Re: smart hosting issues

2008-08-05 Thread Henrik K
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:21:58PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Hello fellow smart hosters, > > I've been running this way for 3 years now because I could never figure > out how to wildcard "everything else". Here's the top of my transport > file (a very small portion of it): Three years you

Re: Missing Something - header_checks Entry

2008-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Sahil Tandon wrote: Steve Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am testing a new entry in my header_checks file: /^Return-Path:.*mjhunter=aurora\.edu*/DISCARD From Address Rejected 018 Sorry for the wrapping above. PCRE right? You don't need the second "*", so the following shoul

Re: 504 5.5.2 error workaraound

2008-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Security Admin (NetSec) wrote: One of my network devices seems to have issues with its hostname: "Unexpected error from e-mail server(state=3): 504 5.5.2 : Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname." Appears in my event log of the device when it tries to send logs to my Postfix ga

RE: E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Thank you Sahil, and Noel, works beautifully! > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:14:24 -0400> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL > PROTECTED]> CC: postfix-users@postfix.org> Subject: Re: E-mail "alias"> > Dov > Oxenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > > Sorry to be a bother, but another > newbie que

Re: Missing Something - header_checks Entry

2008-08-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Steve Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am testing a new entry in my header_checks file: > >/^Return-Path:.*mjhunter=aurora\.edu*/DISCARD From Address > Rejected 018 Sorry for the wrapping above. PCRE right? You don't need the second "*", so the following should work: /^Retur

Re: E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Dov Oxenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to be a bother, but another newbie question - in my main.cf, when > creating the entry for "virtual_alias_maps =" do I have to prepend the > path value with "hash:?" or do I just put the path to the virtual_alias > file? It doesn't have to be has

RE: E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
In my post below the question mark in the "hash:?" was a typo From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: RE: E-mail "alias"Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:05:23 -0400 Sorry to be a bother, but another newbie question - in my main.cf, when creating the entry for "virtual_alias_maps =" do I have to pr

RE: E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Sorry to be a bother, but another newbie question - in my main.cf, when creating the entry for "virtual_alias_maps =" do I have to prepend the path value with "hash:?" or do I just put the path to the virtual_alias file? Thanks! Dov > A virtual_alias_maps entry should do what you want. Note

Re: 504 5.5.2 error workaraound

2008-08-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Security Admin (NetSec) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of my network devices seems to have issues with its hostname: > > "Unexpected error from e-mail server(state=3): 504 5.5.2 > : Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified > hostname." > > Appears in my event log of the device when it tri

504 5.5.2 error workaraound

2008-08-05 Thread Security Admin (NetSec)
One of my network devices seems to have issues with its hostname: "Unexpected error from e-mail server(state=3): 504 5.5.2 : Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname." Appears in my event log of the device when it tries to send logs to my Postfix gateway server. Is there a filter

Missing Something - header_checks Entry

2008-08-05 Thread Steve Lowe
I am testing a new entry in my header_checks file: /^Return-Path:.*mjhunter=aurora\.edu*/DISCARD From Address Rejected 018 in an attempt to test this header entry: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have entries for From, Subject, X-Barracuda-Connect and they work. For some reason

Re: SMTP-AUTH with crypt passwords in SQL backend

2008-08-05 Thread kj
Juan Miscaro wrote: Hi everybody, I have STARTTLS, SMTP-AUTH, and SASL running with cleartext passwords in a SQL backend for a while now. I am trying to switch over from cleartext to crypt in terms of my passwords stored in MySQL. I have things running for IMAP with crypt. For SMTP-AUTH I am

RE: E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Thank you Noel, that is exactly what I am looking for. So if I understand you correctly, once I have the virtual_alias value in place, assuming I can configure my mail client with an alternate address, matching the value of "virtual_alias" in my Postfix, the Postfix MTA will relay the mail for m

