Re: Do not forward spam

2013-09-20 Thread jim
On 2013-09-20 09:42, azurIt wrote: i'm having problems with spam forwarding - lot's of our users enabled forwarding to gmail and every spam they receive is also forwarded. Today gmail block us because of spam (which we were just forwarding, not sending). Any tips how can i disable forwarding in c

Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread jim
Hello folks. I have set up a fresh instance of Postfix at my office to help do some troubleshooting on another issue. There is a relay upstream that is having issues forwarding mail from some devices here, and this seemed the easiest way to get some data to help them troubleshoot. Install is

Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread jim
I believe you are correct, but again I have no control over that part. Also, I mistakenly attached the log attempt from the telnet session I tried, the actual systems having issues have the from address within brackets, here is the system in question: Jul 6 15:18:42 localhost postfix/smtpd[4

Re: Illegal address syntax in MAIL command

2021-07-07 Thread jim
That did the trick! Many thanks. ;) On 2021-07-07 10:21, Kevin N. wrote: It seems that in the MAIL command the IP address is still not between []. should be On a quick look, it seems that you could try setting resolve_numeric_domain = yes in your Postfix configuration and see if that cha

feature request: improve vague/incorrect error message

2021-11-15 Thread Jim
in fact wrong, because (a) it didn't need to *create* the output file, and (b) it was able to write to the output file, it just didn't want to.) Thanks for reading. Jim

Re: feature request: improve vague/incorrect error message

2021-11-15 Thread Jim
Wietse, On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:25 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote: > Jim: >> On Artix, the default is 5120. (Aside: in 1985, that would have > Postfix has limits on everything, so that the mail system will not > get stuck. It's really a bad idea to disable them. I ag

Re: feature request: improve vague/incorrect error message

2021-11-16 Thread Jim
On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 11:41 (-0500), Kris Deugau wrote: > Jim wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 12:25 (-0500), Wietse Venema wrote: >>> Instead, use Maildir format with one message per file, >> I thought about that once, but I decided I have too many e-mail >>

Re: postfix questions: when emails are being rejected...

2008-12-30 Thread Jim Wright
On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Hwan Dong wrote: after there is some rejection, add "sleep/delay" before resuming sending, this timer could be different from previous "constant sending delay" as flow-control, this rejection delay is more like "ok, it seems you are not happy or too busy, I am

Re: postfix questions: when emails are being rejected...

2008-12-31 Thread Jim Wright
On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:51 AM, Hwan Dong wrote: much thanks for your comments. I looked at the backoff. But it is to delay the undelieverable messages, is there any way to delay all the following message for the SAME destination domain? i.e. if one email to a...@hotmail.com is rejected, I sti

Re: Can't stop UNDELIVERED MAIL RETURNED TO SENDER emails

2009-01-12 Thread Jim Wright
David, you've sent so many messages and replies that quoting anything at this point is just wasting bandwidth. I'm going to jump in with a few notes on what I've read here: First, you are fixating on the wrong problem. If you have bounces that are queued up, this is because you are accept

Re: having a problem - isp has been black listed in SBL just a test of a work around!

2009-01-12 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 12, 2009, at 10:11 PM, postmas...@klam.ca wrote: I am not quit sure what that means. My ISP is Velcom's and all of their ips have been blocked, so is Spamhaus saying that Velcom itself are the N.A. branch of Ukrainian cybercrime spammers or that the spammers are using Velcom's servic

Re: example.com problem?

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:12 PM, Norm Mackey wrote: I had been under the impression that I should tell users to use the domain "example.com" (or example.org) as default settings in software being tested and developed, in order that the software not generate email which would be a problem for

Re: overriding/modifying smtp error codes from other MTAs

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Gábor Lénárt wrote: 450 : Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command)) if there is an invalid, non existing mail address there. However they argues that they would like us not to try to deliver mails again a

Re: Backscatter with forged return-path

2009-01-26 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Paweł Leśniak wrote: One of our users is getting lots of returned mails because his email address is used as return-path by spammer(s). I would guess that your system accepting mail from unknown servers? Start blocking those, and you'll find that these bounces

Re: Backscatter with forged return-path

2009-01-26 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Paweł Leśniak wrote: Jim Wright pisze: On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Paweł Leśniak wrote: One of our users is getting lots of returned mails because his email address is used as return-path by spammer(s). I would guess that your system accepting mail from

Re: Backscatter with forged return-path

2009-01-26 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Paweł Leśniak wrote: I may be wrong, but I think I should not block sender on helo basis? Most of what will be blocked are zombie systems that send no legitimate mail, a very small number of legitimate mails 'may' be blocked. It's a personal preference, I boun

Re: Header/body checks question, problem.

