[exim] I'm off this list

Just so you all know: this is my last day at work before retiring. I am about to unsubscribe from the exim-users list. However, I will stay on the exim-dev list for the moment and I am continuing to maintain PCRE. It's been fun interacting with all you over the years! Philip -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] need help with NIS

! There is one in the Exim book: data = ${lookup{$local_part}nis{mail.aliases}} -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http

Re: [exim] Can anyone spot the problem here?

]) } } } Expect a } here to close the match condition, and another one to close the and condition ... and then it goes all weird ... are the {1}{0} meant to be part of the lookup? If so, they are in the wrong place. {1}{0} } } {yes}{no} } -- Philip HazelUniversity

Re: [exim] Exclude recipient from wildcard

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?

that with closed source. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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

Re: [exim] Retry Interval on Exim 4.6

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Matt wrote: My exim server only seems to retry about every 10 hours according to logs. Why is that? The exinext utility will probably tell you. Note that Exim retry rules operate *per server* not *per message*. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge

Re: [exim] Fwd: 250-8BITMIME question

everybody that I am am retiring at the end of this month... -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org

Re: [exim] smtp transport uses wrong server

recipients. But a better solution is what Magnus posted: route the different email addresses to different IP addresses. Then all those at the same IP address can go in a single transaction. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http

Re: [exim] Multiline OK responces of remote servers

. It could be increased to, say, 256 easily enough. If you want to do it yourself, the 100 is in line 958 of the deliver.c source file. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http

Re: [exim] exim -bem usage

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Darren Jacobs wrote: Were running 4.63 from freebsd ports. A quick grep of ChangeLog shows that -bem was added at Exim 4.64. Clearly there was a bug in 4.63 because it wasn't grumbling. :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim

Re: [exim] exim -bem usage

as to what's wrong here? Which release of Exim? Have you tried with -d to see debugging output? What does exim -bem /dev/null say? -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http

Re: [exim] Quotes in address for callout

and 4.68. You might like to do the same test as I did. Run a daemon using -d and, say, -X 1225 so that it listens on a different port. Then telnet to it and see what happens. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts

people use databases... -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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

Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts

. We do not check for reserved connections or unacceptable hosts here. That is done in the subprocess because it might take some time. */ -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

Re: [exim] usage of smtp_reserve_hosts

= ${if eq{$interface_address}{SERVER_AUTH_INTERFACE}{256}{128}} but it didn't work (I expected it not to work but tried anyway :)). I presume you mean smtp_accept_reserve, which is the count; smtp_reserve_hosts is the list of hosts (which *is* expanded, like all host lists). -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] SpamAssassin + add_header

by RCPT or DATA, as appropriate. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki

Re: [exim] Log stats to DB?

for warn, such as null or pass, but is it worth the effort? -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org

Re: [exim] Piping message in ACL DATA

won't be straightforward. Another possibility is to write a script (or program) of your own that does the same thing, but gives back the return code that you want. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

Re: [exim] Exim 4.67 - how to force usage of a specific authenticator when acting as a client

the cipher used for incoming messages. In fact, during SMTP delivery, it contains the cipher used for the delivery. The same is true for $tls_peerdn. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List

Re: [exim] rejection at transport time

that data at SMTP RCPT time. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki

Re: [exim] wildlsearch bug?

. Hmm, the doc should say that somewhere. I made wildlsearch caseless by default for compatibility with lsearch. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [exim] retry time and fallback host

a router that uses a condition condition to test $message_age. I guess it may be difficult in terms of header rewriting and such? No need to rewrite any headers. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

Re: [exim] retry time and fallback host

= 192.168.0.1 hosts_override There's always more than one way to do it! -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details

Re: [exim] spec about hyphens in host names

is likely to be my last release. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki

Re: [exim] Messages in the queue that seem to last forever?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, Sander Smeenk wrote: As it turns out, these messages eventually *do* leave the queue. But i still don't understand why they stay on queue for about twice the time specified by the retry rules. Check out ignore_bounce_errors_after and timeout_frozen_after. -- Philip

Re: [exim] spec about hyphens in host names

are not, in fact, permitted in host names, but they are found in certain NS records (which can be accessed in Exim by using a dnsdb lookup). Any reference for hyphens not beeing allowed in host names? My bad. It's a typo. s/Hyphens/Slashes/ -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge

Re: [exim] Exim creates mail if connections is dropped from client?

what is different? I just got these log lines: 2007-08-17 15:07:18 [5269] SMTP connection from [127.0.0.1]:38311 (TCP/IP connection count = 1) 2007-08-17 15:07:37 [25450] SMTP connection from localhost [127.0.0.1]:38311 lost while reading message data (after header) -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Dump message to stdout

all the 'admin' lines and flags, which is not very handy. Not yet, but there will be. Exim 4.68 will have -Mvc for this purpose. If you want it now, you can download the latest snapshot. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http

Re: [exim] Small feature request - fallback_hosts

that. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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] Telling exim not to log something.

and cluttering up the legit things I want to see. I can tell it not to log anything in the deny domains list to the right of the =? Check out the log_reject_target ACL modifier, and then try deny domains = domain.com log_reject_target = -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge

Re: [exim] Special routing for incoming non-SMTP mail: help needed urgently

actually mean received from another host, check $sender_host_address for not being empty. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details

Re: [exim] Special routing for incoming non-SMTP mail: help needed urgently

assume this is to try and keep the size of the queue small when a recipient is known to have a full mailbox and messages keep pouring in. The time for which it holds the message is controlled by the retry rules. Have you set up a short retry time for quota errors? -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Special routing for incoming non-SMTP mail: help needed urgently

than once for each message before bouncing it. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please

Re: [exim] A small inconsistency

with \r\n if use_crlf is set. --- ... but maybe I should flag up the final sentence with WARNING or something... -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim

Re: [exim] Problem using exim in Cygwin (filter)

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Yves-Alain Nicollet wrote: Could someone tell me where to investigate? Because after searching the web and trying many things, I cannot think of yet another test. Run an Exim delivery by hand with the -d option set. Or even -d+filter. -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Where to find old exim releases (on the official mirrors)?

at the moment, because they are on my workstation, which will no longer be mine when I retire. I guess I should make sure they are all copied onto exim.org somewhere (along with all the pre-4.00 releases that I still have). -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get

Re: [exim] direct boolean values in AND failing

}{no} } and if the lookup returned true it would work. But is not, IMHO, a great advance on what you can already do: ${lookup... {${if eq{$value}{true}{yes}{no}} {no} } -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details

Re: [exim] Exim 4.6 Catchall Behaviour

batch_max. Check if you have set that by mistake. If using the smtp transport, check the max_rcpt option. And note what the OP said about getting the address from To: and Cc:. Make sure you use envelope_to_add on the transport and use the header that it adds. -- Philip HazelUniversity

Re: [exim] Exim 4.6 Catchall Behaviour

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Jimmy Phelan :: Blacknight Solutions wrote: Just FYI the transport method being used is virtual_localdelivery What is the router? -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List

Re: [exim] 30,000+ email accounts

in the manual (I'm rushing off now - no time for more). -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] meaning of abort for LMTP

do the job. I expect the behavior I want is the way exim operates, but I'd like to be sure. You are in luck! -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman

Re: [exim] try_verify TLS on smtp transport?

afraid not. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## 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

Re: [exim] Advice on patching Exim to be root for Exim -C config-file

with TLS-on-startup-without-STARTTLS and some not, something that it didn't used to be able to do.) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim

Re: [exim] Exim and Spamassasin

anything in a header name. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list

Re: [exim] [pcre-dev] Exim.org move

of work in making this transition. I myself have done very little. He and Magnus have done most of it. Philip -- Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] Referring people to the docs vs. an example

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: There are a lot of severe inconsistencies in the Exim syntax that are not documented or poorly documented Please tell me what they are, and I will try to improve the documentation. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service

Re: [exim] Understanding DEFER withing an ACL subroutine

to the accept. Is that how it's supposed to work? Nobody's answered this. I wonder why. I have noted the issue, but have not had time to investigate. There's an Exim course coming up next week... -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http

Re: [exim] @[] malfunctioning in exim 4.67?

a reference to these options to the description of @[]. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] [OT] Understanding DEFER withing an ACL subroutine

course could usefully be delivered, and the logistics (and finance) could somehow be worked out, maybe this isn't such a silly idea after all. If anybody wants to get serious with this, please email me off-list. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4

Re: [exim] log_message and drop?

