Re: [exim] Announce: Exilog - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas Hager
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:57 +0200, Tom Kistner wrote: If there is sufficient interest, I'll also finish the queue management support it's supposed to have. :) wow, looks awesome! i'll keep using grep, awk, et al (i'm more the console type of guy *g*), but i sense that many of my customers long

Re: [exim] Mail Frontier

2005-06-03 Thread Martin Hepworth
Kevin Reed wrote: We are just about done with a test eval of Mail Frontier's Appliance. It is a stand alone box that we pass all our mail through and it deals with spam issues. In our test, we ran our current system with SA and for the first week just had it look at the mail without any

Re: [exim] Announce: Exilog - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Jason Meers
You mention the need for better graphing tools in your post, try eximstate: http://www.olliecook.net/projects/eximstate/ We've been using it for about 2 years to monitor various exim servers around the UK from one central web page. We make it accessible to end users so they can check for

[exim] Possible bug -- def:acl_m0 operator misbehavior.

2005-06-03 Thread Rafa Kupka
Hello, Sometimes def:acl_xx returns false even if variable has a value. Exim version 4.50 #1 built 02-Mar-2005 07:42:40, standard debian package exim4-daemon-heavy 4.50-4 with custom configuration. I prepared special acl config (RCPT TO:) for testing, it looks like: defer !senders = :

[exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file

2005-06-03 Thread John Horne
Hello, Well I've just had to stop our recently upgraded mailhub because no mail was getting through! :-) The server is running Exim 4.51 and spamassassin 3.0.3 under Fedora core 3. Our main.log was showing numerous errors of: 2005-06-03 12:20:13 1DeACL-0004Ao-Dr acl_smtp_mime: error while

[exim] Exim Wishlist?

2005-06-03 Thread Marc Sherman
Is there a canonical on-line location for the current Exim wishlist? And what's the current recommended way of getting something added to it? Would you prefer mail on this list, or a bug in bugzilla? Thanks, - Marc -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] sending mail with exim

2005-06-03 Thread Jörg Reisenweber
Hi, Am 03.06.2005 um 02:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am guessing at this point that the command line argument is 'exim ([EMAIL PROTECTED])' and that you type in a few l;ines and send it with ctrl-d. Launch Exim with the parameter -bm followed by the recipient and pass a text file to it

Re: [exim] Client Authentication

2005-06-03 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/2/05 9:35 PM, Fred Viles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by that. By definition (RFC-2554), SMTP AUTH is a profile of SASL (RFC-), meaning it is a syntax for transporting SASL authentication mechanisms in an SMTP session. PLAIN and CRAM-MD5 are SASL mechanisms

Re: [exim] sending mail with exim

2005-06-03 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fr 03 Jun 2005 02:45:21 CEST): To whom it may concern, I need help figuring out how to send mail properly using exim. I either need a quick fix or reference to a true-newbies guide to exim. I have installed debian and exim according the the Debian Linux

Re: [exim] Possible bug -- def:acl_m0 operator misbehavior.

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-2] RafaB Kupka wrote: Sometimes def:acl_xx returns false even if variable has a value. Thank you for the report. I will investigate, but not until next week at the earliest. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim] Exim Wishlist?

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Marc Sherman wrote: Is there a canonical on-line location for the current Exim wishlist? ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/WishList And what's the current recommended way of getting something added to it? Would you prefer mail on this list, or a bug in

Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file

2005-06-03 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:47 -0700, John W. Baxter wrote: On 6/3/05 5:05 AM, John Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I couldn't understand was why this suddenly started - literally about 30 mins ago. The server had been running and sending/receiving mail for the past few days. Looking at

Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file

2005-06-03 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 14:08 +0100, John Horne wrote: The '.eml' is the message body and headers. The '0' file is just the body. I assume it would be a mime attachment, but this is just a plain text message: [snipped] As such I suspect that the problem is coming via us using the 'spam

Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file

2005-06-03 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:47 -0700, John W. Baxter wrote: Out of inodes? (If using a filesystem which suffers from that.) You didn't say what was in the 30,000 directories. Not exactly. Some (most?), but certainly not all, Unix filesystems have a directory link count which is (on many) a 16

Re: [exim] Exim Wishlist?

