[exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all Yesterday someone sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my domain), and now Im seeing this 2006-02-08 07:32:34 1F6SuX-0002gj-Ph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /var/spool/uucp/. (No such file or directory) Did a check on my /etc/passwd file mail:~# cat

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Tony Godshall
According to Brent Clark, Hi all Yesterday someone sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my domain), and now Im seeing this 2006-02-08 07:32:34 1F6SuX-0002gj-Ph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /var/spool/uucp/. (No such file or directory) Did a check on

Re: [exim] STARTTLS before EHLO?

2006-02-08 Thread Matthew Byng-Maddick
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:50:00AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: Dean Brooks wrote: Bill Hacker wrote: 'Legacy', perhaps, but not 'non-standard' w/r our use of those two ports. Using it on 587 is non-standard The IANA registration has not specified port 587 for any particular protocol, smtp or

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Brent Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mi 08 Feb 2006 09:19:03 CET): Hi all Yesterday someone sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my domain), and now Im seeing this 2006-02-08 07:32:34 1F6SuX-0002gj-Ph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /var/spool/uucp/. (No such file

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:19:03AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hi all Yesterday someone sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my domain), and now Im seeing this 2006-02-08 07:32:34 1F6SuX-0002gj-Ph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /var/spool/uucp/. (No such file

[exim] Exim course 18-21 July 2006 (but not yet bookable)

2006-02-08 Thread Philip Hazel
Preliminary Announcement: We will be running another Exim course this year, on 18-21 July 2006, in Robinson College, Cambridge, UK. Please note however that some details are yet to be finalised, in particular the programme and costs. (The web pages have been minimally hacked but still give last

Re: [exim] STARTTLS before EHLO?

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:50:00AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: *SNIP* I know, let's all advocate overriding sane client defaults in everything we reply to. I mean, that wouldn't be confusing for new posters or people asking questions, would it? Given that most

[exim] CallerID with Exim4

2006-02-08 Thread Craig Whitmore
Has anyone written anything which will do CallerID with exim? (even external program) Thanks Craig -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

[exim] RE: Exim-user

2006-02-08 Thread Anne Clarke
I would just like to say thank you to you all for helping me get my emails back on track it must have helped as the people that were not receiving them are now Thank you very much From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: exim-users@exim.org To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Exim-users Digest, Vol

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Stephen Gran
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Christian Recktenwald said: as there are some more system accounts one presumably do not want to receive mail for from remote I'd like to suggest the following: [ good idea snipped ] My idea is that the simplicity should probably rule here. These

RE: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Jones
Just did the same ! Thanks for that. I'll check my ClamAV config file and make sure its not doing something silly. I've upgraded the server to V4.54 of Exim, 0.88 of ClamAV and 3.1.0 of SpamAssassin now, though it made no difference until I rebooted the server, and then it all seemed to work

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:41:55AM +, Stephen Gran wrote: clamav: :fail: No mail to system accounts To make it both clear and simple what you want? this inhibits reception of even locally submitted mail - which is not, what I intended. if some system process wants to

Re: [exim] Check for domain in acl_check_notsmtp

2006-02-08 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Stian Jordet wrote: The server uses fetchmail and gotmail to receive mail from other pop3/imap servers and hotmail. This works fine, but I'd like to check the mails for spam. I do this in the notsmtp acl. This also works fine. Here's what I use. fetchmail is only run as an unprivileged user

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Stephen Gran
This is better continued on the list. I am directing my reply there. If this was in some way private, I apologize - I can't think why it would be, however. On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:03:21PM +0800, Bill Hacker said: Seems equally harmless to simply delete them from /etc/aliases entirely. Er,

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Brent Clark
Stephen Gran wrote: This is better continued on the list. I am directing my reply there. If this was in some way private, I apologize - I can't think why it would be, however. On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:03:21PM +0800, Bill Hacker said: Seems equally harmless to simply delete them from

[exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi Everybody , My spam check condition like below , but I saw that more then 300K files are passing and checked from spamassassin. I'm controling spamd log ! Wed Feb 8 13:57:26 2006 [2418] info: spamd: clean message (1.8/7.0) for nobody:0 in 1.2 seconds, 890167 bytes. Wed Feb 8

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: warnspam = nobody:true condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} should be warncondition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} spam = nobody:true order matters for conditional keywords. -- ## List details at

RE: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
I made it like this but nothing changed condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} warnspam = nobody:true # condition = ${if {$message_size}{1M}} # condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} message = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\

RE: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:24 +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I made it like this but nothing changed Ah - no - warn is the verb, it must come first. What you have done is moved the condition to the previous ACL Change it to:- warncondition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} spam

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I made it like this but nothing changed condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} warnspam = nobody:true # condition = ${if {$message_size}{1M}} # condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} message = X-Spam_score:

RE: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Okey Thanks Nigel and Jakob , :) I made it like this warncondition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} spam = nobody:true # warnspam = nobody:true message = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\ X-Spam_score_int: $spam_score_int\n\

RE: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
Hi , Okey I changed but same thing happened .. Also I don't understand why I have to put additional acl because exim must be past if condition fail! İsn't it Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W B Hacker Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: Now still some messages are passing ! Yes - anything over 300K will do. Do you want to reject them unscanned or pass them unscanned? DoS / mailbomb attacks aside, most WinCrobes are seldom large, simply 'coz it takes the zombie-farmers too log to hit as many

RE: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread Vahric MUHTARYAN
I want to scan mails for spam if their size is under 300K , İf mail size pass 300K I will not send mail and normal process will be .. ( I don't want to reject something !!! ) :) Thanks Vahric -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W B

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I don't want to make spam test if it's more then 300K http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch40.html#SECTscanspam ass deny message = This message was classified as SPAM condition = ${if {$message_size}{10K}} spam = nobody I red this line

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I want to scan mails for spam if their size is under 300K , İf mail size pass 300K I will not send mail and normal process will be .. ( I don't want to reject something !!! ) :) You mean scan the small ones and drop the big ones on the floor? The 'discard' verb is

Re: [exim] STARTTLS before EHLO?

2006-02-08 Thread Giuliano Gavazzi
On 8 Feb 2006, at 03:50, W B Hacker wrote: urd465/tcpURL Rendesvous Directory for SSM do they mean rendezvous? (and shouldn't it be bonjour anyway?) g -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Brent Clark wrote: mail:~# cat /etc/passwd | grep -i uucp uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh mail:~# So my question is, for the Debian distobution, would it be safe to delete this user, or would anyone have another solution to this problem. Debian-specific questions should be

Re: [exim] RE: Exim-user

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Sherman
Anne Clarke wrote: I would just like to say thank you to you all for helping me get my emails back on track it must have helped as the people that were not receiving them are now Thank you very much Anne, please trim your quotes, and don't top-post, _especially_ if you're subscribed to the

RE: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Jones
Hmm, ok, thanks for that, gives me more to ponder on. I think where SA is concerned I've currently got it working with the default number of child processes, same goes for ClamAV. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Hall Sent: 08

[exim] Whitelisting some senders not working

2006-02-08 Thread Maykel Moya
Debian Sarge box, exim 4.50 /etc/exim4/exim4.conf - acl_check_rcpt: [...] deny message = Access denied log_message = Blacklisted sender senders = ! CONFDIR/whitelisted-senders : \ CONFDIR/blacklisted-senders

Re: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread Derrick MacPherson
John Hall wrote: Be careful how you interpret these figures - Linux will use any spare RAM as file cache, so the amount of free memory is misleading. If apps need more RAM then the file caches are given up. Yesterdays slashdot.org had an article on Linux memory usage, worth reading. -- ##

Re: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread John Hall
On 2/8/06, Derrick MacPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Exim 4.52 with SA 3.1 and Clamav 0.87 on a machine with only 256MB RAM quite happily, albeit with some careful limitations on the number of SA child processes. would you share with me on what your settings are? Thanks.

Re: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread John W. Baxter
On 2/8/06 2:59 AM, John Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Be careful how you interpret these figures - Linux will use any spare RAM as file cache, so the amount of free memory is misleading. If apps need more RAM then the file caches are given up. procinfo -r or free will show how much file

[exim] Exim + Mysql

2006-02-08 Thread Support
I have tried to install exim + mysql The compilation is succesful, but I cannot run exim as deamon. When I test something like: # exim -d Exim version 4.44 uid=0 gid=0 pid=3959 D=fbb95cfd Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.2.52: (February 22, 2005) Support for: iconv() Perl OpenSSL

[exim] Re: Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Joerg Sommer
Hi Brent, Brent Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Yesterday someone sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (my domain), and now Im seeing this 2006-02-08 07:32:34 1F6SuX-0002gj-Ph == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=userforward defer (-1): failed to stat /var/spool/uucp/. (No such file or

RE: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email

2006-02-08 Thread Mike Jones
That's great, thanks for the help with this, that's all going to be useful. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John W. Baxter Sent: 08 February 2006 15:44 To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] Exim has stopped sending email On

Re: [exim] Re: Debian uucp

2006-02-08 Thread Brent Clark
Joerg Sommer wrote: Do you know why exim wants to access the home dir? Does it search a forward file there? For me, it looks like a bug that the forward router fails if the home directory is missing. Regards, Jörg. Hi Jörg I think you may be on to something there. I have copied and pasted

[exim] message_size_limit

2006-02-08 Thread Jim Pazarena
I do not have this option set in my configure file, and it was my understanding that unset meant unlimited. However I just had a message bounce 552 message size exceeds maximum permitted SIZE=52571183 yes, it was huge, but I don't have this set? The docs indicate default is zero (unlimited) but

[exim] Doing callouts selectively

2006-02-08 Thread Maykel Moya
It is possible to do callouts selectively? I mean, do recipient verification callouts only for certain recipient domains. Regards, maykel -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list -

Re: [exim] message_size_limit

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:35, Jim Pazarena wrote: I do not have this option set in my configure file, and it was my understanding that unset meant unlimited. However I just had a message bounce 552 message size exceeds maximum permitted SIZE=52571183 yes, it was huge, but I don't

[exim] Re: message_size_limit

2006-02-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not have this option set in my configure file, and it was my understanding that unset meant unlimited. [...] yes, it was huge, but I don't have this set? The docs indicate default is zero (unlimited) but the above suggests otherwise. Am I missing

Re: [exim] message_size_limit (change in default)

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 14:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: Oh my. I looked in the ChangeLogs and NewLogs and did not find this. The book indicates zero as default. Out of curiosity, which book are you referring to? The reason I ask is that the Oreilly book [which does say that the default

Re: [exim] Whitelisting some senders not working

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 09:51, Maykel Moya wrote: CONFDIR/whitelisted-senders --- [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a similar problem recently, which Jakob Hirsch answered in this post: http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20060116/msg00216.html

Re: [exim] Doing callouts selectively

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 12:44, Maykel Moya wrote: It is possible to do callouts selectively? I mean, do recipient verification callouts only for certain recipient domains. I think all you need is something similar to this in the rcpt ACL: deny domains =

[exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-08 Thread Rafa
Hello, all I've been using exim for several years now and I'm quite satisfied by it, since it can pretty much handle any smtp related task I've had need of. Recently, tho, I was asked to provide secondary MX for another mail server that runs Postfix. This server is completely out of my control.

[exim] Graceful Restart?

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Does Exim have some kind of a graceful restart option so that I could change the config files without killing all the current processes? If it doesn't have this I'd like to suggest it. HTTPD has it and it's nice. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim

[exim] changing time for 25 to answer

2006-02-08 Thread Hawk
Hi, I have scanned thru the docs but could not locate the variable that controls how long exim waits before answering port 25. IE: telnet 192.168.1.12 25 30 seconds or so, then I get: 220 serverone ESMTP Exim 4.43 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:23:34 -0500 Thnx in advance. -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Graceful Restart?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:12, Marc Perkel wrote: Does Exim have some kind of a graceful restart option so that I could change the config files without killing all the current processes? If it doesn't have this I'd like to suggest it. HTTPD has it and it's nice. Um, what kind of

Re: [exim] Graceful Restart?

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Chris Knadle wrote: On Wednesday 08 February 2006 20:12, Marc Perkel wrote: Does Exim have some kind of a graceful restart option so that I could change the config files without killing all the current processes? If it doesn't have this I'd like to suggest it. HTTPD has it and it's nice.

[exim] Turning 421 errors into Defer?

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Perkel
When things go bad good email bounces returning 421 errors. Can that be changed to a DEFER so that they will resend rather than bounce? Thanks in advance. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki

Re: [exim] Graceful Restart?

2006-02-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 09/02/06, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Exim have some kind of a graceful restart option so that I could change the config files without killing all the current processes? If it doesn't have this I'd like to suggest it. HTTPD has it and it's nice. kill -HUP does the same thing

Re: [exim] Turning 421 errors into Defer?

2006-02-08 Thread Mark Nipper
On 08 Feb 2006, Marc Perkel wrote: When things go bad good email bounces returning 421 errors. Can that be changed to a DEFER so that they will resend rather than bounce? A 4xx level message should already be interpreted on the remote end as a deferral. If not, the remote SMTP server

Re: [exim] changing time for 25 to answer

2006-02-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 09/02/06, Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have scanned thru the docs but could not locate the variable that controls how long exim waits before answering port 25. IE: telnet 192.168.1.12 25 30 seconds or so, then I get: 220 serverone ESMTP Exim 4.43 Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:23:34

[exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-08 Thread John Oxley
Is there any reason why I shouldn't use dns block lists in the acl_smtp_connect? -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 09/02/06, John Oxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason why I shouldn't use dns block lists in the acl_smtp_connect? The only one commonly voiced is that some spamware doesn't understand a DENY on connect, and will enter a tight retry loop, using up your resources and filling up

Re: [exim] changing time for 25 to answer

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Peter Bowyer wrote: On 09/02/06, Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *trim* 2) Unless you have a specific use for it, turn off ident checking with 'rfc_1413_timeout = 0s' in your Exim config. This will stop Exim trying to do an ident query to the client, which may be dropping ident traffic at a