Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-06 Thread Dennis Davis
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, W B Hacker wrote: From: W B Hacker w...@conducive.org To: exim users exim-users@exim.org Cc: Ian Eiloart i...@sussex.ac.uk Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:59:32 Subject: Re: [exim] Exim development ... There is still a domainkeys lib in ports for that also - same maintainer

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-06 Thread W B Hacker
Dennis Davis wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, W B Hacker wrote: From: W B Hacker w...@conducive.org To: exim users exim-users@exim.org Cc: Ian Eiloart i...@sussex.ac.uk Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:59:32 Subject: Re: [exim] Exim development ... There is still a domainkeys lib in ports

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-05 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 5 October 2009 13:36:53 +0800 W B Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Christian Balzer wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote: .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here... While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-05 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: *snip* yes, but libdkim isn't. But it is, and has been for a long time. I should clarify: libdkim isn't distributed with exim 4.69. Neither is openssl, which DKIM also needs. Can't expect to ship *everything* with Exim. It is intended that it will be distributed

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-05 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 5 October 2009 20:59:32 +0800 W B Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 5 October 2009 13:36:53 +0800 W B Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Christian Balzer wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote: .. there is nothing remotely resembling the

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-05 Thread W B Hacker
Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 5 October 2009 13:36:53 +0800 W B Hacker w...@conducive.org wrote: Christian Balzer wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote: .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here... While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-04 Thread Christian Balzer
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote: .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here... While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no patching, binary packages from the distro of your choice) is starting to hurt. Lets not repeat the

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-04 Thread W B Hacker
Christian Balzer wrote: On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote: .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here... While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no patching, binary packages from the distro of your choice) is starting to hurt.

[exim] Exim development

2009-10-02 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. I just wandering - how Exim development is going on? Last version is released 20 December 2007 - really too long time ago. I just love Exim - it is great but it is seems to it will have a Qmail story. :-( It is abandoned? I will like to help with testing or something like this. --

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-10-02 Thread W B Hacker
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. I just wandering - how Exim development is going on? Last version is released 20 December 2007 - really too long time ago. I just love Exim - it is great but it is seems to it will have a Qmail story. :-( It is abandoned? I will like to help with

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-30 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Odhiambo wrote: Tom Kistner posted here recently that he's working on that and when he's done, we'll probably have Exim-4.70 or whatever version number it is given. Great news! I just want to say what new releases it is not only improvements but indication what project is still alive. It is

[exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all! We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be improved. -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Cardwell
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all! We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be improved. The guy who created Exim and developed most of the code for it

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 29/04/2009, Proskurin Kirill proskurin...@fxclub.org wrote: Hello all! We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be improved. Head over to the exim-dev list,

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Mike Cardwell exim-us...@lists.grepular.com wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all! We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Cardwell
Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be improved. http://lists.exim.org/lurker/list/exim-dev.html But is there anything critical

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Odhiambo ワシントン
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Mike Cardwell exim-us...@lists.grepular.com wrote: Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Cardwell
Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be improved. http://lists.exim.org/lurker/list/exim-dev.html But is there anything critical that

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 29 April 2009 11:56:37 +0100 Mike Cardwell exim-us...@lists.grepular.com wrote: I wouldn't say this is critical, but I feel that it is important that DKIM is fully finished and included in the latest stable release and in default distribution packages, without people having to roll

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread W B Hacker
Mike Cardwell wrote: Odhiambo ワシントン wrote: We all know what Exim is great MTA. But were is now new releases of it since 20.12.2007. One question - why? Is Exim development stopped? Were is so many thing what can be improved. http://lists.exim.org/lurker/list/exim-dev.html But is there

Re: [exim] Exim development

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Cardwell
W B Hacker wrote: I wouldn't say this is critical, but I feel that it is important that DKIM is fully finished and included in the latest stable release and in default distribution packages, without people having to roll their own. A modern MUA should have this functionality by default.

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-09 Thread Martin A. Brooks
W B Hacker wrote: AFAICS, no pony has ever actually been delivered. Nor appeared on its own. Nor even passed through. Which leaves us with a mystery, does it not? Actually, this time, a list member very kindly pointed me at http://www.ckart.co.uk/horseshows/createapony.htm -- ## List

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-09 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Marc Perkel wrote: There's another issue here that supersedes the RFCs. If the recipient server intends to reject the message then I agree. However if the recipient server is a customer of mine and I know for sure based on the response code that the rejection is in error, that it was

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-09 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 13:23 +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote: My suggestion to Marc is to pony up some money and pay someone to teach exim to do what he wants. It seems obvious that he isn't going to get what he wants for free. Rather frustratingly, at least three individuals have now offered a

