Re: Blocking compromised accounts (outgoing spam) and auth cracking

2015-04-18 Thread Venkat
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Chuck Peters wrote: > > > I'm researching migrating some Exim servers to Postfix and would like to > implement automatic blocking of compromised and spammers' accounts with > notifications to staff. Any suggestions? > > > We are successfully using Postfix, Poli

Re: Newer version of "The Book of Postfix"

2015-03-31 Thread Venkat
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Postfix User wrote: > I was considering purchasing "The Book of Postfix" by Ralf Hildebrandt > and Patrick Koetter. The edition listed on Amazon is dated 2005. That is 10 > years old which is ancient is software years. Is there a newer version > available? > > T

Re: Thank you, Wietse

2014-10-11 Thread Venkat
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:12 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 10 Oct 2014, at 18:49 , Stephen Satchell wrote: > > Sometimes we just need to say this. > > Probably every day, but then the list would get kinda spammy and boring. > > But yes, thanks. > > -- > Cecil is made of blood and unfinished leather >

Re: Book

2014-10-02 Thread Venkat
On Oct 2, 2014 1:44 AM, "Mike Cardwell" wrote: > > What (if there is one) is the current "recommended" book for learning > Postfix? I've come across "The Book of Postfix" and "The Definitive > Guide to Postfix", but the both seem to have been released years ago > and I'm assuming much of the mater

Re: rewriting from and reply-to headers: milter vs canonical maps/header checks

2014-08-21 Thread Venkat
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation Wietse, it makes more sense to me now re: the order of operations. Cheers, VM On Aug 21, 2014 5:31 AM, "Wietse Venema" wrote: > Venkat: > > What I am trying to do is: > > > > Setup a SMTP relay for outgoing mail w

rewriting from and reply-to headers: milter vs canonical maps/header checks

2014-08-20 Thread Venkat
Hi all, Apologies in advance if this is a redundant query. I did some searching on the previous list posts and wasn't able to find a definitive recommendation on this. What I am trying to do is: Setup a SMTP relay for outgoing mail where: (a) All From: headers of the form u...@cooldomain1.com (e

Re: Compromised Passwords

2014-03-05 Thread Venkat
> > > I'm constantly facing the same problem (passwords comprimised, accounts > abused). May you be so gentle to share your policyd configuration? It would > be really helpful. Thank you in advanced. > I sent you an email with our configuration/notes. If anyone else is interested, let me know. ch

Re: Compromised Passwords

2014-03-04 Thread Venkat
> >When a password gets compromised, spam starts to pour out of the > server from endless numbers of IP's, to endless numbers of addresses. > >Rate limiting is interesting but doesn't really stop the spam. > >Counting client=[IP] addresses until a threshold is reached > is highly effect

Re: can not telnet port 25

2014-02-20 Thread Venkat
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Feel Zhou wrote: > Hello, My friend > This is Tom, I'm sending my greeting from China. > Today, one of my postfix server can not telnet any other mail server's > port 25. It's working before 9:00am(bejing time CHina), I have restart the > mail server and reinstall

Re: Postfix LDAP lot of LDAP request.

2014-01-10 Thread Venkat
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Lanfeust troy wrote: > my.host.name.dom > host.name.dom > name.dom > .dom > u...@my.host.name.dom > > Do someone know howto disable this. > > thanks > > In our Postfix LDAP configuration, we use the following: domain = mydomain.com This seems to restrict the sea

Re: Intermittent 550 bounced messages

2014-01-03 Thread Venkat
Note that Postfix replies with: > > User unknown > > Meaning: the recipient domain matches $mydestination, but the > user was not found in $local_recipient_maps. > > and that Postfix did not reply with: > > User unknown in virtual alias table > > Meaning: the recipient domain m

Re: Regarding Recipient limitation

2014-01-02 Thread Venkat
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Joy wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your reply but i am looking for per mail recipient limit > not total no of mail sent from per user. I don't think it is going to solve > my current issue .. > > See PolicyD: http://www.policyd.org/

Intermittent 550 bounced messages

2013-12-27 Thread Venkat
Hello again List, I hope I can bother you again for an issue we have been noticing. Occasionally, we will see random 550 bounces when resolving aliases stored in LDAP. I have used postmap -q to verify the alias on each of our 3 Postfix mail relays and it resolves correctly. Our architecture is as

Re: Random 550 5.1.1 when sending mail to a virtual domain alias

2013-12-13 Thread Venkat
> > > Quite possibly it is, see: > > http://www.postfix.org/DATABASE_README.html#safe_db > > The best solution is to use CDB, rather than Berkeley DB for these, > if your Postfix package supports CDB, use it. CDB performs updates > atomically and uses less memory, ... If switching to CDB

Random 550 5.1.1 when sending mail to a virtual domain alias

2013-12-12 Thread Venkat
that can cause this? Any info. or experience with any similar issues would be appreciated. Please let me know if you need further details on our configuration or relay architecture. Thanks everybody. Kind regards, Venkat M University of British Columbia

RE: Postfix Content Filter

2013-06-20 Thread Venkat R
ietse Venema Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 4:28 AM To: Postfix users Subject: Re: Postfix Content Filter Venkat R: > Thank you Wieste. Sorry for the repetition but the python or the Java >vers -ion of the jitler a good option? My use case is very basic so >Java is much p -referred

RE: Postfix Content Filter

2013-06-19 Thread Venkat R
Thank you Wieste. Sorry for the repetition but the python or the Java version of the jitler a good option? My use case is very basic so Java is much preferred for milter development if jitler framework work with the postfix. Anyone tried Java version of the milter to get full email content with