Re: [xmail] Possible bug and suggestion

2012-09-26 Thread Francesco Vertova
On 26/09/12 15.10, Edinilson - ATINET wrote: Francesco, using nslookup or dig, how can I simulate a name resolution using this kind of dns name? I´ve tried: nslookup -type=MX university.ac.uk? MY-DNS-SERVER and dig university.ac.uk? without success. ps: Even nslookup -type=MX university.ac.uk

[xmail] Possible bug and suggestion

2012-09-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, I don't think that XMail is still being developed and maintained. But, just in case: a user of mine sent an email to first.l...@university.ac.uk? (note the trailing question mark). XMail tried to deliver and failed for the following reason: ErrCode = -109 SMTP-Error = Unable to get

Re: [xmail] Possible bug and suggestion

2012-09-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
On 25/09/12 22.01, Edinilson - ATINET wrote: Francesco, even using SmartDNSHost will this error be returned? I use SmartDNSHost ps: Could I try to send a message to first.last@... ? Yes, you can use a fake email b/c the trailing ? will screw things up anyway. Ciao, Francesco

Re: [xmail] Filters help

2011-04-13 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.55 13/04/11, you wrote: How can I debug filters operations? You can try running XMail with command line switches --debug -Md -Qg -Md enables verbose output on the console, including filters operations -Qg is supposed to enable filters logging (undocumented) Back in 2005, a helpful

Re: [xmail] IMAP clients resulting overcuota

2011-04-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 19.43 02/04/11, you wrote: However, the behavior of my installation of xmail imap customer does not match the one described in your inbox. /var/MailRoot/domains/mydomain/account/Maildir/cur /var/MailRoot/domains/mydomain/account/Maildir/new

Re: [xmail] IMAP clients resulting overcuota

2011-04-01 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.15 01/04/11, you wrote: Recently, the directors of a company that uses a mail server XMail have purchased IPhone terminals, which have set up to manage their mailboxes through the IMAP protocol. This configuration has led to the creation of a folder Deleted Messages and Sent Messages

Re: [xmail] 5xx errors in SMAIL log

2011-01-07 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 04.12 06/01/11, you wrote: Alternatively, XMail should take care of escaping leading dots when doing SMTP delivery of files picked up by LMAIL. You are right. Either SendMail.cpp should do it, or XMail. Davide wait a moment ... I quickly looked at the source and sent a couple of test

[xmail] 5xx errors in SMAIL log

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all (and happy new year), I saw lines like these in the SMAIL log: tsd.unifi.it 1294151990810.a28.880.25d715.dex1 L1C7667 [PRIVATE] [PRIVATE] SMTP gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. 2011-01-04 15:36:46 5.5.1 Unrecognized command. a11si22710935wer.104 tsd.unifi.it 1294151991384.a28.880.25d722.dex1

Re: [xmail] 5xx errors in SMAIL log

2011-01-05 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 04.12 06/01/11, you wrote: Alternatively, XMail should take care of escaping leading dots when doing SMTP delivery of files picked up by LMAIL. You are right. Either SendMail.cpp should do it, or XMail. Better XMail, I think, b/c LMAIL clients need not use the sendmail binary AFAIK As

Re: [xmail] Unable to load spool file

2010-07-05 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 15.47 05/07/10, you wrote: I´m using XMail Win32 for +- 8 years without problems. But, since last week our server is logging several messages like this: ErrCode = -55 ErrString = Invalid spool file Unable to load spool file

Re: [xmail] Prevent filters on mailing lists

2010-01-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.42 12/01/10, you wrote: Is there a way to be sure a filter won't be executed on members of a ML ? You can try setting: - ML users' write permissions to A (check done using the email address used for SMTP authentication) - filter execution flag to aex (exclude filter execution in case

[xmail] Suggestion: handling of invalid addresses in spool file

2009-12-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, if an address in the envelope of a spool file fails the syntax check (I had an example of a null recipient, RCPT TO:), currently XMail raises a -55 ERR_INVALID_SPOOL_FILE error and silently freezes the message. I think in these cases a bounce would be appropriate, to let the sender

