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Jul 12 10:34:26 xserver postfix/smtpd[3892]: warning: 14.99.180.20: hostname static-20.180.99.14.tataidc.co.in verification failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Jul 12 10:37:32 xserver postfix/smtpd[4060]: warning: 189.61.198.209: hostname bd3dc6d1.virtua.com.br verification failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
Jul 12 10:37:46 xserver postfix/smtpd[4060]: warning: 67.23.255.158: hostname 67-23-255-158.static.dimenoc.com verification failed: nodename nor servname provided, or not known
curious because it's not clear whether these requests are being rejected (as they should be) or they're being accepted and our server is acting as a spam relay?!?

any tips/advice (especially regarding security/relay protection) would be greatly appreciated.
$ postconf -n
biff = no
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debug_peer_level = 2
enable_server_options = yes
header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/custom_header_checks
html_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/html
inet_interfaces = all
mail_owner = _postfix
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mailbox_transport = dovecot
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
maps_rbl_domains =
message_size_limit = 8388608
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, mail.pretendco.com, pretendco.com, xserve.pretendco.com, $mydomain
mydomain = pretendco.com
mydomain_fallback = localhost
myhostname = xserve.pretendco.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases
queue_directory = /private/var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost =
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail
setgid_group = _postdrop
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = no
smtp_sasl_password_maps =
smtpd_client_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org permit
smtpd_enforce_tls = no
smtpd_helo_required = yes
smtpd_helo_restrictions = reject_invalid_helo_hostname reject_non_fqdn_helo_hostname
smtpd_pw_server_security_options = cram-md5,gssapi
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated permit_mynetworks reject_unauth_destination check_policy_service unix:private/policy permit
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_tls_CAfile =
smtpd_tls_cert_file =
smtpd_tls_exclude_ciphers = SSLv2, aNULL, ADH, eNULL
smtpd_tls_key_file =
smtpd_tls_loglevel = 0
smtpd_use_pw_server = yes
smtpd_use_tls = no
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
virtual_alias_maps = $virtual_maps

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After looking into the Google process, I was surprised to find the tentacles that Google puts into your system, and ripped every bit of it out that I could. But I have no idea about what's going on with SSDragHelper and System Prefe (presumable System Preferences). This must be OS X itself? What are these processes doing, and is there any way to prevent them from accessing these disks in this way?

Thanks for the reply Hen3ry. Looks like you've done a lot of investigation. For me, fs_usage entries accompanying spindown are not problems - I'm happy if the drives spin down. My problem is the spinups. But still, I don't think it is necessary to time the fs_usage entries with spinups. If you grep for the drives you're concerned about, you will see any process that would potentially wake them up.
Because my understanding is limited, I also am more concerned with the process/application that is accessing the drives than with the functions or commands they are sending. And the values that are returned by those functions are way beyond what I can deal with.
It's interesting that you've found a difference between your old and new drives. Could you specify the enclosure and drives in each case?
The StorageStatus app looks interesting; thanks for the tip.
Here's a summary of what I've done so far, which I think is working. I need a few more weeks to know for sure.
How to prevent unwanted drive spin-ups
If you are actively using the computer that the enclosure is attached to, nothing on God’s green earth will stop OS X from waking them up after some user action, even ones that seem to have nothing to do with the external drives. But if you leave the computer alone while some application is running, like watching a movie or downloading a file, you have a fighting chance of coaxing OS X into leaving the uninvolved drives alone.
If the drives are shared with any other computers over a network, eject them on those computers
Otherwise, OS X (AppleFileServer) will poll them every 10 seconds. This might not be bad if you want to just keep the drives spinning and the other computer stays awake.
Third-party apps
Make sure no apps are running that might access your drives. Google runs some processes that do this (maybe I’m naïve, but I was so shocked I removed chrome and every other trace of Google from my Mac mini system). Another is iStat and any utility that monitors SMART status in the background.
Don’t let Spotlight index or search the drives
Spotlight is persistent, and it may be necessary to take a variety of steps to stop its various processes (mds, mdworker) from accessing the drives and waking them up. In other words, kill it, drive a stake through its heart, then burn the body:
In System Preferences > Spotlight, add the drives to the Privacy pane.
Add a file called .metadata_never_index to the root of each drive (note the leading period). The easiest way to do this is in Terminal
touch /Volumes/<drive1>/.metadata_never_index
Tell Spotlight AGAIN to keep away from the drive:
mdutil -i off /Volumes/<drive1> /Volumes/<drive2> . . .
Finally delete the Spotlight folder from the drive.
rm -rf /Volumes/<drive1>.Spotlight-*
Stop fseventsd from logging in the drive
This is easy, just putting a no_log file in its folder. I have found that rarely it still writes some files in there, but it doesn’t seem to do so when it causes problems, so . . .
          rm –rf /Volumes/<drive1>/.fseventsd/*
     touch /Volumes/<drive1>/.fseventsd/no_log
Finder sidebar
Some people say that if the drives show in the Sidebar of Finder windows, the Finder will be checking them. I’m not sure. But to be safe, in Finder Preferences > Sidebar, uncheck External Disks.
Just say no to Time Machine
On the home theater mac itself, regular backups shouldn’t be needed. You should be able to just turn Time Machine off. However, it is probably sufficient to simply open System Preferences > Time Machine > Options and add the drives to the list of locations to exclude from backup.
Second, local backups can be disabled with
sudo tmutil disablelocal
Look for other culprits
If the problem persists, use fs_usage, which generates a real-time log of filesystem activity. There is so much going on that you need to use grep to restrict the output to entries that involve your drives. The entries that accompany your drive spin-ups are the ones you really want.
sudo fs_usage -w | grep -e Volumes/<drive1> -e /Volumes/<drive2> . . .
Now leave the keyboard and mouse alone, as many things you might do will cause the drives to be accessed. You probably want to find what does it when you’re not actively interacting with the computer. It’s not really necessary to wait for your drives to sleep and see what wakes them. Any activity you see would probably wake the drives if they were asleep. When you see some activity and want to stop and examine, type Control-C to stop the output. On the far right of each entry is the process or application that accessed the disks.
I got pointers from http://system-log.tyr.org.uk/2012/01/31/how-to-stop-usb-drives-from-spinning-up- unnecessarily-on-os-x-lion/ and http://www.jackenhack.com/disk-that-refuses-to-sleep-in-mac-os-x-how-to-fix-it/

HT4859 i backed up files created by documents app on ipad on icloud. where are these files?

