[exim] dnssec

2013-07-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Does Exim support dnssec? -- ## 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/

Re: [exim] dnssec

2013-07-15 Thread Marc Perkel
A yes or no answer would have been far easier than your long insult. You have a bad and unprofessional attitude for a support forum. On 7/15/2013 11:23 PM, Jethro R Binks wrote: On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, Marc Perkel wrote: Does Exim support dnssec? Would it be too much to suggest you employ

[exim] dnslist question

2013-07-06 Thread Marc Perkel
In evaluating the result of a dnslist lookup would regex like syntax work? dnslists = dnswl.junkemailfilter.com=127.0.\d+.[23] Thanks in advance -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this

Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Here are my authenticators: dovecot_plain: driver = dovecot public_name = PLAIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client server_set_id = $auth1 dovecot_login: driver = dovecot public_name = LOGIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client server_set_id = $auth1 How would

Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
, you have to use ACL configurations as described by others. -- Dean Brooks d...@iglou.com On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:49:09AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Here are my authenticators: dovecot_plain: driver = dovecot public_name = PLAIN server_socket = /var/run/dovecot/auth-client

Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Except that it's not what I can use. On 6/6/2013 9:50 AM, Todd Lyons wrote: Marc, go read the pages that Lena wrote. In it are the ACL stanzas you need. ...Todd On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: I need to set a variable set acl_m_auth_failed = true

Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
ok - I see it. Brain dead today. On 6/6/2013 10:15 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote: On 6 Jun 2013, at 17:57, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: Except that it's not what I can use. Yes, it is. It's absolutely something you can use, if you wrap your brain around it and extract the right bits. You

[exim] Is this an authentication bog?

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
The ACL condition authenticated = * Includes failed authentications -- ## 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/

[exim] Spamtrap harvesting idea using fake authentication

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's an idea I'm working on. Wondering if anyone else is interested in participating. As you all know there are a lot of SMTP servers (inbound) where there is o authentication option. And we all know that there are lots of hackers and hack viruses that work on authenticated smtp servers

[exim] Can I force a custom error number?

2013-06-06 Thread Marc Perkel
I want to artificially create a 553 error. Can I do that? -- ## 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/

[exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-05 Thread Marc Perkel
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 -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the

Re: [exim] Authentication Failure Question

2013-06-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi Dave, This looks useful. I don't see any docs on $authenticated_lookup. I assume it returns true if auth succeeds? On 6/5/2013 11:01 AM, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote: Hi Marc, Is there a way for an ACL to do something on authentication failure? I'm trying to trap the

[exim] AUTH Spam Trap

2013-06-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Thinking about setting up a spam trap. Advertizing AUTH on a server that isn't used for that and blocking anyone who is trying to use it. Basically making a list of IP addresses of hackers trying to guess passwords. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] Sending information from Exim to SpamAssassin

2013-05-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 5/18/2013 6:00 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 20:30 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Maybe I'm doing something wrong but when I do it the new added headers aren't included. I'm running: spam = root:true ...and you're adding the headers how, exactly, and in which ACLs? Graeme

Re: [exim] Sending information from Exim to SpamAssassin

2013-05-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 5/17/2013 1:46 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 21:38 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Since Exim doesn't include messages headers that were added by ACLs when passing messages to SpamAssassin I was wondering if there were any tricks that anyone has to send information between Exim

[exim] settiing spamd_address variable

2013-05-17 Thread Marc Perkel
I'd like to be able to do this: spamd_address = 184.105.182.5${eval:${substr{-2}{1}{$tod_zulu}}%3} 783 But it doesn't work. I want to do load balancing between 3 spamd servers. Thanks in advance -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

[exim] Sending information from Exim to SpamAssassin

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Since Exim doesn't include messages headers that were added by ACLs when passing messages to SpamAssassin I was wondering if there were any tricks that anyone has to send information between Exim and SA? -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details

