Re: Mail Statistics (OFF TOPIC)

2010-10-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Carlos Mennens wrote: Guys I apologize if this doesn't belong here but I did a 'Google' search and I decided it would be best to ask the community who uses Postfix from an 'administrative' perspective. I am looking for a statistics utility for mail. I don't really have any specific requirements

Re: Postfix 2.7 for RHEL 5?

2010-07-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/03/2010 01:27 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote: On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 02:53:44PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Morten P.D. Stevens put forth on 7/3/2010 2:40 PM: Does anyone know backported Postfix 2.6.x or 2.7.x RPM packages for RHEL5? This binary rpm is for x86-64 only:

Re: Postfix 2.7 for RHEL 5?

2010-07-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
On 07/06/2010 09:07 AM, Bas Mevissen wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:01:53 -0700, Roderick A. Anderson Love to -- plus I'm dealing with not-64 bit machines -- but I can't find a RPM for tinycdb I feel comfortable with. All were circa 2002. Is this OK? What are others using? \\||/ Rod

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Andy Dills wrote: On Thu, 27 May 2010, Wietse Venema wrote: Andy Dills: I've been investigating postscreen, as we've been address probed/bombed for years, as we have a few domains that are very old (well, early 90s) that had a lot of users back in the dialup days. Our approach was to just

Re: postscreen questions

2010-05-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wietse Venema wrote: Roderick A. Anderson: Also, would postscreen_cache_map work with a mysql backend? postscreen needs very low latency (I put in explicit tests for this). Also, postscreen requires read, write, iterate support which is implemented only for file-based databases. If table

Re: Consolidating Virtual Domain Delivery

2010-03-28 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Daniel L'Hommedieu wrote: On Mar 28, 2010, at 15:23, Wietse Venema wrote: BTW, Postfix 2.3 is no longer maintained. It is almost four years old. Wietse, After seeing this comment, I decided to see what versions of postfix I have installed. The RPM available for both CentOS 5 and RHEL5 is

Re: Return-Path, Envelope From, etc.

2009-11-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: My understanding, from following several threads here and some research, is the return-path is transmitted out-of-band in the SMTP MAIL request and placed in the message by the LDA. How would a proxy determine the value(s) that will be used to create the Return

Re: Return-Path, Envelope From, etc.

2009-11-05 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: My understanding, from following several threads here and some research, is the return-path is transmitted out-of-band in the SMTP MAIL request and placed in the message by the LDA. How would a proxy determine the value(s

Re: Bounce queue times

2009-10-07 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Neil Smith wrote: I run Postfix to handle my personal mail. I also act as a backup MX host for a friend. To give him time to return from holiday and fix a broken Postfix installation, I want to keep messages for the backup domains for up to 21 days. However, I want undeliverable messages

Re: Country IP block list

2009-08-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
ghe wrote: On Aug 22, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Security Admin (NetSec) wrote: Could someone provide links to sites where IP addresses are grouped by country? ASNs would work too but would prefer IP lists that I could put in a file that my postfix mail gateway could read. Obvious countries like

Re: deflecting attacks

2009-08-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
AMP Admin wrote: Does anyone use iptables or something to defend against attacks? Like if x amount of requests per x amount of time send away. If so I would love some examples. Thanks! Probably based on Glenn English's work (in another email) I found this during a brute force search with

Re: deflecting attacks

2009-08-22 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Jorey Bump wrote: Martijn de Munnik wrote, at 08/22/2009 02:06 PM: I use fail2ban with ipf on Solaris 10. When a host produces to many 5xx errors or sends to much spam it is banned in the firewall. failregex = reject: RCPT from (.*)\[HOST\]: 5\d\d ban time 1h failregex = Passed SPAM,

Postfix as outbound relay

2009-08-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
And that is as vague as it gets! :-) I've been looking and searching but just can't seem to find what I'm looking for. I need to configure Postfix (and sasl?) so a select group of users from multiple domains can send email. Originally it was to allow some users/domains to send email from

Multiple PTR entries

2009-07-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
With all the traffic recently on DNS and friends I got overloaded and stopped reading. :-( But now I've run into a situation that I don't remember seeing addressed. How will Postfix deal with a machine that has two different names for the same IP and multiple PTR records? \\||/ Rod --

Re: Multiple PTR entries

2009-07-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 09:18:07AM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: With all the traffic recently on DNS and friends I got overloaded and stopped reading. :-( But now I've run into a situation that I don't remember seeing addressed. How will Postfix deal

Re: Multiple PTR entries

2009-07-16 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wietse Venema wrote: Roderick A. Anderson: With all the traffic recently on DNS and friends I got overloaded and stopped reading. :-( But now I've run into a situation that I don't remember seeing addressed. How will Postfix deal with a machine that has two different names for Thanks

Re: Tip: Restricting mail reception using a remote service's SPF records

2009-06-25 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Ville Walveranta wrote: Here's the completed script (the IP/CIDR extract worked perfectly -- thanks Barney!): --- #!/bin/sh ORIGINAL=/usr/local/etc/postfix/tables/client_access_maps.cidr NEW=/tmp/postfix_clients.tmp dig +short senderdomain.net TXT | grep 'v=spf1' | egrep -o 'ip4:[0-9./]+' |

Re: Postfix-2.6.0 RPM

2009-05-14 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: * Brian Collins lis...@newnanutilities.org: I noticed that Postfix V#2.6.0 is now out. Does anybody know where to get RPM files? GOOGLE did not help. Simon Mudd picks up the releases and makes good source and binary RPMs from them with lots of options. However, he's a

Re: Relay problem: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from unknown[::1]:

2009-04-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wade Williams wrote: I'm having a problem where an installation of Mantis bug tracking software cannot send mail to external addresses. It sends mail to me (w...@dogwatchsw.com mailto:w...@dogwatchsw.com) fine. However, it will not send to external email addresses. I've done a lot of google

Re: Fedora10 RPM build from src fails.

