Re: Postfix SMTP server

2010-09-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* motty.cruz : > Hello, > When a client has a typo in the recipient email address it takes 5 days for > my SMTP server to notify that the user does not exist or was unable to > deliver email. Any idea where to change the option to make it more reliable. Please sho some logs of this behaviour. Is t

Re: What's done with malformed headers

2010-09-28 Thread Wietse Venema
Murray S. Kucherawy: > (If this would be better asked on postfix-devel, let me know and I'll repost > it there.) > > What does Postfix do with a message that has a malformed header? > If for example there's a header that's found to contain a line > whose first character is alphanumeric (thus not

Re: Submission on an additional port

2010-09-28 Thread Neil
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Charles Marcus wrote: > On 2010-09-28 6:04 AM, Neil wrote: > > I want to have postfix listen on an additional port (say 785) for SMTP > > submission by clients. > > You mean in *addition* to the submission port (587)? Or was that a typo > and you really want to lis

Re: :Re: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 28, 2010, at 9:42 PM, Troy Campbell wrote: > The first two lines were commented out but when I looked at the server that > used to host mail it was uncommented so I uncommented it on this new machine > and recreated the hash i.e., postmap hash:/etc/postfix/transport > this did not look

Re: Postfix SMTP server

2010-09-28 Thread pf at alt-ctrl-del.org
"Jeroen Geilman" wrote: On 09/28/2010 11:44 PM, motty.cruz wrote: Hello, When a client has a typo in the recipient email address it takes 5 days for my SMTP server to notify that the user does not exist or was unable to deliver email. Any idea where to change the option to make it more reliable

Re: Ldap multiple server_host config

2010-09-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
On Sep 28, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Jeroen Geilman wrote: > On 09/29/2010 02:35 AM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: >> >> greetings >> >> I was reading http://linux.die.net/man/5/ldap_table and was trying to get a >> clear picture of what the config would look like, and is postmap required? > > server_hos

Re: Ldap multiple server_host config

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/29/2010 02:35 AM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: greetings I was reading http://linux.die.net/man/5/ldap_table and was trying to get a clear picture of what the config would look like, and is postmap required? *server_host (default: localhost)* The name of the host running the LDAP serve

Ldap multiple server_host config

2010-09-28 Thread donovan jeffrey j
greetings I was reading http://linux.die.net/man/5/ldap_table and was trying to get a clear picture of what the config would look like, and is postmap required? would this work server_host = 127.0.0.1 server_host = 192.168.1.1 server_host = 192.168.1.2 search_base = dc=my,dc=example,dc=com quer

Re: Postfix, POP/IMAP server, virtual users, web administration - what do you use?

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/28/2010 02:17 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 00:15 +0200, mouss wrote: Le 27/09/2010 13:25, Julien Vehent a écrit : On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:06:46 +0200, David Touzeau wrote: I'm interested in this topic also, if anybody knows an interface that jus

Re: What's done with malformed headers

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:46:17PM -0700, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > No, I didn't test it, because I don't have postfix installed anywhere > here. But even testing it doesn't mean my experiment nailed down the > actual source code logic or the background for it, hence the question. > The seco

Re: postfix message size

2010-09-28 Thread Sahil Tandon
Charles Marcus wrote: On 2010-09-27 6:00 PM, Jim McIver wrote: (message size 5414717 exceeds size limit 5242880 of server 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]) As already pointed out, this error is not from the postfix server, but from the client... Correct. Are you submitting this message via a webmail c

Re: What's done with malformed headers

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:45:49PM -0700, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: > (If this would be better asked on postfix-devel, let me know and I'll repost > it there.) > > What does Postfix do with a message that has a malformed header? > If for example there's a header that's found to contain a line w

RE: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-28 Thread Troy Campbell
Below is the "postconf -n" output. Kindly cc me on any replies as I have "digest mode" on or unless someone can remind me how to turn off digest mode temporarily: [r...@request2 ~]# cat /tmp/file alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliaseshash:/etc/mailm

RE: What's done with malformed headers

2010-09-28 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
No, I didn't test it, because I don't have postfix installed anywhere here. But even testing it doesn't mean my experiment nailed down the actual source code logic or the background for it, hence the question. The absence of consensus in RFCs to date doesn't prevent the publication of a "best