2009-01-28 Thread Jim Seymour
g/http://www.postfix.org/BUILTIN_FILTER_README.html > section "Preventing daily mail status reports from being blocked". Yeah, or pflogsumm's own FAQ, which has had an entry for this for about forever. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you repl

New Pflogsumm Maintainer Needed

2009-01-28 Thread Jim Seymour
entation for another individual, that, too, is welcome. I hope those of you that have used it have found pflogsumm useful, and I'll take this opportunity to again thank the various contributors, over the years. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filteri

Re: Splitting recieve/transmit processes

2009-01-28 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 28, 2009, at 6:55 AM, Mark Watts wrote: I have a requirement to split a postfix relay installation across two servers. It may be easier to explain the actual requirements, I doubt that the above statement is the ACTUAL requirement.

Re: Email delivered to wrong person.

2009-01-29 Thread Jim Wright
On Jan 29, 2009, at 4:54 PM, Magnus Bäck wrote: You can easily find the relevant log entries by grepping your maillog for the queue id, which is found in the first Received: header added by your system. In this case look at this header: Received: from TRXOMOPC (unknown [77.81.179.110]) b

reject header question

2009-02-24 Thread Jim McIver
Greetings, I'm running Postfix 2.1 on Freebsd 4.10 and would like to know where I can get more information on the following message in the maillog, and if it's my problem or the senders problem. Maybe a possible fix? I can send an email to this user , but never get their reply. I believe the

Re: reject header question

2009-02-24 Thread Jim McIver
Thx Magnus. I had the work 'approved' in the header_checks and just didn't read what the message in the maillog was telling. -jm Magnus Bäck wrote: On Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 00:15 CET, Jim McIver wrote: I'm running Postfix 2.1 on Freebsd 4.10 and would

Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-04 Thread Jim McIver
I have Postfix 2.1 on Freebsd 4.10 and am having trouble blocking email from a domain. Here is a snipet of the postqueue -p: DF6A927D 3512 Tue Mar 3 18:42:35 MAILER-DAEMON (connect to mx1.mail.yahoo.co.jp[124.83.183.240]: server dropped connection without sending the initial SMTP greet

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-04 Thread Jim McIver
My mistake, the ones piling up in postqueue -p are the yahoo.co.jp. The u...@domain.com is just listed in the maillog and it's a bogus email address I'd like not to receive email from. -jm LuKreme wrote: On 4-Mar-2009, at 13:32, Jim McIver wrote: they just pile up in the postque

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-04 Thread Jim McIver
My mistake. The u...@domain.com is in the maillog. yahoo.co.jp is in postqueue -p -jm Paweł Leśniak wrote: W dniu 2009-03-04 21:32, Jim McIver pisze: I have Postfix 2.1 on Freebsd 4.10 and am having trouble blocking email from a domain. Here is a snipet of the postqueue -p: DF6A927D

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-04 Thread Jim McIver
. How can I blacklist the .co.jp so I don't receive their message to start with? -jm Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: Jim McIver wrote: I have Postfix 2.1 on Freebsd 4.10 and am having trouble blocking email from a domain. Postfix 2.1 is ancient. Recommend an upgrade as some t

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-04 Thread Jim McIver
ent_access doesn't seem to stop it. Sorry for my lack of understanding. -jm Noel Jones wrote: Jim McIver wrote: In looking at the file in xxx/deferred, my mailserver is trying to return an undelivable message and it looks like there is something wrong with the site. " said: 557 Invalid

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-04 Thread Jim McIver
/dev/rob0 wrote: Please don't top-post. Thank you. On Wed March 4 2009 17:10:49 Jim McIver wrote: Guess I'm confused. I have a relay_recipient and recipient_access files listing only valid user's email addresses for my company. ie.. relay_recipients bg...@lmtribune.com

