Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Leonardo Boselli
Il 19 Dec 2007 alle 22:11 Daniel Collis-Puro immise in rete Leonardo Boselli wrote: I want: avoid that the secondary mx accept email that in turn is sent to the primary and then bounced. So i would like to set a list of possible address that are accepted. such list however is not just a

Re: [exim] Maximum Recipients

2007-12-20 Thread Matt
How do you limit the max recipients exim allows a message too have? Search the docs for max_rcpt (global setting), or for $rcpt_count and $recipients_count (which you can use in your RCPT ACL). So will something like this work? # Deny if excedes MAX_RCPT deny message = More than MAX_RCPT

Re: [exim] Maximum Recipients

2007-12-20 Thread Dave Evans
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:59:46AM -0600, Matt wrote: How do you limit the max recipients exim allows a message too have? Search the docs for max_rcpt (global setting), or for $rcpt_count and $recipients_count (which you can use in your RCPT ACL). So will something like this work? #

Re: [exim] Lookup in rewrite rule

2007-12-20 Thread Matthew Soccio
Phil, You're correct, my thinking on this was completely backwards. The router you provided works like a charm. Thanks for the help! Matt Phil Pennock wrote: On 2007-12-18 at 13:41 -0500, Matthew Soccio wrote: I am testing a new server, which has the same user and auth data as the

Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

2007-12-20 Thread Ian Eiloart
--On 19 December 2007 21:25:15 +0100 Patrick von der Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2007, 16:11 + schrieb Ian Eiloart: [...] I understand that the situation is difficult in Germany, but you're really not allowed to reject spam? What if you're subject to a denial

Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

2007-12-20 Thread Patrick von der Hagen
Am Donnerstag, den 20.12.2007, 09:51 + schrieb Ian Eiloart: [...] But, this doesn't address the question of rejecting email. And, I don't see anything in the rest of the email that suggests that you can't reject email that you know to be spam. In the first part I told you that you can do

[exim] Legality of spam rejection (Re: Out of Office and collateral spam)

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
[ changed Subject: since this is no longer helping the OP ] On 2007-12-20 at 09:51 +, Ian Eiloart wrote: Lots of the considerations below (privacy, for example) also apply in the UK. You'd expect that, as we're both in the EU. However, none of the considerations below prevent us from

Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-19 at 22:46 +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: I have two servers and two more secondary MX. I want: avoid that the secondary mx accept email that in turn is sent to the primary and then bounced. So i would like to set a list of possible address that are accepted. such list however is

Re: [exim] Legality of spam rejection (Re: Out of Office and collateral spam)

2007-12-20 Thread Richard Clayton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phil Pennock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes When I was postmaster at an ISP in NL, the Dutch legal situation was, to my non-lawyer understanding, naturally, your jurisdiction may differ -- and since there is a very

Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Leonardo Boselli
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Phil Pennock wrote: There are no Directors since Exim3, so I think that you mean Routers. ok ... but i remember they were called in the first exim4 documentation director-routers Make the very first Router something like (untested): relay_domains_filter: driver =

[exim] Debugging router condition

2007-12-20 Thread Marcin Krol
Hello everyone, Is there any way to increase verbosity of debugging router condition? It's not enough in one complicated case I have - I need (incoming mail) router to skip one (outgoing) address and can't get it to work: condition = ${if and { \ { !eq [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:50:01AM +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: Il 19 Dec 2007 alle 22:11 Daniel Collis-Puro immise in rete Leonardo Boselli wrote: I want: avoid that the secondary mx accept email that in turn is sent to the primary and then bounced. So i would like to set a list of

Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:46:01PM +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: I have two servers and two more secondary MX. I want: avoid that the secondary mx accept email that in turn is sent to the primary and then bounced. So i would like to set a list of possible address that are accepted. such

Re: [exim] Wesley Penner/MCC is on home leave.

2007-12-20 Thread Phil (Medway Hosting)
Perfect example why NOT to use OOO ! ;-) All the best Phil - Original Message - From: Wesley Penner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: exim-users@exim.org Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 3:02 PM Subject: [exim] Wesley Penner/MCC is on home leave. I will respond to your message when I

Re: [exim] Wesley Penner/MCC is on home leave.

2007-12-20 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 20/12/2007, Phil (Medway Hosting) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perfect example why NOT to use OOO ! ;-) It was rather timely, wasn't it :-) That subscriber is now on 'nomail'. Peter -- Peter Bowyer Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ## List details at

[exim] Wesley Penner/MCC is on home leave.

2007-12-20 Thread Wesley Penner
I will respond to your message when I return. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/

Re: [exim] Debugging router condition

2007-12-20 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marcin Krol wrote: Hello everyone, Is there any way to increase verbosity of debugging router condition? It's not enough in one complicated case I have - I need (incoming mail) router to skip one (outgoing) address and can't get it to work: I've been known to use such gross hacks as:

[exim] Reading the value of a macro from a shell script

2007-12-20 Thread Terry Burton
Hi, Exim has a useful feature to evaluate expansions from the shell: exim -be '' Is there a simiar feature to that will return the final value of a macro after the configuration file has been parsed? Something like: exim.conf: ...snip... EXIMDIR = /srv/exim TABLES = EXIMDIR/tables

