Re: [exim] Exim 4.94 Taint issues

2020-07-18 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
Hi, This time with a better formed subject line :-( On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:12:52 +0100 The Doctor did write : Snip... > > On 2020-07-18 The Doctor via freebsd-ports > > wrote: > > > > > Trying Exim 4.94 and I am getting > > > > > > 2020-07-17 19:28:04.818 [8344] 1jwbdQ-00023D-Cx == doc...@n

[exim] (no subject)

2020-07-18 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.94 Taint issues Hi, On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 14:12:52 +0100 The Doctor did write : Snip... > > On 2020-07-18 The Doctor via freebsd-ports > > wrote: > > > > > Trying Exim 4.94 and I am getting > > > > > > 2020-07-17 19:28:04.818 [8344] 1jwbdQ-00023D-Cx == doc...@nk.ca

Re: [exim] Exim 4.94 Taint issues

2020-07-18 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
On 2020-07-18 The Doctor via freebsd-ports wrote: > Trying Exim 4.94 and I am getting > > 2020-07-17 19:28:04.818 [8344] 1jwbdQ-00023D-Cx == doc...@nk.ca R=localuser > T=local_delivery defer (-1) DT=0.001s: Tainted '/var/mail/doctor' (file or > directory name for local_delivery transport) no

[exim] utf-8 strings in headers

2020-02-23 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
Hi, I've just rolled out 4.93 from sources on Devuan - all working fine, no problems. In the process of checking everything is OK I noticed rejects of the form :- 2020-02-23 16:35:12 1j5uDo-0002yt-Ig H=(NN.NN.NN.NN.example.org) \ [NN.NN.NN.NN] F= rejected after DATA: \ header syn

Re: [exim] How close are we to Release candidate 4.93 RC2 ?

2019-11-11 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
27;s law, which states that you all suck :P | +------------+ > > Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users g> (Mo 11 Nov 2019 00:18:41 CST): > > > 26659 SPF_dns_exim_new > > spf_compile.c:523Debug: Parsing macro starting at Please%_

Re: [exim] How close are we to Release candidate 4.93 RC2 ?

2019-11-10 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
Hi, > On 07/11/2019 16:34, Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via > Exim-users wrote: > > Will there be a 4.93 RC2 any time soon (ever) ? > > Today. I know :-) I thought it was imminent when nobody replied :-) It's working handsomely (so far) on my build fro

[exim] How close are we to Release candidate 4.93 RC2 ?

2019-11-07 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
Hi, Will there be a 4.93 RC2 any time soon (ever) ? I'm about to download and build from source but if RC2 is going out shortly I don't want to be building something that is already out of date. Regards, D lists/exim/users/2019-11-07.tx exim-users +

Re: [exim] Building exim on Debian Stretch

2019-01-16 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator, , , via Exim-users
Hi John, Snip... > What am I doing wrong? I tried reading the documentation on dbm but it > did not seem to help. I do seem to have gdbm package installed but not > sure if that helps or is relevant. Have you installed libdbm-dev ? Regards, D lists/exim/users/2019-01-16.tx

[exim] require verify = sender description

2017-04-07 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, how does verify = sender work. I can't find anything that says what it does exactly in the docs. I'm seeing a valid sender get rejected several times before being finally accepted. I added a warn line in the config :- warn! verify = sender logwrite = oops sender verify failed :

Re: [exim] Please, help to configure

2015-04-03 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi Dmitri, > Helo, all! > > I need your help to configure seder verificaton. > > In acl_check_mail: I have > > require message = Sender unknown/invalid > logwrite= Sender verification $sender_address > log_message = Discarded message from $sender_address >

Re: [exim] How do you delete a large frozen queue?

