am 20.02.2008 19:59 schrieb Graeme Fowler:
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 18:52 +0100, Peter Velan wrote:
... Dear MS-Admin, you don't have to know what you are doing, if you are
still able to: click here, expand folder xyz, right-click this tab,
check this box, etc. To be an administrator of a
Hello All
I have installed Exim 4.66 and now whenever i am trying to check the SMTP
with telnet 127.0.0.1 25 , it is throwing error: Connection Refused.please
suggest.I have checked my /etc/hosts also.
Nitin
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On 21/02/2008, Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello All
I have installed Exim 4.66 and now whenever i am trying to check the SMTP
with telnet 127.0.0.1 25 , it is throwing error: Connection Refused.please
suggest.I have checked my /etc/hosts also.
Either Exim isn't running in daemon
Hi,
I've got a quick question, i have a linux Debian machine and there's exim 4
on it. I use the Linux machine for hobbit monitoring, and now i cunfigured
an alert that it should send an e-mail when somethnigs wrong. But i need to
configure an e-mail account to i suppose so where do i do this?
Hi Nitin
Nitin Gupta wrote:
I have installed Exim 4.66 and now whenever i am trying to check the SMTP
with telnet 127.0.0.1 25 , it is throwing error: Connection Refused.please
suggest.I have checked my /etc/hosts also.
Either exim isn't running, or it not configured to listen on that
(Please don't top-post - thanks)
On 21/02/2008, Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Peter
Thanks for your reply.Please let me know what can i do to make exim services
running.
The documentation covers the Exim command line. At a minimum
exim -bd
will start Exim as a daemon, listening
Nitin Gupta wrote:
Hi Martin
Thanks for your reply.
In my /etc/hosts file i haved checked 127.0.0.1 localhost
localhost.localdomain and one more thing i cannot start exim thru /etc/sbin
and neither through /etc/rc.d/init.d.Whenver i am changing my exim confif i
am everytime restarting
Nitin Gupta wrote:
In my /etc/hosts file i haved checked 127.0.0.1 localhost
localhost.localdomain
I don't understand what you mean by checked. What makes you think
that your exim problem is related to the contents of /etc/hosts?
and one more thing i cannot start exim thru /etc/sbin
I
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 09:42 +0100, Peter Velan wrote:
Yes you are right: This kind of click-clack (without any knowledge about
the background mechanism) exists on non-Microsoft systems too! But I
never saw such kind of documentation in the *primary* literature for
Exim, Sendmail, Postfix
Hi Martin
Thanks for your reply.
In my /etc/hosts file i haved checked 127.0.0.1 localhost
localhost.localdomain and one more thing i cannot start exim thru /etc/sbin
and neither through /etc/rc.d/init.d.Whenver i am changing my exim confif i
am everytime restarting my machine so that
Nitin Gupta wrote:
Well its true that i dont have much experience in installing all these
mail server stuffs.
No-one's born with the experience, everyone on the list has had to learn
from scratch.
Anywaz i installed exim through source code .After running make and
make install i made
Hello,
I'm currently investigating why my Exim mail server queue slowly fills
up with frozen messages. Now I have found two things that I don't like.
1) When a message comes in for a mailbox that doesn't exist (unknown
user), the message doesn't seem to be rejected at first instance but a
Hi
I am able to login to horde with the username password i used. But as soon
as i compose a new message i got the error
There was as error sending your message: Failed to connect to localhost:25
[Failed to connect to socket: Connection refused (code:1, response:)]. I
tried with telnet
On 21/02/2008, Yves Goergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm currently investigating why my Exim mail server queue slowly fills
up with frozen messages. Now I have found two things that I don't like.
1) When a message comes in for a mailbox that doesn't exist (unknown
user), the message
can you tell how to restart exim im using exim version 4.66.
-Original Message-
From: Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: exim users exim-users@exim.org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:38 +
Subject: Re: [exim] PORT 25 NOT RESPONDING
(PLEASE don't top-post- thanks)
On
On 21/02/2008, Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can you tell how to restart exim im using exim version 4.66.
People have already done that in this thread and in the other one you
started on the same subject. You've also been advised to look at the
documentation.
Since you're not taking any
Nitin Gupta escribió:
can you tell how to restart exim im using exim version 4.66.
Read docs, please.
