On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:30:57 +0100, Nigel Metheringham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 19 Jul 2007, at 09:31, Philip Hazel wrote:
>> 8. Writing my memoirs? That's traditional, isn't it?
>
>Shock horror exposé of the exim community? Do I need to leave the
>country?
Staying offline for a couple of
Have you tried:
control = no_multiline_responses
N.B: The documentation (4.6x) currently and incorrectly talks about
"no_multiline_response", note the lack of an "S".
This MS bug has been around for a couple of years. Beware when testing against
MS mailers in that:
1. They persist in trying to
On 19 Jul 2007, at 14:37, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Give me a little time on this. I am wondering if I could parse all of
> these and get the message ID from all the old messages, and use
> that to
> flip into the right place in the archives. Except lurker has no
> out-of-the-box message id se
Have you tried:
control = no_multiline_responses
P.S: The documentation (4.6x) currently and incorrectly talks about
"no_multiline_response", note the lack of an "S".
This MS bug has been around for a couple of years. Beware when testing MS
mailers in that:
1. They persist in trying to send ma
Hi list,
i like to make use of a domainlist in the retry-section which holds some
domains known to send huge amounts of spam-like mails. These mails
should have a relatively low retry time.
Since this domain list contains _sending_ domains, i think i had to use
some sort of pattern matching li
On Thursday 19 July 2007 18:47, Dean Brooks wrote:
> Hmm. With Exim 4.67 I get the following error when trying that out:
>
> temporarily rejected connection in "connect" ACL:
> syntax error in "control=no_multiline_response"
>
> I checked the documentation and it specifically says
> "no_mul
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Chris Edwards wrote, Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:40 AM
> > Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> >
> > | The Outlook clients fail to deliver the mail and leave it in the user's
> > | outbox, displaying the final line of the multi-line error in th
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:25:44PM -0400, Marc Sherman wrote:
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
> > Alternatively, remove any posts with my email address, and never expect to
> > hear from me again.
>
> Don't you think that's a bit extreme, given this?
> http://www.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That is too f
--On 19 July 2007 12:25:44 -0400 Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
>>
>> No, please do obfuscate addresses in the archives.
>>
>> Alternatively, remove any posts with my email address, and never expect
>> to hear from me again.
>
> Don't you think that's a bit extrem
Ian Eiloart wrote:
>
> No, please do obfuscate addresses in the archives.
>
> Alternatively, remove any posts with my email address, and never expect to
> hear from me again.
Don't you think that's a bit extreme, given this?
http://www.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Obfuscation is a losing battl
Chris Edwards wrote, Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:40 AM
> Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>
> | The Outlook clients fail to deliver the mail and leave it in the user's
> | outbox, displaying the final line of the multi-line error in the
> | progress dialog; the Vista Microsoft Mail client simply moves it to S
--On 19 July 2007 09:23:39 -0400 Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>> All the services on exim.org have now been moved from
>> sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk to tahini.csx.cam.ac.uk
>
> Did you actually grind up the old machine to make the new one? :)
>
> - Marc
like th
--On 19 July 2007 09:23:04 -0400 Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Mike Cardwell wrote:
>> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>>
>>> All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into
>>> lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs
>>> within lurker are
> Did you try this by yourself? In my experience, it seems (at least
> some) antivirus software does not hook to ports but to outlook itself,
> so changing ports still doesn't prevent the antivirus to handle the
> connections.
I have tried this in the past - I wasn't mentioning port 2525 to hope t
Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>> There's a handful of different things you can do with spam once you've
>> identified it; some are better than others. Exim can be configured to
>> implement all of them, so you have to decide which you want to do
>> according to your own local policy:
>> [...]
>
> One mo
Magnus Holmgren wrote:
>
> - Reject the spam in the SMTP conversation, but deliver it to the quarantine
> as well (fakereject). This may be an option in the range between "almost
> certainly spam" (i.e. really reject) and "maybe spam" (mark and deliver or
> quarantine). But it may also be compl
On Thursday 19 July 2007 15:54, Marc Sherman wrote:
> There's a handful of different things you can do with spam once you've
> identified it; some are better than others. Exim can be configured to
> implement all of them, so you have to decide which you want to do
> according to your own local poli
Robby Balona wrote:
>
> I have Exim purring away and doing well and Spamasassin seems to work nicely
> to. I would like to drop or quarantine mails marked as spam by Spamasassin .
> I know all the arguments about doing this but I would like to block the spam
> never the less.
Magnus has already p
On Thursday 19 July 2007 15:20, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2007, at 13:41, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> > Looks good! However, on
> > http://freshmeat.net/projects/lurker/?
> > branch_id=30525&release_id=151719
> > it says "New features in this version include email address
> > obfuscation"
>
On 19 Jul 2007, at 14:30, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Cool. make sure they're 301 redirects (PERMANENT) rather than 302's or
> 307's. It's just that there are a lot of links on google to the old
> mail-archives section and if it doesn't exist anymore, there are going
> to be a lot of confused people.
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>> Looks good! However, on
>> http://freshmeat.net/projects/lurker/?
>> branch_id=30525&release_id=151719
>> it says "New features in this version include email address
>> obfuscation"
>> ... Can that be, "turned on," please? At the moment all of our email
>> address
On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:58, Peter Bowyer wrote:
> On 19/07/07, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hide_mail = on
> >
> > Better? I think it does more than just obfuscates mail. It hides the
> > entire domain portion, which can make some posts hard to make understand.