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-05 Thread Jim McIver
Noel Jones wrote: Jim McIver wrote: Here's a snippet from maillog, but not sure if it's what your looking for: Thanks, this is very helpful. Mar 4 15:10:13 mail postfix/smtpd[56190]: warning: Illegal address syntax from unknown[113.9.198.198] in MAIL co mmand: bikedev...@y

Re: Blocking a domain and user

2009-03-05 Thread Jim McIver
Noel Jones wrote: Jim McIver wrote: I am using vexira for virus/content filtering and it has an area to put in blacklisted domains. I'll check if I can change to quarantine. ie [mailfrom-blacklist] *.ro *.nz *yourtopbrands.com *server.rwbtec.com *.co.jp etc... If you can't ch

Re: MAIL TO DEAD DESTINATION

2009-03-23 Thread Jim Wright
On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Ashwin Muni wrote: Ex: I'm sending a mail to xyz.com and my server could not connect to the xyz.com smtp server. My mail gets deffered and then it tries as per my setting but later another user of mine tries to send mail to the same domain and it happens again.

Re: MAIL TO DEAD DESTINATION

2009-03-24 Thread Jim Wright
So, you send a lot of mails to XYZ Consulting? I'm sure that their xyz.com domain can't be causing that many issues? Or were you just using that as a generic example? If so, example.com is traditionally used for such uses. Regarding the hard bounces, a hard bounce is when a mail is bounc

Re: my mailserver has been blacklisted

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Wright
On Mar 26, 2009, at 5:59 AM, Ivan Ricotti wrote: I suspect that some windows users in my network is sending spam... and the question is: how can I prevent this acting on postfix? Two options. 1, Eliminate windows users from your network. 2, scan outgoing mail for spam before accepting it f

Pflogsumm Status

2010-01-13 Thread Jim Seymour
even a keel as things can get, these days :).) I'm working on a new release even now. More information to follow in a day or two. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apolo

Re: trusted ip address spoofed (Logs) ?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim Wright
On Feb 1, 2010, at 2:17 AM, Dimitrios Karapiperis wrote: I attach some pieces of logs for better understanding Feb 1 08:44:18 smtp postfix/smtpd[17200]: connect from serial.domain.tld[111.222.333.444] Feb 1 08:44:18 smtp postfix/qmgr[27864]: 88B76180FE: from=>, size=1997, nrcpt=2 (queue act

Re: Upgrading Postfix

2010-02-15 Thread Jim Wright
On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:42 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Eero Volotinen : I have Postfix 2.1.5 running on Mac Server 10.4.11. I would like to upgrade Postfix. Which version would you recommend? Thanks in advance for advise. How about latest stable version (2.7) ? Since Apple made a signi

Pflogsumm Version 1.1.3 Released

2010-03-20 Thread Jim Seymour
N switches. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>.

Re: Pflogsumm Version 1.1.3 Released

2010-03-26 Thread Jim Seymour
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 02:00:10 -0300 > From: Julio Cesar Covolato > To: Jim Seymour , owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org > Subject: Re: Pflogsumm Version 1.1.3 Released > > Hi Jim! > > Any improviment to suport the reinjection from amavisd? Nope. If I had, it would&

UTF-8 Subject Logging

2010-04-07 Thread Jim Smith
(UTF-8 stuff in here) How can I make it so that Subject: =?utf-8?B?UX. is displayed correctly in it's native language? (in this case it's Chinese but it could be another language) Jim.

Re: UTF-8 Subject Logging

2010-04-07 Thread Jim Smith
x27;d copy them somewhere else before converting the Subject: string On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Ralf Hildebrandt < ralf.hildebra...@charite.de> wrote: > * Jim Smith : > > Hi all, > > > > I've enabled subject logging in my header checks so th

Postfix compile on OS X 10.6

2010-04-12 Thread Jim Wright
I'm setting up a new server completely from scratch on Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.3, trying to compile Postfix 2.7. During make, I get this: In file included from dns_lookup.c:152: dns.h:23:29: error: nameser8_compat.h: No such file or directory make: *** [dns_lookup.o] Error 1 make: *** [u

Re: Postfix compile on OS X 10.6

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Wright
On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Jim Wright wrote: I'm setting up a new server completely from scratch on Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6.3, trying to compile Postfix 2.7. During make, I get this: In file included from dns_lookup.c:152: dns.h:23:29: error: nameser8_compat.h: No such fi

