[exim] DomainKeys question about dk_domain_source

2006-11-27 Thread Eli
Hey, For those who are using DomainKey checks (or just know the answer :D), if "dk_domain_source" results in "none" meaning DK couldn't figure out the sender domain, what would the dk_status be? Would it give a "bad" result? I'm asking because my deny messages are going to contain $dk_sender s

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread W B Hacker
Renaud Allard wrote: > > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Qmail sucks. It's actually worse than sendmail because you have to join >> their cult and be brainwashed to use it. >> > > Are you the same Mark Perkel as the one who asked which one of qmail or > exim was the most secure? :) > Does sound a bit

Re: [exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?

2006-11-27 Thread Marc Perkel
John Robinson wrote: > On 27/11/2006 23:32, Renaud Allard wrote: > >> But I must admit being able to put a failover clamav server directly in >> exim conf would be great. After all, it's possible to put more than one >> SQL server. >> > > Or indeed more than one SpamAssassin server. Unfor

Re: [exim] Troubleshooting

2006-11-27 Thread Stephen Gran
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:45:48PM -0500, jeff sacksteder said: > I have Exim 4.60 as my local SMTP server at home. When I send a message in > my MUA, there is a long delay when I send my message. After 30 seconds or > so, I get a progress indicator showing my message being transferred and > proces

Re: [exim] Troubleshooting

2006-11-27 Thread John Robinson
On 28/11/2006 00:45, jeff sacksteder wrote: > I have Exim 4.60 as my local SMTP server at home. When I send a message in > my MUA, there is a long delay when I send my message. After 30 seconds or > so, I get a progress indicator showing my message being transferred and > processed. Is this a known

Re: [exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?

2006-11-27 Thread John Robinson
On 27/11/2006 23:32, Renaud Allard wrote: > But I must admit being able to put a failover clamav server directly in > exim conf would be great. After all, it's possible to put more than one > SQL server. Or indeed more than one SpamAssassin server. Unfortunately the syntax for av_scanner uses col

[exim] callout verification + TLS

2006-11-27 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello *, once upon the times ...(?) I starte a thread and it ended this way: | On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote: | | > Ah, that's interesting. I'd have to test that but it sounds as if Exim | > might have a bug/feature in that it only ever uses plain smtp to do | > recipient verific

[exim] Troubleshooting

2006-11-27 Thread jeff sacksteder
I have Exim 4.60 as my local SMTP server at home. When I send a message in my MUA, there is a long delay when I send my message. After 30 seconds or so, I get a progress indicator showing my message being transferred and processed. Is this a known symptom of some common misconfiguration? -- ## Lis

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Steve Wray
Renaud Allard wrote: > > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Qmail sucks. It's actually worse than sendmail because you have to join >> their cult and be brainwashed to use it. >> > > Are you the same Mark Perkel as the one who asked which one of qmail or > exim was the most secure? :) Hah, I second Marc

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: > Yes - I was asking on behalf of someone else who was concerned if there > had been any history of Exim security holes. I searched Google and there > was one back in 1997, but didn't see any since. My answer is that Exim > is as secure if not more so tan Qmail. Which is a no

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Renaud Allard wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > > >> Qmail sucks. It's actually worse than sendmail because you have to join >> their cult and be brainwashed to use it. >> >> > > Are you the same Mark Perkel as the one who asked which one of qmail or > exim was the most secure? :) > Yes

Re: [exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?

2006-11-27 Thread Renaud Allard
Bryan Rawlins wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: >> Thinking about how to do this. What I want to do is have more that one >> host running clamav and have it so that if one is down you can have it >> try a different host. Ideally it would be nice if you could put multiple >> IP addresses on the av_sc

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Perkel wrote: > Qmail sucks. It's actually worse than sendmail because you have to join > their cult and be brainwashed to use it. > Are you the same Mark Perkel as the one who asked which one of qmail or exim was the most secure? :) smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signatur

Re: [exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?

2006-11-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Bryan Rawlins wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Thinking about how to do this. What I want to do is have more that one >> host running clamav and have it so that if one is down you can have it >> try a different host. Ideally it would be nice if you could put multiple >> IP addresses on the

Re: [exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?

2006-11-27 Thread Bryan Rawlins
Marc Perkel wrote: > Thinking about how to do this. What I want to do is have more that one > host running clamav and have it so that if one is down you can have it > try a different host. Ideally it would be nice if you could put multiple > IP addresses on the av_scanner setting so that if the

[exim] av_scanner on multiple hosts - feature request?

