And a friendly reminder that
On 22/10/2012 15:51, Wietse Venema wrote:
Tom Kinghorn:
it would be nice having at the end of the thread the example config
with corrected typo to help others which finding this in the archives!
apologies.
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
check_recipient_ns_access
hash:/etc/postfix
On 22/10/2012 15:55, Noel Jones wrote:
On 10/22/2012 8:39 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
On 22/10/2012 15:32, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 22.10.2012 15:29, schrieb Tom Kinghorn:
On 18/10/2012 14:41, Noel Jones wrote:
On 10/18/2012 5:04 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote:
DO NOT send debug log files unless
On 22/10/2012 16:09, Wietse Venema wrote:
Tom Kinghorn:
I suspect there was garbage at the end of lines. Postfix logs
warnings in the maillog file when smtpd_xxx_restrictions contains
unrecognized content.
Wietse
Thanks for the response Wietse.
Thanks to all who helped.
regards
Tom
Good morning list.
Is it possible to reject sasl_authentication from certain users?
we have a situation where certain accounts have been compromised.
Unfortunately, the team which enables / disables accounts on the master
DB is a) if a different geographical location and b) take up to 24
hou
On 22/11/2012 11:43, Robert Schetterer wrote:
Am 22.11.2012 10:21, schrieb Tom Kinghorn:
as workaround you may use access table for the compromised mail address
with some error
4NN text
which means try again later with additional info
Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer
Hi Robert
Many
Good day list.
Without the use of policyd or postfwd, is it possible to
limit connections to your mail server from a specific country only?
I was thinking something like:
mynetworks = $config_directory/mynetworks
countryips = $config_directory/country_ips
smtpd_client_restrictions =
ch
On 11/12/2012 12:51, Eero Volotinen wrote:
maybe something like this helps:
http://www.kutukupret.com/2011/05/29/postfix-geoip-based-rejections/
--
Eero
Excellent.
Thank you very much.
Tom
On 15/01/2013 14:11, Charles Bradshaw wrote:
Hi Patrick
I would do as you ask, but it's bad security to download anything from a
mailing list and just run it. Especially something as long and complex as
gen-auth, at which I can only have a quick and un-informed look.
Given that I don't know who
On 25/01/2013 13:21, Reindl Harald wrote:
first: you should start wih a subject to your mails
second: provide "postconf -n" output as statet in the welcome message
third: describe your problem "could not get to work" is no description
And read the documents..( I am not going to say RTFM)
Morning list.
Is it possible to limit port 587 access to users who are known to be
traveling outside your network (foreign countries)?
We have a user who cannot access port 25 and as such I am looking at the
submission port, however, do not want to open it up to the net.
many thanks
Tom
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