[exim] Retry time not reached for any host

hey answer, accept mail and deliver it with no problems. Any ideas on other bits I could check? Thanks -- Gareth Hastings ___ Seeking Technical Information? Industrial Members can access data as JoinIT registrants on http://www.twi.co.uk.

[exim] smtp_accept_max good values

Hello, I am looking to increase the number of concurrent connections my server can handle. Currently it's the default limit of 20. Is there any kind of guide on how high I can set this? The machine it's running on it only a P3 1Ghz. I don't want to place it under *too* much load!! Thanks Gare

[exim] Multiple Smart Hosts

x27;d guess the rule would trigger the first smarthost every time. Any ideas? Thanks -- Gareth Hastings IT Systems Developer Ext: 2226 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list -

RE: [exim] Load Reduction Trick

> The idea is to apply the following to only the lowest MX > record but accept the message on the higher MX. I thonk 90%+ of the spam > never retries and therefore doesn't go through Spamassassin and reduces > system load. I find that most of my spam comes in via the higher MX. I guess spammers t

RE: [exim] limit SMTP sending connections

> Hello, can you please, if there is, point me in the way or the > documentation on how to limit the smtp ammounts, in terms of > connections, troughput or any limitation. Fact is one of my servers is > used to send distribution lists to our customers, the server has a > huge bandwidth, so thats no

[exim] Catch-all alias not working!

Hi, Is there any reason why an aliases file that had gaz:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fails to match on the wildcard section? Eg: --- exim -d -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] sender address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Address testing: uid=0

RE: [exim] Catch-all alias not working!

> A quick check of the manual would inform you that: > > > > Note that the keys in an lsearch file are literal strings. There is > > no wildcarding of any kind. > > You need wildlsearch (or nwildlsearch): > http://exim.org/exim-html- > 4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch09.html#SECTsinglekeylookups Thanks

RE: [exim] Catch-all alias not working!

> -Original Message- > From: Gareth Hastings > Sent: 19 April 2006 13:39 > To: 'exim-users@exim.org' > Subject: RE: [exim] Catch-all alias not working! > > > A quick check of the manual would inform you that: > > > > > > Note that the k

[exim] Very loosely Exim related! - Need help reading headers please

r the Exim server received the email and forwarded the email to me. Thanks for any and all help -- Gareth Hastings Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mwinf3102.me.freeserve.com (mwinf3102.me.freeserve.com) by mwinb3105 (SMTP Server) with LMTP; Wed, 03 May 2006 12:51:46 +0200

Re: [exim] Very loosely Exim related! - Need help reading headers please

> Do any of the To: or Cc: headers contain the string "IMB Recipient" in > them? If so it's a bug in Microsoft (a bug?!?! never!) Exchange > Small Business Server 2003 POP-3 Connector. Yup I found this "IMB Recipient 1137" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Admission of guilt and patch here: > > http:/

Re: [exim] Very loosely Exim related! - Need help reading headers please

Hi James, > You did make mention of a Demon host in your posting, although I don't see > any evidence of it from the headers. If you do suspect a Demon host is > causing a problem can you send the full headers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please > and it'll get checked out ASAP. I first though one of the

Re: [exim] Testing sending hosts open ports

> Just wondering how to do this. I'd like to test to see if the sending > host at port 25 open. Would this be a good way to detect spammers? Would > a host sending email to my host not have port 25 open to receive email? I think this would be a bad test also. Often people who use smart hosts or h

Re: [exim] Testing sending hosts open ports

> Would > > a host sending email to my host not have port 25 open to receive > > email? You'd like to think so but I don't think that is always the case. You might find companies that have 2 MTA's, one takes inbound and the other does outbound. The outbound could connect to you but not act

[exim] Quick question regarding ACL's (regarding Tony Finch's paper on Exim config @ Cambridge Uni)

Hi Tony/List, I was reading your paper on the Exim config for Cambridge University and trying to learn a bit more and I have a quick question: Ref: http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/talks/2005-02-eximconf/ paper.html#3.7.%20Anti-spam%20measures On line/part 0519 which is regard t

[exim] System Filters

Hello, I'm trying to match domains in system filter. I current have a text file with a list of domains in it called /etc/exim/test/gdh which contains: dom1.co.uk dom2.co.uk So far I've been testing my filter from the command line using exim -be. exim -be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/exim/test/gdh}{ye

Re: [exim] System Filters

> > exim -be > '${lookup{${domain:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc/exim/test/gdh}{yes}{n o} > }' > > perhaps? Thanks very much >(Note that you don't need wildlsearch.) But more importantly, > how are you going to obtain a domain in a system filter? Remember that > $domain is not set, because there may

Re: [exim] System Filters

> Aren't I able to search through $header_to and $header_cc using > foranyaddress? I'm currently trying to move a system filter that's > running on an Exim 3.x system to a Exim 4.62 system. We current have > filters that check for lots of domains a long winded way i.e. > > if $header_to contains

[exim] Logging to mainlog from system filter

Hello, Is it possible to write to the exim mainlog from a system filter? I know you can log directly to another file but I'd rather try and get all the logging in to the same file. Thanks Gareth -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://

Re: [exim] bash or perl question

> >> You wouldn't happen to know a good way to reverse the digits and print > >> the IP address backwards? > >> You could try: cat file | sed 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $4"."$3"."$2"."$1}' Gareth -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://

Re: [exim] bash or perl question

> How about: > > cat file | awk -F. '{ printf("%s.%s.%s.%s\n", $4, $3, $2, $1); }' Ah, I forgot you could specify the delimiter with -F!! cat file | awk -F. '{print $4"."$3"."$2"."$1}' (Less typing than above) Gareth -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-use

[exim] Another system filter question!

Hi, I have this in my system filters if $message_headers matches "(207.126.144|207.126.145|207.126.146|207.126.147|207.126.148|207.126.14 9|207.126.150|207.126.151|207.126.152|207.126.153|207.126.154|207.126.14 7)" then and was wondering if I can put the "(207.126.." section into a text file

Re: [exim] Another system filter question!

> -Original Message- > From: Nigel Metheringham > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 28 June 2006 15:25 > To: Gareth Hastings > Cc: exim-users@exim.org > Subject: Re: [exim] Another system filter question! > > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 15:09 +0100, Gareth Hastin

Re: [exim] LDAP query help

Hi, > > I'm hoping for some help in getting this right > These are the settings I tried which worked well ldap_default_servers= 10.1.1.1::3268 :: 10.1.1.3::3268 LDAP_AD_BINDDN = "CN=ldapuser,CN=Users,DC=twi,DC=co,DC=uk" LDAP_AD_PASS= "Password"

[exim] Calling gdb from a transport?

Hi, If I had a problem with a program that kept segfaulting and I was calling it in a transport. Would it be possible to somehow setup the transport to run gdb on the program capturing a backtrace? Any ideas? Thanks Gareth -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users

Re: [exim] SPAM Filtering - Losing the war!

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington > Sent: 23 October 2006 17:25 > To: exim-users@exim.org > Subject: [exim] SPAM Filtering - Losing the war! > > 1. You are using Exim and its techniques only Hi Wash, Don't you us

[exim] Unable to verify senders address

Morning all, Am I right to assume the error "451 rejected: temporarily unable to verify sender address" could be caused by incorrectly configured DNS for the senders domain? When I do a lookup of the MX records for the senders domain I don't get any results! Thanks Gareth