Re: [exim] exim after upgrade etch to lenny

2009-03-04 Thread Marc Sherman
esm...@wp.pl wrote: Would you like to help me, how solve this problem? Interesting fact: From oldstable debian etch I can send message from wan network. Let's as Queen: kind of magic. Next debian 6.0 should be called Magic :) You should probably take this to the debian mailing list. -

Re: [exim] Per Domain Size Filtering

2009-02-20 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Sherman wrote: There is no ACL in which both $domain and $message_size can be used together -- $domain is only valid in a RCPT acl, because it's a per-address variable, and $message_size is only valid in the DATA acl for obvious reasons. ... so to implement what you want, you'll

Re: [exim] Authentication setup question

2009-02-04 Thread Marc Sherman
Rob Morris wrote: server_condition= {if exists{/var/mail/sites/${domain:${2}}/.accounts}\ {if crypteq{$3}{\{md5\}${lookup{$2}lsearch{/var/mail/sites/${domain:${2}}/.accounts}}}{1}{0}}\ {false}} Your condition syntax

Re: [exim] Per user spam config

2009-02-04 Thread Marc Sherman
Neil Nunez wrote: Hello, I want a sample config of a per user spamassassin in exim. I know that this must be in transport section, but I want a sample to accomplish this. You do not need to resort to transport level scanning to do this.

Re: [exim] smtp authenticators do domain auto qualify??

2009-01-30 Thread Marc Sherman
bo...@tagnet.ru wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem with plaintext authenticators. It looks like auto domain qualify. Authenticator configuration: PLAIN: driver = plaintext server_set_id = $auth2 server_prompts = :

Re: [exim] How can a set up a ACL rule to filter on message subject?

2009-01-27 Thread Marc Sherman
John M Collins wrote: deny condition = ${lookup{$h_subject}nwildlsearch{CONFDIR/Bad-subject}{1}{0}} message= Message subject line $h_subject looks like spam.\n\ Please change subject and resend if not. Remove the quotes, and add a terminal : to $h_subject:. Header names

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] 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) You

Re: [exim] QT=xx DT=yy strangeness

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Frank Elsner wrote: Happy New Year, I've the problem to understand the following log entries 2009-01-09 17:07:39 1LLJmD-0005RX-VI = x...@bronto.tubit.tu-berlin.de U= P=local S=6074 T=Cron x...@bronto /usr/local/sbin/Backup from x...@bronto.tubit.tu-berlin.de for 2009-01-09

Re: [exim] QT=xx DT=yy strangeness

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Nigel Metheringham wrote: On 9 Jan 2009, at 16:20, Frank Elsner wrote: QT=7m39s DT=0s from 17:07:39 17:07:40 ? The queue time starts when exim is first called - in this case between the initial exec of exim, and stdin closing (ie end of the message) was 7m39s 7m38s, actually --

Re: [exim] QT=xx DT=yy strangeness

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Eli Sand wrote: Are you certain? There are 3 log entries there. The first is cron submitting the message (= input message). The second entry is Exim dealing the the message for delivery saying that it sat in queue for 7m39s and delivery time took 0s. The third entry is saying the message

Re: [exim] QT=xx DT=yy strangeness

2009-01-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Eli Sand wrote: Yeah, I noticed that just after posting and seeing Nigels response. Now I see why it's so weird - why would cron take almost 8m to send a message that was less than 6k in size? It seems like there's an issue with the backup script or cron. It's probably a long running cron

Re: [exim] Exim Mainlog

2009-01-05 Thread Marc Sherman
Gaurav Pruthi wrote: Dear All, I want to know for what reasons, mail deferred (DNS resolution/Host SMTP Down) and when delivering after 7 mins what denotes asterisk with IP [xx.xx.xx.xx]* First of all, please do no obfuscate your logs when posting to this list. The logs you posted are

Re: [exim] Login authenticator takes very long time

2009-01-03 Thread Marc Sherman
Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: This works, and works great. However, it takes FOREVER to happen. I setup Thunderbird to use authentication and when I send a message, it takes sometimes more then 30 seconds to ask for the password. Once I enter the password, the message is sent immediately. I

