[exim] Re: [Exiim] Checking Urls in exim

2006-02-15 Thread mattheww
In article ![EMAIL PROTECTED], nospam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use the data available at SURBL and on their multi list (with positives in spamassassin as listed in the header upward)... I've therefore added following in my exim ACL conditions : [...] Could someone help me on this

exim tarball size. Was: Re: [exim] Broken distribution?

2006-02-15 Thread Giuliano Gavazzi
because of this thread I downloaded again the exim source tarball (the bz2 one) and noticed that its size has changed from the one I downloaded the around the 1st of December. The size of exim-4.60.tar.bz2 was 1554749, now it is 1556020. I supposed it has been re-compressed, but why? Would

Re: [exim] Exim Config and Space characters Question

2006-02-15 Thread Philip Hazel
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Potato Chip wrote: Spamcheck: # If user exists in /etc/passwd, pass username as argument transport_filter = /usr/bin/spamc -x ${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/passwd}{-u $local_part}} This is the error I get: Expansion of

Re: exim tarball size. Was: Re: [exim] Broken distribution?

2006-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:51 +, Philip Hazel wrote: The point of the MD5 checksum is to ensure that the distribution has not been tampered with. If somebody breaks in to the FTP site and tampers with the distribution, they could just as easily tamper with the checksum. Add a gpg

Re: [exim] (no subject)

2006-02-15 Thread Yann Golanski
Quoth Richard Dunne on Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:00:35 + Hi was was messing in the ver/spool on a folder noting to do with exim4 ,, now I get this error. Any ideas. 2006-02-15 10:53:32 1F9KHs-0006EX-No Failed to create spool file /var/spool/exim_incoming/input//1F9KHs-0006EX-No-D:

RE: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Mike Jones
Is this something I need to set, or is this something they've changed on their mail server ? Only ask, because we've made no changes to our server, and given its only one client having the problem, I'm reluctant to make a change on our config settings just for one person. Mike -Original

Re: [exim] how to config the exim4 as a client

2006-02-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, huang mingyou wrote: In my computer,I use mutt and fetchmail get and manage e-mail. And now,I need send mail from our mail server,not from my locale computer,but I don't want use another MUA. so I need configure the exim4 server that in my locale server as a client

[exim] Restricting SMTP access

2006-02-15 Thread Edward Kay
AIM: I want to stop any hosts that I don't explicitly allow from accessing my SMTP server. BACKGROUND: --- The MX records for my domains point to an external screening/filtering service. This then relays the mail to my Exim server that contains the mailboxes. I also receive local

[exim] mysql + stats logging

2006-02-15 Thread Ronan McGlue
I am toying with the idea of adding a router for all accepted messages to our system which will initally simply increment a counter in a mysql DB. ie to get hourly stats of all messages through system. we recieve 100k mails a day. Is this the prefered way to get real time stats, will it have

Re: [exim] Restricting SMTP access

2006-02-15 Thread Tim Jackson
Edward Kay wrote: I want to stop any hosts that I don't explicitly allow from accessing my SMTP server. [...] 1. I considered adding deny hosts = !+relay_hosts This is good. at the top of the check_recipient ACL (after accept hosts = : and require verify = sender). From what I can see

RE: [exim] (no subject)

2006-02-15 Thread Richard Dunne
Sorted. I mistakenly changed the permissions on spool. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Dunne Sent: 15 February 2006 11:01 To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: [exim] (no subject) Hi was was messing in the ver/spool on a folder

[exim] Spamassassin and demime

2006-02-15 Thread Stian Jordet
Hi, I do now run spamassassin in the data acl, running as the recipients user (I only allow one recipient at a time, that's okay for my traffic). It denies spam over a certain threshold, and marks the rest as spam if it's over another threshold. If it's marked as spam, it is later sent through

Re: [exim] Strange Sender Verification behaviour

2006-02-15 Thread Renaud Allard
All the servers I have been able to identify with this kind of log seem to have the same version number. I guess they don't regard this as a problem but more of a feature which is used to prevent spam because they are refusing mails when 1 recipient is wrong. What is funny is that on their page,

RE: [exim] Restricting SMTP access

2006-02-15 Thread Edward Kay
Fair enough. Can't you put the deny hosts = !+relay_hosts after these checks? I'm afraid this wouldn't help as the message would have already been accepted by accept domains = +local_domains. (The problem is spammers connect and set both the sender and recipient addresses to be in a local

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Mike Jones wrote: Is this something I need to set, or is this something they've changed on their mail server ? The former. Well, you don't need to, but it's likely to fix the problem. They probably changed their firewall settings. -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:54 +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote: Mike Jones wrote: Is this something I need to set, or is this something they've changed on their mail server ? The former. Well, you don't need to, but it's likely to fix the problem. They probably changed their firewall settings.

