Re: [exim] Corrupted log lines when validating DKIM signatures

2018-08-28 Thread John Hall via Exim-users
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 17:41, Jeremy Harris via Exim-users < exim-users@exim.org> wrote: > > This is on Exim 4.89 in Debian 9.5. > > > Quite likely 31323b3044 - the commit comment for that was > "Fix log line corruption for DKIM status". > > > Could also be d342446f29 - the note for that reads >

[exim] Corrupted log lines when validating DKIM signatures

2018-08-23 Thread John Hall via Exim-users
Hi, I'm sometimes seeing some corrupted output in my Exim logs when verifying DKIM signatures, for example: 2018-08-21 11:56:58 1fs4LJ-0001VN-G3 DKIM: d=email.tladoonline.com s=10dkim1 c=relaxed/relaxed a=rsa-sha256 b=2048 i=+Ud^A^DV?<9E> W Sometimes I get something more valid like this: 2018

Re: [exim] How to remove Exim version from Email Header

2014-01-04 Thread John Hall
On 3 January 2014 09:04, Anant wrote: > I have tried that one earlier but it is not working for me, smtp_banner > will change the message when we was trying to take the telnet, not > effecting Email header. > Anant, You want the received_header_text option that I mentioned in the first reply.

Re: [exim] How to remove Exim version from Email Header

2014-01-04 Thread John Hall
On 2 January 2014 12:20, Anant wrote: > I am using exim 4.72 , installed from yum repo, Now I want to remove Exim > version (*(Exim 4.72)*)from the Email header. Look at the received_header_text option: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-main_configuration.html#SECTalo

Re: [exim] Need Help

2011-12-16 Thread John Hall
On 16 December 2011 09:45, John Burnham wrote: > > > > I need a script, or help doing one. > > > > I need a script that sends me an email when qeue is bigger than 2.500 > > emails. > > > > Can anyone help me ? > > > Totally untested and before I've finished my coffee, but here's some > pseudo code

Re: [exim] What do these commands do, what are their effects to message queue?

2010-04-16 Thread John Hall
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 07:57, an...@iguanait.com wrote: > As i read and checked in the net, this can happen because rejected > connections from the remot stmp server, then system retry sending of > messages. Also can be caused from corrupted exim database. > > I read in the net for this solution

Re: [exim] SMTP Banner delay of 2 mins 30 seconds

2009-05-06 Thread John Hall
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 00:40, Eric Cross wrote: > Our mailserver (non-Exim..it's Kerio 6.6.2) is experiencing a consistent and > repeatable smtp banner delay when connecting to Exim 4.69 mail servers. > When telnet'ing from our outbound MTA to port 25 on four different Exim 4.69 > domains/servers

Re: [exim] Message size

2008-12-09 Thread John Hall
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 16:15, Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone who knows the code will comment on the detail, but since > there's no opportunity in the SMTP protocol for a server to abort the > reception of the DATA portion of a message mid-stream (other than > rudely hanging up, I

Re: [exim] Migration from Exchange to Linux

2008-11-18 Thread John Hall
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:18, Graeme Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > An alternative is to get all users to export their entire mailbox to a > local PST and then re-import that into your new IMAP server using > Outlook. If you go down this route you can automate this: - If you're using Exc

Re: [exim] using exim with ironport preprocessor

2008-11-16 Thread John Hall
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 19:20, Jeff Lasman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That doesn't resolve the problem for email originating on the exim > server; exim doesn't (at least using the configurations I understand) > attempt delivery through the MX record for email originating on the > exim server. It

Re: [exim] Is the Exchange 2007 Edge Transport Server required?

2008-09-23 Thread John Hall
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 17:00, Conrad Lawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My employer is planning on migrating from Sendmail (Linux) to Exchange > 2007. We also have an SMTP gateway server running the Exim 4 (Linux). This > gateway server also does spam filtering (Spamassassin) and virus blockin

Re: [exim] Exim + SA (spamc)

2008-08-15 Thread John Hall
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 13:38, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 2) SA says what it is MUCH faster. >> > >> >> If you are concerned about calling the command 'spamassassin' several >> times, I have to inform you that exim connects to the SpamAssassin >> daemon just like spamc does,

Re: [exim] Sendmail or exim ?

