Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2012-05-07 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-05-20 at 11:18 +, W B Hacker wrote: > Phil Pennock wrote: > > and just commit a change defaulting accept_8bitmime to on, then > > after the next release of Exim take a month-long holiday from the > > Internet to avoid the flame-wars until they settle down and everyone > > realises that

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: *snip* Exim may be odd-man out with 8BITMIME optioned OFF - but it has NOT so far become a global pariah for that behaviour. Well, that'll be because mobile email is still a minority pursuit, Meaning mobiles are the main source of 8BITMIME? For Wot? Photos taken wit

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
>> > > First off, just sent you directly a test message so we can set up to do some > off-list testing - hopefully come back with better info, less chatter. > > Because ... Optioned ON or OFF, I am having a hard time getting my arms > around seeing 8BITMIME as a noteworthy problem. > > A) RFC

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread W B Hacker
Phil Pennock wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 *snip* Phil, we are on the same song-sheet on this one! Sitting (mostly) in Asia, 8-bit, especially UTF-8, is dear to us, and has not been a problem AT ALL with defaults. Nor with Qmail before Exim. nor Courier-MTA. So i

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: On 19 May 2011, at 19:05, W B Hacker wrote: Ian Eiloart wrote: *snip* *snip* again If nothing has reverted, I read that as a U Cambridge server having accepted 8BITMIME with a 250-Ok many years and versions ago. Yes, but it was advertising 8bitmime, so you'd expect

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-05-19 at 14:10 +, W B Hacker wrote: > Phil Pennock wrote: > > At present, there's split_spool_directory, which divides things up with > > one level of hashing, and then some people script their own queue-runner > > launchers, running in parallel over sub-trees of the split spool instead

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Pennock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On 2011-05-20 at 09:36 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: > On 19 May 2011, at 19:05, W B Hacker wrote: > > If nothing has reverted, I read that as a U Cambridge server having > > accepted 8BITMIME with a 250-Ok many years and versions ago. > > It doesn't

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 19 May 2011, at 18:27, W B Hacker wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote: >> >> On 19 May 2011, at 13:35, W B Hacker wrote: >> part allows integration with an IMAP server, a message is submitted with a an IMAP url to allow forward without download, etc. >>> >>> ?? >>> >>> IF the c

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 19 May 2011, at 19:05, W B Hacker wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote: >> > *snip* >> >> Well 8bitmime is implemented almost everywhere. The thing is, I can't >> turn it on without installing a non-Exim smart host to downgrade >> messages that I send to other Exim sites! > > Are you SURE about Exim

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 19 May 2011, at 19:05, W B Hacker wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote: >> > *snip* >> >> Well 8bitmime is implemented almost everywhere. The thing is, I can't >> turn it on without installing a non-Exim smart host to downgrade >> messages that I send to other Exim sites! > > Are you SURE about Exim

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
W B Hacker wrote: Ian Eiloart wrote: *snip* Well 8bitmime is implemented almost everywhere. The thing is, I can't turn it on without installing a non-Exim smart host to downgrade messages that I send to other Exim sites! Are you SURE about Exim not being able to handle it on the inbound if

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: *snip* Well 8bitmime is implemented almost everywhere. The thing is, I can't turn it on without installing a non-Exim smart host to downgrade messages that I send to other Exim sites! Are you SURE about Exim not being able to handle it on the inbound if we were to switch

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: On 19 May 2011, at 13:35, W B Hacker wrote: part allows integration with an IMAP server, a message is submitted with a an IMAP url to allow forward without download, etc. ?? IF the content is already located at a URI, all that is needed is the URI. We all get such - mos

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 19 May 2011, at 13:35, W B Hacker wrote: >> >> part allows integration with an IMAP server, a message is submitted >> with a an IMAP url to allow forward without download, etc. > > ?? > > IF the content is already located at a URI, all that is needed is the URI. > We all get such - mostl

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Dominic Benson
On 19/05/11 15:43, W B Hacker wrote: W B Hacker wrote: Phil Pennock wrote: On 2011-05-19 at 12:35 +0100, Dominic Benson wrote: On 19/05/11 11:50, Phil Pennock wrote: New queuing system refers to an approach to scale up the spool directory to something more queue-like, with segregated admin-d

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
W B Hacker wrote: Phil Pennock wrote: On 2011-05-19 at 12:35 +0100, Dominic Benson wrote: On 19/05/11 11:50, Phil Pennock wrote: New queuing system refers to an approach to scale up the spool directory to something more queue-like, with segregated admin-defined queues (eg, "big_freemail_provi

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
Phil Pennock wrote: On 2011-05-19 at 12:35 +0100, Dominic Benson wrote: On 19/05/11 11:50, Phil Pennock wrote: New queuing system refers to an approach to scale up the spool directory to something more queue-like, with segregated admin-defined queues (eg, "big_freemail_provider_x"). This is b

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-05-19 at 12:35 +0100, Dominic Benson wrote: > On 19/05/11 11:50, Phil Pennock wrote: > > > > New queuing system refers to an approach to scale up the spool directory > > to something more queue-like, with segregated admin-defined queues (eg, > > "big_freemail_provider_x"). This is because

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:24 +, W B Hacker wrote: > > - 'true' push? (no continuously open data connection) > Email to SMS gateway with selective headers-only notification. More likely this would take the form of an SMS message with data-coding-scheme 0xCA (see GSM-03.38 ยง4). That wou