[exim] if or condition has me confused

2013-04-24 Thread Marc Perkel
warncondition = ${if or {\ {exists{$acl_m_domain_directory/some-sa}}\ {exists{$acl_m_user_directory/some-sa}}\ }{yes}{no}} set acl_m_sa_reject_level = 210 Condition always returns true even when both files do not exist. What

Re: [exim] if or condition has me confused - nevermind

2013-04-24 Thread Marc Perkel
It does work. Nevermind! On 4/24/2013 7:17 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: warn condition = ${if or {\ {exists{$acl_m_domain_directory/some-sa}}\ {exists{$acl_m_user_directory/some-sa}}\ }{yes}{no}} set acl_m_sa_reject_level = 210

[exim] Tracking down regex errors

2013-04-23 Thread Marc Perkel
Getting this error: regex acl condition warning - error in regex '}{\': \ at end of pattern at offset 3, skipped But - don't know where it is. It doesn't show any line numbers or even what acl it's in. Wondering how to track it down. Thanks in advance -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Message Age in Exim?

2013-04-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/14/2013 8:17 AM, Jeremy Harris wrote: On 04/14/2013 01:55 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: On 4/13/2013 8:42 AM, Jeremy Harris wrote: On 04/13/2013 06:46 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is there an easy way to do an ACL conditional based on message age? First define what variant of age you're

[exim] How do you use $run in an ACL?

2013-04-14 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm trying to run a command and return the result into a variable in an ACL. How do you do that? The docs needs an example. The command examples are: date +%s date --d $h_date: +%s Thanks in advance. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

[exim] How do you use $run in an ACL - SOLVED

2013-04-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/14/2013 9:16 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm trying to run a command and return the result into a variable in an ACL. How do you do that? The docs needs an example. The command examples are: date +%s date --d $h_date: +%s Thanks in advance. I figured it out # Date and Age warn

Re: [exim] Message Age in Exim?

2013-04-13 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/13/2013 8:42 AM, Jeremy Harris wrote: On 04/13/2013 06:46 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Is there an easy way to do an ACL conditional based on message age? First define what variant of age you're interested in. I can think of several. Yeah - I think some misunderstood. I'm talking about

[exim] Message Age in Exim?

2013-04-12 Thread Marc Perkel
Is there an easy way to do an ACL conditional based on message age? So if something is older than XX days I can bounce it? Thanks in advance. -- ## 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

Re: [exim] Using readsocket for ratelimiting?

2013-04-11 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/10/2013 10:43 PM, Brent Jones wrote: Has anyone considered, or already made a rate limiting ACL using readsocket? Besides writing a simple daemon, I don't see any reason not to try this out. I envision sending various data to the daemon, like sender IP, recipients, sender address, then

Re: [exim] Exim -bS problem

2012-12-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/5/2012 9:28 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: Use trusted_users to declare some user to be trusted, and run the delivery as that user. A little more effort to read documentation for yourself would get you much more support and help on those occasions when you do post to the public lists. -Phil

Re: [exim] Exim -bS problem

2012-12-05 Thread Marc Perkel
On 12/4/2012 10:21 AM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2012-12-04 at 07:15 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: The email vanishes when I try this. If however I run it out to a file can then cat the file from the command line through the same filter it works. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Trying to run code

Re: [exim] Exim -bS problem

2012-12-05 Thread Marc Perkel
I think I fixed it. prod_requires_admin = false On 12/4/2012 10:21 AM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2012-12-04 at 07:15 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: The email vanishes when I try this. If however I run it out to a file can then cat the file from the command line through the same filter it works

[exim] Exim -bS problem

2012-12-04 Thread Marc Perkel
Hi, I'm trying to pipe email into this script: /bin/grep -v X-SPF-Sucks | /bin/sed -e 's/^MAIL FROM:.*$/MAIL FROM:spfsu...@junkemailfilter.com/g' | /usr/sbin/exim -bS The email vanishes when I try this. If however I run it out to a file can then cat the file from the command line through

