Re: [exim] DNS problems with sending via multiple smarthosts

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 23:08, Evgeniy Berdnikov via Exim-users wrote: > Quite puzzling... The only difference I see here is the presence of one > authority record in dns query from Exim, marked as [1au]. > Tcpdump man page states: > >A few anomalies are checked and may result in extra fields

Re: [exim] DNS problems with sending via multiple smarthosts

2019-07-18 Thread Evgeniy Berdnikov via Exim-users
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 02:55:54PM +0930, David Purton via Exim-users wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 11:12:16AM +0300, Evgeniy Berdnikov via Exim-users > wrote: ... > > I propose to install tcpdump and run it in parallel with "exim -qf": > > > >tcpdump -nlUv -s0 -i any port domain ... >

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 21:52, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: > I didn't suggest changing the rules, I asked whether I'd missed a way > to configure the rules (e.g. to replace "defer" by "panic"). It's surprisingly hard to detect a "defer". I ascribe this to our indoctrination with Boolean logic.

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Julian Bradfield via Exim-users
On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > On 18/07/2019 21:00, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: >> On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: >>> On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 21:00, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: > On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: >> On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: >>> I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade >>> overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Julian Bradfield via Exim-users
On 2019-07-18, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users wrote: > On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: >> I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade >> overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new >> senders was always deferred because of an

[exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Julian Bradfield via Exim-users
I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new senders was always deferred because of an invalid condition value, and I didn't notice for more than a week. On the whole, I feel that if during processing an ACL

Re: [exim] treating moral config errors as serious

2019-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris via Exim-users
On 18/07/2019 20:03, Julian Bradfield via Exim-users wrote: > I've just had an embarrassing incident where a system upgrade > overwrote a customized greylistd, with the result that mail from new > senders was always deferred because of an invalid condition value, and > I didn't notice for more