Re: [exim] [patch] "do nothing" ACL modifier

2007-02-08 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "Kjetil" == Kjetil Torgrim Homme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kjetil> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 23:32 +, David Woodhouse wrote: >> set acl_m_dontcare = ${lookup sqlite {GREYDB INSERT INTO [...] Kjetil> why do we need a special ACL modifier for this? I think Kjetil> it is ple

Re: [exim] SMTP temporary refusal, caveats?

2007-02-08 Thread Mike Meredith
Sometime around Wed, 7 Feb 2007 17:48:21 + (GMT), it may be that Chris Edwards wrote: > Perhaps I'm out of touch, but I'd have thought if you're regularly > getting load av. in the "tens", then it may be time for some new(er) > boxes. Most commonly yes, but there are boxes that cope quite easi

Re: [exim] [patch] "do nothing" ACL modifier

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, W B Hacker wrote: > BTW - I'd vote for a verb such as: > > invoke > > or > > trip > > or > > post > > or even > > exec > > ...for a RHS expansion of the sort involved. > > It is not limited to an SQL call. Indeed. I am warming towards implementing "true" and "false",

Re: [exim] [patch] "do nothing" ACL modifier

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > + { "search_error_message", vtype_stringptr, &search_error_message }, I'll take a look at that. > ... and although it does seem to do the right thing and accept the > message instead of greylisting it (because if the db insertion isn't > working, i

Re: [exim] Adding disclaimer with exim-4

2007-02-08 Thread Jens Strohschnitter
> > I need to add disclaimer to any outgoing mail. I've found all the > > discussions about that thema, but in germany we have to add a > > disclaimer to any mail since 01.01.2007 :-( > > Are you in need of modifying the body or the header of the message? > > If you are looking to add the disc

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, John W. Baxter wrote: > Philip, just out of curiosity, how is the PCRE community handling your > retirement. Important as Exim is to those of us here, PCRE is the more > important project to the world at large (not to mention a wonderful service > to that world by you and the

Re: [exim] Adding disclaimer with exim-4

2007-02-08 Thread Koopmann, Jan-Peter
On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:27 AM Ian Eiloart wrote: > But, corporate identity information isn't "disclaimer" information. He is referring to legal information such as managing directors, jurisdiction, adress, name of the company etc. Kind regards Jan-Peter Koopmann -- Seceidos GmbH&

[exim] Simple greylisting in Exim ACL.

2007-02-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:10 +0100, Adrian Phillips wrote: > One problem I had (setting up David's sqlite greylisting) was > understanding that "warn condition = ${lookup" can defer on "some > database error" but "set acl = ${lookup" doesn't. I've only just got round to looking at the sqlite vers

Re: [exim] [patch] "do nothing" ACL modifier

2007-02-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:19 +, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > + { "search_error_message", vtype_stringptr, &search_error_message }, > > I'll take a look at that. Out of interest rather than an immediate desire... I see that there are other people c

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:29 +, Philip Hazel wrote: > I should probably pursue the setting up of a mailing list, and > ultimately get PCRE into a CVS system Hm, I was just thinking of getting Exim _out_ of CVS and into something newer and more suited to distributed development, like git. My f

Re: [exim] Simple greylisting in Exim ACL.

2007-02-08 Thread Jeremy Harris
David Woodhouse wrote: > (Btw, is there a clever way of doing 'SELECT foo,bar,baz FROM whatever' > and getting them into three separate $acl_m_foo, $acl_m_bar, $acl_m_baz > variables? I can either select them and then split the single text > string, or fetch them separately as I do below. Did I mis

[exim] exim/spamd problem

2007-02-08 Thread Paulo Andre
I keep getting the following in my exim_paniclog : 2007-02-08 13:16:16 1HF7BY-00067v-Jc spam acl condition: all spamd servers failed 2007-02-08 13:16:17 1HF7G5-0006Wl-Sw spam acl condition: warning - spamd connection to 127.0.0.1, port 783 failed: Connection timed out 2007-02-08 13:16:17 1HF7G5-0

Re: [exim] Simple greylisting in Exim ACL.

2007-02-08 Thread Adrian Phillips
> "David" == David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 09:10 +0100, Adrian Phillips wrote: >> One problem I had (setting up David's sqlite greylisting) was >> understanding that "warn condition = ${lookup" can defer on >> "some database error" but

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Haardt
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 03:08:04PM +, Philip Hazel wrote: > One might feel that after 10 years a big new re-design is long overdue. > On the other hand, large computing projects often get bogged down and > never get done; incremental changes often have a better chance. But as I > say, it's up t

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 8 February 2007 10:29:15 + Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In some sense PCRE is a "quieter" project than Exim - its environment > isn't changing as fast as the email world so the pace of development is > slower. > Blimey! Imagine having to write regular expressions for sp

Re: [exim] [patch] "do nothing" ACL modifier

2007-02-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:10, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:19 +, Philip Hazel wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > + { "search_error_message", vtype_stringptr, &search_error_message > > > }, > > > > I'll take a look at that. > > Out of intere

[exim] lookup pgsql

2007-02-08 Thread Rainer Sigl
Hi all, how does exim respond to a pgsql query if the database is not reachable due to network problem etc. occasionally? Keeps the Query hanging, waiting? Are there possible parameters to affect this behavior? Many thanks Rainer Sigl -- - Rainer Sigl, | emai

Re: [exim] exim/spamd problem

2007-02-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:19:21PM +0200, Paulo Andre wrote: > I keep getting the following in my exim_paniclog : > 2007-02-08 13:16:16 1HF7BY-00067v-Jc spam acl condition: all spamd > servers failed > 2007-02-08 13:16:17 1HF7G5-0006Wl-Sw spam acl condition: warning - spamd > connection to 127.0.