[exim] Changing the sender address

2012-11-19 Thread Marc Perkel
This might be really easy but I can't seem to find it. After receiving an email how do I change the sender (mail from: in smtp - not the From: header) before forwarding it to the recipient? -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Changing the sender address

2012-11-19 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/19/2012 10:32 AM, Dave Lugo wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Marc Perkel wrote: This might be really easy but I can't seem to find it. After receiving an email how do I change the sender (mail from: in smtp - not the From: header) before forwarding it to the recipient? 31. Address

Re: [exim] Exim performance

2012-11-13 Thread Marc Perkel
Get a really fast SSD drive for the spool files. That will make it run a lot faster. On 11/9/2012 5:18 AM, Jorge wrote: Hi, I'm testing Exim and I have noted that allmost all emails processed take minimal 5 seconds, that is measured on mainlog file between = and = records. That time is taken

[exim] Possible bug in Exim

2012-10-18 Thread Marc Perkel
I'll do bugzilla if I'm not crazy but thought I'd post it here first to see if I'm nuts. In the transports this works: helo_data = SERVER_NAME.junkemailfilter.com However this does not work: helo_data = $acl_c_helo_data The helo becomes an empty string. And I'm sure the variable is set

[exim] Another strange problem

2012-10-18 Thread Marc Perkel
In the mail acl I have: accept hosts = orange.nl However orange.nl has their DNS down and I get a temp error on EVERYTHING. 2012-10-18 10:02:19 H=mx1.appearseen.com [31.171.132.8] temporarily rejected MAIL r...@mx1.appearseen.com However if I do: warn hosts = orange.nl At least it

Re: [exim] Another strange problem

2012-10-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/18/2012 10:26 AM, Dave Lugo wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2012, Marc Perkel wrote: In the mail acl I have: accept hosts = orange.nl However orange.nl has their DNS down and I get a temp error on EVERYTHING. 2012-10-18 10:02:19 H=mx1.appearseen.com [31.171.132.8] temporarily rejected MAIL

Re: [exim] Possible bug in Exim

2012-10-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/18/2012 6:38 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2012-10-18 at 06:55 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I'll do bugzilla if I'm not crazy but thought I'd post it here first to see if I'm nuts. In the transports this works: helo_data = SERVER_NAME.junkemailfilter.com However this does not work

Re: [exim] Possible bug in Exim

2012-10-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/18/2012 6:38 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2012-10-18 at 06:55 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: I'll do bugzilla if I'm not crazy but thought I'd post it here first to see if I'm nuts. In the transports this works: helo_data = SERVER_NAME.junkemailfilter.com However this does not work

Re: [exim] [exam] AOL Scamp issue

2012-10-17 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/17/2012 7:21 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 10:03 -0400, SonicFog wrote: When AOL sends the scamp message there is only one way of determining original AOL email address. The only clue in AOL scamp email is the 'message-id' identifier. Do a search of your exim_mainlog

[exim] AOL Scomp issue

2012-10-16 Thread Marc Perkel
As you know when AOL send out one of its scomp message where a user has complained aol masks the identity of the complainer redacting it from the message jheaders it returns. Just wondering if anyone has found a way to encrypt the aol user in a way that when the scomp message is sent the

[exim] Peering inside .zip attachments?

2012-10-08 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering - has anyone found an easy way to look inside a .zip attachment with Exim to get a list of the files contained inside? -- ## 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 -

[exim] [OT] convert email message to bsmtp?

2012-10-07 Thread Marc Perkel
Here's what I'm trying to do. I have a spam filtering operation as a front end for other servers. I've created a virtual server for spam storage where the user will be able to log in using squirrelmail/dovecot to review and release their false positives. The email is stored in maildir format.

Re: [exim] Bulk Outbound Performance

2012-09-06 Thread Marc Perkel
What I found works best is to put the exim queue in a ram disk and set it up to try one time and then transfer the message to another server to retry that uses an SSD drive for the queue. On 9/2/2012 2:40 AM, Ron White wrote: Good morning, More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else,

Re: [exim] Weird - possible bug?