Re: [exim] making FROM: field a specific user

2008-12-30 Thread Marc Sherman
windy_1 wrote: I have tried everything in the docs that appeared to relate as in untrusted_set_sender = * ??? do I sent that to untrusted_set_sender = bugzilla at at virtualinstruments.com No, you want untrusted_set_sender = www_data. That means that the www_data user account (which is

Re: [exim] Mail claims to be sent by my self

2008-12-21 Thread Marc Sherman
Terry wrote: Hi Richard spamassasin is now catching it since i removed my self from the whitelist cant beleave I did that 2008-12-21 18:22:57 1LESx5-0009ne-I2 = te...@firstkmh.co.uk H=(62-30-39-110.cable.ubr02.wiga.blueyonder.co.uk) [62.30.39.110]:4254 I=[217.112.92.232]:25 P=esmtp

Re: [exim] multiple copies of exim4 running

2008-12-10 Thread Marc Sherman
Gerard Hooton wrote: Which config file do I set the max connections, I have a split config That's a question for the debian mailing list. Split config isn't supported here. - Marc -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Sherman
Ted Cooper wrote: Do you have any features or critical bugs in mind that require a new release? The only one I can think of is the updated SPF library. I was going to look at it to see what changes were needed inside exim but work kept me busy doing other things. Have the dkim patches

Re: [exim] Force all local senders to authenticate

2008-11-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello list, My knowledge of Exim got rusty a bit:) I'd like to achieve two conditions within exim: 1. I'd like to force all local senders (+relay_from_hosts) to authenticate before they can send out mail Just remove any mention of +relay_from_hosts from your

Re: [exim] RFC 5321, 5322

2008-10-03 Thread Marc Sherman
Jeroen van Aart wrote: Bounces should only be sent if the receiver knows they'll be usefully delivered. This is code for: Don't sent bounces when your system rejects spam or virus traffic, or you'll become an Internet pariah. That sounds nice in theory. But how can you ever in a sane

Re: [exim] Why does this regex not match?

2008-09-21 Thread Marc Sherman
Robert Nicholson wrote: Now whilst this regular expression is quite convoluted even if I just put $header_from: does not match windows it still doesn't match Can anybody tell me why that's the case? In my case I don't want to copy mail with foreign charsets etc into the backup

Re: [exim] TLS error on connection

2008-09-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Brent Clark wrote: Hi Keep getting this message from this one MTA TLS error on connection from removed.co.uk (mail.removed.co.uk) [1.2.3.4] (gnutls_handshake): A TLS packet with unexpected length was received. Im running Exim 4.69-6 (debian testing). I cant for the likes of me

Re: [exim] I've modified Erik Mugele's exim_surbl.pl utility for blocking URIBL in Exim

2008-09-16 Thread Marc Sherman
Sander Smeenk wrote: Great! Can we stop quoting urls listed on surbl? All these mails end up in my spambox as they score below the drop treshold and above the spamtreshold. You really should whitelist any mailing list you subscribe to on the topic of mail server or spam scanner admin. -

Re: [exim] Problem with exim4, hotmail is seeing my mail as Unsolicited Commercial E-mail

2008-07-31 Thread Marc Sherman
M. Piscaer wrote: Hi all, I try to send an mail to an hotmail adres. The mail is getting relayed by an exim 4.63 (standard Etch). The mail is getting delevered to the SPAM folder. I have researched the problem, i have made an message containing: You're fighting a losing battle. Hotmail

Re: [exim] Unrouteable address

2008-07-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Peter Bowyer wrote: On 15/07/2008, Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I have noticed a very weird problem, users using auto complete in outlook are getting an error stating Unrouteable address. The failure point is Outlook, then, which has stored an unrouteable address. If you

Re: [exim] Exim4 Timezone: Not Able To Change

2008-07-10 Thread Marc Sherman
Telly Williams wrote: Hi, Problem: Can't change the timezone to MDT from MST. Tried: Changing to MDT in my configuration and restarting exim, but then I get my times in UTC. I also tried using -0600 and -0600, to no avail. If I change my timezone to MST, it works,

Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?

2008-07-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Perkel wrote: The bottleneck is the queue and I've noticed that if I use a ram disk for the queue that I can process many times as much mail with var lower load levels that using disk based queue. Ideally if I had a battery back up ram disk card that would be ideal but I can't find

Re: [exim] rotate inbound mail to multiple local accounts

2008-06-13 Thread Marc Sherman
Paul Hayes wrote: Is there a built-in feature of exim that'll allow me to do this or am I best off routing the mail to an external perl script to handle it? I guess the script would keep a counter stored in a file so it knows where the next email will go. There's no built in feature

Re: [exim] Issue with SMTP Auth on new Exim Server

2008-06-06 Thread Marc Sherman
Tom Ray [Lists] wrote: Thanks. That did it. Don't just remove control=submission; rather, use the domain= option to tell it that your auth id includes the domain already. Submission mode does a number of other important fixups besides the envelope-from fixup. - Marc -- ## List details

Re: [exim] Berkeley DB error

2008-05-30 Thread Marc Sherman
Jens Strohschnitter wrote: Hi list, the last 4 days I found the following error in the mainlog of my exim-4.32 installation: Berkeley DB error: PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery I can't remember that I have changed something on my server last 4 days. Any mail will be

Re: [exim] Debian Exim Pipe

2008-05-28 Thread Marc Sherman
Simon Faulkner wrote: Cheers Peter, I appreciate the rationale there but... I have wrestled with the README.Debian today but I'm here because it's not worked for me :-) I'm kinda hoping someone here will say Oh yeah, just bang a router and transport in x/y/z.abc and run

Re: [exim] Spam Blocking idea

2008-05-23 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Perkel wrote: Just a thought You extract the registrar barrier part of the host name and the same for the helo. Many hosts that send good email this would match. For example yahoo.com would have yahoo.com in both the host and the helo. Then after tracking these and developing

Re: [exim] Greylisting again.

2008-04-28 Thread Marc Sherman
David Woodhouse wrote: (Also, rejecting for SPF fail is particularly 'brave'. I'd recommend googling for 'sender address forgery' and reading the first link that Google shows up.) I'm on your side here, but don't you think demonstrating your own google rank is a bit disingenuous? :) - Marc

Re: [exim] TLS interaction problem with Communigate Pro 4.1.6

2008-04-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Florian Weimer wrote: Communigate Pro (at least in some versions) does not cope very well with TLS advertisements. If this server software tries to submit a message to one of our hosts (which advertises STARTTLS during EHLO), it aborts the delivery attempt during the TLS handshake. The nasty

Re: [exim] blew away exim config and cant send mail

2008-04-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: stryker9603 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mi 02 Apr 2008 18:49:23 CEST): after that I ran dpkg -r exim4 and dpkg-p exim4 then reinstalled exim4. upon reinstall it did not go through configuration like it should. and It did not make the directory /etc/exim4 so I created

Re: [exim] discard email forwarded to aol.com?

2008-04-06 Thread Marc Sherman
Erin Spiceland wrote: I'm using cPanel/WHM on a shared hosting server. My clients can configure their own mail forwarders, but I want to disallow forwarders to AOL since this frequently results in my server IP getting blacklisted. This is not a cPanel/WHM group, so people here don't know

Re: [exim] discard email forwarded to aol.com?

2008-04-06 Thread Marc Sherman
Erin Spiceland wrote: I'm referring to mail redirects, or forwarders, contained in the /etc/valiases/* files which have been discussed on this list many times, according to this lists archives. I'm out. - Marc -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] DKIM - signing mail (Debian?)

2008-04-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Ted Cooper wrote: Oops .. I was going to fix that page a while back and then got swamped at work. Looks like theres a few items it needs to cover ;) Marc Haber, do you have plans yet to include DKIM support in the debian-heavy package? Thanks, - Marc -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Change outgoing smtp port

2008-03-31 Thread Marc Sherman
tomcatf14a wrote: Hi, My provider has blocked port 25 for outgoing SMTP and I need to send emails out from the server. How do i go around it? Can i change the default SMTP outgoing port? How can i do it? You should use your provider as a smarthost. - Marc -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Spamassassin scanning Delivery Failure Repo rts[EMAIL PROTECTED]I [EMAIL PROTECTED]Body= On 2008-03-28 08:59, Ted Cooper wrote: Onur Gün gören wrote: Spoof Email-Spam which don't get

2008-03-28 Thread Marc Sherman
Onur Güngören wrote: Hi Ted, thanks for your response. You are right was my fault, no excat conf or debug output. Here is my used confi - file (cutted the retry config part) 1) you still haven't sent any logs or debug output

Re: [exim] Slightly OT: autodelete older emails

2008-03-26 Thread Marc Sherman
Yan Seiner wrote: I am using exim .forward to put all mailist emails into a single lists file. Now I would like to set up that list file as a ringbuffer, so that when a new email comes in, an older one drops off. (most maillists are archived anyway, so there's no point in keeping old

Re: [exim] Slightly OT: autodelete older emails

2008-03-26 Thread Marc Sherman
Yan Seiner wrote: So how do I find emails older than some arbitrary date? I started down that path, but couldn't find a ready-made way to select emails by date. formail doesn't do that AFAICT. Ted's find script is the same way I do it. - Marc -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] System mail name

2008-03-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Haines Brown wrote: I have a simple question concerning configuration of exim4, visible mail name. One page of the configuration asks for system mail name. My FQDM is teufel.hartford-hwp.com, and that's what I've been using here with success. That configuration is part of the debian

Re: [exim] Write headers B4 spamassassin scan

2008-03-17 Thread Marc Sherman
Craig Jackson wrote: Hi, At the beginning the data acl, some headers are committed to writing but are not actually written until after the data acl and thus are not passed to Spamassassin. But I would like Spamassassin to read these headers. Is there any way to write those headers before

Re: [exim] dnsbls

2008-03-14 Thread Marc Sherman
Martin A. Brooks wrote: So, if i understand your argument correctly, if the PTR were z0mgpuppieslolzwpony.antibodymx.net, that would make my email somehow more likely to be legitimate? How do you know that z0mgpuppieslolzwpony isn't somehow derived from the IP

Re: [exim] $message_size and spamassissin

2008-03-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Ted Cooper wrote: So how does one detect if SA isn't working correctly and failing from inside Exim? I'm already keeping a watch out for it - If it's not running, a restart of the service is attempted and if that fails, Exim is killed and I am notified. But if SA is still running and

Re: [exim] $message_size and spamassissin

2008-03-11 Thread Marc Sherman
Ted Cooper wrote: If you keep the spam = user verb/condition/thingy the same each time it is called (just keeping the user the same, you can add/remove the true bit), the result is cached and only calls SA once so it's no less efficient than any of other condition. I use it for a yes/no

Re: [exim] $message_size and spamassissin

2008-03-10 Thread Marc Sherman
Johann Spies wrote: I have the following in the exim configuration: # reject messages that score more than 8 deny message = Message viewed as spam # (snipped) hosts = ! +relay_from_hosts spam = spamd:true condition = ${if

Re: [exim] slightly OT: keeping exim up2date on Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Karl Fischer wrote: I'm using exim for nearly three years now and found my way through the config and that stuff, however, getting to the newest version is still painful each time ... I'm still running sarge (will upgrade to etch with the next server box in a few weeks) but I had lot's of

Re: [exim] transport cyrus_delivery not found in local_user router

2008-03-04 Thread Marc Sherman
Veit Hailperin wrote: I've set up a file in conf.d/transport/ called 30_exim4-config_cyrus_delivery having a definition for cyrus_delivery in that file. You seem to be using Debian's exim configuration files. You might have better luck getting help on the debian mailing lists. - Marc --

Re: [exim] Fastest Exim server ever

2008-03-03 Thread Marc Sherman
W B Hacker wrote: Aside from ascertaining if the 'wisher' can even afford the initial cost to *start* implementing their plan, and over what period of time it is expected to ramp to that magical 50,000 per-second level, defining appropriate technology dictates that you need to know what

Re: [exim] Catchall Mailbox (duplicating)

2008-02-28 Thread Marc Sherman
Michael da Silva Pereira wrote: Still no luck :( I've done this now to the transport: catchallmailbox: driver = appendfile directory = ${lookup mysql {SELECT `maildir` FROM `courier`.`mailboxes` WHERE `user` = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:$domain}' LIMIT 1}}

[exim] Submission mode: change return path without adding Sender: header?

2008-02-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Is it possible to configure submission mode so that the return path of a message is set to the $authenticated_id, but there is no Sender: header created? I'd like to trust my users to set whatever From: address they like, but still ensure that bounces go to the authenticated sender address. But

Re: [exim] strange problem

2008-02-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Silver wrote: Hi guys, I have a host running exim 4.68 that handles mail for the discoverylink.co.za domain. Since this past weekend I have started seeing the following in my rejectlogs: 2008-02-05 11:17:49 SMTP protocol synchronization error (next input sent too soo n:

Re: [exim] Mime + filename matching

2008-02-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Craig Jackson wrote: Not realizing that those networks were broken into subnetworks (ARIN doesn't give that information), using Exim acls, email from those entire networks, plus a long list of networks in the US and Canada, are made to wait too long - 600s. Almost all spam disconnects

Re: [exim] Exim drops mails

2008-02-07 Thread Marc Sherman
Peter Kirk wrote: 2008-02-07 12:44:25 [18647] unexpected disconnection while reading SMTP command from (peterkilap) [x.x.x.x]:3564 I=[x.x.x.x]:25 (error: Operation timed out) hostlist = removed hostlist reserve_hosts = removed hostlist relay_from_hosts = removed domainlist

[exim] Suggestion: add a condition{} expansion condition

2008-02-02 Thread Marc Sherman
It would be handy (and clean up some of my configs) if exim had an expansion condition that mirrored the behaviour of the condition option on routers and acls -- that is, it takes a single expansion parameter, and returns false if the parameter is empty, 0, no, or false, and returns true

Re: [exim] Using smartrelay getting unrouteable address error

2008-02-02 Thread Marc Sherman
Andy Smith wrote: Hi Ted, yeah appologies, I did mangle the email address I posted, good to know this is done automatically by the list and in any future messages I may post Ill will not mess with the information. Domian.net isnt the domain I was attempting to email, and the address

Re: [exim] setting smtp_accept_max_per_host

2008-01-31 Thread Marc Sherman
Phil Chambers wrote: I have been using a printed copy of the 4.50 documentation for a long time because of the time and paper needed print a newer version. This is the trigger for me to pull my finger out. Thanks John for your reply and sorry to have wasted your time. If you want to

Re: [exim] Hotmail

2008-01-28 Thread Marc Sherman
David Sharpe wrote: Hi, Recently (Mid-January 2008) Hotmail has developed some intermittent delivery problem with email being sent through our server. * A new message to a hotmail address is discarded by Hotmail and never shown to the user * A reply to a message - to a hotmail address

Re: [exim] Drop all traffic unless authenticated users OR specific IP ?

2008-01-25 Thread Marc Sherman
W B Hacker wrote: Give a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life. So _that's_ why these RTFM discussions keep devolving into flamewars! :) - Marc -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] hostslist IP matching and *.example.com

2008-01-24 Thread Marc Sherman
WJCarpenter wrote: I think I used to know the answer to this, but I was just looking at section 10 of the exim spec and didn't find the info I was looking for. (Treatment of various other things is laid out pretty well, but not this case.) If you have a wildcard host name item in a

Re: [exim] Exim used as a filter - want some hosts to be delivered on alternative ports

2008-01-12 Thread Marc Sherman
John Schmerold wrote: For the record, I'm not faking traffic for Gmail - using that as a fictional example. Please don't obfuscate; as you can see it just wastes everyone's time trying to figure out your broken examples instead of helping you solve your actual problem. Obfuscating with a

Re: [exim] outgoing rewrite

2008-01-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Toth Milan wrote: Marc, thanks a lot for you reply. but I'm in situation that I can't edit the php scripts because its obfuscated. Can you please tell how to do it in exim? Thanks a lot .. The PHP script doesn't need to be edited. You have to configure the user running that script as a

Re: [exim] outgoing rewrite

2008-01-11 Thread Marc Sherman
Toth Milan wrote: Hello to all, I'm very new to exim and I would like to ask you, how to rewrite sender of outgoing e-mails. I have a php application which is sending emails without smtp auth. There is 2 e-mail addresses in php application which is sending e-mail. One is [EMAIL

Re: [exim] rewriting headers when rewriting yelds unparsable address [possible feature request]

2008-01-11 Thread Marc Sherman
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${if def:h_from:{${address:$h_from:}}fail} Ffs [EMAIL PROTECTED] ${if eq {${address:$h_from:}}{} {fail}{${address:$h_from:}} } Those aren't the same thing. fail is a directive instructing expansion of the if to fail. {fail} is the literal string

Re: [exim] envelope for virtual domains

2008-01-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Frank Scholl wrote: thanks alot marc, sender_retain was the option i needed, since people log in with their $domain and $localpart set from a database behind. great and fast help! I'd strongly recommend control=submission/domain= instead. sender_retain lets the sender spoof the envelope

Re: [exim] envelope for virtual domains

2008-01-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Frank Scholl wrote: hello list, i have set up a mail system for virtual domains as well as for localhost mail. at the moment i am struggling at a probably easy to solve problem. the envelope address gets build in a way that makes it troublesome to communicate with other smtps when

Re: [exim] bouncing message, improper configuration of server.

2007-12-22 Thread Marc Sherman
Leonardo Boselli wrote: I (or better my server) does not bounce around: just has a rule that if the two main servers (that offer pop3 and imap service to users, an that act as smarthosts for local users) cannot send directly within 5 minutes, to save CPU cycles, they pass the message to one

Re: [exim] Weird [ot]

2007-12-16 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Perkel wrote: Got a strange problem with my home server. If I run bash from the command line it sits there and does nothing. Bit if I run sh it works. And sp is a symlink point to bash. Anyone know what causes this? The bash man page might be instructive here. Search for /\bsh\b/. -

Re: [exim] Moving /var/spool/exim to new server.

2007-11-30 Thread Marc Sherman
John Burnham wrote: If you have both servers up and running at the same time, you could simply change the config on the old one to only have a manualroute router sending everything to the new server and do a forced queue run (exim -qff). This is what I'd recommend, too; that way you're

Re: [exim] Spam getting through

2007-10-19 Thread Marc Sherman
ROGERS Richard wrote: Alternatively - or additionally - for client side filtering, you can always use a more obviously site-specific header, e.g. add_header = X-MyOrganisation-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar) That's what I do as well, but you should always use

Re: [exim] Using or in ACL condition statement

2007-10-18 Thread Marc Sherman
Keith Edmunds wrote: I want to write an ACL condition that will accept mail if one of three conditions is true. I can create the actual conditions, but I'm having problems with the syntax of the or operator. To test this, I have an ACL as follows: accept domains = +relay_to_domains

Re: [exim] Helo Rules Help

2007-10-01 Thread Marc Sherman
Wil wrote: Not the way they are supposed to. Alot of the true localhost activity is getting blocked which shouldn't for starters. Am I missing something on the syntax? You're going to have to ask more specific questions about what you want to accomplish, and how it's failing, if we're going

Re: [exim] I'm off this list

2007-09-28 Thread Marc Sherman
Philip Hazel wrote: Just so you all know: this is my last day at work before retiring. I am about to unsubscribe from the exim-users list. However, I will stay on the exim-dev list for the moment and I am continuing to maintain PCRE. It's been fun interacting with all you over the years!

Re: [exim] AOL onus when sender verify fails?

2007-09-13 Thread Marc Sherman
Simon Hobbs wrote: Here are some relevant log file messages: 2007-08-26 14:00:59 H=lsvsm-m01.elist.aol.com [64.12.187.199] sender verify fail for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: response to RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED] from listserv.aol.com [152.163.210.183] was: 550 5.1.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]...

[exim] Reply-to-list for exim (was Re: verify recipe when forwarding for a non MX host)

2007-09-11 Thread Marc Sherman
Steen Eugen Poulsen wrote: The problem is at my end, I had forgotten that reply goes to the poster and not the list here. wtb: respond to list support in thunderbird, independent of whatever the list has a reply-to: list. :p How much will you offer me?

Re: [exim] Mail being queued: User 0 set for remote_smtp transport is on the never_users list

2007-09-10 Thread Marc Sherman
ikearns wrote: Hi John I can confirm that the alias is already there security: root hostmaster: root info: postmaster marketing: postmaster sales: postmaster support:postmaster # trap decode to catch security attacks decode: root

Re: [exim] verify recipe when forwarding for a non MX host

2007-09-10 Thread Marc Sherman
Peter Bowyer wrote: And the rest didn't even comprehend the question. Your evidence for this is what? It's unspoken etiquette on this list that once someone has engaged with a problem, it's generally left to that person to continue with it. I'm only seeing your half of this conversation,

Re: [exim] String expansion

2007-08-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Marcin Krol wrote: Hello everyone, Following string expansion works: ${if eq{${lookup{da7.promo.pl}lsearch*{/etc/virtual/domainowners}{$value}}}{} {remote}{local}} local ${if eq{${lookup{not.local.domain}lsearch*{/etc/virtual/domainowners}{$value}}}{} {remote}{local}} remote

Re: [exim] SMTP connection lost after final dot

2007-07-26 Thread Marc Sherman
Luca Bertoncello wrote: Hi, list! Today have I a very strange problem... I use monit to monitor my server and it sends sometimes some E-Mails to me, to advice, for example, that a daemon's PID changed (restart) and so on... Since today, if SpamAssassin (3.2.2) is started, I see this

Re: [exim] Bug in exim 4.67 string expansion parser?

2007-07-24 Thread Marc Sherman
Thomas Jacob wrote: The following ACL clause causes an error accept condition = ${if and { {!def:h_STUFF} \ {eq {$h_From:} [EMAIL PROTECTED] } {true}{false} } temporarily rejected after DATA: failed to expand ACL string ${if and {{!def:h_STUFF} {eq {$h_From:} [EMAIL

Re: [exim] Exim.org move

2007-07-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Mike Cardwell wrote: Nigel Metheringham wrote: All the mailing list archives (back to 1996) have been converted into lurker, which should be easier to use to find things. Message URLs within lurker are stable so can be quoted in emails, wiki pages etc. Looks good! However, on

Re: [exim] Exim.org move

2007-07-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Nigel Metheringham wrote: All the services on exim.org have now been moved from sesame.csx.cam.ac.uk to tahini.csx.cam.ac.uk Did you actually grind up the old machine to make the new one? :) - Marc -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Exim and Spamassasin

2007-07-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Robby Balona wrote: I have Exim purring away and doing well and Spamasassin seems to work nicely to. I would like to drop or quarantine mails marked as spam by Spamasassin . I know all the arguments about doing this but I would like to block the spam never the less. Magnus has already put

Re: [exim] Exim and Spamassasin

2007-07-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Magnus Holmgren wrote: - Reject the spam in the SMTP conversation, but deliver it to the quarantine as well (fakereject). This may be an option in the range between almost certainly spam (i.e. really reject) and maybe spam (mark and deliver or quarantine). But it may also be completely

Re: [exim] Exim.org move

2007-07-19 Thread Marc Sherman
Ian Eiloart wrote: No, please do obfuscate addresses in the archives. Alternatively, remove any posts with my email address, and never expect to hear from me again. Don't you think that's a bit extreme, given this? http://www.google.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Obfuscation is a losing battle.

Re: [exim] What causes duplicate emails?

2007-07-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Perkel wrote: The email was submitted with Thunderbird. I wonder if the problem is thunderbird related. The bsmtp question is unrelated. I'm using that to do automated virus reports. As Graeme pointed out, and I pointed out to you in April as well, the problem is with your server,

Re: [exim] Accept with warning in ACLs?

2007-07-11 Thread Marc Sherman
Toralf Lund wrote: Still working on my warning header update... I've been wondering, is there any nice and built-in way to say add warning and accept, or if you like accept with warning, in an ACL statement? I mean, can I tell the ACL to return accept directly rather than continue

Re: [exim] Greylisting - using Exim new features - ratelimit with noupdate

2007-07-11 Thread Marc Sherman
Marc Perkel wrote: I'm using a different failover system. I have a main server on the low mx and several backup servers on the next highest mx. dummy0.junkemailfilter.com - 10 - semi-dead IP mx.junkemailfilter.com - 20 - main server mx.junkemailfilter.net - 30 - multiple backup servers

[exim] Rejection policies (was Re: Sender callout verification with warning only)

2007-07-06 Thread Marc Sherman
[I changed the subject because this is not a continuation of the part of the thread that was getting acrimonious] Jeremy Harris wrote: Without knowing for sure what mails are spam and what are ham, we reject connections: 10% rdns + 2mx 35% helo 5% dnsbl 20% conn-dropped

Re: [exim] Detecting the Registrar Barrier

2007-06-29 Thread Marc Sherman
Chris Meadors wrote: It seems to work for the pathological case of the Japan's TLD which until a couple years ago would have always been a two, but now optionally can be a one. Both mazda.jp and mazda.co.jp return the expected results. It fails for www.orgforms.gov.on.ca -- it should

Re: [exim] Not very efficient I believe

2007-06-28 Thread Marc Sherman
Ted Cooper wrote: gascione wrote: I have the following ACL integrating spamassassin into my exim gateways. I believe it is inefficient because I believe it is sending the message to be evaluated by spamassassin many times. Am I correct and if so how should I construct the logic to achieve the

Re: [exim] Hints needed to run forwarded messages through a pipe

2007-06-27 Thread Marc Sherman
David S. Madole wrote: I do an extensive amount of message processing based on database content, and one thing that works well for me is to have a dummy router early in the chain that does the database lookup and populates $address_data with everything that will be needed later, with the

Re: [exim] Automatic Whitelist Generation - Why wouldn't this work?

2007-06-25 Thread Marc Sherman
Thomas Hochstein wrote: Marc Perkel schrieb: One thing that spammers can't spoof is RDNS. That is plain wrong. Most probably don't control the rDNS entries for their IP space, but it is far from impossible. So if the RNDS of an IP is xxx.xxx.amd.com then we know the email is ham.

Re: [exim] Cannot send mails to @hotmail.com addresses

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Mike Cardwell wrote: To further expand on this. It appears that this technique does not bypass their filters, but gives the message a much higher likelyhood of passing them only. I noticed this when trying to send an email with a .exe attachment to a hotmail account, which was silently

Re: [exim] Cannot send mails to @hotmail.com addresses

2007-06-15 Thread Marc Sherman
Mike Cardwell wrote: To further expand on this. It appears that this technique does not bypass their filters, but gives the message a much higher likelyhood of passing them only. I noticed this when trying to send an email with a .exe attachment to a hotmail account, which was silently

Re: [exim] Cannot send mails to @hotmail.com addresses

2007-06-14 Thread Marc Sherman
Mike Cardwell wrote: I've found a way around their stupid filters. Well, it works for me anyway. Just before the dnslookup router create another router: This adds lots of large headers to the email message which seems to push the message size above a limit somewhere around 50KB at which

Re: [exim] verify = helo, PTR record lookup

2007-06-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Thomas Jacob wrote: C) the $sender_host_address can be reverse-resolved to the HELO string (PTR record lookup) A, B work as intended, but C somehow does not (at least not if the PTR record resolves to a name that has no A/CNAME entry itself, or the name does but points to a different IP)

Re: [exim] verify = helo, PTR record lookup

2007-06-12 Thread Marc Sherman
Thomas Jacob wrote: matches the host name that Exim obtains by doing a reverse lookup of the calling host address so basically a reverse lookup has to be read as reverse lookup/lookup-again using Exim's host_lookup technique? Hmm. Yes. That's the meaning of reverse lookup everywhere it

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