Re: No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-10 Thread Richard Troy
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, Jochen Bern wrote: OH, sure, I got it down to a trickle, but these few Russian sites always managed to get their spam through and (FWIW, if you can characterize the offenders by country, trying a GeoIP filter as a stop-gap measure sounds rather promising.) Yes, it wo

Re: No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy
However if your dovecot SASL is broken, say always permitting access with or without correct password, then there will be a problem I DID find a discrepancy: smtpd_helo_restrictions did NOT have permit_sasl_authenticated. I made the change, of course and with that done, am now going to ope

Re: No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy
The problem will likely be postfix. I actually doubt it but am VERY grateful for this remark: However if your dovecot SASL is broken, say always permitting access with or without correct password, then there will be a problem IT COULD BE?! I don't know (or maybe recall ATM) enough about

Re: No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy
On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, dove...@x9p.org wrote: Logs? Send the relevant logs so people can analyze the problem. ...The logs in full are HUGE, but I have some excerpts - Hope I caught the right stuff! I'll send along soon. Richard ___ dovecot maili

Re: No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023, Sean Gallagher wrote: It feels like you are conflating Dovecot with Postfix. Dovecot doesn't actually "relay" anything. (ignoring sieve and submission proxy). Relaying is the job of the "Mail Transfer Agent" or MTA. This is often Postfix but Dovecot could probably work w

Re: No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy
On Thu, 8 Jun 2023, Antonio Leding wrote: Just curious - the first thing the hit me was “27 or so year-old…” Fedora was released 19 years ago and Dovecot 20 — what am I missing? And are you saying this box has been unchanged since ’03? Hi Antonio, I had a lot of that in the eamil and th

No-novice with Dovecot, but need novice-like advice (was Dovecot cracked?!)

2023-06-08 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, This is my first posting here, and maybe I should have found this WAY back in January, '23, if not LONG before. I want to be but I find it difficult here to be brief. ... Surely background will surely help: A 27 or so year old Fedora / Postfix / Dovecot site I built had a major dis

[Dovecot] FIXED Re: Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
Hi All, it turned out to be the order of entries in stmpd_recipient_restrictions. Regards, Richard On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Richard Troy wrote: > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:14:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Richard Troy > To: postfix-us...@cloud9.net, dovecot@dovecot.org > Subject: [Dove

[Dovecot] Trouble adding sasl support via dovecot

2012-03-12 Thread Richard Troy
Hello Folks, I've been the admin of a site that uses Postfix with Dovecot on RedHat since, oh, gosh, maybe 1996? It's been a long time. I've never built it from source, though, just used the rpms (and I wonder if maybe that's my problem now). It just works, is reliable, and lets me be a very-part