2012-05-29 Thread Marc Perkel
It's always set. I set it at connect time. Any for the most part it stays set. Any chance it can be a race condition? On 5/29/2012 2:20 AM, John Horne wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-28 at 21:10 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: However - if I set a variable: set acl_c_helo_data

[exim] Weird - possible bug?

2012-05-28 Thread Marc Perkel
Transport looks like this and works normally: process_and_forward_smtp: driver = smtp delivery_date_add interface = $acl_c_smtp_out helo_data = SERVER_NAME.junkemailfilter.com However - if I set a variable: set acl_c_helo_data = SERVER_NAME.junkemailfilter.com and then use this

Re: [exim] Tricky DNS servers [OT]

2012-05-24 Thread Marc Perkel
On 5/20/2012 8:25 AM, Jonas Eckerman wrote: On 2012-05-18 23:59, Marc Perkel wrote: Here's a possible example. There are servers out there that return country codes of IP addresses. But what about a country code for a host name? You would have to do an IP lookup on the host and then use

Re: [exim] Tricky DNS servers [OT]

2012-05-24 Thread Marc Perkel
On 5/20/2012 9:57 AM, Christof Meerwald wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:59:09 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: So - is there source code for something like this or a DNS server with a scripting language? PowerDNS (http://www.powerdns.com/) can be scripted via a built-in lua backend or an out

[exim] Tricky DNS servers [OT]

2012-05-18 Thread Marc Perkel
I have a few weird ideas and would need a smart DNS server of some sort to pull it off. Basically looking for a programmable backend that might do DNS lookups itself. Here's a possible example. There are servers out there that return country codes of IP addresses. But what about a country

[exim] retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period

2012-04-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Except that this happens almost right away. Not sure what's causing it. # DomainErrorRetries # ------ \N^abuse@.*$\N*F,1h,15m \N^.*-feed@.*$\N* *@dbm;/etc/exim/control/run/alllocal.db*F,1h,5m; F,1w,1h #

Re: [exim] Exim Queue and Slow sending speed

2012-03-27 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/17/2012 3:58 AM, anand wrote: Hi, Below mentioned is our server configuration, We are trying to send around 300,000 emails a day(all opt in data). But the problem is when we send out only 100,000 emails. The mails gets stuck in queue and the sending speed is very low. We tried many thing

[exim] Exim connection timeout setting for outgoing email?

2012-03-13 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm sure I must be blind but I'm trying to figure out where the variables are that set the timeouts on outgoing email. Thanks in advance -- ## 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 -

Re: [exim] Exim connection timeout setting for outgoing email?

2012-03-13 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/13/2012 1:19 PM, Mike Kennedy wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com mailto:m...@perkel.com wrote: I'm sure I must be blind but I'm trying to figure out where the variables are that set the timeouts on outgoing email. Thanks in advance

Re: [exim] Regex Help

2012-03-10 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/10/2012 10:46 AM, Andrew Colin Kissa wrote: On 10 Mar 2012, at 8:34 PM, Marc Perkel wrote: Thanks - I figured it out. Just trying to get rid of those chineese spams with xls attachments. On 3/10/2012 8:58 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: How would I create a Regex expression to capture mime

Re: [exim] DMARC and Exim

2012-02-03 Thread Marc Perkel
Just a quick question. SPF breaks email forwarding. Does DMARC get around this limitation? On 1/31/2012 1:32 AM, Oliver Howe wrote: Hi, Does anyone have any experience of using DMARC? See http://dmarc.org/overview.html and

[exim] has too many links?

2012-01-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure what this error means: R=delay10 T=bsmtp_delay_mail defer (-4): mailbox /delay/0/ has too many links (2) Thanks in advance -- ## 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 -

Re: [exim] has too many links?

