Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-21 Thread patpro
On 2019-11-22 08:23, Gregory Heytings wrote: And there are various techniques (for example connection rate limits, response delays, greylisting) that prevent you from "accepting all mail" and that have zero false positives. As for greylisting, it's no more true now. Some large and popular m

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-21 Thread Gregory Heytings
And there are various techniques (for example connection rate limits, response delays, greylisting) that prevent you from "accepting all mail" and that have zero false positives. As for greylisting, it's no more true now. Some large and popular mail sending services started some time ago

Re: Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread 황병희
> Am I right? Yes Wesley you are right. So i don't like DMARC (with SPF). Sincerely, -- ^고맙습니다 _地平天成_ 감사합니다_^))//

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-21 Thread @lbutlr
> On 21 Nov 2019, at 17:06, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: > > Dnia 21.11.2019 o godz. 23:50:15 Gregory Heytings pisze: >> And there are various techniques (for example connection >> rate limits, response delays, greylisting) that prevent you from >> "accepting all mail" and that have zero false positiv

Re: Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread Wesley Peng
Richard Damon wrote: The side effect of it is that addresses on such a domain really shouldn't be used on mailing lists, Thanks for pointing out this. I never knew it. Now I changed my mail to fastmail account, which I owned it for many years. I just don't like its mobile app, it's just a

Re: Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread Wesley Peng
Richard Damon wrote: That is a question to ask them. Basically the strict DMARC policy is designed for transactional email, where spoofing is a real danger. The side effect of it is that addresses on such a domain really shouldn't be used on mailing lists, or any other 3rd party senders not speci

Re: Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread Richard Damon
On 11/21/19 11:21 PM, Wesley Peng wrote: > Richard Damon wrote: >> The typical options for the mailing list are >> >> 1) Just not allow people from such domains to post to the list (the >> reject option you mention) >> >> 2) Rewrite the from address from people from such a domain to be from >> the

Re: Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread Wesley Peng
Richard Damon wrote: The typical options for the mailing list are 1) Just not allow people from such domains to post to the list (the reject option you mention) 2) Rewrite the from address from people from such a domain to be from the domain of the list (often the list address). This is arguabl

Re: Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread Richard Damon
On 11/21/19 9:45 PM, Wesley Peng wrote: > Greetings, > > When mail is relayed through mailing list, why the DMARC policy is > possible to reject? > > For example, I sent mail from x...@mail.ru to y...@googlegroups.com > > Since mail.ru has the strictest DMARC policy, the recepients may > choose to

Question about DMARC

2019-11-21 Thread Wesley Peng
Greetings, When mail is relayed through mailing list, why the DMARC policy is possible to reject? For example, I sent mail from x...@mail.ru to y...@googlegroups.com Since mail.ru has the strictest DMARC policy, the recepients may choose to reject this mail which is relayed by googlegroups,

Re: It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
One more thing... On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Fred Morris wrote: Since I run my own mail servers I'm probably not a good person to ask. I don't find it particularly hard work. I set account limits, provide some tools and also disincentives to make safety and privacy the easier course and at the end o

Re: It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, Merrick wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 2:25 AM, Fred Morris wrote: I'll hazard that the reputation of particular domains whether they're TLDs or PseudoTLDs, registrars, or particular constellations of network infrastructure, is outside the scope of this list. There are li

Re: It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Merrick
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, at 2:25 AM, Fred Morris wrote: > > > > I'll hazard that the reputation of particular domains whether they're > TLDs or PseudoTLDs, registrars, or particular constellations of network > infrastructure, is outside the scope of this list. There are lists for the > discuss

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-21 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 21.11.2019 o godz. 23:50:15 Gregory Heytings pisze: > And there are various techniques (for example connection > rate limits, response delays, greylisting) that prevent you from > "accepting all mail" and that have zero false positives. As for greylisting, it's no more true now. Some large a

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-21 Thread Gregory Heytings
*Everything* short of accepting all mail regardless has false positives. Rejecting emails for non-existing users, or for domains of which your are neither the final destination nor a relay, or coming from non-existing domains, are filtering schemes that have zero false positives. And the

Re: reject mail if dns and rdns differ

2019-11-21 Thread @lbutlr
On 13 Nov 2019, at 02:30, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 12.11.19 17:01, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: >> The correct way to verify that would be to resolve the EHLO name to >> an address, NOT to resolve the address to a name. This would then >> find no anomalies with: >> >> Received: from ehl

Re: the strictest antispam laws?

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
Hi Wesley, see my post on risk vs reward for background. I left this out because it was getting too long, but it appears the big ESPs (Microsoft and Google for example) are curating. In other words, they are probably are working very very hard to avoid the perception of being cesspools of spam

It's all about risk and risk mitigation Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Fred Morris
It's about risk versus reward. Never mind email. Let's say I'm an employer. They might all be perfectly fine people in Walmart land, but why do people on the network I control need to visit their web site? Is there any reason? Do we do business with them? I might not go to any great lengths to

Re: looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 11:18 AM, Fazzina, Angelo > wrote: > > Thank you for clearing that up. > Since this client I have is having trouble and I am trying to determine if > the clients IP is the one generating these log entries do you think these to > settings will give me more info in the l

RE: looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
Thank you, I need to learn to Google better, my bad. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mailing.postfix.users/mpeVD0d56zM Wietse, seems to have answered this question in the past. I am going to just do more simultaneous testing with client like you said and sniff the wire. Thanks everyone

Re: transport clash with mydestination

2019-11-21 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 6:50 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Seems I found it: > > http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/Mydestination-and-transport-maps-td85665.html > > so for every subdomain of .example.com, override must be done in > transport_maps: > > proxy.example.com local: Yes