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Marc Sherman wrote: Ok, I'd like to add an item to the wishlist. I mentioned it once before on the mailing list[0], but it was in the context of a feature request for eximstats, so I'm not surprised it didn't make the exim wishlist. Ah yes. I think I saw it, but as

Re: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam

2005-06-03 Thread Daniel Bendersky
Hi, I use similar order on the ACL's and just 2 weeks ago I moved the RBL checks to the connect ACL instead of the RCPT ACL. This little change, speed up my servers and reduce the load from 3 to 0.5 After thinking about it, is obvius that if we filter by IP, i.e. using RBL, why not filter at

RE: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam

2005-06-03 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, I use similar order on the ACL's and just 2 weeks ago I moved the RBL checks to the connect ACL instead of the RCPT ACL. This little change, speed up my servers and reduce the load from 3 to 0.5 After thinking about it, is obvius that if we filter by IP, i.e. using RBL, why not

Re: [exim] UNSEEN option

2005-06-03 Thread Dean Brooks
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 11:12:44AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * Dean Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050602 18:16]: wrote: In system filter: if foranyaddress $recipients ($thisaddress is [EMAIL PROTECTED]) then unseen deliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] errors_to /dev/null

RE: [exim] Announce: Exilog - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Dickenson, Steven
Matthew Newton wrote: I've got two similar scripts; one that makes data available every 5 minutes via SNMP (I use this with Cacti, which then makes some really neat graphs of the traffic flow and the queue), and another that feeds traffic/spam data into an SQL database. Both these work on

Re: [exim] UNSEEN option

2005-06-03 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Dean Brooks wrote: Does the errors_to /dev/null take care of situations like where the mailbox of [EMAIL PROTECTED] is full? Exactly. If you don't redirect the errors in that manner to go somewhere else, those kinds of errors would go back to the original sender. By

Re: [exim] Exim 4.51, SA, error while creating mbox spool file

2005-06-03 Thread John W. Baxter
On 6/3/05 6:39 AM, Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 05:47 -0700, John W. Baxter wrote: Out of inodes? (If using a filesystem which suffers from that.) You didn't say what was in the 30,000 directories. Not exactly. Some (most?), but certainly not all,

[exim] How to list the queue with FROM, TO and IP of the sender?

2005-06-03 Thread Daniel Bendersky
Hi, I will like to get from the queue the same information than using: exipick '$sender_address =~ /adsl.tie.cl/' -b but also get the IP's Any suggestion? -- Saludos Daniel Bendersky. -- Daniel Bendersky

[exim] Message ID

2005-06-03 Thread ppp2005
Hi all, I'd like to know how message ID is generated by exim. Ex: 1DeJiO-0008B7-Oh I will mount a load balanced system with 4 exim servers with identical users and configurations and storing all messagens in same storage. Another machine will distribute requests based on load average of the

[exim] Re-Hash - How to remove headers on ingress?

2005-06-03 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, after a long time of waiting, the spammers have started to become smart, so having a + in the local part of the mail address begins to lose its effectiveness as spam prevention. I have thus begun to experiment with spamassassin and exiscan and am rapidly running into the standard problems,

Re: [exim] Message ID

2005-06-03 Thread Dave Lugo
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to know how message ID is generated by exim. Ex: 1DeJiO-0008B7-Oh take a look at spec.txt: 3.4 Message identification -- Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]LC Unit

[exim] ongoing error handling problems in the sender address verifier

2005-06-03 Thread Greg A. Woods
I'm assuming this mis-configured mailer at buffy.ms.cx is running Exim (since it gives the same response to HELP as known Exim servers) and that it's using the built-in sender address verification hack. I really wish this check would properly discern the difference between a recognizable error

Re: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam

2005-06-03 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 09:58 -0400, Daniel Bendersky wrote: Hi, I use similar order on the ACL's and just 2 weeks ago I moved the RBL checks to the connect ACL instead of the RCPT ACL. This little change, speed up my servers and reduce the load from 3 to 0.5 I'm quite surprised to hear this.

Re: [exim] Announce: Exilog - Exim central logging / reporting tool

2005-06-03 Thread Daniel Bendersky
Hi, first of all, thanks! your software is exactly what I was looking for for years. Are you planning to write a similar one for other software? maybe Dovecot, the POP3 and IMAP that is getting a standart because it's speed and security? Just one suggestion, at the instalation, I had some

Re: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam

2005-06-03 Thread Edgar Lovecraft
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: ..[snip]... does anyone know how other servers react to being rejected and having the connection dropped in the pre-DATA phase? Can't comment on specific servers but long ago I moved from drop to deny and removed and delay's that i used to use, I found that doing