I created a couple of files using free version of documents app on ipad. Now i want to transfer them to imac for furhter editing. I used back up on ipad to back up on icloid. I logged on icloud but cannot find these files. it gives me icond for mail, contacts, etc. where are these files stord on icloud? if i cannot get on icloud, what is the other way to get these files on imac?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Which free documents app.

Errors in mail logs - Launchd

My mail error log is full of these. It adds a new one every 10 seconds. Any idea how to stop it?
Main log -
Jul 1 03:07:09 mikeg com.apple.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master[23236]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jul 1 03:07:09 mikeg com.apple.launchd[1] (org.postfix.master): Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
Mail.log -
Jul 1 03:09:58 mikeg postfix/master[23287]: fatal: chdir /private/var/spool/postfix: No such file or directory
Jul 1 03:10:09 mikeg postfix/master[23290]: fatal: chdir /private/var/spool/postfix: No such file or directory
Jul 1 03:10:19 mikeg postfix/master[23291]: fatal: chdir /private/var/spool/postfix: No such file or directory
Jul 1 03:10:29 mikeg postfix/master[23294]: fatal: chdir /private/var/spool/postfix: No such file or directory

Dan F wrote:
I may have caused it at some point when i was messing with some different mailing packages for newsletter management.
Here's the output -
0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Mar 7 09:39 .
0 drwxr-xr-x 25 root wheel 850 Jan 12 12:14 ..
0 drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 68 Mar 7 09:39 PDFMaker
0 drwx--x--- 33 root _lp 1122 Jun 26 01:45 cups
Yup, you're correct: You've done some messing-up somtime, somewhere!
Now you need to figure out where you've left the launchd Daemon/Agent that causes the respawning of this doomed job. There are all over the place!
Try this, but on your side. No need to post the full results here: It'll be too long.
The 'ls -lrt' command sorts by last accessed time. So, you'll most likely to get the non-Apple ones listed last
ls -lrt /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/
ls -lrt /System/Library/LaunchAgents/
ls -lrt /Library/LaunchDaemons/
ls -lrt /Library/LaunchAgents/
ls -lrt ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
There is a bunch of plist (XML) files. One may spark in you some souvenir of what you've tried once and canceled.
Remember that deleting an application from the /Application folder is NOT ENOUGH to uninstall a program!
On good hint for you is to hit Command-I when a package installer runs. This will show you all the files that will be installed. Good thing to remember of those when you want to uninstall an application. There are some applications that take care of nicely uninstalling other applications ... removing launchd daemons/agents.
Give a try first with
ls -lrt /Library/LaunchAgents/
My bet it's here.
Good luck,
Thierry

AsyncOS 5.5 - errno 60 in mail logs

We upgraded our IronPorts to AsyncOS 5.5 two weeks ago and over the past week, an issue has begun to manifest itself. We are wondering if anyone else has seen this.
When sending to some domains (at this point about 20 or so) we receive error responses (soft bounces) and eventually hard bounces. The errors we are seeing in the mail logs are:
Thu Nov 15 11:43:57 2007 Info: Delayed: DCID 11509176 MID 43979667 to RID 0 - 4.4.0 - Other network problem ('000', ['[Errno 60] Operation timed out']) []
and less often:
Thu Nov 15 11:33:23 2007 Info: Delayed: DCID 11508361 MID 44031268 to RID 0 - 4.4.0 - Other network problem ('000', ['[Errno 54] Connection reset by peer']) []
The systems on the other side appear to be all fronted by PIX Firewalls and do not have the SMTP Fixup command enabled. (If you telnet to it you get 220 ************************) Only very small manual telnet emails seem to make it through. The MTU packet size by default on their end is 1380. They lowered it and more emails made it through, but not all. The MTU packet size on our firewalls in 1500 and adjusting the packet size on the IronPorts has not helped the issue.
Has anyone else seen this, or better yet, fixed this issue? If you look at delivery status and see domains that are up and have a lot of softbounces, this may be a sign that this is happening.
Any and all help would be appreciated.

We turned it on as soon as it was a feature in AsyncOS - around 2005 - despite it being half implemented (ala AsyncOS's support of SMTP-TLS).
It's not that it was only half implemented - it's that there are two different protocols at play here.
The first is DomainKeys, which IronPort has supported for some time. This is an early standard designed largely by Yahoo. DomainKeys is covered in Historic RFC 4870.
The second is DomainKeys Identified Mail, or DKIM, which is a newer standard based on a combination of DomainKeys and Cisco's Identified Internet Mail. DKIM is covered in the Standards Track RFC 4871, and was implemented in AsyncOS 5.5.
However, it is pretty much finished [for everyone on the internet] for the next 12+ months unless Cisco+Ironport fix the PIX smtp fixup issue.
It's been fixed since August in PIX code 7.2(3). The problem is of course that it's the recipients end that needs this upgrade (or to disable MailGuard), not the end doing the DKIM signing, which obviously make it more difficult to resolve.

Are these warnings in SMTP mail.log bad?

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