Re: looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Noel Jones
On 11/21/2019 10:18 AM, Fazzina, Angelo wrote: Thank you for clearing that up. Since this client I have is having trouble and I am trying to determine if the clients IP is the one generating these log entries do you think these to settings will give me more info in the logs for smtpd related da

RE: looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
Thank you for clearing that up. Since this client I have is having trouble and I am trying to determine if the clients IP is the one generating these log entries do you think these to settings will give me more info in the logs for smtpd related data ? debug_peer_level (x) and debug_peer_lis

Re: looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
> On Nov 21, 2019, at 10:54 AM, Fazzina, Angelo > wrote: > > ov 21 09:00:15 mail5 postfix/smtpd[31265]: lost connection after CONNECT from > unknown[unknown] > Nov 21 09:00:15 mail5 postfix/smtpd[31265]: disconnect from unknown[unknown] The connection was lost right after it was established, b

Re: looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 21.11.2019 o godz. 15:54:04 Fazzina, Angelo pisze: > > Nov 21 09:00:15 mail5 postfix/smtpd[31265]: lost connection after CONNECT > from unknown[unknown] > Nov 21 09:00:15 mail5 postfix/smtpd[31265]: disconnect from unknown[unknown] CONNECT indicates that something tried to connect to your S

looking for a little documentation please

2019-11-21 Thread Fazzina, Angelo
Hi, i read this http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html which got me to this http://www.postfix.org/smtpd.8.html Then i got lost... I am trying to diagnose the details of what smtpd does when a client tries to connect to my postfix server, based on these 2 lines Nov 21 09:00:15 mail5 postfix/smtpd[

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 14:53, Chris Green wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 01:00:24PM +, Dominic Raferd wrote: > >I use a VM in a different country with the same priority MX so that we > >should have effectively zero overall downtime. (The exceptions are > when > >I propagate a br

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 01:04:45PM +, Gregory Heytings wrote: > > > > > Sending systems will automatically back off and retry at intervals (I > > have seen this happen when I have upgraded my home server in the past) > > so will a secondary/backup MX actually help at all? > > > > It's up to

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 01:00:24PM +, Dominic Raferd wrote: >I use a VM in a different country with the same priority MX so that we >should have effectively zero overall downtime. (The exceptions are when >I propagate a broken configuration from one MTA to the other - oops.) >Th

Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 11/21/19 2:57 AM, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote: Same as blocking an entire netblock or ISP because there are spammers within this netblock or using this ISP (but there are "good" senders there as well). Which is something a lot of email providers do, nevertheless. Given that ab...@example.com yields

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Gregory Heytings
Sending systems will automatically back off and retry at intervals (I have seen this happen when I have upgraded my home server in the past) so will a secondary/backup MX actually help at all? It's up to you to decide what your priorities are. It's true that sending systems automatical

Re: Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Dominic Raferd
On Thu, 21 Nov 2019 at 12:05, Chris Green wrote: > I run postfix on an 'always on' machine at home and have the MX record > for my domain pointing at this machine. > > Obviously there are occasional downtimes, for example this morning we > had a 3 hour power failure and I also need to upgrade the

Will configuring a backup MX actually do me much good?

2019-11-21 Thread Chris Green
I run postfix on an 'always on' machine at home and have the MX record for my domain pointing at this machine. Obviously there are occasional downtimes, for example this morning we had a 3 hour power failure and I also need to upgrade the machine occasionally. Now I could of course overcome some

Re: transport clash with mydestination

2019-11-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.11.19 12:16, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: I run "proxy.example.com" server with ".example.com" in transport_maps, to direct all example.com subdomains to internal server my $mydestination contains proxy.example.com and some other names, however all domain to proxy.example.com is directed

transport clash with mydestination

2019-11-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, I run "proxy.example.com" server with ".example.com" in transport_maps, to direct all example.com subdomains to internal server my $mydestination contains proxy.example.com and some other names, however all domain to proxy.example.com is directed to internal servers. What should I to to

Re: the strictest antispam laws?

2019-11-21 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 21.11.2019 o godz. 16:01:04 Wesley Peng pisze: > > 1. gmail totally can't be registered from PC, only mobile client > (gmail, outlook etc) can sign up a new username. they require mobile > verification in the process. What? Just a few weeks ago I made four new Gmail accounts from my home PC

Re: Reject Chinese mail

2019-11-21 Thread Jaroslaw Rafa
Dnia 21.11.2019 o godz. 07:51:20 Reto pisze: > > Blocking based on geolocation / domain endings is something I seriously > despise. > Email is decentralized for a reason, blocking huge portions of it due to > spammers abusing a few *is* evil in my opinion. Same as blocking an entire netblock or

Re: the strictest antispam laws?

2019-11-21 Thread Robert Schetterer
Am 21.11.2019 um 09:01 schrieb Wesley Peng: Hello I saw a trend that, every ESP has taken hard work on antispam policy. For example, from my test cases: 1. gmail totally can't be registered from PC, only mobile client (gmail, outlook etc) can sign up a new username. they require mobile verifi

Re: the strictest antispam laws?

2019-11-21 Thread Olivier
Wesley Peng writes: > Hello > > I saw a trend that, every ESP has taken hard work on antispam policy. > For example, from my test cases: > > 1. gmail totally can't be registered from PC, only mobile client (gmail, > outlook etc) can sign up a new username. they require mobile > verification in

the strictest antispam laws?

2019-11-21 Thread Wesley Peng
Hello I saw a trend that, every ESP has taken hard work on antispam policy. For example, from my test cases: 1. gmail totally can't be registered from PC, only mobile client (gmail, outlook etc) can sign up a new username. they require mobile verification in the process. 2. yahoo totally can