Re: [exim] authenticated mail rejected

2006-10-19 Thread Renaud Allard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sender who connects to SMTP has an authenticated account, yet his mail is being rejected by one of the DNSBL. Is my "accept authenticated = *" at the wrong place? Is something wrong in the "acl_check_rcpt" section? Indeed, you would need to put the "accept

[exim] authenticated mail rejected

2006-10-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, Sender who connects to SMTP has an authenticated account, yet his mail is being rejected by one of the DNSBL. Is my "accept authenticated = *" at the wrong place? Is something wrong in the "acl_check_rcpt" section? acl_check_rcpt: accept hosts = : denylocal_parts

Re: [exim] per user spamassassin setup

2006-10-19 Thread Dave Lugo
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, SeattleServer.com wrote: > > Is there a way to have exim call spamassassin with the user to whom > > the e-mail is sent? > > Not unless your defer after every recipient in the RCPT ACL so that exim sees > a new copy of the message (and thus a new instance of the DATA ACL) for e

Re: [exim] Converting from Qmail to Exim

2006-10-19 Thread SeattleServer.com
On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:39, Don O'Neil wrote: > Is there a utility to convert qmail mail files into the exim mailfile > format? We're using DirectAdmin's exim implementation, but want to move our > old mail files (one file per mail format) from qmail to the new system. You really want to us

Re: [exim] per user spamassassin setup

2006-10-19 Thread SeattleServer.com
On Thursday 19 October 2006 20:10, Chris Purves wrote: > Is there a way to have exim call spamassassin with the user to whom > the e-mail is sent? Not unless your defer after every recipient in the RCPT ACL so that exim sees a new copy of the message (and thus a new instance of the DATA ACL) for

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread SeattleServer.com
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 20:34, Marc Perkel wrote: > I just developed this for a guy who had only one email address for his > domain. Instead of having several email addresses what I did was if he > created an IMAP folder then the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go > directly into that fo

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread SeattleServer.com
On Thursday 19 October 2006 05:09, Marc Sherman wrote: > The objection was not to the length of the thread, in that case. It was > the specific repeated demand for a new feature. Once the feature request > is acknowledged and on the wish-list, it's rude to continue requesting > that open source dev

[exim] per user spamassassin setup

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Purves
Is there a way to have exim call spamassassin with the user to whom the e-mail is sent? I understand that "spam = $local_part" won't work for an acl, but that is essentially what I would like to be able to do. What is the best way to do this? -- Take care, Chris -- ## List details at http://w

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 16:16 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > Here's my latest code to make it work. Obviously it is specific to my > system but can be adapted. Looks fairly similar to http://david.woodhou.se/eximconf/include/routers-dir-virtual -- especially the way you set the user it delivers as :)

Re: [exim] deny dnslists question

2006-10-19 Thread John Robinson
On 19/10/2006 20:00, Debbie Doerrlamm wrote: > I would like very much to add the deny dnslists to my ACL but I need to > verify exactly where to add it.. as in which section. You can add it to any ACL you like. Some prefer as early as acl_smtp_connect, some as late as acl_smtp_predata, and there

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's my latest code to make it work. Obviously it is specific to my system but can be adapted. Router: virtual_localuser_default_foldermode: driver = accept require_files = /vhome/$domain/home/default/$local_part retry_use_local_part transport = virtual_localuser_default_foldermode u

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Stuart Gall wrote: >> >> What he is doing I thing is getting exim to automatically create a >> new account for any local part it receives on the domains it servs. > > So it accepts wildcard deliveries? > >> That is quite clever. > > Perhaps that's not the word that I wo

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> Actually that isn't the case. The IMAP folder has to already exist so >> if someone does a dictionary attack then any local part that doesn't >> match a folder will be rejected as an unknown user. If the folder >> already exists them mail is deli

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread W B Hacker
Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Stuart Gall wrote: > >>What he is doing I thing is getting exim to automatically create a new >>account for any local part it receives on the domains it servs. > > > So it accepts wildcard deliveries? > > >>That is quite clever. > > > Perhaps that's not the word t

