Hi, Jeremy - Sadly we're not building from source, but our policy is to use the package that comes with the LTS (Long Term Stable) release of Ubuntu on which we run the service. The next LTS release is due in April, at which point I leapfrog from 4.86 + security fixes to 4.90.1. (Yay!) A shame, as I'm pretty sure being able to detect the pass number would be a quick fix for the router/ACL combo.
By the way, having played with this now I'm beginning to come around to it being a powerful and flexible way of managing rate limiting for outgoing mail… well, if it worked with our -qq runners! :-) Maybe the way forward is to flesh out the Wiki page you started: something I'm happy to try and do if you/others would then check it and correct/improve any mistakes etc I make. I'm going to check whether the hosts I used to have to try and limit connections to still have that restriction; I know there have been some changes made to them. If so, I might be able to use the -q option to spark queue runners instead of -qq as a workaround. As for top-posting, that's a habit brought about by many modern email programs. My preference used to be for interleaved (back in the days of Pine!), then top-posting, followed by bottom-posting (wading through tons of old stuff to reach the new is a pain). With G Suite's mail it not only creates your reply to top-post but also conveniently hides all the included content, making it easy to overlook and trim. As it hides included content by default on received messages, us Gmail/G Suite users are now all used to not having to see/worry about it. :-) I'll try to remember, but it's already a faff replying to the list as it is: - Hitting Reply would send my message to you personally and not the list. - So to get the list's address included I have to change to Reply To All. - But that includes your own individual address too, which I know you also dislike, so then I have to edit your address out of the TO, and move the list address from CC to TO. - Manually trimming out included text is then yet another step: difficult to remember when (a) it's hidden from sight below a faint grey ellipsis character, (b) I'm used to not having to do it for the bulk of emails I send and (c) my mind is focussed on the problem/solution. But I'll try… :-) (And indeed have just managed to stop my fingers from clicking Send before actually doing the trimming this time!) Cheers, Mike B-) -- Systems Administrator & Change Manager IT Services, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK Tel: +44-(0)1904-323811 Web: www.york.ac.uk/it-services Disclaimer: www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm -- ## List details at https://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/