Re: Postfix SMTP server

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/28/2010 11:44 PM, motty.cruz wrote: Hello, When a client has a typo in the recipient email address it takes 5 days for my SMTP server to notify that the user does not exist or was unable to deliver email. Any idea where to change the option to make it more reliable. Make *what* more

Re: Postfix SMTP server

2010-09-28 Thread Noel Jones
On 9/28/2010 4:44 PM, motty.cruz wrote: Hello, When a client has a typo in the recipient email address it takes 5 days for my SMTP server to notify that the user does not exist or was unable to deliver email. Any idea where to change the option to make it more reliable. When a user addresses m

Re: SPF and greylisting conditioning

2010-09-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mikael Bak put forth on 9/28/2010 4:25 AM: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Mikael Bak put forth on 9/27/2010 6:18 AM: >>> Stan Hoeppner wrote: Michal Bruncko put forth on 9/26/2010 4:24 AM: > It is possible in some way to configure postfix, that SPF Passed mails > will be automatically

Re: permit_mx_backup and virtual_alias_maps

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/29/2010 12:13 AM, Jonathan Thorpe wrote: Hi All, I am looking to migrate from an old Sendmail configuration to Postfix for secondary mail. The environment services hundreds of domains. The current configuration on Sendmail works as follows: 1. There are two mail servers - mx1 and mx2. 2.

Re: permit_mx_backup and virtual_alias_maps

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:13:52PM +, Jonathan Thorpe wrote: > On my current minimal Postfix configuration, I seem to be having > trouble getting this working. I'd like to be able to do the following: > > 1. Postfix first to look at the MX priority - if this server is the > primary, then handl

Re: What's done with malformed headers

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/28/2010 10:45 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: (If this would be better asked on postfix-devel, let me know and I'll repost it there.) What does Postfix do with a message that has a malformed header? If for example there's a header that's found to contain a line whose first character i

permit_mx_backup and virtual_alias_maps

2010-09-28 Thread Jonathan Thorpe
Hi All, I am looking to migrate from an old Sendmail configuration to Postfix for secondary mail. The environment services hundreds of domains. The current configuration on Sendmail works as follows: 1. There are two mail servers - mx1 and mx2. 2. For any service that has mailboxes, mx1 is confi

Re: SPF and greylisting conditioning

2010-09-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Henrik K put forth on 9/28/2010 12:28 AM: > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 03:12:01PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> >>> Snowshoe spam will most probably pass greylisting too. Better not >>> clutter greylisting database with useless things. Have the blacklists >>> block'em instead. >> >> I don't follow y

Postfix SMTP server

2010-09-28 Thread motty.cruz
Hello, When a client has a typo in the recipient email address it takes 5 days for my SMTP server to notify that the user does not exist or was unable to deliver email. Any idea where to change the option to make it more reliable. Thanks, Motty

Re: Configuring postfix to not reject sender address verification requests

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 22:41 +0200, mouss wrote: > SAV is not a default config. show us how you do SAV and what you want > to exclude from SAV. Not sure who you mean by "you". I don't do anything at all myself; my ISP (which happens to be the FSF's gnu.org mail server) does SAV and I've no idea ho

What's done with malformed headers

2010-09-28 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
(If this would be better asked on postfix-devel, let me know and I'll repost it there.) What does Postfix do with a message that has a malformed header? If for example there's a header that's found to contain a line whose first character is alphanumeric (thus not a continuation) but contains n

Re: Configuring postfix to not reject sender address verification requests

2010-09-28 Thread mouss
Le 28/09/2010 20:51, Paul Smith a écrit : Hi all. I've read a lot about how to get postfix to implement sender address verification (S.A.V.), but I have the opposite problem: an MTA (running postfix) that is sending me mail has broken S.A.V., and my local MTA is configured to drop all email tha

Re: Postfix, POP/IMAP server, virtual users, web administration - what do you use?

