Re: SMTP hangs when MySQL is down

2011-12-04 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 01:34:17 +0100, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote: > I'm using Postfix with MySQL via proxy:mysql maps. The documentation > states that mails should get deferred if no mysql server is reachable. > > However when I shut down MySQL, SMTP transaction freeze after I enter > the "MAIL FR

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-04 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 17:06:02 -0600, Noel Jones wrote: > On 12/4/2011 2:15 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > > The point about "gets through postscreen" probably was that it's not > > safe nor easy to try to block spammer-controlled freemail accounts > > through postscreen. In postscreen, there is no differ

Re: SMTP hangs when MySQL is down

2011-12-04 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 05.12.2011 01:34, schrieb Sebastian Wiesinger: > I'm using Postfix with MySQL via proxy:mysql maps. The documentation > states that mails should get deferred if no mysql server is reachable yes, on the delivering server if your configuration is mysql-based and mysqld is down your server must

SMTP hangs when MySQL is down

2011-12-04 Thread Sebastian Wiesinger
Hi, I'm using Postfix with MySQL via proxy:mysql maps. The documentation states that mails should get deferred if no mysql server is reachable. However when I shut down MySQL, SMTP transaction freeze after I enter the "MAIL FROM:<...>" statement. Any ideas how I can change that? There seems to b

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load

2011-12-04 Thread Noel Jones
On 12/4/2011 2:15 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > The point about "gets through postscreen" probably was that it's not > safe nor easy to try to block spammer-controlled freemail accounts > through postscreen. In postscreen, there is no difference between > freemail spam and real mail from freemail users

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load (was: Dead Destination configuration)

2011-12-04 Thread /dev/rob0
[not entirely OT, but leaving the subject unchanged] On Sunday 04 December 2011 04:59:45 Steve wrote: > > Von: Steve Fatula > > >I wish there was a chart for spam sent FROM yahoo. 99% of > > >our spam comes from yahoo (that gets through postscreen). > > On my end it is hotmail. Anyway postsc

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread /dev/rob0
Please stop top-posting your replies. Thank you. On Sunday 04 December 2011 01:04:44 Ignacio wrote: > Fixing the application is not possible since we don't own > source code and owner company doesn't want to change it. > On the application we are just be able to set a smtp server. A good example

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:37:31 +0100 Ignacio wrote: > Hello Jim, > > Thank you very much, but there are more than 1000 possible options, > and they change almost every week. It depends on projects and > people involved in them. One of us is confused. How would creating an alias and running newali

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread Reindl Harald
and how does it make a change to configure alias-groups or some strange header-rewirtes permanently? again: it does not make sense to reqirte from/to/cc on an MTA because the application is too dumb to set the rcpt which are wanted and CC/FROM does not interest the MTA because this are only header

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread Ignacio
Hello Jim, Thank you very much, but there are more than 1000 possible options, and they change almost every week. It depends on projects and people involved in them. Regards. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Jim Seymour wrote: > On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 08:04:44 +0100 > Ignacio wrote: > > [snip] >

Re: Low Budget Backups

2011-12-04 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sat, 3 Dec 2011 19:00:55 -0800 (PST) email builder wrote: > [snip] > > OK, rsync it is.  > > Can you restore a system crash with a simple > rsync backed set of duplicate files? [snip] Never tried it :p I suspect not. TBH: Other than a Unix SYS3 installation, running on a Motorola Delta

Re: Rewriting FROM, TO and CC

2011-12-04 Thread Jim Seymour
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 08:04:44 +0100 Ignacio wrote: [snip] > > The application connects to a smtp server and sent an e-mail as: > SENDER: user1@domain > TO: user2@domain;user3@domain > > >From this smtp server we would like to relay e-mail to Corporate > >Exchange > server.This server needs authen

Re: OT: Yahoo spam load (was: Dead Destination configuration)

2011-12-04 Thread Steve
Original-Nachricht > Datum: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:15:34 -0800 (PST) > Von: Steve Fatula > An: Postfix users > Betreff: Re: OT: Yahoo spam load (was: Dead Destination configuration) > From: Wietse Venema > >To: postfix-users@postfix.org > >Sent: Friday, December 2, 2011 8:42 AM