Postfix-users Mailing List Threads

mySQL

Mon, 12 May 2008 12:04:04 GMT

What would be the advantage of using MySQL with Postfix? I now use it without and I have no complaints about it... Thanks, Jos Chrispijn ...

Disabling sending mail from alias users

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:36:39 GMT

I have just nearly finished setting up a Postfix mail server with virtual mail users in Mysql, sqlgrey Amavis-new SA and Clamav. and everything works perfect. I require authentication in order to send mails. but today I found that if I connect to the smtpd and try to send mail from postmaster it does not require authentication. Postmaster resides in my alias table and not as an actual account. thus this makes it ...

port 587 or 25?

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:13:35 GMT

What are the advantages of using port 587 rather than 25? ...

Bounce outgoing messages immediately on DNS errors

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:52:55 GMT

We provide mail relay services to our clients , who send messages to us via uucp and we send the messages out. When someone mistypes a recipient domain name the mail gets stuck in our queue with "host not found" errors and then gets bounces after 4 days The client gets notified only after 4 days that his message was rejected I want to give a permanent failure to host-not-found DNS errors at the smtp level. I know this is ...

mail queue growing - restarting postfix fixes problem

Sun, 11 May 2008 21:38:39 GMT

Hi, I set up a new postfix server about two weeks ago. Twice I have arrived at work, discovered that I don't have any new mail over night (which indicates there might be something wrong with the mail server), logged into the mail server and done a mailq | wc -l and got back about 40000. I know that isn't exactly a measurement of the number of messages in the queues - but it gives me a rough idea that something is up. It ...

queue lifetime

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:46:53 GMT

Hi! On my server i have two mails in queue which can't be delivered because there seems to be no smtp-server reachable for the domain (mainz.de). This all doenst bother me. Which i can't understand is that they are in queue since May 8 11:20 and i have: /usr/sbin/postconf | grep lifetime bounce_queue_lifetime = 2d maximal_queue_lifetime = 2d When will these mails be bounced? What did i miss? ...

New anti spam approach

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:16:26 GMT

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, After reading http://blog.mailchannels.com/2008/02/spammers-are-less-patient-than.html I tried to implement this in my postfix configuration. Question: Is the sleep 15 command sufficient to implement this or do I miss something? main.cf smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_non_fqdn_sender, ...

Unable to send mail via comcast

Sat, 10 May 2008 20:39:43 GMT

I was notified by Comcast that I need to make changes to the way I send email via their servers. The changes required a port change and start using username and password. To test that this works I used Thunderbird and set the following: Server Name: smtp.comcast.net Port: 587 Use name and password are checked and the User Name box contains my user name Use secure connection: No Using ...

Greylisting: soft fail if grey listing server down

Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:00 GMT

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have grey listing setup using: smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_unauth_pipelining reject_non_fqdn_recipient permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination reject_unknown_sender_domain reject_unlisted_recipient check_policy_service inet:glh.hub.org:2501 ...

Recipient BCC

Fri, 9 May 2008 23:16:41 GMT

I am trying to setup an email archiving solution and trying to use recipient_bcc_map and sender_bcc_map. The sender_bcc_map works just fine and forwards the mail to the address specified. The recipient_bcc_map doesn't do anything. Both maps look identical: @mydomain.com local_user There aren't any errors or warnings as mail goes thru either. I have seen this http://www.arschkrebs.de/postfix/postfix_archive.shtml and it looks like what I am trying ...

AlterMIME

Fri, 9 May 2008 19:51:04 GMT

After suggestions from Bill Cole, mousse and others, I'm trying to get AlterMIME working with postfix 2.3. I've followed the instructions at: http://howtoforge.com/add-disclaimers-to-outgoing-emails-with-altermime-postfix- debian-etch but somehow the script that calls AlterMIME simply isn't executed. The parts I think are relevant in master.cf: smtp unix - - n - - smtp -o ...

trivial-rewrite valid_ipv4_hostaddr warning

Fri, 9 May 2008 16:36:29 GMT

I'm getting a very few (only one so far today) warnings in the maillog: May 9 01:29:33 smtpgate postfix/trivial-rewrite[34285]: warning: valid_ipv4_hostaddr: invalid octet count: and was just curious as to what it is referring to. I went back a few days worth of logs and do not find the warning. Postfix v2.5.1 is running on FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. -d ...

Double delivery for aliases

Fri, 9 May 2008 15:02:12 GMT

Hi guys, I've run into an interesting little dilemma. I noticed the problem with an alias for an account that listed itself and another local address for delivery. The account itself only gets one copy but the other local address gets two copies. I even tried adding a third non local account to the alias and that also only got one copy. I then tried having the alias only delivery to the alternate local address and it still went through ...

header check question

Fri, 9 May 2008 14:53:33 GMT

greetings can I do this without an if then endif? /^to: *friend$ && ^from: *username/ WARN -j ...

verify parameters

Fri, 9 May 2008 12:21:02 GMT

Hi, I'm using a postfix mail scanning machine for doing relay to another server wich stores user mailboxes and has his own smtp (a cpanel machine). Like domain admins could create or delete mail accounts I have enabled in my postfix scanning machine reject_unverified_recipient. Have done some checks and have this settings in main.cf file: address_verify_positive_refresh_time = 3m address_verify_positive_expire_time = 8m ...

Configure postfix in big env

Fri, 9 May 2008 11:52:25 GMT

Hello, I do some research to install postfix on big env (30 000 mailbox) with cyrus and I have somes questions. Can I install postfix on each cyrus-aggregator front end with amavis, clamd and procmail? What is the best configuration to postfix (cluster? loadbalancer?) Regards, S�bastien Dicque ...

envelope sender '<>' via uucp gets rewritten as

Fri, 9 May 2008 10:28:18 GMT

on my postfix 2.4.6 server when mail arrives from uucp and the envelope sender is '<>' then the address is translated to '' But the domain name part is missing. I want this to be '' not a dumb '' I am feeling stupid , but I cant find where I am missing the domain name entry Thanks Ram ...

Spam filtering only for specific email accounts

Fri, 9 May 2008 08:04:17 GMT

Hi All, I need help to configure postfix to filter spam only for specific email accounts, i.e.: is there a manner to select which mail to scan on recipient basis? Thanks ...

Postfix 2.4 to 2.5: smtp(d)_tls_session_cache_database

Fri, 9 May 2008 06:45:00 GMT

The tlsmgr(8) documentation states: > With Postfix version 2.5 and later, the tlsmgr(8) no longer uses root > privileges when opening cache files. These files should now be stored under the > Postfix-owned data_directory. As a migration aid, an attempt to open a cache > file under a non-Postfix directory is redirected to the Postfix- owned > data_directory, and a warning is logged. Right now on our servers, we ...

Question about 'standards' WRT BATV and SAV

Thu, 8 May 2008 22:31:06 GMT

Please forgive me if this has already been discussed. I saw that in May of '06, Ralf, Victor, and Wietse had a small discussion about BATV. I know this is not a BATV list, but there are people here with whom I tend to be more "policy aligned". So I beg some latitude and guidance. BATV is mucking with the envelope FROM: address. It appears to me that when Postfix does a SAV, Postfix is trying to verify the envelope's FROM: address ...