? -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

Re: [exim] dlfunc and license issues

expects the things that it can run to be influenced by Exim's licence. As far as I can see, dlfunc is a similar case. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman

Re: [exim] @[] malfunctioning in exim 4.67?

will add more words to make that clearer. I'm guessing that by local IP address you mean an address on the local LAN. Exim does not attempt to work out anything about a local LAN. All IP addresses other than those on the local host's interfaces are remote from Exim's point of view. -- Philip

Re: [exim] Greylisting - using Exim new features - ratelimit with noupdate

, very many, but I believe they do exist. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] Ratelimit / noupdate

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: So far seems to be working. A very nice feature. When is 4.68 going to be released? Not yet known. Probably some time in mid to late August. Certainly not till after the Exim course (at the end of July). It is likely to be my last release. -- Philip

Re: [exim] Greylisting - using Exim new features - ratelimit with noupdate

to make it easy to do this.) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki

Re: [exim] Undefined variable in eval: (string expansion)

are just empty strings when nothing in particular has been put into them - for example $sender_host_address in a non-TCP/IP-submitted message. However, other variables contains something. A quick look at the manual shows, for example, that $authentication_failed is either 0 or 1. -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Undefined variable in eval: (string expansion)

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Toralf Lund wrote: I primarily had $acl_ variables in mind. strict_acl_vars is a fairly new option, isn't it? 4.64. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http

Re: [exim] Don't be rude to people asking questions

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: Asking a question here is sort of like this example where I will substitute asking directions to make a point. I am not a moderator, but can we please stop this OT thread. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get

Re: [exim] line length detection

- the test suite supported only -RCn additions, but I fixed it. :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org

Re: [exim] Limit on number of blacklists used ?

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Chris Edwards wrote: could try 2 shorter ACL statements e.g: deny dnslists = some blacklists deny dnslists = some more blacklists That gives different semantics: and rather than or. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service

Re: [exim] Limit on number of blacklists used ?

dnslists = some more blacklists which is or - right ? Oops. Yes. Clearly I need to retire. :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users

Re: [exim] line length detection

, but not for SMTP messages. I completely overlooked that case. I'm clearly getting old... :-) Thanks for testing - I'll fix this and post when I've committed. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http

Re: [exim] marking the snapshot binaries as such

reminder - still places available), so probably not till August. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org

Re: [exim] line length detection

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Philip Hazel wrote: Oops. Mea culpa. It *does* do body lines, but not for SMTP messages. I completely overlooked that case. I'm clearly getting old... :-) Thanks for testing - I'll fix this and post when I've committed. I've committed the fix. (You are right; the logic

Re: [exim] snapshot compilation errors w/ PCRE

be solved another way.) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list

Re: [exim] hostlist +ignore_defer feature request

, which I'll also put below (against 4.67). Please test. Philip -- Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service. *** src/match.c Tue Apr 17 14:06:39 2007 --- match.c Tue Jun 26 10:23:34 2007 *** *** 444,449 --- 444,451 unsigned int *original_cache_bits

Re: [exim] smtp forwarding help...

= somewhere in the config, and change it to domainlist relay_to_domains = readingroom.com.au -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim

Re: [exim] hostlist +ignore_defer feature request

Earlier today, On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, I wrote: I have implemented this (along with +include_defer for completeness) and committed the patch, which I'll also put below (against 4.67). Please test. The patch was buggy. A better patch (now committed) is below. Philip -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] lsearch question

method. If you are talking about the PS/PDF docs, the most recent ones have recovered the ability to contain font changes in the index. (I wrote some software.) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List

Re: [exim] Detecting the domain part of a host address

). [And strictly, the first string before the TLD in cam.ac.uk is ac.] -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http

Re: [exim] Detecting the domain part of a host address

z.example or y.z.example? You can't tell just by looking at it. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org

Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching

it doesn't). -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http

Re: [exim] 550 on mailbox full

. There are plenty of other ways of maintaining quotas. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] Preventing retry time not reached for any host/retry time not reached log entries

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Thomas Jacob wrote: Is it possible to configure exim to not log these messages, at least for queue-runner deliver checks, to keep down the size of the log files? http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch49.html#SECTlogselector -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Just for your information

. :-) Also, you have {$value } rather than {$value} in your password check. Notice the space - it will be included in the test, and so the password probably won't match. But if this is indeed just a client, I'd get rid of all those server_xxx options, which are just confusing. -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] line length detection