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Stuart Gall wrote: > > What he is doing I thing is getting exim to automatically create a new > account for any local part it receives on the domains it servs. So it accepts wildcard deliveries? > That is quite clever. Perhaps that's not the word that I would choose. -- Martin A. Brooks | h

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: > > Ian Eiloart wrote: > >> >>--On 18 October 2006 20:34:12 -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>I just developed this for a guy who had only one email address for his >>>domain. Instead of having several email addresses what I did was if he >>>created an IMAP

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Hill Ruyter
Hi Can ask a quick question on this When I create a new user on my server (the e-mail users do not have local accounts) I put the username in file named after the domain in a directory called virtuals the exim router does a check against the local parts and if the user exists in the file unde

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: > Actually that isn't the case. The IMAP folder has to already exist so if > someone does a dictionary attack then any local part that doesn't match > a folder will be rejected as an unknown user. If the folder already > exists them mail is delivered into that folder. If it do

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Stuart Gall wrote: > > On 19 Oct 2006, at 21:12, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > >> Marc Perkel wrote: >> >>> This person only has one user account for the domain with no plans to >>> ever have more. It's a domain for one person. But he's into IMAP and >>> likes the idea of direct folder delivery. So i

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Stuart Gall
On 19 Oct 2006, at 21:12, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> This person only has one user account for the domain with no plans to >> ever have more. It's a domain for one person. But he's into IMAP and >> likes the idea of direct folder delivery. So if he subscribes to some >> new

[exim] deny dnslists question

2006-10-19 Thread Debbie Doerrlamm
I would like very much to add the deny dnslists to my ACL but I need to verify exactly where to add it.. as in which section. I have done much reading tonight and see this mentioned in many places but none of the docs I read say exactly where in exim.conf to add it. Lord knows I do not want to

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: > This person only has one user account for the domain with no plans to > ever have more. It's a domain for one person. But he's into IMAP and > likes the idea of direct folder delivery. So if he subscribes to some > new email list what he does is create a folder for that lis

Re: [exim] Converting from Qmail to Exim

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 19/10/06, Don O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a utility to convert qmail mail files into the exim mailfile > format? We're using DirectAdmin's exim implementation, but want to move our > old mail files (one file per mail format) from qmail to the new system. > > I did a search in th

Re: [exim] Converting from Qmail to Exim

2006-10-19 Thread Renaud Allard
Don O'Neil wrote: Is there a utility to convert qmail mail files into the exim mailfile format? We're using DirectAdmin's exim implementation, but want to move our old mail files (one file per mail format) from qmail to the new system. I did a search in the archive and there was mention to mak

[exim] Converting from Qmail to Exim

2006-10-19 Thread Don O'Neil
Is there a utility to convert qmail mail files into the exim mailfile format? We're using DirectAdmin's exim implementation, but want to move our old mail files (one file per mail format) from qmail to the new system. I did a search in the archive and there was mention to make exim work with mail

[exim] ACL sender address and/or domain match

2006-10-19 Thread Mike
Currently I have 2 separate ACLs for this (and the same setup for whitelists) Is there a better way to lookup a sender address by full address and just domain?? acl_check_rcpt: ... # Deny if SENDER ADDRESS is (user) blacklisted deny senders = <, ${extract {mailBlacklistAddr}{$addres

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread John Robinson
On 19/10/2006 15:51, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:44:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:37 +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: >>> well, the configuration of filtering has to live in the >>> MUA, as it must be under the control of the user. >> I think t

Re: [exim] How do adjust this..

2006-10-19 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 19/10/06, Stuart Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > |http://mail.oldartero.com:/cgi-bin/put > > WARNING!! > This is not just a URL as nigel points out > Look it is a pipe and a URL to a cgi script. This is clearly an > attempt to break something and gain some sort of unauthorised access. >

Re: [exim] How do adjust this..

2006-10-19 Thread Stuart Gall
On 19 Oct 2006, at 17:00, B. Cook wrote: > Hello, > > I've started seeing a lot of this, and I'm not sure why they are being > terminated at the helo/ehlo check as I try and do everything at > rcpt time.. > > the 84.174.86.75 host is listed in spamhaus (xbl-sbl) and would get > caught in a diff

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:51 +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > um. I think by definition the interface between the mail > system and its users (as opposed to other mail systems, > the OS, etc.) is the MUA, isn't it? Perhaps that would be convenient -- but it isn't mandatory. And it certainly doesn't

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Ian Eiloart wrote: > > > --On 18 October 2006 20:34:12 -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just developed this for a guy who had only one email address for his >> domain. Instead of having several email addresses what I did was if he >> created an IMAP folder then the email addres

Re: [exim] How do adjust this..

