[exim] Exim auth driver dovecot 'LOGIN' fails?

2023-01-25 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Hello list, Is Exim's dovecot driver for LOGIN auth broken or am i doing something wrong? The PLAIN auth variant is working fine. Attached is the relevant debug logging from both Dovecot auth as well as Exim. This is Exim 4.95-4ubuntu2.2 & Dovecot 1:2.3.16+dfsg1-3ubuntu2.1 from Ubuntu 22.04

Re: [exim] Stumped on router conditions

2022-11-29 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Slavko via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > > So, "! true" must mean "false", right? > No, "! true" is just string, not Boolean negation. Well, yes, if you take that literally. As aparently 'condition' checks in routers do. ;) With my programmer mindset it should "expand" to False

[exim] Stumped on router conditions

2022-11-29 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Hi there, I have been trying to have one router act when a condition is true, and the other act when that same condition is not true. The conditions are LDAP lookups. I'm omitting the specific lookup for privacy reasons. ;) | > ${lookup ldap{...}{true}{false}} | true The lookup is defined as a

Re: [exim] Ubuntu 20.04 and CONFDIR

2022-06-15 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Elliot Finley via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > Anyone know why CONFDIR wouldn't be honored? I'd advise reading /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz and other /usr/share/doc/exim4*/* documentation files on your system with regards to the 'split configuration' setup that

Re: [exim] tainted data issues

2021-05-05 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > In case you didn't notice. We've added a new but already deprecated main > config option: > allow_insecure_tainted_data = yes Yes, thanks for your hard work, Heiko!! I saw that option being discussed / added. It sure

Re: [exim] tainted data issues

2021-05-05 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Jeremy Harris via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > It is far to easy for someone to write a matcher which just > untaints everything, disabling the security. Three people > would do that, and one would post it on serverfault. Then > it would be cargo-culted forever. You mean like

Re: [exim] 421 lost input connection, not logged?

2020-10-08 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Graeme Fowler via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > ...but if the client never managed to actually connect to Exim, there is > nothing to log. But the client was connected! It issued EHLO, STARTTLS and -then- boogered off. > You can already add the log selector "smtp_connection" to

[exim] 421 lost input connection, not logged?

2020-10-08 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Hi, Spent a few minutes today figuring out what happens to a certain client trying to send mail to our Exim 4.93 #3 MTA since no traces of their IP could be found in our logs. But tcpdumping shows the session being terminated after STARTTLS, with Exim sending '421 lost input connection' over the

Re: [exim] Evaluation logic in 'warn' statements?

2020-01-22 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Jeremy Harris via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > > I find that the header is added to -all- messages while i'd expect > > the 'recipients'-condition to prevent that. When the add_header and > > recipients line are swapped it does works as i'd expect. > > Is that behaviour ...

[exim] Evaluation logic in 'warn' statements?

2020-01-22 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Hi list, Given this statement in acl_check_rcpt: warn add_header = X-SomeHeader: somevalue recipients = somere...@somedomain.example.tld control = dkim_disable_verify I find that the header is added to -all- messages while i'd expect the 'recipients'-condition to

Re: [exim] av_scanner and panic log...

2019-11-27 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Jeremy Harris via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > > But every time clamd have trouble, exim log in panic_log, and so debian > > compain about it. > get put, so that you can notice. Debian is complaining because > clamd is complaining. I wholeheartedly agree with Jeremy here, but if

[exim] Format error in spool file! Probably local_scan sa_exim.so?

