Re: [exim] Help

2007-05-02 Thread Rohit Sakalle
Hello Sir, First of all heartly thanks for replying me. While studying code of local_scan function I understood that we read the values in to input buffer and send it to dccifd. Dccifd returns the result of scaaning in form A or R or S, accepted rejected receipent list and finally

[exim] 421 Lost incoming connection

2007-05-02 Thread Peter Smith
I'm running exim-4.63-5.fc6 and spamassassin 3.1.8, I get a lot of bounced incoming mail, typical msg is: 421 Lost incoming connection The SMTP transaction started in line 0. The error was detected in line 3. 0 previous messages were successfully processed. The rest of the batch was

Re: [exim] Sender verify failed - need to allow particular mail in

2007-05-02 Thread Debbie D
Thomas Hochstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Debbie D schrieb: Graeme, I added the condition you suggested below and sent a test fax and it was again rejected: You did reload the config after changing it? I did the change inside cPanels exim configutator

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: What do you think about having certain predefined macros available? One such macro could be CONFDIR, and I can also imagine macros that are defined according to which features are compiled in. The point of these macros would be enabling the writing

Re: [exim] Deliver to multiple virtual mailboxes

2007-05-02 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Andreas Haschka wrote: Now what I want is: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - mailbox1, mailbox2 ...without redirecting to the addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I also have a vacation router in my setup, and doing it this way, would possibly expose that for one of

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tony Finch wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: What do you think about having certain predefined macros available? One such macro could be CONFDIR, and I can also imagine macros that are defined according to which features are compiled in. The point

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Wed May 02 2007 at 10:28:50 CEST, Philip Hazel wrote: If you have a pile of macros defined, Exim is going to scan each config line for those macros every time it reads the config, which is something that it does often. Surely Exim has to do that anyway, to determine whether a macro is

[exim] Addid RBL Checks : NEED HELP

2007-05-02 Thread exim.list exim.list
Hello Friends, I am a new bee to exim and need some help from the experts. Following is my Exim conf, I want to add RBL checks at SMTP Level. Please let me know what lines should be added where? Thanks in Advance. ## #

[exim] Special logging for successful deliveries

2007-05-02 Thread Chris Lear
I was asked some time ago to set up special logging for certain deliveries. The e-mails are generated by a web application, and the developers wanted to correlate their application logs with logs of e-mails actually leaving the building, as it were. The e-mails in question have a recognisable

Re: [exim] Addid RBL Checks : NEED HELP

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:36, exim.list exim.list wrote: I am a new bee to exim and need some help from the experts. Following is my Exim conf, I want to add RBL checks at SMTP Level. Please let me know what lines should be added where? Please read the specification, sections 40.22ff

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: If you have a pile of macros defined, Exim is going to scan each config line for those macros every time it reads the config, which is something that it does often. Surely Exim has to do that anyway, to determine whether a macro is used? I

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
On Wed May 02 2007 at 12:39:10 CEST, Philip Hazel wrote: Suppose you define 100 macros. Then for each input line that Exim reads, Therefore, the larger i, the more work is done. For each line, remember. Yes, that is obvious. I misunderstood in as much as I thought by If you have a pile of

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jan-Piet Mens wrote: I misunderstood in as much as I thought by If you have a pile of macros defined, Exim is going to scan each config line for those macros every time it reads the config, which is something you meant Exim would have to scan, as opposed to not

[exim] SPA authentication and Vista

2007-05-02 Thread keith
To authenticate users before they can send mail from my server, I have been using SPA which has been working fine up to now. One user has just switched to Vista and it has all stopped working - authentication fails every time. I guess Vista is encrypting the username/password differently to the

Re: [exim] manualroute sql route_list

2007-05-02 Thread Customer Support
smart_route: driver = manualroute domains = !+local_domains transport = remote_smtp route_list = * ${lookup mysql{SELECT target FROM exim_smarthost WHERE (domain='$domain')}} According to the documentation the destination of a route list can include a server and port. I've tried

Re: [exim] Running out of quota when using an external LDA: getting a nice bounce message

2007-05-02 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Mike Brudenell wrote: Is there a different return code that deliver can exit with to indicate this to Exim? Exim uses the sendmail LDA interface which sadly does not support this. I'd suggest using LMTP if you can, but I dee that Dovecot doesn't do LMTP. How much do you