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-09 Thread Bernd Jendrissek
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: There's another issue here that supersedes the RFCs. If the recipient server intends to reject the message then I agree. However if the recipient server is a customer of mine and I know for sure based on the response code that the

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-09 Thread Marc Perkel
Bernd Jendrissek wrote: Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: There's another issue here that supersedes the RFCs. If the recipient server intends to reject the message then I agree. However if the recipient server is a customer of mine and I know for sure based on the

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-09 Thread Marc Perkel
OK - my fault. I didn't know about $acl_verify_message untl Phil Chambers just pointed it out to me. that will be a big step forward. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list -

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 6 December 2008 16:25:56 -0800 Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:32 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: It seems to me that this supports Marc Perkel's claims. Note the use of SHOULD NOT rather than MUST NOT, and the last sentence which talks about correcting permanent errors. And there's the wonderful thing about RFCs... this clause can be

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 7 December 2008 18:05:35 +1100 Ted Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. I want to be able to look at the reason for the 550 rejection. So if it's unknown user it gets treated differently from relaying denied. If I

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 6 December 2008 20:45:55 + Graeme Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 11:36 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: I do use recipient callout and that is my work around. However there are legitimate reasons not to always honor 5xy codes when you KNOW the reason it is being

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 7 December 2008 18:05:35 +1100 Ted Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. I want to be able to look at the reason for the 550 rejection. So if it's unknown user it gets treated

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Graeme Fowler wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:32 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: It seems to me that this supports Marc Perkel's claims. Note the use of SHOULD NOT rather than MUST NOT, and the last sentence which talks about correcting permanent errors. And there's the wonderful

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: Graeme Fowler wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:32 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: It seems to me that this supports Marc Perkel's claims. Note the use of SHOULD NOT rather than MUST NOT, and the last sentence which talks about correcting permanent errors. And

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 8 Dec 2008, at 15:40, W B Hacker wrote: AFAICS, no pony has ever actually been delivered. Nor appeared on its own. Nor even passed through. Which leaves us with a mystery, does it not? http://fridge.ubuntu.com/files/no-pony-for-you.jpg -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-08 Thread W B Hacker
Martin A. Brooks wrote: W B Hacker wrote: AFAICS, no pony has ever actually been delivered. Nor appeared on its own. Nor even passed through. Which leaves us with a mystery, does it not? Actually, this time, a list member very kindly pointed me at

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Christopher Curtis
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Martin A. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I want the option of storing the email I want a pony. http://www.ckart.co.uk/horseshows/createapony.htm -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello, Ted. Do you have any features or critical bugs in mind that require a new release? Yes - what about mail query processing rewrite? It is really slow and many company's have a Postfix to hold mail query on it. -- Best regards, Proskurin Kirill -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Graeme Fowler
Hi Proskurin On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:38 +0300, Proskurin Kirill wrote: Yes - what about mail query processing rewrite? It is really slow and many company's have a Postfix to hold mail query on it. I'm not sure I understand what you mean, here. Can you elaborate? Graeme -- ## List details

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:54:42AM +, Graeme Fowler said: Hi Proskurin On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:38 +0300, Proskurin Kirill wrote: Yes - what about mail query processing rewrite? It is really slow and many company's have a Postfix to hold mail query on it. I'm not sure I understand

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Another feature - something I've asked for before - is the ability to treat a 5xx error as a 4xx error. I know people have complained it Adding to code to break the fundamentals email, no matter how innocent the reason, isn't going to make it into

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Jethro R Binks
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008, Marc Perkel wrote: You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent to retry on 5xy errors but I want

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. I want to be able to look at the reason for the 550 rejection. So if it's unknown user it gets treated differently from relaying denied. If I had that I could make a choice to refusing an

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Graeme Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Write a script which permanently tails your logfile(s). Ah, this is why i should read threads before posting replies :) -Sndr. -- | Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 22:06 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. It is *a* solution, but it isn't a tailor-made ready-to-implement syntactically correct solution designed to exactly fit your requirements on your systems (about which we all have zero

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Ted Cooper
Stephen Gran wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:54:42AM +, Graeme Fowler said: Hi Proskurin On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:38 +0300, Proskurin Kirill wrote: Yes - what about mail query processing rewrite? It is really slow and many company's have a Postfix to hold mail query on it. I'm not

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Stephen Gran
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 02:06:09AM +1100, Ted Cooper said: Stephen Gran wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:54:42AM +, Graeme Fowler said: Hi Proskurin On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:38 +0300, Proskurin Kirill wrote: Yes - what about mail query processing rewrite? It is really slow and

