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      biggsy
      last edited by

      Without being restarted, is the postfix package somehow aware of changes in WAN IP?

      It hasn't been a problem for me but I had thought about it this past couple of days.

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      • marcellocM
        marcelloc
        last edited by

        @biggsy:

        It hasn't been a problem for me but I had thought about it this past couple of days.

        It will work fine if you listen on loopback and create a nat rule from wan address to 127.0.0.1

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          biggsy
          last edited by

          @marcelloc:

          It will work fine if you listen on loopback and create a nat rule from wan address to 127.0.0.1

          no
          Did you mean to say "nat rule"?  I've never had a NAT - just a rule: pass any source in to destination WAN net on port 25.

          Although, I'm not using postfix for outbound.

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          • marcellocM
            marcelloc
            last edited by

            This is a common setup while using carp.

            You configure the package(squid,snort,dansguardian,etc) to listen only on 127.0.0.1 and then create a nat rule to forward lan,wan,etc Carp address to 127.0.0.1.
            This way you keep package running on both boxes without missing inet address startup errors.

            If you configure this way on your wan, every time it changes ip, postfix will keep working as it's listening on lo0 and pfsense will keep the forward from wan address to it.

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              biggsy
              last edited by

              Thank you, Marcello.  Your explanation was very instructive and helpful.

              I guess I've never had a problem because I think the only time my cable IP has changed was when I rebooted pfSense - and that's very infrequent.

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                elementalwindx
                last edited by

                Wish OP would update the original post with newest info so I dont have to go thru 28 pages of whatever to see what the newest changes/versions/etc are of this package…

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                  nekron
                  last edited by

                  Hi …

                  I've some problem with Postfix Forwarder, it was installed on a new 2.1-RELEASE Install, the previous Version on a 2.1-BETA was functional (due HDD Crash i don't know the version

                  220 pfsense.xx ESMTP Postfix
                  HELO xxx
                  250 pfsense.xxx
                  MAIL FROM: <michael@xxx>
                  250 2.1.0 Ok
                  RCPT TO: <michael@xxx>
                  450 4.1.1 <michael@xxxx>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: connect to 172.16.1.254[172.16.1.254]:25: No route to host</michael@xxxx></michael@xxx></michael@xxx>
                  

                  172.16.1.254 port 25 is reachable from the pfsense-Box !

                  Best regards,
                  michael

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                    expert_az
                    last edited by

                    Hello marcelloc,

                    I'm getting these errors when attempting to query from search mail tab.

                    instead of query results getting lines below.This happening only query with todays date(15/01/2014),when selecting another date it's working ok.

                    Warning: sqlite_open(): file is encrypted or is not a database in
                    /usr/local/www/postfix.php on line 544 Warning: sqlite_query() expects parameter 1 to be resource, string given in
                    /usr/local/www/postfix.php on line 606 Warning: sqlite_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in
                    /usr/local/www/postfix.php on line 610 Warning: sqlite_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in
                    /usr/local/www/postfix.php on line 610 Warning: sqlite_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in
                    /usr/local/www/postfix.php on line 610 Warning: sqlite_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in
                    /usr/local/www/postfix.php on line 610 Warning: sqlite_fetch_array() expects parameter 1 to be resource, null given in

                    in addidion to this problem i'm getting error below when starting,restrating postfix.

                    php: /status_services.php: The command '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postfix.sh stop' returned exit code '1', the output was '/usr/pbi/postfix-amd64/sbin/postconf: warning: /usr/pbi/postfix-amd64/etc/postfix/master.cf: unused parameter: user=postfix'

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                      mauricioniñoavella
                      last edited by

                      Hello friends, this is me showing this error.  in Package Version 2.10.2 pkg v.2.3.7

                      I confirm if Postfix - antispam and relay package, can confirgurar with tls

                      this is the error

                      February 3 12:23:57 postfix / smtp [40769]: instead, send to (port submission/587) WITH STARTTLS
                      February 3 12:23:57 postfix / smtp [40769]: CLIENT wrappermode (port smtps/465) is unimplemented

                      So I have add to main.cf:

                      smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
                      relayhost = [smtp.xxx.xx]: 465
                      smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash :/ etc / postfix / sasl_passwd
                      smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous
                      smtp_tls_security_level = encrypt
                      smtp_tls_mandatory_protocols =

                      Thanks for you colaboration.

