RE: [exim] routing a mailing list - strange things happened

2006-02-13 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Risse Laurent wrote: I already ran exim using its debug mode and saw what I expected, all things are working well through the debug informations... If it works when debugging is turned on and does not work when debugging is turned off, that is very strange indeed. --

Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verification behaviour

2006-02-13 Thread Philip Hazel
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Renaud Allard wrote: I can do any tests you wish, but if you could tell me what would be useful to you, it would be better. I have been checking the Exim test suite, and it already contains a test for callouts that fail at RCPT, and (needless to say) the message that is

Re: [exim] Shared /var/spool/exim4/db

2006-02-13 Thread Tony Finch
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Craig Whitmore wrote: Is is safe to have a shared /var/spool/exim4/db (say have it on NFS) so I can share the callout and ratelimit db's etc on multiple machines Not really - you're relying on NFS locking, which is only safe if you are careful. Note that this may hurt

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Mike Grice
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 01:34 -0300, alexis wrote: This is the scenario. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an alias for [EMAIL PROTECTED], now, [EMAIL PROTECTED] has it's autorespond configured, so if i send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ill receive an autoresponse from robert, how can i avoid that?

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Steven Wayne
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:34:17AM -0300, alexis wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:34:17 -0300 From: alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: [exim] alias and autorespond This is the scenario. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an alias for [EMAIL PROTECTED], now, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim] (syslog) exim panic event at info level(!)

2006-02-13 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Daniel Parry wrote: Now syslog (default BSD version), in its infinite wisdom sees the identical messages and decides that they should both be reported at the priority level of the first... thus the alert slips through at level info! Now this is no fault of exim, but it

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread alexis
1 and 2 Not possible, in my scenario robert doesnt know about the 'jack' alias. 3. the behavior that my customer wants (i found this stupid too, but you know, customer is always right) is - if somebody sends an email to robert, to keep the message at the robert mailbox and also send the

Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verification behaviour

2006-02-13 Thread Philip Hazel
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Renaud Allard wrote: Here is the result of the test. The callout was cached, so I suppressed the cache before sending the message. I also removed greylisting because it would have been unpractical for debugging. I included the full file just in case. Thanks for the

Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verification behaviour

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Sherman
Philip Hazel wrote: Notice what happens: the first test is correctly rejected at the RCPT TO stage. Exim then sends RSET and MAIL FROM: again. This time, the remote host gives the response that Exim logs! So as far as I can see, the remote host is behaving weirdly. (And the remote host is

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 11:38 -0300, alexis wrote: 3. the behavior that my customer wants (i found this stupid too, but you know, customer is always right) is - if somebody sends an email to robert, to keep the message at the robert mailbox and also send the autoreply (this is working just

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Nigel Metheringham wrote: I've written notes on good autoreply habits in the past - in the archives somewhere - for example... http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20011210/033121.html See also ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3834.txt Tony. --

Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verification behaviour

2006-02-13 Thread Renaud Allard
Indeed, it is definitely not an exim bug. I examined the logs to find other servers where I get this kind of behaviour, and they all appear to run alligate mail server. On 2/13/2006, Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Renaud Allard wrote: Here is the result of the test.

[exim] RHS expansion a la mailertable

2006-02-13 Thread vas
Colleagues, In mailertable (sendmail) I can write .old-company.com = smtp:%1.new-company.com In the CGP routing table I can write: *.old-company.com = *.new-company.com How do I achieve the same RHS expansion in an exim router (in route_data)? The simplest way would be to enumerate all the

Re: [exim] patch for Exim on FreeBSD - implementation of resource limits

2006-02-13 Thread Philip Hazel
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, I wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Stanislaw Halik wrote: a while ago I made a patch, causing Exim to set resource limits (via a login_cap(3) library functions) when running a pipe transport. I'd be very grateful for any comments about the patch. I will take a look in

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Jethro R Binks
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Tony Finch wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Nigel Metheringham wrote: I've written notes on good autoreply habits in the past - in the archives somewhere - for example... http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20011210/033121.html See also

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Steven Wayne
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:38:18AM -0300, alexis wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:38:18 -0300 From: alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exim Mailing List exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] alias and autorespond 1 and 2 Not possible, in my scenario robert doesnt know about the 'jack' alias.

Re: [exim] patch for Exim on FreeBSD - implementation of resource limits

2006-02-13 Thread Tony Finch
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Philip Hazel wrote: Another problem is that the functions you have used (login_cap, login_getpwclass, setclassresources) all appear to be BSD-specific. They don't exist in Linux or Solaris. They exist in FreeBSD - I don't know if they exist in OpenBSD or NetBSD. It

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread alexis
On 2/13/06, Steven Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 11:38:18AM -0300, alexis wrote: Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:38:18 -0300 From: alexis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exim Mailing List exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] alias and autorespond 1 and 2 Not possible, in

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread Philip Hazel
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, alexis wrote: 1 and 2 Not possible, in my scenario robert doesnt know about the 'jack' alias. If the aliasing is happening inside Exim, using redirection, then robert's filter or whatever (some router) can detect whether the message is direct or via an alias by

Re: [exim] alias and autorespond

2006-02-13 Thread alexis
On 2/13/06, Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, alexis wrote: 1 and 2 Not possible, in my scenario robert doesnt know about the 'jack' alias. If the aliasing is happening inside Exim, using redirection, then Yes it is mysql_alias: driver = redirect

Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verification behaviour

2006-02-13 Thread Fred Viles
On 13 Feb 2006 at 9:02, Fred Viles wrote about Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verificat: |... (nothing relevant) Sorry, I hadn't read the later messages yet (doh). - Fred -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##

[exim] Error Exim4 Unrouteable address

2006-02-13 Thread Jose Alberto Lopez Razo
I'm testing exim4 in Debian when i send a mail to local user I get a error in mainlog : Unrouteable address 2006-02-13 09:50:57 1F8fy0-hh-25 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=root P=local S=406 2006-02-13 09:51:07 1F8fy0-hh-25 ** [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address 2006-02-13 09:51:17

[exim] Exim + MySQL + Aliases

2006-02-13 Thread Alvaro Marín
Hello Exim Users, I've installed Exim from the Debian package and I'm having some problems with it's configuration. My idea is to set up an Exim server with MySQL. It would have 2 tables, one for domains and other one for aliases. The only function of this server would be get the email,

Re: [exim] Re: Debian uucp

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 11:28:14 +0100 (CET), Jakob Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent Clark wrote: I was wondering if I shouldnt add something like require_files = $local_part:$home/.forward I have added this to the default configuration for Debian exim4. Greetings Marc --

Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:02:41 +0100 (CET), Jakob Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rafa wrote: control. My problem is, that server is configured to return 450 for invalid mailboxes, causing exim to interpret it as a temporary error. This is broken, wrong and stupid. 4xx tells other MTAs to retry,

Re: [exim] strange log entries: no IP address found for host smtp05.host.com (during SMTP connection from NULL)

2006-02-13 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Marc Sherman wrote: Here's a repost with excerpts from today's exim_mainlog file, un-edited: This entry is logged over 30,000 times per day in the exim_mainlog: 2005-12-28 09:36:50 no IP address found for host smtp05.dc2.safesecureweb.com (during SMTP

Re: [exim] Exim + MySQL + Aliases

2006-02-13 Thread Rich Johnson
On Feb 13, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Alvaro Marín wrote: [...snip...] In router section, I have this: mysql_aliases: driver = redirect allow_fail allow_defer data = ${lookup mysql{ SELECT dest FROM aliases \ WHERE email='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'}} And the aliases table is: