Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-19 Thread Nick Rout
If you want to see what each of the emails in your queue is take a look in /var/spool/postifx. In that dir there are a number of subdirectories, including one called defer and one called deferred. As I don't have anything stuck in there I can't recall exactly which of those subdors houses the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:52 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose. So I would like to make it a good netizen. I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a neophyte with Postfix. Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem. with postfix, it will, by default ONLY accept mail for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/16/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this,

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 3/17/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose.So I would like to make it a good netizen. I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a neophyte with Postfix.Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem.with postfix, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Although it seems this host is not a relay, that does not explain the score or so of things languishing in my mail queue attempting to contact sites I have no knowledge of, and which do not accept the connection. Any hints how to explore this? Look through

[gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a bit more. Can somebody point me in the right direction? I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Gerhard Hoogterp
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to secure this daemon a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread JimD
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to know how to interpret this, and if it is called-for, to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:52 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize. I'd like to