Re: smart hosting issues

2008-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Hello fellow smart hosters, I've been running this way for 3 years now because I could never figure out how to wildcard "everything else". Here's the top of my transport file (a very small portion of it): hardwarefreak.com smtp:[192.168.100.2] earthlink.net

Re: mail queue is filling up with bounce messages

2008-08-05 Thread Sahil Tandon
Tait Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a lot of messages that are being delivered to `double-bounce` > accounts. What setting do I have that may cause this buildup? Might be related to the existence and placement of your reject_unverified_recipient parameter. See: http://articl

Re: Postfix log warning

2008-08-05 Thread Ken Hathaway
Doh! forgot to include this kenhat: postconf -d myhostname myhostname = swi.spellwellinc.com SWI.spellwellinc.com:~ On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Ken Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Thanks Brian! You got me going in the right direction. > > I probably should have mentioned that this ru

Re: Postfix log warning

2008-08-05 Thread Ken Hathaway
Thanks Brian! You got me going in the right direction. I probably should have mentioned that this running in a FreeBSD jail. I read the archive reference you gave and pulled and compiled gethostbyaddr & gethostbyname. I haven't used c in long time so I was pretty impressed with myself getting the

mail queue is filling up with bounce messages

2008-08-05 Thread Tait Grove
I have a lot of messages that are being delivered to `double-bounce` accounts. What setting do I have that may cause this buildup? Sample log: -Queue ID- --Size-- Arrival Time -Sender/Recipient--- AE3FD7E833* 288 Tue Aug 5 16:57:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

smart hosting issues

2008-08-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Hello fellow smart hosters, I've been running this way for 3 years now because I could never figure out how to wildcard "everything else". Here's the top of my transport file (a very small portion of it): hardwarefreak.com smtp:[192.168.100.2] earthlink.net smtp:[smtp.sbc.mai

Re: E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello, Please forgive the stupid question but I have done my due diligence and was unable to locate a definitive answer in the Postfix FAQ, Documentation, or How To. Basically what I want to do seems simple enough I am just not sure how to go about it. Currently I run a Ma

E-mail "alias"

2008-08-05 Thread Dov Oxenberg
Hello, Please forgive the stupid question but I have done my due diligence and was unable to locate a definitive answer in the Postfix FAQ, Documentation, or How To. Basically what I want to do seems simple enough I am just not sure how to go about it. Currently I run a Mailman mailing list usi

Re: poor perfomance for multiple-recipient emails

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Aaron Bennett: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing very poor performance on receipt of email with large > numbers of multiple recipients. One particular listserv for example > sends emails to 1600+ users in chunks of 50-60 per message. Users are > either local (maildir) or forwarded. We do have th

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Richard Wolterink: > Wietse Venema schreef: > > Richard Wolterink: > > > >> tlsmgrunix - - - 10? 1 tlsmgr > >> flush unix n - - 10? 0 flush > >> > > > > Undo these changes. They are detrimental to Postfix performance. > > > >

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Wolterink
Brian Evans - Postfix List schreef: Richard Wolterink wrote: Wietse Venema schreef: Richard Wolterink: tlsmgrunix - - - 10? 1 tlsmgr flush unix n - - 10? 0 flush Undo these changes. They are detrimental to Postfix performan

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Richard Wolterink wrote: Wietse Venema schreef: Richard Wolterink: tlsmgrunix - - - 10? 1 tlsmgr flush unix n - - 10? 0 flush Undo these changes. They are detrimental to Postfix performance. Wietse Do I have to com

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Wolterink
Wietse Venema schreef: Richard Wolterink: tlsmgrunix - - - 10? 1 tlsmgr flush unix n - - 10? 0 flush Undo these changes. They are detrimental to Postfix performance. Wietse Do I have to comment them out or alte

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Richard Wolterink wrote: Hello postfix-users, The problem with the bounce warning is fixed due to the alteration sugested in the master.cf Now I have another one. The mailq clogs up with bounces. I have altered main.cf and added the line local_recipient_maps = but with no result. What cou

