[Fwd: [AMaViS-user] Amavis-ng + exim -- help please.]
I'm forwarding the message below that I sent to the amavis-user list
because I haven't gotten even so much as a request for more info about
the problem there.
If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
G
Original Message
Subject: [AMaViS-user] Amavis-ng + exim -- help please.
From: Gerald V. Livingston II [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, October 19, 2002 2:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
amavis-ng 0.1.4.1
exim 3.36
The error seems to occur when Exim.pm attempts to feed the scanned
message back to the real exim MTA.
When the error occurs the messages are left in /var/tmp where amavis
opens them up for scanning. I could probably feed them back to exim
by hand and have them delivered after disabling amavis.
Any idea why it's griping about a PATH environment being insecure
and where it's getting that particular environment setting? I'm no
programmer and have dug around about a week now trying to track it
down. I had one more thought that I haven't yet tried and that is to
set amavis to run as UID/GID mail/mail, the same as exim. I'm
working from remote right now (I'm at work and the box is at home).
May ssh into the box later and kill fetchmail to try re-setting the
UID/GID in the config files.
This is on a Debian distribution system with amavis running
uid=amavis gid=amavis
Thanks,
Gerald
Begin error email genertaed by exim:
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:33:54 -0500
From: Mail Delivery System [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: x@
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software
(Exim).
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es)
failed:
xx@localhost
The following text was generated during the delivery attempt:
-- xx@localhost --
binmode() on unopened filehandle GEN2 at
/usr/share/perl5/File/MMagic.pm line 354.
Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at
/usr/share/perl5/AMAVIS/MTA/Exim.pm line 140.
---
This is the section of MMagic.pm that contains the failing line:
sub new {
my $self = {};
my $proto = shift;
my $class = ref($proto) || $proto;
$self-{MF} = [];
$self-{magic} = [];
if (! @_) {
my $fh = *File::MMagic::DATA{IO};
binmode($fh);
bless $fh, 'FileHandle' if ref $fh ne 'FileHandle';
$dataLoc = $fh-tell() if (! defined $dataLoc);
$fh-seek($dataLoc, 0);
readMagicHandle($self, $fh);
} else {
my $filename = shift;
my $fh = new FileHandle;
354---binmode($fh);
if ($fh-open( $filename)) {
readMagicHandle($self, $fh);
} else {
warn __PACKAGE__ . couldn't load specified file
$filename;
}
}
---
This is the section of Exim.pm that has the failing line:
# Generate a copy of the scanned message and pipe it to mailer.
sub accept_message {
my $self = shift;
my $args = shift;
writelog($args,LOG_INFO, __PACKAGE__.: Accepting message);
my @cfg_exim_args;
push @cfg_exim_args, split(/\s+/,$cfg_exim_args);
push @cfg_exim_args, $$args{'sender'};
push @cfg_exim_args, @{$$args{'recipients'}};
140 --- open(MAIL, |-) || exec($cfg_exim_binary,
@cfg_exim_args);
if ($cfg_x_header) {
print MAIL $cfg_x_header_tag: $cfg_x_header_line\n;
}
while (my $line=$$args{'filehandle'}-getline()) {
print MAIL $line;
}
close(MAIL);
if ($? != 0) {
writelog($args,LOG_ERR, __PACKAGE__.: $cfg_exim_binary exited
with .($?8));
}
$$args{'status'} = 'accept';
# Return successfully
return 1;
}
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Re: Exim help
on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 11:38:42AM -0500, Eric Brooks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi. I am trying to get Exim to work as my mail transport agent. I configured exim using eximconfig. I selected the smarthost option since I am running on a laptop connected to an ISP via an ISDN line. I have no trouble with the connection itself in that I can browse using Mozilla and send/receive mail with Mozilla as well. I see the mail queued when I run mailq, some marked as frozen and some just queued but not sent. My hostname is localhost. Is this a problem? No. Though it starts getting interesting on a network with multiple systems, if they're aware of one another. But hostnames are merely a convention within a network. What specifically is your problem? I don't see any issues here. Or are you trying to say none of your mail is being delivered? Have you tried running exim in non-daemon mode or looking through your error logs? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpYjd1FYF0Ue.pgp Description: PGP signature
Exim help
Hi. I am trying to get Exim to work as my mail transport agent. I
configured exim using eximconfig. I selected the smarthost option since
I am running on a laptop connected to an ISP via an ISDN line. I have no
trouble with the connection itself in that I can browse using Mozilla
and send/receive mail with Mozilla as well. I see the mail queued when I
run mailq, some marked as frozen and some just queued but not sent.
My hostname is localhost. Is this a problem? I did not see anything in
the exim info or man pages that set off any light bulbs for me.
I listed my exim parameters using exim -bP. The output is attached as
is my exim.conf file.
Any suggestions of pages I should read or ideas that might help will be
very appreciated.
Regards,
Eric
no_accept_8bitmime
accept_timeout = 0s
admin_groups =
no_always_bcc
auth_hosts =
auto_thaw = 0s
bi_command =
check_log_inodes = 0
check_log_space = 0
check_spool_inodes = 0
check_spool_space = 0
no_collapse_source_routes
daemon_smtp_port =
debug_level = -1
delay_warning = 1d
delay_warning_condition = ${if
match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk}{no}{yes}}
deliver_load_max =
deliver_queue_load_max =
delivery_date_remove
dns_again_means_nonexist =
dns_check_names
dns_check_names_pattern = (?i)^(?(?(1)\.|())[^\W_](?[a-z0-9-]*[^\W_])?)+$
dns_retrans = 0s
dns_retry = 0
envelope_to_remove
errmsg_file =
errmsg_text =
errors_address = postmaster
errors_copy =
errors_reply_to =
exim_group = mail
exim_path = /usr/sbin/exim
exim_user = mail
extract_addresses_remove_arguments
finduser_retries = 0
no_forbid_domain_literals
freeze_tell_mailmaster
gecos_name = $1
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
no_headers_check_syntax
headers_checks_fail
no_headers_sender_verify
no_headers_sender_verify_errmsg
helo_accept_junk_hosts =
no_helo_strict_syntax
helo_verify =
hold_domains =
host_accept_relay = localhost
host_auth_accept_relay =
host_lookup = *
host_reject =
host_reject_recipients =
hosts_treat_as_local =
no_ignore_errmsg_errors
ignore_errmsg_errors_after = 0s
ignore_fromline_hosts =
no_ignore_fromline_local
keep_malformed = 4d
kill_ip_options
ldap_default_servers =
local_domains = localhost:localdomain:tds.net:[207.1.7.252]
local_domains_include_host
local_domains_include_host_literals
local_interfaces =
localhost_number =
locally_caseless
no_log_all_parents
no_log_arguments
log_file_path = /var/log/exim/%slog
log_ip_options
log_level = 5
log_queue_run_level = 0
no_log_received_recipients
no_log_received_sender
no_log_refused_recipients
no_log_rewrites
no_log_smtp_confirmation
no_log_smtp_connections
no_log_smtp_syntax_errors
no_log_subject
lookup_open_max = 25
max_username_length = 0
message_body_visible = 500
message_filter =
message_filter_directory2_transport =
message_filter_directory_transport =
message_filter_file_transport =
message_filter_group =
message_filter_pipe_transport =
message_filter_reply_transport =
message_filter_user =
message_id_header_text =
message_size_limit = 0
no_message_size_limit_count_recipients
never_users = root
nobody_group =
nobody_user =
percent_hack_domains =
pid_file_path = /var/run/exim/exim%s.pid
no_preserve_message_logs
primary_hostname = localhost
no_print_topbitchars
prod_requires_admin
prohibition_message =
qualify_domain = dimension11.net
qualify_recipient = dimension11.net
queue_list_requires_admin
no_queue_only
queue_only_file =
queue_only_load =
queue_remote_domains =
no_queue_run_in_order
queue_run_max = 5
queue_smtp_domains =
rbl_domains =
rbl_hosts = *
no_rbl_log_headers
no_rbl_log_rcpt_count
rbl_reject_recipients
rbl_warn_header
received_header_text = Received: ${if def:sender_rcvhost {from
${sender_rcvhost}\n\t}{${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} }}${if
def:sender_helo_name {(helo=${sender_helo_name})\n\tby ${primary_hostname}
${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} (Exim ${version_number}
#${compile_number} (Debian))\n\tid ${message_id}${if def:received_for {\n\tfor
$received_for}}
received_headers_max = 30
no_receiver_try_verify
receiver_unqualified_hosts =
no_receiver_verify
receiver_verify_addresses =
receiver_verify_hosts = *
receiver_verify_senders =
recipients_max = 0
no_recipients_max_reject
recipients_reject_except =
recipients_reject_except_senders =
refuse_ip_options
relay_domains =
no_relay_domains_include_local_mx
no_relay_match_host_or_sender
remote_max_parallel = 1
remote_sort =
retry_data_expire = 1w
retry_interval_max = 1d
return_path_remove
return_size_limit = 100K
rfc1413_hosts = *
rfc1413_query_timeout = 30s
security = setuid+seteuid
sender_address_relay =
sender_reject =
sender_reject_recipients =
no_sender_try_verify
sender_unqualified_hosts =
no_sender_verify
no_sender_verify_batch
no_sender_verify_fixup
sender_verify_hosts = *
sender_verify_max_retry_rate = 12
sender_verify_reject
smtp_accept_keepalive
smtp_accept_max = 20
smtp_accept_max_per_host = 0
smtp_accept_queue = 0
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100
Exim help
I will like to use the host_auth_accept_relay option from exim, but it doesn work. I am usin exim 3.12-10 from debian 2.2. Do I need to recompile exim with AUTH_CRAM_MD5=yes??? Can anybody give me an example of comfiguration for accept relays to anywhere form anywhere if the user has a correct pasword?? Thank you for all! Angel
Re: exim help needed
Thanks Carel! This is exactly what I had in mind, but I didn't know how to pull it off. Much nicer than my /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes hack, though a bit more overhead (slow on this 486/33, should be ok on the p3/500). groetjes, chris So I did it differently using tcp-wrappers/inetd, like this: In /etc/services I added lines like isp-smtp 100025/tcp. Numbers above 10 go beyond the specs, but they seam to work here and no-one else is likely to use them, so no conflicts expected:) In /etc/inetd.conf I added long-one-liners like: isp-smtp stream tcp nowait carel\ /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh isp bin/nc mail.isp.nl smtp At my reliable ips I have compiled nc (netcat) and put it in ~/bin/nc.
Re: exim help needed
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:58:51PM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... In /etc/services I added lines like isp-smtp 100025/tcp. Numbers above 10 go beyond the specs, but they seam to work here and no-one else is likely to use them, so no conflicts expected:) Stupid me, ofcourse it works, the numbers silently overflow:( 100025 is actually 34489, so you better not use my stupid numbering scheme. -- groetjes, carel
Re: exim help needed
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 08:17:21PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
...
Just curious, what tricks do you use to create this port forwarding?
And is it created on the fly?
I create the pipes in /etc/network/interfaces:
up sleep 3 /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes start /usr/local/sbin/sync-date
down /etc/init.d/eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh
/usr/bin/ssh iae bin/nc mail.iae.nl eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh
/usr/bin/ssh ire bin/nc uucp.iae.nl uucp-pipes stop
Ah neat, again a different approach.
...
SSHARGS=${SSHFLAGS} -l ${USER} -L ${LOCALPORT}:${DEST}:${REMOTEPORT}
${HOST} ${PIPE}l
what is this ${PIPE}l? some program you run on the other side?
I would have expected something like sleep forever.
...snipped a lot of code to deal with pide's
The problem with your way for me I think is that my ISP is flacky, so
the connections would get brooken all to often, and I don't know whether
the up and down scripts would get run, I'm not even sure whether such
breakdowns would go unnoticed by the network layer on my firewall or
automagically repaired. An other problem seems to me that you expect
that at your school the ${PIPE}l magic program runs forever, whereas
even my more reliable second isp is not that reliable:(, more over
I don't feel comsy with those pipes open all the time (silly I know)
So I did it differently using tcp-wrappers/inetd, like this:
In /etc/services I added lines like isp-smtp 100025/tcp. Numbers
above 10 go beyond the specs, but they seam to work here and
no-one else is likely to use them, so no conflicts expected:)
In /etc/inetd.conf I added long-one-liners like:
isp-smtp stream tcp nowait carel\
/usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh isp bin/nc mail.isp.nl smtp
At my reliable ips I have compiled nc (netcat) and put it in ~/bin/nc.
I'm quit sure that rlogin instead of nc will work too, but I didn't try.
I've setup keys and ~/.ssh/config so that my local user carel can ssh isp
and wines-up being login-ed into my differently named account at my isp
without password hassels.
So whenever someone locally tries to connected to one of those isp-* ports
a secure connection to my isp is created using my local carel's ssh setup
and once he/she is done the connection is closed again.
I think this is reasonable secure, as I allow everbody locally to use news
and mail anyhow and my isp's imap/pop3 service is still password-protected.
--
groetjes, carel
Re: exim help needed
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote:
down /etc/init.d/eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh iae
bin/nc mail.iae.nl eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh ire
bin/nc uucp.iae.nl uucp-pipes stop
Come again?
SSHARGS=${SSHFLAGS} -l ${USER} -L ${LOCALPORT}:${DEST}:${REMOTEPORT}
${HOST} ${PIPE}l
what is this ${PIPE}l? some program you run on the other side?
I would have expected something like sleep forever.
Oh yeah. It's basically sleep forever except replace sleep with
wait and add this feature: if an instance of the program already
exists, replace it with this one. Code follows below.
So I did it differently using tcp-wrappers/inetd, like this:
Cool, let me try it..
-chris
/* program that hangs forever */
/* only one instance of it (by a given name) may run at a time */
/* ln(1) the executable to whatever names you need */
#include stdio.h
#include unistd.h
#include strings.h
#include sys/types.h
#include signal.h
#include stdlib.h
#include malloc.h
#include libgen.h
int
main(int arc, const char** argv)
{
const char* home = getenv(HOME);
char* fullName = (char *)malloc(1000*sizeof(char));
char* name = NULL;
pid_t pid = getpid();
pid_t previousPid = 0;
char* fileName = (char*)malloc(1000*sizeof(char));
FILE* file = NULL;
int _signal = 9;
strcpy(fullName, argv[0]);
name = basename(fullName);
fileName[0] = (char)0;
strcat(fileName, home);
strcat(fileName, /var/run/);
strcat(fileName, name);
strcat(fileName, .pid);
file = fopen(fileName, r);
if (file == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, Failed to open file '%s' for reading\n, fileName);
exit(1);
}
fscanf(file, %d, previousPid);
if (previousPid != pid) {
if (previousPid 0) {
/* There is a race condition here. If we kill the old instance
before overwriting its PID, a third instance could try to kill
a nonexistent process. If on the other hand we overwrite
the PID first, a third instance could kill us before we have
a chance to kill the old instance.
*/
int result = kill(previousPid, _signal);
if (result != 0) {
fprintf(stderr,
Failed to kill PID '%d' with signal '%d'\n
Continuing anyway...\n,
previousPid,
_signal);
}
}
} else {
fprintf(stderr,
Suicide attempt thwarted\n);
exit(1);
}
{
int result;
fclose(file);
file = fopen(fileName, w);
if (file == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, Failed to open file '%s' for writing\n, fileName);
exit(1);
}
fprintf(file, %d, pid);
fflush(file);
fclose(file);
result = pause();
fprintf(stderr, pause() returned value '%d'\n, result);
return 0;
}
}
Re: exim help needed
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:36:08PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Carel Fellinger wrote: down /etc/init.d/eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh iae bin/nc mail.iae.nl eam tcp nowait carel /usr/bin/ssh /usr/bin/ssh ire bin/nc uucp.iae.nl uucp-pipes stop Come again? cc-ing you in mutt I forgot that I had put something else in gpm's buffer and foolishly clicked the 2e mouse button. Not sure what commands got executed:(, this is just a left over, let's pretend it isn't there:) I would have expected something like sleep forever. Oh yeah. It's basically sleep forever except replace sleep with wait and add this feature: if an instance of the program already exists, replace it with this one. Code follows below. Looks like something worth of adding to my toolbox. You could add mkdir and rmdir calls around this pid reading/writing stuff to ment this race condition you mentioned. Not really necessary for your current use. -- groetjes, carel
Re: exim help needed
Add a transport in the Transport section:
tunneled_smtp:
driver = smtp
port = 6025
Start the Router section with:
smart_tunnel:
driver = domainlist
transport = tunneled_smtp
self = send
route_list = * localhost byname
And of you go! That is, if the port is forwarded in time.
It works here, but I give no garantees:)
Thanks for the response, I will try it out.
Just curious, what tricks do you use to create this port forwarding?
And is it created on the fly?
I create the pipes in /etc/network/interfaces:
up sleep 3 /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes start /usr/local/sbin/sync-date
down /etc/init.d/tcp-pipes stop
(don't remember what the 'sleep 3' is for..)
/etc/init.d/tcp-pipes is the script below. The command msleep is
just a C wrapper around usleep(3c). You can use sleep instead (but
maybe make the numbers smaller..)
-chris
#! /bin/sh
#
# Port forwarding to servers which would otherwise refuse connections from us
#
set -x
echo $*
NAME=`basename $0`
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
SSH=/usr/bin/ssh2
SSHBASENAME=`basename ${SSH}`
SSHFLAGS=-f -x
HOST=cascade.cs.ubc.ca
USER=majewski
start()
{
LOCALPORT=$1
DEST=$2
REMOTEPORT=$3
PIPE=$4
SSHARGS=${SSHFLAGS} -l ${USER} -L ${LOCALPORT}:${DEST}:${REMOTEPORT}
${HOST} ${PIPE}l
PIDFILE=/var/run/${PIPE}-pipe.pid
if [ -e ${PIDFILE} ]; then
rm ${PIDFILE}
fi
if start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --background --make-pidfile
--pidfile ${PIDFILE} --exec ${SSH} -- ${SSHARGS} 21 | logger; then
fixpid ${PIPE} ${PIDFILE}
fi
}
# Wait for the PIDFILE to get the initial PID of the ssh process
# Wait for the ssh process to exec() to a different PID
# Put the new PID in the PIDFILE
fixpid()
{
PIPE=$1
PIDFILE=$2
PID=
NEWPID=
COUNT=1
MAXCOUNT=60
GOTCHA=false
while [ ${PID} = ]; do
if [ ${COUNT} -gt ${MAXCOUNT} ]; then
logger ${NAME}: initial PID not found for ${PIPE}
logger ${NAME}: continuing anyway...
break
fi
if [ -e ${PIDFILE} ]; then
PID=`cat ${PIDFILE}`
fi
COUNT=`expr ${COUNT} + 1`
msleep 1
done
# sleep until the process with the old PID goes away
# can't use 'wait' because the ssh process is not our child
logger Waiting for ${PIPE} pipe to fork
COUNT=1
while ps h -o pid -p ${PID} /dev/null; do
if [ ${COUNT} -gt ${MAXCOUNT} ]; then
logger ${NAME}: new PID not found for ${PIPE}
logger ${NAME}: continuing anyway...
break
fi
COUNT=`expr ${COUNT} + 1`
GOTCHA=true
msleep 1
done
NEWPID=`ps h -C ${SSHBASENAME} | grep ${PIPE} | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ ${NEWPID} = ]; then
logger ${NAME}: Empty PID, you may have to stop ${PIPE} manually later
on
else
echo ${NEWPID} ${PIDFILE}
fi
}
stop()
{
PIPE=$1
PID=
logger Stopping ${PIPE}
PIDFILE=/var/run/${PIPE}-pipe.pid
start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --pidfile ${PIDFILE}
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
PID=`ps h -C ${SSHBASENAME} | grep ${PIPE} | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ ${PID} != ]; then
echo Killing ${PIPE} pipe by brute force
logger ${NAME}: Killing ${PIPE} pipe by brute force
# ask process to die honorably
kill -TERM ${PID}
# coup de grace if necessary
PID=`ps h -C ${SSHBASENAME} | grep ${PIPE} | awk '{print $1}'`
if [ ${PID} != ]; then
kill -KILL ${PID}
fi
else
logger ${NAME}: Couldn't find PID for ${PIPE}, not killing
fi
fi
rm -f ${PIDFILE}
}
startImap()
{
logger Starting IMAP pipe
start 6143 imap.cs.ubc.ca 143 imap
}
startNntp()
{
logger Starting NNTP pipe
start 6119 news.cs.ubc.ca 119 nntp
}
startSmtp()
{
logger Starting SMTP pipe
start 6025 mailhost.cs.ubc.ca 25 smtp
}
startAll()
{
echo Starting ${NAME}:
startImap
startNntp
startSmtp
echo ${NAME}.
}
stopAll()
{
echo Stopping ${NAME}:
stop imap
stop nntp
stop smtp
echo ${NAME}.
}
case $1 in
imap)
startImap
;;
nntp)
startNntp
;;
smtp)
startSmtp
;;
start)
startAll
;;
stop)
stopAll
;;
restart)
stopAll
startAll
;;
*)
N=/etc/init.d/${NAME}
# echo Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload} 2
# echo Usage: $N {start|stop|restart|force-reload} 2
echo Usage: $N {start|stop} 2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Re: exim help needed
Hai Krzys, sorry to bud in so late, and for breaking the thread referencing but it was only after I deleted the whole thread from within mutt that I realised that I might offer some help. I picked up your first request from the muc.list.debian.user netnews copy of debian-user. Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. - cron jobs can send mail to root, who forwards them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon on port 25) - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. As was pointed out to you, and you already started doing, you have to reconfigure exim to use a smart-host. Then do some editing in /etc/exim.conf: Add a transport in the Transport section: tunneled_smtp: driver = smtp port = 6025 Start the Router section with: smart_tunnel: driver = domainlist transport = tunneled_smtp self = send route_list = * localhost byname And of you go! That is, if the port is forwarded in time. It works here, but I give no garantees:) Just curious, what tricks do you use to create this port forwarding? And is it created on the fly? -- groetjes, carel
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#/part #part type=application/octet-stream filename=/etc/hosts.allow disposition=attachment description=/etc/hosts.allow #/part #part type=application/octet-stream filename=/etc/hosts.deny disposition=attachment description=/etc/hosts.deny #/part References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 21 Oct 2000 11:54:26 -0700 In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s message of Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:49:57 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --text follows this line-- OK, I got exim running with eximconfig option 3, ie satellite system. Main problem with this: people can still telnet to my port 25. I don't want this. With sendmail I was able to not run the daemon at all, and mail would still get sent (sendmail would run every couple minutes and process the queue). Can I do something similar in exim? Secondary problem with my setup: My home machine / IP appears in the headers (not in this mail, but when I use exim), can I disable this? Attached are my exim.conf, hosts.deny, and hosts.allow, maybe someone can look at them and tell me what needs changing.. chris
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 01:27:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. exim calls this a smarthost. Rerun eximconfig and two of your canned configuration options will be (2) Internet site using smarthost: You receive Internet mail on this machine, either directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent using a smarthost. optionally with addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup system. (3) Satellite system: All mail is sent to another machine, called a smart host for delivery. root and postmaster mail is delivered according to /etc/aliases. No mail is received locally. Choose one of these (probably the first) and, if your school will let you use them as a smarthost, you should be set. I did this. Mutt claims to send my mail (in other words it does not complain), but the mail is never sent. I don't see anything in /var/spool/mqueue, though perhaps I shouldn't. Maybe someone who has this working can just send me the relevant config files, for either exim or any other MTA (though preferably not the gargantuan sendmail). It would really be nice to be able to send mail, sigh.. chris mutt will by default pipe its message to /usr/lib/sendmail (?) and that will send the mail to the smtp server or whatever. I have ssmtp and a smtpd server i made, so ssmtp (which has /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/ssmtp i think) sends the smtp data to my mail host which is localhost and my smtpd sends it to my smarthost.
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mutt will by default pipe its message to /usr/lib/sendmail (?) from muttrc(5): [...] sendmail Type: path Default: /usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt. [...] That's correct, 'cause /usr/sbin/sendmail is a link to /usr/sbin/exim, if you're using Exim as your MTA. and that will send the mail to the smtp server or whatever. This *is* your MTA; Mutt will just give it to your MTA, not send it (if that makes it clearer). Then it's the MTA's job to actually sent it out somewhere... I have ssmtp and a smtpd server i made, so ssmtp (which has /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/ssmtp i think) sends the smtp data to my mail host which is localhost and my smtpd sends it to my smarthost. Oh, i just read the package description of 'ssmtp'. Ehm, it has nothing to do with Exim (?). ssmtp is an own, very simple MTA, which just delivers mail. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
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Moritz Schulte wrote: Oh, I've an idea. Some mail servers (for example GMX's ones) filter (yes, they just kick them out) mails, which have some header wrong header entries. For example, if you have an X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry, it gets filtered out by GMX, IIRC. Try sending yourself a mail local, just to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this mail arrive? Can you see, wether it has bad headers? Also, perhaps it doesn't like your sending domain name. Try changing the value of qualify_domain in exim.conf, for example, to your school's own domain name.
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Yow. You mean I need to write my own daemon just to do this?! If that's the case I think I'll foresake the idealistic Mutt and go back to pine.. *sigh* chris mutt will by default pipe its message to /usr/lib/sendmail (?) and that will send the mail to the smtp server or whatever. I have ssmtp and a smtpd server i made, so ssmtp (which has /usr/lib/sendmail and /usr/sbin/ssmtp i think) sends the smtp data to my mail host which is localhost and my smtpd sends it to my smarthost.
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no i mean you can use exim, i just like to use what i made. i think you only really need exim for receiving mail. this is how it works i think for most people: receiving: fetchmail pull from pop3 server - localhost port 25 (your mta) - /var/spool/mail/blahblah sending: mutt - piped to program like ssmtp - your smtp server (nslookup mail?) - ... is that what you were asking? Yeah except ssmtp is a bit too flaky for me, I think it won't even let me specify the port. I was hoping to use a regular-joe mailer like sendmail or exim. Receiving mail is not a problem, I use IMAP. -chris
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 11:46:54AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: no i mean you can use exim, i just like to use what i made. i think you only really need exim for receiving mail. this is how it works i think for most people: receiving: fetchmail pull from pop3 server - localhost port 25 (your mta) - /var/spool/mail/blahblah sending: mutt - piped to program like ssmtp - your smtp server (nslookup mail?) - ... is that what you were asking? Yeah except ssmtp is a bit too flaky for me, I think it won't even let me specify the port. I was hoping to use a regular-joe mailer like sendmail or exim. Receiving mail is not a problem, I use IMAP. -chris so we are back to the problem where we have to tell your sendmail or exim to send to your school smtp server, right? well i don't really know how to help you there... i would probably try the exim or sendmail config tools and see if you can masquerade and use the school as your smarthost or something like that and then chooes the port also... well, i don't know... or if you're really up to the challenge, i could try to help you set up my program but i don't know if it is worth the trouble because it is still alpha or beta or not really tested, but i'm using it right now atleast!
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. exim calls this a smarthost. Rerun eximconfig and two of your canned configuration options will be (2) Internet site using smarthost: You receive Internet mail on this machine, either directly by SMTP or by running a utility such as fetchmail. Outgoing mail is sent using a smarthost. optionally with addresses rewritten. This is probably what you want for a dialup system. (3) Satellite system: All mail is sent to another machine, called a smart host for delivery. root and postmaster mail is delivered according to /etc/aliases. No mail is received locally. Choose one of these (probably the first) and, if your school will let you use them as a smarthost, you should be set. I did this. Mutt claims to send my mail (in other words it does not complain), but the mail is never sent. I don't see anything in /var/spool/mqueue, though perhaps I shouldn't. Maybe someone who has this working can just send me the relevant config files, for either exim or any other MTA (though preferably not the gargantuan sendmail). It would really be nice to be able to send mail, sigh.. chris
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No I get my mail from the school's IMAP server. I want to send it via it's SMTP server, or SMTP relay server, or any server whatsoever at cs.ubc.ca. Surely it can't be that hard! -chris But why? If you can't reach that server why don't you use your ISP's? What exactly is your problem then? Phil Well, the point isn't really why I want to do it but how can I do it. In any case, the reason I want to do it is elegance (all my mail is dealt with by the same organization) and the fact that I trust my school sysadmins more than Rogers.com. Though if I can't figure out how to tell exim to telnet to localhost:6025 within a week, I will do as you suggest and use my ISP's server. Except, that still leaves me with the same problem: whether it's localhost:6025 or smtp.ISP.com:25, I can't convince exim to look there! -chris
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Choose one of these (probably the first) and, if your school will let you use them as a smarthost, you should be set. I did this. Mutt claims to send my mail (in other words it does not complain), but the mail is never sent. Are you sure, that the mail is not *sent*? I don't see anything in /var/spool/mqueue, though perhaps I shouldn't. If you tell Mutt to send the mail, it gives it to exim via a command. With 'mailq' you can see your mail queue, it is empty? So, it could be, that the mail is already sent by exim. Check the log files in /var/log for more information... Oh, I've an idea. Some mail servers (for example GMX's ones) filter (yes, they just kick them out) mails, which have some header wrong header entries. For example, if you have an X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] entry, it gets filtered out by GMX, IIRC. Try sending yourself a mail local, just to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this mail arrive? Can you see, wether it has bad headers? Maybe someone who has this working can just send me the relevant config files, for either exim or any other MTA (though preferably not the gargantuan sendmail). The standard eximconfig has alway worked fine for me. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Though if I can't figure out how to tell exim to telnet to localhost:6025 within a week, I will do as you suggest and use my ISP's server. Sorry, why should your exim telnet to localhost:6025? Exim should sent the mails there? Except, that still leaves me with the same problem: whether it's localhost:6025 or smtp.ISP.com:25, I can't convince exim to look there! That's really easy with eximconfig; there you can configure a smarthost, a host, where all the (non-local) mails are sent. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:30:37PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected most of the time you don't need one anyway... Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case! An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in the Internet, you just need to be able to relay over it. Exim calls this a Smarthost and asks you after installation if you have one. Usually your ISP has one and so you can relay mails over this server. So it is possible to receive mails from POP3-Server A and send mails over SMTP-Server B. Phil
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case! An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in the Internet, you just need to be able to relay over it. Exim calls this a Smarthost and asks you after installation if you have one. Usually your ISP has one and so you can relay mails over this server. So it is possible to receive mails from POP3-Server A and send mails over SMTP-Server B. Phil No I get my mail from the school's IMAP server. I want to send it via it's SMTP server, or SMTP relay server, or any server whatsoever at cs.ubc.ca. Surely it can't be that hard! -chris
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 09:18:31AM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To me it seems like you are assuming that mails _from_ you have to go the same way like mails _to_ you. That is not the case! An SMTP-Relay-Server may be located somewhere in the Internet, you just need to be able to relay over it. Exim calls this a Smarthost and asks you after installation if you have one. Usually your ISP has one and so you can relay mails over this server. So it is possible to receive mails from POP3-Server A and send mails over SMTP-Server B. Phil No I get my mail from the school's IMAP server. I want to send it via it's SMTP server, or SMTP relay server, or any server whatsoever at cs.ubc.ca. Surely it can't be that hard! -chris But why? If you can't reach that server why don't you use your ISP's? What exactly is your problem then? Phil Please no more CC, I am reading the list.
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 07:21:01PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: Did you look at /etc/aliases? Yeah, what should it say? Mine says: postmaster: root root: phil ... - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. May I ask why you want outgoing mail to be sent through port 6025? Nominally because my school smtp server (the one I want to use) won't accept connections from machines outside the school subnet, and my ISP is different from the school's. So I've set up a tcp pipe from home to school via one of the school servers. Pine and Gnus use it, for example. -chris Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected most of the time you don't need one anyway... Phil
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mine says: postmaster: root root: phil Aha, so does mine, now. (except for the phil part..) Doesn't your ISP offer you a SMTP-Relay-Server? If you are connected most of the time you don't need one anyway... Dunno, what's that? I want my mail going to/from my school server. -chris
exim help needed
OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. - cron jobs can send mail to root, who forwards them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon on port 25) - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. - I think that's all. -chris
Re: exim help needed
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. [...] - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. [...] How have you Mutt configured to sent mail via SMTP to localhost:6025? Mutt, like the most MUAs, wants to send mail via /usr/sbin/sendmail, and _not_ directly via SMTP. So, it's the MTA's role to _send_ the mail somewhere. I'm not sure about it, but IIRC I've heard, that there's a compile option for Mutt, which enables direct SMTP transport. But, it would be better, IMHO, to configure your exim correctly and let Mutt send via /usr/sbin/sendmail... moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
Re: exim help needed
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 04:22:50PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: OK I've given up on sendmail. On to exim now. Here are the features I want. Right now, it looks like sending mail fails silently. - cron jobs can send mail to root, who forwards them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you look at /etc/aliases? - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon on port 25) This line should be in your exim.conf: host_accept_relay = localhost The deamon can run on port 25 because this setting will refuse to accept mails from other hosts than your localhost. If you don't want other hosts to connect to 25 in the first place, have a look at /etc/hosts.allow and .deny - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. May I ask why you want outgoing mail to be sent through port 6025? Phil
Re: exim help needed (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 19:10:05 -0700 From: Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Philipp Schulte [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: exim help needed Did you look at /etc/aliases? Yeah, what should it say? - remote machines can't send mail to my machine (ie don't run a daemon on port 25) This line should be in your exim.conf: host_accept_relay = localhost The deamon can run on port 25 because this setting will refuse to accept mails from other hosts than your localhost. If you don't want other hosts to connect to 25 in the first place, have a look at /etc/hosts.allow and .deny Hm I'll check that out.. - outgoing mail (e.g. from Mutt) send via localhost:6025 which is port forwarded to smtp.cs.ubc.ca:25. May I ask why you want outgoing mail to be sent through port 6025? Nominally because my school smtp server (the one I want to use) won't accept connections from machines outside the school subnet, and my ISP is different from the school's. So I've set up a tcp pipe from home to school via one of the school servers. Pine and Gnus use it, for example. -chris
Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please
On 02/25/00 05:39AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ! Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name linbase.org (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the valid mail address) at the From: and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs, HOWTOs if it's apart from the official docs in the distros, because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem. Does anyone has a working solution to the situation like this ? If you have a solution with Exim I would welcome it too. Thanx a lot, Ago I don't know how many users you have, or if you're looking for more elegant way to do it, but there's a Linux Gazette article for setting up mail for a home network. In it the author shares one email address between himself and his wife by filtering on the Real Name of the recipient rather than the email address. This isn't very secure, so if you have a bunch of users, then it may not be the best method. Check out the article, it may give you some pointers. The URL is: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html and in case I messed that up, it's the July 1999 issue (#43) hth -- ) Mark Wagnon ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ( Chula Vista, CA ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] (
Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 05:39:08AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Hi !
Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from
my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local
LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains
rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local
machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but
deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name
linbase.org (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to
have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the valid mail address) at the From:
and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs,
HOWTOs if it's apart from the official docs in the distros,
because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb
or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem.
Does anyone has a working solution to the situation like this ? If
you have a solution with Exim I would welcome it too.
Thanx a lot,
Ago
I do this with exim; we have two dialup accounts, and a local
LAN. We want outgoing mail to have our dial-up account name
in From and Reply-To, but we want local mail (including mail
addressed to the dial-up account names) delivered directly.
We also want to be able to send mail to other dial-up users
at our ISP.
What I've done is this:
- Listed our ISP mail host name in local_domains in /etc/exim.conf:
local_domains = localhost:*.localnet:isp.net.au
- Added a special director that handles locally-generated mail for
one of our dialup accounts, at the head of the list of directors:
dialup_localusers:
driver = aliasfile
domains = isp.net.au
file = /etc/exim/isp-addresses
search_type = lsearch
/etc/exim/isp-addresses is a regular alias file that maps ISP
account names to local usernames (or other addresses), like this:
huiac: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Added another director after that one, that deals with any other
customers of our ISP:
dialup_otherusers:
driver = smartuser
domains = isp.net.au
transport = remote_smtp
- If I had accounts at more than one ISP, I'd need to create
a separate alias file and two directors (local users/other
ISP users) for each ISP.
- Use a smarthost (our ISP) for delivering non-local mail; as the
local machine is mailserver for our entire LAN, this is the only
entry in the ROUTERS section of /etc/exim.conf:
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * mail.isp.net.au bydns_a
If I wanted to deliver mail to other machines on my internal LAN,
I'd need an additional router ahead of this one to handle those.
- Added rewriting rules to replace our local LAN addresses with
the appropriate ISP account addresses in any headers:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/exim/outgoing-addresses}\
{$value}fail} Fh
/etc/exim/outgoing-addresses contains lines like this:
john [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This example replaces the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in all headers except envelope To: headers.
Simpler schemes are possible, but this is the only one I've
devised so far that will deliver locally-generated mail
addressed to one of my dial-up accounts (e.g.,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]) as local mail (i.e., without going via my
ISP's mailserver), deals with multiple dial-up account names
and also correctly delivers mail to other people's accounts
on my ISP.
John P.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please
sendmail has a masquerade option, postfix probably does too since its a drop in replacement. if you masquerade as say mydomain.com no matter what domain the sender uses it'll get changed to mydomain.com ..is that what your lookin for ? nate On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: matthe I'm not sure if this is what the original poster wanted, but... matthe matthe Is is possible to masquerade a single email address in the same way the matthe IP-Masq masquerades a single internet connection? By this I mean, to matthe have a debian box receive emails via a single address, and be able to matthe distribute each one to the intended recipient on the internal LAN. matthe matthe There are dodgy ways you could do this, of course... like have the matthe sender put the login name of the recipient in the subject somewhere, matthe which exim/sendmail would rewrite the mail header with... but that's too matthe much to expect the sender to do. You could also try writing some 'smart matthe filter' which would try to identify the recipent from the contents of matthe the email (most personal letters would probably start with 'Name,' or matthe similar... but then of course there are problems with nicknames, non matthe personal letters etc...). What I'm looking for is a better solution. matthe matthe Matthew matthe matthe Colin Watson wrote: matthe matthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: matthe Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from matthe my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local matthe LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains matthe rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local matthe machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but matthe deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name matthe linbase.org (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to matthe have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the valid mail address) at the From: matthe and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] matthe matthe Can't help you with sendmail, I'm afraid, but it's almost trivial with matthe exim: matthe matthe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] frF matthe matthe ... in the rewrite configuration section. matthe matthe Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs, matthe HOWTOs if it's apart from the official docs in the distros, matthe because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb matthe or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem. matthe matthe exim's (excellent) documentation is in /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz matthe (there's also an HTML version); the documentation on address rewriting matthe is in chapter 32. matthe matthe -- matthe Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] matthe matthe -- matthe Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null matthe matthe matthe -- matthe Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null matthe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:27pm up 189 days, 9:48, 1 user, load average: 1.05, 1.06, 1.00
sendmail (or exim) help, please
Hi ! Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name linbase.org (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the valid mail address) at the From: and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs, HOWTOs if it's apart from the official docs in the distros, because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem. Does anyone has a working solution to the situation like this ? If you have a solution with Exim I would welcome it too. Thanx a lot, Ago
Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name linbase.org (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the valid mail address) at the From: and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't help you with sendmail, I'm afraid, but it's almost trivial with exim: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] frF ... in the rewrite configuration section. Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs, HOWTOs if it's apart from the official docs in the distros, because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem. exim's (excellent) documentation is in /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz (there's also an HTML version); the documentation on address rewriting is in chapter 32. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail (or exim) help, please
I'm not sure if this is what the original poster wanted, but... Is is possible to masquerade a single email address in the same way the IP-Masq masquerades a single internet connection? By this I mean, to have a debian box receive emails via a single address, and be able to distribute each one to the intended recipient on the internal LAN. There are dodgy ways you could do this, of course... like have the sender put the login name of the recipient in the subject somewhere, which exim/sendmail would rewrite the mail header with... but that's too much to expect the sender to do. You could also try writing some 'smart filter' which would try to identify the recipent from the contents of the email (most personal letters would probably start with 'Name,' or similar... but then of course there are problems with nicknames, non personal letters etc...). What I'm looking for is a better solution. Matthew Colin Watson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possibble to masquarade my e-mail to the outside world from my LAN ? I'll tell you exactly what I wanted to say. I have a local LAN, one e-mail address. I have set up a local DNS and ipchains rules but I stopped at sendmail. I want to relay mail for the local machines and put the mail into a queue if it goes to the inet but deliver immediatelly inside the LAN. The domain has the name linbase.org (not registreted) so all of the outgoing mails have to have [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the valid mail address) at the From: and in the Reply-to: fields, not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can't help you with sendmail, I'm afraid, but it's almost trivial with exim: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] frF ... in the rewrite configuration section. Please, help me, how to setup this ! I welcome any URLs, RTFMs, HOWTOs if it's apart from the official docs in the distros, because I have already read through them but (maybe I'm too dumb or overlooked something) found nothing to my special problem. exim's (excellent) documentation is in /usr/doc/exim/spec.txt.gz (there's also an HTML version); the documentation on address rewriting is in chapter 32. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Fw: Problem with Exim, HELP ME !
- Original Message - From: Mark Symonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 8:20 PM Subject: Re: Problem with Exim, HELP ME ! Is lorenzo a bot?! I already responded to it off-list and specifically asked it to respond off-list like five mails ago. Not only did it reply to my reply by posting my reply and nothing else, but it also kept posting the original question again and again. Whatever is doing this is obviously not human. :) -Mark - I know everything we've done is absolutely right and proper --Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on MSNBC, 01/13/00 - - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 2:40 AM ct: Problem with Exim, HELP ME ! Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. snip-snap-crackle-pop
Re: About Exim : HELP ME !!!!!!
Why do you send the same emails three times?? Please consider that debian is a Non-profit organisation, and it costs them money! While I am willing to help, I cannot understand your question, and that is why I did not reply your first 2 emails. You said: Lorenzo Zampese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. and then you said: When I send e-mails to internet, my exim's configuration seems to work fine, and then you said: but my addresses don't receive my e-mails at all. So is your problem receiving or sending?? When I run 'fetchmail' it says something like this : SMTP error, I can't relay mail for following addresses : paste a couple lines from fetchmail logs would be very usefull. Have you checked that exim is actually listening on port 25? telnet localhost 25 see if you can get anything... And what mda you are using to to deliver local mails? Procmail, or you simiply forward them to port 25? You might have a look at the FAQ for exim about the issues between procmail and exim. NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name, so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature, that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw address'. why do you need this? You should be able to use your ISP's smtp with no problem if you are dialing up from them -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Problem with Exim, HELP ME !
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have changed for a lot of times /etc/exim.conf but I can deliver locally only. When I send e-mails to internet, my exim's configuration seems to work fine, but my addresses don't receive my e-mails at all. When I run 'fetchmail' it says something like this : SMTP error, I can't relay mail for following addresses : NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name, so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature, that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw address'. NOTE 2: my ISP connection works fine and it is well configured. NOTE 3: '.fetchmailrc' is well configured too. I don't know if I have to change something in '/etc/host' or what... Please, is there anybody who can show me where I have to put the following parameters in '/etc/exim.conf' ? my hostname : xyz Linux's user name: myself_linux my ISP account : myself my address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP server : smtp.mail.company.it POP3 server : pop3.mail.company.it THANKS TO ALL.
Problem with Exim, HELP ME !
Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have changed for a lot of times /etc/exim.conf but I can deliver locally only. When I send e-mails to internet, my exim's configuration seems to work fine, but my addresses don't receive my e-mails at all. When I run 'fetchmail' it says something like this : SMTP error, I can't relay mail for following addresses : NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name, so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature, that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw address'. NOTE 2: my ISP connection works fine and it is well configured. NOTE 3: '.fetchmailrc' is well configured too. I don't know if I have to change something in '/etc/host' or what... Please, is there anybody who can show me where I have to put the following parameters in '/etc/exim.conf' ? my hostname : xyz Linux's user name: myself_linux my ISP account : myself my address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP server : smtp.mail.company.it POP3 server : pop3.mail.company.it THANKS TO ALL.
Re: Problem with Exim, HELP ME !
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:40:24AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip exim troubles
NOTE 1: my ISP's user name is different than my Linux's user name,
so I need to use the exim's DB-rewrite feature,
that I tested successfully with 'exim -brw address'.
NOTE 2: my ISP connection works fine and it is well configured.
NOTE 3: '.fetchmailrc' is well configured too.
I don't know if I have to change something in '/etc/host' or what...
Please, is there anybody who can show me where I have to put the following
parameters
in '/etc/exim.conf' ?
my hostname : xyz
Linux's user name: myself_linux
my ISP account : myself
my address : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SMTP server : smtp.mail.company.it
POP3 server : pop3.mail.company.it
Here's most of my exim.conf - I've cut out the comments to save bandwidth.
I've inserted a few comments of my own - they are all in ()'s and will be
on the line after the one the comment will be referring to.
begin /etc/exim.conf
qualify_domain = earthlink.net
(I too am on a dialup - this is my ISP)
# qualify_recipient =
local_domains = localhost
local_domains_include_host = true
local_domains_include_host_literals = true
#relay_domains =
#relay_domains_include_local_mx = true
#host_lookup = 0.0.0.0/0
#rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com
#rbl_reject_recipients = false
#rbl_warn_header = true
host_accept_relay = ! * : \
*
# percent_hack_domains=*
trusted_users = mail
smtp_verify = false
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0
(this is a usefull one - all mail is delivered immediately)
gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
gecos_name = $1
received_header_text = Received: \
${if def:sender_fullhost {from ${sender_fullhost} \
${if def:sender_ident {(${sender_ident})}}\n\t}\
{${if def:sender_ident {from ${sender_ident} \
by ${primary_hostname} \
${if def:received_protocol {with ${received_protocol}}} \
(Exim ${version_number} #${compile_number} (Debian))\n\t\
id ${message_id}
end
local_delivery:
driver = appendfile
group = mail
mode = 0660
mode_fail_narrower = false
file = /var/spool/mail/${local_part}
address_pipe:
driver = pipe
return_output
address_file:
driver = appendfile
address_directory:
driver = appendfile
no_from_hack
prefix =
suffix =
# maildir_format
address_reply:
driver = autoreply
remote_smtp:
driver = smtp
end
real_local:
prefix = real-
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
system_aliases:
driver = aliasfile
# Option added by convert4r3
file_transport = address_file
# Option added by convert4r3
pipe_transport = address_pipe
file = /etc/aliases
search_type = lsearch
# user = list
# Uncomment the above line if you are running smartlist
userforward:
driver = forwardfile
# Option added by convert4r3
file_transport = address_file
# Option added by convert4r3
pipe_transport = address_pipe
# Option added by convert4r3
reply_transport = address_reply
no_verify
check_ancestor
file = .forward
modemask = 002
filter
# This director matches local user mailboxes.
localuser:
driver = localuser
transport = local_delivery
end
smarthost:
driver = domainlist
transport = remote_smtp
route_list = * mail.earthlink.net bydns_a
end
(up to here everything was done by eximconfig)
# Domain Error Retries
# -- - ---
* * F,2h,5m; G,16h,2h,1.5; F,4d,8h
end
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcfrF
(this is the bit I think will solve your problem)
(my user name on my Linux box is mike - that's the first part)
(the second part shows what my email address rewrite is to be)
(the third shows which parts of the headers to rewrite - I'm not sure
about them but it seems to work)
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]${lookup{$1}lsearch{/etc/email-addresses}\
# {$value}fail} bcfrF
end exim.cond
There we go. That's the whole thing - probably more than was really needed
but I figured I'd better err on the side of too much in this case. Especially
since I'm really not 100% sure on how everything there works. What I do know
is that this works for me here on a potato system with exim 3.11-2 and
fetchmail 5.2.3-1
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Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:19:27 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used it for anything useful... yet. I consider it a good option for a host that is secondary MX for a lot of domains. Saves its admin from maintaining a list of these domains. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:22:23 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, David Warnock wrote: relay_domains_include_local_mx = true You can turn this off because a spammer can simply put you host in his DNS makeing you an MX host and you will relay for him. Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. The other gentleman is right about if this setting is NOT on, and you add the MX record, the spammer can spam themselves... so to speak. On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail in either direction from a host listing it as an MX. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 19:15:59 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: Nope. If a spammer puts the host in his DNS, you are going to relay _TO_ him. So he can happily spam himself. Ok, maybe this has changed but I thought at one point Exim would take mail in either direction from a host listing it as an MX. Philip would never incorporate an option that dangerous into his program. He knows what he is doing and he also knows what an open relay is. I don't have older versions of exim here so I can't look in older manuals though. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. This is either a bug in the program or in the documentation: |If the domain in a recipient address matches local_domains or | |relay_domains, or if relay_domains_include_local_mx is set and the domain | |has an MX record pointing to the local host, the address is always | |accepted (at least as far as this check is concerned - a subsequent | |verification check might fail it). This is the case of an incoming message | |to a local domain or an incoming relay to a permitted domain. |relay_domains_include_local_mx | |Type:boolean |Default: false | |This option permits any host to relay to any domain that has an MX record |pointing at the local host. It causes any domain with an MX record |pointing at the local host to be treated as if it were in relay_domains. |See host_accept_relay above. Warning: Turning on this option opens your | |server to the possibility of abuse in that anyone with access to a DNS | |zone can list your server in a secondary MX record as a backup for their | |domain without your permission. This is not a huge exposure because | |firstly, it requires the cooperation of a hostmaster to set up, and | |secondly, since their mail is passing through your server, they run the | |risk of your noticing and (for example) throwing all their mail away. |The relaying check happens whenever a message's recipient is received, that |is, immediately after a RCPT command. The first check is whether the address |would cause relaying at all: if its domain matches something in local_domains |then it is destined to be handled on the local host as a local address, and |relaying is not involved, unless the 'percent hack' is in use. In this case, |the local part is converted into a new address and that is then checked. | |When the relevant domain is not in local_domains, there is first a check for |legitimate incoming relaying, by seeing if it matches relay_domains, or, when |relay_domains_include_local_mx is set, if it is a domain with an MX record |pointing to the local host. If it does match, this is an acceptable incoming |relay, and it is permitted to proceed. The specification says at three different places that relay_domains_include_local_mx checks are only done on _recipient_ address. Thus, a message is only relayed if the local host has an MX record for the _recipient's_ domain and the spammer can only use the exim host as a relay to spam users in domains the spammer controls the DNS of. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. I am not in a position to test this at the moment, but _if_ exim doesn't behave as the docs say and as I interpreted, this is a severe bug and I've got to ask you why you didn't report it to Philip yet. This is crossposted to the exim-users mailing list for verification. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber |Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG Rightful Heir | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. That is incorrect. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. That is correct. Relaying _FOR_ is controlled by hosts, not domains. Typically: relay for any host on my local network. There are some controls by sender (though they are weak, since senders are easily forged) but they do not involve looking up MX records for the sender. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
Re: [Exim] Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
Ahh... I stand corrected. I really should avoid answering mail relaying questions in hte middle of the night! Just as a side-note, it is a silly option anyway, isn't it? I've not used it for anything useful... yet. On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:53:15 -0600 (MDT), you wrote: If you have the relay-domains-include-local-MX = true in your /etc/exim.conf file, this is true. It WILL relay for anyone who lists your machine as an MX for their domain (real, or not). I think this was the original question. That is incorrect. It will not relay _FOR_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain; it will relay _TO_ anyone who lists the exim host as an MX for their domain. This is a siginificant difference. That is correct. Relaying _FOR_ is controlled by hosts, not domains. Typically: relay for any host on my local network. There are some controls by sender (though they are weak, since senders are easily forged) but they do not involve looking up MX records for the sender. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null +---++ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Support Amateur Radio Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | May the Source be with you. | +---++ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | |http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo| ++
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
George and everyone else. Thanks for the help. We are now relay free according to all the tests I can do. I have put exim on the firewall and am currently directly accessing it via pop3 (qpopper). Now I would like to instead relay from exim on the firewall to exim inside the firewall. How do I do that? Thanks Dave -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
Many thanks George. Dave snip As the final entry in the section under directors: smart: driver = smartuser new_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
Hi, We have just had out exim router on our server abused by some spammers. We had thought that we were securely setup, but it appears that our ISP has recently changed something in their dns setup and it meant that spammers have been able to use us as a relay. I have some temporary fixes in which stop all outgoing mail (turned off just while I send this) - this is obviously not ideal but does stop these nasty people. How do we stop this problem? I have spent a whole day pulling my hair out trying to stop exim allowing other people in but I have not suceeded unless I also stop us being able to send (or in some cases recieve). Our setup is that our firewall forwards port 25 onto the main server which is running exim. This is using redir at present and I think that is part of the problem. If someone telnets onto exim they appear to be coming from the firewall. I have turned off all relaying (but don't know how to check that it is sucessful). But it seems that I am still allowing telnet onto port 23 to issue the smtp commands to send mail from an invalid user to outside our domain. I don't want that to happen. How can I fix that? The bits of my exim.conf (comments removed to save space) are relay_domains = *.sundayta.co.uk relay_domains_include_local_mx = true never_users = root host_lookup_nets = 0.0.0.0/0 rbl_domains = rbl.maps.vix.com rbl_reject_recipients = true rbl_warn_header = false sender_host_reject_relay = * sender_host_reject_relay_except = romans.sundayta.co.uk:proverbs.sundayta.co.uk sender_net_reject_relay = 0.0.0.0/0 sender_net_reject_relay_except = 192.168.100.0/8 # firewall is 192.168.101.2 sender_verify_reject = true # I don't want to incorrectly blame anyone but all the spam had a name within this domain # as the to and from sender_reject = *.quintessenz.at I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
RE: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
On 03-Aug-99 David Warnock wrote: I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. You did not say which Exim version you are using. The exim.conf file format changed with version 3.x so that might be important. -- Andrew
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
I am using the version that installs with slink which is 2.0.5 (I think) Thanks Dave Pollywog wrote: On 03-Aug-99 David Warnock wrote: I would like to reject all hosts apart from some named machines at sundayta.co.uk but whenever I try that I stop all incoming mail from other hosts which is obviously not correct. Any help much appreciated while I still have some hair left. You did not say which Exim version you are using. The exim.conf file format changed with version 3.x so that might be important. -- David Warnock Sundayta Ltd
Re: EXIM, Help stop relaying spam
David, You can check your mail hosts for relaying at http://maps.vix.com/tsi/ar-test.html. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, David Warnock wrote: I have turned off all relaying (but don't know how to check that it is sucessful). But it seems that I am still allowing telnet onto port 23 to issue the smtp commands to send mail from an invalid user to outside our domain. I don't want that to happen. How can I fix that?
EXIM help
I am looking at the EXIM mail transport to handle the UUCP and pop mail that I have along with filtering mail and local mail. I remember a person on this list that offered someone a copy of the mail files that they use. Can I get a copy of them from anyone that is using this to filter mail, get mail from pop and uucp on a dial up connection and deliver mail locally. Any parts of that would be helpful too. Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXIM Help
Did you turn off fetchmail's rewrite option? Also you can tell exim: sender_unqualified_hosts = localhost in it's configuration file (see the fetchmail FAQ) -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXIM Help
At 03:35 PM 3/27/98 -0800, you wrote: DUH! It looks like Fetchmail is attempting deliver. Configure it to pass the mail to SMTP. George, Rob, List Ok I think I have exim now the SMTP host, but now I am getting a message when I run fetchmail --verbose. fetchmail: SMTPrect to htuttle fetchmail: SMTP501 htuttle: recipient address must contain a domain fetchmail: listener doesn't like recipient address 'htuttle' fetchmail: SMTP501 htuttle: recipient address must contain a domain fetchmail: can't even send to calling user! fetchmail: POP3QUIT Where do I let fetchmail/exim the domain of htuttle? I have tried putting it in .fetchmailrc and then it complains about wrong user '[EMAIL PROTECTED]@mail.dallas.net'. So take it out of there and put it in exim.conf and it make no difference as I get the same message as above. Looked over the info exim and it said to try using the .netrc. So put it in there and still got the above. Where do I let exim know of my domain. I think that is what is my problem and it is not accepting the messages. I have a system name of archangel, user names of root and htuttle. My POP3 account it listed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and all I want to do is get the mail off the server mail.dallas.net without having to shutdown and start winblows95. Thanks for everyone help Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
EXIM Help
Hello again, I am sorry to be such a pain, but I can not get exim working properly. I have tried reading all the info pages/man pages/FAQ's/archives/homepages for the last two days. I guess I am in a special class by myself. All the above all talk about ethernet/workstations/networked systems. All I have is a small system that connects to my ISP and all I want to do is get my mail. I am having to go back and forth between debian and winbloze95 to get any help. First I entered a exim.conf like the one I found in the archives. When I ran exim, it kept complaining about the lines I put in so # them out. Now when I run fetchmail I get the following: reading message 1 (2580 bytes) fetchmail: found received address 'htuttle' fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to root fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: POP3QUIT Now I can send mail fine with Pine and it configured to send via my ISP. There is no problem there. And it goes there. It is that I cannot download my mail. What am I doing wrong. I am very new at this and don't know to much about setting up accounts etc. I don't know how to look at logs as I don't know which ones are available. I have looked in the log directory and about the only one I see is syslog and it doesn't say to much about exim. I only have 2 accounts that were created when I installed debian. root and htuttle. That's it. Second: I tried something else (find . -name exim.conf -print) and got the following message: EXT2-fs warning (Device 03:42): ext_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 89435 How do I fix this or can I. Is there a chkdsk for debian? Third: How do I set my time right. When I installed debian it looked at my system clock and asked if I wanted to be on GMT and what my TZ was. I said to use GMT and that I was in CST6CDT. Now when I boot my time is wrong. When it is 1600 in my wallclock time my system says it is 1000. I use the bash: date 03271600, but when I reboot it always goes back to the -6. I know I screwed it up, but how do I fix it with out having to do it everytime I boot up. Also by bios clock is correct for walltime. Sorry to bother everyone, but I am really confused and I don't know where to look for info. Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: EXIM Help
At 02:45 PM 3/27/98 -0800, you wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: reading message 1 (2580 bytes) fetchmail: found received address 'htuttle' fetchmail: no local matches, forwarding to root fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed fetchmail: POP3QUIT It is having trouble finding an account on your local system called htuttle. Do you have a htuttle login account on your local machine? If not, create an alias in /etc/aliases for it like this: htuttle: username where username is a valid login account on your local linux box. George, Yes I have a username of htuttle and the name of the system is htuttle. Does that mess things up? I also have the aliases set up with htuttle. Thanks for the reply... Mike Acklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home) Debian Newbie (Please bear with me!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