2006-11-27 Thread Marc Perkel
Thinking about how to do this. What I want to do is have more that one host running clamav and have it so that if one is down you can have it try a different host. Ideally it would be nice if you could put multiple IP addresses on the av_scanner setting so that if the first failed to connect yo

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Marc Perkel
John Robinson wrote: > On 27/11/2006 13:24, Deepak Kapoor wrote: > >> if we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do >> you suggest should be used for such type of service >> > > If you want to implement a (primarily) webmail service, the webmail > software is going

[exim] Regex for ACL condition - Cry for Help

2006-11-27 Thread mark david mcCreary
I'd like to use an ACL to reject incoming spam, but I don't know how to write it. In my case I run mailing lists, and I get a fair number of emails where the From and To addresses are a dead giveaway that it's spam. My mailing list addresses have suffixes like -on, -off, -vacation, etc. that are

Re: [exim] PROBLEM WITH FROZEN MESSAGES! HELP!!

2006-11-27 Thread Jason Meers
Ventas - Un Area.com wrote: > Last week I had this on my /etc/exim.conf > > #auto_thaw = 6d (this line is commented) > ignore_bounce_errors_after = 1d > timeout_frozen_after = 4d > > The rules where working fine. > > and I changed the values to: > > #auto_thaw = 6d (this line is commented) > ig

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-27 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/25/06 10:30 AM, "Ian P. Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that message-id without a FQDN for the latter part is > reasonably common. Yes, it is very common. It is what Outlook Express does on a machine that doesn't know what domain it is in (most non-organizational Windows m

[exim] PROBLEM WITH FROZEN MESSAGES! HELP!!

2006-11-27 Thread Ventas - Un Area.com
Last week I had this on my /etc/exim.conf #auto_thaw = 6d (this line is commented) ignore_bounce_errors_after = 1d timeout_frozen_after = 4d The rules where working fine. and I changed the values to: #auto_thaw = 6d (this line is commented) ignore_bounce_errors_after = 30m timeout_frozen_after

[exim] Autoreply database on NFS

2006-11-27 Thread Anthony de Boer
I'm looking at a rollout of Sieve vacation autoreply for a largish organization, which has multiple Exim hosts in front of a Netapp. The question is whether the reply-once database is NFS-safe. Tracing through the code/docs/Google, it appears that the autoreply transport will use tdb, and that td

[exim] Does Exim clean unfinished messages automatically?

2006-11-27 Thread pyh
Hello lists, There are those chances that when Exim is communicating with other MTAs,then the other-end drop the connection before finish writting the message DATA.Then there are some half-baked messages kept on local file system.Does Exim clean those broken messages automatically?Thanks. --

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 27 November 2006 18:54:45 +0530 Deepak Kapoor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > if we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do > you suggest should be used for such type of service Neither sendmail nor Exim will give you webmail services. You will need an MTA to ac

Re: [exim] expansion of bounce_message_file

2006-11-27 Thread jori.hamalainen
> for a multi-language installation I need the possibility to expand > bounce_message_file > Any ideas if this will come in a future release? File what this points is expanded, can you use it as possibility for swtiching between languages? http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.63/doc/html/spec_h

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread John Robinson
On 27/11/2006 13:24, Deepak Kapoor wrote: > if we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do > you suggest should be used for such type of service If you want to implement a (primarily) webmail service, the webmail software is going to cost you a lot more resources than anythi

Re: [exim] expansion of bounce_message_file

2006-11-27 Thread W B Hacker
Christian Kuehn wrote: > Hi, > > for a multi-language installation I need the possibility to expand > > bounce_message_file > > Any ideas if this will come in a future release? AFAICS, there are ways one can do it with existing tools, so long as you can detect the language with some degr

[exim] expansion of bounce_message_file

2006-11-27 Thread Christian Kuehn
Hi, for a multi-language installation I need the possibility to expand bounce_message_file Any ideas if this will come in a future release? Kind Regards Christian -- Christian Kuehn Manstadtsweg 8, 22309 Hamburg Tel. +49 40 40197232 Fax. +49 40 40197230 eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ##