-Original Message-
From: Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: exim users exim-users@exim.org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:03:38 +
Subject: Re: [exim] PORT 25 NOT RESPONDING
Hi
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 12:55 +0100, Yves Goergen wrote:
1) When a message comes in for a mailbox that doesn't exist (unknown
user), the message doesn't seem to be rejected at first instance but a
bounce mail is generated that cannot be delivered and ends up frozen in
the queue. How can
Hi Nitin
Nitin Gupta wrote:
I am able to login to horde with the username password i used.
Which has nothing to do with exim.
But as soon as i compose a new message i got the error
There was as error sending your message: Failed to connect to
localhost:25 [Failed to connect to socket:
On 21 Feb 2008, at 12:06, Peter Bowyer wrote:
On 21/02/2008, Yves Goergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) When a message comes in for a mailbox that doesn't exist (unknown
user), the message doesn't seem to be rejected at first instance
but a
bounce mail is generated that cannot be delivered
(PLEASE don't top-post- thanks)
On 21/02/2008, Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I am able to login to horde with the username password i used. But as soon
as i compose a new message i got the error
There was as error sending your message: Failed to connect to localhost:25
[Failed to
Nitin
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:40 +0530, Nitin Gupta wrote:
can you tell how to restart exim im using exim version 4.66.
You've been told the answer to this by several other posters already. I
suggest you take a step back, re-read the thread again, and try out what
people are suggesting.
Hi Martin,
I used the command
cd /usr/sbin/
then
service exim restart
i got the error
unrecognized service.
Thanks
-Original Message-
From: Martin A. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: exim-users@exim.org
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:19:31 +
Subject:
On 21.02.2008 13:06 CE(S)T, Peter Bowyer wrote:
On 21/02/2008, Yves Goergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) When a message comes in for a mailbox that doesn't exist (unknown
user), the message doesn't seem to be rejected at first instance but a
bounce mail is generated that cannot be delivered and
On 21.02.2008 13:16 CE(S)T, Graeme Fowler wrote:
...noting that you should *always* accept [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(it's an RFC mandate).
I don't know anybody who really cares about that RFC postmaster account.
Neither me nor my clients need it, so we're not going to open that
standardised spam
On 21.02.2008 13:06 CE(S)T, Peter Bowyer wrote:
You need 'verify = recipient' in your RCPT ACL.
I see, a bit further up postmaster is always accepted. I'm going to
remove that part of the configuration. That should do the trick for
local unknown users.
--
Yves Goergen LonelyPixel [EMAIL
Hi Martin
Can you please tell me what folders apart from /etc/exim are to be removed
to uninstall exim. further can you please tell me the procedure to install
exim with rpm and from where i can download the same.It would be great help.
Thanks
Nitin
-Original Message-
From: Martin
On 21/02/2008, Nitin Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Martin
Can you please tell me what folders apart from /etc/exim are to be removed
to uninstall exim.
Since you installed it, you should know where you put it. The default
installation doesn't put anything in /etc/exim, so you'll need to
On 21 Feb 2008, at 12:53, Renaud Allard wrote:
Yves Goergen wrote:
On 21.02.2008 13:16 CE(S)T, Graeme Fowler wrote:
...noting that you should *always* accept [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(it's an RFC mandate).
I don't know anybody who really cares about that RFC postmaster
account.
Neither me nor
Nitin Gupta wrote:
Can you please tell me what folders apart from /etc/exim are to be
removed to uninstall exim.
I have no idea. When you ran make install it would have told you
which files it was placing where, you'll need to manually remove them all.
further can you please tell me the
Yves Goergen wrote:
On 21.02.2008 13:16 CE(S)T, Graeme Fowler wrote:
...noting that you should *always* accept [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(it's an RFC mandate).
I don't know anybody who really cares about that RFC postmaster account.
Neither me nor my clients need it, so we're not going to open
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:48 +0100, Yves Goergen wrote:
I don't know anybody who really cares about that RFC postmaster account.
Well... there's a lot that can be said about this, but it's been said
elsewhere so I'll leave that argument for another time.