2006-10-19 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 19 Oct 2006, at 15:00, B. Cook wrote: > the 84.174.86.75 host is listed in spamhaus (xbl-sbl) and would get > caught in a different part of the config and be denied by that.. but > instead b/c they are being dropped at helo, they have to get caught in > the ratelimit checks and denied that way.

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:44:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:37 +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > well, the configuration of filtering has to live in the > > MUA, as it must be under the control of the user. > > I think that applies only for management-types, who ar

[exim] date AND size triggers for exim log rotation. what do you use?

2006-10-19 Thread OpenMacNews
minally once-per-day e.g., 20061018-main.log 20061019-main.log (b) rotate to 'same day' + 'counter' log when size of log exceeds a given limit e.g., 20061018-main.log 20061018-main.1

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:37 +0100, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > well, the configuration of filtering has to live in the > MUA, as it must be under the control of the user. I think that applies only for management-types, who are often found to be incapable of direct control over anything except by mea

Re: [exim] How would I do this? (reading file owner)

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Perkel
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> I need to set the user in the transport. What I need to set it to is to >> match the user to the owner file that I'm writing to. Is there a command >> I can run in the transport that will read the owner of t

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread Chris Lightfoot
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:04:29PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:27 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > > Simple. It isn't one of the obvious or 'stock' tick-the-box choices > > in 'commodity' MUA. (Moz Suite here..) > > > > Easy enough to add, though, and should solve the probl

Re: [exim] Proposed change to list moderation handling

2006-10-19 Thread Bill Horne
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 12:18 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote: [snip] > It's a shame that Mailman won't let you reject at SMTP time. Why not? I thought Mailman acted as an MUA. Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Pleas

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 21:27 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > Simple. It isn't one of the obvious or 'stock' tick-the-box choices > in 'commodity' MUA. (Moz Suite here..) > > Easy enough to add, though, and should solve the problem handily! Filtering doesn't live in an MUA anyway. -- dwmw2 -- ## L

[exim] How do adjust this..

2006-10-19 Thread B. Cook
Hello, I've started seeing a lot of this, and I'm not sure why they are being terminated at the helo/ehlo check as I try and do everything at rcpt time.. the 84.174.86.75 host is listed in spamhaus (xbl-sbl) and would get caught in a different part of the config and be denied by that.. but ins

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread W B Hacker
David Woodhouse wrote: > inbox and my list folder, each arrival according to its reverse-path. I > never did understand why anyone would want to use any other method, but > Simple. It isn't one of the obvious or 'stock' tick-the-box choices in 'commodity' MUA. (Moz Suite here..) Easy enough t

Re: [exim] Really Cool Trick

2006-10-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 18 October 2006 20:34:12 -0700 Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just developed this for a guy who had only one email address for his > domain. Instead of having several email addresses what I did was if he > created an IMAP folder then the email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] would go

[exim] Fidonet...

2006-10-19 Thread Marco Gaiarin
[if you don't know fidonet, consider it some sort of uucp, a bit stranger... ;] ...yes, it is somewhat still alive. ;) I've just converted my Fidonet BBS system from exim3 to exim4, doing a rather brute force conversion. I've still some culprit. I'm 2:333/1016, and i've also some downlink (2:33

Re: [exim] UCEPROTECT Blacklists and why callouts are abusive

2006-10-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 18 October 2006 14:05:54 +0100 Andrew - Supernews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And callout does NOT HELP THIS AT ALL, since the spammers are quite > happy to use sender addresses that exist. Yes, they are. But really, they don't care whether they exist or not. It's easier for them to j

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 19:56 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > Correct. I sent you a who-struck-John note on that off-list, but it dd not > get > through. Logs showed greylisting. It got through, and I'll never greylist mail from that IP address again. It's a host which is now known to queue and retry,