2019-05-23 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Hi list! Today, vger.kernel.org delivered another one of it's bursts of messages to my mailserver, and one of those got stuck logging 'Format error in spool file'. Saucy! I captured the -D and -H files, the log doesn't show anything special other than that message being delivered and the spool

Re: [exim] SPF issue: acting like -all when ~all

2017-12-18 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Jonathan Gilpin via Exim-users (exim-users@exim.org): > 2017-12-14 13:09:26 H=smtp1.galacsys.net [217.24.81.209] > X=TLSv1:DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA:256 CV=no > F= rejected RCPT : SPF > check failed Even though this was already tracked back to

Re: [exim] Encripted SMTP connection on port 25 or 465

2017-07-20 Thread Sander Smeenk via Exim-users
Quoting Luciano Rinetti (l.rine...@movimatica.com): > In the main log file it is possible to recognize an encripted SMTP > connection on port 25 by means of the X= record. > How can i recognize an encripted SMTP connection on port 465 with SMTP over > SSL ? Your most recent questions to this

Re: [exim] DKIM signing & max line length

2016-08-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Jeremy Harris (j...@wizmail.org): > > I tried to get some info on this. Aparently RFC2822 specifies a line > > in an email should not exceed 998 chars (+CRLF=1000). I haven't > > heard of any MTA enforcing this and it would seem a bit low to me. > The current configure.default in the

[exim] DKIM signing & max line length

2016-08-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi list, Recently i've switched on DKIM-signing for my outgoing messages. Works like a charm! Mostly. One of my users botched the system by sending (automated) messages that have a ~20KB XML-dump all on one long line. The message in my logs is nothing more than "DKIM: message could not be

Re: [exim] Handling unadvertised AUTH

2016-05-01 Thread Phil Carroll proxied by Sander Smeenk
(Phillip asked me to send his message to the list, which was sent directly to me and wasn't stored in Phillip's sent-box) --- On 4/30/2016 10:02 AM, Sander Smeenk wrote: > >Any help appreciated (including better ideas). > Use iptables & ipset if you want to block the IP-space of ent

Re: [exim] Handling unadvertised AUTH

2016-04-30 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Phillip Carroll (postmas...@enablingsimplicity.com): > Any help appreciated (including better ideas). Use iptables & ipset if you want to block the IP-space of entire AS or CCs. If you 'just don't care' for traffic from large amounts of IP-space you dont want Exim to deal with that.

Re: [exim] exim not expiring messages/ cleaning up spool

2015-01-06 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Corin Langosch (i...@corinlangosch.com): -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 5263 Nov 7 22:00 1Xmqds-00030B-8q-D -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim949 Nov 7 23:06 1Xmqds-00030B-8q-H -rw-r- 1 Debian-exim Debian-exim 5267 Nov 7 22:02 1Xmqfs-0003ky-MA-D

Re: [exim] Exim smarthost condition

2013-06-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sysadmin (eduardo.silves...@sysadmin.pt): Any clue about this? Relaying is usually controlled in the RCPT ACL. In a default setup it usually already has some configuration along the lines of: accept hosts = +relay_from_hosts Just before that you could create a new 'accept' statement

Re: [exim] How to interpret pasted snip of log?

2013-01-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marcin Mirosław (mar...@mejor.pl): I'm wondering why I've got in main_log H=(mnch-4d044ae7.pool.mediaWays.net) in first line, and H=mnch-4d044ae7.pool.mediaways.net in second line in the same delivery? As far as i know, the first H= enclosed in brackets is what the remote host put

Re: [exim] logs

2013-01-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting eximmail (eximm...@edschooler.com): Pointers on how to do this would be greatly appreciated. In acl_smtp_rcpt: deny condition = ${lookup{$sender_address}wildlsearch{/etc/exim4/blacklists/sender_domains}{yes}{no}} message = Sending address ($sender_address) is blacklisted for

Re: [exim] Altering tempfail messages under certain conditions

2012-12-17 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sander Smeenk (ssme...@freshdot.net): Can i get Exim to return something else if the host lookup does not complete? Something along the lines of The DNS of $sender_domain is probably broken, contact $your_isp? I tried using dnsdb lookups to see if i can capture the SERVFAIL condition

[exim] Altering tempfail messages under certain conditions

2012-12-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, as DNSSEC is getting more mainstream, especially here in .nl, we also get more emails that fail because of broken DNSSEC. Or to be more precise, because our resolvers refuse to answer for broken DNSSEC domains (SRVFAIL). Exim reports to the sending MTA 'Temporary local problem - please try

