Re: Confirmation email with captcha

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Gabriel Hahmann gabriel.hahm...@gmail.com: Good morning, I'm looking for a tool that can handle confirmation emails with captcha and that works with postfix. The idea is, when somebody sends me an email and this address have never sent me any other mail, automatically the sender

Re: Confirmation email with captcha

2009-06-10 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 09:24:09 AM +0200, Gabriel Hahmann wrote: Good morning, I'm looking for a tool that can handle confirmation emails with captcha and that works with postfix. ... Using a tool like this I can stop all spam mail that arrives my inbox. Gabriel, tools like these are

stress_expire_time

2009-06-10 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
I scanned the Postfix documentation for stress_expire_time and could only find it in master_avail.c, where it is set to 1000s. So the stress recheck interval is 1000s, correct? Did I miss that in the official documentation? I believe it should be part of the official documentation. I can write a

Re: stress_expire_time

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Patrick Ben Koetter p...@state-of-mind.de: I scanned the Postfix documentation for stress_expire_time and could only find it in master_avail.c, where it is set to 1000s. So the stress recheck interval is 1000s, correct? Did I miss that in the official documentation? I believe it should

Can i define MX locally other than in DNS

2009-06-10 Thread Truth Seeker
Dear Pros' I am facing a problem in getting system generated mails to my local mailbox. let me explain the scenario. Postfix Mail Server --- Firewall --- External Mail Hosting example.comexternal.com To our internal Postfix Mail Server, we are receiving

Spamassasin in Postfix Server

2009-06-10 Thread Truth Seeker
Dear Pros. The following is my setup H.O ^ | | point to point | | Postfix--- Firewall --- External Mail Hosting Mail Server Postfix Mail Server (postfix-2.3.3-2) on CentOS 5.2; a. receives mails from local client via outlook and send to out side (internet) directly b.

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:52:32 -0700 Michael Wang postfix-u...@pandadesigns.com wrote: I've been running my current email system using Postfix 2.3.X since the end of 2006. It's a very small system since it's just my personal email on various domains I own. However I'm loathe to mess with it since

Re: reject_rbl_client config in map file?

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Harakiri harakiri...@yahoo.com: Is it possible to specify the blackhole servers in a separate file? I only found the option, that you specify reject_rbl_client in the main.cf multiple times. My problem is that i have a cluster of postfix servers and settings like transport map and relay

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Wang: I've been running my current email system using Postfix 2.3.X since the end of 2006. It's a very small system since it's just my personal email on various domains I own. However I'm loathe to mess with it since it has been running rock solid and it does have quite a few moving

Re: conversation with gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com timed out while sending end of data

2009-06-10 Thread Charles Marcus
On 6/10/2009 12:16 AM, June Qiu wrote: I can send short emails (1KB) from my mailserver (abc.domain.com) to gmail account (t...@gmail.com), but for larger emails (7KB), it fails. It gets deferred on the mail queue forever. But this same mail can be sent to yahoo. Am I missing something?

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Wang
Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Wang: [...snip...] Is 2.3 end-of-life coming any time soon? Updates for Postfix 2.2 stopped last year. So that sounds like 2.3 patches may end this year. Assuming that, I have (very) roughly 6 months + some unknown amount of time past that if or when a

Re: Impossible to send mail using SSL for SMTP connection.

2009-06-10 Thread Sthu Pous
Thank You for Your time and answer, Wietse: See my other reply. The server does not announce STARTTLS support. I got it already, also I have posted here my current configuration (postconf -n), could You please tell me what to edit, or how I can find the culprit?

Re: stress_expire_time

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Patrick Ben Koetter: I scanned the Postfix documentation for stress_expire_time and could only find it in master_avail.c, where it is set to 1000s. So the stress recheck interval is 1000s, correct? Yes, and this is not configurable. The benefits are less than the cost of having to explain

Re: Impossible to send mail using SSL for SMTP connection.