Re: [xmail] Suggestion: handling of invalid addresses in spool file

2009-12-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.04 24/12/09, you wrote: What you have seen in the latest bug report, it is a bug. Do you mean there's a bug in XMail? (I'm still using 1.26 on my server). Let me explain what I think has happened: webmail created a file in spool/local with a header like this: MAIL

Re: [xmail] Patches: IPv6 and SSL

2009-12-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 08.41 17/12/09, Stephan Mueller wrote: I am starting to use xmail on an embedded system based on ARM. Due to the limited space available, I had to make IPv6 and SSL support a compile time option. Essentially, I added a bunch of ifdefs around the problematic code. There are not that many

Re: [xmail] Patches: IPv6 and SSL

2009-12-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.36 17/12/09, you wrote: Strange !? On my install (win32), no ssl enables with server.tab variables and I never had any SSL issue Like 99% users, I think. Copying and creating the SSL stuff is not that terrible, of course, but merging a diff is even faster ;-) provided someone has made

Re: [xmail] Patches: IPv6 and SSL

2009-12-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.39 17/12/09, you wrote: For Davide: there are *a lot* of broken links on XMail home page. I can send a list if you feel like deleting them. If you have a list, send it to me and I'll clean it up. These do not work for sure (checked links with link checker and checked link checker

Re: [xmail] webmail for xmail ?

2009-10-28 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.01 28/10/09, you wrote: Does anyone have a success story with Xmail and webmail for linux ? I am so addicted to XMail that I don't want to install another MTA. And since XMail is such a great piece of software, I was wondering if someone out there has managed to make it work and/as a

Re: [xmail] Typos in error messages

2009-10-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.29 15/10/09, you wrote: ERR_LOADMODULE and ERR_LOADMODULESYMBOL say moading instead of loading in their messages. Perhaps it's a technical word that stands for m(odule l)oading :-)) BTW, since it's house cleaning time, I add that SysSameAddress in SysDepCommon.cpp is no longer used

Re: [xmail] CtrlClnt local/remote diff in return value on w2k

2009-09-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.34 25/09/09, CLEMENT Francis wrote: Server : W2K server SP4, xmail 1.26 WorkStation : W2K workstation SP4, ctrlclnt.exe copied from xmail 1.26 server (so exactly same binary) When running CtrlClnt from the workstation all ok, output result is ok, ctrlclnt exit immediatly and exit code

[xmail] Is anyone having problems with spamhaus?

2008-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, zen.spamhaus.org has been catching nothing on my server for over a week, now (it used to catch thousands of spams per day). Looks like XMail cannot reach it, maybe because of some DNS problems of theirs (see http://www.dnssniffer.com/report.php?domain=spamhaus.orgSniff=Sniff). Is it

Re: [xmail] Is anyone having problems with spamhaus?

2008-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 14.12 27/11/08, you wrote: Seems ok here too Perhabs your xmail server (or SmartDnsHost if configured) try only the 'temporary unavailable' spamhaus dns server (as seens in the report) What does your nslookup report for zen.spamhaus.org? Mine reports a timeout error, maybe it is related.

Re: [xmail] Is anyone having problems with spamhaus?

2008-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 14.12 27/11/08, you wrote: Seems ok here too It is definitely a problem with the university dns. Changed my dns setup and spamhaus worked again. Ciao, Francesco ___ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org

[xmail] Duplicate log entries (1.25)

2008-06-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, I've just moved glst from pre-data to post-rcpt and noticed that every rejection generates two entries in the smtp log: a spurious DATA=EFILTER followed by RCPT=EFILTER. I've tried patching SMTPSvr.cpp in 1.26 pre-01 (moving the log statement from SMTPRunFilters to SMTPHandleCmd_DATA)

[xmail] Re: Lockdown xMail

2008-04-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 06.45 25/04/08, you wrote: Greylisting is not working as well as it used to... Verizon, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail seem to not re-send correctly when Graylisting is ON. I previously posted about this AFAIK it is only Yahoo Groups that does no resend and requires xnet or white list. In any