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: On 19 May 2011, at 11:24, W B Hacker wrote: Ian Eiloart wrote: LEMONADE compliance ? I don't see that what has been published so far has any interaction with an MTA-only such as Exim at all. Integrated MTA+IMAP, perhaps Otherwise, the LEMONADE features proposed appea

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
Steffen Heil wrote: *snip* Reserve 5.0 (followed by 5.1) for really incompatible changes, conceptional changes. Such as 3.x to 4.x. Regards, Steffen +++ ... and Amen. Bill -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ #

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Dominic Benson
On 19/05/11 11:50, Phil Pennock wrote: New queuing system refers to an approach to scale up the spool directory to something more queue-like, with segregated admin-defined queues (eg, "big_freemail_provider_x"). This is because while Exim is excellent at inbound mail, it doesn't always scale as

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Steffen Heil
Hi While I don't really care about version numbers but only about functionality, the following is just an worthless opinion, but still my 2 ct. > * Don't break lexical comparison, not going 4.9901 > * So will go from 4.99 to 5.00 Not breaking lexical comparision and therefor rega

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 13:50, Phil Pennock wrote: > On 2011-05-19 at 09:58 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: > > But no, I don't see a sign of 5.0, or even discussion of what > > desirable radical changes would justify a major version number change. > > It might just be that we run out of minor version

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 19 May 2011, at 11:24, W B Hacker wrote: > Ian Eiloart wrote: >> LEMONADE compliance > ? > > I don't see that what has been published so far has any interaction with an > MTA-only such as Exim at all. Integrated MTA+IMAP, perhaps > > Otherwise, the LEMONADE features proposed appear to m

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-05-19 at 09:58 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: > But no, I don't see a sign of 5.0, or even discussion of what > desirable radical changes would justify a major version number change. > It might just be that we run out of minor version numbers! >From the June 2010 maintainers meet-up summary not

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2011-05-19 at 11:09 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > I'm mostly familiar with LEMONADE in the context of IMAP. What needs > doing on the SMTP side? BDAT, BURL (and thus urlauth validation, a policy engine, etc) -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim de

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: LEMONADE compliance ? I don't see that what has been published so far has any interaction with an MTA-only such as Exim at all. Integrated MTA+IMAP, perhaps Otherwise, the LEMONADE features proposed appear to me to be all in the IMAP daemon's realm: - IMAP IDLE for

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread David Woodhouse
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 09:58 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: > For the core server, LEMONADE compliance might be worth a full version > bump. Since that requires several distinct changes, it's something > that could be the end point of several minor version bumps. I'm mostly familiar with LEMONADE in the

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-19 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 18 May 2011, at 15:15, Jakob Hirsch wrote: > Odhiambo Washington, 2011-05-17 17:46: >> Yeah, Exim 5 I think is not so far away, > > Huh? What makes you think that? I don't see any sign of it. > I guess that with 4.76 we're more than three-quarters done! ;^) But no, I don't see a sign of 5.

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-18 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Odhiambo Washington, 2011-05-17 17:46: > Yeah, Exim 5 I think is not so far away, Huh? What makes you think that? I don't see any sign of it. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - h

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-18 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 18 May 2011, at 10:31, Ian Eiloart wrote: > No, really, don't use the LMTP transport. It's much easier to use an SMTP > Transport and add the line "protocol = lmtp". > > You'd imagine that the LMTP transport would use the same code base, but it > doesn't. The only advantage of the LMTP tran

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-18 Thread Ian Eiloart
On 17 May 2011, at 18:09, Mike Cardwell wrote: > On 17/05/2011 17:21, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >> Any ardent Exim LMTP users around? Pls help. > > I've never used LMTP before, but it looks really simple. Take a look at: > > http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch28.html

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-18 Thread Dennis Davis
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Mike Cardwell wrote: > From: Mike Cardwell > To: exim-users@exim.org > Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 18:09:07 > Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 5.x > X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) > > On 17/05/2011 17:21, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > Any ardent Exim LMTP use

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-17 Thread Mike Cardwell
On 17/05/2011 17:21, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Any ardent Exim LMTP users around? Pls help. I've never used LMTP before, but it looks really simple. Take a look at: http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch28.html I guess you need something like the example on that page, bu

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 18:59, John Burnham wrote: > > > > Yeah, Exim 5 I think is not so far away, but that is not why > > I am writing. > > > > Mailman 3 is knocking on the doors and I was just wondering > > if the Exim > > gurus have crafted a config that works with it. > > > > So far I see the

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-17 Thread John Burnham
> > Yeah, Exim 5 I think is not so far away, but that is not why > I am writing. > > Mailman 3 is knocking on the doors and I was just wondering > if the Exim > gurus have crafted a config that works with it. > > So far I see there is only support for Postfix. My whole life > is, has been > a

Re: [exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-17 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> On Tue, 17 May 2011 18:46:41 +0300 > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > My whole life is, has been > and will always be Exim. Same here :-) -- RMA. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this li

[exim] Exim 5.x

2011-05-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Yeah, Exim 5 I think is not so far away, but that is not why I am writing. Mailman 3 is knocking on the doors and I was just wondering if the Exim gurus have crafted a config that works with it. So far I see there is only support for Postfix. My whole life is, has been and will always be Exim. G