Re: Mails stuck in incoming queue

2009-05-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 10:16:51AM +0530, ram wrote: The pickup process is not responsible for moving mail out of the incoming queue. If mail is stuck in maildrop, then debug pickup. http://www.postfix.org/QSHAPE_README.html#queues Sorry, I had not fully read the architecture. If

Re: Postfix 2.6.0-RC3 and 2.7-20090428 available

2009-05-07 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:26:50PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:40 AM -0400 Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Postfix 2.6 stable release candidate 3 is available. If this has no problems, then Postfix 2.6.0 will happen soon. The same code is

Re: Postfix 2.6.0-RC3 and 2.7-20090428 available

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Landry
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 03:26:50PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote: --On Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:40 AM -0400 Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org wrote: Postfix 2.6 stable release candidate 3 is available. If this has no problems, then Postfix 2.6.0 will happen

Redundant relayhost

2009-05-07 Thread albertvd
Hello, In our office we have a Postfix server which takes care of delivering email inside and outside the office. For Internet mail it relays mail through the ISP SMTP server. For this the relayhost parameter has been set to relayhost=smtp.isp.tld. We have a redundant Internet connection

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/6/2009 10:45 PM, Sahil Tandon wrote: Show entire output instead of snippets via grep. Sorry... I didn't provide the full output because this config has been vetted here before, and this specific config weakness that was exploited had already been pointed out, but obviously you don't know

Recommendation For Postfix Mailboxes

2009-05-07 Thread Carlos Williams
I am starting a new mail server for the company (CentOS 5.3 + Postfix) and was wondering what the best recommendation for user mailboxes are? I was once told by someone here that we should create a MySQL database / user structure on the mail server so each user is virtual or listed in MySQL

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Noel Jones
Charles Marcus wrote: Now, I'm honestly asking for help here... my server was intentionally ATTACKED by this asshat simply because I rejected mail from him, and if I hadn't just happened to be sitting here and noticed it within 3 minutes, there's no telling how much damage might have been done.

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/7/2009 9:05 AM, Noel Jones wrote: I see no obvious problems in your config. Unless I'm missing something: Yes, I think you are missing something (see below)... ;) - you can't control what other people send, or how often they send it. - rejecting messages is a relatively low-overhead

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Noel Jones
Charles Marcus wrote: On 5/7/2009 9:05 AM, Noel Jones wrote: The problem is the , 42 minutes later (after those 2 rejects), I started receiving actual messages with a subject of 'UCE AND ABUSE IDENTIFIED' (again, example with full headers attached), to the tune of 1-2 per second, delivered to my

Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread LuKreme
I changed all my delivery mailboxes over to Maildir with procmail as the LDA, but I am still seeing lines that begin with 'From ' being rewritten to 'From ' My list account is a local account and procmail is invoked via the mailbox_command: mailbox_command = /usr/local/bin/procmail -t -a

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread LuKreme
oops.. sent before compelte: On 7-May-2009, at 07:53, LuKreme wrote: (doing a grep on a virtual user I got a result of: cur/ 1228061198 .M123110P48822V0054I00769D49_41.mail.covisp.net,S=2584:2,RS:From predictions to (no escaping) searching the list mail I find:

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Charles Marcus
On 5/7/2009, Noel Jones (njo...@megan.vbhcs.org) wrote: But I'd still like to understand the mechanism involved, and what this guy did to trigger this flood of messages... A broken autoresponder? I wasn't sending him anything to respond to (other than the smtp rejects). Broken content

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread Wietse Venema
LuKreme: I changed all my delivery mailboxes over to Maildir with procmail as the LDA, but I am still seeing lines that begin with 'From ' being rewritten to 'From ' You need to verify that the is added by Postfix, not by some upstream system. Wietse

Re: Recommendation For Postfix Mailboxes

2009-05-07 Thread Carlos Williams
Thanks all. I think with less than 300 users security not being a huge deal since I set everyone's shell to /sbin/nologin.

Re: Recommendation For Postfix Mailboxes

2009-05-07 Thread LuKreme
On May 7, 2009, at 8:38, Carlos Williams carlosw...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks all. I think with less than 300 users security not being a huge deal since I set everyone's shell to /sbin/nologin. The main reason I setup almost all my users as virtual is to allow them to configure aliases and

Re: Postfix 2.6.0-RC3 and 2.7-20090428 available

2009-05-07 Thread Quanah Gibson-Mount
--On Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:52 AM -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: Although the download link is correct, the text is wrong: Postfix 2.6.0 stable release candidate 2 rather than Postfix 2.6.0 stable release candidate 3

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread LuKreme
On 7-May-2009, at 08:29, Wietse Venema wrote: LuKreme: I changed all my delivery mailboxes over to Maildir with procmail as the LDA, but I am still seeing lines that begin with 'From ' being rewritten to 'From ' You need to verify that the is added by Postfix, not by some upstream system.

Re: Setting up localhost and configuring a single user for a test environment

2009-05-07 Thread Bill Cole
Jonathan McMahon wrote, On 5/4/09 11:37 PM: My email timed out and truncated the subject line... I'm trying to set up an extremely basic mailserver on Leopard 10.5 in order to check the behavior of some PHP scripts. Nothing fancy needed - I just want to send and receive mail to/from myself

Re: Postfix 2.6.0-RC3 and 2.7-20090428 available

2009-05-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Quanah Gibson-Mount: --On Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:52 AM -0700 Bill Landry b...@inetmsg.com wrote: Although the download link is correct, the text is wrong: Postfix 2.6.0 stable release candidate 2 I have fixed the text this morning (the hyperlinks already said RC3). Wietse

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread Wietse Venema
LuKreme: On 7-May-2009, at 08:29, Wietse Venema wrote: LuKreme: I changed all my delivery mailboxes over to Maildir with procmail as the LDA, but I am still seeing lines that begin with 'From ' being rewritten to 'From ' You need to verify that the is added by Postfix, not by some

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Wietse Venema
Rik: That's the problem Charles. When you abuse people on lists *thinking* you are some kind of expert, and then get caught with your pants down on the basics you have to see the funny side. I'll tell you what you need to fix if you apologise to me and call me Sir. Enough. This thread is

Re: Question re: blocking unwanted senders

2009-05-07 Thread Rik
Actually, yes it is but to keep you happy I withdraw the public offer to show Charles how to set up his Postfix properly. Perhaps you can help him instead Wietse. On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 14:47 -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Rik: That's the problem Charles. When you abuse people on lists *thinking*

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread LuKreme
On May 7, 2009, at 12:18, wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: LuKreme: On 7-May-2009, at 08:29, Wietse Venema wrote: LuKreme: I changed all my delivery mailboxes over to Maildir with procmail as the LDA, but I am still seeing lines that begin with 'From ' being rewritten to 'From '

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread mouss
LuKreme a écrit : On May 7, 2009, at 12:18, wie...@porcupine.org (Wietse Venema) wrote: LuKreme: On 7-May-2009, at 08:29, Wietse Venema wrote: LuKreme: I changed all my delivery mailboxes over to Maildir with procmail as the LDA, but I am still seeing lines that begin with 'From ' being

Re: Configuring SMTP Auth with SASL + MySQL for virtual domains

2009-05-07 Thread mouss
Gurunandan R. Bhat a écrit : Hi, I am configuring Virtual domains and mailboxes on CentOS 5.5 using MySQL for data maps and SASL for SMTP Auth. As far as I can say, I have followed The Book of Postfix. Dovecot and Postfix both use the same tables for authentication and POP

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread Noel Jones
LuKreme wrote: The only difference is one is local(8) and one is pipe(8). did you try: mail_spool_directory = /var/mail/ http://www.postfix.org/local.8.html -- Noel Jones

keep recipient_bcc_maps from picking up aliases in virtual_alias_maps

2009-05-07 Thread J.P. Trosclair
Is it possible to avoid recipient_bcc_maps picking up aliases in the virtual_alias_maps table? I have a pcre recipient_bcc_map entry that catches an entire domain and forwards it in such a way that the transports table hands it to my archivemail transport: # cat recipient_bcc

Re: keep recipient_bcc_maps from picking up aliases in virtual_alias_maps

2009-05-07 Thread Wietse Venema
J.P. Trosclair: Is it possible to avoid recipient_bcc_maps picking up aliases in the virtual_alias_maps table? No. Wietse

Re: Escaping '^From ' in the body

2009-05-07 Thread LuKreme
On 7-May-2009, at 16:01, mouss wrote: procmail isn't part of postfix. so test without procmail. If I send a message to a non-procmail enabled account, it delivers to a mbox file in $HOME/Maildir/ with a name like msg.Dv4Z. On 7-May-2009, at 16:07, Noel Jones wrote: LuKreme wrote: The