Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen: Is there a way to disambiguate between DNS timeouts and DNS errors, and discard the latter? Postfix is only the messenger of the bad news. When the server responds, Postfix acts accordingly. When the server

Message Size Limit Exceed

2009-07-14 Thread Jacky Chan
Hi all, I would like to ask if the size of message exceeds the one defined in main.cf, how can I configure Postfix to generate a bounce or error notice to user/admins? Thank you very much! Best, Jacky -- View this message in context:

Re: Wrong FQDN in From

2009-07-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, July 13, 2009 18:05, Jaime Kikpole wrote: When RT sends an email to me, it is coming from r...@atlas.cairodurham.org. I am trying to make that say r...@cns.cairodurham.org, instead. postconf -e 'myorigin=cns.cairodurham.org' postconf -e 'myhostname=atlas.cairodurham.org' more

Re: Wrong FQDN in From

2009-07-14 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Mon, July 13, 2009 19:34, Noel Jones wrote: Don't use a CNAME in a mail address. hmm i belived it was just for the mx to not be a cname ? -- xpoint

Re: Message Size Limit Exceed

2009-07-14 Thread Simon Waters
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:20:09 Jacky Chan wrote: I would like to ask if the size of message exceeds the one defined in main.cf, how can I configure Postfix to generate a bounce or error notice to user/admins? User? On our boxes it returns an appropriate error code to the sender (who is the

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Keld J?rn Simonsen: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Keld J?rn Simonsen: Is there a way to disambiguate between DNS timeouts and DNS errors, and discard the latter? Postfix is only the messenger of the bad news. When the server responds, Postfix acts

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 06:37:30AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:58:28PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Keld J?rn Simonsen: Is there a way to disambiguate between DNS timeouts and DNS errors, and discard the latter? Postfix is only the

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Blackman
On 14/7/09 12:10, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: OK, here goes: 1) The server replies with good news. Postfix replies with good news. 2) The server replies with bad news. Postfix replies with 5xx. 3) No server reply. Postfix replies with 4xx. Is this finally clear? Yes, thanks. But it seems

Re: Wrong FQDN in From

2009-07-14 Thread mouss
Jaime Kikpole a écrit : On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Victor Duchovnivictor.ducho...@morganstanley.com wrote: Don't use a CNAME in a mail address. Why not? After all, how would you handle vhosts if you can't send as the CNAME record? since when CNAME was needed for vhosts? alice

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Wietse Venema: Keld J_rn Simonsen: OK, here goes: 1) The server replies with good news. Postfix replies with good news. 2) The server replies with bad news. Postfix replies with 5xx. 3) No server reply. Postfix replies with 4xx. Is this finally clear? Yes,

fatal: garbage after ] in server description:

2009-07-14 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
Hi All, After adding a couple of hundred lines to transport.misc, these errors are popping up in the mail.log: Jul 14 04:09:14 servername postfix/smtp[22020]: fatal: garbage after ] in server description: [SEGBLOGR0008.springer-sbm.com],relay:[SEGBLOGR0008.springer -sbm.com] It's a

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:04:15AM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Wietse Venema: Keld J_rn Simonsen: OK, here goes: 1) The server replies with good news. Postfix replies with good news. 2) The server replies with bad news. Postfix replies with 5xx. 3) No server

scheduled queue

2009-07-14 Thread Ing. Davy Leon
Hi guys I have a question. Is that possible to make postfix keep messages bigger than let's say 500K in the queue for delivery at certain hours, let say night hours to save bandwith? Thanks in advance David

Best practices for port setup

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Haneda
Hello. I am looking for clarification on RFC 5068 3.2 or any related/ updated/replaced RFC's. Outside of those, general best practice ideas for moving forward would be appreciated. In regards to AUTH on ports 25 and 587, I was under the impression we should be trying to migrate all clients

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Wietse Venema
Keld J?rn Simonsen: Jul 14 00:11:58 rap postfix/smtpd[1054]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from rap.rap.dk[127.0.0.1]: 450 4.1.8 jets...@server30.reverya.com: Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=jets...@server30.reverya.com to=k...@localhost proto=ESMTP helo=rap.rap.dk Jul 14

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread mouss
Keld Jørn Simonsen a écrit : On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:24:10AM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: Well, still problems, but of the more understandable type. Jul 14 00:11:58 rap postfix/smtpd[1054]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from rap.rap.dk[127.0.0.1]: 450 4.1.8 jets...@server30.reverya.com:

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:55:39PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: Keld Jørn Simonsen: Jul 14 00:11:58 rap postfix/smtpd[1054]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from rap.rap.dk[127.0.0.1]: 450 4.1.8 jets...@server30.reverya.com: Sender address rejected: Domain not found;

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2009-07-14 Thread prophoto
Hi I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network concerned! I set out below 1. Details of test with abuse.net 2. maillog entries for the test 3. network requirements

Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread prophoto
Hi I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network concerned! I set out below 1. Details of test with abuse.net 2. maillog entries for the test 3. network requirements

Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread Terry Carmen
I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network concerned! I set out below 1. Details of test with abuse.net 2. maillog entries for the test 3. network requirements

re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread prophoto
dns1# postconf -n alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases command_directory = /usr/local/sbin config_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix

Should MX record name be same as hostname?