2012-01-15 Thread Marc Perkel
Never mind - I figured it out. I was creating a file based on the sender name and when the sender was emty it tried to create one that matched the directory name On 1/15/2012 7:09 AM, Marc Perkel wrote: Not sure what this error means: R=delay10 T=bsmtp_delay_mail defer (-4): mailbox /delay/0

Re: [exim] Outbound Spam Protection

2012-01-13 Thread Marc Perkel
On 1/12/2012 10:20 AM, Jeff Lassman wrote: On Monday, January 02, 2012 11:49:07 AM The Doctor wrote: The bigger sticker is this: someone poisons an account with a spamming script. The only way to detect this is the set up outbound spam detection to protect your reputation. There are

[exim] Centos 6 and Exim

2012-01-02 Thread Marc Perkel
Is there some repository I can add for Centos 6 that includes Exim? Thanks in advance -- ## 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/

Re: [exim] Quit ACL question

2011-12-16 Thread Marc Perkel
Thanks - that's what I ended up doing. On 12/15/2011 8:37 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2011-12-14 at 14:34 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm probably blind but I'm looking for a variable to read to determine either the return code of the last message sent or perhaps whether there was a deny. Just

[exim] Quit ACL question

2011-12-14 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm probably blind but I'm looking for a variable to read to determine either the return code of the last message sent or perhaps whether there was a deny. Just something to tell of the email was passed or not. Not sure I'm being clear. -- ## List details at

[exim] Spam Blocking Trick on backup MX servers

2011-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wanted to share a trick I'm trying on backup MX servers to prevent spam. As you know often spammers will try the backup MX server hoping the backup has less spam filtering. But if the primary server is online there's no reason to use the backup. So the idea is - if the primary is up -

Re: [exim] Spam Blocking Trick on backup MX servers

2011-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 11/14/2011 5:47 AM, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 05:35 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote: I'm still playing with this. Probable also need to reduce or eliminate caching on the recipient callout. But I thought I'd post it in case someone finds it useful. It's a fairly old technique

[exim] Exim 4.77 seems faster

2011-11-14 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure what changed but when I hit my send button 4.77 seems a lot faster. -- ## 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/

[exim] Error building 4.77

2011-11-13 Thread Marc Perkel
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 In file included from exim.h:441, from exim_dbmbuild.c:31: dbstuff.h:101:16: error: db.h:

Re: [exim] 4.77: inlist condition

2011-10-21 Thread Marc Perkel
On 10/14/2011 7:06 PM, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2011-10-14 at 16:26 +0100, John Horne wrote: Whilst the use of EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS is tempting, I feel that if we enable it then we should make the effort to see if there is some mechanism the developers could provide to make things easier for

Re: [exim] ext3 with maildir++ = huge disk latency and high load

2011-09-25 Thread Marc Perkel
If you just have 45 gigs of data who not go with SSD drives? SSD is really fast. On 9/23/2011 1:13 AM, Andrey wrote: 23.09.2011 11:31, Janne Pikkarainen пишет: Thank you for reply, BTW, other webserver has almost the same bonnie results (10283ms and 5884ms) on ext3 partition with 45GB of

[exim] Counting recipients in TO field

2011-09-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Just wondering if anyone has a trick to count the recipients on the TO header field? Thanks in advance -- ## 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/

Re: [exim] Counting recipients in TO field

2011-09-19 Thread Marc Perkel
Thanks - I'll give that a try. On 9/19/2011 9:01 AM, Todd Lyons wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Marc Perkelm...@perkel.com wrote: Just wondering if anyone has a trick to count the recipients on the TO header field?

[exim] Matching Chinese Spreadsheet names

2011-07-26 Thread Marc Perkel
Need a little regex help. Trying to use a match conditional in an acl to match Chinese spreadsheet attached file names.