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Wolterink
Noel Jones schreef: Richard Wolterink wrote: Hello postfix-users, The problem with the bounce warning is fixed due to the alteration sugested in the master.cf Now I have another one. The mailq clogs up with bounces. I have altered main.cf and added the line local_recipient_maps = but with n

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Richard Wolterink: > tlsmgrunix - - - 10? 1 tlsmgr > flush unix n - - 10? 0 flush Undo these changes. They are detrimental to Postfix performance. Wietse

Re: Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Richard Wolterink wrote: Hello postfix-users, The problem with the bounce warning is fixed due to the alteration sugested in the master.cf Now I have another one. The mailq clogs up with bounces. I have altered main.cf and added the line local_recipient_maps = but with no result. What coul

Bounce problem continued

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Wolterink
Hello postfix-users, The problem with the bounce warning is fixed due to the alteration sugested in the master.cf Now I have another one. The mailq clogs up with bounces. I have altered main.cf and added the line local_recipient_maps = but with no result. What could be wrong. I installed a

Re: Postfix log warning

2008-08-05 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
Ken Hathaway wrote: First off I don't think this is a postfix problem. I'm hoping someone here has seen something similar and can help me out. Google so far has turned up nothing for me. :( I get this same warning from gmail, yahoo & live. The email goes straight the the junk email folder o

Postfix log warning

2008-08-05 Thread Ken Hathaway
First off I don't think this is a postfix problem. I'm hoping someone here has seen something similar and can help me out. Google so far has turned up nothing for me. :( I get this same warning from gmail, yahoo & live. The email goes straight the the junk email folder on all of these systems. :(

poor perfomance for multiple-recipient emails

2008-08-05 Thread Aaron Bennett
Hello, I'm experiencing very poor performance on receipt of email with large numbers of multiple recipients. One particular listserv for example sends emails to 1600+ users in chunks of 50-60 per message. Users are either local (maildir) or forwarded. We do have three ldap maps in each rec

Re: Question about Bounces

2008-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Wietse Venema wrote: Richard Wolterink: Aug 5 18:37:36 vps683 postfix/bounce[15429]: warning: unexpected attribute W from bounce socket (expecting: nrequest) Aug 5 18:37:36 vps683 postfix/bounce[15429]: warning: malformed request In master.cf you have turned on the wakeup timer for the boun

Re: Question about Bounces

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Richard Wolterink: > Aug 5 18:37:36 vps683 postfix/bounce[15429]: warning: unexpected > attribute W from bounce socket (expecting: nrequest) > Aug 5 18:37:36 vps683 postfix/bounce[15429]: warning: malformed request In master.cf you have turned on the wakeup timer for the bounce service. See: m

Question about Bounces

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Wolterink
Hello Postfix-users Sorry for being so rude for being a new member and immediately sending a pleed for help. I have been surfing the internet for serveral days now, searching for information on the problem I am having. I use postfix on several linux servers and I am very pleased with how w

Re: log file help

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Ebbe Hjorth: > Hi, > > On of my users asked me about, why she got an error sending mail with > attachment in squirrelmail, i dont know - but the thing i want to ask you > about, is that the reciever got 2 emails, one with no attachments and one > with. Postfix cannot remove attachments.

log file help

2008-08-05 Thread Ebbe Hjorth
Hi, On of my users asked me about, why she got an error sending mail with attachment in squirrelmail, i dont know - but the thing i want to ask you about, is that the reciever got 2 emails, one with no attachments and one with. cat /var/log/maillog | grep [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aug 5 14:51:09 yyy01

RE: spam status with postfix ( thank you )

2008-08-05 Thread Darin McGee
the class C network of each host successfully getting spam into my inbox. I'm down to less than 5 a day again. :) Give it a shot. It doesn't take much time at all and the results are well worth the effort. Stan __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signatur

Re: postfix 2.5.1: smtp_sasl_tls_verified_security_options non-functional?