Re: Postfix compile on OS X 10.6

2010-04-14 Thread Jim Wright
On Apr 14, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Apr 14, 2010, at 6:33 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: What is the output from the following commands on this machine? uname -s uname -r uname -v In case this is useful. From Leopard 10.5 not Snow Leopard 10.6. I had no issues (that

recipient_delimiter is not set

2010-04-17 Thread Jim Carter
Our mailing list situaton is a little different from what normal list software handles, so I'm trying to roll my own. I want to use address extensions to identify the list. /etc/postfix/main.cf includes only one instance of: recipient_delimiter = + For testing, the user sends to , and in alias

Re: recipient_delimiter is not set

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Carter
Thanks to Sahil Tandon and LuKreme for pointing out my mistake on the debugging tool. I saw this done in an old archived post, and having searched for but not found the "what to include in a problem report" FAQ item, I winged it, incorrectly. I also forgot to specify the version of Postfix: 2.6.

Re: Postfix compile on OS X 10.6

2010-04-18 Thread Jim Wright
On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:52 AM, Jim Wright wrote: > On Apr 12, 2010, at 11:32 PM, Jim Wright wrote: > >> I'm setting up a new server completely from scratch on Snow Leopard, Mac OS >> X 10.6.3, trying to compile Postfix 2.7. During make, I get this: >> >> In

Re: Debian argument.. postfix hostname

2010-06-02 Thread Jim Wright
make on that platform. I run postfix on OS X, and don't expect the OS to provide postfix with everything it needs. Jim On Jun 2, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Matt Hayes wrote: > Yes.. I know this has come up quite a bit, but on freenode in #postfix > this discussion once again erupted when

Re: Postfix 2.8 and 2.7 updates ready for testing

2010-06-02 Thread Jim Wright
OS X 10.6.3, attempting to build 2.7.1-RC1: (snip) In file included from dns_lookup.c:152: dns.h:26:28: error: nameser_compat.h: No such file or directory make: *** [dns_lookup.o] Error 1 make: *** [update] Error 1 In my 2.7 build, I referenced this file: arpa/nameser_compat.h Jim On Jun 1

Re: Postfix 2.8 and 2.7 updates ready for testing

2010-06-03 Thread Jim Wright
On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:25 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Jim Wright: >> OS X 10.6.3, attempting to build 2.7.1-RC1: >> >> (snip) >> In file included from dns_lookup.c:152: >> dns.h:26:28: error: nameser_compat.h: No such file or directory >> make: *** [dns_lookup

Re: Debian argument.. postfix hostname

2010-06-03 Thread Jim Wright
On Jun 3, 2010, at 1:36 PM, Moe wrote: > My point is: When 'myhostname' and 'mydomainname' are left out of main.cf > then postfix makes an attempt to auto-detect them. There's your problem. Fix that. See my original reply at the start of this thread.

Re: Connection Refused on Port 25

2010-07-03 Thread Jim Wright
On Jul 3, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Asai wrote: > Thank you for your responses. Is there anything I can do on my end? To put it simply, you're going to need to find a way to contact them postmaster on the other end and let them know that legitimate mail is being blocked. You will first need to find a

postfix message size

2010-09-27 Thread Jim McIver
ssage size 5415340 exceeds size limit 5242880 of server 127.0.0.1 Is there anyway to fix this? thx, -- Jim McIver

Re: postfix message size

2010-09-27 Thread Jim McIver
On 9/27/2010 3:55 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 28/09/10 8:00 AM, Jim McIver wrote: I'm running postfix 2.5.6 on Freebsd 7.2 and am having an issue with message size limit and a user not being able to send a file. I'm trying to limit the message size to 6 megabytes and in the mai

Re: postfix message size

2010-09-28 Thread Jim McIver
On 9/27/2010 6:53 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jim McIver put forth on 9/27/2010 5:00 PM: I'm running postfix 2.5.6 on Freebsd 7.2 and am having an issue with message size limit and a user not being able to send a file. I'm trying to limit the message size to 6 megabytes and in the mai

Re: assistance with a CIDR issue

2010-11-17 Thread Jim Berwick
On 11/17/2010 12:12 PM, Jack wrote: Hi Mark, thanks for your response, and I apologize if my brain is not grasping what your saying. If I am blocking 194.149.65.0/23 this is a standard format, it tells us that the IP's are the 194.149.65.0-255 and 194.149.66.0-255. Are we saying that the CIDR rul

