Re: [exim] state.gov users cannot send to my exim mail server

2011-03-24 Thread Kebba Foon
After doing more research, it seems that the state.gov servers are using esmtp, this exim support this? On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 20:29 +, W B Hacker wrote: Always Learning wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 17:56 +0100, Karl Fischer wrote: there seems to be something blocking port 25 traffic

Re: [exim] state.gov users cannot send to my exim mail server

2011-03-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:39 +, Kebba Foon wrote: After doing more research, it seems that the state.gov servers are using esmtp, this exim support this? Yes. But your MX servers seem to be behind a Cisco PIX device, with the Cisco SMTP Fixup switched on. This is well known to break ESMTP

Re: [exim] state.gov users cannot send to my exim mail server

2011-03-24 Thread Kebba Foon
Hi Graeme, thanks for the lead, i spoke to my ISP guys they said that this was not activated but in any case they have run the command can please check again for me if its still on? Thanks kebba On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:54 +, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:39 +, Kebba

Re: [exim] state.gov users cannot send to my exim mail server

2011-03-24 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 24 Mar 2011, at 10:54, Graeme Fowler gra...@graemef.net wrote: But your MX servers seem to be behind a Cisco PIX device, with the Cisco SMTP Fixup switched on. This is well known to break ESMTP regularly. In fact it's designed to break ESMTP - because they need to prevent the negotiation

Re: [exim] state.gov users cannot send to my exim mail server

2011-03-24 Thread Todd Lyons
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 5:13 AM, Kebba Foon kebba.f...@qcell.gm wrote: Hi Graeme, thanks for the lead, i spoke to my ISP guys they said that this was not activated but in any case they have run the command can please check again for me if its still on? You can tell them that it was indeed

Re: [exim] state.gov users cannot send to my exim mail server

2011-03-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:13 +, Kebba Foon wrote: thanks for the lead, i spoke to my ISP guys they said that this was not activated but in any case they have run the command can please check again for me if its still on? As Todd observed - it's now off. Tell your ISP guys that SMTP fixup

[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

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

2011-03-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 14:50 +, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: 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

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

2011-03-24 Thread Drav Sloan
Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: 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. You'll

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

2011-03-24 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 15:40 +, Drav Sloan wrote: The simplest fix for this is exempt PlusNet from your callouts Indeed; I missed putting this paragraph in my message: The path of least resistance is to do as Plusnet suggest - whitelist their outbound mailhosts. You can still spam scan, but

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

2011-03-24 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi Dave, I understand your frustrations dealing the the brain dead. What I do is have a text file with a list of domains not to verify and that solves the problem. You can also push sender verification down your list of tests so you do less of it. For example, I do my blacklist tests,

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

2011-03-24 Thread Ted Cooper
On 25/03/11 00:50, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: What are the current RFC's regarding good mail server etiquette ? Don't do sender callouts. It's abusive and causes more problems than it solves. I was the lucky recipient of several DDoS as a result of Joe Jobs at some very

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

2011-03-24 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hello, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, d...@restall.net (Thu Mar 24 15:50:22 2011): 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

[exim] Can I force authentication?

2011-03-24 Thread Matthew Roberts
Hello, I'm using Exim4 to pass mail from Mutt to the campus mail server. The mail server requires authentication for off-campus email addresses, but not for on-campus addresses. In order to make this work I have added the mail server to the /etc/exim4/passwd.client with login/password

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

2011-03-24 Thread Zoe (Medway Hosting)
- Original Message - From: Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com To: Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, d...@restall.net Cc: exim-users@exim.org Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ? Hi Dave, I understand your

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

2011-03-24 Thread Zoe (Medway Hosting)
- Original Message - From: Heiko Schlittermann h...@schlittermann.de To: exim-users@exim.org Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:07 PM Subject: Re: [exim] A cry for help - are there any plusnet admins out there ? But as mentioned in the other answers, it's a quite religious issue

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

2011-03-24 Thread W B Hacker
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hello, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,,d...@restall.net (Thu Mar 24 15:50:22 2011): 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