2008-08-08 Thread John Hall
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 04:24, 91change <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i need a server .Becos i need to send mail when its connected to internet . > If offline ,it should queue all emails Is the intention to accept and deliver mail on behalf of other hosts, or is it just for mail generated locally

Re: [exim] Sendmail or exim ?

2008-08-07 Thread John Hall
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:50, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However, if all that is required is relaying, then perhaps you might >> look beyond sendmail and exim, and find something that is simpler and >> doesn't have the features and complexity. Looking through the Debian >> package l

Re: [exim] Sendmail or exim ?

2008-08-07 Thread John Hall
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 07:10, 91change k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to know the footprint size of exim and sendmail . I am > working on for relay server in embedded paltform . I need the thinner of > these two . > > Can you tell me which is having lesser size ? > > Is there any opt

Re: [exim] dot at the end of a local part

2008-05-02 Thread John Hall
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:48 AM, ROGERS Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my Exchange 2000 box, the callout works - Exchange rejects > > syntactically invalid sender addresses at SMTP time. It also rejects > > syntactically invalid > > recipient addresses at SMTP time, but accepts and the

Re: [exim] dot at the end of a local part

2008-05-02 Thread John Hall
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/05/2008, Phil Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2 May 2008 09:01:22 +0100 Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > snip snip > > > This might help: > > > > > > verify = recipient/callout=use_

Re: [exim] dot at the end of a local part

2008-05-02 Thread John Hall
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 2:28 AM, Ted Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ROGERS Richard wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I have just seen examples of mail with a sender address whith the > >> local part ending with a dot: > [snip] > > I added the following ACLs to our configs to avoid p

Re: [exim] clamd: killed last night

2008-04-08 Thread John Hall
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Chris Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The freshclam daemon obviously locked the database long enough for > > clamd > > to time out retrying to obtain a lock on the DB. So it ended itself. > > Same here. > > One thing I wonder - with the following setting: > >

Re: [exim] How to delete a delay message

2008-03-24 Thread John Hall
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Tao Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using Exim 3.36 under Debain. I am keep getting this message > from my exim server. How can I remove the delay message from the exim? Tao, That is a very old (and unsupported) version of Exim, but the documentation can

Re: [exim] Out of office solutions

2008-03-06 Thread John Hall
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the responces, the squirrelmail option sounds really interesting > and ill look into this further. > All in all tho, everyone is very negative/cautious regarding the idea in > principal. A huge proportion of th

Re: [exim] yahoo timeouts

2008-03-04 Thread John Hall
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Graeme Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, it is a pity it is pass-protected. > > Erm... I don't think it is - at least, I can view the archives without > being logged in. I haven't got any cookies hiding away, either, for the > domain in question. M

Re: [exim] Negating Match condition

2008-02-29 Thread John Hall
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Terry Calie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a catchall address, but want to block certain addresses that get > nothing but large amounts of spam. > > I tried adding the following "verify_only" condition, that checks for a > user file, and then looks in the fi

Re: [exim] Completly new subject: Exim.info

2008-02-26 Thread John Hall
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Peter Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >2. The name and address or other info regarding the author/maintainer of > > >the domain exim.info? > > > > Yes, exactly. > > Are you sure that's what you're asking? Because you've been told that > information 4 or

Re: [exim] Unwanted bounce messages generated locally

2008-02-21 Thread John Hall
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 > i

Re: [exim] Blocking Email Addresses

2007-10-31 Thread John Hall
On 31/10/2007, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > deny local_parts = /some/file > That did not work but this did. > > # deny email addresses listed in file > deny recipients = lsearch;/etc/virtual/blocked_email > > But it gives a bounce error like so: > > Technical details of permanent failure:

Re: [exim] Searchable exim docs

2007-09-03 Thread John Hall
On 03/09/07, Martin A. Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've finally got round to updating my searchable exim docs to 4.68 - > sorry it took so long. > > http://www.hinterlands.org/cgi-bin/swish.cgi > > This isn't Google, nor is it as good as Google, but it does mean that > you're searching _on

Re: [exim] Fake ACCEPT (ahem)

2007-08-23 Thread John Hall
On 23/08/07, Jan-Piet Mens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But why would you want to accept and silently discard mail? If the mail > > contains a virus, don't you think it's better that the sender is told so? > > No! That causes collateral spam! Think faked sender... Not if you're rejecting duri

Re: [exim] What would you tell the CIO in an "ABCs of Email" overview?

2007-05-07 Thread John Hall
On 07/05/07, Arne Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also this woman is crossposting on the courier list. That doesn't seem entirely unreasonable. john -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with t

Re: [exim] peel off a layer

2007-03-28 Thread John Hall
On 28/03/07, Martin A. Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ronan McGlue wrote: > > So i need to peel of the forwarding encapsulation in exim, how feasible > > is this, and how accurate will it be to the original message?! > The way we do this is to present an IMAP server with a shared folder > in

Re: [exim] Running some code rather than having exim log stuff

2007-03-21 Thread John Hall
On 21/03/07, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure enough, this is a spammer (the "gb30472" local part has never > existed at my domain; it's part of a mutt message-ID that is listed on > lists.debian.org). When this happens (a host disconnecting without > properly saying goodbye after

Re: [exim] Custom user aliases

2006-11-22 Thread John Hall
On 11/22/06, Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mine seems to be using the forwardfile driver, which doesn't like the > > local_part_suffix options. I tried setting my configuration to use the > > redirect driver and exim complains that it cannot find director driver > > "redirect". > > >

Re: [exim] Large hints database

2006-11-09 Thread John Hall
On 11/9/06, Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using exim_tidydb as described in the manual will reduce the data within > > the files, but may not reduce the actual or apparent size of the files > > (I am unsure of this, but unless exim_tidydb removes and rewrites the > > file it is v

Re: [exim] caution to those blocking files by extension

2006-11-04 Thread John Hall
On 11/4/06, Peter Velan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Will windoze execute a file that ends in dot-space-space-space-exe ? > >> dosent the os see this as NOT ending in .exe > > > > I think that windows will happily exec the file, but I don't have a > > machine to test on. > > You are right - Wi

Re: [exim] caution to those blocking files by extension

2006-11-04 Thread John Hall
On 11/4/06, Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will windoze execute a file that ends in dot-space-space-space-exe ? > > dosent the os see this as NOT ending in .exe > > I think that windows will happily exec the file, but I don't have a > machine to test on. Under both Windows XP SP2 an

Re: [exim] [off-topic] Using low-priority DNS MX record as spam trap

2006-10-21 Thread John Hall
On 10/21/06, gdub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any thoughts on the idea of dedicating a > host or interface as a trap by giving it > the lowest priority MX record? I have a second IP on the same interface as my primary MX and in the same /29, so if someone connects to it, then there really is no

Re: [exim] Off-topic coding style (was: [BUG?] in src/auths/pwcheck.c)

2006-10-10 Thread John Hall
On 10/10/06, Michael J. Tubby G8TIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > with a local implementation (in library code) of zmalloc that looks like: > > void * zmalloc(size_t size) > { >void * p = malloc(size); >if (p) >memset(p, 0, size); >return p; > } I'm in the habit of just using c

Re: [exim] System Filter Syntax Help

2006-07-25 Thread John Hall
On 7/25/06, Lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this may be a newbye question but I really need an help. > I am trying to fight the last type of spam, the one in which the > spammers use typos to fool spamassassin. > So I am trying, without success, to write a rule for the System Filter > to

Re: [exim] How to modify the Subject header

2006-06-04 Thread John Hall
On 6/4/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have found something, too, using a variable called acl_VAR_SOMETHING > >but Exim would only tell me it doesn't understand what I mean. > > You really need to familiarize yourself with the tool you're using by > reading the excellent available d