Re: Helo command rejected: Malformed DNS server reply

2009-08-29 Thread Jim Wright
On Aug 28, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Noel Jones wrote: Mail from yahoo.com is now rejected with: Aug 28 16:24:05 mgate2 postfix/smtpd[53002]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from web34202.mail.mud.yahoo.com[66.163.178.117]: 554 5.7.1 : Helo command rejected: Malformed DNS server reply; from= to= proto=SMTP

address lookup/verify question

2009-10-14 Thread Jim Rupprecht
? At some point in time I will move from ldap lookups to a file Thanks in advance. -jim

Re: address lookup/verify question

2009-10-15 Thread Jim Rupprecht
s a catch-all? I've tested this and it *seems* to work. Just looking for someone to confirm what I am seeing or tell me I'm a looney (or both). Thanks. -Jim On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:33:22AM -0500, Jim Rupprecht

Re: address lookup/verify question

2009-10-15 Thread Jim Rupprecht
right direction here. -Jim On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Jim Rupprecht wrote: > Ok, same scenario new question. > > As I note below I defined several local domains as relay domains. Here > is the list: > > ku.edu > mail.ku.edu > abc.org > def.com > ghi.org >

Postfix gateway question

2009-10-21 Thread Jim Rupprecht
there is no lookup table for it. Adding "permit_auth_destination, as the second item under smtpd_recipient_restrictions doesn't help. Anyone have any thoughts on how I can do this? :Jim

OT: Supply Missing text/plain MIME part?

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Rosenberg
into the message. Does anyone know of anything off the shelf that accomplishes this? -Thanks in advance, Jim

Backscatter being generated from mail aliased to other servers.

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Lang
OK here is the scenario. Spammer sends mail to: u...@myclientsdomain.com from forged address vic...@randomdomain.com If u...@myclientsdomain.com is delivered locally, not a problem, if the address is invalid, postix rejects the mail during the smtp connection. But if u...@myclientsdomain.

Re: Backscatter being generated from mail aliased to other servers.

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Lang
Wietse Venema wrote: Jim Lang: OK here is the scenario. Spammer sends mail to: u...@myclientsdomain.com from forged address vic...@randomdomain.com If u...@myclientsdomain.com is delivered locally, not a problem, if the address is invalid, postix rejects the mail during the smtp

Re: Backscatter being generated from mail aliased to other servers.

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Lang
John Peach wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:26 -0700 Jim Lang wrote: Wietse Venema wrote: Jim Lang: OK here is the scenario. Spammer sends mail to: u...@myclientsdomain.com from forged address vic...@randomdomain.com If u...@myclientsdomain.com is delivered locally

Re: Backscatter being generated from mail aliased to other servers.

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Lang
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jim Lang put forth on 11/16/2009 2:00 PM: Wietse Venema wrote: Jim Lang: OK here is the scenario. Spammer sends mail to: u...@myclientsdomain.com from forged address vic...@randomdomain.com If u...@myclientsdomain.com is delivered locally, not a

Re: Backscatter being generated from mail aliased to other servers.

2009-11-16 Thread Jim Lang
John Peach wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:07:05 -0700 Jim Lang wrote: John Peach wrote: On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:00:26 -0700 Jim Lang wrote: Wietse Venema wrote: Jim Lang: OK here is the scenario. Spammer sends mail to: u

open relay

2011-03-31 Thread Jim McIver
Our webhosting company(which is offsite) has told me that the postfix-2.5 on our Freebsd 7.2 server is being used as an open relay for email so they have closed port 25. We want to be able to send email from the server, but not have it relay for others. I've read what documentation I can find an

Re: barracuda and relayhost

2011-05-01 Thread Jim Wright
On May 1, 2011, at 10:47 AM, James wrote: > Why does the barracuda think the "Client host" is ISP2.smtp but it > blocks the IP of my server? > Shouldn't relayhost make the barracuda see the "Client host" AND IP as > ISP2.smtp? My experience is that the barracude will look at where the message ori