[exim] address rewriting - removing trailing dot

2007-02-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Sometimes people who subscribe to our mailing list enter a trailing dot (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This makes it impossible for exim to deliver messages to them. What should a rewrite rule look like to strip the trailing dot from any address? Many thanks for suggestions! -- Zbigniew Szal

[exim] Smarthost to another MTA on the same host?

2007-02-08 Thread Drav Sloan
Hi, Hi has anyone setup an exim install that delivers mail onwards to an MTA on the same host, but on a different port? I have the following: # ./bin/exim -bV Exim version 4.66 #2 built 05-Feb-2007 14:15:55 And the router: virus_checker_router: driver = manualroute transport = virus_c

Re: [exim] Smarthost to another MTA on the same host?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 08/02/07, Drav Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And the router: > > virus_checker_router: > driver = manualroute > transport = virus_checker_smtp > route_list = * $received_ip_address > > With Transport: > > virus_checker_smtp: > driver = smtp > port = 1234 > > (the idea of using $rece

Re: [exim] Smarthost to another MTA on the same host?

2007-02-08 Thread Drav Sloan
Peter Bowyer wrote: > Add to the router config: > > self=send > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.66/doc/html/spec_html/ch15.html *reads* "The anomaly is ignored and the address is queued for the transport. This setting should be used with extreme caution. For an smtp transport, it makes sense on

Re: [exim] address rewriting - removing trailing dot

2007-02-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello again, > Sometimes people who subscribe to our mailing list enter a trailing dot > (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This makes it impossible for exim to deliver > messages to them. What should a rewrite rule look like to strip the > trailing dot from any address? I tried: $0. $0 T but it was no

Re: [exim] Adding disclaimer with exim-4

2007-02-08 Thread exim-list
> the only thing I want to know is, how to add alterMIME to > exim as transport ? I have just tried it with these settings on FreeBSD 6.1 with Exim 4.66: Create router with whatever conditions you require along the lines of: disclaimer: driver = dnslookup transport = disclaimer_smtp A

Re: [exim] address rewriting - removing trailing dot

2007-02-08 Thread John Burnham
> > Sometimes people who subscribe to our mailing list enter a > trailing dot > (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This makes it impossible for > exim to deliver > messages to them. What should a rewrite rule look like to strip the > trailing dot from any address? > > Many thanks for suggestions! > I c

Re: [exim] address rewriting - removing trailing dot

2007-02-08 Thread Ted Cooper
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello again, > >> Sometimes people who subscribe to our mailing list enter a trailing dot >> (like [EMAIL PROTECTED]). This makes it impossible for exim to deliver >> messages to them. What should a rewrite rule look like to strip the >> trailing dot from any address? >

[exim] RFC: List-iterating string expansion conditions and operators/items

2007-02-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
I'd be happy for some comments on http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/458, string expansion items and conditions iterating over lists. To begin with, do you think it's useful to inspect full name-addr (see RFC 2822) items (e.g. "Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" as opposed to just "[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 10:29 +, Philip Hazel wrote: > > I should probably pursue the setting up of a mailing list, and > > ultimately get PCRE into a CVS system > > Hm, I was just thinking of getting Exim _out_ of CVS and into something > newer an

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Michael Haardt wrote: > I run Exim since autumn 1998 now, having used Qmail before, and tweaked > the code here and there. IMHO, we can take another round of leaving the > major design in place. So, what could we try out now to learn about it, > that could possibly reason a r

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, > Which source code management system to use is up to those who are going > to be doing the development in future. I have no experience with anything I am watching the discussion here but do not see much traffic with regard to future development. Can I ask what the plans are for it? Who is

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 08/02/07, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > Which source code management system to use is up to those who are going > > to be doing the development in future. I have no experience with anything > > I am watching the discussion here but do not see much traffic with regard

Re: [exim] [patch] "do nothing" ACL modifier

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On Thursday 08 February 2007 12:10, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Out of interest rather than an immediate desire... I see that there are > > other people committing to CVS occasionally. I think I also have commit > > access to CVS, so theoretically I cou

[exim] Different classes of user

2007-02-08 Thread John Robinson
Hi folks. I'm trying to set up an all-things-to-all-users mail server to handle a dozen or so domains, some being delivered locally to users and/or forwarded, some as secondary MX, and some as a front-end anti-virus and anti-spam filter, while also being my users' smarthost. I've got most of it

