Re: Performance issue about maildir path.

2008-12-14 Thread Zhang Huangbin
Wietse Venema wrote: Zhang Huangbin: Hi, all. Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir path, if i change them to hash style, e.g. 'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir', will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 1 users, which maildir path style w

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, December 13, 2008 18:50, mouss wrote: > Last time you showed it, you did not have zen in your config. blocking forged senders is diff then use a rbl check -- Benny Pedersen Need more webspace ? http://www.servage.net/?coupon=cust37098

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Sat, December 13, 2008 16:08, Roland Plüss wrote: > The problem is that it doesn't seem to work neither the way > mentioned in the threads nor adding the dns bypass... > I've got again 20 of those same spam shit in my inbox today. > It's going on my nerves. Is there no way to stop this? http:/

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread mouss
Roland Plüss a écrit : >> There is no "dns bypass". I did not tell you to edit /etc/hosts. I told >> you to run the following command: >> >> host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org >> >> in short, connect to your postfix server and in the terminal, type the >> line above, hit "ENTER" and see what the syste

Re: Success with RBL lookups

2008-12-14 Thread mouss
Chris Turan a écrit : > Hey All, > > Thanks to all for the suggestions so far. I've enabled RBL looks on my > MX gateways using the the tips so far. I have to report an overwhelming > success. Nearly all of my spam is blocked in the SMTP transaction. Very > few spams make it past smtp and spama

Re: Success with RBL lookups

2008-12-14 Thread Sahil Tandon
Chris Turan wrote: > Thanks to all for the suggestions so far. I've enabled RBL looks on my > MX gateways using the the tips so far. I have to report an overwhelming > success. Nearly all of my spam is blocked in the SMTP transaction. Very > few spams make it past smtp and spamassassin cle

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Roland Plüss wrote: I know what host or nslookup is. I'm not stupid on that front. It gives 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.4 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.2 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org has address 127.0.0.10 It's just that you said they monitor the number of "dns

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread Jan P. Kessler
Roland Plüss schrieb: It's just that you said they monitor the number of "dns queries". Now by bypassing a query for the DNS I can put it locally on my machine so no queries for the DNS goes out to the net. Whatever I removed the line from /etc/hosts for testing but it still doesn't seem to work.

Success with RBL lookups

2008-12-14 Thread Chris Turan
Hey All, Thanks to all for the suggestions so far. I've enabled RBL looks on my MX gateways using the the tips so far. I have to report an overwhelming success. Nearly all of my spam is blocked in the SMTP transaction. Very few spams make it past smtp and spamassassin cleans up the rest.

Re: Postfix does not dot the i's when client sends gibberish

2008-12-14 Thread klondike
Victor Duchovni escribió: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:14:26AM +0100, klondike wrote: > > >> When I first wrote began this thread I did it thinking that knowing this >> issue, could be helpful. >> > > If your first post contains the word "bug" in the subject line, expect > to meet resistanc

Re: Performance issue about maildir path.

2008-12-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Zhang Huangbin: > Hi, all. > > Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir path, if > i change them to hash style, e.g. 'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir', > will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 1 users, > which maildir path style will improve per

Re: Performance issue about maildir path.

2008-12-14 Thread Sahil Tandon
Zhang Huangbin wrote: > Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir path, if > i change them to hash style, e.g. 'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir', > will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 1 users, > which maildir path style will improve performanc

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread Sahil Tandon
Roland Pl?ss wrote: > It's just that you said they monitor the number of "dns queries". Now by > bypassing a query for the DNS I can put it locally on my machine so no > queries for the DNS goes out to the net. If you inhibit DNS queries from going to the spamhaus server, you defeat the purpose

Performance issue about maildir path.

2008-12-14 Thread Zhang Huangbin
Hi, all. Normally, i use 'domain.ltd/username/Maildir' as users' maildir path, if i change them to hash style, e.g. 'A0/B0/domain.ltd/C0/D0/username/Maildir', will it speed up the index operation for MDA? If we have 1 users, which maildir path style will improve performance? Thanks very much

Re: How to replace Exim with Postfix question

2008-12-14 Thread mouss
Admin a écrit : > OK, I know I did something wrong here. I downloaded, compiled and > installed (I Thought) Postfix, and I THOUGHT it became my default MTA > but evidently not. > redhat systems have the "alternatives" program: # alternatives --set mta /path/to/postfix-sendmail > I am running

Re: fight spam problem: sender equal to receiver

2008-12-14 Thread Roland Plüss
> There is no "dns bypass". I did not tell you to edit /etc/hosts. I told > you to run the following command: > > host 2.0.0.127.zen.spamhaus.org > > in short, connect to your postfix server and in the terminal, type the > line above, hit "ENTER" and see what the system tells you. "host" is > simi

How to replace Exim with Postfix question

2008-12-14 Thread Admin
OK, I know I did something wrong here. I downloaded, compiled and installed (I Thought) Postfix, and I THOUGHT it became my default MTA but evidently not. I am running Centos 4.7 with cPanel., and I know this can be done, since I used to run a dedi that had that setup. If any one would be so

Re: pipe ${original_recipients} question

2008-12-14 Thread mouss
Ervin Hegedüs a écrit : > Hello List, > > I try to use ${original_recipients} in master.cf for an external > commands arguments as service. > > The Postfix pipe manual describes it: > > ${original_recipient} > This macro expands to the complete recipient > address before any addre

pipe ${original_recipients} question

2008-12-14 Thread Ervin Hegedüs
Hello List, I try to use ${original_recipients} in master.cf for an external commands arguments as service. The Postfix pipe manual describes it: ${original_recipient} This macro expands to the complete recipient address before any address rewriting or aliasing. Example:

Re: SMTP Authentication Question

2008-12-14 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Payne : > I am a bit slow on this, I got a client that won't let me change the way > mail working, but they want me to set up SMTP Authentication. How can I They want your mailserver to send SMTP Authentication data to their server? > do it so it work without cyrus or dovecot. I question wh