[exim] slightly OT - reconstructing mbox files?

2006-08-23 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hey Guys, Not directly an exim problem but hoping someone may have already had the misfortune to have to do what i'm about to do. Due to a glitch, I have a mail archiving system here that writes each sent and received message to a file for selected domains (that's a received and sent

[exim] control flow in check_content acl

2006-08-14 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, Am having a bit of a confusing time with control flow in my check_content ACL. I'm using the ACL for clam and sophos scanning however i'm trying to modify it to bail out if a particular header is present in the message being scanned. Basically does the ACL return on the first

Re: [exim] Calling gdb from a transport?

2006-08-14 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 11/08/2006, at 11:37 PM, Gareth Hastings wrote: If I had a problem with a program that kept segfaulting and I was calling it in a transport. Would it be possible to somehow setup the transport to run gdb on the program capturing a backtrace? Any ideas? If you enable core dumping (ie.

[exim] unusually long delays during DATA part of smtp communication

2006-07-27 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hey Guys, Am having a really bizzare problem here causing us massive grief and i'm having a hard time trying to replicate/isolate the cause am hoping you might have a few ideas. On our primary mail server here i'm noticing major (up to 1-2 minutes) delays on incoming SMTP connections at

[exim] FreeBSD ffs vs. ufs?

2006-07-16 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Exim Folks, I'm currently doing some performance tuning on a pretty heavily used exim server we have here. We're running FreeBSD 6.1 and am noticing the disk loading to be quite high. The filesystems are currently configured as UFS however i'm contemplating using tunefs to switch

Re: [exim] Cleaner way to stop phishing spam?

2006-07-09 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 10/07/2006, at 4:10 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Looking for a cleaner way to do this - like with a list? IMHO you'd be much better using spamassassin from the spam ACL. Cheers, Marcus -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Error in content scanning doccumentation

2006-07-06 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 06/07/2006, at 10:43 PM, Stuart Gall wrote: IF you enter the parameters as indicated in the clamd part of the docs then exim seems to use a random port Exim will use a random (ephemeral) source port for the outgoing connection, the port specified in the configuration refers to the port

[exim] performance tuning - split spool directory

2006-07-02 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, I'm doing some performance tuning for on one of our pretty heavily loaded servers, i'm wanting to enable the split_spool_directory directive. Do I need to ensure the current queue/spool is completely flushed before enabling this? Or, if I switch this option on and restart, will

Re: [exim] am I crazy - writing message details to a log file on successful routing

2006-06-28 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, On 26/06/2006, at 6:51 PM, Philip Hazel wrote: transport. (Best performance would probably be obtained by writing a daemon that listens on a socket and have Exim write to the socket.) I have written a daemonised version of our mail analysis/processing functions and it has reduced

Re: [exim] am I crazy - writing message details to a log file on successful routing

2006-06-26 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 26/06/2006, at 6:51 PM, Philip Hazel wrote: Here's a kludge. I assume your successful router is routing the address to a transport. If so, you can use the fact that the transport option is expanded. Hi Philip, at the moment i'm using a number of routers to achieve a range of

Re: [exim] pipe mail to exchange server 2003 with archiving

2006-06-23 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 19/06/2006, at 7:22 PM, Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont) wrote: * Using a new router that redirect to my exchnage but in this way i'm not sure that the mail is still storage in /var/mail...? I'd suggest creating an 'archive_router' as the first router in your config. For instance:

[exim] writing a message to log inside a router?

2006-06-22 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Guys, Is there any way to write a message to the mainlog from inside a router? I'm working on an archiving project that archives copies of all mail for a set of domains - I want to write some details to the log for every message received before determining whether to save a copy or

[exim] saving copies of virus infected mail?

2006-06-08 Thread Marcus Barczak
Hi Exim Users, I'm trying to modify our current content scanning ACL to allow for us to save/quarantine copies of virally infected email that passes through our mail servers. We are using both Sophos and Clam to do the scanning and our current setup scanning ACL's look like this: --- # Sophos