2008-08-05 Thread Matthias Andree
Victor Duchovni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:21:09PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > >> > > smtp_sasl_tls_verified_security_options apparently stopped working after >> > > the upgrade. >> > >> > There has never been an official release where this feature is fully >> >

Re: lmtp port in 2.1.5 vs 2.3.8

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Rudy Gevaert: > Hi, > > Previously we were running postfix 2.1.5 (Debian Sarge) and now have > upgraded to 2.3.8 (Etch). > > We have several lmtp transports in master.cf: > > mail1 unix - - n - - lmtp > mail2 unix - - n - - l

Re: sasl parameters missing

2008-08-05 Thread Daniel Black
Thanks Wietse, On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 09:30:44 am Wietse Venema wrote: > Postfix passes the information in the SMTP client's AUTH command. > This is how I got the Dovecot extension from Timo. If someone is > willing to monitor his docs for changes, it seems fairly stable. Going off the doc/auth-proto

Re: spam status with postfix ( thank you )

2008-08-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Richard Foley wrote: This mail is just FYI and by way of saying: "postfix and friends do a great job - many thanks!" Hi Richard, I second your sentiments and would like to shout out a big thank you to Wietse for creating Postfix! I was at about the same point you are now for mo

Re: Whitelist a host using check_client_access before the rbl check?

2008-08-05 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:40:54PM -0400, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 12:29:34PM -0400, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: >> A *better* way is force them to Authenticate using SASL. See http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html >

Re: Problem sending to email, getting sender verify failed

2008-08-05 Thread Charles Marcus
On 8/4/2008 9:10 PM, fajar wrote: Why are you using sender verification? You should NOT use SAV for all messages, only for messages destined to domains that you control or have already gotten permission to do SAV for, or you WILL evenutally get blacklisted. Please post postconf -n output... T

lmtp port in 2.1.5 vs 2.3.8

2008-08-05 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi, Previously we were running postfix 2.1.5 (Debian Sarge) and now have upgraded to 2.3.8 (Etch). We have several lmtp transports in master.cf: mail1 unix - - n - - lmtp mail2 unix - - n - - lmtp mail3 unix - -

Re: Postfix anormal DNS lookup ?

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Seblu: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > Hello, > > i use postfix postfix 2.5.1 on an OpenBSD 4.3 and i have a stange > behaviour (for me) with DNS lookup in logs. > > i've a local dns, which resolv 192.42.42.1 to toto.titi > > # host 192.42.42.1 > 1.42.42.192.in-addr.arpa doma

Re: Postfix Pipe Error

2008-08-05 Thread Wietse Venema
Tait Grove: > Why would I be getting this error message? I am experiencing message delays > with this too. > > > > Aug 4 22:46:56 app1 postfix/pipe[54935]: fatal: watchdog timeout > > Aug 4 22:48:21 app1 postfix/pipe[54454]: fatal: watchdog timeout > > Aug 4 22:50:22 app1 postfix/pipe[5554

spam status with postfix ( thank you )

2008-08-05 Thread Richard Foley
Hi all, When I first ran postfix, on my own machine instead of having my mail hosted by an ISP, the set up was as it came 'out of the box' - I was absolutely swamped by spam, probably one every second or two - and I almost panicked when I saw what a horrendous volume of crap I was recieving. A

RE: Postfix Pipe Error

2008-08-05 Thread Tait Grove
Why would I be getting this error message? I am experiencing message delays with this too. Aug 4 22:46:56 app1 postfix/pipe[54935]: fatal: watchdog timeout Aug 4 22:48:21 app1 postfix/pipe[54454]: fatal: watchdog timeout Aug 4 22:50:22 app1 postfix/pipe[55545]: fatal: watchdog timeout Aug