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:39, Philip Hazel wrote: Suppose you define 100 macros. Then for each input line that Exim reads, it obeys for (i = 0; i 100; i++) Search the line for occurrences of macro number i That looks inefficient, but perhaps necessary due to the partly silly way

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? -- ## 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/eximwiki/

Re: [exim] Special logging for successful deliveries

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Chris Lear wrote: The filter file looks like this: #Exim filter if $h_x_application_flash:is not then logfile /var/log/exim/special_log/log 640 logwrite $message_headers endif This writes the message headers into the special log file, then the message is delivered as

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Dave Evans
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:31:59AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? Pretty much like they do in the spec. -- Dave Evans 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 Power

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Peter Velan
am 02.05.2007 15:31 schrieb Marc Perkel: Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.67/doc/html/spec_html/ch06.html#SECTmacrodefs -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:31, Marc Perkel wrote: Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? Marc, RTFM. Chapter six. -- Magnus Holmgren[EMAIL PROTECTED] (No Cc of list mail needed, thanks)

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:31, Marc Perkel wrote: Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? Marc, RTFM. Chapter six. That's what I thought it was. What confuses me is what's a Predefined

Re: [exim] Addid RBL Checks : NEED HELP

2007-05-02 Thread exim.list exim.list
I tried to add it but all mails started rejecting. Can some one pls help me out with this. On 5/2/07, Magnus Holmgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2007 11:36, exim.list exim.list wrote: I am a new bee to exim and need some help from the experts. Following is my Exim conf, I

Re: [exim] Addid RBL Checks : NEED HELP

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Sherman
exim.list exim.list wrote: I tried to add it but all mails started rejecting. Can some one pls help me out with this. Not unless you give us more information. At the very least, we'll need the configs you're using, and logs showing the problems you're having -- both unobfuscated. - Marc --

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Stanislaw Halik
On Wed, May 02, 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? Marc, RTFM. Chapter six. I think I see what the controversy is. Because a macro can be any string then you have to scan every line for every

Re: [exim] Addid RBL Checks : NEED HELP

2007-05-02 Thread exim.list exim.list
Following is my ACL Conf. Let me know where should I add the rbl check. ## # ACL CONFIGURATION# # Specifies access control lists for incoming SMTP mail #

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Stanislaw Halik wrote: Also, why aren't these macros expanded once at load time and stored in memory expanded? AFAIK, the config file is being re-parsed upon spawning a new Exim instance. Exactly. So in that sense they *are* expanded once at load time. The only

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: I don't think there would be any practical differences except in rather complex configurations. Still, probably something for Exim 5. Yes. The current arrangement was intended as a *simple* macro feature. -- Philip HazelUniversity of

Re: [exim] manualroute sql route_list

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Customer Support wrote: smart_route: driver = manualroute domains = !+local_domains transport = remote_smtp route_list = * ${lookup mysql{SELECT target FROM exim_smarthost WHERE (domain='$domain')}} According to the documentation the destination of a route

[exim] How to avoid generating backscatter?

2007-05-02 Thread Richard.Hall
Hello, hope someone can help with this hypothetical (at the moment) situation ... - spammer sends email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA fails to detect that it is spam - userA has set up forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA attempts to forward email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainB detects that

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 16:05, Marc Perkel wrote: Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2007 15:31, Marc Perkel wrote: Hope not to sound to ignorant but what is a macro? Can you give an example of what that would look like? Marc, RTFM. Chapter six. That's what I thought it was.

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 17:14, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: I don't think there would be any practical differences except in rather complex configurations. Still, probably something for Exim 5. Yes. The current arrangement was intended as a *simple* macro

Re: [exim] How to avoid generating backscatter?

2007-05-02 Thread ROGERS Richard
Richard.Hall wrote: Hello, hope someone can help with this hypothetical (at the moment) situation ... - spammer sends email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA fails to detect that it is spam - userA has set up forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA attempts to forward email to [EMAIL

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Simple specification or simple implementation? ;) Both. I'm a simple sort of person. :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: I don't think there would be any practical differences except in rather complex configurations. Still, probably something for Exim 5. Yes. The current arrangement was intended as a *simple* macro feature. Fair 'nuf. Now ..

