Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 07:36:12AM +0200, Jaques Cochet wrote: I'm working on a mail system design for an ISP that includes hosting of multiple virtual domains managed by this ISP (300.000 mailbox). HA and performance are both important concerns for the client, so I have at least 2 of every

regular initializing the client-side TLS engine entries

2011-01-13 Thread Patrick Ben Koetter
Reading through the logs I noted recurring initializing the client-side TLS engine entries that seem to take place no matter if the smtp client is using TLS at the moment or not. So I am curious. Why is it that the Postfix smtp client initializes the client-side TLS engine on a regular basis?

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-13 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Jonathan Tripathy put forth on 1/12/2011 8:58 AM: Major point is that GlusterFS is NOT another file system. GlusterFS uses a disk based backend and relies heavily on the underlying filesystem extended attributes for handling which file is more recent on one brick over another when performing

discard bounces to yahoo, gmail etc

2011-01-13 Thread Tom Kinghorn
Good afternoon list. We have a problem of a number of our clients which appear to have been affected by malware/bots. these clients use our servers as a smarthost. The messages are similar, so creating a spam filter for spamassassin has been done. I have noticed that the sender is either

Re: HA mail system - dbmail

2011-01-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Take a look at http://www.dbmail.org/ for imap/pop3 you can have as many servers you want connected with the same database, i would use dovecot as proxy and for sasl-auth which would give you even the option to use mysql-slaves fpr the readonly-requests to spread the database-load Am 13.01.2011

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Deives Michellis
Have you guys considered using Perdition to proxy/redirect IMAP/POP to distribute backend storage to as many as backends as you want? You wont need any SAN/NAS/NFS/GFS/whatever, just a user/storage mapping (ldap, mysql, etc...), and you might even add spare or active/active servers to each storage

Re: regular initializing the client-side TLS engine entries

2011-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Patrick Ben Koetter: Reading through the logs I noted recurring initializing the client-side TLS engine entries that seem to take place no matter if the smtp client is using TLS at the moment or not. Don't turn on verbose logging by default. So I am curious. Why is it that the Postfix smtp

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:59:26AM -0200, Deives Michellis wrote: Have you guys considered using Perdition to proxy/redirect IMAP/POP to distribute backend storage to as many as backends as you want? Yes, but I prefer dovecot (since that's what we're running on the backend POP/IMAP-servers). It

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Deives Michellis
Perdition works WITH dovecot (or whatever imap server you use). It's just a proxy - will redirect connections based on username, origin, etc...

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38:05AM -0200, Deives Michellis wrote: Perdition works WITH dovecot (or whatever imap server you use). It's just a proxy - will redirect connections based on username, origin, etc... Yes, I know, and dovecot director also works with dovecot (or any other imap server

Re: Network Ideas

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 09:58, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jonathan Tripathy put forth on 1/12/2011 8:58 AM: Major point is that GlusterFS is NOT another file system. GlusterFS uses a disk based backend and relies heavily on the underlying filesystem extended attributes for handling which file is more recent on

rbldnsd for sender emailids instead of domains

2011-01-13 Thread Ramprasad
Currently on my MX servers I use a custom rhsbl to reject domains blacklisted by us. The DNS lookups are handled using a local rbldnsd server. I am trying to create a list of spammer email ids so that I can reject spammers of neutral domains. But this can be a potentially huge list. I am not

Re: discard bounces to yahoo, gmail etc

2011-01-13 Thread Noel Jones
On 1/13/2011 4:35 AM, Tom Kinghorn wrote: Good afternoon list. We have a problem of a number of our clients which appear to have been affected by malware/bots. these clients use our servers as a smarthost. The messages are similar, so creating a spam filter for spamassassin has been done. I

Postfix 2.8 stable release soon

2011-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Postfix 2.8 is almost ready to become the new stable release. The only thing in the pipeline is evalating the mysql update, sequence and cache cleanup support. There have been a few late changes to clean up the postscreen user interface. I left in some backwards compatibility support for early

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread mouss
Le 13/01/2011 13:46, Jan-Frode Myklebust a écrit : On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:38:05AM -0200, Deives Michellis wrote: Perdition works WITH dovecot (or whatever imap server you use). It's just a proxy - will redirect connections based on username, origin, etc... Yes, I know, and dovecot

Re: discard bounces to yahoo, gmail etc

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:45:19AM -0600, Noel Jones wrote: Once the cows get out, you can spend days rounding them up and some may never be found. Better to keep the gate closed. Corollary: Don't accept mail you can't deliver. For a submission service, this means doing as much as possible

