Re: [exim] Guidance on rate limiting

2009-01-15 Thread Brent Clark
Graham Butler wrote: > Could anybody guide me on the following bit of code for Exim (ver 4.68). It > is designed as a 'test only' at this stage, until I can get the numbers right > > Does the ratelimit command updates its stats every time it is called, if so > do I need to use the no update optio

Re: [exim] Prevent generation of bounces when deny-ing in acl_not_smtp

2009-01-15 Thread W B Hacker
Colin Keith wrote: > Hi, > > Like lots of people I've having a hard time with spammers misusing my > customer's sites and services *snip* > > Does any one have any suggestions? Keeping in mind that once you have tamed/armored Exim, you still have to get control over smtp-outbound capable

[exim] Prevent generation of bounces when deny-ing in acl_not_smtp

2009-01-15 Thread Colin Keith
Hi, Like lots of people I've having a hard time with spammers misusing my customer's sites and services so I decided to look into using the acl_not_smtp and acl_not_smtp_start ACL's. I've cracked part of my problem that of tracing the sites by using acl_not_smtp_start to add a received header to

Re: [exim] queue trouble

2009-01-15 Thread Frank DeChellis
If I am not mistaken, if the message was not yet delivered to the final destination, any changes you make to that destination (forward, alias, etc) would be seen on the next delivery attempt. On 1/15/09 2:01 PM, "Peter Lauda" wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to the list and I've looked through the ar

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread Eli Sand
> W B Hacker wrote: > > After using joe for ages, I now keep pico, nano, or mined handy > because > > colorizing makes text too hard to read (for me). > > > > > > Nano rulez! Irrelevant to Marc's post, but nano supports colouring as well. I believe though you may have to get the dev version, but

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread Marc Perkel
W B Hacker wrote: > After using joe for ages, I now keep pico, nano, or mined handy because > colorizing makes text too hard to read (for me). > > Nano rulez! -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the

[exim] queue trouble

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Lauda
Hi, I'm new to the list and I've looked through the archives for an answer first but no luck. We have exim running and it has been working fine. Our exchange server died and mail destined to the domain it services is queued in exim now. I have put forwards in as a temporary measure to handle n

Re: [exim] Unrouteable address, why!?!?

2009-01-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Andres Lucena wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting the "Unrouteable address" error (this must be a classic) > when I try to send to remote mail accounts. I don't receive anything > so when I look to the log (tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog) I get this: > > andresluc...@gmail.com: Unrouteable address 1

[exim] Unrouteable address, why!?!?

2009-01-15 Thread Andres Lucena
Hello, I'm getting the "Unrouteable address" error (this must be a classic) when I try to send to remote mail accounts. I don't receive anything so when I look to the log (tail -f /var/log/exim4/mainlog) I get this: andresluc...@gmail.com: Unrouteable address But the thing is that I can see gma

Re: [exim] Condition in ACL

2009-01-15 Thread Marcin Krol
Alain Williams wrote: > Maybe, but it still rejects domains listed in the file. > What I want to do is sender verification for all domains *except* those > listed in the file. > You need to define custom ACL. Do smth like this: domainlist nosv_domains_whitelist = lsearch:/etc/exim4/nosv_doma

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread jori.hamalainen
> Funny you should find the colorizing feature of joe beneficial. You can disable it. :) But IMO joe is the best editor out there. And I've configured exim with non-colored joe for 7 years. But I got tired of hard to read configuration. And I've been using joe for 14 years at least so I could say

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Peter Bowyer wrote: > > $ doesn't signify a variable, it signifies an expansion. The use of $ > when assigning an acl variable would be inconsistent with this. Same goes for the def: operator, as highlighted in the OP's picture. Exim's syntax is actually quite internally consistent. - Marc --

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread jori.hamalainen
> $ doesn't signify a variable, it signifies an expansion. The use of $ > when assigning an acl variable would be inconsistent with this. Oh, I though ${ was the expansion - but your comment makes logical sense. So 'perfect' coloring would need even more work. First to recognize reserved keywor

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread Peter Bowyer
2009/1/15 : > > So please consider as feature request to standardize syntax to use $ for all > varibles and everywhere. > $ doesn't signify a variable, it signifies an expansion. The use of $ when assigning an acl variable would be inconsistent with this. -- Peter Bowyer Email: pe...@bowyer.or

Re: [exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread W B Hacker
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com wrote: > I got tired of single-color-hard-to-read-text on editor when configuring > exim - so I quickly implemented in syntax highlighting into joe (Joe's > Own Editor) state machine. However working with Exim config file is not > that simple, as configuration syn

[exim] Guidance on rate limiting

2009-01-15 Thread Graham Butler
Could anybody guide me on the following bit of code for Exim (ver 4.68). It is designed as a 'test only' at this stage, until I can get the numbers right Does the ratelimit command updates its stats every time it is called, if so do I need to use the no update options on any subsequent use. Any

[exim] Exim configuration syntax highlighting for joe

2009-01-15 Thread jori.hamalainen
I got tired of single-color-hard-to-read-text on editor when configuring exim - so I quickly implemented in syntax highlighting into joe (Joe's Own Editor) state machine. However working with Exim config file is not that simple, as configuration syntax is not the best possible. This highlightin