[xmail] Re: hotmail delivery problems

2008-03-21 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.47 21/03/08, David Lord wrote: On 21 Mar 2008, at 1:56, max toro q wrote: I installed Xmail on win2k, and I have delivery problems to hotmail. Some messages get delivered, some simply get lost. The log shows no sign of problem. Yes but not very often. Mails are accepted but never

[xmail] Re: hotmail delivery problems

2008-03-21 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 19.16 21/03/08, Phillip R. Shaw wrote: if a MTA accepts a message for delivery, it must either deliver or bounce.. While this was a nice idea at one time, it really isn't desirable any more. Why? SPAM. I get thousands of emails that I accept but are then rejected by my spam filtering. You

[xmail] Re: Header 'Received :' question/suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.39 19/03/08, you wrote: Here is a sample xmail generated 'Received :' header : Received: from some_sender_name ([aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd]:p) (not important) What is exactly the 'some_sender_name' actual value ? - The value of the HELO/EHLO ? - The reverse dns of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

[xmail] ErrCode -40 vs -215

2007-12-01 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, since installing 1.25 I notice that when a message gets frozen immediately because of a DNS problem there are two kinds of slog messages. One is familiar since 1.23 ErrCode = -215 ErrString = DNS name not exist Recipient domain yahoo.fr' does not exist (or it has a misconfigured DNS)

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.20 15/11/07, you wrote: Not using from a long time pop before smtp auth method. Looks like nobody is using it, indeed, since I've not yet received feedback from others using that feature, so far ... Anyway, a feature should either be dropped or work, IMHO ... As noted by Davide seems

[xmail] SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, apparently I have a problem with the new SysGetHostByName which causes POP3-SMTP auth always to fail. This chainsaw patch works for me: --- POP3Utils.cpp 2007-11-02 01:34:32.0 +0100 +++ POP3Utils.cpp.new 2007-11-16 13:23:20.890625000 +0100 @@ -1544,8 +1544,7 @@

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.24 16/11/07, you wrote: Can you try the patch below? diff --git a/POP3Utils.cpp b/POP3Utils.cpp index 85ee92d..5b3111b 100644 --- a/POP3Utils.cpp +++ b/POP3Utils.cpp @@ -1542,10 +1542,10 @@ int UPopUserIpCheck(UserInfo *pUI, SYS_INET_ADDR const *pPeerInfo, unsigned int

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.24 16/11/07, you wrote: Can you try the patch below? diff --git a/POP3Utils.cpp b/POP3Utils.cpp index 85ee92d..5b3111b 100644 --- a/POP3Utils.cpp +++ b/POP3Utils.cpp @@ -1542,10 +1542,10 @@ int UPopUserIpCheck(UserInfo *pUI, SYS_INET_ADDR const *pPeerInfo, unsigned int

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.12 16/11/07, you wrote: Duh!? Can you try to add here ... const *pPeerInfo, unsigned int fclose(pIpFile); char szIPP[128]; SysInetNToA(*pPeerInfo, szIPP, sizeof(szIPP)); SysLogMessage(LOG_LEV_MESSAGE, PreIP='%s'\tCurrIP='%s'\n, szIPP, szIP);

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.01 16/11/07, you wrote: Cat you try to show me the content and metadata of the account's .ipconn file? dir C:\MailRoot\domains\tsd.unifi.it\vertova\.ipconn Volume in drive C is unlabeled Serial number is F8F7:824F Directory of C:\MailRoot\domains\tsd.unifi.it\vertova\.ipconn

[xmail] Me too? (1.25-pre22)

2007-11-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, I've installed 1.25-pre22 from an hour. Looks like auth'd (SMTP after POP3) users cannot bypass DNSBL in spite of code 0: excerpt from today's pop3log: dex1.tsd.unifi.it tsd.unifi.it 151.49.38.240 2007-11-15 09:30:54 xxx LOGIN 230 4129295 dex1.tsd.unifi.it

[xmail] dnscache directory

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, just got a directory listing of MAIL_ROOT/dnscache/mx. After 30 or 40 mins it reported a total of over 252,000 files. Since XMail checks MailerDomain before CustMapsList (why?), I think they're mostly domain files of blacklisted spam. Is it advisable and safe to delete some of this