[exim] Possible Spamassassin related feature request

2011-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
Just trying the idea here before I ask for a feature request. As we all know Exim has a spamassassin interface for testing email to see if it's spam. I'd like to see an interface added for learning email as spam/ham from exim. In my configuration the Exim server are separate from the SA

Re: [exim] Possible Spamassassin related feature request

2011-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/21/2011 7:50 AM, gra...@graemef.net wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:10:54 -0700, Marc Perkelm...@perkel.com wrote: As we all know Exim has a spamassassin interface for testing email to see if it's spam. I'd like to see an interface added for learning email as spam/ham from exim. More

Re: [exim] Possible Spamassassin related feature request

2011-06-21 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/21/2011 7:36 AM, Ted Cooper wrote: On 22/06/11 00:10, Marc Perkel wrote: Just trying the idea here before I ask for a feature request. As we all know Exim has a spamassassin interface for testing email to see if it's spam. I'd like to see an interface added for learning email as spam

Re: [exim] Exim on Android

2011-06-18 Thread Marc Perkel
Kewl! My droid has more memory and a faster processor that Linux servers I used to run 10 years ago. On 6/18/2011 5:28 AM, Mike Cardwell wrote: Just thought it might interest a few of you. I just managed to get Exim running on my Android phone (A rooted HTC Desire Z with Cyanogenmod 7) by

Re: [exim] Sender verification failing sometimes

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/14/2011 3:21 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: On 14 Jun 2011, at 05:24, Phil Pennock wrote: On 2011-06-13 at 00:32 +, Michael Jimenez wrote: So I've been looking at my mail server mainlog for the past couple of days watching mail come in and out, I've noticed that this Microsoft address

Re: [exim] Sender verification failing sometimes

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/14/2011 6:02 PM, Ted Cooper wrote: On 15/06/11 01:40, Marc Perkel wrote: It's one of those things that could be true depending on how you have things configured. I use sender verification callouts myself without any problems. but I use them after a lot of other tests to reduce the number

Re: [exim] Sender verification failing sometimes

2011-06-14 Thread Marc Perkel
On 6/14/2011 8:16 PM, Ted Cooper wrote: Cutting a long story short, the /var drive ran out of room and services started dying off because of it. The machine was running (no smoke pouring out of it), but wasn't really doing anything but printing messages to the console about how upset it was.

[exim] SMTP Multiple Recipients?

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Trying to understand the smtp protocol with multiple recipients. From what I understand the recipients are specified as follows: rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted Suppose I'm doing forward callouts to verify

Re: [exim] SMTP Multiple Recipients? - corrected

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Trying to understand the smtp protocol with multiple recipients. From what I understand the recipients are specified as follows: rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted Suppose I'm doing forward callouts to verify

Re: [exim] SMTP Multiple Recipients? - corrected

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/20/2011 5:07 PM, W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Trying to understand the smtp protocol with multiple recipients. From what I understand the recipients are specified as follows: rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers

[exim] Warning: ACL warn statement skipped: condition test deferred

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Perkel
Not sure what this error means: Warning: ACL warn statement skipped: condition test deferred Doesn't give me much of a clue what it means and what is creating it. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the

Re: [exim] SMTP Multiple Recipients? - corrected

2011-04-20 Thread Marc Perkel
On 4/20/2011 5:07 PM, W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Trying to understand the smtp protocol with multiple recipients. From what I understand the recipients are specified as follows: rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers...@domain.com 250 Accepted rcpt to:pers

Re: [exim] Delaying messages for 5 minutes?

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Perkel
like this: |delay|exim -bS What delay is a shell script: #!/bin/bash sleep 300 cat The idea being that when the message came around the second time I'd know whether to pass it or discard it. On 4/10/2011 4:37 PM, Ben Allen wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2011 18:07:58 Marc Perkel wrote: So

[exim] queue-only

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Perkel
Quick question If I use queue-only then the first delivery attempt will be when the normal retry cycle occurs? -- ## List details at http://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/

Re: [exim] Delaying messages for 5 minutes?

2011-04-11 Thread Marc Perkel
After looking at the idea of freezing it in the queue I came up with hopefully a better solution. This code creates a 10 minute delay. Delayed messages are written to /delay/0. This script is run once a minute. When it gets to 9 the email is resent. #! /bin/bash md /delay cat /delay/9/*|exim

Re: [exim] Delaying messages for 5 minutes?

2011-04-10 Thread Marc Perkel
they are good I want to release them. Or if they are bad I want to discard them. And I would have to unfreeze them by the sender because I might be dealing with more than one account that was hacked. On 4/10/2011 4:26 AM, l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote: From: Marc Perkel I've been working on outbound

[exim] Making Exim really fast

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Perkel
I don't know how many of you have tried SSD drives but they are really fast. If you get a small SSD drive and run /var/spool/exim on it you'll see a significant speed jump. If you do raid 0 it's even faster. Also if you use a fallback host to do your retries of email that doesn't get delivered

[exim] Delaying messages for 5 minutes?

2011-04-09 Thread Marc Perkel
I've been working on outbound filtering and trying to come up with a new set of tricks. Outbound filtering is very different than inbound. Here's the situation. An ISP has thousands of email users and some have used week passwords or otherwise been suckered into giving up the password. The

[exim] URL Expander in Exim?

2011-04-05 Thread Marc Perkel
Is there an easy way for Exim to expand URLs from URL shortening services? Or a command line script that would? -- ## List details at http://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/

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

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/24/2011 3:07 PM, 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

[exim] Doing SAV callouts right

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/25/2011 4:53 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 24 March 2011 14:50:22 + Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, d...@restall.net wrote: 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

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

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/25/2011 9:59 AM, Mark Goodge wrote: On 25/03/2011 16:49, Marc Perkel wrote: SAV is similar in that it is useful to determine if the sender is coming from a bogus email address. I do respect the argument that it creates some traffic. But SPF calls also create some traffic as well so

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

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/24/2011 12:13 PM, Zoe (Medway Hosting) wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Perkelm...@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

[exim] 4.75 - so far so good

2011-03-25 Thread Marc Perkel
Seems to be working fine so far. -- ## List details at http://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/

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] Recipient Callout Question

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Perkel
On 3/18/2011 4:40 AM, Ian Eiloart wrote: --On 17 March 2011 09:27:31 -0700 Marc Perkel m...@perkel.com wrote: I was just wondering why the mailfrom option wasn't allowed in recipient callouts? I'm not sure about this, but I think it's something like this: mailfrom was introduced

[exim] ACL error bypass?

2011-02-22 Thread Marc Perkel
Is there a way to tell an ACL to just bypass and do nothing in the case where it normally would return a Tempory Local Problem because of something like a failed string expansion or a missing file? The problem I'm trying to fix is that I'm allowing users to type in strings to block messages

Re: [exim] ACL error bypass?

2011-02-22 Thread Marc Perkel
On 2/22/2011 8:03 AM, W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Is there a way to tell an ACL to just bypass and do nothing in the case where it normally would return a Tempory Local Problem because of something like a failed string expansion or a missing file? The problem I'm trying to fix

Re: [exim] ACL error bypass?

2011-02-22 Thread Marc Perkel
On 2/22/2011 8:03 AM, W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Is there a way to tell an ACL to just bypass and do nothing in the case where it normally would return a Tempory Local Problem because of something like a failed string expansion or a missing file? The problem I'm trying to fix

[exim] Insults in support forum does Exim a disservice

2011-02-01 Thread Marc Perkel
People in this forum need to grow up and stop acting like infants. And I'm not talking about the fringe, I'm talking about people who are supposed to be core supporters/developers of Exim. The last 2 version of Exim (I skipped 4.73) introduced new policies that broke installation that have

[exim] 4.74 exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode

2011-01-31 Thread Marc Perkel
I'm getting exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or mode in Exim 4.74. Works correctly with 4.72. -rwxr-xr-x 1 mail mail 10523 Jan 26 08:58 /etc/exim/conf/exim.conf Not sure what I'm doing wrong. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

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