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Postfix: check sender IP but don't reject

I need to do the following with Postfix: when receiving mail from remote server, check sender IP with various blacklisting services (e.g. spamhaus or abuseipdb), but avoid rejecting mail automatically,...
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Multiple Domains, Single IP Blocked by Gmail

I have two domain names and 1 email server. When I send an email from my server to my gmail account, and then view the original message, emails from both domains are stated to: Pass SPF Pass DKIM ...
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How to prioritise one domain name over others in rDNS?

I have a single remote server and multiple domain names. This server hosts webpages under certain domain names - say domain1.com - and hosts a webpage with an associated mail server under a separate ...
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My emails are seen as spam by Gmail

I have a email server with postfix, dovecot, spamassassin, etc. www.mail-tester.com gives me 10/10. www.spamscore.net complains about the spf (SPF record SOFTFAIL) and reverse DNS: I have neither ...
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Debian server getting spammed through

This server has been live for many years, however, recently it is under attack by spam. I have not been able to plug the hole they are using. It seems that the spam is using the sasl_username=clamav. ...
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How do I block Postfix from sending spam?

My postfix is sending spam from a [email protected] address. How is this possible and how do I allow only www-data@localhost to send and postfix to only deliver from [email protected] to ...
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unauthorized access to dovecot services

Recently i was enable mail-relay to 3rd party tool, suddenly i found 1000 of emails are going as a spam everyday to unknown users i disable the mail-relay ,but still we facing some one login our ...
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header_checks is applied to mail body (CentOS 7 + Postfix 2.10.1)

I have received SPAM e-mail, added regular expression to header_checks about it and when tried to forward SPAM e-mail as attachment, then this check triggered and rejected my forwarded e-mail. Regexp ...
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what's the difference between using RBLs and anti-spam software?

My doubt is, is it too different to use RBLs instead of anti-spam programs? (like SpamAssassin) I've a Postfix + Dovecot server with some RBLs in Postfix, and disabled SpamAssassin because it was ...
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Postfix is forwarding/relaying spam

I have an Ubuntu 16.04 machine with Postfix 3.1.0 and virtual mailboxes (iredmail). I'm using postscreen (with a local Bind server), Amavis with ClamAV and SpamAssassin. The amount of received spam ...
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Gmail detecting mails as spam [Postfix]

I am running an ispconfig web/mail server and the problem is that my mail ends up in spam at google. I have everything set up rDNS, DKIM, SPF, dmarc, so i dont think that the record part would be an ...
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Securing smtp with login

I have a ispconfig server, and it seems that someone is using it to send spam. I got about 130 "Mail Delivery System" emails about declined send email. This spammer uses my email address as sent from ...
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Mail forwarding: Do I need to concern myself with the SPF fail header from Google?

I'm using a Postfix mail server to forward personal mails from an EC2 instance to a Gmail account. To prevent Google from considdering me a source of spam I have set up all the ...
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Tracing which user/process is sending mail to local postfix instance via TCP

I have a server, running postfix MTA. There is currently a spam issue. It seems one of the local users got some infected software/script/binary, that is connecting to the postfix via TCP port 25 ...
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Mails to Microsoft's servers rejected

When I send an email to any Microsoft address it's instantly rejected. Searching for a while I find that only MS servers blacklist my IP, and I need to go to JMRP and ask them to remove it: https://...

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