[exim] Ratelimit Spam

2007-12-20 Thread Matt
I found ratelimiting in Exim documentation. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECTratelimiting What I want is to mainly limit my own users. A week ago I had a user who had there username and password stolen apparently by a virus or something. Someone from south

Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Leonardo Boselli
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:50:01AM +0100, Leonardo Boselli wrote: Il 19 Dec 2007 alle 22:11 Daniel Collis-Puro immise in rete Why not use a recipient verification callout for the destination mail server? Something like: NOT feasible: Sure it

Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

2007-12-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: It's not collateral spam. It's just plain spam. That's the point I would make to the powers that be !! It is not spam, because it is neither unsolicited (by emailing someone you allow them to respond, whether automated or not, I would say) nor bulk. You shouldn't

Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

2007-12-20 Thread Phil (Medway Hosting)
- Original Message - From: Jeroen van Aart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: exim-users@exim.org Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: It's not collateral spam. It's just plain spam. That's the point I would

Re: [exim] Out of Office and collateral spam

2007-12-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote: The vacation utility on unix seems smart enough to not be a nuissance and still be functional for those who need it. I don't know that offhand but as long as it only sends to known contacts then yes it would be ok to use. To send to known contacts you need to

[exim] pipe to bounce parser help

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Van Horn
Hi, As a preliminary step to setting up a working bounce parser I am using exim filter to pipe a bounce to the parser script. The result: Child process of address_pipe transport returned 2 from command: /home/rvh/perl-tst/bpt.pl The parser just opens the mail and an output file for the report

Re: [exim] secondary MX: allow only a set of users

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-20 at 14:23 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Look for 'smtp_reserve_hosts'. With this, you can allow the backup MX to connect to the master even when the master is already 4xx'ing other hosts because of things like smtp_load_reserve. Look up Single Point Of Failure. The point of

Re: [exim] Debugging router condition

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-20 at 13:20 +0100, Marcin Krol wrote: Is there any way to increase verbosity of debugging router condition? It's not enough in one complicated case I have - I need (incoming mail) router to skip one (outgoing) address and can't get it to work: Ye, this expression doesn't seem

Re: [exim] Ratelimit Spam

2007-12-20 Thread Matt
I found ratelimiting in Exim documentation. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch40.html#SECTratelimiting I added this to my exim.conf # Slow down fast senders; note the need to truncate $sender_rate # at the decimal point. warn ratelimit = 100 / 1h / per_rcpt / strict

Re: [exim] Ratelimit Spam

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-20 at 16:23 -0600, Matt wrote: # Slow down fast senders; note the need to truncate $sender_rate # at the decimal point. warn ratelimit = 100 / 1h / per_rcpt / strict delay = ${eval: ${sg{$sender_rate}{[.].*}{}} - $sender_rate_limit }s Is there a way I can get it to

Re: [exim] Ratelimit Spam

2007-12-20 Thread Matt
# Slow down fast senders; note the need to truncate $sender_rate # at the decimal point. warn ratelimit = 100 / 1h / per_rcpt / strict delay = ${eval: ${sg{$sender_rate}{[.].*}{}} - $sender_rate_limit }s Is there a way I can get it to add meaning full log entries so I

Re: [exim] Reading the value of a macro from a shell script

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-20 at 17:37 +, Terry Burton wrote: Otherwise, is there a recommended way to obtain such values from a shell script without having to hardcode the value or grep the Exim config? With well-defined data syntaxes and exiting after first match (anchored to the start of the line) grep

Re: [exim] pipe to bounce parser help

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-20 at 13:49 -0800, Robert Van Horn wrote: The parser just opens the mail and an output file for the report then runs bounce_parser on it - closes the files - quits. My tests so far have been in the form of ./bpt.pl testmail.doc. With the existing file in the same dir there is no

Re: [exim] Ratelimit Spam

2007-12-20 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-12-20 at 16:44 -0600, Matt wrote: I imagine something like this would work? So would I, but I've not gotten around to actually playing with rate limiting (since these days I just have a personal server running Exim, so it's not such an issue). # Slow down fast senders; note the need to

Re: [exim] Reading the value of a macro from a shell script

2007-12-20 Thread Terry Burton
On Dec 20, 2007 10:42 PM, Phil Pennock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-12-20 at 17:37 +, Terry Burton wrote: Otherwise, is there a recommended way to obtain such values from a shell script without having to hardcode the value or grep the Exim config? With well-defined data syntaxes

[exim] exim-4.69?

2007-12-20 Thread zbigniew szalbot
Hello, Is there a new version of exim (4.69) available? The official website says nothing about it. The list archives don't mention any new release but $ cat /usr/ports/mail/exim/distinfo MD5 (exim/exim-4.69.tar.bz2) = 6f29f073328c858d8554b08cc0c3c2be SHA256 (exim/exim-4.69.tar.bz2) =

Re: [exim] pipe to bounce parser help

2007-12-20 Thread Robert Van Horn
Thanks Phil, sometimes the obvious is hard for me. bob On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:53:59PM -0800, Phil Pennock wrote: The mail is provided on the script's standard input. You'll need to read up on stdio, redirections and pipes for background material, but pipes are integral to the power and

Re: [exim] exim-4.69?

2007-12-20 Thread nsubugr
Hullo, I think it's not lying as long as you brought down the latest ports as 20th Dec 2007. Or a few days less. Confirm and go ahead. Regards. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zbigniew szalbot Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 9:18 AM