Re: [exim] The problem with Free Software

2013-06-04 Thread Chris Meadors
On 06/03/2013 03:20 PM, Allen Bell wrote: My case in point today is having installed the latest version of Exim and finding that the directive placing root on the never list - cannot be overridden. As a default - that is without question a good idea. But making it a hard-coded restriction

[exim] Some DKIM Clarifications

2010-08-10 Thread Chris Meadors
Right now I'm using: dkim_verify_signers = $sender_address_domain:$dkim_signers to trigger the DKIM ACL. That should cause it to be called for any envelope sender, regardless of the header signatures, right? So I can easily check things like: dkim_status = invalid or dkim_status = fail in

Re: [exim] [OT] How not to filter email

2010-04-22 Thread Chris Meadors
On 4/22/2010 8:37 PM, Ted Cooper wrote: Unfortunately, it's very hard to tell the difference between a callout and a bounce at rcpt time. If you do still get a lot of backscatter (I've not seen much these days, admins do seem to be getting a clue), you should look into BATV signing your

Re: [exim] spec about hyphens in host names

2007-08-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 16:18 -0400, Eli Sand wrote: Any reference for hyphens not beeing allowed in host names? Hyphens (-) are allowed in hostnames, and there isn't even a rule stating how many can be compounded together. A host name just can not start or end with a hyphen. -- ## List

Re: [exim] batv expiry time

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 14:39 +0100, Mike Cardwell wrote: Mike Cardwell wrote: Is my understanding correct? If so, what is the amount of time until expiry? I can't see anywhere to configure this so I'm guessing I've either misunderstood how it works, or the value is hardcoded and

Re: [exim] Detecting the Registrar Barrier

2007-06-29 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 10:36 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: OK - I think I'm making some progress on this. I created a DNS server that you can pass a $sender_host_name to and get a code indicating if it's a one level or 2 level domain. I still have more work to do to make it practical. But -

Re: [exim] How to disable logging unroutable addresses?

2006-08-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 14:24 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: log_target = none to force it into mainlog rather than rejectlog: log_target = main Idea noted; I quite like that. Slightly modified: the string could be a list. Then

Re: [exim] HELO given check at MAIL or RCPT time?

2006-07-26 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:09 +0200, Jakob Hirsch wrote: (Default config's) Sender verification is done in the RCPT ACL, so I'd say this is also the right point for other checks that would logically belong into the MAIL ACL. (HELO check should be before verify, but I guess you know that.)

[exim] Nicer Reject Message for require verify = reverse_host_lookup

2006-06-29 Thread Chris Meadors
The default require verify = sender or recipient rejection messages are good and self explanatory. But mails rejected by require verify = reverse_host_lookup just get a 550 Administrative prohibition. Though a nice message is logged. Such as host lookup failed (failed to find host name from

Re: [exim] Using GeoIP to block spammers - anyone?

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 16:18 +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote: | Your customers use this server for relaying? Then you probably identify | them by SMTP AUTH or fixed IPs. That should give you the facility to | block unauthorized senders. Yes and yes. I already do that. However, it has

Re: [exim] Using GeoIP to block spammers - anyone?

2006-06-23 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 19:35 +0300, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote: I agree with you. Now tell me how much overheard this would add, if I knew _all_ the IPs that are geographically in Kenya (via GeoIP): check_connect: drop !hosts = cdb;/path/to/db/with/all_KE-IPs accept (or the

Re: [exim] bash or perl question

2006-06-22 Thread Chris Meadors
Marc Perkel wrote: There are probably people out there who just know how to do this in a simple way. I have two files. Both files are text files that have IP addresses on separate lines. Both are alphabetical. What I want to do is read file A and file B and create file C that has all the

Re: [exim] Blank emails

2006-06-19 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 07:51 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Here's what I use in a filter. # Get rid of very empty messages if h_to: is then if h_subject is then seen finish endif endif If you are going to check for missing headers to catch empty messages, go for the two

Re: [exim] e-mail problems on linux using exim

2006-06-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 07:58 -0700, altendew wrote: So would blackhole be better on terms of stress on our server? :fail: will put the least stress on your server (and your users, as mistyped addresses will get an error, not just disappear). :fail: will cause the RCPT command to fail rather than

Re: [exim] e-mail problems on linux using exim

2006-06-05 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 12:39 -0700, altendew wrote: So we have a lot of returned mail that we did not send out. I have figured that out. What are the best solutions for deleting returned mail, because we get thousands a day? Get rid of the wildcard alias, so spammers picking random local

