Re: [exim] bypass spamassassin in exim

2006-09-30 Thread John Robinson
On 30/09/2006 05:02, Asghar Ali wrote: > I want to bypass spamassassin for my outgoing mails in exim. how i can do it > ? You could add something like accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts and/or accept authenticated = * before the call to SpamAssassin in the ACL you run for acl_smtp_

[exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
I'm thinking of rejecting connections from some 'spam problem areas' in the connect acl. Below are the config I wish to use. Does anyone have anything to comment? Might I end up with some unexpected problems? Are the regexes matching the end users and do their ISP's really serve them with mail g

[exim] Messages rejected by SpamAssassin (sa-exim) not displayed by exilog

2006-09-30 Thread ROGERS Richard
Hi - Apologies that refers to some slightly peripheral software rather than exim itself... It appears that exilog is not displaying all rejections on my exim/sa-exim system. For example, the following was logged this morning: in main.log 2006-09-30 08:26:32 1GTZEq-QI-FK SA: Action:

[exim] Not Tagging Header

2006-09-30 Thread gascione
My exim configuration has the DNS black list check shown below and it worked perfectly forever. Now it doesn't. If I watch the log in real time I can see many log messages indicating that the check is actually being performed but the program no longer tags the header with the X-SPAM-DNSBL. The on

Re: [exim] How to invoke an Exim Filter from an alias file?

2006-09-30 Thread Marc Sherman
Florian Laws wrote: > > Like this: > > special_aliases: > driver = redirect > allow_fail > allow_defer > allow_filter > data = ${if eq \ > {:filter:} \ > > {${substr_0_8:${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/export/mail/special_aliases > \ > > {${readfile{${substr_8:${l

Re: [exim] How to invoke an Exim Filter from an alias file?

2006-09-30 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Sherman wrote: > > You can use address_data for this: > > special_aliases: >driver = redirect >allow_fail >allow_defer >allow_filter >address_data = \ > ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/export/mail/special_aliases}} >data = ${if eq {:filter:}{${substr_0_8:${address_

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread W B Hacker
Andreas Pettersson wrote: > I'm thinking of rejecting connections from some 'spam problem areas' in > the connect acl. > Below are the config I wish to use. > Does anyone have anything to comment? Welll.. like my aging corpus 'good in parts'... You are on to a technique 'of value', and we are ab

[exim] basic doubts in exim configuration

2006-09-30 Thread Ashok tce
Hi all, I am in the process of setting up a mail server using exim+imap cyrus.I have studied the eim docs and configured exim's routers and transports.I have some basic requirements in my mail server i.e any mail from:@tce.edu must be handled by exim both from my local domain and external domain. W

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
W B Hacker wrote: >Andreas Pettersson wrote: > > >>Might I end up with some >>unexpected problems? Are the regexes matching the end users and do their >>ISP's really serve them with mail gateways? >> >> > >You need not worry about that part. > >Many senders NOT using the ISP's MTA are zomb

Re: [exim] basic doubts in exim configuration

2006-09-30 Thread W B Hacker
Ashok tce wrote: > Hi all, > I am in the process of setting up a mail server using exim+imap cyrus.I have > studied the eim docs and configured exim's routers and transports.I have > some basic requirements in my mail server i.e any mail from:@tce.edu must be > handled by exim both from my local d

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread W B Hacker
Andreas Pettersson wrote: > W B Hacker wrote: > *snip* >> >>OTOH, before we get this far, we have already dropped arrivals that do not >>pass >>forward/reverse lookup, have no DNS entry at all, so don't have to check >>every >>arrival against these lists. Far from it! >> >> > > God, I woul

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread Renaud Allard
>> God, I would love to have my setup like that. Unfortunately my users are >> receiving legit mail from far too many braindead mail servers setups, >> and the morality among those admins is "It's working so why care about >> rdns?". >> Me rejecting them would result in something like "Hey, we

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread W B Hacker
Renaud Allard wrote: > >>>God, I would love to have my setup like that. Unfortunately my users are >>>receiving legit mail from far too many braindead mail servers setups, >>>and the morality among those admins is "It's working so why care about >>>rdns?". >>>Me rejecting them would result in

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
W B Hacker wrote: >Renaud Allard wrote: > > > God, I would love to have my setup like that. Unfortunately my users are receiving legit mail from far too many braindead mail servers setups, and the morality among those admins is "It's working so why care about rdns?". Me re

Re: [exim] Rejecting direcly connected customers at connect time

2006-09-30 Thread Andreas Pettersson
W B Hacker wrote: > > >Plus - we point out that aware of it or not, they DO have a problem. Several >'major' ISP's will reject if they don't *at least* find an 'A' record, and a >few >want to see a PTR as well. > > > While we're at it, how can I make exim reject connections like these? 2006

[exim] Please help me get more spam!

2006-09-30 Thread Dave Pooser
Okay, not *me* per se, but my role accounts. In acl_rcpt_to I have: # Accept mail to postmaster in any local domain, regardless of the source, # and without verifying the sender. warnset acl_m0= Delivered to role account local_parts = postmaster : blacklist-admin : abus

Re: [exim] Please help me get more spam!

2006-09-30 Thread W B Hacker
Dave Pooser wrote: > Okay, not *me* per se, but my role accounts. > > In acl_rcpt_to I have: > > # Accept mail to postmaster in any local domain, regardless of the source, > # and without verifying the sender. > > warnset acl_m0= Delivered to role account > local_parts