2015-02-06 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, Snip... > The exim and exiqgrep commands still function, but there are so many messages > that any attempt to form a pipe exits in error. I'd use mailq | grep 'SENDER' | awk 'print $3' | xargs exim -Mrm or some variant of it. I don't have any queued mails to test it on. It may take some

Re: [exim] lots of "string_sprintf expansion was longer than 32768"

2014-05-09 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, > Am 09.05.2014 11:04, schrieb Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,: > > Hi, > > > >> Like i said, all headers are gone, and the message body looks quite > >> right to me. > >> there are a lot of attachments in the mail, but thats it. > > I

Re: [exim] lots of "string_sprintf expansion was longer than 32768"

2014-05-09 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, > Like i said, all headers are gone, and the message body looks quite > right to me. > there are a lot of attachments in the mail, but thats it. I noticed that all the spool files you listed were of the same size though you said there were lost of them. Do the files contain the same payload

Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-05 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
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Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-05 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi Marc, > Is there a way for an ACL to do something on authentication failure? I'm > trying to trap the IP addresses of hackers trying to guess passwords. > > Thanks in advance Have a look at acl_smtp_auth. I also use an extended or condition on the authentication :- server_co

Re: [exim] Error building 4.77

2011-11-13 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi Marc, > Looks like I'm missing something but not sure what. > > >>> version 4.77 #8 > > gcc exim_dbmbuild.c > In file included from exim_dbmbuild.c:31: > exim.h:433:18: error: pcre.h: No such file or directory Looks like the perl compatible regular expression library. What are you compilin

Re: [exim] Spam getting through even though sa-exim is supposedly configured to reject

2011-10-12 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi Mark, > I have what seems to me to be a rather weird problem. My users are > complaining that they are receiving spam, which contains the following > spamassassin content warning: Snip... > So - why is this spam getting through instead of being rejected? Am I > missing something obvious he

Re: [exim] Hold up

2011-04-23 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, > I see this in my incoming server logs: > > Apr 22 20:58:04 doctor doctor[42]: exim[7708]: 2011-04-22 20:58:04 > 1QDT0h-00020K-Px spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: > Operation timed out Snip... > Why is this being stalled? SpamAssassin dead ? If not it may be zombied

Re: [exim] Strange loglines when using alternative exim.conf

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi Matthias, > i realized a strange behaviour of exim when logging. > > Normally, my default exim.conf is called: > > /etc/exim/exim.conf > (exim-4.63-5.el5_6.2 on RHEL 5.6) > > Now, i copied this config to /etc/exim/exim2.conf without changing anything. > Permissions are the same. > They ar

Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-25 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, Guys - please step back a bit - my original email was not intended to start a flame war on the merits of sender callouts. Please keep the discord to yourselves and think twice. Most of you seem to have latched onto the sender callouts and focussed on that, nobody has commented on whether I s

[exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ?

2011-03-24 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, I use exim to receive and process my emails - have done for years. I also use sender callouts - have done for years. Occasionally emails get rejected because they are sent from non-existent addresses and sender callouts don't like that. Recently plusnet (www.plus.net) (an ISP !!!) sent me so

[ubuntu-uk] I hope this diaspora stuff really is that ..

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, n short - go disperse yourselves from the list... Please stop spamming the list with the diaspora stuff - reply directly to the original poster instead of pointing out to the world what a bunch of lemmings exist here if you are so diasporate. From askoxford.com :- "Greek, from diaspeirein '

[ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2011-01-03 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
~s I hope this diaspora stuff really is that .. Hi, n short - go disperse yourselves from the list... Please stop spamming the list with the diaspora stuff - reply directly to the original poster instead of pointing out to the world what a bunch of lemmings exist here if you are so diasporate. F

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-23 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: > Hi, > > I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a > reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I > don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor > to lay it! P

[exim] My solution to the Debian Problem.

2005-11-09 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, I have been running Exim on Debian for a few years and apart from the initial install, I have always used an in-house version built from source. I have seen a few messages on this list regarding problems with Exim on Debian and in the main I don't encounter them simply because I am using a sta

[PHP] OT - HTML Terminal ?

2004-09-26 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, this is severely off topic so please feel free to ignore it :-) I have an intranet application that currently is accessed using a browser, no problems there, however I have been asked if I can get rid of the browser so that the user's are not encouraged to surf so readily. I initially thought

Re: RE: [PHP] convert degrees to heading

2004-09-15 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi Trevor, > Very nice solution, Dave. I like simple, elegant and effective > solutions like this. I was wracking my brain yesterday to come up with > something like this, but my brain wasn't working. Hah. Good job! Thanks for the compliments - my head is now a bit bigger :-) I thought 0 deg

Re: [PHP] convert degrees to heading

2004-09-14 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, > Alternatively, try :- > > $Compass = array('West', 'North Westerly', 'North', 'North Easterly', > 'East', 'South Easterly', 'South', > 'South Westerly'); > > print $Compass[round($Degrees / 45)] . "\n"; > > This can be expanded easily by adding

Re: [PHP] convert degrees to heading

2004-09-14 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, Alternatively, try :- $Compass = array('West', 'North Westerly', 'North', 'North Easterly', 'East', 'South Easterly', 'South', 'South Westerly'); print $Compass[round($Degrees / 45)] . "\n"; This can be expanded easily by adding 'North North W

Re: [PHP] Is a PECL a black whole?

2004-09-03 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
> It took me a while to find an explanation of what a PECL is. I kept reading > comments about things being moved to a PECL but I saw nothing about what is > in a PECL or how to get anything out of a (the?) PECL. As far as I knew, > there is a danger of all of PHP being in a PECL. > > I could

[PHP] Mime type and PECL::Fileinfo.

2004-08-29 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, PHP 4.3.8, Apache 1.3.31, Debian/GNU Linux Is anybody using PECL extensions ? I want to let people upload data to a site I'm building and want to avoid using mime_content_type because from the manual :- "This extension has been deprecated as the PECL extension fileinfo provides the same fun

Re: [PHP] looking for php talent...

2004-03-05 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,
Hi, > we're looking for some PHP development talent. however, we don't want to > post here if this is not the right group/list. please let us know if it > is/isn't appropriate to post our requirements. if it is, we'll go ahead and > post what we're looking for. There seem to be a few lists availa

[PHP] Do not use Apache 2.0 and PHP in a production environment neither on Unix nor on Windows.

2003-10-02 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask but does anybody have any ideas how long it will be before PHP/Apache 2 is considered stable enough to be used in a production environment ?. I set up a test box with them both on nearly a year ago and the online documentation still cautions against

RE: [PHP] If you ever had a Vic20

2003-08-15 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > $found =3D 0; > while ($mydata =3D mysql_fetch_object($news)) > { > if ($mydata->StudentId =3D=3D $StudentId) > {$found =3D 1; break;} > } > > if ($found=3D=3D1){do this}else{do that} Why not re-oganise your SQL statement s

[PHP] Is there an RTFM for 'use strict' ?

2003-06-23 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, Done a lot of Perl & PHP coding over the years and one thing I _really_ liked about Perl is its 'use strict;' directive. For those of you not familiar with Perl, this made the script die if you don't (among other things) declare your variables before using them. Once the fingers are flying,

[squid-users] FAQ 7.13 Can I make origin servers see the client's IP address when going through Squid?

2003-04-02 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, I'm wanting to cache only HTTP and I want to pass the client IP address but want to use the real address and not the forwarded_for. This FAQ seems to be what I want, however after downloading the kernel, patching it and iptables and also reading the iptables howtos/faqs/tutorials etc. I'm no

X screen shifts right !!.

2003-04-01 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, I'm having an irritating problem with Debian 3.0 on Intel. I'm using olvwm on top of XFree86 Version 4.1.0.1. (it is over 12 months old). Hardware is on board Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1 (rev 0). Machine runs fine, just a standard install, nothing special. However from time to time

Re: failure in installation

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
> I tried to perform an installation of woody using > boot-floppies-3.0.18 . I wanted to install via the network. > However the following error prevented me from installing > woody: I had this error too :-( > When attempting to install the base system, the following > error message occu

Re: failure in installation

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
> I tried to perform an installation of woody using > boot-floppies-3.0.18 . I wanted to install via the network. > However the following error prevented me from installing > woody: I had this error too :-( > When attempting to install the base system, the following > error message occ

latest boot floppies

2001-12-16 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, I used the compact versions. Wrote rescue, root and driver-1. Only needed rescue & root. The rest of the build went via the US archive acrosss the network using http. Observations :-) "Choose the language" window, this was wider than my screen and I couldn't see the full text, the cutoff

latest boot floppies

2001-12-16 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, I used the compact versions. Wrote rescue, root and driver-1. Only needed rescue & root. The rest of the build went via the US archive acrosss the network using http. Observations :-) "Choose the language" window, this was wider than my screen and I couldn't see the full text, the cutoff

Re :- 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. > > How fortuitous :-) > > I was about 20 minutes into a 3.0 build, so I've stopped and > am now downloading the new stuff. I'm currently downloading > bf-images-1.44_3.0.18_i38

Re :- 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. How fortuitous :-) I was about 20 minutes into a 3.0 build, so I've stopped and am now downloading the new stuff. I'm currently downloading bf-images-1.44_3.0.18_i386.tar.gz and I w

Re :- 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. > > How fortuitous :-) > > I was about 20 minutes into a 3.0 build, so I've stopped and > am now downloading the new stuff. I'm currently downloading > bf-images-1.44_3.0.18_i3

Re :- 3.0.18 testing needed

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > I've uploaded i386 and powerpc boot-floppies to > http://people.debian.org/~aph/debian/dists/woody/main/>. How fortuitous :-) I was about 20 minutes into a 3.0 build, so I've stopped and am now downloading the new stuff. I'm currently downloading bf-images-1.44_3.0.18_i386.tar.gz and I

Spoofing package status.

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, This is not strictly a testing question, but it does have implications for testing so I thought this might be the best place to ask. When I build a system, there are some packages that I do not wish to use - preferring to compile and build them myself (I often start off with an absolutely min

Spoofing package status.

2001-11-19 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, This is not strictly a testing question, but it does have implications for testing so I thought this might be the best place to ask. When I build a system, there are some packages that I do not wish to use - preferring to compile and build them myself (I often start off with an absolutely mi

Re :- Re: Install Report II (The Revenge; bf 3.0.7 (beta); Acer Laptop; floppy/basedebs)

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case. Who decides what "valid" is ? I suspect that there are a lot of machines out there that only have root passwords because they are forced to by install. From man 5 passwd (on a Mandrake 7 box (sorry !!!) ) :- In the good old days

Unidentified subject!

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case. Who decides what "valid" is ? I suspect that there are a lot of machines out there that only have root passwords because they are forced to by install. From man 5 passwd (on a Mandrake 7 box (sorry !!!) ) :- In the good old days

Re :- Re: Install Report II (The Revenge; bf 3.0.7 (beta); Acer Laptop; floppy/basedebs)

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case. Who decides what "valid" is ? I suspect that there are a lot of machines out there that only have root passwords because they are forced to by install. From man 5 passwd (on a Mandrake 7 box (sorry !!!) ) :- In the good old day

Unidentified subject!

2001-07-04 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, > A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case. Who decides what "valid" is ? I suspect that there are a lot of machines out there that only have root passwords because they are forced to by install. From man 5 passwd (on a Mandrake 7 box (sorry !!!) ) :- In the good old day

Network, lp and gpm problems

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, Not too sure whether this is still relevant or if this is the correct place. I have recently built two identical boxes from the final potato pre-release of August and have a couple of problems/comments with the working systems. These problems may be due to non-testing stuff hence my lack of

Network, lp and gpm problems

2000-09-05 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, Not too sure whether this is still relevant or if this is the correct place. I have recently built two identical boxes from the final potato pre-release of August and have a couple of problems/comments with the working systems. These problems may be due to non-testing stuff hence my lack of

Minor problems with potato.

2000-08-13 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, I've done a clean install of potato today and had the same problems with runaway mod probes as Daniel Barclay. I also had and still have a problem with the lp device. This is turned on in the BIOS Settings, it is at 0x378 and IRQ7, however when I try installing the driver for this I get an e

Minor problems with potato.

2000-08-13 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, I've done a clean install of potato today and had the same problems with runaway mod probes as Daniel Barclay. I also had and still have a problem with the lp device. This is turned on in the BIOS Settings, it is at 0x378 and IRQ7, however when I try installing the driver for this I get an

Ricoh MP6201S & Buslogic Flashpoint anyone using this ?

1999-01-09 Thread Dave Restall - System Administrator
Hi, >From the subject, you will get a good idea of my message :-) I bought a Buslogic Flashpoint controller a while ago and then a Ricoh MP6201S CD/RW drive. The two never worked very well together, though when I was using them under Debian 1.3 they did what I wanted them to do. They wouldn't w