Re: [exim-dev] [Bug 2078] New: exim breaks if current directory doesn't exist

2017-03-16 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 16 Mar 2017, at 16:57, ad...@bugs.exim.org wrote: > Exim should not require the working directory to exist. Wasted 10 hours > figuring out why cron-jobs script never sent anything. > > $ tmpdir=`mktemp --directory /tmp/dispenser-test.XXX` > $ cd $tmpdir > $ rm -rf

Re: [exim-dev] Exim: Universal Acceptance Evaluation for Readiness

2018-12-12 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
Hi June On 12 Dec 2018, at 02:29, June Lau via Exim-dev wrote: > I am June from the Universal Acceptance Steering Group, a community-based > team around the world with a primary objective to raise awareness and help > software developers and platforms understand how to update their systems to >

Re: [exim-dev] Mailop list: exim and google fighting over DKIM

2019-05-01 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 30 Apr 2019, at 00:03, Jeremy Harris via Exim-dev wrote: > Bzzt. > > Stop right there. > > The ML adds body content. This will invalidate the signature. > > The header thing, even if you do game it, will not help that. *shrug* I was merely explaining the cogent points of the discussion

Re: [exim-dev] Mailop list: exim and google fighting over DKIM

2019-04-29 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 29 Apr 2019, at 19:26, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-dev wrote: > I will do so, either here or in that bug, when I can do so without causing > more heat. The gist of the discussion (I’m a mailop subscriber) is manyfold: 1. Google accept messages over IPv6 but require stricter verification

[exim-dev] dnsdb lookup question

2019-10-14 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
Howdy all Today's "out of my depth" question relates to the dnsdb lookup. I have a requirement to specify a nameserver for a specific query, using dnsdb. I don't think I can do that without adding the specific nameserver address to /etc/resolv.conf, unless I'm missing some configuration option

Re: [exim-dev] dnsdb lookup question

2019-10-14 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 14 Oct 2019, at 12:47, Jeremy Harris via Exim-dev wrote: > You're not missing anything. Exim just uses the system resolver library > and doesn't currently use any interface to specify a particular > nameswerver. I don't even know if there is such an API, and I'd > suggest not going looking;

Re: [exim-dev] dnsdb lookup question

2019-10-14 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 14 Oct 2019, at 14:47, Lena--- via Exim-dev wrote: > Or you can use > ${if match{${run{/usr/local/bin/dig +short @... ...}}}{\N\.\N}} Indeed, or one of many alternatives; unfortunately I could do without the execute overhead. Although our platform has a lot of compute resource available,

Re: [exim-dev] GDB step by step exim

2020-07-16 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 16 Jul 2020, at 05:07, Dennis Roellke via Exim-dev wrote: > I’d like to understand better how exim processes EHLO messages. Ideally, I > could use gdb to set a breakpoint and step through from wherever I want. > Unfortunately, exim just ignores any breakpoints... it hits them for sure, bc >

Re: [exim-dev] Are bug system emails to exim-dev moderated or slow ?

2023-03-15 Thread Graeme Fowler via Exim-dev
On 15 March 2023 09:17:07 Jeremy Harris via Exim-dev wrote: On 14/03/2023 08:17, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-dev wrote: Are these messages moderated Yes. Blame spammers. Quite. There are occasional spates of link spam in Bugzilla, so to prevent clogging the list with them and then having