Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-20 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Perkel wrote: > > > For what it's worth I to would like to have a feature to choose to > ignore 550 errors and do something other that bounce the message. There > are times when you are sure that the 550 was in error and you wat to > take a different action. I run into that myself. > The

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Marc Perkel wrote: > For what it's worth I to would like to have a feature to choose to > ignore 550 errors and do something other that bounce the message. There Bastardising the smtp protocol won't help anyone in the long run, except spammers perhaps. But nobody is stopping you from patching

Re: [exim] Retry Interval on Exim 4.6

2007-09-20 Thread Matt
I added this and the problems cleared up. * rcpt_4xxF,6h,15m; F,4d,1h Matt > > The exinext utility will probably tell you. Note that Exim retry rules > > operate *per server* not *per message*. > > I think I see the problem of sorts now. How do I tell exim to retry > te

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Renaud Allard wrote: > > > Marc Haber wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a problem with a firewall that has a transparent SMTP proxy >> which returns a 550 error on initial connection if the "real" server >> that the exim behind the proxy refuses connections. >> >> This, of course, causes the exim behind

[exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

2007-09-20 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi, I have set up an additional router that determines the target mailbox by looking up an alias file using lsearch*. The fallback wildcard alias is defined as *:peter. The idea was to route every recipient (in local_domains) that doesn't have its own alias to my mailbox. Unfortunately, the reci

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-20 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Haber wrote: Hi, I have a problem with a firewall that has a transparent SMTP proxy which returns a 550 error on initial connection if the "real" server that the exim behind the proxy refuses connections. This, of course, causes the exim behind the proxy to immediately bounce the message

[exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, I have a problem with a firewall that has a transparent SMTP proxy which returns a 550 error on initial connection if the "real" server that the exim behind the proxy refuses connections. This, of course, causes the exim behind the proxy to immediately bounce the message instead of trying the

Re: [exim] Setting up Exim & Spamassassin on Debian

2007-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:45:46 -0700 (PDT), Murf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After messing about with sa-exim, I tried using ACLs. So far I have the >following files in "/etc/exim4/conf.d/acl": > > >00_exim4-config_header > > >acl_smtp_data = acl_check_data That one belongs into the main configurat

Re: [exim] help with greylisting

2007-09-20 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 10:57:06 -0400, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 02:50:47PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> Debian's exim4 packages do not implement greylisting, and any >> third-party package modifying exim4-config's dpkg-conffiles has >> release critical bugs since

Re: [exim] eximstats question

2007-09-20 Thread Oliver Howe
Steve, That works a treat! Top 50 local domain destinations by message and volume are especially useful for me. Thank you very much for doing that so quickly. I'm sure others on the list will find this feature useful too, especially if they are receiving for multiple domains like me. Regards

[exim] scan directory

2007-09-20 Thread jean-paul natola
H i all, everything has been running great- for the last 2 weeks , however, I saw my scan directory rather large ( i feel) du -ksh * 34Kdb2.0K exim-process.info 54Kinput2.0Kmsglog174Mscan is ok to remove the files in there ? they are old over a week old _

[exim] defer (-46) / SMTP error 421 on replies

2007-09-20 Thread Stephen Winnall
I have installed the Exim RPM (exim-4.67.32.fc7) on my Fedora 7 server (2.6.22.1-41.fc7) and configured it to work with a smart host (with authentication) at my ISP by modifying the exim.conf which was delivered in the RPM. This replaced a previous Exim 4 installation on a Red Hat 9 server which w

Re: [exim] Retry Interval on Exim 4.6

2007-09-20 Thread Matt
> The exinext utility will probably tell you. Note that Exim retry rules > operate *per server* not *per message*. I think I see the problem of sorts now. How do I tell exim to retry temp failures every 15 minutes rather then the standard incrementing retry times? Is anyone else out there having

Re: [exim] HELO/EHLO reject rates

2007-09-20 Thread ROGERS Richard
Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: > I hard block for no or generic rDNS and on HELO's that do not appear > to be a valid domain name, on my "company" server and set SA scoring > VERY high on "customer" servers (so it can be easily adjusted down on > a per domain basis), Phil, I would be interested to s

Re: [exim] HELO/EHLO reject rates

2007-09-20 Thread Phil \(Medway Hosting\)
- Original Message - From: "Darton Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exim Users" Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:02 AM Subject: Re: [exim] HELO/EHLO reject rates > I agree, no rDNS would be a good rejection criterion if we could > assume everyone was following the standards, I h

Re: [exim] Retry Interval on Exim 4.6

2007-09-20 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Matt wrote: > My exim server only seems to retry about every 10 hours according to > logs. Why is that? The exinext utility will probably tell you. Note that Exim retry rules operate *per server* not *per message*. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Comput

Re: [exim] HELO/EHLO reject rates

2007-09-20 Thread Jan Doberstein
ROGERS Richard wrote: > On a slightly related issue - I have an idea that the hit rate from RBLs > (we prinicpally use MAPS+ and Spamhaus) may not be as high is it was a > couple of months ago. Does anyone else have the same feeling (or any > data to confirm/deny)? I noticed this to. The number of

Re: [exim] block domain SPF with v=spf1 +all

2007-09-20 Thread Elijah Daniel
Thank you very much Peter, and everyone who have contributed valuable insite on howto stop spam. Peter Bowyer-2 wrote: > > On 17/09/2007, Elijah Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've been searching the web on howto block domain with this SPF entry >> "v=spf1 >> +all" on exim4 on debian

[exim] dovecot_plain authenticator

2007-09-20 Thread Darren Jacobs
Hi All, I'm trying to use the dovecot_plain authenticator example from the manual to do authentication for my exim 4.68 install. I modified the server_socket directive to point at "/var/run/dovecot/auth-worker.^\\d +\$" I'm getting the error message: "dovecot_plain authenticator failed fo