[exim] Retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

2012-12-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, The internet is full of crap about a delivery failure message returned by Exim: retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period. Every post i can find suggests my retry databases are corrupt, but i am certain they are not. Ofcourse, removing the retry database would solve the

[exim] SSL 3.0 and logparsing

2012-06-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, this entry in my logs made my parser fail: |.. P=esmtpsa X=SSL 3.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 A=login:derp .. The space between SSL and 3.0 is unexpected. Is this intentional? It's easily amended in my scripts, i'm just curious. -Sndr. -- | A backward poet writes inverse. |

Re: [exim] accept multiple domains

2010-02-01 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Lars Nielsen (l...@lfweb.dk): Thanks for the info Todd, Maybe i should compile exim from source instead of using the debian package. Then I have better control over which files go where. Are there any thing wrong with that? FYI, placing a 'monolithic' config file in

Re: [exim] accept multiple domains

2010-02-01 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Chris Wilson (chris+e...@qwirx.com): FYI, placing a 'monolithic' config file in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf makes Exim on Debian use that configuration file instead of the 'split configuration'. You can also choose a monolithin configuration in Debian using dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config (I

[exim] Retry timeout exceeded, but why exactly.

2010-01-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi! I see mails fail to deliver with the message retry time exceeded but i can't really place why the retry time was exceeded in the first place. I think this has to do with hints databases, but what exactly can be done to prevent it is unclear. Scenario: We have a (mailman) mailinglist with 20

Re: [exim] How to automate extraction of bounce messages for the purpose of unsub'ing recipient addresses

2009-09-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sven Agnew (s...@biija.com): To this end, I would like to automatically extract bounce message I don't know if this is an elegant way to handle this sort of problem. Suggestions or recommendations are welcome. My plan would be to use what mailinglists do: send mails with a varying

Re: [exim] am i too stupid for exim4?

2009-09-02 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Andrei (funactivit...@gmail.com): I'm sorry. I've been at this for 2 days now and can't figure it out. I would be thrilled if somebody can shed light on this... 2009-09-01 21:09:37 H=localhost (lists.myhost.org) [127.0.0.1] F=mailman-boun...@lists.myhost.org rejected RCPT

Re: [exim] Silly situation - reprocess mail in queue

2009-05-08 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marcin Krol (mrk...@gmail.com): Well, a silly thing happened: another administrator cleared the setuid bit on exim binary and exim was unable to save the incoming mail locally. But I would like to make Exim save that mail again on backup host, that is, to reprocess each mail in the

Re: [exim] what chars in aliases?

2009-03-12 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) (miham...@lab.vectoris.fr): local_parts = ^[.] : ^...@%!/|] How to read this? Starting with a single dot, or starting with @, %, !, / or |. The : is a delimiter in this 'list' of local_parts. Am I right? No :-) Read 'man regexp' and 'man

Re: [exim] what chars in aliases?

2009-03-12 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sander Smeenk (ssme...@freshdot.net): local_parts = ^[.] : ^...@%!/|] How to read this? Starting with a single dot, or starting with @, %, !, / or |. The : is a delimiter in this 'list' of local_parts. Am I right? No :-) Read 'man regexp' and 'man pcre' If i

Re: [exim] Verifyng email addresses

2009-03-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Amedeo Mantica (amedeomail...@insigno.it): Is possible to verify if an email address is valid (worldwide, not local) via the exim command line? You can only check if your Exim can route the message with address testing mode. Exim exits with an errorlevel 0 if routing failed: |

Re: [exim] *.netsolmail.net not taking our mail..

2009-03-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting B. Cook (bc...@poughkeepsieschools.org): telnet 205.178.149.7 25 Anyway to find out from them why they don't want to talk to us anymore? :) And then you thought, let's try on exim-users ? Seems like the sensible way to go :) -Sndr. -- | Opportunities always look bigger going than

Re: [exim] Minimal configuration?