                      Mauricio Niño Avella.

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                        ics
                        last edited by

                        Hi,

                        I have multifuntion printers used for scan to email.
                        Is it possible to configure postfix/postscreen to not reply "service currently unavailable" at the first connection of these MFP without allowing them to relay to internet ?
                        I mean I don't want to add the IPs in the MyNetworks list because it also allows these IPs to relay to internet.

                        Thanks

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                          yaboc
                          last edited by

                          hi Marcello

                          using this great tool and having some issues with the some good mails discarded by header checks because of mis-configured sender's server.

                          Feb 12 15:57:11 postfix/smtpd[10780]: connect from ms1.cernerasp.com[159.140.193.46]
                          Feb 12 15:57:11 postfix/smtpd[10780]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from ms1.cernerasp.com[159.140.193.46]: 550 5.7.1 <taspmomail01.cmsext.com>: Helo command rejected: Host not found; from= infoviewreport@hvhc.orgto= me@mydomain.comproto=ESMTP helo= <taspmomail01.cmsext.com>Feb 12 15:57:16 postfix/smtpd[10780]: disconnect from ms1.cernerasp.com[159.140.193.46]

                          is there an easy workaround without disabling the spam checks? thanks

                          yaboc</taspmomail01.cmsext.com>/me@mydomain.com/infoviewreport@hvhc.org</taspmomail01.cmsext.com>

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                            biggsy
                            last edited by

                            Best thing to do is have the admin for that mail server fix the DNS entry but you could try adding this to your Access Lists, Header section:

                            /^From:.*@hvhc.org/ OK
                            
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                              informatica_cmav
                              last edited by

                              Hello everybody,

                              We have postfix forwarder working for 1 year, yesterday I update pfsense from 2.0.1 to 2.1 and reinstall postfix. Today we do not receive external mails, in the maillog we have "Recipient address rejected: unverified address" in all msgs.

                              I search the forums and change the listen interfaces to loopback and create a nat to forward the traffic on port 25 from WAN to loopback. But the problem persists.

                              I found a topic (https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,70541.0.html) that says that I need to configure something on Recipient tab, I really don´t have anything on this tab before.

                              My questions are :

                              • With the update to postfix forwarder 2.10.2 pkg v.2.3.7 it is mandatory to put the list of mail in Recipients?
                              • We work with Zimbra the  LDAP fetch can be used with non AD enviroment?

                              Thanks a lot

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                                yaboc
                                last edited by

                                @biggsy:

                                Best thing to do is have the admin for that mail server fix the DNS entry but you could try adding this to your Access Lists, Header section:

                                /^From:.*@hvhc.org/ OK
                                

                                i did add it and it's still dropping the mail sporadically. they company is using 3rd party server with their email as sender and i keep having problems with it. emails from their onsite server are coming in fine. so that be a misconfiguraed server. is disabling helo checks bad idea? it's becoming an issue now but i dont want to open doors to hell. i have a couple other mails that are good but i think their mail servers might be misconfigured. should i scan their domain with mx tool for mx server names and add those to "helo" part of access list ?

