Re: [exim] Frozen after mysterious error

2006-04-04 Thread Kai Hendry
On 2006-04-03T08:05+0100 Peter Bowyer wrote: You could ask the owner of the server, perhaps - its their error message after all. It turned out that my host was limited me to 100 messages an hour. If I exceeded that my account was disabled and under review. They've bumped it up to 500 messages

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, David Saez Padros wrote: It also looks like dns_again_means_nonexist has little effect and does not solve the problem: check hosts = +ignore_unknown : *.$sender_address_domain :$sender_address_domain : ${lookup dnsdb{: defer_never,mxh=$sender_address_domain}}

Re: [exim] Compile time problems

2006-04-04 Thread Alan J. Flavell
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Ian Eiloart wrote: You can't whitelist a mail domain because anyone can use it. However, if you could tie down the legitimate servers for a domain that you trust, then you could whitelist those servers (at least for mail from that domain). That's what SPF lets you do.

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers

2006-04-04 Thread xyon
I'm not positive this will help you, but it seems to address your issue. My company has issues resolving some dns names as well. What they asked me to do is have a static name - ip table for typically problem domains. You may want to do this, but in opposite order, so if dns fails, a backup

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Hazel
A short while ago, On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, I wrote: Is that the complete debug output? I cannot reproduce this effect when testing. I think I have now discovered what the problem is. The option dns_again_means_nonexist was applying to direct DNS lookups, but not when Exim was using

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-04 Thread Chris Thompson
W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] But TWX and Telex are no longer a factor, and X.400 not far behind - outside of a few specialty organizations. Indeed, I was interested to see that RFC 4450 (Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

2006-04-04 Thread David Saez Padros
Hi !! I think I have now discovered what the problem is. The option dns_again_means_nonexist was applying to direct DNS lookups, but not when Exim was using gethostbyname() (or equivalent). Thinking about this, I've decided that in fact it *should* apply in that case because temporary errors

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Chris Thompson wrote: W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But TWX and Telex are no longer a factor, and X.400 not far behind - outside of a few specialty organizations. Indeed, I was interested to see that RFC 4450 (Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment

[exim] help to enable smtp authentication with cyrus-sasl

2006-04-04 Thread SODATONOU Dodji Comlan
hi In order to enable smtp authentification via cyrus-sasl we have compile exim-4.60 with this specifications AUTH_CYRUS_SASL=yes AUTH_CRAM_MD5=yes AUTH_LIBS= -lsasl2 CYRUS_SASLAUTHD_SOCKET= /var/state/saslauthd/mux After our install, we add the following line to exim configure file in order

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Hazel
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, David Saez Padros wrote: ok, but what about +ignore_unknown ? dns_again_means_nonexist is ok for a workaround but not for every day use (as i have to detect which domains have problems and manually add them to that list). It's +ignore_unknown suposed to make the condition

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

2006-04-04 Thread David Saez Padros
Hi !! But +ignore_unknown on its own won't stop a defer because when a DNS lookup gives a temporary error, you don't know if the host is unknown or not. Consider a major network failure that causes lots of nameservers are unreachable... yes, but in this particular case this does not matter as

Re: [exim] +ignore_unknown and dns defers (2 part)

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Hazel
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, David Saez Padros wrote: yes, but in this particular case this does not matter as the acl is only used for informational purposes. Maybe having something like control = no_defer or +ignore_defer could be useful in that situations where is more important to accept messages

[exim] Exim 4.61 released

2006-04-04 Thread Philip Hazel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have just put Exim release 4.61 on the primary ftp site: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.61.tar.gz ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.61.tar.bz2 -

[exim] Negation not allowed with acl?

2006-04-04 Thread Dean Brooks
Hi, Just compiled Exim 4.61 and received the following error on our existing configuration: 2006-04-04 11:42:25 Exim configuration error in line 590 of /usr/local/exim/config: error in ACL: ACL error: negation is not allowed with acl The relevant line of configuration is: warn ! acl =

negation is not allowed with acl (was: [exim] Exim 4.61 released)

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:28:39 +0100 (BST), Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just put Exim release 4.61 on the primary ftp site: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.61.tar.gz ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.61.tar.bz2 -

[exim] FreeBSD pipe_transport_setup build failure

2006-04-04 Thread Oliver Heesakkers
Hi, I downloaded the new Exim-4.61.tar.gz to three of my FreeBSD-systems (5.3, 5.4 and 6.0, all RELEASE and up to date). All three of them fail the build at this point: [code] gcc -o exim transports/transports.a(pipe.o)(.text+0x33): In function `pipe_transport_setup': : undefined reference to

[exim] Re: negation is not allowed with acl

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Haber wrote: Debian uses a sub-ACL to exclude sender e-mail addresses and sender IP addresses from a number of ACL checks, and the notation of !acl has been a convenient and intuitive way of specifying this behavior. Wasn't aware of that capability. Do see the value. If it were my

Re: [exim] Negation not allowed with acl?

2006-04-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Dean Brooks wrote: 2006-04-04 11:42:25 Exim configuration error in line 590 of /usr/local/exim/config: error in ACL: ACL error: negation is not allowed with acl This is a bug in the implementation of the new add_header feature - some of the tables are not in alphabetical

Re: [exim] forward mail exchange 2003

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:49:58 +0200, Remco Zwaan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed exim4 on my debian-distroand I want to use exim4 to forward all mail to a exchange 2003 server. The Debian config has a hubbed_hosts router that can be used to do this. The documentation is right above

Re: [exim] Negation not allowed with acl?