2009-02-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting gcaplan (ge...@uviva.com): So we need a simple, secure set-and-forget configuration that will: 1) Send out mail from localhost 2) Refuse to do anything else, particularly accept incoming mail or act as a relay. Exim's default configuration will send out mail using the 'dnslookup'

Re: [exim] system_filters

2009-02-25 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Joshua (jhfarnswo...@ptci.com): can you specify more than one system_filter in exim.conf or does it all have to be in the one file. Have you tried? :-) I believe there can be only one. All filtering needs to be done from one system_filter.

Re: [exim] scanning at ACL using external program

2008-12-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marcin Krol ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Exim can then make whatever headers you wish.. ..except it's rather hard to add a header like this using Exim's builtin features: X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=15.9 required=15.0 tests=BOTNET,BOTNET_CLIENT,

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Another feature - something I've asked for before - is the ability to treat a 5xx error as a 4xx error. I know people have complained it Adding to code to break the fundamentals email, no matter how innocent the reason, isn't going to make it into

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It's hardly a solution in that it doesn't do what I want. I want to be able to look at the reason for the 550 rejection. So if it's unknown user it gets treated differently from relaying denied. If I had that I could make a choice to refusing an

Re: [exim] Exim Development

2008-12-07 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Graeme Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Write a script which permanently tails your logfile(s). Ah, this is why i should read threads before posting replies :) -Sndr. -- | Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB

Re: [exim] which config file is being read?

2008-09-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting andys ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I check which config file is being read or force a specific file to be read? Exim's -bV option should tell you what configuration file it reads. You can force it to use another configuration file with the -C option. This all is in the manual pages,

Re: [exim] I've modified Erik Mugele's exim_surbl.pl utility for blocking URIBL in Exim

2008-09-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
I've modified Erik Mugele's exim_surbl.pl utility for blocking URIBL in Exim. Great! Can we stop quoting urls listed on surbl? All these mails end up in my spambox as they score below the drop treshold and above the spamtreshold. I might start rejecting mails from exim-users and poison my

Re: [exim] Hold Emails

2008-07-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
through Exim, you can 'end' the message by pressing Control-D on an empty line. Works-for-me: | $ exim4 -odq [EMAIL PROTECTED] | From: Sander Smeenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To: Sander Smeenk [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: testing 123 | | 123 testing! | ^D | $ mailq | 0m 561 1KNthe-eX-2k [EMAIL

Re: [exim] Hold Emails

2008-07-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sébastien CARRE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): In order to test it, I want to be able to hold some emails in the queue (from a specific adresse for example). Is this possible ? You could set 'hold_domains = domain.tld : domain2.tld' in your exim4.conf. You might have to restart Exim4 for this

Re: [exim] whitespaces in exim filter

2008-07-15 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Juri Malinovski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Save spam in “Junk E-mail” J How? save $domain/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.”Junk E-mail” doesn’t work as expected, exim filter rejects quotes Probably this works: save $domain/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/.Junk\ E-mail/ -Sndr. -- | If cats and dogs didn't have

Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?

2008-07-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Suppose Exim had 2 queues instead of one. We'll call the first queue the primary queue which is a ram drive and the secondary queue which is a disk drive. All this is of course optional and user settable. Having queues in ram is, as i pointed out in

Re: [exim] Should queue processing be rewritten in Exim?

2008-07-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Brian Blood ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The solution here is pencil(1) simple, shunt your outbound email off to a different server running Postfix, which has queueing and delivery performance an order of magnitude better than exim. [ .. ] done. problem solved. no need to spend countless

Re: [exim] Which hardware do you use for your installation?

2008-06-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Frank S. Bernhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Exim for the intelligent stuff, Postfix for the brute force deliveries :) Why is this a problem for EXIM (someone mentioned db4)? I have good reasons to believe Exim isn't good at handling large queues due to the way the spool directory is

Re: [exim] Which hardware do you use for your installation?

2008-06-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Patrick von der Hagen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Queue-size was 300. Greylisting, unreachable recipients, etc. In my experience, that size is really no issue for exim. ;-) Oh, no, 300 is peanuts for Exim. Given that it's not doing intensive spamscanning, virusscanning etc on the same server

Re: [exim] Which hardware do you use for your installation?

2008-06-12 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Jeroen van Aart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On the incoming end (mx) we now have about ~5 servers with a single AMD Opteron 2.8GHz Dual-Core CPU, 4G ram, and just one SATA-II disk as storage isn't important. But why not use a raid1 instead of the one disk? [ .. ] you would have to

[exim] [OT] RAID (was: Re: Which hardware do you use for your installation?)

2008-06-12 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Nigel Metheringham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I have to say I am getting less convinced by RAID 1 on systems. RAID at all for me, actually. I've seen it crumble down to a grinding halt several times (using software raid, mdadm, that is). While it was designed so that a disk could fail

Re: [exim] Which hardware do you use for your installation?

2008-06-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Lasse Birnbaum Jensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Looking for experience with large exim installations. Please answer the questions below: We recently reworked our mail-setup at the company i work for. And being an 'open' company, my boss probably won't mind me posting this rought sketch.

Re: [exim] BATV configuration

2008-06-02 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Lars Nordin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After working on configuring Exim for BATV for a while and running into some problems, I wanted to pass on my configuration that got me working. Some of the information out there is a little out of date and it may help someone else to have a whole

Re: [exim] exim 4.63 SMTP listener keeping log file open for days

2008-05-04 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Tony Finch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Well it looks like I have a live one, and it looks rather broken - some kind of deadlock, possibly signal related? It's a bit mysterious. I'm also seeing what Marc posted. I'm 100% certain pid 10309 is my master process and running lsof also produces: |

Re: [exim] AutoReply transport and UTF-8 characters in subject

2008-05-02 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Tony Finch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Use $rh_Subject: instead. Spoke too soon! It still breaks with exactly the same message using rh_Subject. :( -Sndr. -- | Light travels faster than sound. | That's why a person may look intelligent until you hear him speak. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314

[exim] AutoReply transport and UTF-8 characters in subject

2008-04-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
and causes the autoreply transport to fail? And why does this create a vague DSN message to the sender which doesn't show anything as to the cause of the problem? Looking forward to any reply! Kind regards, Sander Smeenk. | begin routers | | # Autoreply is enabled for this virtual or user

Re: [exim] Logging stats via script?

2008-04-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Silver ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Can anyone point me in the right direction here or tell me where the correct place for this would be? I'm using Exim 4.69. I once did such a thing with a system_filter logging exactly what i wanted to the exim mainlog, which i then parsed with a

Re: [exim] AutoReply transport and UTF-8 characters in subject

2008-04-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Odhiambo Washington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): with the message 'Expansion of Re: $h_subject in UserAutoreply transport contains non-printing character 225'. The subject of this message was 'Test-email2, ツ€ņ¥ß'. A quick guess: What if you change that to ${rfc2047:$h_Subject: in the

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

2007-08-20 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Sander Smeenk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): There's one retry-rule in my config: ** F,4h,5m; F,16h,30m; F,7d,3h With this retry rule, I would expect to see no messages older than 7 days in my queue. Can anyone explain why this message is still on queue? 13d 4.7K 1IGNmg-7X-Ia

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

2007-08-20 Thread Sander Smeenk
earlier message, i quote: | Quoting Sander Smeenk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | Exim seems to keep these messages around forever. As they are not 5xx | errors they do not freeze and timeout_frozen_after doesn't kick in. Though this might not be very clear, i did check my timeout_frozen_

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

2007-08-15 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi! I have some messages in my queue for which the remote mailserver keeps saying '450 Try again later' even though it's most obvious they will not accept the message ever. Exim seems to keep these messages around forever. As they are not 5xx errors they do not freeze and timeout_frozen_after

[exim] RFC1413 (ident), TCP Reset Alarm

2007-07-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hi, Why is it that Exim4 (4.60) still waits for an alarm() to occur when a connection to ident has been rejected with a RST? At least, that is what seems to happen. My nagios box rejects ident connections with a TCP RST packet, which results in a 'Connection refused'. This is the best way to

Re: [exim] RFC1413 (ident), TCP Reset Alarm

2007-07-27 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Dave Evans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Why is it that Exim4 (4.60) still waits for an alarm() to occur when a connection to ident has been rejected with a RST? At least, that is what seems to happen. Are you sure your box is receiving, and not firewalling out, the RST packet? Most

Re: [exim] verify = header_syntax usage

2007-05-31 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Renaud Allard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Do much people here on this list use verify = header_syntax usage to deny messages. I was just looking at my logs and it seems most mails tagged by this kind of rule are ham. so I was wondering if/how people here use (or not) this ACL. I had it hit

Re: [exim] FW: Mystery Message in Mystery Queue

2007-05-03 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Graeme Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Here is the result of 'mailq' (obviously bounces to spammers): 5h 1.8K 1Hjaq7-000282-0p *** frozen *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here is the result of exim -Mrm 1HiwzY-0002VD-GI Spool read error for 1HiwzY-0002VD-GI-H: No such file or

Re: [exim] Strange confusing random slowness

2007-01-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anyhow - need a clue. Thanks in advance. Use 'exiwhat' (at least available in Debian) to see what the process is doing. Are you delivering by TLS connection? I had some problems with TLS and not-enough-entropy. Linkink /dev/random to /dev/urandom might

Re: [exim] exim queue

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I find the sended emails by a user in the exim queue? man exiqgrep -- | You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB D463 7E41 08CE C94D -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] exim queue

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alexander Shikoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I find the sended emails by a user in the exim queue? man exiqgrep 'man exiqgrep' does not exist at least in my installation of exim. exiqgrep -h should help. Right you are... | AUTHOR |This manual page was stitched

Re: [exim] delete queue emails

2007-01-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): How can I delete all emails how this? 6h 2.5M 1H6glE-0002yA-5d $ mailq | grep | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm Is what i use in such situations, but there could well be other solutions with exiqgrep a.o. -- | Isn't this a stupid question? | Isn't

Re: [exim] Virtual users HowTo! I did it no MySql No LDAP

2007-01-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ahmad Sabry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 4- it's not the right way to support those new guys in linux. Although i too thought Marc's message was maybe a little harsh, i do agree that both your postings so far were very unclear as to what you're really trying to accomplish. And they are hard to

Re: [exim] how ti distinguish local mail and smtp mail

2007-01-12 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marten Lehmann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): how can I distinguish if a mail has been send locally or if it has been received by smtp? Is there any variable reserved for it? I don't want to add and remove header to transport information between ACLs, routers and transports, that looks a bit

Re: [exim] queue runs question

2007-01-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Zbigniew Szalbot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): If queue runs are disabled, does exim try to re-send emails which are in queue when their retry times come? Or does it mean that emails in queue will never get sent if -qxm is not given on the command line? For all i know, queues will not be

Re: [exim] OT(?): SRS vs. SORBS sending mails with '' sender

2007-01-05 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Heiko Schlittermann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): what I understand from SRS is: If I use SRS for outgoing messages, bounces to messages I sent should be addressed to SRS-encoded recipients, not to real real recipients. In my honest opinion, bounces should always go to the envelope sender

Re: [exim] Exim and SRS in ACL?

2006-12-29 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Chris Lightfoot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Are people seeing a lot of SRS in the wild? A quick census of my mail suggests 0.1% SRS for both real mail and spam. I implemented it after my domain was abused in a joejob once. I got lots of bounces for messages i really didn't send. Mine look

Re: [exim] interface option in remote_smtp doesn't work

2006-12-21 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting manwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): # exim -d -v '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [ ... ] Connecting to srv6.cyfronet.pl [149.156.2.19]:25 from 80.53.26.124 ... connected waiting for data on socket [ ... ] SMTP 250-srv6.cyf-kr.edu.pl Hello drath..pl [80.53.26.122], pleased [ ... ]

Re: [exim] Good tricks for catching image spam

2006-10-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Marc Perkel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anyone have any good tricks for catching this damn image spam that they want to share? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin Might be good to check out! Regards, Sander. -- | Madness takes it's toll. Have exact change ready! |

Re: [exim] Good tricks for catching image spam

2006-10-10 Thread Sander Smeenk
* Please keep replies on-list. Anyone have any good tricks for catching this damn image spam that they want to share? http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FuzzyOcrPlugin if you want a less cpu intensive method, try rejecting any email with a gif attachment comming from a non-whitelisted

Re: [exim] Autoreply oddities with mail containing 2 subjectlines?

2006-08-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Kjetil Torgrim Homme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | 022 Subject: =?utf-8?Q??= | 053 Subject: Accel Solutions vertaa.fi rekister?tyminen two Subject fields is illegal according to RFC 2821, see the table in section 3.6. I know that :-) if you turn on verify = header_syntax, I believe

Re: [exim] More secure authentication with dyndns.com's mailhop outbound service?

2006-04-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Adam Funk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN client_send = : username : password I would like exim to be able to authenticate to outbound.mailhop.org without storing the unencrypted password on disk. Is

Re: [exim] More secure authentication with dyndns.com's mailhop outbound service?

2006-04-11 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Stanislaw Halik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Works for me. I have a file CONFDIR/passwd with crypt()'ed passwords. the problem is that it's an outbound connection, therefore the password has to be stored in a readable way. Oh right! I kinda looked over that fact. Oops. -- | It's

[exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
? I'm happy to hear from you guys. Either on- or offlist ;) Kind regards, Sander Smeenk. -- | Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often. | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB D463 7E41 08CE C94D -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim

Re: [exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Ian Eiloart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What is the opinion of the masses, am I right to reject mail to return paths if they don't come from or postmaster? I don't think you should. But don't you agree that a return path is only to be used for returning a message if it can't be delivered,

Re: [exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Rejecting mail with non-empty reverse-path to your signed addresses isn't really that important, so if it's a problem you might as well relax the checking. It's in *your* config my friend! :P |{${if and { {!eq {$sender_address}{}} \ |

Re: [exim] RFC on accepting mail to return path addresses

2006-03-22 Thread Sander Smeenk
Rejecting mail with non-empty reverse-path to your signed addresses isn't really that important It's in *your* config my friend! :P I know. It's not a problem for _me_ -- hah :) got me ;) An old version of my config, working around bugs in an old version of Exim. You don't need the

[exim] TLS / Entropy

2005-12-15 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hello, I'm a keen Exim4 user (4.54, 4.60, Debian, monolithic config) and I'd like to use TLS as much as possible. Not to authenticate senders, but just to encrypt transfers between servers. Yet, i notice that my server(s) lack entropy, or, i think that's the case. My users are complaining that

Re: [exim] Blocking From:

2005-12-06 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Matt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I am so sure that happens. In reality most times the return address is forged and goes to the wrong place. Yeah. Tell your users not to use such software. It's as bad as spamming, IMHO. Is there anyway to setup Exim so when it sees a return address of and

Re: [exim] 'X=TLSv1: ...' in exim log file

2005-10-18 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Robert Cates ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What would I need to do to increase my Exim TLS/SSL connections to 256-bit? I've wondered about this too. I think it has to do with the type of cert you create for Exim to use. Not sure though. Could also be a compiletime setting maybe... It's still on

[exim] Exim filter / Regexp weirdness

2005-09-26 Thread Sander Smeenk
Hey, I receieve some mail from, to and cc'd-to .fi and .se addresses which i would like to see delivered in a separate mailbox, so i made this eximfilter: | if $h_To: matches @[EMAIL PROTECTED](fi|se) or |$h_Cc: matches @[EMAIL PROTECTED](fi|se) or |$h_From: matches @[EMAIL

Re: [exim] 'sudden' appearance of failed socket bind()

2005-09-13 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting OpenMacNews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): daemon starts, stops ... and until today ... HUPs just fine. however, now when HUP the daemon, the log complains: 2005-09-12 17:48:32 socket bind() to port 25 for address 10.0.0.6 failed: Permission denied: waiting 30s before trying again (7