2010-09-28 Thread mouss
Le 28/09/2010 14:17, Adam Tauno Williams a écrit : On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 00:15 +0200, mouss wrote: Le 27/09/2010 13:25, Julien Vehent a écrit : On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:06:46 +0200, David Touzeau wrote: I'm interested in this topic also, if anybody knows an interface that just doesn't break m

Re: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/28/2010 06:59 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:16:09AM -0500, Troy Campbell wrote: Here you go: [r...@request2 postfix]# postconf -d | grep local We already know what "postconf -d" outputs. Try "postconf -n", and report the complete output. I see

Re: Configuring postfix to not reject sender address verification requests

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 02:51:37PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Basically, what's a simple way to configure postfix ignore incoming mail > to a given address, while still properly handling server address > verification to that address? recipient_access: # Discard all mail to thi

Configuring postfix to not reject sender address verification requests

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all. I've read a lot about how to get postfix to implement sender address verification (S.A.V.), but I have the opposite problem: an MTA (running postfix) that is sending me mail has broken S.A.V., and my local MTA is configured to drop all email that does not verify properly. So, I'm basically

Re: Postfix, POP/IMAP server, virtual users, web administration - what do you use?

2010-09-28 Thread Joe
Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/9/28 David Touzeau : > >> The best interface that did not break your settings is "webmin" >> > > Really? Bad memories from past .. > > When I was involved in small isp business, patched version of > postfixadmin did the tricks.. > Hmm, webmin has worked very

Re: virtual_alias_expansion_limit

2010-09-28 Thread Jason Voorhees
Thanks, your last sentence was the one I need to understand my problem. Bye :) On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Victor Duchovni wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:24:47AM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > >> I know that Postfix defaults virtual_alias_expansion_limit directive >> to 1000. I have a

Re: virtual_alias_expansion_limit

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:24:47AM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: > I know that Postfix defaults virtual_alias_expansion_limit directive > to 1000. I have a question: > > What happens if I have a virtual_alias_maps that returns more than > 1000 results? Will postfix will send e-mail to the first 10

Re: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:16:09AM -0500, Troy Campbell wrote: > Here you go: > > > > [r...@request2 postfix]# postconf -d | grep local We already know what "postconf -d" outputs. Try "postconf -n", and report the complete output. -- Viktor.

Re: SASL-AUTH and/or Kerberos in ldap_table

2010-09-28 Thread Christian Rößner
> Authenticate what? Postfix cannot forge the connecting SMTP client's > private key to convince the LDAP server that it is the client via > "EXTERNAL" auth. > > If you are talking about authenticating the Postfix LDAP client, so that > one does not to specify a "bind_pw", then I'll try to get thi

virtual_alias_expansion_limit

2010-09-28 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi people: I know that Postfix defaults virtual_alias_expansion_limit directive to 1000. I have a question: What happens if I have a virtual_alias_maps that returns more than 1000 results? Will postfix will send e-mail to the first 1000 results and ignore the rest from 1001? I ask this because I

RE: emails stuck in queue

2010-09-28 Thread Troy Campbell
Here you go: [r...@request2 postfix]# postconf -d | grep local address_verify_local_transport = $local_transport local_command_shell = local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2 local_destination_recipient_limit = 1 local_header_rewrite_clients = permit_inet_interfaces local_recipient_maps

SMTP proxy

2010-09-28 Thread mail...@securitylabs.it
Hello, actually I have n mail servers, every mail server host n domain. Every user can send email using authentication and connecting to the right server (simply using mail.domain.tld as smtp server, that point to the right server via DNS). So every server has it's own DB (virtual users with M

Re: SASL-AUTH and/or Kerberos in ldap_table

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:15:02AM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > > This is not "EXTERNAL" support for the Postfix SASL server. Rather, > > this is "EXTERNAL" support for the Postfix LDAP client, with the LDAP > > server mapping the TLS client to some suitable authentication identity. > > >

Re: Recipient address rejected: Access denied Problem for some users

2010-09-28 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 03:07:04PM +0530, Goutam Baul wrote: > "Sep 28 14:22:19 mail postfix/smtpd[24057]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from > unknown[203.200.166.34]: 554 5.7.1 : Recipient > address rejected: Access denied; from= > to= proto=ESMTP helo=" > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = > permi

Re: postfix message size

2010-09-28 Thread Jim McIver
On 9/27/2010 6:53 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jim McIver put forth on 9/27/2010 5:00 PM: I'm running postfix 2.5.6 on Freebsd 7.2 and am having an issue with message size limit and a user not being able to send a file. I'm trying to limit the message size to 6 megabytes and in the main.cf I set:

Re: Postfix, POP/IMAP server, virtual users, web administration - what do you use?

2010-09-28 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 00:15 +0200, mouss wrote: > Le 27/09/2010 13:25, Julien Vehent a écrit : > > On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:06:46 +0200, David Touzeau wrote: > I'm interested in this topic also, if anybody knows an interface that > just doesn't break manual configuration, I'm in ! IMO, so long as s

Re: Submission on an additional port

2010-09-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-28 6:04 AM, Neil wrote: > I want to have postfix listen on an additional port (say 785) for SMTP > submission by clients. You mean in *addition* to the submission port (587)? Or was that a typo and you really want to listen on port 587? > At first I thought all I had to do was add anot

Re: Postfix, POP/IMAP server, virtual users, web administration - what do you use?

2010-09-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-27 6:29 PM, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > As I see in answers, there are all-in-one systems for that, but they are > typically overblown (contain not only SMTP/IMAP/POP management, but also > Samba, webmail, DNS etc.) - not a tool which would do one thing, but do > it well (UI just for SMT

Re: postfix message size

2010-09-28 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2010-09-27 6:00 PM, Jim McIver wrote: > (message size 5414717 exceeds size limit 5242880 of server > 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]) As already pointed out, this error is not from the postfix server, but from the client... Are you submitting this message via a webmail client? Maybe this is a web server

Submission on an additional port

2010-09-28 Thread Neil
Hi, I want to have postfix listen on an additional port (say 785) for SMTP submission by clients. At first I thought all I had to do was add another line in master.cf that looked the same as the submission line, but change the port somewhere. But then I read in the docs for master.cf it seemed to

Re: Problems with PCRE recipient_canonical_maps

2010-09-28 Thread Markus Meyer
Am 27.09.2010 16:35, schrieb Victor Duchovni: Hi Victor, > Such addresses MUST be quoted to be RFC-compliant, for example: > > "This-is-a-silly-address."@example.com > > Don't use these, or add another form of the regex for quoted strings: > > /^"[[:alnum:]]{7}-0xrockindahouse0x-(.+)

Recipient address rejected: Access denied Problem for some users

2010-09-28 Thread Goutam Baul
Dear List We are using postfix-2.3.3-2.1.el5_2 under RHEL 5.3. Some of our users are in the LAN and some are connecting via Internet from different offices to send and receive email. Users from one of the locations are complaining that once they are sending mails to any external domain, the mails

Re: SPF and greylisting conditioning

2010-09-28 Thread Mikael Bak
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mikael Bak put forth on 9/27/2010 6:18 AM: >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Michal Bruncko put forth on 9/26/2010 4:24 AM: >>> It is possible in some way to configure postfix, that SPF Passed mails will be automatically accepted with postfix without greylisting? >>> If I

Re: postfix message size

2010-09-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Jim McIver : > I'm trying to limit the message size to 6 megabytes and in the > main.cf I set: > > message_size_limit = 600 That's not 6 megabytes > (message size 5414717 exceeds size limit 5242880 of server > 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1]) 5242880 != 600 > I wanted the message so I set mes

Re: SASL-AUTH and/or Kerberos in ldap_table

2010-09-28 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
* Victor Duchovni : > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:09:04PM +0200, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > > > * Christian R??ner : > > > It works! > > > > Probably OT for this list and better suited for the developers list, but > > does > > it still work without any errors? Having EXTERNAL available in LDAP

Re: what does this error mean?

2010-09-28 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 09/28/2010 03:50 AM, Victor Duchovni wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 06:08:29PM -0500, Troy Campbell wrote: Sep 27 15:01:01 abc postfix/qmgr[14745]: fatal: timeout connecting to transport: local Your operating system reports immediate completion of connections to the "/var/spool/po