Re: [exim] Integrating URI Blacklists into Exim

2006-05-17 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 10:02 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Ian Eiloart wrote: Do you run ClamAV, which has a similar facility? Which do you run first? How would you run Clam? Clam's URL checking feature just downloads what ever file is directly linked to in an e-mail and scans the result

Re: [exim] Americangreetings.com Date Header

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 14:57 +0100, Dennis Davis wrote: I'm seeing the same thing here as I'm rejecting messages that don't contain a Date header. From yesterday's logs I see: 2006-04-06 15:28:38 1FRVTS-Vg-6r H=iport.americangreetings.com [216. 33.97.79] I=[138.38.32.21]:25 F=[EMAIL

Re: [exim] Americangreetings.com Date Header

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 10:27 -0400, Marc Sherman wrote: Just out of curiosity, did they contact you initially, or were you resolving a complaint about a missing ecard from one of your own users? If the former, what kind of rejection rate were they seeing that prompted them to contact you?

[exim] Americangreetings.com Date Header

2006-04-06 Thread Chris Meadors
Could anyone else verify for me that messages (eCards and notification messages) sent from americangreetings.com do not contain a Date: header. I'm requiring that mails have Date: and Subject: (empty subject is OK) headers and thusly American Greetings are being rejected. I just hung up on their

[exim] caseful_domain?

2006-03-06 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm using the following to verify BATV signatures on bounced messages. I had to enable caseful local parts for the check because I found one user was setting their return address to have capital letters in it. Now I have found another user placing capital letters in the domain name. deny

[exim] RCPT Address in DATA?

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm want to use something like the following in my DATA ACL, but (obviously) $local_part and $domain are empty. I've already made sure there is only one recipient in messages with an empty sender in the RCPT ACL, so that won't be a problem. denymessage = bounce messages must be returned

Re: [exim] RCPT Address in DATA?

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:32 -0500, Dave Lugo wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Chris Meadors wrote: Basically prvscheck should expand to an empty string when given a non-signed address, and yes when given a signed address. I don't want to do this in the RCPT ACL because it could reject

[exim] BATV Implementation Complete

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Meadors
If anyone has been paying attention over the last couple weeks I've been trying to put together a BATV (Bounce Address Tag Validation) configuration on my server. BATV prevents bounces from being returned to your server that did not originate from it. Every time there is a virus outbreak I get a

Re: [exim] Finally, Rejecting Based On BATV

2006-02-28 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 10:34 -0500, Chris Meadors wrote: Thanks to all who have helped. I have been correctly signing the envelope sender for seven days. Now I would like to start rejecting messages with bad or missing BATV signatures. I've seen a little discussion on the list

[exim] Alligate Gateway Does Not Like BATV Signatures

2006-02-20 Thread Chris Meadors
On the heals of the Strange Sender Verification behaviour thread where it turned out that Alligate's software doesn't respond to the RSET command correctly. It also seems that it refuses to accept any envelope senders that contain a '/' (slash) character. So BATV signed messages get rejected

[exim] prvs Always Day 100?

2006-02-17 Thread Chris Meadors
I've got my Exim only calling prvs on local_domains now. Thanks David! But I've run into a different problem. All signed addresses seem to be for day 100. The hash matches, but then I'm informed that the signature has expired. exim -d+expand -be '${prvs [EMAIL PROTECTED]' expanding: [EMAIL

Re: [exim] prvs Always Day 100?

2006-02-17 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:25 -0500, Chris Meadors wrote: I've got my Exim only calling prvs on local_domains now. Thanks David! But I've run into a different problem. All signed addresses seem to be for day 100. The hash matches, but then I'm informed that the signature has expired

[exim] BATV Router

2006-02-16 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm trying to set up a very basic BATV implementation. I have the redirect router working return signed addresses to their original state. I also have a transport that will sign the return-path of outbound SMTP deliveries. Both of these were pretty much copied from the spec.txt minus the SQL

Re: [exim] Multiple Log Files - Feature Request

2005-09-28 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 08:45 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: How would you do that with a separate program? Basically I have different classes of customers and they use different IP addresses in the same computer for my spam filtering service. So if I could create separate log files I could

Re: [exim] Feature Needed - Main_domain

2005-09-18 Thread Chris Meadors
Marc Perkel wrote: If the part second to the end is co com net org then it's 3 part. warnmessage = X-Maindomain: \ ${if match{XX${extract{-2}{.}{${domain:$h_From:}}}XX}{XX(co|com|net|org)XX}\

Re: [exim] HArdware Suggestions for exim courier-imap

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 08:46 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Yes - that's true. But I'm thinking in terms of how much power you get at the lowest price. If money isn't a problem then hardware raid scsi is the way to go. I'm just not that rich myself. So the less expensive alternative would be