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Nigel Metheringham wrote: I'm not sure that having a 30 second RFC1413 timeout is useful in any normal circumstances nowadays. Best bet is to reduce it down to (say) 5 seconds. I agree. Then again if you have never used RFC1413 information or don't know what it is you could just switch

RE: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Mike Jones
Ok, thanks, I'll give that a go later tonight. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jakob Hirsch Sent: 15 February 2006 15:16 To: Nigel Metheringham Cc: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded Nigel

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote: I'm not sure that having a 30 second RFC1413 timeout is useful in any normal circumstances nowadays. Best bet is to reduce it down to (say) 5 seconds. I agree. Do you think I should change the default to 5s? Unix systems with shell access

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:36 +, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote: I'm not sure that having a 30 second RFC1413 timeout is useful in any normal circumstances nowadays. Best bet is to reduce it down to (say) 5 seconds. I agree. Do you think I

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Alan J. Flavell
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Jakob Hirsch wrote: As I understand, ident information was not intended to be useful for the requesting system, but for the requested system. Agreed. Nevertheless, there's a few tell-tale $sender_ident values which are good for an immediate rejection: the ones which

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Daniel Tiefnig
Nigel Metheringham wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:36 +, Philip Hazel wrote: Do you think I should change the default to 5s? Personally, yes. I don't think there are many sites for whom that is both useful and they don't come back within 5 seconds. I'd vote to disable ident lookups by

Re: [exim] Logging to stderr/stdout for multilog

2006-02-15 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:56 +, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: Hey all, I've just set up exim (4.54) for the first time on one of our servers, and am running the service using tcpserver (part of daemontools), executing `/usr/sbin/exim -bdf -q15m`, and this works, however I would prefer to do

Re: [exim] Logging to stderr/stdout for multilog

2006-02-15 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 17:03, Nigel Metheringham wrote: At present with an editor and a C compiler. Is there a way to do it including the redundant timestamp prefixes? Is there a TODO for logging to stdout? -- Casey Allen Shobe | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 206-381-2800 SeattleServer.com, Inc.

[exim] Different hostname for different IPs

2006-02-15 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Hi, all! How can I configure Exim to use different hostname for the HELO with other Server depending by the IP I use for this route? Example: I have 3 routes, that use 3 different IPs. Can I use 3 different Hostname for the HELO with the remote Servers? Thanks --

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Chris Edwards
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote: | Nowadays, however, our campus firewall blocks outgoing port 25 coming | from any host that isn't a registered MTA, and the registered MTA | hosts don't allow ordinary users to log on to them, so the scenario of | needing to identify *users* who are

Re: [exim] Different hostname for different IPs (addenda)

2006-02-15 Thread Luca Bertoncello
Luca Bertoncello [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Example: I have 3 routes, that use 3 different IPs. Can I use 3 different Hostname for the HELO with the remote Servers? I describe it better: How can I set a differente Hostname for HELO for different Transports? Thanks --

Re: [exim] RHS expansion a la mailertable

2006-02-15 Thread Victor Sudakov
Philip Hazel wrote: In mailertable (sendmail) I can write .old-company.com = smtp:%1.new-company.com In the CGP routing table I can write: *.old-company.com = *.new-company.com How do I achieve the same RHS expansion in an exim router (in route_data)? What do you actually

RE: [exim] Exim Config and Space characters Question

2006-02-15 Thread Potato Chip
Philip... Thanks for the insight. I was not aware that this is how the parsing worked. I'm surprised there isn't an easier way, but at least that will work. Thanks again! Jae -Original Message- From: Philip Hazel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 1:46 AM To:

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Alan J. Flavell
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Chris Edwards wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Alan J. Flavell wrote: | Nowadays, however, our campus firewall blocks outgoing port 25 coming | from any host that isn't a registered MTA, and the registered MTA | hosts don't allow ordinary users to log on to them, so the

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
Daniel Tiefnig wrote: Nigel Metheringham wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:36 +, Philip Hazel wrote: Do you think I should change the default to 5s? Personally, yes. I don't think there are many sites for whom that is both useful and they don't come back within 5 seconds. I'd vote

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread John W. Baxter
On 2/15/06 8:58 AM, Daniel Tiefnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nigel Metheringham wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:36 +, Philip Hazel wrote: Do you think I should change the default to 5s? Personally, yes. I don't think there are many sites for whom that is both useful and they don't come

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Philip Hazel wrote: Do you think I should change the default to 5s? Yes. 5s should be enough for 99% of the connections, for the remainder: Ident is (usually) non-critical for smtp. I agree with the others that it would even not do big harm if ident would be disabled by default, but I'm

Re: [exim] Logging to stderr/stdout for multilog

2006-02-15 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Casey Allen Shobe wrote: Is there a TODO for logging to stdout? I doubt that you really want to log to stdout. tcpserver would send that to the remote end. Maybe something like log_file_path = /dev/stderr, otherwise you'll have to change the sources. Should not be that hard... -- ## List

Re: [exim] Different hostname for different IPs (addenda)

2006-02-15 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Luca Bertoncello wrote: How can I set a differente Hostname for HELO for different Transports? Set helo_data to whatever you want in your transports. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this

RE: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-15 Thread Sub Zero
That policy is rather likely to land you on a blacklist yourself. How will using gmail/yahoo land you on a blacklist? The thinking of blocking even the postmaster address thinking they can use gmail/yahoo, akin to let them eat cake, that's of issue. If your system does not accept mail to

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
Sub Zero wrote: That policy is rather likely to land you on a blacklist yourself. How will using gmail/yahoo land you on a blacklist? The thinking of blocking even the postmaster address thinking they can use gmail/yahoo, akin to let them eat cake, that's of issue. If your system does

[exim] messages in queue for 100d.

2006-02-15 Thread /m
Anyone had experiences with heavily loaded boxes keeping stale messages in queue for 100d? What caused this to happen for you? Any information is appreciated :) Thanks! /m -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please

Re: [exim] messages in queue for 100d.

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
/m wrote: Anyone had experiences with heavily loaded boxes keeping stale messages in queue for 100d? What caused this to happen for you? Any information is appreciated :) Thanks! /m Is Exim still attempting to 'handle' the messages in question? If so, I would scrutunize: - the

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-15 Thread Jakob Hirsch
W B Hacker wrote: You may 'think it is OK..' but RFC's aside, mail to 'postmaster' is more often generated by a 'daemon', not a human, so the chance of it Not that I'd patronise blocking the postmaster address, but why do you think that? The postmaster address is specifically for humans to

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: W B Hacker wrote: You may 'think it is OK..' but RFC's aside, mail to 'postmaster' is more often generated by a 'daemon', not a human, so the chance of it Not that I'd patronise blocking the postmaster address, but why do you think that? The postmaster address is

Re: [exim] how to config the exim4 as a client

2006-02-15 Thread huang mingyou
OK,thank you very much! 2006/2/15, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, huang mingyou wrote: In my computer,I use mutt and fetchmail get and manage e-mail. And now,I need send mail from our mail server,not from my locale computer,but I don't want use another MUA. so I

Re: [exim] Logging to stderr/stdout for multilog

2006-02-15 Thread Casey Allen Shobe
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 21:08, Jakob Hirsch wrote: I doubt that you really want to log to stdout. tcpserver would send that to the remote end. Umm, no. I'm not using tcpserver. And I said stderr/stdout in the subject and body - i.e. whichever is appropriate. multilog will capture

Re: [exim] Logging to stderr/stdout for multilog

2006-02-15 Thread Vincent Danen
* Casey Allen Shobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-02-16 01:38:13 +]: On Wednesday 15 February 2006 21:08, Jakob Hirsch wrote: I doubt that you really want to log to stdout. tcpserver would send that to the remote end. Umm, no. I'm not using tcpserver. And I said stderr/stdout in the