2006-04-04 Thread Dean Brooks
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 06:10:25PM +0100, Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Dean Brooks wrote: 2006-04-04 11:42:25 Exim configuration error in line 590 of /usr/local/exim/config: error in ACL: ACL error: negation is not allowed with acl This is a bug in the implementation of the

Re: [exim] Problem Owner, group or Mode of Exim4

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:14:03 +0100, Jason Meers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usual Permissions required on Exim Binaries owner: root, group: root, permissions: 4755 (suid root) Correct for /usr/sbin/exim4. The other exim related binaries are root:root 755 as usual. Usual Permissions required on

Re: [exim] Negation not allowed with acl?

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 18:10:25 +0100, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Dean Brooks wrote: 2006-04-04 11:42:25 Exim configuration error in line 590 of /usr/local/exim/config: error in ACL: ACL error: negation is not allowed with acl This is a bug in the implementation of

[exim] aliases and transport help

2006-04-04 Thread Dermot Paikkos
Hi Exim version 4.50 with maildir support. I am trying to set-up a mail system using Exim/pop3 but am having trouble figuring out how to make set up the /etc/aliases. For the pop3 auth all the users will be added to /etc/passwd and so might be considered local users. I thought that I could

Re: [exim] Problem Owner, group or Mode of Exim4

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:14:03 +0100, Jason Meers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usual Permissions required on Exim Binaries owner: root, group: root, permissions: 4755 (suid root) Correct for /usr/sbin/exim4. The other exim related binaries are root:root 755 as usual. Usual

[exim] retry timeout exceeded

2006-04-04 Thread Jason Keltz
Hi. We're running exim 4.52. One of our users sent a message to a site that is configured with greylisting, and I'm not sure that I understand the log details: The message went out: 2006-04-03 15:45:26 1FQUzO-0006Jo-4J = [EMAIL PROTECTED] H=([8.9.10.11]) [8.9.10.11] P=esmtpsa

Re: [exim] Negation not allowed with acl?

2006-04-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Marc Haber wrote: May I ask for the patch? http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-cvs/2006-April/msg8.html Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\ N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\

Re: [exim] retry timeout exceeded

2006-04-04 Thread Jeremy Harris
Jason Keltz wrote: How can retry timeout be exceeded? Exim replied to the original sender with a message SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host x.x.x [#.#.#.#]: 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted: retry timeout exceeded

Re: [exim] aliases and transport help

2006-04-04 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Dermot Paikkos wrote: So my aliases router returns an address without the server part (fine) and then sends it off to the primary MX to resolve. What I had hoped for was for it to return joe and use $home (or similar) for the maildrop. The usual setup is to do the

Re: [exim] FreeBSD pipe_transport_setup build failure

2006-04-04 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2006-04-04 at 18:25 +0200, Oliver Heesakkers wrote: In the dev-mailinglist I found mention of such an error at the release of the RC-1 for Exim-4.61. One solution offered was to add -lutil to LIBS= in OS/Makefile-FreeBSD. This did not solve my problem. -lutil should be correct. Did you run

Re: [exim] FreeBSD pipe_transport_setup build failure

2006-04-04 Thread Oliver Heesakkers
Phil Pennock wrote: Did you run make makefile in Exim's top-level directory after changing the OS makefile? Stupid of me, I should have thought about that earlier. Works perfectly. Thanks. Regards, Oliver -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] retry timeout exceeded

2006-04-04 Thread Jason Keltz
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Jeremy Harris wrote: Jason Keltz wrote: How can retry timeout be exceeded? Exim replied to the original sender with a message SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host x.x.x [#.#.#.#]: 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address

[exim] exiscan-acl, $spam_report

2006-04-04 Thread Stanislaw Halik
hello, exiscan-acl works really well, except for one thing i'm not able to figure out. $spam_report contains a large, verbose message with excerpts from bodies and individual rule scoring. is there a way to only fetch the rule scoring part or is matching it by a regexp the only method? -- sh

Re: [exim] exiscan-acl, $spam_report

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Stanislaw Halik wrote: hello, exiscan-acl works really well, except for one thing i'm not able to figure out. $spam_report contains a large, verbose message with excerpts from bodies and individual rule scoring. is there a way to only fetch the rule scoring part or is matching it by a regexp

Re: [exim] mail to myself is rejected

2006-04-04 Thread Chris Purves
Thank you for your reply. When I first started the post I hadn't considered that the cause of the problem was firewalling or interception of my messages, but that is what it appears to be, so it is not a problem with exim. W B Hacker wrote: Chris Purves wrote: *trimmed* My server (as

Re: [exim] Negation not allowed with acl?

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:05:09 +0100, Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Marc Haber wrote: May I ask for the patch? http://www.exim.org/mail-archives/exim-cvs/2006-April/msg8.html Thanks, applied to Debian's 4.61-1. Too bad that pipermail insists on mangling patches.

Re: [exim] mail to myself is rejected

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Chris Purves wrote: Thank you for your reply. When I first started the post I hadn't considered that the cause of the problem was firewalling or interception of my messages, but that is what it appears to be, so it is not a problem with exim. One tends to forget what is not 'in your face'.