Re: [exim] System messages only

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas Raef
Um, I tried finding out the easy way. Lesson learned. I'll go back and try first. Digital hand-slap acknowledged. Please accept my apologies. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Edmunds Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:07 PM

Re: [exim] MessageLabs: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7]

2007-10-08 Thread Netdynamix
Hi Bill, I have removed the email addresses in question from the error log as my client (who is trying to email a Message Labs Client - which happens to be a HUGE worldwide private bank) would not appreciate their addresses to be posted everywhere on the internet. No, I am not a forger trying

Re: [exim] MessageLabs: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7]

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 07/10/2007, Netdynamix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing these issues with sending to MessageLab hosted mailboxes? (INCLUDING THEIR [EMAIL PROTECTED] ADDRESS) They have still not responded to my emails sent from my hotmail.com account (which, as I

Re: [exim] MessageLabs: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7]

2007-10-08 Thread Renaud Allard
Netdynamix wrote: Hi Bill, I have removed the email addresses in question from the error log as my client (who is trying to email a Message Labs Client - which happens to be a HUGE worldwide private bank) would not appreciate their addresses to be posted everywhere on the internet. No,

Re: [exim] MessageLabs: 501 Connection rejected by policy [7.7]

2007-10-08 Thread W B Hacker
Netdynamix wrote: Hi Bill, I have removed the email addresses in question from the error log as my client (who is trying to email a Message Labs Client - which happens to be a HUGE worldwide private bank) would not appreciate their addresses to be posted everywhere on the internet. Folks

Re: [exim] Odd hostname found in logs.

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:37:26 +0100, Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Alltel or whoever think they're trying to achieve with that rDNS entry is a complete mystery to me, though. If in doubt, they're trying to confuse people to death. Greetings Marc, who has had his logcheck trip

[exim] PGP signatures of future Exim releases

2007-10-08 Thread Phil Pennock
Hi, Who will be PGP signing future Exim releases please? With which PGP key? (And is there a signature by Philip Hazel's key on the new key?) Thanks, -Phil -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki

Re: [exim] PGP signatures of future Exim releases

2007-10-08 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 8 Oct 2007, at 10:03, Phil Pennock wrote: Who will be PGP signing future Exim releases please? With which PGP key? I have a key I set up for that purpose (a few years back), but never really did anything with. (And is there a signature by Philip Hazel's key on the new key?) I thought

Re: [exim] Odd hostname found in logs.

2007-10-08 Thread Wakko Warner
Andrew - Supernews wrote: Wakko == Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wakko 2007-10-07 21:17:30 no IP address found for host Wakko spam.complaints.(888)292-3827.alltel.senior.support.ticket#2-940727661 Wakko (during SMTP connection from [216.96.39.144] I=[removed]:25) Wakko Has

[exim] Fixing RDNS Instructions

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Trying to get people to fix bad RDNS so I created a wiki page about it. Feel free to link to it or steal it. I'm sending messages back to the sending host with this link in it in the hopes that people might read their log files and find it.

Re: [exim] Fixing RDNS Instructions

2007-10-08 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Perkel wrote: Trying to get people to fix bad RDNS so I created a wiki page about it. Feel free to link to it or steal it. I'm sending messages back to the sending host with this link in it in the hopes that people might read their log files and find it.

Re: [exim] Odd hostname found in logs.

2007-10-08 Thread Andrew - Supernews
Wakko == Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wakko As it is to me as well, I posted this for comments about the Wakko name that was returned. I thought that ( ) and # weren't Wakko allowed in hostnames. They're not, but they _are_ allowed in DNS labels (pretty much everything, including

Re: [exim] Fixing RDNS Instructions

2007-10-08 Thread Jerry Jorgenson
On MondayOct 8, 2007, at 8:55 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Trying to get people to fix bad RDNS so I created a wiki page about it. Feel free to link to it or steal it. I'm sending messages back to the sending host with this link in it in the hopes that people might read their log files and find

Re: [exim] Fixing RDNS Instructions

2007-10-08 Thread Andrew - Supernews
Renaud == Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Renaud You should maybe add some info about how the HELO of a Renaud mailserver should be resolved. Renaud So the best way would be HELO == A == PTR HELO == A == PTR is best _only_ if the PTR record value is not generic. If you control the