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Michael Sprague
Peter Bowyer wrote: > On 08/02/07, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >>> Which source code management system to use is up to those who are going >>> to be doing the development in future. I have no experience with anything >> I am watching the discussion here but do not see m

Re: [exim] Different classes of user

2007-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, John Robinson wrote: > I can't advertise authentication only to people who've started TLS, so I > guess I need to fail authentication to my shell users whatever password > they give if they haven't started TLS. I can see some horrible mess > coming along with my authenticato

Re: [exim] auto whitelist

2007-02-08 Thread Chih-Cherng Chin
On Wednesday, February 07, 2007 10:11 PM, Joseph wrote: [snip] >>> The database contains a simple domainname filed with the domain.com >>> without >>> the @. [snip] > > Looking at the auto whitelist options, > > Is there a way to to populate the table with all the domains of sent > email? > > I

[exim] retry time not reached for any host

2007-02-08 Thread Mail(at)charliesangels.biz
Hi list, one of our customers had some difficulties with his Mailserver (for a couple of hours). Now it is up and running but Exim still claims: R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period I tried to search on how to clear this information but

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:22:08 +, "Peter Bowyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm not sure if this discussion necessarily belongs on exim-users - >not with any intent to take it behind closed doors, but it doesn't mix >well with the day-to-day support discussions here. exim-tng perhaps? exim-dev.

Re: [exim] Different classes of user

2007-02-08 Thread John Robinson
On 08/02/2007 14:44, Philip Hazel wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, John Robinson wrote: >> I can't advertise authentication only to people who've started TLS, so I >> guess I need to fail authentication to my shell users whatever password >> they give if they haven't started TLS. I can see some horri

Re: [exim] Simple greylisting in Exim ACL.

2007-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
David Woodhouse wrote: *snip* > > (Btw, is there a clever way of doing 'SELECT foo,bar,baz FROM whatever' > and getting them into three separate $acl_m_foo, $acl_m_bar, $acl_m_baz > variables? I can either select them and then split the single text > string, or fetch them separately as I do belo

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 08/02/07, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:22:08 +, "Peter Bowyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >I'm not sure if this discussion necessarily belongs on exim-users - > >not with any intent to take it behind closed doors, but it doesn't mix > >well with the day-t

Re: [exim] lookup pgsql

2007-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Rainer Sigl wrote: > Hi all, > how does exim respond to a pgsql query if the database is not reachable > due to network problem etc. occasionally? > Keeps the Query hanging, waiting? > Are there possible parameters to affect this behavior? > > Many thanks > Rainer Sigl Immediate response is give

[exim] Exim 5: suggestion for string expansions

2007-02-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Hello everybody! This is my vision of and suggestion for a reform of the string expansion language: * The distinction between items, operators, and conditions is eliminated. Instead there are only functions. - All functions can be used as conditions. The truth value is the same as with t

Re: [exim] retry time not reached for any host

2007-02-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Mail(at)charliesangels.biz wrote: > Hi list, > > one of our customers had some difficulties with his Mailserver (for a > couple of hours). Now it is up and running but Exim still claims: > > R=lookuphost T=remote_smtp: retry time not reached for any host after a > long failure period > > I t

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Am Donnerstag, den 08.02.2007, 14:11 + schrieb Philip Hazel: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Michael Haardt wrote: > > > I run Exim since autumn 1998 now, having used Qmail before, and tweaked > > the code here and there. IMHO, we can take another round of leaving the > > major design in place. So, wh

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Jeremy Harris
Patrick von der Hagen wrote: > If we start a whishlist now, then I'd like to mention an upper limit for > the number of exim-processes handling incoming connections. smtp_accept_max does fine for incoming. I suspect you're thinking of outbound. Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at http://

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Jeremy Harris wrote: > Patrick von der Hagen wrote: >> If we start a whishlist now, then I'd like to mention an upper limit for >> the number of exim-processes handling incoming connections. > > smtp_accept_max does fine for incoming. I suspect you're > thinking of outbound. > > Cheers, >Jer

Re: [exim] Exim 5

2007-02-08 Thread Marc Perkel
For what it's worth of all the open source packages on the market Exim is definitely one of the most mature, stable, and well documented and supported packages out there. Although there is no limit as to how much something can be improved Exim has definitely reached the "mission accomplished" p

[exim] Limit of "to" or "cc" by a sender

2007-02-08 Thread Tiago T. Adloff
Hi guys, I´m a new member. I wanna know if there is some kind of filter in exim or addon, that can blocks a sending when the limit of "to" and/or "cc" addresses exceed a certain number predetermined. With this I can stop spammers clients using my MTA. Thanks -- ## List details at http://www.

Re: [exim] Limit of "to" or "cc" by a sender

2007-02-08 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Friday 09 February 2007 01:10, Tiago T. Adloff wrote: > I wanna know if there is some kind of filter in exim or addon, that can > blocks a sending when the limit of "to" and/or "cc" addresses exceed a > certain number predetermined. > > With this I can stop spammers clients using my MTA. Stop s