2009-07-14 Thread Tim Legg
Hello, Now that I have my local mail set up, I can let my domain name come up from hiding. When I run: # hostname -f genex.timothylegg.com and # dig timothylegg.com MX ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;timothylegg.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION: timothylegg.com.9220IN

Re: Should MX record name be same as hostname?

2009-07-14 Thread Scott Haneda
On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tim Legg wrote: ;; ANSWER SECTION: timothylegg.com.9220IN MX 10 mail.timothylegg.com. My hostname is genex.timothylegg.com on my machine and my MX record points to mail.timothylegg.com I was wondering if the MX record should point to the

Re: Should MX record name be same as hostname?

2009-07-14 Thread mouss
Tim Legg a écrit : Hello, Now that I have my local mail set up, I can let my domain name come up from hiding. When I run: # hostname -f genex.timothylegg.com and # dig timothylegg.com MX ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;timothylegg.com. IN MX ;; ANSWER SECTION:

Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread mouss
proph...@vizion.occoxmail.com a écrit : dns1# postconf -n alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases command_directory = /usr/local/sbin config_directory = /usr/local/etc/postfix daemon_directory

Re: Should MX record name be same as hostname?

2009-07-14 Thread Daniel L'Hommedieu
On Jul 14, 2009, at 15:32, Scott Haneda wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tim Legg wrote: ;; ANSWER SECTION: timothylegg.com.9220IN MX 10 mail.timothylegg.com. My hostname is genex.timothylegg.com on my machine and my MX record points to mail.timothylegg.com I

Re: Should MX record name be same as hostname?

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Daniel L'Hommedieu dlhommed...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 15:32, Scott Haneda wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Tim Legg wrote: ;; ANSWER SECTION: timothylegg.com.        9220    IN      MX      10 mail.timothylegg.com. My hostname is

Re: Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread prophoto
From: mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net Date: 2009/07/14 Tue PM 03:40:14 EDT To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Setting up postfix problems proph...@vizion.occoxmail.com a écrit : dns1# postconf -n alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases

Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread Aaron Wolfe
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, proph...@vizion.occoxmail.com wrote: Hi I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network concerned! I set out below 1. Details of test

Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread Brian Evans - Postfix List
proph...@vizion.occoxmail.com wrote: Hi I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my configuration correct to ensure there are no open relays. For obvious reasons I am not posting from the network concerned! I set out below 1. Details of test with abuse.net 2. maillog

consolidate multiple maillog files

2009-07-14 Thread Sanjay Saha
Hello, Is there any way we can consolidate multiple maillog files ( from single domain) but different hosts. I am trying to bring up mailgraph (http://mailgraph.schweikert.ch/) to read from one single source for log file. Since rrd tool is very strict about the records in the log it doesnt pick

Re: Re: Setting up postfix problems

2009-07-14 Thread prophoto
From: Brian Evans - Postfix List grkni...@scent-team.com Date: 2009/07/14 Tue PM 04:14:41 EDT To: postfix-users@postfix.org Subject: Re: Setting up postfix problems proph...@vizion.occoxmail.com wrote: Hi I am comparatively new to postfix and seem unable to get my configuration

Re: temporary errors for DNS

2009-07-14 Thread LuKreme
On 13-Jul-2009, at 16:24, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: Is there a way to disambiguate between DNS timeouts and DNS errors, and discard the latter? Why the devil would you want to discard mail based on a DNS error? DNS errors have a habit of being quite transient. -- Lithium will no longer be

Re: Message Size Limit Exceed

2009-07-14 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Jacky Chan wrote: I would like to ask if the size of message exceeds the one defined in main.cf, how can I configure Postfix to generate a bounce or error notice to user/admins? Why? Postfix replies with a 552 so the *client* can inform the envelope sender. -- Sahil

RE: fatal: garbage after ] in server description:

2009-07-14 Thread Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL
* Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL marco.vankam...@springer.com: Hi All, After adding a couple of hundred lines to transport.misc, these errors are popping up in the mail.log: Jul 14 04:09:14 servername postfix/smtp[22020]: fatal: garbage after ] in server description: