Re: Dynamic Host - SMTP Message Filter Setup

Elton:

I have re-checked my settings, and I know that I'm not an open relay. My Error Response Parameters were the same as yours except I had "Send E-mail form to Postmaster" checked, so I turned that off.

The only other thing that may be causing it, is I have a filter setup to discard messages to a few accounts that do not exist any longer or spammers try to send to (see screenshot below). I have also noticed that if I have too many addresses in this filter, I begin to get the dreaded "SMTP-Accept" stacking issue.

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Any thoughts?
Jason

On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 10:47 AM, elton wrote:

Jason,

As outlined in this thread, the "messages folder" accumulates mail delivered to Post.Office, but not yet delivered to the individual user's mailboxes.

So, if you are accumulating a lot of mail in this folder you may be a "open relay"; verify your relay and POP before SMTP settings.

Also, set your "Error Response Parameters" to "return messages from Unknown Users" and to "Delete Undeliverable Mail"; ie (see below):

Elton

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On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Jason Bayer wrote:
Marc:

I have that problem as well... I have to go into that folder about once a week and manually delete the message in that directory. I've never read a definitive reason as to why it occurs. Does anyone else know what's going on there? I'm still running v717.

Thanks,
Jason Bayer
Architechnology, Inc.
www.architechnology.com
On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 07:02 PM, Elton Darby wrote:
How do you deal with all the messages in /var/spool/post.office/messages?
I never have any message in that folder.

From what I understand you should not either, because its the mail delivered to Post.Office, but not yet delivered to the individual user's mailboxes -- and if that's not happening promptly, something may be wrong.

Granted, I "return mail" that is addressed to unknown users -- guess if you were not doing this you would have some mail accumulate in that folder.

Elton

On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:52 PM, Marc Kaiwi wrote:
Elton,

How do you deal with all the messages in /var/spool/post.office/messages?

On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Elton Darby wrote:

How did you collect the stats on the filters?
I just totaled up my OSX_mail_client's junk folders and deleted folders, since each was directed to it own mailbox; ie: spamcop@xxxxxxxxxxxx, spamass@xxxxxxxxxxxx, etc.

OSX_mail_client generally catches 99.98% and puts in the Junk section; thus I can review and/or search the full text if I want. I have it set to keep the junk for a week -- the Junk section maintains aprox. 30,000 SPAMs for a moving week.

I'm not sure if SA will "auto learn" out-of-the-box, but its doing a great job for me sitting behind the RBL's -- I disabled all of my blocking (John's list) to let it "work" and all has been excellent with zero false positives.

Elton
Signed: Marc Kaiwi
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