[gentoo-user] Exim's log files
By default Exim puts its main log to /var/log/exim/exim_main.log, but many software like logwatch, munin expect log in /var/log/exim/main.log. Also in many distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedore Core, FreeBSD /var/log/exim/main.log path is used. Developer of Exim does not recommend change main log path in config file. Is there any reason to use /var/log/exim/exim_main.log? Maybe it worth to change path to /var/log/exim/main.log ? -- Sergey
[gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,
I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim stop . It simply gives !!. More detailed errors on that sure would be nice. Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d script to straighten things out. Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
Michael Sullivan wrote: Do I need to add 192.168.1.100 to the hostlist in exim.conf and restart exim? Yes - this is easy solution for your problem ;) -- Sergey It didn't work: Mar 13 15:13:31 baby exim[26470]: 2008-03-13 15:13:31 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) baby bind # grep 192.168.1.100 /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.100 Is there any other option? Add 192.168.0.2 and .100 to your /etc/hosts file. You've got Exim set to deny IP addresses that do not resolve. kashani -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Emerge exim fails
Hello all, I'm having a problem with my emerge -uD world these days, when it comes to exim: (...) : undefined reference to `Perl_Gthr_key_ptr' perl.o(.text+0x1474): In function `xs_init': : undefined reference to `Perl_Gthr_key_ptr' perl.o(.text+0x14aa): In function `xs_init': : undefined reference to `Perl_Gthr_key_ptr' perl.o(.text+0x14e0): In function `xs_init': : undefined reference to `Perl_Gthr_key_ptr' collect2: ld a retourné 1 code d'état d'exécution make[1]: *** [exim] Erreur 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tmp/portage/exim-4.54/work/exim-4.54/build-exim-gentoo' make: *** [go] Erreur 2 !!! ERROR: mail-mta/exim-4.54 failed. seems related to perl, so I re-emerged perl, but it didn't improve things. any hint welcome, tia! -- Jean Magnan de Bornier |Cours Victor Hugo e-mots: jean at bornier.net|13980 Alleins France T 08 70 39 34 03 |P 06 09 17 35 87 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 10:32:23 Daevid Vincent wrote: * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55 [SNIP] [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper [SNIP] [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that vixie-cron is the issue, or kdegraphics is the issue? Being reverse order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says nomerge so that seems like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the exim I have installed. vixie-cron has a run-time dependency on virtual/mta which can be satisfied by both exim and ssmtp (and 8 other packages in the tree). ssmtp is the default provider. What has happened is that all versions of exim in the tree that you haven't masked have been removed from the tree. I.e. there are no versions in the tree below 4.55. Therefore it suggests installing the default provider of virtual/mta which is blocked by the version of exim which is still installed although not installable (not in the tree). It matters despite the nomerge because it's a run-time dependency rather than build-time. You have at least four options. The first option is to upgrade exim and hope it'll work. I have no knowledge about exim so I cannot tell you whether it will. The second is to restore the ebuild for your installed version in an overlay (you can pull it from /var/db/pkg/mail-mta/exim-4.54/) thereby restoring a non-masked version of exim.. The third is to add mail-mta/exim to package.provided (see `man portage`). The fourth is to unmerge exim and use another mta (I'm using postfix). -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
I have an exim configuration question. I run exim-4.69. It's worked well for over a year. This morning I did a slight network topography modification, and now my wife is having trouble sending email from her computer. Her computer used to be 192.168.1.4,, but it's connected to a subrouter now that's connected into the main one. The subrouter's IP is 192.168.0.1, if that matters. My wife's computer is now 192.168.0.2. She tried to send mail to one of her friends, and exim rejected the message. Here's the hostlist line from /etc/exim/exim.conf: baby bind # grep hostlist /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 Now, she can send a test message to herself by appending our domain to the end of her username. We're used to not having to do that. How can we get that back? I would send the full exim.conf, but I don't remember the syntax to sed to strip out all the comment lines, and my reference books are packed away for our eminent move... -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
Hello Guys
I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
I know it is unusual configuration ).
I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
[blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.
(mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
(mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
exim
What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to install
both of them ?
Thanks.
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Re[2]: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
Hi Michael, Mar 13 14:22:01 baby exim[25957]: 2008-03-13 14:22:01 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) I guess 192.168.1.100 is what my main router calls the subrouter. The subrouter is configured to use the address 192.168.0.1. Probably this address is NATed. Do I need to add 192.168.1.100 to the hostlist in exim.conf and restart exim? Yes - this is easy solution for your problem ;) -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] exim / authentication
Hi folks, anybody in the know how to make exim authenticate itself when connecting to another MTA? The authenticator section of the default configuration file is completely empty, my exim book is too old, and I couldn't find useful info. :-( Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?
On 4/8/2011 2:06 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. For light relaying both are about the same. I'd give the edge to Postfix in a heavy use ISP system because it's not a monolithic process like Exim. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 20:21 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hello Michael, What does /var/log/exim/exim_mail log tell? Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:38:55 PM, you wrote: I have an exim configuration question. I run exim-4.69. It's worked well for over a year. This morning I did a slight network topography modification, and now my wife is having trouble sending email from her computer. Her computer used to be 192.168.1.4,, but it's connected to a subrouter now that's connected into the main one. The subrouter's IP is 192.168.0.1, if that matters. My wife's computer is now 192.168.0.2. She tried to send mail to one of her friends, and exim rejected the message. Here's the hostlist line from /etc/exim/exim.conf: baby bind # grep hostlist /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 Now, she can send a test message to herself by appending our domain to the end of her username. We're used to not having to do that. How can we get that back? I would send the full exim.conf, but I don't remember the syntax to sed to strip out all the comment lines, and my reference books are packed away for our eminent move... -- Sergey Mar 13 14:22:01 baby exim[25957]: 2008-03-13 14:22:01 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) I guess 192.168.1.100 is what my main router calls the subrouter. The subrouter is configured to use the address 192.168.0.1 . Do I need to add 192.168.1.100 to the hostlist in exim.conf and restart exim? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re[4]: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
Hi Michael, Thursday, March 13, 2008, 10:15:33 PM, you wrote: It didn't work: Mar 13 15:13:31 baby exim[26470]: 2008-03-13 15:13:31 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) baby bind # grep 192.168.1.100 /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.100 Is there any other option? 1. Show your config. 2. Tell Exim to not do resolving for hosts from 192.168.0/24 and 192.168.1/24 networks (host_lookup option). -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Test
Hi, just testing my exim 4.67 configuration. Sorry! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] mailman stopped working after upgrade
Hmm. Another insteresting thing: Why did portage re-install the same version of mailman (r4) over and over? daevid init.d # genlop -l | grep mailman Thu Nov 11 10:26:07 2004 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r2 Sun Nov 14 18:12:48 2004 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r2 Mon Jan 17 14:36:05 2005 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r3 Fri Feb 11 16:58:33 2005 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 Sun Feb 13 17:57:01 2005 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 Wed Sep 7 11:34:36 2005 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 Mon Sep 12 15:48:09 2005 net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 daevid init.d # genlop -l | grep exim Sat Nov 13 16:09:25 2004 mail-mta/exim-4.42 Thu Jan 13 12:19:16 2005 mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 Mon Jun 13 13:21:37 2005 mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 Mon Jun 13 16:41:18 2005 mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 Tue Jun 14 12:34:58 2005 mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 Sun Jun 26 12:18:26 2005 mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 Thu Jul 7 00:57:45 2005 mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 So if I read this correctly, mailman-2.1.5-r4 has been installed and re-installed several times. But around Sept 7th is when it stopped working. I have mail from the list on 9/5 for sure. I'm fairly certain that exim is not to blame here, as that hasn't changed in over two months. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
Michael Sullivan wrote: My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop cannot connect to my exim mail server. I can't seem to figure out why. Can anybody help me fix this? And the log files say what? kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] Useflags EXIM
On 03 June 2007, Stefan Onken wrote: Hello, anyone able to give me a detailled discription of exim ? http://www.exim.org Uwe -- The Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?
Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. Rgds, -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 21:47 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote: Hi Michael, Mar 13 14:22:01 baby exim[25957]: 2008-03-13 14:22:01 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) I guess 192.168.1.100 is what my main router calls the subrouter. The subrouter is configured to use the address 192.168.0.1. Probably this address is NATed. Do I need to add 192.168.1.100 to the hostlist in exim.conf and restart exim? Yes - this is easy solution for your problem ;) -- Sergey It didn't work: Mar 13 15:13:31 baby exim[26470]: 2008-03-13 15:13:31 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) baby bind # grep 192.168.1.100 /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.100 Is there any other option? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2)
Daevid Vincent wrote: [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that vixie-cron is the issue, or kdegraphics is the issue? Being reverse order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says nomerge so that seems like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the exim I have installed. Conversely, why would kdegraphics give a hoot about a mail transport? I don't get it.) This is telling you that vixie-cron (which is already installed so will not be merged again) is trying to bring in ssmtp for some reason. I don't use exim or know anything about it, but does its ebuild register it as a proper MTA? It seems that your system either doesn't recognize exim as an MTA, or perhaps that vixie-cron requires an MTA other than exim (postfix is nice :) ) R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
Hello Michael, What does /var/log/exim/exim_mail log tell? Thursday, March 13, 2008, 7:38:55 PM, you wrote: I have an exim configuration question. I run exim-4.69. It's worked well for over a year. This morning I did a slight network topography modification, and now my wife is having trouble sending email from her computer. Her computer used to be 192.168.1.4,, but it's connected to a subrouter now that's connected into the main one. The subrouter's IP is 192.168.0.1, if that matters. My wife's computer is now 192.168.0.2. She tried to send mail to one of her friends, and exim rejected the message. Here's the hostlist line from /etc/exim/exim.conf: baby bind # grep hostlist /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 Now, she can send a test message to herself by appending our domain to the end of her username. We're used to not having to do that. How can we get that back? I would send the full exim.conf, but I don't remember the syntax to sed to strip out all the comment lines, and my reference books are packed away for our eminent move... -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
Hello.
You know, this is very unusual configuration. I don't even can imagine why
you need both of them.
In order to resolve mutual block, you need to remove "!mail-mta/postfix"
and "!mail-mta/exim" strings from RDEPEND in both packages. Don't forget to
place modified ebuilds to local overlay.
2016-08-08 15:29 GMT+05:00 Konstantin <myownlett...@gmail.com>:
> Hello Guys
>
> I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
> I know it is unusual configuration ).
> I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
>
> Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
> [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
> mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
> Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
> (mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
>
> (mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in
> by
> exim
>
> What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to
> install both of them ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:40:45 +0500, Azamat Hackimov wrote:
Please don't top-post.
> You know, this is very unusual configuration. I don't even can imagine
> why you need both of them.
> In order to resolve mutual block, you need to remove "!mail-mta/postfix"
> and "!mail-mta/exim" strings from RDEPEND in both packages. Don't
> forget to place modified ebuilds to local overlay.
That's not enough. Both ebuilds install sendmail, so you'll also have to
deal with file collisions, or modify one of the ebuild to not install
sendmail. The latter is probably the better option.
Another approach would be to run one of these MTAs in a container, which
would avoid all these shenanigans.
>
> 2016-08-08 15:29 GMT+05:00 Konstantin <myownlett...@gmail.com>:
>
> > Hello Guys
> >
> > I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
> > I know it is unusual configuration ).
> > I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
> >
> > Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
> > [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
> > mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
> >
> > Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
> > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
> >
> > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> > * installed at the same time on the same system.
> >
> > (mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> > mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
> >
> > (mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
> > in by
> > exim
> >
> > What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to
> > install both of them ?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
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> >
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Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
I had to remove "!mail-mta/sendmail", "!mail-mta/postfix" and
"!mail-mta/exim" in order to install exim as second MTA.
Thanks everyone for the help!
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:40:45 +0500, Azamat Hackimov wrote:
>
> Please don't top-post.
>
> > You know, this is very unusual configuration. I don't even can imagine
> > why you need both of them.
> > In order to resolve mutual block, you need to remove "!mail-mta/postfix"
> > and "!mail-mta/exim" strings from RDEPEND in both packages. Don't
> > forget to place modified ebuilds to local overlay.
>
> That's not enough. Both ebuilds install sendmail, so you'll also have to
> deal with file collisions, or modify one of the ebuild to not install
> sendmail. The latter is probably the better option.
>
> Another approach would be to run one of these MTAs in a container, which
> would avoid all these shenanigans.
> >
> > 2016-08-08 15:29 GMT+05:00 Konstantin <myownlett...@gmail.com>:
> >
> > > Hello Guys
> > >
> > > I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
> > > I know it is unusual configuration ).
> > > I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
> > >
> > > Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
> > > [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
> > > mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
> > >
> > > Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
> > > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
> > >
> > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> > > * installed at the same time on the same system.
> > >
> > > (mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> > > mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
> > >
> > > (mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
> > > in by
> > > exim
> > >
> > > What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to
> > > install both of them ?
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > --
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> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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[gentoo-user] Useflags EXIM
Hello, anyone able to give me a detailled discription of exim ? [ebuild N] mail-mta/exim-4.67 USE=mailwrapper mysql pam perl ssl tcpd -X -dnsdb -domainkeys -dovecot-sasl -exiscan -exiscan-acl -gnutls -ipv6 -ldap -lmtp -mbox -mbx -nis -postgres -radius -sasl -spf -sqlite -srs -syslog 1,600 kB Thanks. -- www.stonki.de:the more I see, the more I know... www.proftpd.de: Deutsche ProFTPD Dokumentation www.krename.net: Der Batch Renamer für KDE www.kbarcode.net: Die Barcode Solution für KDE -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim required by dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 (which I don't have installed)
On 4/20/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand this error: You masked out the versions of php greater-than *or equal to* what you have installed, so portage naturally wants to downgrade the version. Plus, exim only has these version available: * mail-mta/exim Available versions: [M]4.50-r999 4.54 4.60 4.60-r1 Installed: none Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ Description: A highly configurable, drop-in replacement for sendmail You have masked out 4.54, 4.60, and 4.60-r1. And 4.50-r999 is package masked. What do you want portage to do??? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?
On Friday 08 April 2011 16:06:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. Rgds, Without actually testing and seeing which can be best optimized for your usage pattern? I run postfix without problems, but then, I don't have that much of a restriction on memory so I never really looked into it. I think the memory usage also depends on the kind of filtering you use. Postfix has some additional processes that help in reducing the load by filtering connections prior to actually receiving emails. (postscreen) I don't know enough to say how Exim handles that. -- Joost
Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat
Do they need telnet or ssh access, I don't understand this obsession with ssh or telnet. Remote code execution means that malicious party can execute any code on affected system. To elaborate, since exim is an SMTP server it will be listening on TCP/25. All the attacker needs to do is run an SMTP command that will prompt exim to perform a lookup on a very long FQDN. The first command an SMTP client issues to an SMTP server is 'HELO some FQDN'. Exim can be configured to check if that the FQDN is valid, as a way of trying to distinguish spammers from valid mail servers. So here we have a situation where a security control happens to make the server less secure, and we have all that's required for exploitation in a nice package.
[gentoo-user] logrotate: name of log file after it's rotated?
Hi,
is there a built-in way (like a place holder) to figure out what name a
rotated log file has been given by logrotate?
Here's what I'm trying to do:
, [ cat /etc/logrotate.d/exim }
| /var/log/exim/exim*.log {
| daily
| missingok
| rotate 800
| compress
| delaycompress
| notifempty
| create 640 mail mail
| postrotate
| /usr/sbin/eximstats | mail -s
"eximstats" root
| endscript
| }
`
I want replaced with the name the log file that
has been rotated has been renamed to. I can think of ways to do this
otherwise, like writing a script that figures out the name of the file,
or using 'prerotate' instead.
It just won't make any sense if logrotate doesn't already have some kind
of place holder for this.
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I can't telnet to it.) 110 is POP3
Re: [gentoo-user] exim-4.50-r1: fails to stop via init.d,
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:27 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:59:22 -0400, fire-eyes wrote: I am using exim-4.50-r1, and it does not stop via /etc/init.d/exim stop . It simply gives !!. More detailed errors on that sure would be nice. Is there nothing in /var/log? Looking into this, it's not creating the pid file specified in the init.d script. I have to kill exim manually, then pass zap to the init.d script to straighten things out. Has anybody else seem this? My permissions sure seem fine. Including /var/run? Some programs drop root privileges before starting, so you need the chmod 1777 /var/run. Turns out I'm not alone. Sounds like a duh fix to me, makes me wonder why it hasn't been fixed. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79743 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:19:01 -0500 symack wrote: Hello Andrew, Thank you for your response. For example, Exim implements reverse lookup. How is malicious activity used against it? Exim uses vulnerable function depending on its configuration, that's why it may be possible to remotely execute code with privileges of the exim process. Do they need telnet or ssh access, I don't understand this obsession with ssh or telnet. Remote code execution means that malicious party can execute any code on affected system. or buy some freak of nature can exploit the vulnerability in other ways? Considering how old one's setup should be to be affected to this issue, it is likely that such systems have another vulnerabilities, allowing attacker to gain root privileges even if exim itself is being run as a non-root user. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko pgpKpmns3wCDW.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19 20:19, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an > >>>> SMTP server? > >>> > >>> Errr, no. exim does SMTP. > >>> > >>> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need > >>> to hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. > >> > >> Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility > >> that has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. FWIW, you can plug in your existing script into exim as a custom "transport", in the exim terminology. In fact that is what I used to do for years, to stuff outgoing mail into sendmail on a system where I had a shell account. But if I understand the problem now (a well sized if, LOL) that doesn't by itself help you because the existing script is broken; replacing the script is the main part of the problem. Right? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 14:12 -0700, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: My MSOutlook 2007 and my Mozilla Thunderbird email clients on my laptop cannot connect to my exim mail server. I can't seem to figure out why. Can anybody help me fix this? And the log files say what? kashani As far as I can tell, nothing, except for a bunch of errors about [EMAIL PROTECTED] messages being deferred (mailman's not even running!) and Spool files being locked...
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I would suggest you go to the very active exim-users mail list and be prepared to show your config and the log entries. You can find a link to the mail list at www.exim.org . The author of exim is very forthcoming and helpful as well as the well established and knowledgable userbase. Ok, I'll try that. Thanks! Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - A serious problem with my exim configuration
On my new exim install on my server box, I have a serious problem. It will accept mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but not [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are the relevant portions of my config: domainlist local_domains = @ espersunited.com : baby.espersunited.com : localhost domainlist relay_to_domains = hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 70.234.122.248 : 70.234.122.250 : 70.234.122.251 qualify_domain = baby.espersunited.com : localhost.localdomain How do I get it to accept mail for espersunited.com? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2)
I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to break it. (a friend set it up actually, as that was the MTA he used.) daevid portage # esearch exim * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55 (Is this upgrade from 4.54 to 4.67 very smooth? Should I worry? I dread having to deal with exim.conf again, and the exim users list is very elitist. Usually saying RTFM for most issues -- but they all are experts or mail admins. I'm not. Nor do I want to be.) But when I do an emerge -aut world, I get this blocking issue: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: ...snip... [nomerge ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.02 [5.01-r2] [nomerge ] x11-apps/appres-1.0.1 [1.0.0] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1-r1 [1.0.3-r1] USE=-xcb% [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum [nomerge ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2 [3.5.5] [nomerge ] media-libs/lcms-1.15 [1.14-r1] USE=-tiff* [nomerge ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.31 [1.3.25] USE=ruby* -lua% -mono% -ocaml% -pike% [nomerge ]dev-lang/php-5.2.2-r1 [5.2.1-r3] [nomerge ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1 [7.15.1] USE=ldap* -idn* [ebuild U ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.30-r2 [2.3.27] USE=-smbkrb5passwd% [nomerge ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.3 [6.2.9.5] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 [1.0.4] ...snip... [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that vixie-cron is the issue, or kdegraphics is the issue? Being reverse order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says nomerge so that seems like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the exim I have installed. Conversely, why would kdegraphics give a hoot about a mail transport? I don't get it.) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] mail-mta/exim required by dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 (which I don't have installed)
I don't understand this error: -- Calculating world dependencies !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!! masked or don't exist: net-mail/mailman net-mail/dovecot mail-mta/exim media-sound/beep-media-player net-wireless/hostapd net-firewall/shorewall / !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy mail-mta/exim have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - mail-mta/exim-4.60-r1 (masked by: package.mask) - mail-mta/exim-4.54 (masked by: package.mask) - mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) # Fernando J. Pereda [EMAIL PROTECTED] (25 April 2005) # mask these until the new mailwrapper/mailer-config scheme is ready # it is secure to unmask them to test - mail-mta/exim-4.60 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. !!!(dependency required by dev-lang/php-5.0.5-r5 [ebuild]) -- I don't have that old version of php installed and what does this mean? How can the latest version be LESS than what I have installed?! * dev-lang/php Latest version available: 5.0.5-r5 Latest version installed: 5.1.1 daevid ~ # emerge -Ca dev-lang/php These are the packages that I would unmerge: dev-lang/php selected: 5.1.1 protected: none omitted: none I do have some packages masked so as not to destabalize my server, but that doesn't explain the above errors. Plus there may be other packages I'd like to upgrade, but I can't see them until emerge -Davu world can get past that dependency issue above. daevid ~ # cat /etc/portage/package.mask =mail-mta/exim-4.54 =mail-mta/ssmtp-2.00 =dev-lang/php-5.1.1 =net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 =net-mail/dovecot-0.99.14-r1 =net-wireless/hostapd-0.4.7-r1 =net-firewall/shorewall-2.4.2 And finally, I tried: USE=~x86 emerge -Davu world Shouldn't that just unmask everything and at least get past the error? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] syslog problem....
When I try to start exim, I get this: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'sysklogd' already provided by 'logger'!; * Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ] * sysklogd - start: syslogd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/syslogd: No such file or directory (No such file or directory) * Failed to start syslogd [ !! ] * ERROR: cannot start exim as sysklogd could not start I have syslog-ng installed, and don't understand why it's trying to load sysklogd...pointers welcome. Thanks David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Exim question
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 14:32 -0700, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: Do I need to add 192.168.1.100 to the hostlist in exim.conf and restart exim? Yes - this is easy solution for your problem ;) -- Sergey It didn't work: Mar 13 15:13:31 baby exim[26470]: 2008-03-13 15:13:31 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (failed to find host name from IP address) baby bind # grep 192.168.1.100 /etc/exim/exim.conf hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.1.2 : 192.168.1.3 : 192.168.1.4 : 192.168.0.2 192.168.1.100 Is there any other option? Add 192.168.0.2 and .100 to your /etc/hosts file. You've got Exim set to deny IP addresses that do not resolve. kashani 192.168.0.2 was already in there, but I've added 192.168.1.100 to both /etc/hosts and the DNS server files. Now, in addition to the previous error, I get this: Mar 13 21:14:15 baby exim[30880]: 2008-03-13 21:14:15 unqualified recipient rejected: amy H=([192.168.0.2]) [192.168.1.100] (192.168.1.100 does not match any IP address for subrouter.espersunited.com.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa) baby named # grep subrouter * db.1.168.192:100 IN PTR subrouter.espersunited.com db.espersunited.com:subrouter.espersunited.com IN A 192.168.1.100 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
On 08/08/2016 12:29, Konstantin wrote:
> Hello Guys
>
> I need to install postfix and exim at the same Gentoo server.
Why?
You either have them running on different ports (mighty unusual) or,
more likely or different NICs.
So put them on two different machines. Hardware is dirt cheap and unless
you are a huge corporate an average Samsung S5 phone can fill most mail
needs. Or as Neil suggested, make one machine a VM
> I know it is unusual configuration ).
> I have both MTA running at CentOS and trying to migrate to Gentoo.
>
> Current error message for "emerge -pv exim" is:
> [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim ("mail-mta/exim" is blocking
> mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1)
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,763 KiB
> Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
> (mail-mta/postfix-3.1.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> mail-mta/postfix required by @selected
>
> (mail-mta/exim-4.87:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
> exim
>
> What i need to change in ebuild files of these packages in order to
> install both of them ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> *This message was delivered using 100% recycledelectrons***.
--
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[gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)
I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to break it. (a friend set it up actually, as that was the MTA he used.) daevid portage # esearch exim * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55 (Is this upgrade from 4.54 to 4.67 very smooth? Should I worry? I dread having to deal with exim.conf again, and the exim users list is very elitist. Usually saying RTFM for most issues -- but they all are experts or mail admins. I'm not. Nor do I want to be.) But when I do an emerge -aut world, I get this blocking issue: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: ...snip... [nomerge ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.02 [5.01-r2] [nomerge ] x11-apps/appres-1.0.1 [1.0.0] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1-r1 [1.0.3-r1] USE=-xcb% [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum [nomerge ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2 [3.5.5] [nomerge ] media-libs/lcms-1.15 [1.14-r1] USE=-tiff* [nomerge ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.31 [1.3.25] USE=ruby* -lua% -mono% -ocaml% -pike% [nomerge ]dev-lang/php-5.2.2-r1 [5.2.1-r3] [nomerge ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1 [7.15.1] USE=ldap* -idn* [ebuild U ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.30-r2 [2.3.27] USE=-smbkrb5passwd% [nomerge ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.3 [6.2.9.5] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 [1.0.4] ...snip... [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that vixie-cron is the issue, or kdegraphics is the issue? Being reverse order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says nomerge so that seems like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the exim I have installed. Conversely, why would kdegraphics give a hoot about a mail transport? I don't get it.) And maybe I'm using this tool wrong, but this just adds to my confusion. daevid portage # equery depends mail-mta/ssmtp [ Searching for packages depending on mail-mta/ssmtp... ] daevid portage # equery depends mail-mta/exim [ Searching for packages depending on mail-mta/exim... ] app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9-r2 (virtual/mta) app-admin/tripwire-2.3.1.2-r2 (virtual/mta) dev-lang/php-5.2.1-r3 (virtual/mta) mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1 (virtual/mta) mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r7 (virtual/mta) net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 (virtual/mta) sys-power/apcupsd-3.10.18-r1 (virtual/mta) sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 (virtual/mta) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)
On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: I haven't done an emerge on my server in quite a while, but now that I've upgraded the CPU/RAM, I figure it's about time. There are a few packages I'm a bit apprehensive about upgrading. exim being one. I hate that MTA. It was a nightmare to setup and get working properly, and now I don't want to break it. (a friend set it up actually, as that was the MTA he used.) daevid portage # esearch exim * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55 That's correct. If you are happy with exim-4.55 and there's no reaosn you can find to upgrade it, just stick with what you have (Is this upgrade from 4.54 to 4.67 very smooth? Should I worry? I dread having to deal with exim.conf again, and the exim users list is very elitist. Usually saying RTFM for most issues -- but they all are experts or mail admins. I'm not. Nor do I want to be.) But when I do an emerge -aut world, I get this blocking issue: A better command is probably 'emerge -avuNDt world'. This will pick up changes in USE flags (N) and also update any dependencies that are not in world (D) These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: ...snip... [nomerge ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.02 [5.01-r2] [nomerge ] x11-apps/appres-1.0.1 [1.0.0] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1-r1 [1.0.3-r1] USE=-xcb% [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper -md5sum [nomerge ] kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2 [3.5.5] [nomerge ] media-libs/lcms-1.15 [1.14-r1] USE=-tiff* [nomerge ] dev-lang/swig-1.3.31 [1.3.25] USE=ruby* -lua% -mono% -ocaml% -pike% [nomerge ]dev-lang/php-5.2.2-r1 [5.2.1-r3] [nomerge ] net-misc/curl-7.15.1-r1 [7.15.1] USE=ldap* -idn* [ebuild U ] net-nds/openldap-2.3.30-r2 [2.3.27] USE=-smbkrb5passwd% [nomerge ] media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.3 [6.2.9.5] [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 [1.0.4] ...snip... [blocks B ] mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (also, I never understand the --tree option. Does this mean that vixie-cron is the issue, or kdegraphics is the issue? Being reverse order, I am guessing vixie-cron, yet it says nomerge so that seems like, why would it care, plus it's worked fine all these years with the exim I have installed. Conversely, why would kdegraphics give a hoot about a mail transport? I don't get it.) It means that vixie-cron depends on ssmtp (i.e. vixie-cron uses ssmtp for some reason). Obviously, ssmtp will be merged first so that it is there when vixie-cron is merged. The output does indeed show that packages will be emerged in bottom-up order, but the list of dependencies is top-down. The vixie-cron ebuild inherits the cron eclass, and that file has this: RDEPEND=!virtual/cron virtual/mta =sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2 So it wants a virtual mta, and somehow believes that exim doesn't provide it, so portage has (helpfully...) suggested ssmtp. vixie-cron doesn't need to be recompiled, as it's an RDEPEND and only needed at run time (hence the nomerge) I would suggest you investigate why portage thinks exim does not provice virtual/mta capabilities And maybe I'm using this tool wrong, but this just adds to my confusion. daevid portage # equery depends mail-mta/ssmtp [ Searching for packages depending on mail-mta/ssmtp... ] daevid portage # equery depends mail-mta/exim [ Searching for packages depending on mail-mta/exim... ] app-admin/sudo-1.6.8_p9-r2 (virtual/mta) app-admin/tripwire-2.3.1.2-r2 (virtual/mta) dev-lang/php-5.2.1-r3 (virtual/mta) mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1 (virtual/mta) mail-filter/procmail-3.22-r7 (virtual/mta) net-mail/mailman-2.1.5-r4 (virtual/mta) sys-power/apcupsd-3.10.18-r1 (virtual/mta) sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 (virtual/mta) What's confusing about that? equery found 8 packages that claim to depends (or use) ssmtp. That's perfectly normal. It's the packages that depend on ssmtp, not the packages you have installed and are configured/USE-flagged to use it alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send attachments
Hi, On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:09:15 -0600 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We use evolution. I tried using Squirrelmail and got this: Message not sent. Server replied: Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable 550 Rejected: spam score 6.5 Ah, I see. Exim does output a 550 anyway (and it makes some sense, I guess the SMTP protocol definition is impractical w/ regard to the allowed errors). But reading the full error report, it seems it's your spam detection software that leads exim to deny the mail. Your exim config seems to indicate that everything with a spam score 6.0 is to be denied (those numbers in the config are given with a factor of ten, I guess?). Depending on whether the full spam check report is available on the logs, you might want to temporarly disable that mail denial and check the mail headers for the protocol of which certain spam checks leads your spam filter to the conclusion it is spam, then adjust that. -hwh -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:41:43 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I wasn't able to get it fixed until very recently. Since baby went down, camille has been our server. But now baby is back up again, and acting as a server, and everything has been going well except this: camille and catherine as still trying to send mail from cron jobs to camille instead of to baby. AFAIK I've updated all the appropriate DNS records on all machines, so how can I fix this? Is it possible to set camille's exim to forward all mail it receives to the equivalent accounts on baby? Yes, simply configure exim on camille to accept all, and to deliver all to baby. Rob. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: The usual clamav + spamassassin combo. If you do decide to go the exim route, there are two ways to interface spamassassin to it. One is now built in called exiscan. The other is called sa-exim and, the reason I am mentioning this, it now supports a spamassassin assisted form of greylisting. sa-exim will do greylisting for you but will only greylist stuff that spamassassin marks as being spam, so you avoid most of the negatives of greylisting. I implemented it a day and a half ago and about 90% of the spam is now not even received in the first place. It seems to work really well and is better than standard greylistin. best regards Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe
Hi, 1 Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007, 13:39:21 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:43 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: http://opensource.bertram-scharpf.de/sites/cropmail/ OKay. It emerged. Now, how do I plug it into sendmail? I'm a little confused as to exactly what I insert into /etc/exim/exim.conf. Any clues? As far as I remember Exim became prominent for its excellent logging and diagnostics output. (It's months ago for me). Do you like to post some parts of /var/log/exim/* ? Thanks in advance. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 04:51 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, 1 Am Freitag, 11. Mai 2007, 13:39:21 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 10:43 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: http://opensource.bertram-scharpf.de/sites/cropmail/ OKay. It emerged. Now, how do I plug it into sendmail? I'm a little confused as to exactly what I insert into /etc/exim/exim.conf. Any clues? As far as I remember Exim became prominent for its excellent logging and diagnostics output. (It's months ago for me). Do you like to post some parts of /var/log/exim/* ? Thanks in advance. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de Is there anything in particular I should be looking for? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Exim and Spamassassin
Hi, I have installed exim-4.60-r1 and spamassassin-3.1.0. Both are started in daemon mode at boot. I can connect to port 783 via telnet: Spamassassin is listening. In the exim.conf file I found this line # For spam scanning, there is a similar option that defines the interface to # SpamAssassin. You do not need to set this if you are using the default, which # is shown in this commented example. As for virus scanning, you must also # modify the acl_check_data access control list to enable spam scanning. # spamd_address = 127.0.0.1 783 I understand this passage as Exim will interface to Spamassassin automagically if port 783 is opened by it and I have nothing additionally to do. Nevertheless I uncommented the last line. But I get no mails scanned Something went wrong and I cannot figure out, what it is... Any help is very appreciated !!! :O) Kind regards, mcc -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up SMTP relay
On 1/23/2011 12:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: It manages it's own queues beautifully. But, and this makes me sad, it doesn't really want *me* to manage it's queues. Border controls are hard, and finding the 1,000 mails some idiot with a Windows bot just sent, and deleting them, is really hard. I'm redesigning our mail setup at work,a nd I'm going to do it with exim *and* Postfix. Exim is the front end I can see, work with, and manage. Exim sends on to Postfix as fast as it can, and Postfix transparently relays to recipient. I get best of both worlds :-) I can't say I've ever needed anything more than mailq | grep |awk | postsuper -d - in order to delete mail from the Postfix queues. What sort of things are your trying to do other than delete a lot of spam or bounces? kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] MTA lighter on resource: Exim or Postfix?
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 16:20, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 08 April 2011 16:06:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: Hello again, list! I need to deploy an MTA in the Cloud. Now, RAM is at a premium, so between Exim and Postfix, which one is lighter on resource? Thank you for your inputs. Rgds, Without actually testing and seeing which can be best optimized for your usage pattern? I run postfix without problems, but then, I don't have that much of a restriction on memory so I never really looked into it. I think the memory usage also depends on the kind of filtering you use. Postfix has some additional processes that help in reducing the load by filtering connections prior to actually receiving emails. (postscreen) I don't know enough to say how Exim handles that. Well, the load shouldn't be too heavy. After all, it's meant only to be a (closed) mail relay server. Anyways, it's a direct instruction from the BoD, and you know they always want the server to be deployed yesterday... :-P Rgds, -- Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Visit my Blog: http://pepoluan.posterous.com
Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate: name of log file after it's rotated?
On 25/03/2016 13:46, lee wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> is there a built-in way (like a place holder) to figure out what name a
> rotated log file has been given by logrotate?
>
> Here's what I'm trying to do:
>
>
> ,---- [ cat /etc/logrotate.d/exim }
> | /var/log/exim/exim*.log {
> | daily
> | missingok
> | rotate 800
> | compress
> | delaycompress
> | notifempty
> | create 640 mail mail
> | postrotate
> | /usr/sbin/eximstats | mail -s
> "eximstats" root
> | endscript
> | }
> `
>
>
> I want replaced with the name the log file that
> has been rotated has been renamed to. I can think of ways to do this
> otherwise, like writing a script that figures out the name of the file,
> or using 'prerotate' instead.
>
> It just won't make any sense if logrotate doesn't already have some kind
> of place holder for this.
>
It depends. There are options to tell logrotate to use, or not use,
dates in the new filename, and what compression to use or not use. So
the names can vary.
By far the easiest solution is to put your "| mail" into prerotate
section. That way you know exactly what the name is. Or maybe not due to
that * in the name glob...
Perhaps look into renamecopy described in man logrotate
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> > Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >> > need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for >> > you? It certainly has all the functionality. >> >> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that >> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards >> delivery. > > I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can > do pretty much anything. If its configuration language isn't Turing > complete, it is quite damn close to it. And the same can be said of > sendmail, though I know much less about it know. Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an SMTP server? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's the RINSE CYCLE!! at They've ALL IGNORED the gmail.comRINSE CYCLE!!
[gentoo-user] SMTPS not working after upgrade 4.43 to 4.50
Please help. I run Gentoo and try to use only the stable x86 packages for my server. I upgraded from 4.43-r2 to 4.50-r1 as per portage's suggestion and now I can't SEND mail from Outlook through my server to anywhere using SMTPS. This worked fine earlier today before the upgrade. I don't see any readme or other txt that would indicate I needed to configure something. there was no etc-update files to examine either. checking here, i don't see any known bugs re: my issue. http://gentoo-portage.com/mail-mta/exim/bugs this also talks about port 465, but i'm using port 25 according to outlook. this chapter talks about SSL, but it's over my head. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_38.html like i say, this worked earlier with the lower version, so i assume my config files are correct. If i disable SSL in outlook for outgoing, then i can send mail to my exim server (daevid.com), but can't send to anywhere else as relay not permitted [which is expected] If i check the SSL box for outgoing SMTP (like i has always been), then mail never leaves outlook. it just constantly tries to send. i can send mail using 'pine' from the server to anywhere. i don't see any messages in the log file ?! i do have a firewall (shorewall). did some port change now that i need to open? here are the parameters for exim that i have in my emerge: [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 +X -dnsdb -exiscan -exiscan-acl +ipv6 -ldap -lmtp -mailwrapper -mbox +mysql -nis +pam +perl -postgres -sasl +ssl -syslog +tcpd 0 kB so +ssl is on. i recieve mail just fine. so at the moment, no users can send mail basically and i'm dead in the water as we require SSL to send so that we're not an open relay. :( I tried to post to the exim list but they have dynamic IPs blocked via an RBL list even though you have to be a member of the list to post -- very helpful. UGH! So I was hoping that someone on this list would be a bit more helpful. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php 4.4.1-r3 wont emerge
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Holly, thanks for the information. I will give that a try, but the problem is that I *want* the nis USE flag set. I cannot imagine that something precludes php being used on a system which uses nis... Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations
I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I wasn't able to get it fixed until very recently. Since baby went down, camille has been our server. But now baby is back up again, and acting as a server, and everything has been going well except this: camille and catherine as still trying to send mail from cron jobs to camille instead of to baby. AFAIK I've updated all the appropriate DNS records on all machines, so how can I fix this? Is it possible to set camille's exim to forward all mail it receives to the equivalent accounts on baby?
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Jun 12, 2005, at 1:19 AM, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Could use qmail or postfix, think none of them runs on Win. There are also eximsendmail but not as good IMHO. i use qmail. HTH. Rumen yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. There are installations running in the UK with millions of user accounts with exim as the mta and it works just fine, is secure, and is *easy* to manage and maintain with very complex configurations. yes, its MHO, but also the opinion of lots of others who do mail for small to very large organizations professionally Chad -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Jun 14, 2005, at 11:47 AM, A. Khattri wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what works well for us. Why do you selectively quote? The parts you left out put the statements in context that the other guy was ragging on exim. --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - A couple of questions about setting up exim
I think I sent this question from [EMAIL PROTECTED] about an hour ago, but as I have not received it back again at either this address, or espersunited.com and as I don't seem to have sent any mail from espersunited.com since April, I'll send this again. In my exim.conf file, I'm a little confused about the hostlist relay_from_hosts variable. I need to be able to send mail from 127.0.0.1, 70.234.122.250 (the machine exim's running on), 70.234.122.251, and 70.234.122.248 (which are two other machines on my LAN). How would I set the variable thus? Also, exim needs to be able to receive mail from anywhere. Is this the default behaviour? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim
What do I need to do to set up mailman to work with exim? I have a test list called phantom that I tried to send a test message to from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: exim_main.log:2007-05-11 11:47:37 H=adsl-70-234-122-248.dsl.tul2ok.sbcglobal.net (baby.espersunited.com) [70.234.122.248] sender verify fail for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address I don't know where it's getting bullet.espersunited.com from; bullet's not even hooked up anymore. Can anyone help me? If I can't get this working, I'll have to go back to sendmail, which I know it works with... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Not getting cron emais that should go to root user
For a long time I haven't gotten cron reports from one particular box on my network. I've been seeing these lines in my /var/log/cron.log file: 27-Jul-09 12:00 unable to exec /usr/lib/sendmail -t, user -oem, output to sink null27-Jul-09 12:09 failed user root parsing pr 2002; Thilo Bangert bang...@gentoo.org I don't know why it's trying to use sendmail; I use exim. The server is actually on the same box that's giving me this problem, but the other two boxes on the network use ssmtp forwarding to forward their mail to this box, and I get their cron reports. There's nothing in the exim logs about this.
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19 23:58, Grant Edwards wrote: > That would require seperate outbound transports that are selected > based on how the mail was read: smtp vs. /usr/bin/sendmail (the real > one). I get the impression from exim and postfix docs that outbound > routing based on input method aren't possible (I may be wrong about > that). In the case of exim, you're definitely very wrong about it. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Migrating servers to a new box
--- Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This morning my server box died (power supply problem I think). I've pulled the hard drive and am trying to set up a similar environment on one of my other boxes. I've copied over two user home directories, as well as exim.conf and dovecot.conf to their proper places, and restarted the servers. I think we're getting new mail in, but I'm not sure where it's going. Attached is the results of grep 'Apr 10' /var/log/mail.log . AFAIK, nothing is being rejected. While we're on the subject, what files do I need to move/replace in order to make sure that all my users can log onto their accounts on this alternate box; is it just /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, or is there more? I forgot to add in my previous post that I'm using camille ~ # emerge -pv exim These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.69 USE=X exiscan-acl ldap mysql pam perl sasl ssl syslog tcpd -dnsdb -domainkeys -dovecot-sasl -exiscan -gnutls -ipv6 -lmtp -mailwrapper -mbox -mbx -nis -postgres -radius -spf -sqlite -srs 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB and my exim.conf file (attached) And on closer inspection of the mail.log I saw that all the messages are being temporarily rejected after DATA. Now if only I knew what that meant... camille ~ # exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is undeliverable: Unrouteable address -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where would it be rewritten as [EMAIL PROTECTED] camille ~ # grep baby /etc/exim/* camille ~ # Would this be a DNS thing? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
On Mon, September 8, 2008 5:32 pm, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I can't telnet to it.) 110 is POP3 So what port is IMAP?
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Jun 13, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Ok, then perhaps you could explain why a mail server (running exim4) suddenly stops to relay emails (this worked before) and then all of a sudden starts to relay them again (without me changing any settings)... I have looked for clues in the logs and tried the debug mode but I still haven't understood why. Help? I would suggest you go to the very active exim-users mail list and be prepared to show your config and the log entries. You can find a link to the mail list at www.exim.org . The author of exim is very forthcoming and helpful as well as the well established and knowledgable userbase. Without a copy of your config and the log file entries, I cannot start to answer your questions. I have been running exim since 0.5x (since 97) and it has been rock solid for me and everyone I know including the ISPs who handle millions of email addresses with it. best Chad Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] sorta OT - honest (!) opinions on mailservers
On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: yes, but most knowledgable people know that exim blows the pants off qmail and postfix. Now why would you want to start a flame war? Noone said package X is better than package Y - most of us are just saying what works well for us. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] simple mta for local delivery
Postfix is probably the easiest to setup out of the lot of sendmail, exim, qmail, postfix. --- Chris Covington IT Plus One Health Management 75 Maiden Lane Suite 801 NY, NY 10038 646-312-6269 http://www.plusoneactive.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - A serious problem with my exim configuration
On 11/5/07 15:35, Michael Sullivan wrote: [...] domainlist local_domains = @ espersunited.com : Try it with a : after the @ ;) baby.espersunited.com : localhost domainlist relay_to_domains = hostlist relay_from_hosts = 127.0.0.1 : 70.234.122.248 : 70.234.122.250 : 70.234.122.251 qualify_domain = baby.espersunited.com : localhost.localdomain How do I get it to accept mail for espersunited.com? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 06:51:12 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 29 May 2007 10:32:23 Daevid Vincent wrote: * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55 [SNIP] [nomerge ] sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r10 [4.1-r9] [ebuild N] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE=ipv6 ssl -mailwrapper vixie-cron has a run-time dependency on virtual/mta which can be satisfied by both exim and ssmtp (and 8 other packages in the tree). ssmtp is the default provider. It matters despite the nomerge because it's a run-time dependency rather than build-time. You have at least four options. Another, less tenable, option is to use paludis as your package manager. It will satisfy dependencies (including virtuals) with installed packages. Also, paludis's --show-reasons summary option is usually easier to understand and more informative than emerge/portage's --tree option. However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: binary packages (both building and using) and a revdep-rebuild equivalent (although this can be hacked around) AND you can't simply switch between using paludis and emerge/portage; they use the same VDB, but repositories are configured differently and paludis can perform some caching that emerge/portage will not use/update. It also runs the ebuild test phase by default which results in more merge failures and thus more required interaction; you can turn that off if you desire. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgp5UWuEL5RKe.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] RE: I'm not getting gentoo list emails anymore?
Something in definitely strange... I turned off my Mailhop Outbound service and sent the mail directly via exim: I tried to subscribe to a list that I know I'm not already in (the osx one). I turned off .procmailrc (no recopies and full logging) daevid exim # grep gentoo /var/log/mail/current Dec 24 13:21:31 [exim] 2006-12-24 13:21:31 1Gyamg-0006aw-2F = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=lists.gentoo.org [140.105.134.102] Dec 24 13:31:22 [exim] 2006-12-24 13:31:22 1GyawC-0006c2-K7 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mail.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183] X=TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 Dec 24 13:31:22 [exim] 2006-12-24 13:31:22 1GyawC-0006c2-Va = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp H=mail.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183] X=TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256 I'm running out of ideas. As you can see, NOTHING is coming back to my server. I should at least see something in the log there with an = arrow from the gentoo.org server. I get all other mail from several lists and for several different users on this system. daevid exim # ping gentoo.org PING gentoo.org (204.74.99.100) 56(84) bytes of data. --- gentoo.org ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4015ms But its not unusual for someone to drop ping packets (I do it too for security reasons) Would the list admin please double check the mlmmj list tools and see if there is some setting for my email address that says 'nomail' or 'suspended' or something like that... Is my email even showing up in the list (or did my unsubscribes go through). Does the list use any kind of RBL? -Original Message- From: Andrea Barisani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 3:36 AM To: Daevid Vincent Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: I'm not getting gentoo list emails anymore? On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 02:45:13PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: I had a power outage here in Seattle, WA since last Thursday. Server is finally online. I suspect your mail server suspended or unsubscribed me due to bounces. However, how can I turn it back on? I tried to send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I don't get any emails at all back. Then I tried it from my work account and I do get a 'confirmation' email?! Are you doing some kind of blocking or checking (I hope not) that my email address comes from some certain domain or something? I run a gentoo server on my cable modem at home and use DynDNS Outbound Mail relay (to prevent this very kind of thing, where certain domains like AOL block mail from dynamic IPs) We don't do any kind of specific filtering on our side, so this is not a problem on our end. You might want to wait a few days and see if this changes, it might be just a connectivity issue. Cheers I have been monitoring my /var/log/mail/current and don't see any gentoo emails coming in. As a sanity check, I even turned off my .procmailrc file (the whole thing!) and still nada. daevid mail # grep gentoo * current:Dec 22 14:17:47 [exim] 2006-12-22 14:17:47 1Gxsi2-0002UD-6L = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-21-11:12:52:Dec 21 02:11:33 [exim] 2006-12-21 02:11:33 1GxKtg-0005RB-5D = gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-22-01:05:18:Dec 21 12:14:04 [exim] 2006-12-21 12:14:04 1GxUIm-lT-CG = [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=lists.gentoo.org (robin.gentoo.org) [140.105.134.102] P=esmtp S=4261 [EMAIL PROTECTED] log-2006-12-22-01:05:18:Dec 21 12:19:04 [exim] 2006-12-21 12:19:04 SMTP command timeout on connection from lists.gentoo.org (robin.gentoo.org) [140.105.134.102] log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 22:15:41 [exim] 2006-12-21 22:15:41 1Gxdgw-0003Ql-GT = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 22:15:41 [exim] 2006-12-21 22:15:41 1Gxdgx-0003Ql-22 = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 22:16:26 [exim] 2006-12-21 22:16:26 1Gxdhh-0003RB-2s = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 22:16:26 [exim] 2006-12-21 22:16:26 1Gxdhh-0003RB-Dw = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 22:17:07 [exim] 2006-12-21 22:17:07 1GxdiG-0003RM-RR = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 23:27:02 [exim
Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail and qmail
Suranga Kasthuriarachchi wrote: Which is the best for organization mail server. NOT qmail - too many holes and not good performancewise. sendmail has had numerous holes way back then. And I dislike the configuration language. So, I'd suggest postfix or exim. I personally use Postfix always. It's featureful and easy enough to configure. Alexander Skwar -- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat
Hello Andrew, Thank you for your response. For example, Exim implements reverse lookup. How is malicious activity used against it? Do they need telnet or ssh access, or buy some freak of nature can exploit the vulnerability in other ways? N
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 19/01/2018 22:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: >>>> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>> >>>>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >>>>>> need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for >>>>>> you? It certainly has all the functionality. >>>>> >>>>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that >>>>> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards >>>>> delivery. >>>> >>>> I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can >>>> do pretty much anything. If its configuration language isn't Turing >>>> complete, it is quite damn close to it. And the same can be said of >>>> sendmail, though I know much less about it know. >>> >>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an >>> SMTP server? >> >> Errr, no. exim does SMTP. >> >> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to >> hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. > > Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility that > has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. > Got it now. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19, Grant Taylor <gtay...@tnetconsulting.net> wrote: > On 01/19/2018 12:48 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> Yep, and it looks like the Postfix equivalent is a custom pipe transport. >> Once you know what phrases to google for, it's a lot easier. > > *nod* > > I figured that you would be able to find something. > > Hence why I mentioned the terms. ;-) [...] >> I wrote the server I'm using now, but it uses somebody else's snmpd >> module, and that's where the SSL breakage is. I've filed a bug, and I've >> been doing some reading toward attempting a fix, but it looks like it >> might be a bit hairy: it involves Python's asyncore/asynchat framework >> (and process pools). What's missing is handling for ssl "want read" >> and "want write" exceptions. > > "snmpd" or "smtpd"? Aargh. smtpd. Typos like that certinaly don't help the confusion. > You lost me at Python. (I know it's a personal prejudice. But I > think I'm allowed to have it as long as I acknowledge them as such.) I'm going to try stunnel in front of the existing solution first. If that doesn't work, I'll try sendmail/postfix/exim. It looks like they'll all do what I want (modulo the no-queue desire). FWIW, the google phrase for exim is "exim pipe transport": https://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_pipe_transport.html Thanks again (and apologies) to everbody who tried to figure out what it was I was asking... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! They collapsed at ... like nuns in the gmail.comstreet ... they had no teen appeal!
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: >>> On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>>> Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you >>>>> need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for >>>>> you? It certainly has all the functionality. >>>> >>>> I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that >>>> my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards >>>> delivery. >>> >>> I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can >>> do pretty much anything. If its configuration language isn't Turing >>> complete, it is quite damn close to it. And the same can be said of >>> sendmail, though I know much less about it know. >> >> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an >> SMTP server? > > Errr, no. exim does SMTP. > > If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to > hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility that has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! HELLO KITTY gang at terrorizes town, family gmail.comSTICKERED to death!
[gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)
On 2020-04-02, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, April 1, 2020 10:20 AM, Ian Zimmerman > wrote: > >> Normally the mail program works by execing /usr/sbin/sendmail to to the >> hard part :-P Do you have it? It doesn't have to be the "real" >> sendmail - any MTA program you install usually makes a symlink from >> /usr/sbin/sendmail to itself. > > i got sendmail around. but didn't do any configurations. > > what's the minimum configuration to do? i'm really not planning > anything ultra-professional. Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional who already knows how to configure it (not joking). If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or wherever), then Sendmail is definitely not what you want. > i hope it to send an email the shameless style (just send an smtp > message to the smtp server where my email is hosted) If you don't need local queueing (so you can send email while offline), then I'd pick ssmtp. NB: ssmtp is a bit old and in need of a ebuild maintainer, so might not be my first choice if I wasn't already familiar it. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing outbound mail while you're offline.: https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nullmailer If you want something even more sophisticated (e.g. something that can deliver mail locally and receive inbound mail using SMTP), then postfix or exim would probably the be the next step up: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Postfix https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Exim https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Exim I've read claims that there are things you can do with sendmail that Exim or Postfix can't handle, but I'm not sure I believe it. I am sure I'll never need to do any of those things. -- Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mail cannot send emails (trying to use it with smartd)
On Thursday, April 2, 2020 6:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Then DO NOT use sendmail. Sendmail is only for the ultra-professional > who already knows how to configure it (not joking). > > If all your mail gets sent via a single SMTP server at your ISP (or > wherever), then Sendmail is definitely not what you want. > > If you don't need local queueing (so you can send email while > offline), then I'd pick ssmtp. NB: ssmtp is a bit old and in need of > a ebuild maintainer, so might not be my first choice if I wasn't > already familiar it. > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSMTP > > Nullmailer is also a good option with the added bonus of queueing > outbound mail while you're offline.: > > https://github.com/bruceg/nullmailer > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nullmailer > > If you want something even more sophisticated (e.g. something that can > deliver mail locally and receive inbound mail using SMTP), then postfix > or exim would probably the be the next step up: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Postfix > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Postfix > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Exim > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Exim > > I've read claims that there are things you can do with sendmail that > Exim or Postfix can't handle, but I'm not sure I believe it. I am > sure I'll never need to do any of those things. thanks a lot for this info. highly appreciated. i'll go with nullmailer (imo suits me best). though i'm a bit curious about sendmail (if your time allows). do you mean the ebuild "sendmail"? or the command "sendmail"? i used to think it's a swiss-army kind of tool (used to call "sendmail" in my cgi scripts decades ago without any infrastructure; by just directly zapping recipient's smtp gateway).
[gentoo-user] I'm not receiving this list anymore but I can send to it (according to gmane). Am I suspended?
I had a power outage here in Seattle, WA since last Thursday. Server is finally online. I suspect the mail server suspended or unsubscribed me due to bounces because I've not received any for a few days, when normally there are plenty per day. However, how can I turn it back on? I tried to send messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I don't get any emails at all back. Then I tried it from my work account and I *do* get a 'confirmation' email?! But I can't actually use that account. Is the list doing some kind of blocking or checking (I hope not) that my email address comes from some certain domain or something? The 'exim' list server did that crap and it sucked. I run a gentoo server on my cable modem at home and use DynDNS Outbound Mail relay (to prevent this very kind of thing, where certain domains like 'exim' list and AOL block mail from dynamic IPs) I have been monitoring my /var/log/mail/current and don't see any gentoo emails coming in. As a sanity check, I even turned off my .procmailrc file (the whole thing!) and still nada -- normally it just sends all gentoo emails to a folder. I don't know what else to do. I wish there was a mailman-like web front end :( I didn't know that the list was even functioning until I happened to notice emails that I had SENT here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/176211 That were dated from today. So that makes it even stranger that I can apparently POST to the list, but I am not receiving it?! Ideas? daevid mail # grep gentoo /var/log/mail/* /var/log/mail/log-2006-12-22-01:05:18:Dec 21 12:14:04 [exim] 2006-12-21 12:14:04 1GxUIm-lT-CG = [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=lists.gentoo.org (robin.gentoo.org) [140.105.134.102] P=esmtp S=4261 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /var/log/mail/log-2006-12-22-01:05:18:Dec 21 12:19:04 [exim] 2006-12-21 12:19:04 SMTP command timeout on connection from lists.gentoo.org (robin.gentoo.org) [140.105.134.102] /var/log/mail/log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 22:15:41 [exim] 2006-12-21 22:15:41 1Gxdgw-0003Ql-GT = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 /var/log/mail/log-2006-12-22-09:56:01:Dec 21 23:27:02 [exim] 2006-12-21 23:27:02 1Gxeo0-0005Qb-2Z = gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 /var/log/mail/log-2006-12-22-24:14:07:Dec 22 14:17:47 [exim] 2006-12-22 14:17:47 1Gxsi2-0002UD-6L = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=send_to_gateway T=outbound_smtp H=outbound.mailhop.org [63.208.196.171] X=TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19, Ian Zimmerman <i...@very.loosely.org> wrote: > On 2018-01-19 20:19, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >>>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an >> >>>> SMTP server? >> >>> >> >>> Errr, no. exim does SMTP. >> >>> >> >>> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need >> >>> to hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. >> >> >> >> Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility >> >> that has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. > > FWIW, you can plug in your existing script into exim as a custom > "transport", in the exim terminology. In fact that is what I used to do > for years, to stuff outgoing mail into sendmail on a system where I had > a shell account. But if I understand the problem now (a well sized if, > LOL) that doesn't by itself help you because the existing script is > broken; replacing the script is the main part of the problem. Right? The existing /usr/bin/sendmail (that's not it's actual path) script works fine. It's the SSL support in the SMTP server that invokes the /usr/bin/sendmail script that's broken. I've modified that server to run an instance of stunnel and use plain SMTP (sans SSL). It looks like that's probably going to work. There's a custom SSL server because at some point in the past it had to do some odd things with headers and the envelope from field (it also implements some special logging). Then at some later point in the past, the requirement for those odd things went away. At some other point in history, the SSL support in that server got broken. The actual failure is intermittent (it depends on message size and network timing), so it's taken a while to track it down and decide what to do about it. For now, I'm going with the custom server and stunnel. If there are problems with that, I'll try one of sendmail/postfix/exim. [One of the hassles with those is that portage won't allow me to install any of them because they conflict with msmtp, which is what I use for sending normal e-mail.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Life is a POPULARITY at CONTEST! I'm REFRESHINGLY gmail.comCANDID!!
Re: [gentoo-user] php 4.4.1-r3 wont emerge
Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] php uncompatible with nis USE flag?
On the off-chance that perhaps there was an error in the ebuild file, I did a sync. However, php will still not build. Are the NIS USE flag and dev-lang/php mutually-exclusive? I had no problem building dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php with the same USE flags. If anyone can offer advice on dealing with this issue, I would be grateful. Thank you. On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] php uncompatible with nis USE flag?
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:38:00AM -0500, Michael George wrote: On the off-chance that perhaps there was an error in the ebuild file, I did a sync. However, php will still not build. Are the NIS USE flag and dev-lang/php mutually-exclusive? I had no problem building dev-php/php and dev-php/mod_php with the same USE flags. If anyone can offer advice on dealing with this issue, I would be grateful. After playing with the USE flags a bit, I was able to generate another error *after* the message: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I'm suspecting now that execution of the emerge is continuing after the QA notice and the failure is actually later in the script. Though there are no further error messages to indicate what the problem is... On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 12:49:15AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Michael George wrote: I am trying to update my system, and it seemed like a good time to go from the old php ports to the dev-lang ports. But I'm having trouble building php-4.4.1-r3. I have masked php-5 and up, as I'm not quite ready to move to that yet. When I try to emerge php-4.4.1-r3, it stops with this error: QA Notice: USE Flag 'nis' not in IUSE for dev-lang/php-4.4.1-r3 I get the same error with php-5.0.5. I don't have nis set as a use flag anywhere in my stuff, though, and I cannot find it set for php in the profiles. I have put -nis into package.use for php and I have tried removing nis and setting -nis into /etc/make.conf, but nothing helps. Did you do an emerge -uaDNtv world after you put -nis in make.conf, to recompile anything with the USE flag previously active? From looking at the ebuild, it looks like this is due to php-4 inheriting the php-4_4.sapi eclass; contained in the eclass is this line: # Recode is not liked confutils_use_conflict recode mysql imap nis Now, I don't know what this means, but it clearly is intended in some way. I also would suspect that the nis flag is not related to PHP itself, but one of its dependencies, which was compiled previously with this flag set, which has now become 'illegal' (that happened to me the other day with another package, the dependency had to be recompiled without a particular flag set for the upgrade of the main package to install). Here's the list of packages that have this flag: equery hasuse -p nis [ Searching for USE flag nis in all categories among: ] * installed packages * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [I--] [ ] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r2 (4) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0-r1 (4) [-P-] [ ] net-mail/lbdb-0.30 (0) [-P-] [ ~] net-mail/lbdb-0.31 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4-r1 (3) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/pam-0.78-r4 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.8-r1 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r3 (0) [-P-] [ ~] www-servers/thttpd-2.25b-r2 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.7-r1 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/postfix-2.2.5-r1 (0) [-P-] [M-] x11-libs/qt-4.1.0 (4) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.43-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.60 (0) [-P-] [M~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r999 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.54 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.52 (0) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50 (0) [-P-] [ ~] x11-libs/qt-4.0.1 (4) [-P-] [M~] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.5 (3) [-P-] [ ] x11-libs/qt-embedded-3.3.4 (3) [-P-] [ ~] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r2 (0) [-P-] [ ] mail-mta/exim-4.50-r1 (0) I don't have anything to do with PHP myself, but if one of these is associated with your install of PHP, I would consider recompiling it without the nis USE flag, and then see if PHP compiles. Hope this is helpful, despite my ignorance of this specific package. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] -- -M There are 10 kinds of people in this world: Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need procmail recipe
Hi Michael, Am Mittwoch, 09. Mai 2007, 15:21:52 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 20:50 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Am Dienstag, 08. Mai 2007, 14:52:15 -0500 schrieb Michael Sullivan: On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:33 +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: If you don't want to write it in Procmail, maybe you like to do some Ruby. I once composed my own mail filter. It's not documented very well but really easy to use. http://opensource.bertram-scharpf.de/sites/cropmail/ OKay. It emerged. Now, how do I plug it into sendmail? I'm using Exim and I only have no other machine at home where I could try another MTA. As I did with Exim, it should suffice when you take the Procmail plug of Sendmail and just s/procmail/cropmail/g it. A successful configuration example is welcome here. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] syslog problem....
On 12/7/06, David Corbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to start exim, I get this: * Caching service dependencies ... * Service 'sysklogd' already provided by 'logger'!; * Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ] * sysklogd - start: syslogd ... /sbin/start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/syslogd: No such file or directory (No such file or directory) * Failed to start syslogd I don't have exim installed, but I'm guessing it depends on logger, which can be provided by either sysklogd or syslog-ng. Probably: 1. You had sysklogd installed at one point (thus got an init file for it) 2. You emerge -C'd it (thus why /usr/sbin/syslogd doesn't exist) 3. You have /etc in CONFIG_PROTECT but don't have /etc/init.d in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, so portage left the sysklogd init file on your system. I'm guessing you should be able to resolve this with: 1. rc-update -d sysklogd 2. rm /etc/init.d/sysklogd Then add /etc/init.d to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK in /etc/make.conf if you want portage to automatically remove init files when you remove the associated package. HTH, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Need advice in selecting a mail server
I have three boxes (baby, camille, and catherine) in my LAN, and for some reason (this was years ago) I set up an exim server on each of them. camille and catherine were supposed to forward their mail to baby, which has a working dovecot server. Now, nothing from catherine is going through, and only mail sent from cron on camille is going through, and everything on baby is being delivered. Some time a couple of years ago my daily logwatch reports stopped coming (all of them) and earlier this year my portage elogs stopped getting mailed to me. I would like to replace all of them with something simple (like ssmtp), but I'm not sure what the setup on baby needs to be so that I can still access my hundreds of saved emails on the dovecot server. Every time emerge on camille or catherine tries to send an elog I get the 451 error. I can't seem to find the attempts in the log files. Anyway, can I use ssmtp on baby to receive/store network mail, or do I need something extra like exim/sendmail?
Re: [gentoo-user] Ghost cyber threat
On Jan 30, 2015 12:53 PM, Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 12:19:01 -0500 symack wrote: or buy some freak of nature can exploit the vulnerability in other ways? Considering how old one's setup should be to be affected to this issue, it is likely that such systems have another vulnerabilities, allowing attacker to gain root privileges even if exim itself is being run as a non-root user. Well, it's only a few days old on most distros. It's about a year old on Gentoo. I think most of us run multiple boxes with some !gentoo. So most of us had at least one box that was potentially vulnerable. Exim being the only service proven vulnerable so far, it's possible you're otherwise fine. OTOH, how would you like to find out a service you use is vulnerable to an old bug? Especially one you had plenty of time to fix? Again Gentoo has been fine unless for a while you stuck with an old version for some reason. Most everything else...
Re: [gentoo-user] 2 MTA at the same host
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:40:45 +0500, Azamat Hackimov wrote: >> >> You know, this is very unusual configuration. I don't even can imagine >> why you need both of them. >> >> In order to resolve mutual block, you need to remove "!mail-mta/postfix" >> and "!mail-mta/exim" strings from RDEPEND in both packages. Don't >> forget to place modified ebuilds to local overlay. > > That's not enough. Both ebuilds install sendmail, so you'll also have to > deal with file collisions, or modify one of the ebuild to not install > sendmail. The latter is probably the better option. On RHEL, if you co-install sendmail and postfix (exim isn't in the regular repo; it must be in EPEL since it's in Fedora), /sbin/sendmail is a symlink to /etc/alternatives/mta and /etc/alternatives/mta is a symlink to /sbin/sendmail.sendmail or /sbin/sendmail.postfix, with a similar setup for the sendmail man page. But their startup scripts/units conflict and have to be modified to be co-runnable.
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up fetchmail to feed postfix
On 26.11.2017 03:30, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I get duplicate messages, which are a known problem and easily worked > around, but the latest version of KMail whinges about more than one > candidate for display and just gives up. For debugging purposes it might help you to know that you actually sent the message I am currently quoting twice, according to the header data. Message #1: Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>) id 1eImhw-IJ-SK for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 02:30:12 + Message #2: Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=peak.localnet) by smarthost03a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk>) id 1eImhw-0002XH-8v for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 26 Nov 2017 02:30:12 + Note the different host names and different IDs, these are two distinct emails sent by you. -Ralph
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19/01/2018 22:03, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2018-01-19, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 19/01/2018 21:54, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>> Can exim transfer mail to an Exchange server that doesn't expose an >>>> SMTP server? >>> >>> Errr, no. exim does SMTP. >>> >>> If the above is what you need, any orthodox mail server would need to >>> hand the mail over to something that *can* deliver to Exchange. >> >> Yes, and that something is my existing command-line MTA utility that >> has the same usage as /usr/bin/sendmail. > > Got it now. I obviously did a bad job describing the problem, since I seemed to have confused just about everybody. I erred in leaving out what I thought were irrelevant details. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Boy, am I glad it's at only 1971... gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP to cmd-line MTA relay?
On 2018-01-19 18:49, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Just like the others writing in this thread, I am wondering why you > > need 2 pieces here. Why won't e.g. exim do both sides of this for > > you? It certainly has all the functionality. > > I don't see how you can say that when you don't know the method that > my command-line MTA uses to transfer mail on down the path towards > delivery. I can say it because I have some experience with exim, and I know it can do pretty much anything. If its configuration language isn't Turing complete, it is quite damn close to it. And the same can be said of sendmail, though I know much less about it know. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
[gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
Hi 'emerge -pv --depclean' shows that these packages may be unmerged: These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-crypt/hashalot selected: 0.3-r2 protected: none omitted: none sys-libs/pwdb selected: 0.62 protected: none omitted: none sys-apps/attr selected: 2.4.32 protected: none omitted: none Is it safe to remove they from the system? This is mail server and has mostly no additional packages except exim, mysql, spamassassin and some other. Thanks for any help. -- Sergey -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 17:37 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, September 8, 2008 5:32 pm, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I can't telnet to it.) 110 is POP3 So what port is IMAP? Connection to port 143 refused. The problem is dovcot, definitely...
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
Michael Sullivan wrote: My public IP address is 70.234.122.254 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet 127.0.0.1 143 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to 127.0.0.1. Escape character is '^]'. * OK Dovecot ready. ^] telnet quit Connection closed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet 70.254.122.254 143 Trying 70.254.122.254... telnet: connect to address 70.254.122.254: Connection refused Are you port forwarding port 143 through your NAT if you're using NAT? Are you allowing imap in your firewall rules? I'd also try the suggesting of changing to listen = * suggested here. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Dovecot#Configure kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
Michael Sullivan wrote: Are you port forwarding port 143 through your NAT if you're using NAT? Are you allowing imap in your firewall rules? I'd also try the suggesting of changing to listen = * suggested here. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Dovecot#Configure kashani From nmap: 143/tcp filtered imap 443/tcp filtered https So yes you have a firewall and you have not checked the rules? That's generally what filtered means. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:51:47 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: dovecot doesn't seem to have a log. How do I turn on logging for dovecot? It's explained in the config comments, but turned off by default # Log file to use for error messages, instead of sending them to syslog. # /dev/stderr can be used to log into stderr. log_path = /var/log/dovecot -- Neil Bothwick Assassins do it from behind. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Multi-services box
Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in a DMZ to protect the internal network. At first glance, should these 4 packages play well together on the same piece of hardware? I'm very open to suggestions, including separate hardware if it's necessary. Thanks!-- Mark[unwieldy legal disclaimer would go here - feel free to type your own]
Re: [gentoo-user] how to allow pop,smtp ports on a squid?
El Nino wrote: Dear friends, (how to allow pop smtp protocols through a squid?) You can't You want postfix/exim/qmail/whatever as an smtp relay -perhaps to your ISP smtp server- and fetchmail for your pop/imap accounts. HTH, Norberto -- Norberto Bensa 4544-9692 Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - !!! An error occured while trying to send logmail:
Since I installed an exim server on a couple of my
machines yesterday I have been getting this error when
I try to emerge anything:
!!! An error occured while trying to send logmail:
{'root': (501, 'root: recipient address must contain
a domain')}
I have the domain name set in the DNSDOMAIN variable
in /etc/conf.d/domainname. How do I activate it?
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Need help setting up mailman to work with exim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Sullivan wrote: If I can't get this working, I'll have to go back to sendmail, which I know it works with... I use Postfix and it plays nice with Mailman. I'd highly recommend it! R -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGRRFN7So1xaF/eR8RAuUAAKCDfi/C1oA/GxUh9QdsFAj5kE7y2ACgyQ2r /GtdD1eN36p0LppoRX7YmNk= =Tep7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT - spamassassin not rewriting subject headers
I'm having a problem. I'm running spamassassin with exim: baby ~ # emerge -pv exim spamassassin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] mail-mta/exim-4.67 USE=exiscan exiscan-acl ldap mysql pam perl sasl ssl syslog tcpd -X -dnsdb -domainkeys -dovecot-sasl -gnutls -ipv6 -lmtp -mailwrapper -mbox -mbx -nis -postgres -radius -spf -sqlite -srs 0 kB [ebuild R ] mail-filter/spamassassin-3.1.8-r1 USE=berkdb doc mysql ssl -ipv6 -ldap -postgres -qmail -sqlite -tools 980 kB and I've finally gotten spamassassin to add X-Spam headers to potential spammish emails, but it's not rewriting the Subject header. Here's the ACL from /etc/exim/exim.conf: acl_check_data: # Deny if the message contains a virus. Before enabling this check, you # must install a virus scanner and set the av_scanner option above. # # denymalware= * # message= This message contains a virus ($malware_name). # Add headers to a message if it is judged to be spam. Before enabling this, # you must install SpamAssassin. You may also need to set the spamd_address # option above. # warnspam = nobody add_header = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\ X-Spam_score_int: $spam_score_int\n\ X-Spam_bar: $spam_bar\n\ X-Spam_report: $spam_report # Accept the message. accept Here's my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf: baby ~ # cat /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf # This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin. # # See 'perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf' for details of what can be # tweaked. # # Only a small subset of options are listed below # ### # Add *SPAM* to the Subject header of spam e-mails # rewrite_header Subject *SPAM* # Save spam messages as a message/rfc822 MIME attachment instead of # modifying the original message (0: off, 2: use text/plain instead) # report_safe 0 # Set which networks or hosts are considered 'trusted' by your mail # server (i.e. not spammers) # #trusted_networks 70.234.122. # Set file-locking method (flock is not safe over NFS, but is faster) # lock_method flock # Set the threshold at which a message is considered spam (default: 5.0) # required_score 5.0 # Use Bayesian classifier (default: 1) # use_bayes 1 # Bayesian classifier auto-learning (default: 1) # bayes_auto_learn 1 # Set headers which may provide inappropriate cues to the Bayesian # classifier # # bayes_ignore_header X-Bogosity # bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Flag # bayes_ignore_header X-Spam-Status # # header CITIBANK Body =~ /Citi/ score -100 header YAHOOGROUPS Reply-To =~ /yahoogroups.com/ score -100 So why isn't it rewriting the Subject header? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] qmail spamming
Hi Gentoo, Wednesday, July 4, 2007, 7:02:41 AM, you wrote: Dear all, I'm using qmail with qmail-scanner. but i'm getting lots of mails from drug sites(drug advertiesment) to my users mail boxes. i have installed the spammassin. but still I'm getting such spam mail. please help me how I'm stop this spam mails. Thanks regards, Switch to Exim or Postfix. -- Sergey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