Re: [exim] How to avoid generating backscatter?

2007-05-02 Thread Marco Wessel
On May 2, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Richard.Hall wrote: Hello, hope someone can help with this hypothetical (at the moment) situation ... snip Is there any way for domainA to prevent the generation, or at least the transmission, of the NDR? (Other than improving its spam detection rates!!) I

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 2 May 2007, W B Hacker wrote: But one might then ask, how MACRO's compare in potential load with: - hostlists - lookups (in general) - lookups involving SQL calls Indeed. But all of those items can be omitted from the config if you don't want them. Predefined macros would not

[exim] System Filter Question

2007-05-02 Thread Kevin Colagio
Hey folks. We are running Exim 4.52 and I'm trying to setup a system filter that will match the following flow... if $local_part ends -l and subject is User Quarantine Account Information or subject is Spam Quarantine Summary then

Re: [exim] manualroute sql route_list

2007-05-02 Thread Customer Support
Have you got debugging information to show that this does not work? Which release of Exim? Support for ports in manual route was added at release 4.53. Ah, thank you very much for that, it's the version I'm testing against that wasn't up to date, it works fine on the live system. Regards

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, W B Hacker wrote: But one might then ask, how MACRO's compare in potential load with: - hostlists - lookups (in general) - lookups involving SQL calls Indeed. But all of those items can be omitted from the config if you don't want them.

Re: [exim] Addid RBL Checks : NEED HELP

2007-05-02 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 02/05/07, exim.list exim.list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to add it but all mails started rejecting. Can some one pls help me out with this. Not without much more information. If you're doing this on a live system: stop. On a test system, or with a test config, make your changes, do

Re: [exim] How to avoid generating backscatter?

2007-05-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:21 +0100, Richard.Hall wrote: Hello, hope someone can help with this hypothetical (at the moment) situation ... - spammer sends email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA fails to detect that it is spam - userA has set up forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA

[exim] exim4 logging

2007-05-02 Thread submit
Hello, I've been running exim4 for more sometime now and I have to say I'm very happy with on the whole. Having said that I'm interested in turning down the level of detail to which it's logging but I can't find the option (e.g: log_level) under Debian in a split configuration and I would welcome

Re: [exim] exim4 logging

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Sherman
submit wrote: Hello, I've been running exim4 for more sometime now and I have to say I'm very happy with on the whole. Having said that I'm interested in turning down the level of detail to which it's logging but I can't find the option (e.g: log_level) under Debian in a split configuration

Re: [exim] exim4 logging

2007-05-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Sherman wrote: submit wrote: Hello, I've been running exim4 for more sometime now and I have to say I'm very happy with on the whole. Having said that I'm interested in turning down the level of detail to which it's logging but I can't find the option (e.g: log_level) under Debian in a

Re: [exim] exim4 logging

2007-05-02 Thread submit
Marc, That's great, thanks for that... hugh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Sherman Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:02 PM To: Marc Sherman Cc: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] exim4 logging Marc Sherman wrote: submit

Re: [exim] How to avoid generating backscatter?

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy Harris
Richard.Hall wrote: Hello, hope someone can help with this hypothetical (at the moment) situation ... - spammer sends email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA fails to detect that it is spam - userA has set up forwarding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - domainA attempts to forward email to [EMAIL

[exim] Bad file descriptor

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Radamis
I'm not sure what I did, but I broke my exim install. It was working fine, till suddenly it wasn't. I was having a problem where it couldn't setuid and gid, but that was because the binary lost it's setuid bit, again, I have no idea how/why. My current problem is when mail is received, it is not

Re: [exim] Bad file descriptor

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Radamis
Actually, I'm mistaken.. Relay messages are behaving the same way. On 5/2/07, Andrew Radamis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what I did, but I broke my exim install. It was working fine, till suddenly it wasn't. I was having a problem where it couldn't setuid and gid, but that was

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

2007-05-02 Thread Jason_Meers
I am a simple user (you can read that both ways) In my mind there are two points here: 1) To include (or not to include) predefined macros 2) The overheads of processing additional macros I am assuming that these predefined macros relate to the exim environment itself and can be set at