Re: [exim] Exim Development - queue

2008-12-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Ted Cooper wrote: Stephen Gran wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:54:42AM +, Graeme Fowler said: Hi Proskurin On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:38 +0300, Proskurin Kirill wrote: Yes - what about mail query processing rewrite? It is really slow and many company's have a Postfix

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] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Ted Cooper
Marc Sherman wrote: 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

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Ted Cooper wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Anything new happening with Exim development? Any new versions with new features in the works? There are a number of bug fixes in the CVS as well as a few patches needing to be thrown into the CVS, but nothing drastic. (Who has CVS commit

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Another feature - something I've asked for before - is the ability to treat a 5xx error as a 4xx error. I know people have complained it is dangerous but you can put all kinds of warnings in the docs about it. Here's why. I'm doing front end spam filtering. People point their MX to me and I

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Eli Sand
Marc wrote: But sometimes what happens is that when the recipient's server is no longer the lowest MX it forgets it is hosting the domain and starts rejecting 550 all the email I'm forwarding with a relay denied message and it creates a bounce. I need to intercept that so that I can do

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Graeme Fowler
Marc On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 09:02 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: Another feature - something I've asked for before - is the ability to treat a 5xx error as a 4xx error. I know people have complained it is dangerous but you can put all kinds of warnings in the docs about it. Here's why. You

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Ted Cooper
Marc Perkel wrote: Another feature - something I've asked for before - is the ability to treat a 5xx error as a 4xx error. I know people have complained it is dangerous but you can put all kinds of warnings in the docs about it. Here's why. I can remember :P I'm doing front end spam

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Ted Cooper wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Another feature - something I've asked for before - is the ability to treat a 5xx error as a 4xx error. I know people have complained it is dangerous but you can put all kinds of warnings in the docs about it. Here's why. I can remember :P

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 11:36 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: I do use recipient callout and that is my work around. However there are legitimate reasons not to always honor 5xy codes when you KNOW the reason it is being rejected is a mistake. No there are not. There may be instances where you KNOW

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent to retry on 5xy errors but I want the option of storing the email for either

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Eli Sand
Marc wrote: You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent to retry on 5xy errors but I want the option of storing the

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: I want the option of storing the email for either inspection and troubleshooting or in the xase that the customer fixes their server and wants the email. I want a pony. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Stephen Gran
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:25:56PM -0800, Marc Perkel said: You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent to retry on

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Ted Cooper
Marc Perkel wrote: You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent to retry on 5xy errors but I want the option of

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Ted Cooper wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: You can quote all the rules you like but if a customer misconfigures their server and in spite of their error I can store and then redeliver the email that would otherwise have bounced then I am a hero. I don't intent to retry on 5xy errors but I

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-06 Thread Ted Cooper
Marc Perkel wrote: It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. I want to be able to look at the reason for the 550 rejection. So if it's unknown user it gets treated differently from relaying denied. If I had that I could make a choice to refusing an email or accepting it and

[exim] Exim Development

2008-12-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Anything new happening with Exim development? Any new versions with new features in the works? -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-05 Thread Ted Cooper
Marc Perkel wrote: Anything new happening with Exim development? Any new versions with new features in the works? There are a number of bug fixes in the CVS as well as a few patches needing to be thrown into the CVS, but nothing drastic. (Who has CVS commit access to do that anyway?) Exim

[exim] Exim Development?

2007-11-11 Thread Marc Perkel
So - is Exim development still progressing? What's happening these days? -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/

Re: [exim] Exim Development version

2006-12-12 Thread Philip Hazel
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Renaud Allard wrote: I think it could also be very practical to put an anonymous cvs repository as most other projects do. I don't know what others may think of that, but it is just common practice. On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Bill Moseley wrote [in another thread]: Also, I

Re: [exim] Exim Development version

2006-12-12 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:36:00AM +, Philip Hazel wrote: Yes, it's still the case. The exim.org site is maintained by volunteers (of which I am not one) and they are busy folk. Sorting out anonymous cvs access just hasn't managed to get done yet. There is, however, a nightly snapshot

Re: [exim] Exim Development version

2006-12-12 Thread Angel Marin
Bill Moseley escribió: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:36:00AM +, Philip Hazel wrote: Yes, it's still the case. The exim.org site is maintained by volunteers (of which I am not one) and they are busy folk. Sorting out anonymous cvs access just hasn't managed to get done yet. There is,

Re: [exim] Exim Development version

2006-12-11 Thread Renaud Allard
Philip Hazel wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: Is the dev version of 4.64 available for download? A snapshot of the current source is taken nightly, and placed in ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-snapshot.tar.bz2 I think it could also be very