[exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
ect mail to return paths if they don't come from <> or postmaster? I'm happy to hear from you guys. Either on- or offlist ;) Kind regards, Sander Smeenk. -- | Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70

Re: [exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ian Eiloart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >What is the opinion of the masses, am I right to reject mail to return > >paths if they don't come from <> or postmaster? > I don't think you should. But don't you agree that a return path is only to be used for returning a message if it can't be delive

Re: [exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Rejecting mail with non-empty reverse-path to your signed addresses > isn't really that important, so if it's a problem you might as well > relax the checking. It's in *your* config my friend! :P |{${if and { {!eq {$sender_address}{}} \ |

Re: [exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
> > > Rejecting mail with non-empty reverse-path to your signed addresses > > > isn't really that important > > It's in *your* config my friend! :P > I know. It's not a problem for _me_ -- hah :) got me ;) > An old version of my config, working around bugs in an old version of > Exim. You don't n

Re: [exim] More secure authentication with dyndns.com's mailhop outbound service?

2006-04-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Adam Funk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > login: > driver = plaintext > public_name = LOGIN > client_send = ": username : password" > I would like exim to be able to authenticate to outbound.mailhop.org > without storing the unencrypted password on disk.

Re: [exim] More secure authentication with dyndns.com's mailhop outbound service?

2006-04-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Stanislaw Halik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Works for me. I have a file CONFDIR/passwd with crypt()'ed passwords. > the problem is that it's an outbound connection, therefore the password > has to be stored in a readable way. Oh right! I kinda looked over that fact. Oops. -- | It's practic

[exim] Autoreply oddities with mail containing 2 subjectlines?

2006-08-09 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hello! Liisa left the company, Liisa's mail is forwarded to Anna, Anna has an Exim filter with autoresponder active for mail sent to Liisa's address: | if ($h_To: matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or | $h_Cc: matches "[EMAIL PROTECTED]") and | $h_From: does not match "ver(?:taa|gelijk).(?:nl|fi

Re: [exim] Autoreply oddities with mail containing 2 subjectlines?

2006-08-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Kjetil Torgrim Homme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > | 022 Subject: =?utf-8?Q??= > > | 053 Subject: Accel Solutions vertaa.fi rekister?tyminen > two Subject fields is illegal according to RFC 2821, see the table in > section 3.6. I know that :-) > if you turn on verify = header_syntax, I beli

Re: [exim] Good tricks for catching image spam

2006-10-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyone have any good tricks for catching this damn image spam that they > want to share? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin Might be good to check out! Regards, Sander. -- | Madness takes it's toll. Have exact change ready! | 1024D/08

Re: [exim] Good tricks for catching image spam

2006-10-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
* Please keep replies on-list. > >>Anyone have any good tricks for catching this damn image spam that they > >>want to share? > >http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin > if you want a less cpu intensive method, try rejecting any email with a > gif attachment comming from a non-whiteli

Re: [exim] interface option in remote_smtp doesn't work

2006-12-21 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting manwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > # exim -d -v '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [ ... ] > Connecting to srv6.cyfronet.pl [149.156.2.19]:25 from 80.53.26.124 ... > connected waiting for data on socket [ ... ] > SMTP<< 250-srv6.cyf-kr.edu.pl Hello drath..pl [80.53.26.122], > pleased [ ... ] > [149

Re: [exim] Exim and SRS in ACL?

2006-12-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Chris Lightfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Are people seeing a lot of SRS in the wild? A quick census > of my mail suggests <0.1% SRS for both real mail and spam. I implemented it after my domain was abused in a joejob once. I got lots of bounces for messages i really didn't send. Mine look

Re: [exim] OT(?): SRS vs. SORBS sending mails with '<>' sender

2007-01-05 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Heiko Schlittermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > what I understand from SRS is: > If I use SRS for outgoing messages, bounces to messages I sent should be > addressed to SRS-"encoded" recipients, not to real real recipients. In my honest opinion, bounces should always go to the envelope sender

Re: [exim] queue runs question

2007-01-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > If queue runs are disabled, does exim try to re-send emails which are in > queue when their retry times come? Or does it mean that emails in queue > will never get sent if -qxm is not given on the command line? For all i know, queues will not be pro

Re: [exim] how ti distinguish local mail and smtp mail

2007-01-12 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marten Lehmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > how can I distinguish if a mail has been send locally or if it has been > received by smtp? Is there any variable reserved for it? I don't want to > add and remove header to transport information between ACLs, routers and > transports, that looks a

Re: [exim] Virtual users HowTo! I did it no MySql No LDAP

2007-01-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ahmad Sabry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 4- it's not the right way to support those new guys in linux. Although i too thought Marc's message was maybe a little harsh, i do agree that both your postings so far were very unclear as to what you're really trying to accomplish. And they are hard to

Re: [exim] spamassassin problems

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz > and my kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp > and i have 2 G of memory Looks like a decent configuration... > and i have a lot of somby process > 1828 spamd 25 0 193m 187m 4780 R 99.9 9.3 8:23.69 spamd > 1830

Re: [exim] exim queue

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I find the sended emails by a user in the exim queue? man exiqgrep -- | You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB D463 7E41 08CE C94D -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/

Re: [exim] exim queue

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alexander Shikoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > How can I find the sended emails by a user in the exim queue? > > man exiqgrep > 'man exiqgrep' does not exist at least in my installation of exim. > exiqgrep -h should help. Right you are... | AUTHOR |This manual page was stitched

Re: [exim] delete queue emails

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > How can I delete all emails how this? > 6h 2.5M 1H6glE-0002yA-5d <> $ mailq | grep "<>" | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm Is what i use in such situations, but there could well be other solutions with exiqgrep a.o. -- | > > Isn't this a stupid question?