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jaques Cochet
After some reading: - GFS and maildir work bad together - NFS and maildir are not that good, NFS and postfix have some issues but should be OK. I read that OCFS2 is promising. If it works good, I can use an IMAP proxy and run IMAP on backend servers with postfix. As for SMTP relaying/scanning and

relay question

2011-01-13 Thread Christian Roessner
Hi, sorry, if this question might sound a bit stupid, but if I specify relay_recipient_maps with all valid recipients that postfix should relay for, why does it need relay_domains set? As an example: I have connected relay_domains to LDAP and have an object that returns all domains. I also

Re: relay question

2011-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Christian Roessner: Hi, sorry, if this question might sound a bit stupid, but if I specify relay_recipient_maps with all valid recipients that postfix should relay for, why does it need relay_domains set? As an example: If you wonder why Postfix does not always search all tables for all

why is messaging relaying happening

2011-01-13 Thread Zhou, Yan
Hi there, I am connecting to Postfix, send it message with TO address in a remote domain, served by another mail server. I do not understand why such relay is happening, I thought my Postfix would only accept messages destined to local domains. Here is output of postconf -n. I did not define

Re: why is messaging relaying happening

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:55:31PM -0500, Zhou, Yan wrote: I thought my Postfix would only accept messages destined to local domains. What am I missing? mynetworks = 10.128.61.0/24, 10.128.12.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8 Clients with the IP addresses above, sample_directory =

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
On 13/01/11 19:00, Jaques Cochet wrote: After some reading: - GFS and maildir work bad together - NFS and maildir are not that good, NFS and postfix have some issues but should be OK. Where did you read that GFS worked badly with maildir? I'd be interested to read into this Thanks

Re: why is messaging relaying happening

2011-01-13 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 13.01.2011 21:55, schrieb Zhou, Yan: I am connecting to Postfix, send it message with TO address in a remote domain, served by another mail server. I do not understand why such relay is happening What do you expcet? This is normal and they way email works If you in my_networks relay is

postscreen_access_list

2011-01-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
From my log: Jan 13 22:37:21 mail postfix/postscreen[17587]: warning: postscreen_access_list: unknown command: permit_mynetworks, -- ignoring the remainder of this access list The README says: postscreen_access_list = permit_mynetworks, /etc/postfix/postscreen_access.cidr

Re: postscreen_access_list

2011-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralf Hildebrandt: From my log: Jan 13 22:37:21 mail postfix/postscreen[17587]: warning: postscreen_access_list: unknown command: permit_mynetworks, -- ignoring the remainder of this access list The README says: postscreen_access_list = permit_mynetworks,

man postscreen_access_list

2011-01-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
The POSTSCREEN_README mentions: See the postscreen_access_list manpage documentation for more details. ./man/man8/postscreen.8 is the only man page with postscreen as part of the name - it does mention postscreen_access_list. man 5 postconf is also not listing postscreen_access_list -- Ralf

Re: postscreen_access_list

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:41:53PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: From my log: Jan 13 22:37:21 mail postfix/postscreen[17587]: warning: postscreen_access_list: unknown command: permit_mynetworks, -- ignoring the remainder of this access list The README says: postscreen_access_list

Re: man postscreen_access_list

2011-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Ralf Hildebrandt: The POSTSCREEN_README mentions: See the postscreen_access_list manpage documentation for more details. ./man/man8/postscreen.8 is the only man page with postscreen as part of the name - it does mention postscreen_access_list. man 5 postconf is also not listing

Re: man postscreen_access_list

2011-01-13 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
* Wietse Venema wie...@porcupine.org: Yes it does. You are looking at the old postconf manpage. Damn. Gotta fix this mess: # locate postconf.5 | xargs ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 432025 13. Jan 16:00 /usr/share/man/man5/postconf.5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85140 18. Sep 2009

Re: Forward all local delivered mail to specific address

2011-01-13 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 1/12/11 4:34 PM, Markus Treinen wrote: Hi, your point is well taken. The reason for my setup is this: I wanted to have virtual addresses for all my domains, which are mapped separately to virtual users (meaning Maildirs delivered via dovecot (mainly to use sieve)). Those virtual users would

Re: smtp content_filter help needed (Vacation.pl)

2011-01-13 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 1/13/11 8:34 AM, Mark (Lunatechnologies) wrote: Hi there, I'm using a virtual vacation script (version 3.2), which runs as a content filter for a while - but I have one makjor problem. Yes. Why would you run a per-user reply script through a system-wide content_filter ? Enable

RE: smtp content_filter help needed (Vacation.pl)

2011-01-13 Thread Mark (Lunatechnologies)
Thanks Jeroen, Finally cracked it tonight. You're right - the content filter itself was unnecessary and was being run against every mail in and out. so removed that and just left the vacation transport to handle anything with an @autoreply.domain.com address (which I create in the alias table