2009-03-23 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
James A R Brown wrote: Hi Alan, Looks like its not the paths. I edited /usr/lib/rpm/macros :- #Path to top of build area. #%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild %_topdir/usr/src/redhat Then I tried again from fresh. You can see below same error, but new path is being

Re: The flow of messages through Postfix (Ref: Sensible config?)

2009-03-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wietse Venema wrote: Roderick A. Anderson: I keep seeing and having questions on valid parameters and valid values for them. The Postfix.org site and manual have great listings and this list has provided excellent info on them. Still I stay a bit confused as I started with an older version

Re: The flow of messages through Postfix (Ref: Sensible config?)

2009-03-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:05:28AM -0700, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: snip / Well, the only opportunity to respond an SMTP command is in respnse to *that* command, so originally these took place at the time of the correspoding SMTP command. connect

Re: New Pflogsumm Maintainer Needed

2009-02-18 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Jim Seymour wrote: Hi All, I'm simplifiying my life. Amonst other things, that means I'm dropping my business class DSL circuit and all of my involvement in projects, documentation, anti-spam efforts, etc. If somebody *qualified* wants to officially take over maintenance of Pflogsumm, please

virtual_mailbox_domains as a hash file

2009-02-09 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Everything I'm reading in The Book of Postfix and from the web site seem to indicate that virtual_mailbox_domains has to be a list of values in main.cf. Is this correct? Anyway to put them in a file instead? TIA, Rod --

Re: Problems with Postfix / Round-Robin

2009-02-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Pablo Scheri wrote: dig mx trendargentina.com.ar. ; DiG 9.3.3rc2 mx trendargentina.com.ar. ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27701 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION:

Re: Problems with Postfix / Round-Robin

2009-02-06 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Victor Duchovni wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:11:43AM -0800, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: mx.trendargentina.com.ar. 0INA10.0.0.208 mx.trendargentina.com.ar. 0INA10.0.0.207 What this says to me is every time Postfix requests the MX for trendargentina.com.ar the name

Suggest another server?

2009-01-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Not too clear from the subject and probably a lame idea. Situation: We have a system (MX1) that is having hardware problems. Currently they are irritations but we want to rebuild the system before it really crashes. There are actually two systems so there is back up (MX2) in case there is a

Re: Suggest another server?

2009-01-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Not too clear from the subject and probably a lame idea. Situation: We have a system (MX1) that is having hardware problems. Currently they are irritations but we want to rebuild the system before it really crashes. There are actually two systems so there is back

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Magnus Bäck wrote: On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 23:06 CET, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Bäck wrote: [...] You can choose any username you like as long as it matches whatever is in your credential database. So far we don't know anything about that. MySQL

Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to test my Postfix/Dovecot set up to determine why (what I'm doing wrong) a Perl script using Mail::Sender is failing. Errors say connection failed -- rather ambiguous I'd say! :-) This is for a system with multiple (virtual?) domains. I'm using telnet to test but am having a

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Magnus Bäck wrote: On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 19:52 CET, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to test my Postfix/Dovecot set up to determine why (what I'm doing wrong) a Perl script using Mail::Sender is failing. Errors say connection failed -- rather

Re: [Q] when to call greylisting?

2008-11-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wietse Venema wrote: Roderick A. Anderson: I'm implementing greylisting on CentOS 5 systems. These are spools for the actual mailserver/mailbox systems. Currently we have: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining, cheap reject_non_fqdn_sender

Re: [Q] when to call greylisting?

2008-11-12 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
mouss wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: I'm implementing greylisting on CentOS 5 systems. These are spools for the actual mailserver/mailbox systems. Currently we have: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining, useless. reject_non_fqdn_sender

Re: Handle messages where From (Envelope Sender) matches To:

2008-11-11 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
mouss wrote: Roderick A. Anderson wrote: [snip] If your problem is that From: equals To:, then Postfix can help only with an external content filter. If your problem is that MAIL FROM equals RCPT TO, then Postfix can help only with an external policy daemon or external content filter

Handle messages where From (Envelope Sender) matches To:

2008-11-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm starting to get a lot of SPAM where the Sender matches the To:. I hear the same from several others. There was the thread recently on something similar but dealing with lists so it seems to not apply. I'm at a complete loss after being six pages into a search using Google.com with

Re: Handle messages where From (Envelope Sender) matches To:

2008-11-10 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Wietse Venema wrote: Roderick A. Anderson: I'm starting to get a lot of SPAM where the Sender matches the To:. You mean, the From: and To: headers, or the MAIL FROM and the RCPT TO address in SMTP commands? One of these days I'll stating thinking in the correct terms. Probably about