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.03 08/11/07, Edinilson - ATINET wrote: Here we are using: CustMapsList zen.spamhaus.org.:0,dsn.rfc-ignorant.org.:0,bl.spamcop.net.:0 BUT we are having too many '551 Server access forbidden by your IP' *even* with authenticated users (yes, I=B4m sure they are authenticated). The default

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.26 08/11/07, you wrote: So, in which situation '551 Server access forbidden by your IP' is returned? I think it's a sort of default error message. Usually from smtp.ipmap.tab, since the other IP-based blocks (CustMapsList and spammers.tab) have their own messages. Because, if I comment

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.46 08/11/07, you wrote: Here we are using: #SmtpMsgIPBanMaps 550 Denied due inclusion of your IP in the following map With that entry commented out, the peer should get a 550 Denied due inclusion of your IP inside (map name), besides the usual SNDRIP=EIPMAP (map name) in the SMTP log. If

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-07 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.35 07/11/07, you wrote: To filter a bit the spam, I'm using this CustMapsList (but I'm not satisfied at all with my list.) CustMapsList sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.:0,combined.njabl.org.:0,bl.spamcop.net.:0 Anyone has a better list to give me or complete? It depends on the reasons why you are

[xmail] Re: Another xmail dns resolver problem ?

2007-09-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.24 27/09/07, CLEMENT Francis wrote: IMOO, is this case (Domain ok BUT no MX AND no A entry), xmail such immediatly stop at first attempt and return an NDR to the sender (like a 5xx error) as the domain older didn't give any info who to join them by mail This issue has already been brought

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre14

2007-06-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.19 10/06/07, Davide Libenzi wrote: I made pre15 with some new -M* options. You can select if to use only IPV4, only IPV6, IPV4 if present or IPV6, IPV6 if present or IPV4. It defaults to the former at the moment. For those wishing a clickable link:

[xmail] Re: glst question

2007-05-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.41 16/05/07, you wrote: The exact same yahoo issue happens to our users very often. The yahoo groups servers do not retry - they simply stop sending after any failure. And they even send viri, from time to time. They suck ... Has anyone been successfull in finding all the needed xnet

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre04 ...

2007-04-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.35 10/04/07, you wrote: I agree, but i have thousand of entrances of this, all for pellicano.biz, all after and immediately after the upgrade. I only running 1.25-pre04 for 30 minutes. Do you mean: I would like XMail not to report this kind of error in the Event Log? Description:

[xmail] Re: Question about GLST

2007-03-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 13.56 15/03/07, you wrote: Well, see, that's the weird thing. When I do a glst --cleanup, the glst.dbm file actually *grows* (admittedly, only a small amount - maybe 10 - 20 KB or so). Which I thought was weird. That may be normal: --cleanup marks some space allocated by the file as unused -

[xmail] Re: Drop NDRs?

2007-03-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.43 05/03/07, you wrote: Also, my spool is loaded with messages that xmail keeps trying to deliver to obviously bad addresses. This has been mostly cured with XMail = 1.23. Which version are you running? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in

[xmail] Re: wlex doubt

2007-02-14 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.50 11/02/07, you wrote: !aex,wlexTAB/var/MailRoot/filters/filip-supera-filters/GLST_.plTAB@@REMOTEADDRTAB@@FILETAB@@FROMTAB@@CRCPT A doubt: should be something like --mfileTAB@@FILETAB--raddrTAB@@REMOTEADDR, I think ... Also, if you pass a @@FILE you don't need any other parameters (they

[xmail] Multipe Reply-To headers

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Vertova
Suggestion for 1.25: if UseReplyTo is set, XMail will prepend a Reply-To header to messages for a mailing list. If the incoming message already has one, it will end up with multiple Reply-To headers, which is - depending on different interpretations of the RFCs - either illegal (agents should

[xmail] Re: Advices

2007-01-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.35 24/01/07, you wrote: - does anyone knows an antivirus working fine with xmail (on Windows 2003 server) and working with xmail filters. I've been using F-PROT for DOS on both Win2K Pro and WinXP Pro and works very well in a post-data filter. I've also tested ClamAV - native

[xmail] Re: wlex doubt

2007-01-23 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 07.54 23/01/07, you wrote: Davide Libenzi a écrit : Hmmm, that shouldn't happen. Did anyone else have problems with wlex? Does anyone else use wlex with success ? I'm using !aex,wlex for glst - as pre-data filter - on Windows and it works as expected, AFAIK. Ciao, Francesco - To

[xmail] Re: Verifying usage of wlex

2006-11-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 09.58 11/11/06, you wrote: Just so that I'm absolutely correct according to the documentation, the new wlex will work as a flag inside of filter files used by filters.in.tab and filters.out.tab but will NOT work if it is part of filters.pre* and filters.post* files correct? As I understand

[xmail] Re: 1.23-pre11 ...

2006-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 13.20 08/11/06, Rob Arends wrote: And found this in the readme: MACRO SUBSTITUTION XMail support two kinds of macro declaration inside its TAB file. The old macro declaration done by prefixing the macro name with the '@@' sequence is still supported for backward

[xmail] Re: Local domain and trailing dot

2006-11-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 00.25 30/10/06, you wrote: Ok, this comes from 2005 but I'm going through stuff to include in 1.23. The trailing dot is not legal, according to section 4.1.2 of: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html Path = [ A-d-l : ] Mailbox Mailbox = Local-part @ Domain Domain = (sub-domain 1*(.

[xmail] Re: Spool dir

2006-10-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.34 09/10/06, you wrote: Is there a way to run XMail (Win32 version) with the spool dir in a separeted folder (example: I'm running XMail on D:\mailroot BUT I want to run *only* spool in another drive/folder, something like: Z:\spool or Z:\mailroot\spool)? Under Win2K/XP and NTFS you can

[xmail] Re: Reducing spam

2006-10-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.25 01/10/06, you wrote: Hi list. Spam seems to be getting to rediculous levels so I'm trying to re= duce the number of spam messages I am receiving in my xmail server. I started by uncommenting the line in server.tab: CustMapsList

[xmail] Re: Format of @@REMOTEADDR

2006-07-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.22 27/06/06, oi01 wrote: actually it should be host:port like 192.168.0.1:8956, seperated by a colon. Yes, after some experimenting I can confirm that the ip is NOT included in square brackets. I can say nothing about the port part since I only retrieve the IP but I think you are right.

[xmail] Format of @@REMOTEADDR

2006-06-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, before starting trial and error: do you know the format of the @@REMOTEADDR macro passed to SMTP filters? ip:port, [ip;port] ...? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the

[xmail] Re: Format of @@REMOTEADDR

2006-06-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.49 27/06/06, you wrote: The Manual here: http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html OK, I RTFMed and found: @@REMOTEADDR: remote IP address and port of the sender. But how are they bundled together in the macro? Are they separated by comma, colon, space, nothing ... Are they enclosed in

[xmail] Re: xmail DNS problem : First sample

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.30 22/05/06, you wrote: First problem : Use of A domain entry (exist) even if Mx entries exist for the destination domain [00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=3D[554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Relay access denied] (preliminary: my nslookup reports non-authoritative answer for ifrance.com

[xmail] GLST bug?

2006-03-30 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, It seems that glst 0.23 does not distinguish between a numeric ClientDomain - a spammer sends an IP address as HELO - and the actual sender IP. As a result, if the ClientDomain is a XNETted IP - typically, the mail server's IP - glst stops processing and passes the message. Can

[xmail] Re: quota bug in forwarding

2006-02-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.49 17/02/06, you wrote: I have found a situation with XMail where XMail ignores the mailbox = quotas. If there are two mailboxes on the same box and one forwards into the = other, XMail ignores the mailbox quota of the second mailbox when receiving forwards from the first one. From what

[xmail] Re: Thoughts on mail processing with Xmail.

2006-02-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 00.57 18/02/06, you wrote: It seems that the quota check is done on smtp processing, but should be done at other times too. I'd like to see a change in the way Xmail processes mail, so that whenever a movement of mail occurs, all checks are done. I see a problem here: checking mailbox

[xmail] Re: mail loop?