2009-06-10 Thread Sthu Pous
Thank You for Your time and answer, Rainer: 454 4.7.0 TLS not available due to local problem And what is the local problem? Some permissions? Read the log (and post it if you need help). I do not know why but now I get error: 502 5.5.1 Error: command not implemented on server side I

Re: Impossible to send mail using SSL for SMTP connection.

2009-06-10 Thread Rainer Frey
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:46:08 Sthu Pous wrote: Thank You for Your time and answer, Wietse: See my other reply. The server does not announce STARTTLS support. I got it already, also I have posted here my current configuration (postconf -n), could You please tell me what to edit, or how I

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Wang
Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Wang: Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Wang: [...snip...] Is 2.3 end-of-life coming any time soon? Updates for Postfix 2.2 stopped last year. So that sounds like 2.3 patches may end this year. I can't predict when that would happen. Updates for Postfix 2.3 will

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Wang: Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Wang: [...snip...] Is 2.3 end-of-life coming any time soon? Updates for Postfix 2.2 stopped last year. So that sounds like 2.3 patches may end this year. I can't predict when that would happen. Updates for Postfix 2.3 will cease when it

Re: Impossible to send mail using SSL for SMTP connection.

2009-06-10 Thread Rainer Frey (Inxmail GmbH)
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 14:00:28 Sthu Pous wrote: Read the log (and post it if you need help). I do not know why but now I get error: 502 5.5.1 Error: command not implemented on server side I see: lost connection after STARTTLS from unknown[1.2.3.4] Honestly, you don't sound like you

anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Jones
Hi folks, I have postfix 2.3.3 installed and have just found some info on Anvil(8) which looks like it should be good as part of my anti-spam implementation. I can see anvil in /usr/libexec/postfix/ but when i enable the config within main.cf smtpd_error_sleep_time = 1s and grep on maillog

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Jones
2009/6/10 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: * Simon Jones simonmjo...@gmail.com: Hi folks, I have postfix 2.3.3 installed and have just found some info on Anvil(8) which looks like it should be good as part of my anti-spam implementation.  I can see anvil in /usr/libexec/postfix/

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Terry Carmen
I have postfix 2.3.3 installed and have just found some info on Anvil(8) which looks like it should be good as part of my anti-spam implementation. I can see anvil in /usr/libexec/postfix/ but when i enable the config within main.cf smtpd_error_sleep_time = 1s and grep on maillog there's no

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Simon Jones simonmjo...@gmail.com: http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#conn_limit ok thanks - I added those to main.cf What EXACTLY did you add? but it still doesn't do anything, Of course it doesn't do anything per se! Shit needs to hit the fan before something happens. Did

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: Shit needs to hit the fan before something happens. Did you throw enough shit in the general direction of the fan to faicilitaty a hitting of the fan? If the shit doesn't hit the fan, Postfix will log some info - in my case every 10 minutes:

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Simon Jones
2009/6/10 Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de: * Simon Jones simonmjo...@gmail.com: http://www.postfix.org/TUNING_README.html#conn_limit ok thanks - I added those to main.cf What EXACTLY did you add? but it still doesn't do anything, Of course it doesn't do anything per se!

Re: anvil

2009-06-10 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Simon Jones simonmjo...@gmail.com: This is the part I'm missing, how do I enable the shit flinger? You COULD use smtp_source OR your could set ridiculous low limits (1/60s) and then test it manually using telnet. Keep in mind, though: smtpd_client_event_limit_exceptions = $mynetworks

Re: Confirmation email with captcha

2009-06-10 Thread Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
Hello, M. Fioretti wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 09:24:09 AM +0200, Gabriel Hahmann wrote: Good morning, ... if you aren't convinced yet, there is also http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/cr/index.html If you're still not yet convinced, take a look at w3.org opinion :

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Michael Wang postfix-u...@pandadesigns.com: Gerard wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:52:32 -0700 Michael Wang postfix-u...@pandadesigns.com wrote: I've been running my current email system using Postfix 2.3.X since the end of 2006. It's a very small system since it's just my personal

RE: Can i define MX locally other than in DNS

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
You didn't specify enough details. What firewall you are using, what your DNS servers run, etc. But, I had a similar situation at my last company. We were using BIND for DNS and setup a different view for the firewall. That may be one option. It may be a better option just to setup a rule on

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread J Sloan
Michael Wang wrote: Wietse Venema wrote: Michael Wang: [...snip...] Is 2.3 end-of-life coming any time soon? Updates for Postfix 2.2 stopped last year. So that sounds like 2.3 patches may end this year. Assuming that, I have (very) roughly 6 months + some unknown amount of time past that

Re: Should I upgrade from 2.3.X?