My idea was, letting the initial SMTP
On 21 Feb 2008, at 13:17, Peter Bowyer wrote:
further can you please tell me the procedure to install
exim with rpm and from where i can download the same.It would be
great help.
atrpms.net is a good source for unofficial RPMs. If you don't know how
to install an RPM, you should be
On 21/02/2008, Nigel Metheringham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21 Feb 2008, at 13:17, Peter Bowyer wrote:
further can you please tell me the procedure to install
exim with rpm and from where i can download the same.It would be
great help.
atrpms.net is a good source for unofficial
On 21.02.2008 14:16 CE(S)T, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
[ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Oops, you're listed yourself at rfc-ignorant. I guess you don't take
that service for real, too, hm? ;)
--
Yves Goergen LonelyPixel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Visit my web laboratory at
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Yves Goergen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So as you were so kind to squal on me, do you have any solid reasons why
today (in the year 2008) anybody would need a postmaster mailbox? I
guess you have never used a postmaster address in your life nor looked
into
Hi
Firstly, please keep the bitching off the list, gentlemen. Take it
somewhere else.
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:13 +0100, Yves Goergen wrote:
So as you were so kind to squal on me, do you have any solid reasons why
today (in the year 2008) anybody would need a postmaster mailbox?
Because
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Yves Goergen wrote:
Thank you very much, Nigel. Should I now hate you for that? Well, should
be no problem to get off it again. Anyway, the entire rfc-ignorant site
seems a bit broken, since *.de is on the whois list... What is a service
worth that blocks out *all*
On 21 Feb 2008, at 16:14, Yves Goergen wrote:
On 21.02.2008 14:16 CE(S)T, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
[ Nigel Metheringham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Oops, you're listed yourself at rfc-ignorant. I guess you don't take
that service for real, too, hm? ;)
Hmm... thats sort of
On 21.02.2008 14:16 CE(S)T, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 21 Feb 2008, at 12:53, Renaud Allard wrote:
Yves Goergen wrote:
On 21.02.2008 13:16 CE(S)T, Graeme Fowler wrote:
...noting that you should *always* accept [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(it's an RFC mandate).
I don't know anybody who really cares
On 2008-02-21 at 10:04 +0100, Adam Tetz wrote:
I've got a quick question, i have a linux Debian machine and there's exim 4
on it. I use the Linux machine for hobbit monitoring, and now i cunfigured
an alert that it should send an e-mail when somethnigs wrong. But i need to
configure an e-mail
Yves Goergen wrote:
Thank you very much, Nigel. Should I now hate you for that? Well, should
be no problem to get off it again.
Indeed, but you can only do it once. The second time, they won't remove
you as they know you will put the ban back.
Away, the entire rfc-ignorant site
seems
Renaud Allard wrote:
Yves Goergen wrote:
On 21.02.2008 13:16 CE(S)T, Graeme Fowler wrote:
...noting that you should *always* accept [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(it's an RFC mandate).
I don't know anybody who really cares about that RFC postmaster account.
Neither me nor my clients need it, so we're
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 21 Feb 2008, at 16:14, Yves Goergen wrote:
On 21.02.2008 14:16 CE(S)T, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
[ Nigel Metheringham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Oops, you're listed yourself at rfc-ignorant. I guess you don't take
that service for real, too, hm? ;)
W B Hacker wrote:
ROFLMAO!
The very same folks who listed the entire '.de' tld for two years 'coz
*they* (the rfc-ignorami, not the Deutsche) didn't know how to make a
proper 'whois' query?
And - last time I looked, *still* list other entire .tlds?
The .de generally comes in every
- Original Message -
From: W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: exim users exim-users@exim.org
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] Unwanted bounce messages generated locally
The very same folks who listed the entire '.de' tld for two years 'coz
*they* (the
I have an unusual situation. I have a customer that I'm spam filtering
for. Email from the net comes to my servers first, I clean it, and then
pass it on.
Their server however for some strange reason returns a 450 instead of
550 for non-existent users. Text is User unknown in local recipient
Renaud Allard wrote:
W B Hacker wrote:
ROFLMAO!
The very same folks who listed the entire '.de' tld for two years
'coz *they* (the rfc-ignorami, not the Deutsche) didn't know how to
make a proper 'whois' query?
And - last time I looked, *still* list other entire .tlds?
The .de
On 21.02.2008 21:38 CE(S)T, Renaud Allard wrote:
do you have any solid reasons why today (in the year 2008) anybody
would need a postmaster mailbox?
