[exim] Optimizing Exim or Any Guildelines for improving it's Performance.

2006-12-07 Thread Sachin Sharma
Hi, I am running exim with sa-exim and spamassasin. I am facing bit perfarmace issues. Aftet rcpt commad Exim seems to be slow. I want to reduce this time . Please help me for reducing this time or any suggetions those can well help to improve performance issues with spamassasin. -- Sachin Sh

Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

2006-12-07 Thread John W. Baxter
On 12/6/06 4:26 AM, "Chris Lightfoot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your definition of `operator' here includes the remote > user whose mailbox is full, but it shouldn't; a situation > which will be corrected in due course by the normal action > of the receiving user reading their mail isn't useful

Re: [exim] why multiple recipients in Envelope-To header?

2006-12-07 Thread Marten Lehmann
Well, how else can I access the original recipient from the envelope that lead to a certain delivery within one exim mailserver without envelope_to_add? Is there a variable? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wouldn't be correct and envelope_to_add shows more than one address. Regards Marten -- ## List detai

Re: [exim] why multiple recipients in Envelope-To header?

2006-12-07 Thread John Robinson
On 07/12/2006 23:17, I wrote: > If a message is arriving in multiple mailboxes at your site, all using > the appendfile transport, why wouldn't it handle several at once? Actually I can answer that myself: because exim can't setuid to several different users at once. If your deliveries are to vi

Re: [exim] why multiple recipients in Envelope-To header?

2006-12-07 Thread John Robinson
On 07/12/2006 22:59, Marten Lehmann wrote: > [...] My transport doesn't handle several addresses at once. The > routers route them to the correct transport and a > maildir/appendfile-transport handles message deliveries for only one > single address. If a message is arriving in multiple mailbox

Re: [exim] why multiple recipients in Envelope-To header?

2006-12-07 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, > If this option is true, an Envelope-to: header is added to the message. > This gives the original address(es) in the incoming envelope that caused > this delivery to happen. More than one address may be present if the > transport is configured to handle several addresses at once, or if mo

[exim] Blocking Stock Spam ACL

2006-12-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's an ACL that works for me stopping a LOT of stock spam dropmime_regex = Symbol\: [A-Z]{4}\nCurrent Price\: Around message = REGEX - Stock Spam - H=$sender_fullhost - S=$h_Subject: - F=$h_From: - T=$h_To: -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## E

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread Richard Pitt
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 14:31 -0500, jean-paul natola wrote: > > > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>BUT the exim id changes > >> > >>2006-12-07 12:08:29 1GsMeF-0002bN-3J Completed > >>2006-12-07 13:18:34 1GsNkS-0002m7-U5 Completed > > > >I'm trying, and failing, to imagine why you

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread jean-paul natola
>> >It looks to me, personally, like Jean-Paul is receiving the same message >from a remote host over and over again, although I could be wrong. > >Unless you have access and control over that host, Jean-Paul, there's >nothing you can do about it apart from contacting the sender or the >admins of t

Re: [exim] why multiple recipients in Envelope-To header?

2006-12-07 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 20:25 +0100, Marten Lehmann wrote: > Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > But from what I expected this option to do each recipient should only see > > Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or > Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or > Envelope-To

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread jean-paul natola
>From: "Martin A. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: jean-paul natola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], exim-users@exim.org >Subject: Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming >Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:22:01 + > >jean-paul natola wrote: >>it show completed everytime- HOWEVER >>

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 19:22 +, Martin A. Brooks wrote: > I'm trying, and failing, to imagine why you think that's a problem. > Exim gives each new message a unique ID, if the ID stayed the same that > _would_ be a problem. It looks to me, personally, like Jean-Paul is receiving the same mes

[exim] why multiple recipients in Envelope-To header?

2006-12-07 Thread Marten Lehmann
Hello, in my transport where the final delivery to the mailbox is done, I have set the option "envelope_to_add". So I even if the recipient in the To:-header is faked, I can see to which address the email was sent to within my mailserver. But recently some users pointed out, that this doesn't

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread Martin A. Brooks
jean-paul natola wrote: > it show completed everytime- HOWEVER > NOW i'm a bit confused as the origininal ID is always the same > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > BUT the exim id changes > > 2006-12-07 12:08:29 1GsMeF-0002bN-3J Completed > 2006-12-07 13:18:34 1GsNkS-0002m7-U5 Completed

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread jean-paul natola
From: Graeme Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 18:50:05 + On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:41 -0500, jean-paul natola wrote: > the message appears in the mainlog and the reject log and the maillog > > m

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 13:41 -0500, jean-paul natola wrote: > the message appears in the mainlog and the reject log and the maillog > > mainlog:2006-12-07 12:08:28 1GsMeF-0002bN-3J <= > [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=pmx2.africaonline.co.tz [216.104.206.8] > P=esmtp S=4528454 [EMAIL PROTECTED] exigrep 1GsM

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread jean-paul natola
> I have this message that is coming almost every hour- > > and I dont know what to do- > > the sender's machine is NOT turned on; Aliens? > > this has been happening since for 36 hours- notice from the maillog that its > the same messageID > > Dec 7 06:58:50 milter spamd[95379]: spamd: che

Re: [exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 07/12/06, jean-paul natola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have this message that is coming almost every hour- > > and I dont know what to do- > > the sender's machine is NOT turned on; Aliens? > > this has been happening since for 36 hours- notice from the maillog that its > t

[exim] HELP incoming message keeps coming

2006-12-07 Thread jean-paul natola
Hi everyone, I have this message that is coming almost every hour- and I dont know what to do- the sender's machine is NOT turned on; this has been happening since for 36 hours- notice from the maillog that its the same messageID Dec 7 06:58:50 milter spamd[95379]: spamd: checking message <

Re: [exim] exim4, saslauthd, pam, tried everything.

2006-12-07 Thread Tim Wilde
JerseyDevil wrote: > When my saslauthd is started its run with the -m /var/run/saslauthd. Here is > the output of `lsof -nU | grep saslauthd': > > saslauthd 5630 root3u unix 0xf6389400 86047552 socket > saslauthd 5630 root5u unix 0xf26f8100 86047553 > /va

Re: [exim] Alternatives to sendmail and milter to control SMTPconnections

2006-12-07 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Am Mittwoch, den 06.12.2006, 21:07 -0700 schrieb Kelly Jones: [...] > 1. Use sendmail and milter (requires coding in C, ugly macros, and > hard to understand) postfix has support for milter and I suppose Hilko will contact you off-list about his milter-for-exim-implementation. Milter can be develop

Re: [exim] making my HELO = my RDNS

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Edwards
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: | Most of my customers don't own their own servers. They are using email hosted | by some other company. Just yesterday GoDaddy started blocking all servers Ah I get it - customers who: - have a mail domain hosted by a big company (e.g godaddy) and - have

Re: [exim] Recipient callout verification with client AUTH?

2006-12-07 Thread Holger Mauermann
Heiko Schlittermann schrieb: > No. The callout code is still some separate branch, so it doesn't use > the full router/transport code. Some time ago PH10 told me, that > changing it is not an easy job. Magnus and Heiko, thanks for your answers. Unfortunately Cyrus lmtpd doesn't have any access

Re: [exim] making my HELO = my RDNS

2006-12-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Chris Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: > > | On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:10:59PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > | [...] > | > It varies. Since I do front end spam filtering when a spam makes it > | > through it looks like I'm a spam source. I've also been blacklisted f

Re: [exim] making my HELO = my RDNS

2006-12-07 Thread Chris Edwards
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: | On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:10:59PM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: | [...] | > It varies. Since I do front end spam filtering when a spam makes it | > through it looks like I'm a spam source. I've also been blacklisted for | > sender verification. | |

[exim] anyone using the greylisting from the wiki?

2006-12-07 Thread B. Cook
I'm using ASSP atm, and it's good, but I loose all kinds of exim functionality and logging such.. I saw the wiki had a little greylisting script w/o a database.. http://exim.org/eximwiki/DbLessGreyListing It looks good.. just wanted to know if anyone is using it. Thanks in advance. -- ## List

Re: [exim] local_scan "whitelist"

2006-12-07 Thread Dmitry Pryadko
Josip Rodin wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:04:17PM +0300, Dmitry Pryadko wrote: > >>> | I wonder how can I disable local_scan function for messages, coming from >>> | several hosts (hosts I relay mail from) ? >>> >>> Just use !hosts = +relay_from_hosts >>> >> It doesn't have

Re: [exim] Recipient callout verification with client AUTH?

2006-12-07 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Holger Mauermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Do 07 Dez 2006 14:34:23 CET): > I need to do recipient verification against a remote Cyrus LMTP server. > However, Exim never tries to authenticate as client during the callout. > Is this completely impossible or have I only missed some config options > that en

Re: [exim] Recipient callout verification with client AUTH?

2006-12-07 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:34, Holger Mauermann wrote: > I need to do recipient verification against a remote Cyrus LMTP server. > However, Exim never tries to authenticate as client during the callout. > Is this completely impossible or have I only missed some config options > that enable cal

[exim] Recipient callout verification with client AUTH?

2006-12-07 Thread Holger Mauermann
I need to do recipient verification against a remote Cyrus LMTP server. However, Exim never tries to authenticate as client during the callout. Is this completely impossible or have I only missed some config options that enable callouts with AUTH? Here are some snippets of my configuration: # ACL

Re: [exim] REGEX help - links to EXE

2006-12-07 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 6 December 2006 20:15:39 +0100 Andreas Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marc Perkel wrote: > >> Trying to write an ACL with a regex expression that will catch lines >> with links to EXE files. So it has to start with http:// or www and end >> in .exe. I'm having trouble with the ":"

Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Nimmo
On 12/6/06, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > The narrow case is a situation where you are sure that the 550 error is > a mistake, that the mistake will be fixed, and that people will be > thankful that you didn't bounce the email during the mistake period. > This is a situ

Re: [exim] Retry on 550 errors

2006-12-07 Thread Drav Sloan
Peter Bowyer wrote: > > So why is this Exims issue? > > Because he uses Exim. He's entitled to ask for features in his tool of choice. Which then ends up in the standard distribution, and inevitably gets misused or causes issues that give Exim a bad name. "Did ya hear, I had this Exim mail serve

Re: [exim] exim4, saslauthd, pam, tried everything.

2006-12-07 Thread JerseyDevil
When my saslauthd is started its run with the -m /var/run/saslauthd. Here is the output of `lsof -nU | grep saslauthd': saslauthd 5630 root3u unix 0xf6389400 86047552 socket saslauthd 5630 root5u unix 0xf26f8100 86047553 /var/run/saslauthd/mux saslauthd

Re: [exim] missing authentication

2006-12-07 Thread Hill Ruyter
Hi all not sure if this helps but this is what I use on a passwd like file it is identical to passwd just in a different place so that users do not have system accounts Kind regards Hill server_condition = "${if crypteq{$3}{${extract{1}{:}{${lookup{$2}lsearch{/other/directory/etc/passwd}{$va