Re: [exim] How do i set up Exim4 to send system mails

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:15:35 +0100, "John Burnham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Those of us who don't use Debian (or at least don't use their split config file >setup) won't be able to help with that. Try >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users Please, direct Debian users

Re: [exim] Help with an ACL

2006-10-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 19 October 2006 13:53, Alvaro Marin took the opportunity to say: > So I want to create an ACL to deny incoming mails that aren't from my > relays or from users that aren't authenticated (with SASL or > POPbeforeSMTP). I've done this: This is much simpler: begin acl check_recipient:

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread Marc Sherman
SeattleServer.com wrote: > > Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but why is it that how Bill's MTA > happens to be configured is of concern to this list, let alone the huge > thread of uselessness that this entire thread is? While I agree that this thread has _long_ since outlived its usefu

[exim] Help with an ACL

2006-10-19 Thread Alvaro Marin
Hello Exim users, I've some relays for antispam/antivirus and the MX record for all domains (hosted in other servers) changed to go through those servers. The problem is that some spammers sends mails directly to the A record of the domain (that is on other server) so those mails aren't scanned.

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread W B Hacker
David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 05:18 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > >>Usually only those who 'CC:' everyone they reply to, thereby doubling >>the traffic. > > > Which I believe is actually how I ended up in your blacklist too, rather > than sender verification failures. Correct.

[exim] Failed to get write lock on smtp?

2006-10-19 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, I have a smtp-transport using lmtp. In the mainglog I got several like this: Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/db/wait-mailbox_lmtp.lockfile: timed out What is this write lock for? mailbox_lmtp is the name of the transport. Is this transport treated as a remote delivery so remote_

Re: [exim] Eximstats

2006-10-19 Thread Markus Braun
>What difference does the fact that you have exim4 make? Your eximstats >was most probably installed as part of exim4. He dont found this URL. have i have found it online: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec.html please answer always to the list. not privat bye marcus ___

Re: [exim] exim amavisd clamav

2006-10-19 Thread Stephen Gran
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 10:23:56AM +0200, Frömmel, Andreas said: > Hi, > > i am running exim 4.63 with amavisd and clamav. Everything works fine, the > only thing that is not working 100% is the exim logging. > Here is an example of the mainlog. I can't see any deliveries, but mail is > deliver

[exim] exim amavisd clamav

2006-10-19 Thread Frömmel , Andreas
Hi, i am running exim 4.63 with amavisd and clamav. Everything works fine, the only thing that is not working 100% is the exim logging. Here is an example of the mainlog. I can't see any deliveries, but mail is delivered correctly. 2006-10-19 10:16:51 1GaT57-0006cb-03 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=ma

Re: [exim] conducive.org

2006-10-19 Thread SeattleServer.com
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 13:42, Renaud Allard wrote: > If you blacklist almost everyone from this list, which are for the most > part legitimate senders using well configured MTAs, there is probably > something wrong in your rules and you will end up just blacklisting the > world minus your IPs

Re: [exim] How would I do this? (reading file owner)

2006-10-19 Thread Dave Evans
On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 08:50:28AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > > I need to set the user in the transport. What I need to set it to is to > > match the user to the owner file that I'm writing to. Is there a command > > I can run in the t

Re: [exim] [Pkg-exim4-users] Use of primary_hostname with visiblename

2006-10-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 19 October 2006 09:47, Magnus Holmgren took the opportunity to say: > On Thursday 19 October 2006 06:22, Ross Boylan took the opportunity to say: > > In an effort to fight spam, I reject messages when > > verify = helo > > fails, which I believe would happen in the previous scenario.

Re: [exim] How would I do this? (reading file owner)

2006-10-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > I need to set the user in the transport. What I need to set it to is to > match the user to the owner file that I'm writing to. Is there a command > I can run in the transport that will read the owner of the file and > write to the file be

Re: [exim] [Pkg-exim4-users] Use of primary_hostname with visiblename

2006-10-19 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 19 October 2006 06:22, Ross Boylan took the opportunity to say: > In an effort to fight spam, I reject messages when > verify = helo > fails, which I believe would happen in the previous scenario. No, verify = helo checks that the HELO name resolves to the remote IP address *or* the