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                                  Bittone66
                                  last edited by

                                  Hello Guys,
                                  I have been using Postfix Forwarder for more than a year with great success.
                                  Now I moved the Pfsense VM to another server, upgraded to 2.1 and I have this problem:

                                  
                                  Mar  5 18:38:08 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: connect from www.archidata.it[87.241.18.18]
                                  Mar  5 18:38:08 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:08 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:09 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:09 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:09 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from www.archidata.it[87.241.18.18]: 450 4.1.1 <xxxx@alfa.it>: Recipient address rejected: unverified address: connect to 172.16.16.20[172.16.16.20]:25: Operation timed out; from= <xxxxxx@archidata.it>to= <xxxxxx@alfa.it>proto=ESMTP helo= <www.archidata.it>Mar  5 18:38:09 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:09 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:10 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: connect to private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:10 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: warning: problem talking to server private/anvil: Connection refused
                                  Mar  5 18:38:10 pfsense postfix/smtpd[25953]: disconnect from www.archidata.it[87.241.18.18]</www.archidata.it></xxxxxx@alfa.it></xxxxxx@archidata.it></xxxx@alfa.it> 
                                  

                                  Looks similar to a previous problem in this forum flow, so I tried forwarding to localhost and setting Postifx to listen on localhost but the error remains.

                                  Now I'm forwarding directly to the DMZ in order to have email delivered (yes, the real mail server listens and works on 172.16.16.20:25).
                                  I did not setup the LDAP verification of recipient since I'll leave it to the mail server (no problem with load).
                                  One more thing: I disabled anvil and always get the anvil communication error.
                                  I already removed and re-installed the forwarder 3 times with no success.
                                  Thanks for your kind attention and support

                                  Alberto

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                                    Bittone66
                                    last edited by

                                    Hello,
                                    I took a alook at the enrated main.cf and, as far as I know, the entire section on smtpd_recipient_restrictions should not be there since my reicipient tab is empty and this is just a relay server.

                                    Is there a way to tell the package not to write the whole section?
                                    Thanks

                                    Alberto

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                                    • marcellocM
                                      marcelloc
                                      last edited by

                                      @Bittone66:

                                      this is just a relay server.

                                      Inbound or outbound?

                                      @Bittone66:

                                      Is there a way to tell the package not to write the whole section?

                                      you can edit snort.inc and comment this part.

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                                        tfjelde
                                        last edited by

                                        Hi all

                                        I'm trying to get the mail search to work with no luck.

                                        All setting are correct as fare as i know

                                        Loggin Destination to /var/log/maillog
                                        Update Sqlite frequency every minute
                                        and i have inlcude /^Subject:/ WARN line in Acl Headers

                                        doing a  tail -f /var/log/maillog shows lines like this
                                        postfix/cleanup[22445]: 9249F114D0: warning: header Subject: test from mail.####.no

                                        But no other db files than postscreen_cache.db and verify_cache.db
                                        is showing up in /var/db/postfix

                                        2.1-RELEASE (i386)
                                        built on Wed Sep 11 18:16:22 EDT 2013
                                        FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11
                                        Postfix 2.10.2 pkg v.2.3.7

                                        Any suggestions on what to try next ?

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                                          Bittone66
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi Marcello,
                                          thanks for your kind attention.
                                          It's juts an inboud relay to block spammers, I'm not uysing it as outbound relay.
                                          One update: I removed the recipient section by editing postfx.inc file, still the problem of postfix not being able to communicate to the destination server on port 25 remains.
                                          So I used the portforward to localhost and everything started working again.
                                          Would you accept a "feature request" here like adding a "Don't verify recipients" checkbox to the interface in order not to generate thet part of the main.cf?
                                          Bye

                                          Alberto

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                                            JJYVON
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi

                                            Thanks Marcello for this great package.

                                            someone can help me with the mail search function ?
                                            I have made the configuration

                                            To use Diagnostics -> Search mail you need to:
                                            Select Loggin Destination to /var/log/maillog (done)
                                            Select update Sqlite frequency (every minute)
                                            Inlcude /^Subject:/ WARN line in Acl Headers after all your Subject rules (done)

                                            .

                                            In my var log i have the WARN for header

                                            Apr 10 09:35:32 disbox-utm postfix/cleanup[9968]: D117313C4F4: warning: header Subject:

                                            and some NOQUEUE

                                            Apr 10 09:35:52 disbox-utm postfix/postscreen[8797]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT

                                            yyyy-mm-dd.db are created in /var/db/postfix/ but they are empty

                                            I dont understand what i'm doing wrong

                                            Thanks for your help !

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