2009-06-10 Thread LuKreme
On 10-Jun-2009, at 03:52, Michael Wang wrote: I've been running my current email system using Postfix 2.3.X since the end of 2006. It's a very small system since it's just my personal email on various domains I own. However I'm loathe to mess with it since it has been running rock solid and

Re: Confirmation email with captcha

2009-06-10 Thread LuKreme
On 10-Jun-2009, at 01:24, Gabriel Hahmann wrote: I'm looking for a tool that can handle confirmation emails with captcha and that works with postfix. The idea is, when somebody sends me an email and this address have never sent me any other mail, automatically the sender receives a message with

RE: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
-Original Message- From: Wietse Venema [mailto:wie...@porcupine.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:00 PM To: Michael Glenney Cc: postfix-us...@cloud9.net Subject: Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all Michael Glenney: I have a request from one of our

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Glenney: -Original Message- From: Wietse Venema [mailto:wie...@porcupine.org] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 4:00 PM To: Michael Glenney Cc: postfix-us...@cloud9.net Subject: Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all Michael Glenney: I have a

RE: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
I told you to use a virtual alias MAP. I did not tell you to use a virtual alias DOMAIN. My example requires that you can already receive mail at u...@example.com. Never will Postfix create an account just because you send mail to it. See http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html if

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Glenney: I set it up as a map as you specified. And you failed to create the destination email account first. My example requires that the address u...@example.com as used in the example already works. /etc/postfix/main.cf virtual_alias_maps = static:u...@example.com

Re: Confirmation email with captcha

2009-06-10 Thread brian moore
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:40:58 -0600 LuKreme krem...@kreme.com wrote: This is known as a Prove You Love Me scheme and is, essentially, offloading your spam problems onto everyone else who sends you mail. You will find a LOT of people are pissed off by these PYLM emails, and will not reply.

RE: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
-Original Message- From: Wietse Venema [mailto:wie...@porcupine.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:20 PM To: Michael Glenney Cc: postfix-us...@cloud9.net Subject: Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all Michael Glenney: I set it up as a map as you specified.

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
This would be a good time to confess you are using my virtual alias and sending mail to another virtual alias. Don't do that. Your catch-all destination needs to be a non-virtual address. Wietse

Re: reject_rbl_client config in map file?

2009-06-10 Thread mouss
Harakiri a écrit : --- On Wed, 6/10/09, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: From: Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de Subject: Re: reject_rbl_client config in map file? To: postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 6:45 AM * Harakiri

Re: Can i define MX locally other than in DNS

2009-06-10 Thread mouss
Truth Seeker a écrit : Dear Pros' I am facing a problem in getting system generated mails to my local mailbox. let me explain the scenario. Postfix Mail Server --- Firewall --- External Mail Hosting example.comexternal.com To our internal Postfix

Challenge-response [Was: Confirmation email with captcha]

2009-06-10 Thread mouss
Ralf Hildebrandt a écrit : * Gábor Lénárt l...@lgb.hu: This is a backscatter source and will get you blacklisted in no time. Hmm, what would be if someone use a policy server, rejecting the mail with the link for the captcha URL in it. That sound interesting. It could work! It definitely

RE: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
This would be a good time to confess you are using my virtual alias and sending mail to another virtual alias. Don't do that. Your catch-all destination needs to be a non-virtual address. Wietse After this message I was starting to think you were just some guy who's screwing with

Re: reject_rbl_client config in map file?