Re: Barracuda Reputatin System and Postfix

2011-05-22 Thread Jim Wright
Tell the postmaster at the receiving end that they are blocking legitimate mail thanks to overly aggressive (ie. brain dead) settings from Barracuda. It should not matter at all the IP address of the person sending an email. Jim On May 22, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Janantha Marasinghe wrote: >

Re: Barracuda Reputatin System and Postfix [SOLVED]

2011-05-23 Thread Jim Wright
It's a terrible way to block spam. It's a GREAT way to block email. Huge difference there... ;) Jim On May 23, 2011, at 9:42 AM, Janantha Marasinghe wrote: > Dear All Postfix users who replied. > > Thanks all for your support. I got the mail admin at the otherend to w

Re: Multiple Domains, Mail Gateway, Two Mail Servers

2011-08-07 Thread Jim Seymour
Wow, over 48 hours and no solution(s) suggested? Everybody on vacation? :) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <h

Re: ssh client for new mac laptop

2011-11-24 Thread Jim Wright
On Nov 24, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Keith Steensma wrote: > Anyone have a recommendation for a 'free' client for a mac os x that works > when communicating to a unix/linux server? I haven't found anything when > 'googling' for an answer. Terminal works just fine. Also, how is this a Postfix questi

Re: Problem with smtp client bind address

2011-12-01 Thread Jim Seymour
use the right source IP > address because there is only one to choose from. Done! Worked like a charm, Wietse. Thanks *very* much for your help. I'd already had all the transport entries. (Holdover from when our mail routing was significantly more complicated.) I simply had to replace the

Re: Low Budget Backups

2011-12-03 Thread Jim Seymour
l backup. Works like a champ. I'm going to use the same script on the new mailserver I'm building at work. I have two drives, which I swap once-a-month. The out-of-service drive goes in the safe. At work I'll probably do three or four, with at least one in the bank safety depos

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread Jim Seymour
ix server that expands to the recipients you want, and have the application send to the alias? Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>.

Re: Low Budget Backups

2011-12-04 Thread Jim Seymour
. It's production-quality code and I *believe* it's ready for release. It's been in-use on my server, here at home, since February of this year. The only reason I haven't released it, yet, is because, well, I kind of never got around to it :p. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail ser

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:37:31 +0100 Ignacio wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Thank you very much, but there are more than 1000 possible options, > and they change almost every week. It depends on projects and > people involved in them. One of us is confused. How would creating an al

Changing Users' Mail Spool Destination

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
mail/inbox and in (a bit OT for this list, but while I'm at it), in dovecot.conf: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir:INBOX=~/mail/inbox Thanks, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accep

Re: Changing Users' Mail Spool Destination

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
pool. Dovecot is perfectly happy with that. > > I don't know if Postfix will auto-create ~user/mail directories. That's easily addressed with a simply shell or Perl script I can create. Heck, I could even set up a cron job to make sure they all exist, in case I got absent-min

Re: Changing Users' Mail Spool Destination

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
I wanted to do it the way I described: Were the configs I noted really all I need do? Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>.

Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
tpd[48290]: disconnect from unknown[89.73.201.168] This particular one occurred seven times in a row, in quick succession. I've searched on this *fairly* seriously and come up with nothing. Anybody got any idea what this is? Thanks, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggres

Re: Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:14:08 +0100 Reindl Harald wrote: [snip] > > why do you use "reject_unknown_reverse_client_hostname" if you do > not like the results of it? Why do you answer the question when you obviously have not read it? (Or at least apparently not understood

Re: Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
t happen all the time. It doesn't even happen often. Out of nearly 6000 connections, today, there are 145 various "A.. OUT" and "A.. OUT OOW" messages. Each of them occurs two-or-more times, involving the same contacting IP. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *

Re: Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 01:11:00 +0100 Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 12.12.2011 01:04, schrieb Jim Seymour: > > On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:14:08 +0100 > > Reindl Harald wrote: > > [snip] > >> > >> why do you use "reject_unknown_reverse_client_h

Re: Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:15:35 -0500 Jim Seymour wrote: > Each of them occurs two-or-more > times, involving the same contacting IP. Clarification: That was to say that, when it occurs multiple times in a row, it's the same IP trying over-and-over again in each set of retries. A

Re: Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
f gracefully QUITing, the client drops the connection. I see. So the "odd" ipfilter message is probably as a result of the client pulling the rug out from under the connection, as it were? Thanks, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you repl

Re: Postfix "lost connection after DATA from unknown..." and ipfilter "-AF OUT" log message

2011-12-11 Thread Jim Seymour
er setup. That is the default deny at the end of bge1's output filters. I must've messed-up, somewhere. I'll take a look in the morning. Thanks, Wietse, Sahil, for the education. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to thi

Re: See which port a user connects to?