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Philip Hazel wrote: OK, if you add it, you're not allowed to retire... OK? :-) What if I call it $max_received_linelength ? I have implemented $max_received_linelength and committed the patch. Please test, anybody who is interested. The count excludes the line

Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching

the front instead of skipping all the way to the end and then searching backwards. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http

Re: [exim] Host Pattern Matching

. And in the cases where it does not match, it still has to check at every position. That's how regexs work. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users

Re: [exim] hostlist +ignore_defer feature request

that you have the choice of treating them differently. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please

Re: [exim] line length detection

$max_linelength to play with. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list

Re: [exim] line length detection

add it, you're not allowed to retire... OK? :-) What if I call it $max_received_linelength ? -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users

Re: [exim] queue merging

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Anthony de Boer wrote: Slightly obscure question, and I don't see an answer in documentation: can queues from two exim instances be merged? As well as the other responses, see also the localhost_number option. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing

Re: [exim] Filter user variables outside of filters?

in a transport. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http

[exim] REMINDER: Next Exim course July 24-27

to attend this dinner. Roll up! Roll up! Book your places now! :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http

Re: [exim] REMINDER: Next Exim course July 24-27

On Wed, 30 May 2007, Dave Lugo wrote: Wish I was on your side of the pond, so I could attend. :-( Thanks _very_ much for all your work on exim. :) Thanks for the thanks. Appreciated. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http

Re: [exim] Advanced regexp question

On Wed, 30 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe docs about ${rfc2047d:} should point out that items referenced with $header are automatically decoded just to make sure that lost souls are returned to the light. :) Noted. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing

Re: [exim] Logging of local interface for outbound mails

On Sun, 27 May 2007, Tim Jackson wrote: Philip Hazel wrote: On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Tim Jackson wrote: Is there any way to log which local interface was used for the outbound connection, on the = log line? [...] at present there is no mechanism for passing this information back

Re: [exim] Manual route

probably do not want to set it on the router that handles everything else. Alternatively, you could use a manualroute router to route the domain that resolves to smtp1.mydomain.org so that it routes directly to the IP. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get

Re: [exim] Potential logic error in retry handling for IPv4+IPv6 hosts

want to find out exactly when it was fixed, download the latest version and read the doc/ChangeLog file. Or you can look at individual ChangeLogs from, e.g.: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.67 -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing

Re: [exim] Exim gets constantly the same mail, sent from our customer (gagabay)

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 16:29 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote: Then it struck me that there is no need to mess with signals. A simple call to select() can also detect this situation. I have therefore implemented code to do this (with some extra

Re: [exim] ACL senders= vs. MySQL (list expansion)...bug?

lookup syntaxes. Since your query delivers a list of addresses to check, you need to use the ${lookup mysql{SELECT syntax. The mysql;SELECT... syntax in a lookup means if this lookup succeeds, the thing we are looking for matches. It has, so it does. -- Philip Hazel

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

). You can then make things arbitrarily complex without a run-time hit. ... as I suggested above. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

care about performance any more? If you have a pile of macros defined, Exim is going to scan each config line for those macros every time it reads the config, which is something that it does often. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

is done. For each line, remember. Now, whether this degradation is noticeable, or whether it matters, is a judgement call. I was just pointing out that it will occur. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

to not having to scan the line. Sorry I misled you. However, if there are NO macros defined (the default) Exim does not have to scan the line at all. My aplogogies. Not necessary! -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

thing is there that are many, many load times. The way Exim works (in terms of processes, forks, re-execs, etc) is all explained in the book and I cover it in my course (advert next course is in July /advert) and has been discussed here on several occasions. -- Philip HazelUniversity

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: I don't think there would be any practical differences except in rather complex configurations. Still, probably something for Exim 5. Yes. The current arrangement was intended as a *simple* macro feature. -- Philip HazelUniversity

Re: [exim] manualroute sql route_list

? The manual has the explicit example route_list = * host.tld::1225 Have you got debugging information to show that this does not work? Which release of Exim? Support for ports in manual route was added at release 4.53. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

On Wed, 2 May 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote: Simple specification or simple implementation? ;) Both. I'm a simple sort of person. :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http

Re: [exim] Idea: Predefined macros

it is about to be used. - while a 'lookup' - be it file, db, or SQL - is ignored until actually encountered in acl that *uses* it, IOW, skipped in many cases. Indeed. -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book

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