Re: [exim] re using more diskspace

2006-11-27 Thread Nigel Metheringham
Deepak, You are asking stupid questions - this is looking very much along the lines of someone wanting their homework done for them. You are asking about disk space, but not saying whether that is queue space, temporary working space, os install space or user storage - the answers for each of tho

Re: [exim] maximum connection DDOS

2006-11-27 Thread David Daniels
W B Hacker wrote: > David Daniels wrote: >> I'm getting joe-jobed. Bounces from everywhere from what spammers >> are sending out using a few of my domain names. > > Try: > > smtp_accept_max_per_host = 3 > > .. just until you can scrutinize the traffic well enough to come up > with more informat

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Dave Evans
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:54:45PM +0530, Deepak Kapoor wrote: > which is better sendmail or exim Exim is better at being younger, whereas sendmail is better for Scrabble (50 point bonus for clearing your rack). > If we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do > you suggest

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread pyh
Certainly it should be CoreMail which has powered the system which has 180 million end-users on it. > hi, > if we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do > you suggest should be used for such type of service > > -- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/e

Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread pyh
Also,my ISP is Earthlink (earthlink.net) which do use Exim as their MTAs. > hi, > if we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do > you suggest should be used for such type of service > > -- > ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details

[exim] re using more diskspace

2006-11-27 Thread Deepak Kapoor
hi, if we require more disk space on exim and that much diskspace is not present on a single server then how can we expand on diskspace, we can definately mount another server space by nfs but how can we use that for email storage, whar does yahoo and gmail do for this. is this achievable by simply

[exim] which is better sendmail or exim

2006-11-27 Thread Deepak Kapoor
hi, if we want to implement gmail type of email service which daemons do you suggest should be used for such type of service -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/e

[exim] Problem with SpamAssassin

2006-11-27 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Hi, list! Since some days, I see always this error in the Exim-Mainlog: 2006-11-27 12:50:36 1GoeyS-0008I8-Cr spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection timed out 2006-11-27 12:50:36 1GoeyS-0008I8-Cr H=(XXX) [XX.YY.KK.ZZ] Warning: ACL "warn" statement skipped: condition te

Re: [exim] message-id related spam filtering is rejecting my mails...

2006-11-27 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 22:44 +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote: > So > instead of rewriting msgids (they are already out, anyway) I block them: > > condition = ${if match > {$local_part}{\N(?i)^[0-9a-f]{8}\.[0-9a-f]{7}$\N}} Do you actually have valid local users with localparts like that? Wouldn't th

Re: [exim] if/then else in ACLs

2006-11-27 Thread Jeremy Harris
Linn, Dr John A. wrote: > If condition then > > Some ACL commands > > Endif > > > > More ACL commands acl_subroutine: Some ACL commands accept acl_main: warn acl = acl_subroutine More ACL commands - J

Re: [exim] bind to another port?

2006-11-27 Thread pyh
Thanks,got it: local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 daemon_smtp_ports = 1025 Hope I'm correct.:) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hello lists, >> >> I want to bind Exim on another ip address and port other thant the default >> 0.0.0.0:25,ig,I like >> it >> run on: >> >> 127.0.0.1:1025 >> >> Can you tel

[exim] if/then else in ACLs

2006-11-27 Thread Linn, Dr John A.
I would like to have the condition construct in ACLS If condition then Some ACL commands Endif More ACL commands I thought I could use "endpass" to do this but so far failed. Pointer to the manual or FAQ page, please,

Re: [exim] bind to another port?

2006-11-27 Thread Dmitry Pryadko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello lists, > > I want to bind Exim on another ip address and port other thant the default > 0.0.0.0:25,ig,I like it > run on: > > 127.0.0.1:1025 > > Can you tell me how to do it by modifying the config file? > (I looked through the offical spec.pdf but can't get it). >

[exim] bind to another port?

2006-11-27 Thread pyh
Hello lists, I want to bind Exim on another ip address and port other thant the default 0.0.0.0:25,ig,I like it run on: 127.0.0.1:1025 Can you tell me how to do it by modifying the config file? (I looked through the offical spec.pdf but can't get it). Thanks. --Phoenix -- ## List details a

Re: [exim] maximum connection DDOS

2006-11-27 Thread dawnshade
On Sunday 26 November 2006 23:41, David Daniels wrote: > I'm getting joe-jobed. Bounces from everywhere from what spammers are > sending out using a few of my domain names. > > My exim stops processing incoming mail when it reaches a maximum number > of connections and simply puts these in the log