>
> Does it als
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> All the services on exim.org have now been moved from
> sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk to tahini.csx.cam.ac.uk
Did you actually grind up the old machine to make the new one? :)
- Marc
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Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
>> All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into
>> lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs
>> within lurker are stable so can be quoted in emails, wiki pages etc.
>
> Looks good! However, on
>
On 19 Jul 2007, at 13:41, Mike Cardwell wrote:
>
> Looks good! However, on
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/lurker/?
> branch_id=30525&release_id=151719
> it says "New features in this version include email address
> obfuscation"
> ... Can that be, "turned on," please? At the moment all of our
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Many thanks for Magnus, Philip and Tony for work they have done on this
> transition, and to the University of Cambridge for providing the
> hardware, hosting and facilities.
Not forgetting many thanks also to Nigel, who has put in a great deal of
Mike Cardwell wrote:
>> All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into
>> lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs
>> within lurker are stable so can be quoted in emails, wiki pages etc.
> Looks good! However, on
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/lur
On 19/07/07, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:41, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> > Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > > All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into
> > > lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs
> > > wit
On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:41, Mike Cardwell wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into
> > lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs
> > within lurker are stable so can be quoted in emails, wiki pages etc.
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into
> lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs
> within lurker are stable so can be quoted in emails, wiki pages etc.
Looks good! However, on
http://freshmeat.net/projects/lurk
All the services on exim.org have now been moved from
sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk to tahini.csx.cam.ac.uk
Things *should* now be working OK - if there are problems then please
drop me a note.
Also things have moved, although in most cases the old URLs should still
work:-
Mailing lists http://list
Ian Eiloart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noticed a huge spike in spam volumes recently. For 10 months, up until
> about 3 weeks ago, we were consistently rejecting an average of about
> 250,000 spam messages per day. We'd never rejected more than 400k messages.
>
> Then, about 26 June, we rejected ove
Adam D. Barratt wrote:
| The Outlook clients fail to deliver the mail and leave it in the user's
| outbox, displaying the final line of the multi-line error in the
| progress dialog; the Vista Microsoft Mail client simply moves it to Sent
| Items with no hint of an error.
And we were soo hopin
On Thursday 19 July 2007 12:12, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > (Why are there underscores in the header field names in the default
> > config, guys? Isn't that a bit nonstandard?)
>
> To match the variable names, I imagine (I can't actually remember).
> Which
Greetings
I am an Exim n00b even though I have been using Exim for a number of
years now , even after I read the Exim 3 doco and most of the Exim4
Doco. I have compiled a fairly decent setup (IMHO) from examples
provided on the list, the doco and other resources.
Not actively working on Exim
Thanks for the info .. Really helpful and you have put me on the right path!
Best Regards
Robby
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> (Why are there underscores in the header field names in the default config,
> guys? Isn't that a bit nonstandard?)
To match the variable names, I imagine (I can't actually remember).
Which "standard" are you thinking of? :-) RFC2822 allows almost any
On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:53, Robby Balona wrote:
> I am using freebsd 6.2 and ported Exim and Spamassain. I then had to
> uncomment in the configure file, the spamd_address and the ACL rule
>
> warnspam = nobody
> add_header = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\
>
Marc Perkel wrote:
> There is a really bad attitude that is developing on this list regarding
> being rude to people with questions. Although Exim is by far the best
> MTA out there it's not easy to use. I've been using it for 6 years and I
> still find it hard to do things that should be simpl
Thanks Magnus
I am using freebsd 6.2 and ported Exim and Spamassain. I then had to
uncomment in the configure file, the spamd_address and the ACL rule
warnspam = nobody
add_header = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\
X-Spam_score_int: $spam_score_int\n\
--On 19 July 2007 11:32:04 +0200 Robby Balona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I have Exim purring away and doing well and Spamasassin seems to work
> nicely to. I would like to drop or quarantine mails marked as spam by
> Spamasassin . I know all the arguments about doing this but I wou
On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:32, Robby Balona wrote:
> I have Exim purring away and doing well and Spamasassin seems to work
> nicely to. I would like to drop or quarantine mails marked as spam by
> Spamasassin . I know all the arguments about doing this but I would like to
> block the spam never th
Hi Guys
I have Exim purring away and doing well and Spamasassin seems to work nicely
to. I would like to drop or quarantine mails marked as spam by Spamasassin .
I know all the arguments about doing this but I would like to block the spam
never the less.
Being a newbie I have no idea how to go ab
On 19 Jul 2007, at 09:31, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 8. Writing my memoirs? That's traditional, isn't it?
Shock horror exposé of the exim community? Do I need to leave the
country?
Nigel.
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Now I can't help being curious. What will you be doing in your forever spare
> time, O Grand Master Wizard?
1. Everybody I know who is retired tells me that I won't have any
"forever spare time". They are all amazingly busy.
2. I will *not* be lead
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Tony Finch wrote:
> Have a look at the ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX compile-time option. You might add an
> ALT_CONFIG_ANYONE option which only retains root for configuration files
> under the secure prefix.
There is already code in there to retain root with -C when Exim is
running in
On Среда 18 июля 2007, Chris Laif wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm currently searching for a commercial spam-scanning solution which
> seamlessly integrates into exim. I'm not satisfied with SpamAssassin's
> results and I'm not interested in spending hours tweaking the
> rulesets.
>
> I had a quick look at www
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