Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Perkel wrote: For what it's worth I to would like to have a feature to choose to ignore 550 errors and do something other that bounce the message. There are times when you are sure that the 550 was in error and you wat to take a different action. I run into that myself. The 550

[exim] Exim - Postfix Strange Behaviours

2007-09-21 Thread Gabriel Marais
Hi Guys Not sure where the problem might be exactly, but here is the scenario. We have a Postfix, MailScanner server that filters mail and passes it onto an Exim server for local delivery. On the Postfix server, as soon as a mail comes in with multiple recipients (10 or more) it just hangs in

Re: [exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

2007-09-21 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-09-21 at 00:01 +0200, Peter Thomassen wrote: I have set up an additional router that determines the target mailbox by looking up an alias file using lsearch*. Unfortunately, the recipients that are being routed to a particular user (root!) are finally also routed to peter, obviously

[exim] relay_domains not being honored?

2007-09-21 Thread Darren Jacobs
I'm getting a relay not permitted error on RCPT of a mail message I send from my workstation to a foreign destination via my exim 4.68 server. The mail is catching on the section in exim.conf: -- require message = relay not permitted domains = +local_domains : +relay_domains --

Re: [exim] relay_domains not being honored?

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 20/09/2007, Darren Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a relay not permitted error on RCPT of a mail message I send from my workstation to a foreign destination via my exim 4.68 server. The mail is catching on the section in exim.conf: -- require message = relay not permitted

Re: [exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Thomassen
Phil Pennock wrote: On 2007-09-21 at 00:01 +0200, Peter Thomassen wrote: The question now is: How do I define a catch-rest wildcard that does not affect any recipients that are processed otherwise? Since that's what lsearch* is supposed to be, something else is happening in your

Re: [exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

2007-09-21 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Peter Thomassen wrote: The output of `exim -bt postmaster` shows that Exim recursively tries to lookup for an alias (have a look at the comments I put in) If you don't want that to happen, check out the repeat_use option of the redirect router. -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:42:57 +0200, Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By taking a life analogy, you should not kill your customer because he forgot to pay his bill, but you should tell him to pay his bill. Yes, and fixing this in exim temporarily is the equivalent of offering payment by

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:09:12 +0200, Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber wrote: While this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor, can I make exim treat the 550 as a temporary error? Maybe only this particular 550? You should probably better contact the firewall vendor to

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Cardwell
Marc Haber wrote: While this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor, can I make exim treat the 550 as a temporary error? Maybe only this particular 550? You should probably better contact the firewall vendor to request a fix to _their_ problem. Which part of while this is being sorted

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Philip Hazel
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Marc Haber wrote: What I'd like to have is a temporary fix. This would also prove to the client that open source is far superior to closed source. It is. You have the source. You can add, or pay someone else to add, any modifications that you like. You can't do that with

Re: [exim] Account Filter

2007-09-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 13 September 2007 11:57:50 -0600 Luis Fernando Gramajo P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody!! Im trying to setup exim4 on debian etch to work only as a smtp filter, and relay everything to the main MTA. I think the relay thing is working, on every mail I get this message on

Re: [exim] Todays possibilities to rate limit outgoing emails per host

2007-09-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 17 September 2007 00:05:10 +0100 Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2007, Jeremy Harris wrote: Um, the default key is $sender_host_address - but you can pick a different one, to match your definition of host, no? Yeah, but even if you try to use the destination host

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Cardwell
Philip Hazel wrote: What I'd like to have is a temporary fix. This would also prove to the client that open source is far superior to closed source. It is. You have the source. You can add, or pay someone else to add, any modifications that you like. You can't do that with closed source.

Re: [exim] block domain SPF with v=spf1 +all

2007-09-21 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 17 September 2007 09:00:05 +0100 Peter Bowyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better rethink your use of SPF. The simple fact of an SPF PASS, whether or not the domain publishes +all, doesn't indicate anything about the spamminess of a message. All it does is confirm that the message came

[exim] non-standard ports, was Re: Todays possibilities to rate limit outgoing emails per host

2007-09-21 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Ian Eiloart wrote: It might listen on a second IP address, or a non-standard port (assuming Exim can send email to a host listening on a non-standard port?). The manualroute router allows you to specify the port, as does the smtp transport. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch [EMAIL

Re: [exim] Exim - Postfix Strange Behaviours

2007-09-21 Thread Tony Finch
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Gabriel Marais wrote: On the Postfix server, as soon as a mail comes in with multiple recipients (10 or more) it just hangs in the queue. Assuming that you haven't broken Postfix in the way that ABN AMRO did, I expect that your Exim is taking too long over recipient

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:09:12 +0200, Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Haber wrote: While this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor, can I make exim treat the 550 as a temporary error? Maybe only this particular 550? You should probably better contact the

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Renaud Allard
Mike Cardwell wrote: Marc Haber wrote: While this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor, can I make exim treat the 550 as a temporary error? Maybe only this particular 550? You should probably better contact the firewall vendor to request a fix to _their_ problem. Which part of

Re: [exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

2007-09-21 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-09-21 at 09:56 +0200, Peter Thomassen wrote: The output of `exim -bt postmaster` shows that Exim recursively tries to lookup for an alias (have a look at the comments I put in) and finally finds *:peter, regardless of the fact that root is a Linux user account and not an alias: Each

Re: [exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Thomassen
Hi Phil, thank you for your clarification of the routing things ... it's just like it is with most things: When understood, you realize how simple it is. I think I'm now able to write a sophisticated routing configuration ;-) Greetings from Germany, Peter -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-09-21 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Haber wrote: Which part of while this is being sorted out with the proxy vendor did you not understand? Marc, I have the greatest respect for your contributions to this list, and to the exim project. That said, this is a rocky road you travel. By saying it's okay to work around this