[exim] exim and queue

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Kirk
Hi all I have an exim server and every Thursday we send out over 16000 mails in a mailshot, this takes for ever to send out, I think about 8 hours or so and our queue on the server goes up to about 15000, our current smtp_accept_queue_per_connection is defaulted to 10, I want to change this to 10

Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread Eli Sand
> What is and isn't document depends on the viewpoint of the reader. If > you are intimately familiar with the internals of Exim then perhaps > everything is answered. But even if you are a seasoned user like I am, > or if you are a newbie, then what is documented from the perspective > ofe > the r

Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread Marc Perkel
John Robinson wrote: > On 24/01/2008 21:16, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: > [...] > >> There's no point being hurtful. Perhaps Mark is not in this case, >> > [...] > > I don't think Graeme or I were being hurtful at all; Marc is no newbie, > in fact he runs a business making money from exim,

Re: [exim] How to set exim to manage the number of CC or BCC addresses?

2008-01-24 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Dave Evans wrote: > 2. /Why/ do you want to limit this? I could understand if it was to control a > malware flood being BCCd to 1000s of people at a time, but a "normal" mail to > a couple of hundred people - what's the problem? At least I think it may be good to limit it from a "netiquette" poin

Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread John Robinson
On 24/01/2008 21:16, Guillaume Yziquel wrote: [...] > There's no point being hurtful. Perhaps Mark is not in this case, [...] I don't think Graeme or I were being hurtful at all; Marc is no newbie, in fact he runs a business making money from exim, but he seems always to come here to ask questio

Re: [exim] BATV implementation

2008-01-24 Thread Craig Jackson
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Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread Guillaume Yziquel
Graeme Fowler a écrit : > > I do hope you'll start to make something of an effort. Many subscribers > will appreciate it, since you clearly have a great deal of time to spend > "doing Exim stuff" and you're full of ideas. Hello. There's no point being hurtful. Perhaps Mark is not in this case, b

Re: [exim] BATV implementation

2008-01-24 Thread Craig Jackson
> batv_redirect: > driver = redirect > control = caseful_local_part > condition = ${prvscheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] > data = ${prvscheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got rid of control statement is above router. That helped. Okay, it seems to be working except the verification part. As in, I can't s

Re: [exim] How to restrict smtp connections to just authenticated users and specific hosts ?

2008-01-24 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 24/01/2008, Chris Drayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 > daemon_smtp_ports = 2525 > And tell all our users to change the port in their email software. Then > restrict incoming access to port 25 via iptables. > > I'd rather find an alternative that doesnt require our

Re: [exim] quick tip: smtp_reserve_interfaces

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Matt wrote: > > How do you make it so port 587 ONLY works for authenticated clients, > and my popb4smtp clients? deny message = relay not permitted, authentication required on port 587 condition = ${if eq{$interface_port}{587} } ! hosts = +relay_hosts ! authenticated =

Re: [exim] delay between processing mail in queue

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Toth Milan wrote: > > I would like to ask somebody that it is posible to make delay > between procesing e-mail in queue. For exmaple client sent huge > amount of e-mails which is placed into queue, and I want to create > delay for example 3 seconds between each e-mail is

Re: [exim] rewrite or redirect?

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Johann Spies wrote: > > Is rewriting the addresses the correct way to ensure that emails to > addresses that existed in the past gets delivered to the correct > present address? > > I just wonder whether, with the exception of the @exchange.sun.ac.za > addresses the others coul

Re: [exim] refused: too many connections

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Matt wrote: > Anyway to tell exim not to refuse connections from certain IP's at > these peak times? > > This works for smtp_load_reserve but not max connections. Look at smtp_accept_reserve. Tony. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${s

Re: [exim] Bug#457096: bounce all not half

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can't we have the following error stop the message in its tracks, > instead of sending still to half the recipients? In general no, because Exim may have delivered half of the recipients before it find out that one of them is undeliverable. Exim can

Re: [exim] BATV implementation

2008-01-24 Thread Craig Jackson
>recipients = *batv_list Okay, I caught this error. Should be a "+" instead of a "*". -- ## 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://wiki.exim.org/

Re: [exim] message size limit per period of time

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, test2 wrote: > >if anybody knows how to restrict the size off all attachments sending >e.g per day. I want to restrict all to sending/reciveiing no more then >300MB per day? I have read about rate limit but i could not find the >suitable docs to accomplished thi

Re: [exim] exim4 router redirect when fails

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Chen Guoqiang wrote: > > Is there Any way to control router redirect(jump) to router C when router A > fails. Have a look at the pass_router option. Be warned that the routing logic is complicated, and routers can fail or pass or decline, and this option only deals with the pas

Re: [exim] exim TLS problem

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, sajith kumar wrote: > TLS error on connection to smtp-out.asianetindia.com (DH params import) Base > 64 decoding error: > > another error > [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=smarthost T= remote_smtp_smarthost defer(-37) faillure > while > setting up TLS session > > how will i solve this pro

Re: [exim] Where to adapt header Date:

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Peter Velan wrote: > > The problem is, that the archived message could be some weeks old and > the newsletter system sends this archived message with the original date > in header. Because spamassassin gives a penalty for dates beeing out of > sync, I wolud like to adapt the "d

Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 10:37 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > It's not in the documentation. That's why I asked the question. As with many questions asked on this list, the answer is in several places in the docs. If you look back at the high-level overview you'll find: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-cu

[exim] BATV implementation

2008-01-24 Thread Craig Jackson
Hi, I am trying to implement BATV with Exim 4.67 and I'd like to run this past you before I save the config and -HUP the daemon. I have user local parts listed in a Mysql database with a column called use_batv_key; 0 means don't sign, 1 means sign. I have the following lines in the config file. Do

Re: [exim] Mail header syntax error: no feedback

2008-01-24 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Ian Eiloart wrote: > > We use verify = header_syntax to reject messages with invalid headers. When > such an incident happens, the log message is quite specific, but the > message used in the rejection message is quite general. Sorry for replying to an old message, but it seems

Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread John Robinson
On 24/01/2008 18:37, Marc Perkel wrote: > It's not in the documentation. Yes it is. Right there at the very top of the documentation for the redirect router: "The incoming address can be redirected in several different ways... It can be replaced by one or more new addresses which are themselves

Re: [exim] Router Redirect Question

2008-01-24 Thread Marc Perkel
It's not in the documentation. That's why I asked the question. Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2008-01-23 at 13:06 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: > >> If one router redirects the message to a different email address are the >> variables $local_part and $domain updated to the new values? I'm trying >> to

Re: [exim] Tunning Exim

2008-01-24 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 24 Jan 2008, at 17:34, Cleber Picolo wrote: > Ok, i'm working in a project for a company, and i need to send more > than > 20.000 emails per hour. The objective is 100.000 emails per hour. > But with my configuration i just send 14.000 emails per hour. > I have 10 processes running. I limit

Re: [exim] Tunning Exim

2008-01-24 Thread Cleber Picolo
Ok, i'm working in a project for a company, and i need to send more than 20.000 emails per hour. The objective is 100.000 emails per hour. But with my configuration i just send 14.000 emails per hour. I have 10 processes running. I limit my queue to 2000 emails. If i need to confgure better my rou

[exim] How to restrict smtp connections to just authenticated users and specific hosts ?

2008-01-24 Thread Chris Drayton
Hi, I'm far from an expert on this subject and I hope someone can answer my question... We are using anti spam appliances to send mail into our servers. I'd like to restrict all inbound smtp communication to authenticated users and the anti spam appliances so that all other smtp traffic is refu

Re: [exim] hostslist IP matching and *.example.com

2008-01-24 Thread Marc Sherman
WJCarpenter wrote: > I think I used to know the answer to this, but I was just looking at > section 10 of the exim spec and didn't find the info I was looking > for. (Treatment of various other things is laid out pretty well, but > not this case.) > > If you have a wildcard host name item in a ho

[exim] [Exim4] Exim can't find existing alias files

2008-01-24 Thread sasolabs
Hi, I've tried the approach from FAQ 0405 "A convenient cut-and-paste solution" http://wiki.exim.org/FAQ/Routing_for_local_delivery/Q0405 I've replaced all three "DOMAINDIR" with "/etc/domainaliases/" and created this directory. It contains: map dsasolabscom Content of "map" > saso-labs.com: d

Re: [exim] Tunning Exim

2008-01-24 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 24 January 2008 10:21:04 -0200 Cleber Picolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > How can i tunning my exim? > I limited smtp time connection in 5s and limited retry time in 12h.. > There is more anything that can i do? Please say what you are trying to achieve. What is it that is not f

Re: [exim] Tunning Exim

2008-01-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:21:04 -0200, "Cleber Picolo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can i tunning my exim? What exactly does not work to your satisfaction? >I limited smtp time connection in 5s and limited retry time in 12h.. Why? >There is more anything that can i do? What do you want to do?

Re: [exim] Tunning Exim

2008-01-24 Thread John Robinson
On 24/01/2008 12:21, Cleber Picolo wrote: > How can i tunning my exim? > I limited smtp time connection in 5s and limited retry time in 12h.. > There is more anything that can i do? I'm not sure the above steps are a good idea, you'll end up not delivering email that way - the first will mean ema

[exim] Tunning Exim

2008-01-24 Thread Cleber Picolo
Hi, How can i tunning my exim? I limited smtp time connection in 5s and limited retry time in 12h.. There is more anything that can i do? Thank You, Cleber P. Picolo São Paulo - Brazil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.

Re: [exim] localhost or remote sender?

2008-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Ahh... should have read what I wrote! It was fetchmail donwloading mail from a remote account! Sorry for 3 emails to the list! Zbigniew Sszalbot 2008/1/24, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I should have included headers from the spam email. They are below. > > 2008/1/24, Zbigniew Szalbot

[exim] localhost or remote sender?

2008-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I'd like to ask for help in interpreting the below log. Do I have a problem on my machine? That is, is someone sending emails really from localhost? 2008-01-24 12:40:01 1JI0R7-000L99-Ps <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=localhost (lists.lc-words.com) [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=8600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-

Re: [exim] localhost or remote sender?

2008-01-24 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
I should have included headers from the spam email. They are below. 2008/1/24, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > I'd like to ask for help in interpreting the below log. Do I have a > problem on my machine? That is, is someone sending emails really from > localhost? > > 2008-01-24