Re: [exim] Fixing RDNS Instructions

2007-10-08 Thread Renaud Allard
Andrew - Supernews wrote: Renaud == Renaud Allard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Renaud You should maybe add some info about how the HELO of a Renaud mailserver should be resolved. Renaud So the best way would be HELO == A == PTR HELO == A == PTR is best _only_ if the PTR record value

[exim] NATted exim on receive

2007-10-08 Thread Alun
Dear all, I'm looking at making a copy of exim run on our site firewall, intercepting all attempts (from outside) to contact port 25 for every internal host. There are several reasons for doing this. First off, we don't publish MX records for everything inside Aber, but some people manage to

Re: [exim] NATted exim on receive

2007-10-08 Thread Tom Kistner
Alun wrote: The firewall is a Linux box and I've told it to redirect port 25 traffic to port 25 on the local host. This works and I can connect in. What I'm after is a way of determining which IP address the connecting machine was trying to talk to. $interface_address returns the address of

[exim] Quick and Dirty RDNS testing

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm not real good at this but I whipped up this little PHP script to test RDNS. http://www.junkemailfilter.com/rdns.php If anyone is interested in improving this I'll post the source and someone can make it better. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] Quick and Dirty RDNS testing

2007-10-08 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: I'm not real good at this but I whipped up this little PHP script to test RDNS. http://www.junkemailfilter.com/rdns.php If anyone is interested in improving this I'll post the source and someone can make it better. That's impressive overkill. Most UNIX users will be

Re: [exim] Quick and Dirty RDNS testing

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Martin A. Brooks wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: I'm not real good at this but I whipped up this little PHP script to test RDNS. http://www.junkemailfilter.com/rdns.php If anyone is interested in improving this I'll post the source and someone can make it better. That's impressive

Re: [exim] Quick and Dirty RDNS testing

2007-10-08 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: I don't see it as overkill because it verifies that the RDNS matches the original IP. You may wish to do some input bounds checking before proceeding with the lookup. Your script barfs when, amongst others, you add leading or trailing spaces. -- Martin A. Brooks |

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-10-08 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:49:46 +0100, Graeme Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 18:19 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: Did you read what you quoted? They think their product does not need fixing as it is working as designed. And they're correct. I beg to differ. ...now, back in the

Re: [exim] NATted exim on receive

2007-10-08 Thread Alun
Tom Kistner [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alun wrote: returns the address of the interface the request came in on, but that's different from the address that was being contacted. You need to patch Exim to do this. If you use the netfilter (aka iptables)

Re: [exim] NATted exim on receive

2007-10-08 Thread Alun
Alun [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think I'll have a quick play with parsing netstat -an --tcp for $sender_host_address:$sender_host_port to find who the other end is trying to talk to. This should be close enough to unique for my purposes. Actually, thinking

Re: [exim] Make permanent error temporary?

2007-10-08 Thread Renaud Allard
Marc Haber wrote: That helped, but we needed to bastardise the site's security policy to be allowed to put an unprotected system in front of the Firewall. It would have been easier (and saved at least two person-days in meetings alone) if the transparent proxy would have better catered

Re: [exim] NATted exim on receive

2007-10-08 Thread Mike Cardwell
Alun wrote: I'm looking at making a copy of exim run on our site firewall, intercepting all attempts (from outside) to contact port 25 for every internal host. There are several reasons for doing this. First off, we don't publish MX records for everything inside Aber, but some people manage

[exim] configurability of spam scanning

2007-10-08 Thread WJCarpenter
I'm about to convert myself off the old, traditional way of scanning with SpamAssassin to the new ACL-based technique. The spec and the wiki are pretty good at describing how to set this up, but things seem a little light in the how do I configure it department. Q1: Is it possible to use

Re: [exim] configurability of spam scanning

2007-10-08 Thread Renaud Allard
WJCarpenter wrote: I'm about to convert myself off the old, traditional way of scanning with SpamAssassin to the new ACL-based technique. The spec and the wiki are pretty good at describing how to set this up, but things seem a little light in the how do I configure it department. Q1: Is it