Re: [exim] Exim gets constantly the same mail, sent from our customer (gagabay)

2007-05-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 16:29 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: Then it struck me that there is no need to mess with signals. A simple call to select() can also detect this situation. I have therefore implemented code to do this (with some extra features for the input sent too soon case, because of

[exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Renaud Allard
Hi, I am receiving a bunch of stock spams (mostly in german). Their common property seems to be a helo like [ip.add.re.ss]. I am thinking about an ACL like this one: warn condition = ${if

Re: [exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:46 +0200, Renaud Allard wrote: I am receiving a bunch of stock spams (mostly in german). Their common property seems to be a helo like [ip.add.re.ss]. I am thinking about an ACL like this one: warn condition = ${if

[exim] Exim.org web server down?!?

2007-05-02 Thread Dan_Mitton
It looks like the web server at exim.org is down. Anyone have any ideas (of course, this mail might be effected too :-) )? -- ## 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 -

Re: [exim] Exim.org web server down?!?

2007-05-02 Thread Dan_Mitton
It's back now. Sent by:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: exim-users@exim.org cc: (bcc: Dan Mitton/YD/RWDOE) Subject:[exim] Exim.org web server down?!? LSN: Not Relevant User Filed as: Not a Record It looks like the web server at exim.org is down. Anyone have any ideas (of

Re: [exim] Problems with sender being rewritten

2007-05-02 Thread John W. Baxter
On 4/27/07 7:21 PM, Wayne Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems with my sender's addresses being rewritten and I can't work out why or how to fix it. I have Exim setup on a server that hosts mail for about 5 domains. I've just migrated this from Fedora Core 4 to

Re: [exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Ted Cooper
Renaud Allard wrote: Hi, I am receiving a bunch of stock spams (mostly in german). Their common property seems to be a helo like [ip.add.re.ss]. I am thinking about an ACL like this one: warn condition = ${if

Re: [exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Bryan Rawlins
Renaud Allard wrote: I am receiving a bunch of stock spams (mostly in german). Their common property seems to be a helo like [ip.add.re.ss]. I am thinking about an ACL like this one: warn condition = ${if

Re: [exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Bryan Rawlins
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 00:46 +0200, Renaud Allard wrote: I am receiving a bunch of stock spams (mostly in german). Their common property seems to be a helo like [ip.add.re.ss]. I am thinking about an ACL like this one: warn condition = ${if

Re: [exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 10:29 +1000, Ted Cooper wrote: Exim has a function to figure out if something is an IP address without all the regex # Deny RAW IP addresses - they MUST be quoted to comply with standards denymessage = ERRMSG_RAWIP1 condition =

Re: [exim] SPA authentication and Vista

2007-05-02 Thread John W. Baxter
On 5/2/07 4:59 AM, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To authenticate users before they can send mail from my server, I have been using SPA which has been working fine up to now. One user has just switched to Vista and it has all stopped working - authentication fails every time. I guess

Re: [exim] Spam with IP like HELO

2007-05-02 Thread Ted Cooper
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 10:29 +1000, Ted Cooper wrote: Exim has a function to figure out if something is an IP address without all the regex # Deny RAW IP addresses - they MUST be quoted to comply with standards denymessage = ERRMSG_RAWIP1

Re: [exim] [exim-announce] Exim 4.67 released

2007-05-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:02 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 22:23, Jeremy Harris wrote: The docs link on exim.org still gives a 4.66 doc? I've updated the webpages now. If I missed anything, please speak out. PLEASE make the URL to the Exim documentation stable. every

Re: [exim] [exim-announce] Exim 4.67 released

2007-05-02 Thread Mike Cardwell
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: The docs link on exim.org still gives a 4.66 doc? I've updated the webpages now. If I missed anything, please speak out. PLEASE make the URL to the Exim documentation stable. every time a new version comes out, the Google page rank is reset. in addition, nobody

Re: [exim] [exim-announce] Exim 4.67 released

2007-05-02 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 03/05/07, Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:02 +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 22:23, Jeremy Harris wrote: The docs link on exim.org still gives a 4.66 doc? I've updated the webpages now. If I missed anything, please speak