2011-12-14 Thread Jim Seymour
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:56:40 -0600 "/dev/rob0" wrote: [snip] > > I'm not sure how that might affect pflogsumm.pl; perhaps if Jim is > still reading the list he can comment? [snip] I'm still reading, but I'm usually only seeing the stuff that mentions Pflogsum

Re: strange log issue

2012-01-08 Thread Jim Seymour
ivered to the mailboxes, but seems something is > changed in the logging that give this result. > Any hints? [snip] Not without seeing logfile entries. Please email me a few dozen lines of an old logfile and a new one. (Only a few dozen of each, please!) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server e

Re: strange log issue

2012-01-08 Thread Jim Seymour
two years. I really should get 1.1.4 out the door... Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>.

Re: SASL authentication and Windows Live Mail

2012-01-30 Thread Jim Seymour
attempted connection/login when "disable_plaintext_auth = yes" in dovecot.conf. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>.

Re: Pflogsumm: Specialization in SMTPD connections

2012-02-02 Thread Jim Seymour
that makes a crude attempt to isolate the domain or sub-domain from the hostname. It's taken from whatever the logfile gives me, which, in turn, is dependent upon whatever the reverse lookup returns. Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you r

Re: Messages from=<> and pflogsumm

2012-02-02 Thread Jim Seymour
ddress, displays in the stats "from=<>". That's because the sender is the null sender. So it was either display nothing at all, or show "from=<>" to make it clear those were from the null sender. > [snip] > > Is it intended behavior? [snip] Yes. Re

Pflogsumm Version 1.1.5 Released

2012-02-05 Thread Jim Seymour
help. Short cycle, this time, but I kind of wanted this one to work w/o patches ;) With no bug reports, say, w/in a week or so, I'm going to promote this one to "stable." Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this ema

Re: reject unknown helo hostname

2012-02-06 Thread Jim Wright
s the helo name. Sometimes I hear back and they're grateful for the pointer, sometimes I never hear back. Other larger sites will silently drop mails from such misconfigured systems, though this isn't consistent. If more systems would enforce this, I think it would be better for everyone

new centos, receives fine, can't send

2012-04-06 Thread Jim Barchuk
Hi All! New centos install. Been running sendmail for many years under redhat and openbsd but with the maturity of postfix, and seeing as it's the default centos mailer I thought I'd give it a try. This is a single-pc server, no LAN/WAN issues invloved. Here's the error message, clearly a rel

clue needed on SMTP envelope whitelisting/bypass

2012-04-26 Thread Jim Reid
Hi. There must be a glaringly obvious solution to my problem that I can't see for looking at it. Can anyone help? A few "trusted" senders have trouble getting past my server's vicious anti-spam defences. Sometimes their mail is sent over IPv6 from a source address that has no reverse DNS en

Re: clue needed on SMTP envelope whitelisting/bypass

2012-04-26 Thread Jim Reid
On 26 Apr 2012, at 17:06, Noel Jones wrote: Put here: check_sender_access hash:/etc/postfix/oksenders Facepalm moment. Doh! Noel, thanks very much. This was the obvious thing I'd overlooked. Putting a check_sender_access entry like this in smtpd_client_restrictions does the trick. Thanks

Re: Can I improve the efficiency of my dnsbl reject configuration?

2012-04-27 Thread Jim Reid
On 27 Apr 2012, at 16:55, kar...@mailcan.com wrote: In the end it's getting blocked, and that's what I want. But, if I understand how this works, every one of those rejects is a DNS check to spamhaus, and some postfix load on my server. Can I somehow configure to be more efficient about thi

Re: Can I improve the efficiency of my dnsbl reject configuration?

2012-04-27 Thread Jim Reid
On 27 Apr 2012, at 17:20, kar...@mailcan.com wrote: Is there any way to prevent Postfix from making those repeated DNS checks, regardless of whether it's externally to Spamhaus' servers, or to a locally cached DNS result? No. Well you could but it would be futile make-work that adds needless

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