[exim] new release 4.96 and pcre2

Suggestions would be appreciated as to a solution . All FreeBSD . 4.96 on a 13.1 FBSD and 4.94.2 is 13.0 This also could be something to do with sha1 vs sha2 . As the newer FBSD will not speak sha1 . Not quite sure where to start on this . Thanks . -- Jim Pazarena e...@paz.bz -- ## List

[exim] base64 messages

when the entire content of a spam email message is in base64 , is there a variable available that has that content in decoded text so that a filter can view it ? -- Jim Pazarena e...@paz.bz -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details

[exim] exim web site documentation

main documentation page: https://exim.org/docs.html there are links for: The Exim Specification - Version 4.94.2 (HTML) (PDF) The Exim Filter Specification - Version 4.94.2 9 (HTML) (PDF) in both cases , the links to html works , the links to pdf fail 404 Not Found / nginx -- Jim Pazarena

[exim] smtp transport and interface=

I have a server with three IP numbers of the same subnet . my smtp transport specifies the specific outbound IP number . Yet other servers complain of an ssl mis-match because they are seeing one of the other IPs which are not in the " interface = " line . Is there an easy way to determine how

[exim] documentation corrections

what is the proper procedure to report spelling mistakes in the documentation ? In reading thru various pages I have found two mis-spelled words . chapter 37. " The Dovecot configuration to match the above wil look ..." * will * look

[exim] untaint assistance

I would appreciate some assistance on untainting the following router: virtual_client_addy: driver= accept transport = client_mail domains = cdb;ETCDIR/virtual_localuser_domains.cdb condition = \ ${lookup{$local_part@$domain}cdb{ETCDIR/virtual_localusers.cdb {yes}{no}}

[exim] user filter file

within a user forward file, which is an advanced exim filter file, I routinely and repeatedly save a file which I receive hourly. with a simple save ".data/tots_fyl.log" Is there any way to have the filter file append a day #, or a month #, or better a month/day as MMDD to the name? Thanks

[exim] verification of Rdns

I use exim to verify rdns. It occasionally determines a failure which I cannot 'prove'. Not with nslookup. not with dig. Is there a way to ask exim 'what reason' it determined an rdns failure? -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

[exim] require verify = sender ACL

In my acl_smtp_rcpt I have a: require verify = sender which 'usually' lets a particular sender get to me, but occasionally fails that sender with a: 2014-12-31 13:50:14 H=air.registry.ca [192.75.213.8] sender verify fail for nou...@registry.ca: all relevant MX records point to non-existent

[exim] slow server response in accepting local smtp emails

I am trying to find out why locally generated emails take so long to be accepted by my mail server. Most clients connect via a local intranet, with their MUA being anything that mac/windows/linux can throw at it. I do not have SSL on the smtp side, and I do not run local smtp traffic thru

Re: [exim] slow server response in accepting local smtp emails

Jeremy Harris wrote, On 2013-04-03 1:19 PM: On 04/03/2013 08:58 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote: I am trying to find out why locally generated emails take so long to be accepted by my mail server. The first question is - by locally generated do you mean talks to your exim by some other means than SMTP

[exim] processing forward file(s)

I have a local address a which forwards to another local address b which forwards elsewhere. If an email arrives to b, it forwards. If an email arrives to a, it delivers to b. In other words, the system doesn't run thru the forwarding a second time to process the b forward file. Could someone

[exim] spam filtering using connection log and fields

On 2012-06-27 8:36 AM, l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote: From: Jim Pazarena I am trying to strengthen my spam filtering. As such, I make sure that I don't get too heavy handed with google or hotmail. But I see a heck of a lot of junk from *.yahoo.com Has yahoo become or has it always been a giant

Re: [exim] spam filtering using connection log and fields

On 2012-07-07 11:38 AM, Jim Pazarena wrote: What I think is that when the (logged) id= line has androidMobile in it, well, THAT is junk. Is there any way to determine the contents of the id= line within an ACL? I can't find any reference to that line in Summary of fields in log lines

[exim] spam filtering - google/hotmail/etc

I am trying to strengthen my spam filtering. As such, I make sure that I don't get too heavy handed with google or hotmail. But I see a heck of a lot of junk from *.yahoo.com Has yahoo become or has it always been a giant spam pit? -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] help with condition match

This wildlsearch has greatly simplified by spam filtering. Thank you very much. Original Message Subject: Re: [exim] help with condition match Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:02:13 + From: W B Hacker w...@conducive.org To: exim users exim-users@exim.org Not a direct answer to

[exim] help with condition match

to expand ACL string ${if{ match{${lc:$sender_host_name}}{.pool.ukrtel.net}} {true}{false}}: condition name expected, but found {match{${lc:$sen I am slightly confused, and suggestions would be most appreciated. -- Jim Pazarenawork:250

Re: [exim] web manager

On 2012-03-10 1:46 PM, menphis wrote: Hi, i am looking for web frontend for managing virtual email domains. Now i use Vexim. Is here some better alternative for Vexim, i found Exim4u? Which one use you? I paid a php/mysql programmer to create an interface for me, and then he created a domain

[exim] envelope sender vs header from

Is there an acl which can examine the From: name? It seems that the term sender refers only to the envelope sender, but I am unsure if it isn't ambiguous and has different meanings in different ACLs (acl_smtp_rcpt / acl_smtp_data) What I am trying to do is reject emails where the sender (spammer

[exim] clarification of the bang (for NOT)

I am confused over the placement of the ! to exclude hosts for a whitelist (to exempt the IPs in the host list) I have: #check for rdns - if no PTR record, deny deny message = We do not accept messages from hosts without reverse DNS $sender_host_address !hosts = /etc/popb4smtp :

[exim] main log file - delivery logging

My system handles email for many virtual domains. As such, final delivery is to a folder which is the name of the domain. such that, for instance, email to *my* domain paz.bz for this addy (exim), gets delivered to: /mail/paz.bz/exim The logging, however, shows delivery to exim, and NOT

[exim] rejecting un-resolvable IPs at smtp time

In an effort to reduce spam, I would like to defer (rather than outright refuse) reception on any message that comes from a server without a PTR. I am not sure how to create an ACL to check for a non-existent PTR/unresolvable IP. I haven't found in FAQs this question. Advice would be

[exim] spamd update

I recently upgraded p5-Mail-SpamAssassin on FreeBSD, and now exim generates the following error message in its logs: spam acl condition: cannot parse spamd output spamd and exim ran fine until I performed this update. can anyone suggest where to commence fixing this? Thanks! -- ## List details

[exim] spamassassin user filter setup

I have spamassassin successfully adding headers with the spam score and bar. using: warn message = X-spamassassin-score: SA score $spam_score ($spam_bar) this along with the rest of the ACL lines successfully adds the expected header line. I have created a user filter which looks for the

Re: [exim] Blocking Users with No Reverse DNS

Michael Haardt wrote: How many block connections with no reverse DNS? I do for all sites I run. How much collateral damage is there with doing that? It got me the usual offences, but apart from that, no damage really. That may be due to running a large site; a smaller site might have to

Re: [exim] Blocking Users with No Reverse DNS

Andreas Pettersson wrote: Matt wrote: How many block connections with no reverse DNS? How much collateral damage is there with doing that? How do you set it up in Exim? We block connections with missing rDNS but only from a specified list of countries: AR, BG, BR, BY, CL, CN, CZ,

[exim] unseen redirect router

I have a few accounts which I monitor with an unseen redirect router. One local delivery may explode to several other local deliveries via a dot forward with multiple names. My unseen router sends copies of these deliveries to me as desired, but since there are multiple different deliveries I get

[exim] increase in spam exponentially

I have experienced an incredible increase in volume of spam these days. My spam filter and RBL blocks at least 25,000 daily (quite a bit in a dinky little 600 customer client base), it seems just as much sneaks thru. Can anyone recommend a fairly aggressive RBL which doesn't suffer from too many

Re: [exim] web based administration tools

Willy Mularto wrote: Hi, I run Linux as virtual server which serves 4 different domains. By default we have to enter manually the domain and users in the /etc/exim directory. So any open source web-based tools to do that? So that my clients can administer their email users easy without

Re: [exim] duplicate routing when using driver=accept

Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2006, Jim Pazarena wrote: Would someone kindly offer a way to prevent duplicate deliveries within the accept router? Have a look at the check_ancestor option of the redirect router. Tony. check_ancestor is successful in the redirect router, and limits

[exim] duplicate routing when using driver=accept

I have users in /etc/passwd user whose mail is routed using an accept router. I have non /etc/passwd email accounts whose are routed using a redirect router and .cdb files. I have a few instances where [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants a duplicate email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If the email first goes

Re: [exim] Why is this list so abusive?

I have been guilty on several occasions of asking the most dumbest of questions. Most questions I have attempted very carefully to research, but couldn't seem to find the answer in the manual OR book. My most recent was about compile errors on FreeBSD, and after it was pointed out to me the

[exim] compile errors on 4.61

this is the first time in YEARS that I had a compile error with a new version of exim on FreeBSD the error message from gcc is at the very problem. I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this. regards, Jim gcc dnslookup.c gcc ipliteral.c gcc

[exim] compile errors on 4.61 .. 2nd try

first message had a silly typo; sorry this is the first time in YEARS that I had a compile error with a new version of exim on FreeBSD the error message from gcc is at the very bottom. I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this. regards, Jim

Re: [exim] compile errors on 4.61 pipe transport build error failure

W B Hacker wrote: Jim Pazarena wrote: first message had a silly typo; sorry Dunno if this fits, but problems w/r pipe transport build were discused very recently under thread: FreeBSD pipe_transport_setup build failure Wherein the flag -lutil seemed to have (sometimes) been required

Re: [exim] message_size_limit (change in default)

Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Jim Pazarena wrote: I looked in the ChangeLogs and NewLogs and did not find this. The book indicates zero as default. The file doc/Exim4.upgrade contains this: . The default for message_size_limit is now 50M as a guard against DoS attacks. So

[exim] message_size_limit

I do not have this option set in my configure file, and it was my understanding that unset meant unlimited. However I just had a message bounce 552 message size exceeds maximum permitted SIZE=52571183 yes, it was huge, but I don't have this set? The docs indicate default is zero (unlimited) but

[exim] trusted users and web generated mail

I have a new client who uses php to generate email messages, and they invariably dispatch with an envelope From of nobody (the apache user). Consequently when he gets bounces back they get bounced to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not him. My support email is flooding with his numerous bounces from his

[exim] The Bcc Issue (revisited)

I recently had someone complain that he sent (from micros$ft machine) an important BCC'd message where some people could see the BCC recipients. I was on that recipient list, and indeed using Thunderbird *I* saw all the names. He was slightly embarrassed and considers it the ISP's fault. I've