testing pipelining

Hi List, Is there a command line trick to test pipelining? We found some very old mail servers (non postfix btw) which don't seem to properly support pipelining, although they EHLO greet with the PIPELINING extention I haven't been able to find a way to enforce actual pipelining via s

Re: testing pipelining

Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL: > Hi List, > > Is there a command line trick to test pipelining? No, but you could use Postfix instead. Sometimes the problem is not with the SMTP server itself, but with a %#^#&% firewall that mis-implements the protocol. With pipelining, multiple commands a

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

Victor, On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:36:49AM -0400, Brian Pribis wrote: > >complain to the provider of your MUA. > >In any case, this thread is closed, the issue has > NOTHING to do with Postfix. You can explore the semantics of your MUA >

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

On 22/09/2010 13:40, Brian Pribis wrote: Here is the virtual: c...@letterpress.cc brian brian is a real live unix account on this system, and mail does indeed get to this account. If I email from ANY MUA to c...@letterpress.cc FROM br...@boxcarpress.com and hit reply-all I get: TO = br...@bo

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

Mark, Thank you for looking at this. The first two are sent from thunderbird and picked up by thunderbird. The second two are sent through gmail and picked up by thunderbird. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Mark Goodge wrote: > On 22/09/2010 13:40, Brian Pribis wrote: > 1. Sent from br...@b

Re: testing pipelining

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 02:17:40PM +0200, Kammen van, Marco, Springer SBM NL wrote: > Is there a command line trick to test pipelining? swaks (http://jetmore.org/john/code/swaks/) can do pipelining. swaks --pipeline -f ulr...@topfen.net -t ulr...@topfen.net It's a perl program, so I do

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

On 09/22/2010 01:22 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: >> On 09/21/2010 10:57 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: Since yesterday I am experiencing big problems when delivering mail to an alias-list. (Yes, I have set up an owner-listname alias. :-)) T

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: > The file contains: > 8< > x...@gmail.com > \lhock Your loop does not reproduce. With this in my own .forward file: /dev/null \wietse Sending mail to wietse results in one copy to /dev/null and one copy to the mailbox file, an

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

On 09/22/2010 05:20 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: >> The file contains: >> 8< >> x...@gmail.com >> \lhock > > Your loop does not reproduce. I know. :( I don't think that the .forward file or its format are causing the problems. I

Re: How to log/archive full outgoing mails including BCC info?

On 09/22/2010 08:17 AM, Yang Zhang wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 03:41:11PM -0700, Yang Zhang wrote: That's what it does - it generates u...@domain@bcc.invalid - but I was looking for something that preserves the BCC headers.

Re: Virtual users pop3d suggestions

On 09/22/2010 02:22 AM, Noel Butler wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:47 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Thanks, we have over the weekend ran two testbeds at full thrashing with

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: > I can smoothly send mails directly to the users with the problematic > .forward files. (Directly as opposed to sending via the list-address.) It also behaves as expected when I include "wietse" (with /dev/null and \wietse in my .forward file) in an alias, whether or not

Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix vs. sendmail?

On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Jay G. Scott wrote: they haven't started shouting yet, but i sense it's coming. i don't think i need to be exhaustive. but right now i don't have anything i can use to win this argument, objectively, anyway. And ed is the standard editor, and has a great memory foo

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

On 09/22/2010 01:22 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: >> On 09/21/2010 10:57 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: >>> Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: Since yesterday I am experiencing big problems when delivering mail to an alias-list. (Yes, I have set up an owner-listname alias. :-)) >>

Return-path header

Hi Guys, I need to set the return-path header of all my outgoing mail with an specific e-mail address Is there any way to do this with postfix ? Thanks Alexandre

Re: Return-path header

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:06:34PM -0300, Alexandre Pires wrote: > Hi Guys, I need to set the return-path header of all my outgoing mail with an > specific e-mail address Is there any way to do this with postfix ? Set the envelope sender address. There is no "Return-Path" in transit, the header

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

> >>> Do you have the RIGHT owner-listname alias. > I am using alias_maps: > > # postconf | grep ldap > alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-aliases.cf, > ldap:/etc/postfix/ldap-groups.cf > > My owner- address is defined in hash:/etc/aliases and my list address in > ldap:/etc/po

thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

RE: metrics for objective postfix vs. sendmail Hi, thanks to all who replied. i was going to summarize, but, then i realized i'm not an authority and should leave that to others, like Victor Duchovni. anyhoo, i'm gonna call this one done. i'm committed to switching to postfix. (i already wa

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

On 09/22/2010 04:53 PM, Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth wrote: > On 09/22/2010 01:22 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: >> Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: >>> On 09/21/2010 10:57 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: > Since yesterday I am experiencing big problems when delivering mail to > an a

Re: Forwarding emails, quick question

Le 22/09/2010 14:40, Brian Pribis a écrit : Victor, On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:36:49AM -0400, Brian Pribis wrote: complain to the provider of your MUA. In any case, this thread is closed, the issue has NOTHING to do with Postfix. You

Re: Virtual users pop3d suggestions

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 09/22/2010 02:22 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:47 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Seth Mattinen > wrote: > > > > > Thanks, we have over the weekend ran two testbeds at full thr

Re: Virtual users pop3d suggestions

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Noel Butler wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:47 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Seth Mattinen > wrote: > > > > > Thanks, we have over the weekend ran two testbeds at full thrashing with in > house written scripts, the timing

Re: thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

On 09/22/2010 09:57 PM, Jay G. Scott wrote: (at my site) spam arrives in big slugs. when a big slug arrives sendmail will bog down--what wouldn't? A properly configured postfix 2.7+ with postscreen wouldn't. AFAIK your stated problem is exactly why postscreen was developed: to keep k

Re: Virtual users pop3d suggestions

On 09/23/2010 12:01 AM, Nick Edwards wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Jeroen Geilman > wrote: On 09/22/2010 02:22 AM, Noel Butler wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 16:47 +1000, Nick Edwards wrote: On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Seth Mattinen ma

Re: Return-path header

Thanks Viktor, but how can I set envelop sender address in postfix ? Thanks Alexandre - Original Message - From: "Victor Duchovni" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:13 PM Subject: Re: Return-path header On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:06:34PM -0300, Alexandre Pires wrote: Hi G

Re: Problem with postfix-dnswl-permit (Was Re: REJECT mails to a specific domain -> ERROR mail to postmaster)

Le 22/09/2010 03:57, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : Wietse Venema put forth on 9/21/2010 10:12 AM: Michael Weissenbacher: Hi Wietse! Michael Weissenbacher: Sep 21 15:04:58 smtp1 postfix/smtpd[14679]: warning: unknown smtpd restriction: "med" That is also a configuration error. This error was re

Re: postfix/local: Too many open files when opening .forward

Alexander 'Leo' Bergolth: > Ah! The problem seems to be the duplicate_filter_limit! > > I set it to 1 and now everything works fine! For the last time, you really should use the proper owner- alias when delivering mail to a list. Then, one local(8) process will never attempt to deliver more t

Re: thanks-- Re: metrics to show benefits of postfix

Jeroen Geilman put forth on 9/22/2010 5:06 PM: > I don't know if anybody has run tests of this yet (it's still kinda > new), but it would be instructive to compare a "regular" postfix setup > (pre-postscreen) to a postscreen setup with fairly strict settings, with > respect to the load when a larg