Re: [exim] How to modify the Subject header

2006-06-04 Thread John Hall
On 6/4/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I'm running SpamAssassin in the data ACL. I have the following in my > >ACLS that adds a modified subject header: > > > > warn message = X-Local-NewSubject: [spam $spam_score] $h_Subject: > >condition = ${if >{$spam_score_int}{50}{1}{0}}

Re: [exim] How to modify the Subject header

2006-06-03 Thread John Hall
On 6/3/06, Yves Goergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to make my users aware of the new spam filter service and make > them find an appropriate spam score threshold to deny incoming mails at. > There is already added a X-Spam-Score header to all incoming mails but > most of the users probabl

Re: [exim] Controlling the number of deliveries

2006-06-01 Thread John Hall
On 6/1/06, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We have a requirement to build a large queue of messages using the > > queue_only option and then have them released in small batches by a > > number of subsequent queue runners. > > exim -bp | sed '/^/d;/^$/d;s/^.\{10\}\(.\{17\}\).*/\1/' |

Re: [exim] Exim migration

2006-05-25 Thread John Hall
On 5/25/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Pat Hastings ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060525 17:31]: > > When the migration is finished (about 8 hours) the plan is to set the > > forwarding ip address to the new mailserver. This should then allow the > > all the emails to be delivered. > > Ma

Re: [exim] Importing the WishList into Bugzilla (seriously!)

2006-05-25 Thread John Hall
On 5/24/06, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we give you an account on the server, are you willing to do the heavy > > lifting? :-) > > It'd be an honour. I think I have perfected my script now. Since it runs DB > queries directly, it can set the report dates according to the Wish

Re: [exim] Filtering spam bounces

2006-05-16 Thread John Hall
On 5/15/06, Alastair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sascha wrote: > > As already pointed out: It's time to get rid of the catchall. > > It's bad karma ;) > > I'm afraid it's too late, I've used it over the last 5 years, and didn't > keep track of all the addresses used. I had the same pr

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread John Hall
On 4/15/06, W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>If I'm mail and I run sudo it asks for the root password. What do I need > >>to add to get around that? > > > > > > See NOPASSWD in man sudoers. > ?? > > Is that a good idea? > > I think I am beginning to see why some folks say Linux is no > m

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread John Hall
On 4/15/06, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I'm mail and I run sudo it asks for the root password. What do I need > to add to get around that? See NOPASSWD in man sudoers. regards, John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://w

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread John Hall
On 4/15/06, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You could configure sudo to allow mail to run iptables as root without > > a password. > It's not quite that simple. The OS allows me to run iptables but when > iptables runs it responds with: > > iptables v1.3.0: can't initialize iptables ta

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread John Hall
On 4/15/06, Marc Perkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying a load reduction trick which I will share if it works. Running > into a little snag and this is probably simple but I need to get user > mail to run iptables that requires user root to run, and without havinf > to use a password to do it.

Re: [exim] Pre-processing incoming mail

2006-03-26 Thread John Hall
On 3/26/06, Jaap Winius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would be the best way to pre-process incoming messages? By this I > mean that I'd like to single out certain messages and run one or more > search-and-replace routines over them before they're delivered. > > For instance, I could write a pe

Re: [exim] Debugging 'Invalid base64 data"

2006-03-02 Thread John Hall
On 3/2/06, Phil Pennock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I understand that exim gets the command "AUTH LOGIN" and then sends > > the prompt "Username:" ("VXNlcm5hbWU6" base64 encoded); this is fine > > and exactly what exim should do. The next thing exim does is send the > > message "501 Invalid bas

Re: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread John Hall
On 2/8/06, Derrick MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Exim 4.52 with SA 3.1 and Clamav 0.87 on a machine with > > only 256MB RAM quite happily, albeit with some careful limitations on > > the number of SA child processes. > > would you share with me on what your settings are? Th

Re: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread John Hall
On 2/8/06, Mike Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However I did notice that the memory usage slowly went down to only 8MB free > with some swap space being used (The server has 512MB), so I have a feeling > I'm going to get the same problem at some point. Be careful how you interpret these figur

Re: [exim] Username in spam condition

2006-01-25 Thread John Hall
On 1/25/06, John Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/25/06, Jakob Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess this can easily be fixed by running sa-learn as root rather > > > than mail, but I wanted to get to the bottom of why I exim's access to >

Re: [exim] Username in spam condition

2006-01-25 Thread John Hall
On 1/25/06, Jakob Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I guess this can easily be fixed by running sa-learn as root rather > > than mail, but I wanted to get to the bottom of why I exim's access to > > the Bayes database is assumed to be root. > > Exim simply passes the username to spamd, you can

[exim] Username in spam condition

2006-01-25 Thread John Hall
Hi, Recently I think I've discovered that my SpamAssassin autolearning has not been working, because exim and sa-learn have been modifiying the bayes database as different users. This is with SA 3.1 and Exim 4.60. The relevant stanza from my data ACL is as follows: # put headers in all message

Re: [exim] Continuing Exim 4.60 & SpamAssassin 3.1.0 Problems

2006-01-14 Thread John Hall
On 13/01/06, Alan J. Flavell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There's no need to check whether a 1 MB message is spam. > > I can't really confirm that diagnosis. Practically all messages >=1MB > which get to *me*, I would categorise as spam[1], but, across our user > population, there are both spam

Re: [exim] Turn your Linksys WRT54 into a mail router

2006-01-12 Thread John Hall
On 12/01/06, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 22:08 +0100, Ludovic Drolez wrote: > > I've just compiled Exim for the WRT54GS ! > > > The WRT54GS can spool up to 20MB of mails, and much more if you have a 'SD > > card mod'. > > That's sick! :) > > I'm really dubiou

Re: [exim] Subject rewriting with Exim4.6 and spamassassin 3.1

2006-01-12 Thread John Hall
On 12/01/06, Slawomir Orlowski (CYMPAK) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have exim 4.6 and SpamAssassin 3.1 on Linux RH7.2. > > I have would like to have my Subject changed if e-mail contains spam > ($spam_score >5) > > my configure file: > " > warn spam = mail:true > message = X-Spam_score: $spam_s

Re: [exim] Exchange move

2005-12-14 Thread John Hall
On 14/12/05, Clive McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If users create rules in Outlook, they are generally stored > > and run on the server. The only rules that do not are those > > that do things like save messages to local PST files, i.e. > > access local resources not available to the serv

Re: [exim] Exchange move

2005-12-14 Thread John Hall
On 13/12/05, Clive McDowell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of interest, we currently use spamassassin to tag incoming > messages with a spam score. Users can then set up exim filters on > their unix based imap mailbox to decide what level to accept/reject > messages as spam. They can also set up

Re: [exim] Exchange move

2005-12-13 Thread John Hall
On 13/12/05, Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >But you don't get a mail client that can add proper In-Reply-To and > >References header fields, which where standardised over 20 years ago, > >and instead screw up the threading in the mail clients of the rest of us! > > > >I rest my case.

Re: [exim] suggestion - exim-new-users

2005-11-16 Thread John Hall
On 16/11/05, Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's the way it is because people (in the early days) wanted a working > configuration that was highly commented so that newcomers could read it > and perhaps understand the way it worked. Perhaps this has turned into > overkill? If you don't

Re: [exim] bounced messages

2005-11-15 Thread John Hall
On 15/11/05, Shea Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Although be warned that a number of sites are blocking (or at least > >running SpamAssassin rules that mark down) senders on dynamic IP > >addresses. If you want to send e-mail directly, you should get an ISP > >who can give you a static IP in

Re: [exim] bounced messages

2005-11-15 Thread John Hall
On 15/11/05, Shea Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your connections to hotmail are consistently timing out. Are you > > running your server on a residential DSL line? My guess is that your > > ISP is blocking outgoing port 25. I stopped using Sympatico years ago > > when they abruptly star

Re: [exim] My solution to the Debian Problem.

2005-11-09 Thread John Hall
On 09/11/05, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been running Exim on Debian for a few years and apart from the > initial install, I have always used an in-house version built from source. > I have seen a few messages on this list regarding problems with Exim

Re: [exim] options to obsoleted 'demime'?

2005-09-27 Thread John Hall
On 27/09/05, Marc Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (2) to invoke my spam scanner, Exiscan/ClamAV > > deny message= VIRUS FOUND : ($malware_name) > >malware= * > >demime = * > > > > questions: > > > > (ii) per the spec, > > > > "Clamd does not seem to unpack

Re: [exim] Anti Phishing Trick

2005-08-24 Thread John Hall
On 24/08/05, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 09:03 +0100, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:05 +1200, Craig Whitmore wrote: > > > Umm. SPF will do MUCH better and will not give false positives > > > > You're new here, aren't you > > Evide

Re: [exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

2005-08-23 Thread John Hall
On 22/08/05, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > randomize_recs=(on|off); > > If this option is turned on, pdnsd will randomly reorder the cached > > records of one type when creating an answer. This supports round-robin > > DNS schemes and increases fail safety for hosts with multiple IP >

Re: [exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

2005-08-22 Thread John Hall
On 22/08/05, Andreas Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried restarting pdnsd and the message has now been delivered > > successfully to one of the other hosts. I really should have run > > tcpdump and see what was being returned before restarting it. > > > > So it seems to have been

Re: [exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

2005-08-22 Thread John Hall
On 22/08/05, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running a caching DNS server, but it does return all 9 hosts for > > this record. > > Very odd. Have you double-checked the resolv.conf that Exim is using? What > name server software are you using? I'm running pdnsd on my local interfac

Re: [exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

2005-08-22 Thread John Hall
On 22/08/05, Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, John Hall wrote: > > There is only one MX record, oxmail.ox.ac.uk. This name resolves to > > many IP addresses, one of which is unavailable: > > > You haven't provided enough inf

Re: [exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

2005-08-22 Thread John Hall
On 22/08/05, Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is supposed to be Exim's behaviour a mail host has multiple A > > records, and one of the machines is unavailable. > > It ought to immediately try the other hosts, in MX priority order, so > long as there isn't an unreasonable number of

[exim] Retries to ox.ac.uk

2005-08-22 Thread John Hall
Hi, What is supposed to be Exim's behaviour a mail host has multiple A records, and one of the machines is unavailable. There is currently a message on my queue destined for ox.ac.uk. $ host -t mx ox.ac.uk ox.ac.ukMX 9 oxmail.ox.ac.uk $host oxmail.ox.ac.uk oxmail.ox.ac.uk

Re: [exim] Batch SMTP hangs

2005-08-18 Thread John Hall
On 09/08/05, Geraint Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been busy of late, so my analysis has not been as thorough > as I had hoped, so apologies if the below is brief. > > John Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said > (on Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:0

Re: [exim] Batch SMTP hangs

2005-07-28 Thread John Hall
On 28/07/05, Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted this problem a few weeks ago, but received no response, so > > I'm reposting it. > I've been away; was this ever sorted out? Phil, No - I haven't got any further with it. Thanks, John -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/m

[exim] Batch SMTP hangs

2005-07-13 Thread John Hall
Hi, I posted this problem a few weeks ago, but received no response, so I'm reposting it. I have a perl script that runs as a pipe transport and injects two e-mails back into the system via BSMTP. Up until a recent upgrade from Woody to Sarge this all worked fine. Now, when injecting the second m

Re: Re: [exim] Segmentation Fault - Exim 4.51

2005-06-22 Thread John Hall
On 22/06/05, Philip Hazel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I note, however, that there is a db_upgrade utility, which should be > pointed out to people. (Though it doesn't seem to be installed on my > Gentoo Linux system.) On Debian it is called db3_upgrade and is part of the libdb3_util package, whi

[exim] Batch SMTP hangs

2005-06-17 Thread John Hall
Hi, I have a perl script that runs as a pipe transport and injects two e-mails back into the system via BSMTP. Up until a recent upgrade from Woody to Sarge this all worked fine. Now, when injecting the second message, my script hangs when closing the file descriptor to exim. The perl looks someth