To receive mails from people who are wrongly filtered. The contacts on
the whois page cannot be used if you still don't accept their mails
Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote:
- Original Message -
From: W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: exim users exim-users@exim.org
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] Unwanted bounce messages generated locally
The very same folks who listed the entire '.de' tld
On 21.02.2008 22:21 CE(S)T, Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote:
Why shouldn't they list the entire .de TLD ?
Sure. Has anybody tried some of this world's major domains yet? Most of
them are on either one of the postmaster or abuse list, some even on
both. I still believe that it was a good decision
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 21:25 +, W B Hacker wrote:
By stupidly listing entire *countries* rfc-ignorant does do harm. More
harm than good.
Note: I'm not tub-thumping on anyone's behalf here, I am merely trying
to proffer an objective POV...
They publish their listing criteria. They operate
Marc Perkel wrote:
I have an unusual situation. I have a customer that I'm spam filtering
for. Email from the net comes to my servers first, I clean it, and then
pass it on.
Their server however for some strange reason returns a 450 instead of
550 for non-existent users. Text is User
W B Hacker wrote:
Some other tlds are listed for good reasons (i.e.: .be, .eu).
'Good reason'?
whois microsoft.de returns full info
whois microsoft.be returns stupid and useless info
whois microsoft.eu yelds even more useless info
So in my sense .de should not be listed, but .be and
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:24 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
I have an unusual situation. I have a customer that I'm spam filtering
for.
First things first: educate the customer as to why what they are is
wrong. Simply put, they should 5xx the invalid recipients, not 450 them.
Their server however
Graeme Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:24 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
I have an unusual situation. I have a customer that I'm spam filtering
for.
First things first: educate the customer as to why what they are is
wrong. Simply put, they should 5xx the invalid recipients,
- Original Message -
From: Graeme Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: exim users exim-users@exim.org
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [exim] Unwanted bounce messages generated locally
As it stands, .de (amongst others) have chosen to deviate - for their
own specific
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:24:12 -0800
Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have an unusual situation. I have a customer that I'm spam
filtering for. Email from the net comes to my servers first, I clean
it, and then pass it on.
Their server however for some strange reason returns a 450
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 22:05 +, Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote:
As it stands, .de (amongst others) have chosen to deviate - for their
own specific reasons - from RFC3912 and have, therefore, been listed in
whois.rfc-ignorant.org. Many other ccTLDs are the same, as well as many
SLDs.
On 11/02/2008 15:32, Tony Finch wrote:
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, W B Hacker wrote:
That broke a whole lot of folks of the 'I never got your email..' lie.
Most of the non-delivery complaints we get are a result of that one :-/
Ooh, it's infuriating.
Customer: My client didn't get the email I
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 13:24 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
Their server however for some strange reason returns a 450 instead of
550 for non-existent users. Text is User unknown in local recipient
table. I'm trying to figure out how to capture and test that response
so I can properly reject
Hi All
I have a standard exim4/SA setup. SA is configured to add headers to an
email but otherwise leave the message alone. I use exim to then route
marked spam to a mailbox where I can check for ham.
I've noticed that I'm getting a few false positives because the incoming
message contains the
Steve Dobson wrote:
Hi All
I have a standard exim4/SA setup. SA is configured to add headers to an
email but otherwise leave the message alone. I use exim to then route
marked spam to a mailbox where I can check for ham.
I've noticed that I'm getting a few false positives because the
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 22:47 +, Steve Dobson wrote:
I have a standard exim4/SA setup.
I have to ask: standard *how*?
It looks to me like you're using MailScanner or AMaViS (the existence of
the spam-scanned protocol lines give that away); both of these are
fairly old-fashioned nowadays,
On Feb 11, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
Can exim be persuaded to log directly to a SQL database?
The exim-centered email solution we've built logs pretty much
everything to a sql database, which is then accessible through the
web admin.
the biggies in our logging tables:
Hello,
I am a it of a Exim newbie and I am trying to figure out how to make a mail
sink/blackhole/something (not sure of the proper terminology) where any email
sent to that box will deliver to a single mailbox.
Here is the situation. We provide some services for people on the Internet and
Hello All
I have downloaded exim-4.69-33.src.rpm and want to install it .Can anyone
please guide me the steps how to proceed installation on RH 4.0.
Thanks
Nitin
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