2006-02-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.55 16/02/06, you wrote: If I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- with a trailing '.' After the .com, I get a mail loop error back. I suppose domain.com is a local domain. This is a known issue (see the thread on local domain and trailing dot). Queued for next release. By now the only

[xmail] Local domain and trailing dot

2005-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, if I have domain.net in domains.tab and send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note the final dot), domain.net. is not recognized as local, which leads to a mail loop. Can anybody confirm this? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body

[xmail] Re: Log files ending with 0100

2005-10-31 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 05.12 31/10/05, you wrote: What is the condition that makes the log files end with 0100? I suspect it has to do with DST change. If this is the case - it's a classical topic that comes up twice a year - you should have two files for Oct 30: one ending in storing entries until 2:59:59

[xmail] Re: XMail 1.22 ZIP and .arch-ids ?

2005-10-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.40 18/10/05 +0200, you wrote: Hi Davide, what are these .arch-ids folders that are spread thru the whole directory tree of the 1.22 Win32 ZIP archive ? Are they vital ? I hope they aren't, since I nuked them from the whole MAIL_ROOT dir just after upgrading ... Ciao, Francesco - To

[xmail] Re: Suggestion: bypass filter execution in case of whitelisted ip

2005-08-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.33 04/08/05 -0600, you wrote: I've been trying to hack an AV script of ours to have an IP whitelist, but my Perl is pretty rudimentary, so I haven't had a lot of success. I'd love to see this functionality in XMail itself. The overhead of an interpreted script is mostly in initialization.

[xmail] Re: Suggestion: bypass filter execution in case of whitelisted ip

2005-08-04 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.06 04/08/05 +0200, you wrote: I think a flag for (SMTP)-filters which disables filter execution for whilelisted Ips (listed in smtp.ipprop.tab with Whitelist=3D1) would = be very helpful (similar to aex). Something like: !ipprop(Whitelist=3D1)[TAB]command[TAB]arg-or-macro[TAB]...[NEWLINE=

[xmail] Re: DNS again?

2005-07-22 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.50 21/07/05 -0300, you wrote: XMail DNS resolver had a bug in handling CNAME, but this was fixed in 1.18 and later. However, all versions of XMail have problems with - which means, are less good than nslookup and dig at - handling DNS info that is 'Non-authoritative' (see below). I used

[xmail] Re: DNS again?

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.14 20/07/05 -0300, you wrote: any idea why XMail (1.21 Win32) delivers OK to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but fails to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The two have exactly the same MX records, I do, I do :) http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=datacomm.iue.it So another

[xmail] DNS again?

2005-07-20 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, any idea why XMail (1.21 Win32) delivers OK to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but fails to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The two have exactly the same MX records, the only difference being that datacomm.iue.it has also an A record (is an alias of dns1.iue.it). For some reason, XMail tries A instead

[xmail] Re: UHHHHHHH STOP IT !

2005-06-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.29 15/06/05 +0200, you wrote: LOL - someone could assume that this is my personal PITA mailserver for If I remember well, this is the very same guy (or machine) who reinjected messages in the list a couple of weeks ago. From the header: Received: from mail pickup service by

[xmail] Re: DNS entry files

2005-06-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 14.04 07/06/05 -0400, you wrote: Yes Windows will not allow trailing spaces or periods in file or directory names. I have just checked my DNS cache. Theoretical question: if such file names are not allowed in Windoze, how can XMail create and use them? Practical answer (this is copyright

[xmail] Re: RDNS and RBLsquestion

2005-05-31 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.37 20/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Now I'm using Spamhaus, Ordb and Spamcop as RBL servers, do you advise any others? The list of DNSBL is very dependent on your special needs (and geographical location, I think). You have to experiment a bit for yourself. I'm using spamcop, njabl, spamhaus

[xmail] Re: Filters and info line format in spool files (first line)

2005-05-31 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.39 27/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Hello Davide and list XMail doc in sections for filters (in and out) and smtp filters (in and out) says that first line in the spool file passed to filters is as this : ClientDomain;ClientIP;ClientPort;ServerDomain;ServerIP;ServerPort;Time;Logo The filter

[xmail] Re: RDNS and RBLsquestion

2005-05-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.37 20/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Now I'm using Spamhaus, Ordb and Spamcop as RBL servers, do you advise any others? The list of DNSBL is very dependent on your special needs (and geographical location, I think). You have to experiment a bit for yourself. I'm using spamcop, njabl, spamhaus

[xmail] Re: Filters and info line format in spool files (first line)

2005-05-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.39 27/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Hello Davide and list XMail doc in sections for filters (in and out) and smtp filters (in and out) says that first line in the spool file passed to filters is as this : ClientDomain;ClientIP;ClientPort;ServerDomain;ServerIP;ServerPort;Time;Logo The filter

[xmail] Re: MTP filters docs (and ML question)

2005-05-04 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.53 03/05/05 +0200, you wrote: On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:15 AM [GMT+1=CET], Francesco Vertova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The (unrelated) question is: a ListSender[tab] in user.tab sets an empty MAIL FROM: in delivering to ML users without changing the mail headers (much like

[xmail] SMTP filters docs (and ML question)

2005-05-03 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, for those of you who are wondering why /domain$/ may not match a @@FILE's 4th line: the SMTP filters docs should say MAIL FROM:...[ SIZE=...] [ 4th line ] rather than MAIL FROM:... [ 4th line ] Apparently, the line holds the peer's MAIL FROM command as is, including the (optional)

[xmail] Re: Never seen before

2005-04-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 07.18 12/04/05 -0700, you wrote: Only, no SMTP transaction was logged for about 1 hour. Nothing in the Event Log, disk OK (no errors in chkdsk), no server load (30 messages or so during the blackout, no idea about rejected connections: they are only logged in smtp logs). Has anybody

[xmail] Re: server.tab

2005-04-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 00.55 06/04/05 -0700, you wrote: Can _NOT_ be modified while XMail is running (And shouldn't be edited by hand - use the CTRL Admin Protocol instead): aliases.tab aliasdomain.tab domains.tab extaliases.tab mailusers.tab pop3links.tab They shouldn't be modified through the CTRL cfgfileset

[xmail] Re: name of xmail log files is wrong

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 07.55 28/03/05 +0200, you wrote: I use 1.21 As I tought today the logs are fine. But we could think about next change... I've been using XMail since version 1.17, first on NT4 then on Win2K (always with the latest service pack) and I've always observed this behaviour at daylight saving time

[xmail] Re: anti-spam DNS MX Record Lookup

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.32 28/03/05 -0800, you wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a way, or have a filter written to, do a lookup of the domain in the from field and/or the return field of an email and check that it has a valid MX record as a spam deterrent using XMail? At least on my server ( 90% of incoming

[xmail] Re: name of xmail log files is wrong

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.42 29/03/05 +1000, you wrote: Sounds more like it is only a problem on the _day_ DST changes. DST usually changes at 02:00, so I'm guessing that on the day of change, when a new log is being rotated, the new day is having 1 hour adjusted when the file name is being calculated at 00:00 (day

[xmail] Re: MAIL FROM: Syntax

2005-02-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.06 17/02/05 +0100, you wrote: What's a clear response ;-) Thanks Chris ;-) What is the new crypto algo used here ? Didn't pass any crack here ... = ;-) Francis -Message d'origine- De : Chris L. Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoy=E9 : jeudi 17 f=E9vrier 2005 14:30 =C0 :

[xmail] Syntax questions

2005-02-01 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, current XMail (1.21) accepts addresses such as real name [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tries to deliver to address], which eventually results in a DNS failure) or 'real name' [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tries to deliver to address, which eventually results in a user unknown from address). Is this correct?

[xmail] Re: Abemus Papam ...

2005-01-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.59 10/01/05 +1100, you wrote: Thanks Davide, Would you believe Google can't translate Abemus Papam There are numerous google hits, but I have been unable to workout what you said - only I think it is related to Finally Could you enlighten the non Italian speaking world? It isn't

[xmail] Re: Perl filters on Windows

2004-11-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.52 01/11/04 -0500, you wrote: If I wan to run a perl script (on Windows)should the command be: c:\perl\bin\perl.exe[TAB]MyFilter.pl[TAB]@@FILE... or c:\perl\bin\perl.exe MyFilter.pl[TAB]@@FILE... for some reason following line doesn't work: MyFilter.pl[TAB]@@FILE... even though .pl is

[xmail] Re: Block (some) attachments

2004-10-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.12 11/10/04 +0200, you wrote: Thank you Francesco, It indeed worked. Can you tell me what's the different between filters*.tabs? I want to use the fastest attachment check. No other check (AV, content) is used. Shouldn't I use the filters.in or global filters file? In my own view, the best

[xmail] Re: Block (some) attachments

2004-10-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 13.51 11/10/04 +0200, you wrote: Hi all, What's the easiest way to reject mail that contains exe, pif and vbs and received on XMAIL 1.20 (windows)? I've been running a modified version of Michail Altair Valasek's FLAVS for a year (the link to the original version can be found on the XMail

[xmail] Re: Block (some) attachments

2004-10-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.24 11/10/04 +0200, you wrote: Francesco hi, This looks like exactly what I need, but although xmail process the filter, the bad attachment still delivers. I tried changing the error code (from 97 to 4), but it didn't work either (message was still delivered. Can you help me getting it

[xmail] Re: SMTP Log desc

2004-08-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 01.08 06/08/04 +0200, you wrote: I'm looking for a smtp log file description. I need to give a name to each column of data. Found nothing in doc. Any help ? Thanks. Try here: http://xmail.eye-catcher.com/products/XMail/LogFiles/index.asp Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[xmail] Re: Special character problem?

2004-08-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 09.55 02/08/04 +0200, you wrote: I received a complained where people could not reply to a message they =3D received because the reply field seemed empty in their mail client. =3D Appearently the people who sent these mails have special characters in =3D their names like 'L=3DE9on'. If I look

[xmail] Re: XMail Filter @@MACROS

2004-05-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.15 28/05/04 -1000, you wrote: I think it would be neat to allow replacement anywhere in an argment, so you could write something like: /some/path/myfilter.pl rcpt=@@RCPTmsg=@@FILEfrom=@@FROM and have the replacements done. Then, in this example, you could parse a single argument like a

[xmail] New file naming convention?

2004-05-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, for those who have not looked at the headers of this msg: 1.19-pre06 has been up and running for a day on my Windows NT box :-) I noticed that message files are no longer named stime.pid.hostname but stime.pid.hexdigit.hostname. What's that additional hex digit for? (I also noticed

[xmail] Re: Log files fields meanings

2004-05-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.02 25/05/04 +0200, you wrote: where can I find the meanings of all the fields in xmail log files? Try here: http://xmail.eye-catcher.com/products/XMail/LogFiles/index.asp Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[xmail] Re: 1.19-pre05 (Unix and Win32) ...

2004-05-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.39 23/05/04 -0700, you wrote: (I need to escape @@FROM b/c the Windows VBS interpreter sees everything beginning with // - including a malformed MAIL FROM address - as an argument to itself rather than to the script ...). If you have: myexe.exe @@FROM@@FROM@@FROM

[xmail] Re: 1.19-pre05 (Unix and Win32) ...

2004-05-23 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.58 22/05/04 -0700, you wrote: I made 1.19-pre05 for Unix (source) and Win32 (source and binaries): http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.19-pre05.tar.gz http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.19-pre05.win32bin.zip I'd like to receive reports from all the architectures XMail runs on, that on 1.19

[xmail] Re: filter.{pre|post}-data.tab

2004-05-13 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.46 13/05/04 -0400, you wrote: I've noticed that, when a message is rejected by filter.pre-data.tab or filter.post-data.tab, no log entry is made in the SMTP logs. It might be a good idea to add a log entry there, so that log review can see that (why) a message was rejected... I agree: a

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected - Can't seem to find the problem.

2004-05-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.11 12/05/04 -0500, you wrote: Why Xmail decided to use the A record from the next DNS it was able to talk with is beyond me. My dns reports MX information for bioenergy.com as Non-authoritative. It seems - I've seen this other times - that in such a case the XMail internal resolver

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