Re: [exim] question about exim and spamassassin

2007-08-14 Thread Richard Clayton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mostafa M.Fouad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >...is there a way that >do the following > >that when a message detected as a spam it automatically update the ip address >into the file exim_access_list, even through exter

Re: [exim] How to handle DNS timeout delays when spam RBL is under DDoS attack?

2007-08-14 Thread Mar Matthias Darin
Hello, Alexander Perlis writes: > But sometimes the upstream spam RBLs we rely on seem to "disappear", > probably suffering a DDoS attack. In those cases, Exim4 message > processing grinds to a crawl, taking over 30 seconds per message. What's > happening is that the DNS lookups for the disa

Re: [exim] Allowing sender verify when sender over quota

2007-08-14 Thread Erik Schorr
Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Erik Schorr wrote: >> In addition, someone who is legitimately using their own email account is >> far >> less likely to have a full mailbox than a mailbox whose email address was >> used > > I wouldn't say that. In my experience 1/4 of the users tend to happily > let

Re: [exim] retry question

2007-08-14 Thread postmaster
Ian Eiloart wrote: > > --On 13 August 2007 10:13:39 -0500 cjackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Ian Eiloart wrote: >>> >>> --On 10 August 2007 11:07:17 -0500 cjackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> Hi, I am having a very difficult time sending email to att.net with the >

Re: [exim] retry question

2007-08-14 Thread postmaster
Ian Eiloart wrote: > > > --On 10 August 2007 11:07:17 -0500 cjackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am having a very difficult time sending email to att.net with the >> default Exim 4.62 configuration. Att.net gives me 450 Busy Retry error >> on almost all email I send to them r

Re: [exim] 421 SMTP incoming data timeout - message abandoned (local delivery!)

2007-08-14 Thread Marcin Krol
Thomas Hochstein napisał(a): >> Intermittently I get errors logged like in subject while mail is locally >> spam-scanned (traditional method of external scanning and the mail >> filter re-injecting the message with exim -oMr spam-scanned -bS). >> > > Why don't you do it during SMTP-time? >

Re: [exim] question about exim and spamassassin

2007-08-14 Thread Marcin Krol
Mostafa M.Fouad napisał(a): > that when a message detected as a spam it automatically update the ip address > into the file exim_access_list, even through external perl script > so the next time i recieve spam from the same source it can be blocked from > the connection time...and hence reduce th

[exim] ACL weirdness?

2007-08-14 Thread Marc Silver
Hey guys, I have an ACL which I'm using to effectively block some of the .PDF spam. I've added a list of whitelisted addresses to the ACL but Exim doesn't seem to be taking note of them. Is something wrong with my ACL, or am I missing something here? My ACL: deny message= $found_extensi

Re: [exim] ACL weirdness?

2007-08-14 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Tuesday 14 August 2007 11:50, Marc Silver wrote: > I have an ACL which I'm using to effectively block some of the .PDF > spam. I've added a list of whitelisted addresses to the ACL but Exim > doesn't seem to be taking note of them. Is something wrong with my > ACL, or am I missing something he

Re: [exim] round robin / avoid bounce messages - Resolved ?

2007-08-14 Thread Knaupp, Thomas
| I've set up two servers that act as backup MXs for | various domains. In times when spam flood is increasing | more and more, I tried to "load balance" them .. | | The MX-Records for the domains using this servers | is set round robin, i.e. | | IN MX 10 realmail.customer.tld. | IN

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

2007-08-14 Thread Ian Eiloart
etry rule for the host you're submitting to? >>> >>> How would you specify that? >>> >>> **F,0h,0h >> >> No, try once every hour for a minute. >> >>> >>> Starting /etc/init.d/exim: 2007-08-13 09:09:39 Exim configuration error >>> in line 19 of /etc/exim/conf/retry.

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

2007-08-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Ian Eiloart wrote: > > > I give up. Please tell us everything you've tried, and what's > acceptable, and what's not. Otherwise, I'm wasting my time trying to > help you. > If you read the original message I am requesting a new feature to not queue messages. It appears that your suggestion of

[exim] Exim4 connecting to MS SQL database

2007-08-14 Thread Craig
Hi Exim users Has anyone on the list managed to have Exim4 performing lookups to an MS SQL server for delivery of mail? We have an MS SQL server with all our user information stored nationaly and would like to have Exim be able to do looks ups against this and delivery to the relevant mail server

Re: [exim] Exim4 connecting to MS SQL database

2007-08-14 Thread Ted Cooper
Craig wrote: > Hi Exim users > > Has anyone on the list managed to have Exim4 performing lookups to an MS SQL > server for delivery of mail? > > We have an MS SQL server with all our user information stored nationaly and > would like to have Exim be able to do looks ups against this and delivery

Re: [exim] round robin / avoid bounce messages - Resolved ?

2007-08-14 Thread Jeremy Harris
Knaupp, Thomas wrote: > | I've set up two servers that act as backup MXs for > | various domains. In times when spam flood is increasing > | more and more, I tried to "load balance" them .. > | > | The MX-Records for the domains using this servers > | is set round robin, i.e. > | > | IN

Re: [exim] exim 4.67 and queue processing

2007-08-14 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Monday 23 July 2007 20:07, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On Friday 20 July 2007 23:48, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > I am using exim 4.67 and have just noticed that - in my case - it no > > longer picks up queued emails belonging to the same domain when I deliver > > an email manually by using exim -d

[exim] Exim to Exchange

2007-08-14 Thread james
I'm looking to use exim, with spamassassin and an anti-virus engine, to receive incoming smtp traffic for a group of domains, and then forward them onto a local exchange server. Having not used exim much before, I'm unsure how to exactly set this up on the config files. I've had a quick google ar

Re: [exim] Exim to Exchange

2007-08-14 Thread Mike Cardwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm looking to use exim, with spamassassin and an anti-virus engine, to > receive incoming smtp traffic for a group of domains, and then forward > them onto a local exchange server. > > Having not used exim much before, I'm unsure how to exactly set this up on > the con

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

2007-08-14 Thread Eli Sand
> I don't think there is an alternate solution which is why > I asked for a feature. Did you read my reply? I gave a possible solution and you have yet to mention if you tried it yet. Eli. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.e

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

2007-08-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Eli Sand wrote: >> I don't think there is an alternate solution which is why >> I asked for a feature. >> > > Did you read my reply? I gave a possible solution and you have yet to > mention if you tried it yet. > > Eli. > > I would think that the solution to a feature request is to imple

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

2007-08-14 Thread Eli Sand
> I would think that the solution to a feature request is to implement > the feature. So, you didn't try my idea. Got it, thanks. Eli. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http:

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

2007-08-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Eli Sand wrote: >> I would think that the solution to a feature request is to implement >> the feature. >> > > So, you didn't try my idea. Got it, thanks. > > Eli. > > > Looking back through I am sort of doing what you suggested. I have a fallback host to and IP address that feeds into