Re: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread mouss
Le 14/01/2011 00:25, Gary Smith a écrit : I have an SSL key in pkcs12 format (pfx exported from Windows) that I need to convert into the proper format for postfix. The pfs includes the entire chain as well. Anyone know the proper way to convert this file into the corresponding

RE: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Smith
openssl can convert between various formats. http://www.sslshopper.com/article-most-common-openssl-commands.html http://security.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/grid- howtos/usefulopenssl.html http://shib.kuleuven.be/docs/ssl_commands.shtml ... Mouss, Thanks for the follow up. I know that

Re: smtp content_filter help needed (Vacation.pl)

2011-01-13 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 1/14/11 12:24 AM, Mark (Lunatechnologies) wrote: Thanks Jeroen, Finally cracked it tonight. You're right - the content filter itself was unnecessary and was being run against every mail in and out. so removed that and just left the vacation transport to handle anything with an

Re: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:36:41PM -0800, Gary Smith wrote: # Export certificate openssl pkcs12 -in original.pfx -out hsserver01.cer -nodes This takes in PKCS12 and outputs an unencrypted PKCS12. Not a good idea, your private key is compomised, unless your umask was 077. # Export public key

Re: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 07:06:48PM -0500, Victor Duchovni wrote: # Export certificate openssl pkcs12 -in original.pfx -out hsserver01.cer -nodes This takes in PKCS12 and outputs an unencrypted PKCS12. Not a good idea, your private key is compomised, unless your umask was 077. Oops, while

RE: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Smith
Oops, while the umask 077 is indeed required, this does produce a PEM file with a usable key and certificate, provided the OpenSSL library behind the pkcs12 command is not substantially newer than the one Postfix is linked with. If the command is from OpenSSL 1.0.0, it will generate a

Deliver @nottheoilrig.com messages - mailbox nottheoilrig on localhost via LMTP?

2011-01-13 Thread Jack Bates
Understand that address rewriting is at the heart of Postfix - but I struggle to configure Postfix to deliver messages which are sent to the domain @nottheoilrig.com, to localhost via LMTP, with envelope recipient nottheoilrig Using transport_maps or various related parameters, I can deliver

Re: Deliver @nottheoilrig.com messages - mailbox nottheoilrig on localhost via LMTP?

2011-01-13 Thread Jeroen Geilman
On 1/14/11 2:00 AM, Jack Bates wrote: Understand that address rewriting is at the heart of Postfix - but I struggle to configure Postfix to deliver messages which are sent to the domain @nottheoilrig.com, to localhost via LMTP, with envelope recipient nottheoilrig virtual_alias_maps:

RE: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread Gary Smith
openssl s_client -showcerts -state -quiet -status -connect localhost:465 SSL_connect:before/connect initialization SSL_connect:SSLv2/v3 write client hello A SSL_connect:error in SSLv2/v3 read server hello A 3075593864:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown

Re: TLS cert question

2011-01-13 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 04:49:43PM -0800, Gary Smith wrote: ( umask openssl pkcs12 -nodes -nocerts -out hsserver01.pem -in original.pfx ) This contains the key only. ( umask 077 openssl pkcs12 -nodes -nocerts -out certkey.pem -in original.pfx ) THis contains the key

postscreen_cache_map

2011-01-13 Thread Tomoyuki Murakami
(just a faint impact, ...) since postfix-2.8-20110102, postscreen_cache_map file has been named psc_cache by default. postfix-2.8-20110112: ./global/mail_params.h:#define DEF_PSC_CACHE_MAP btree:$data_directory/psc_cache though man postscreen said, ... postscreen_cache_map

Re: postscreen_cache_map

2011-01-13 Thread Wietse Venema
Tomoyuki Murakami: (just a faint impact, ...) since postfix-2.8-20110102, postscreen_cache_map file has been named psc_cache by default. postfix-2.8-20110112: ./global/mail_params.h:#define DEF_PSC_CACHE_MAP btree:$data_directory/psc_cache though man postscreen said, ...

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jaques Cochet
Jonathan, check http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/TUhSn61Ee1e4CqmzNaTd http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/linux-clus...@redhat.com/msg07430.html http://old.nabble.com/Dovecot-performance-on-GFS-clustered-filesystem-td19655678.html On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Jonathan Tripathy

Re: HA mail system

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan Tripathy
Hi Jaques, Ah yes, I remember reading those. I don't think you have too much to worry about in 2011 though. Those posts were from around 2008 when GFS (The original implementation) didn't scale well for large mailboxes. It was also around the time that GFS2 wasn't stable for production