2009-06-10 Thread Noel Jones
mouss wrote: Harakiri a écrit : --- On Wed, 6/10/09, Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de wrote: From: Ralf Hildebrandt ralf.hildebra...@charite.de Subject: Re: reject_rbl_client config in map file? To: postfix-users@postfix.org Date: Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 6:45 AM * Harakiri

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed June 10 2009 17:50:34 Michael Glenney wrote: After this message I was starting to think you were just some guy who's screwing with me. Then I took a second and googled your name :) I guess I'm not coming across as genuine if you feel I'm deceiving you in some way. I'll give this one

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Noel Jones
Michael Glenney wrote: -Original Message- From: Wietse Venema [mailto:wie...@porcupine.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 1:20 PM To: Michael Glenney Cc: postfix-us...@cloud9.net Subject: Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all Michael Glenney: I set it up as a map as

RE: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
-Original Message- From: Noel Jones [mailto:njo...@megan.vbhcs.org] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 4:09 PM To: Michael Glenney; postfix users list Subject: Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all Michael Glenney wrote: -Original Message- From: Wietse

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Michael Glenney: Can Postfix do this?: Yes, but it does not help when you add a virtual alias DOMAIN, when I ask you to add only a virtual alias MAP. Wietse

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Noel Jones
/dev/rob0 wrote: On Wed June 10 2009 17:50:34 Michael Glenney wrote: After this message I was starting to think you were just some guy who's screwing with me. Then I took a second and googled your name :) I guess I'm not coming across as genuine if you feel I'm deceiving you in some way.

RE: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Glenney
Yes, but it does not help when you add a virtual alias DOMAIN, when I ask you to add only a virtual alias MAP. Wietse Wietse, sorry my last reply went straight to you. Forgot to change the addresses. Wanted to post here in case anyone else has this issue though it's a strange

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Noel Jones: Don't bash OP too hard. He got bit by the interaction of the default value of virtual_alias_domains = $virtual_alias_maps and a static map in virtual_alias_maps. That made every domain match the virtual_alias_domains lookup. Just a funny interaction with a seldom-used

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread /dev/rob0
On Wed June 10 2009 18:28:44 Noel Jones wrote: Don't bash OP too hard. He got bit by the interaction of the default value of virtual_alias_domains = $virtual_alias_maps and a static map in virtual_alias_maps. That made every domain match the virtual_alias_domains lookup. Just a funny

Upgrade TOTAL screw-up - Part One

2009-06-10 Thread William Michael
Long story - but to jump to end I changed platforms (Debian etch which I am no comfortable with yet - from SuSE 6.2 system that serverely ate itself with a heat spell) I followed an ISP online how-to guide to set up the perfect debian ISP server (I am NOT an ISP - but I do let family and

Re: handling non MX entry domains

2009-06-10 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 09 Jun 2009, Terry Carmen wrote: i agree. But now i have to do it with postsuper -d QUEUE_ID in this situation how can i notify the user? i believe there will be somehow a way to inform the user!!! There is no automatic notification for postsuper -d. If you want to notify

Re: Upgrade TOTAL screw-up - Part One

2009-06-10 Thread William Michael
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, William Michael wrote: Long story - but to jump to end I changed platforms (Debian etch which I am no comfortable with yet - from SuSE 6.2 system that serverely ate itself with a heat spell)

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Noel Jones: Don't bash OP too hard. He got bit by the interaction of the default value of virtual_alias_domains = $virtual_alias_maps and a static map in virtual_alias_maps. That made every domain match the virtual_alias_domains lookup. Just a funny interaction

Re: Upgrade TOTAL screw-up - Part One

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Wang
William Michael wrote: Long story - but to jump to end I changed platforms (Debian etch which I am no comfortable with yet - from SuSE 6.2 system that serverely ate itself with a heat spell) I followed an ISP online how-to guide to set up the perfect debian ISP server (I am NOT an ISP -

Re: Need to create a mail dead-end or super catch-all

2009-06-10 Thread Noel Jones
Wietse Venema wrote: Wietse Venema: Noel Jones: Don't bash OP too hard. He got bit by the interaction of the default value of virtual_alias_domains = $virtual_alias_maps and a static map in virtual_alias_maps. That made every domain match the virtual_alias_domains lookup. Just a funny