Re: [exim] Strange confusing random slowness

2007-01-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Anyhow - need a clue. Thanks in advance. Use 'exiwhat' (at least available in Debian) to see what the process is doing. Are you delivering by TLS connection? I had some problems with TLS and not-enough-entropy. Linkink /dev/random to /dev/urandom might

Re: [exim] Archiving Email

2007-02-23 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Joseph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > With flat files, your friend would be grep. With maildir you would need > a mail client, which might be ok, unless we are talking hundreds of > thousands of messages. Currently i store 'old messages' in maildir format and tar those. Thing is, to get a specif

Re: [exim] X-headers based routing

2007-04-02 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Carlo Wood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Is it possible to route messages on the base of > > " X-headers " > This is exactly what I need too. > No matter what I tried, it seems that $header_* is not defined/usable > in a router definition :/ (See my previous mail) Hey! But values set i

Re: [exim] FW: Mystery Message in Mystery Queue

2007-05-03 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Graeme Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Here is the result of 'mailq' (obviously bounces to spammers): > > 5h 1.8K 1Hjaq7-000282-0p <> *** frozen *** > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Here is the result of "exim -Mrm 1HiwzY-0002VD-GI" > > Spool read error for 1HiwzY-0002VD-GI-H: No

Re: [exim] verify = header_syntax usage

2007-05-31 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Renaud Allard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do much people here on this list use "verify = header_syntax usage" to > deny messages. I was just looking at my logs and it seems most mails > tagged by this kind of rule are ham. so I was wondering if/how people > here use (or not) this ACL. I had it

[exim] RFC1413 (ident), TCP Reset & Alarm

2007-07-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, Why is it that Exim4 (4.60) still waits for an alarm() to occur when a connection to ident has been rejected with a RST? At least, that is what seems to happen. My nagios box rejects ident connections with a TCP RST packet, which results in a 'Connection refused'. This is the best way to bloc

Re: [exim] RFC1413 (ident), TCP Reset & Alarm

2007-07-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Dave Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Why is it that Exim4 (4.60) still waits for an alarm() to occur when a > > connection to ident has been rejected with a RST? At least, that is what > > seems to happen. > Are you sure your box is receiving, and not firewalling out, the RST packet? Most

[exim] Messages in the queue that seem to last forever?

2007-08-15 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi! I have some messages in my queue for which the remote mailserver keeps saying '450 Try again later' even though it's most obvious they will not accept the message ever. Exim seems to keep these messages around forever. As they are not 5xx errors they do not freeze and timeout_frozen_after doe

Re: [exim] Messages in the queue that seem to last forever?

2007-08-20 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sander Smeenk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > There's one retry-rule in my config: > ** F,4h,5m; F,16h,30m; F,7d,3h > With this retry rule, I would expect to see no messages older than 7 > days in my queue. Can anyone explain why this message is still on queue? > 13d 4

Re: [exim] Messages in the queue that seem to last forever?

2007-08-20 Thread Sander Smeenk
meout_frozen_after. >From my earlier message, i quote: | Quoting Sander Smeenk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | > Exim seems to keep these messages around forever. As they are not 5xx | > errors they do not freeze and timeout_frozen_after doesn't kick in. Though this might not be very c

Re: [exim] 'sudden' appearance of "failed socket bind()"

2005-09-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting OpenMacNews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > daemon starts, stops & ... and until today ... HUPs just fine. > however, now when HUP the daemon, the log complains: >2005-09-12 17:48:32 socket bind() to port 25 for address 10.0.0.6 failed: >Permission denied: waiting 30s before trying again (7

[exim] Exim filter / Regexp weirdness

2005-09-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hey, I receieve some mail from, to and cc'd-to .fi and .se addresses which i would like to see delivered in a separate mailbox, so i made this eximfilter: | if $h_To: matches "@[EMAIL PROTECTED](fi|se)" or |$h_Cc: matches "@[EMAIL PROTECTED](fi|se)" or |$h_From: matches "@[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [exim] 'X=TLSv1: ...' in exim log file

2005-10-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Robert Cates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What would I need to do to increase my Exim TLS/SSL connections to 256-bit? I've wondered about this too. I think it has to do with the type of cert you create for Exim to use. Not sure though. Could also be a compiletime setting maybe... It's still on

Re: [exim] Blocking From: <>

2005-12-06 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am so sure that happens. In reality most times the return > address is forged and goes to the wrong place. Yeah. Tell your users not to use such software. It's as bad as spamming, IMHO. > Is there anyway to setup Exim so when it sees a return address of "<

[exim] TLS / Entropy

2005-12-15 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hello, I'm a keen Exim4 user (4.54, 4.60, Debian, monolithic config) and I'd like to use TLS as much as possible. Not to authenticate senders, but just to encrypt transfers between servers. Yet, i notice that my server(s) lack entropy, or, i think that's the case. My users are complaining that it

Re: [exim] Rejecting everything

2007-11-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I have something fouled up, every message is being reject couple lines > from reject.log indicate there is something wrong with my ACL section - > Any ideas? I've posted my exim.conf below: It would help loads if you could post the error you're se