On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 12:16 +0200, Cyborg wrote:
you know C A ? they sent spam each day and call it newsletter ;) As
i removed my address from the list, they already had a choice to
selected why you left, which covered the too much mails spam reason .
So it can be legal bulk mailing,
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 00:53 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2012-09-02 at 10:40 +0100, Ron White wrote:
Can anyone on the list tell me if it's possible to performance tune Exim
to a point where it could complete with this and possible strategies?
You don't mention the number of machines used
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 15:39 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
snip
Ladies, Gentlemen, assorted beings from Other Worlds, Artificial
Intelligences and other subscribers please note:
Give it a rest.
Please feel free to flame away in private or over on forum sites, but
don't do it here. Leave
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 16:50 +, W B Hacker wrote:
Ron White wrote:
When someone uses a public list and attacks you with crazy
accusations, abuse or sarcasm there has to be some right to defend it.
No. There is not.
Jesus, turn it in. It's getting real old.
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On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 17:58 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote:
On 2012-09-04 at 11:31 +0200, Cyborg wrote:
Am 04.09.2012 06:53, schrieb Phil Pennock:
Exim's not geared, as is, for large backlogs. With enough grunt, you
can overcome that, but it won't be as capable as a major email-pushing
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 23:36 +0100, Always Learning wrote:
The person appears to run www.spampig.co.uk which declares
We are a mail web filtering/proxying service based in the UK.
More off-list.
Paul.
England, Europe.
That's correct, I work with them - yes. I don't see how any of
Good morning,
More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering about
the performance that could be squeezed out of Exim in a bulk mailing
capacity.
I have a client that currently uses and ESP who have an astounding
throughput of up to a million messages per hour. This brought
On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 14:43 +0200, Gót András wrote:
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:40:12 +0100, Ron White wrote:
Good morning,
More to satisfy my own curiosity than anything else, I'm wondering
about
the performance that could be squeezed out of Exim in a bulk mailing
capacity.
I have
I'm struggling with a bit of a logical problem and I want to make sure I
approach it the right way.
Currently I'm putting together a back up relay/server that will host
about six low use domains.
I've managed to get it up and working in skeleton form - it accepts mail
for valid recipients, it
Good afternoon,
I came across this:
warn set acl_m4 = ${hash{20}{62}{$sender_address$recipients
$h_message-id:}}
...and realised I'd never seen it before.
My Googling to find out what the figures symbolise is getting me
nowhere, has anyone got a link to an explanation?
Kind regards
Ron
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On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 17:47 +0100, exim-us...@lists.grepular.com wrote:
On 22/05/12 17:42, Ron White wrote:
Good afternoon,
I came across this:
warn set acl_m4 = ${hash{20}{62}{$sender_address$recipients
$h_message-id:}}
...and realised I'd never seen it before.
My
A quick question if I may. If been asked to look through some Exim logs
and I've noticed something I've not seen before:
2012-04-20 03:42:28 cwd=/var/spool/exim 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim -Mc
1SL9Q8-0004iG-EP
2012-04-20 03:42:28 1SL9Q8-0004iG-EP check_mail_permissions could not
determine the sender
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 09:55 +0100, John Burnham wrote:
A quick question if I may. If been asked to look through some
Exim logs
and I've noticed something I've not seen before:
2012-04-20 03:42:28 cwd=/var/spool/exim 3 args: /usr/sbin/exim -Mc
1SL9Q8-0004iG-EP
2012-04-20 03:42:28
Today I am beating myself up over HELO/EHLO.
I've always understood that the syntax of a HELO/EHLO should be:
HELO host.domain.tld - that is a FQHN.
However, looking at RFC's (821/2821/1123 section 5.2.5) I'm struggling
to get absolution on it, and fear I may have understood wrong.
2821 says
I'm looking to deploy a simple Exim instance which does nothing more
than accept inbound email based upon a simple MySQL query.
The word 'Virtual' domains and users can be a little muddy at times, but
by it I mean the server will take mail for various domains and
recipients - rather than users of
Just a quick question,
One of our colleagues has brought up an interesting question regarding
Exim's implementation of DKIM signing.
I've looked at the docs
(http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch54.html)
and before I spend hours on this, is there any way to control which
I've been working with a client running Exim on a cheap shared host who
has been having some odd delivery issues. Normally I don't get too
involved in these, but it was interesting. It only affects some
recipients some of the time and the only reason I can find for the
inconstancy is what appears
Please forgive asking here, but the advice is always so good.
I'm trying to figure something out with DKIM that is making my head
explode. It's probably so simple too, but do you think I can find an
answer? No.
Suppose I have MTA (Exim/Qmail/Sendmail - doesn't matter) that is shared
amongst
Good afternoon,
I have a bit of brain freeze I could use a jab in the right direction
with.
If Exim tries to deliver a message to a remote server and gets a 5xx
code back, say 550 no such user, am I right in thinking the message
should fail right away with an NDR, not remain on the queue being
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:41 +0100, Ron White wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:27 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:18 +0100, Ron White wrote:
And that didn't work either. Despite it not reporting any issues on
installation - it does not appear to be working. No queries
Good morning list users,
I've had a spell of brain freeze away from Exim and need to reacquaint
myself with a few things. This is probably very simple and the last
paragraph may be all that in needed to give a yes/no answer. For the
sake of clarity some detail is provided:
I've just put together
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 10:21 +0200, Marcin Mirosław wrote:
W dniu 29.09.2011 08:17, Ron White pisze:
One more thing,
domainlist hosted_domains = ${lookup mysql{MYSQL_HOSTEDDOMAINLIST}}
here you use variable hosted_domains
relevant ACL clause
check_rcpt:
accept domains
I think Nigel is on to the winning answer here. If I search yum for
exim, it finds...
exim.i686 : The exim mail transfer agent
exim-doc.noarch : Documentation for the exim mail transfer agent
exim-greylist.i686 : Example configuration for greylisting using Exim
exim-mon.i686 : X11 monitor
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:27 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 13:18 +0100, Ron White wrote:
And that didn't work either. Despite it not reporting any issues on
installation - it does not appear to be working. No queries being made,
no errors - just like before. Mmmm.
Your
Good afternoon list members,
I am attempting to compile exim-4.74 on a Ubuntu server box (9.04 -
which I appreciate is a little 'back in the day' so to speak)
I don't want to use the premade .deb (or apt-get) as the finished item
does not suit all my needs.
I've compiled Exim a couple of times
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 12:20 -0400, Phil Pennock wrote:
That's used for supporting the Interbase database. Are you actually
intending to support that?
If not, edit Local/Makefile and the LOOKUP_LIBS definition to remove
the
request (-lgds) to link against libgds.
Thank you so much for
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 13:16 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
I have a problem with Barracuda Networks blocking various dynamically
assigned IP addresses that my clients have the misfortune to be
assigned to every few weeks or so.
No other blacklist has the offending IP. AFAIK, neither had
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:01 +0100, Phil (Medway Hosting) wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com
To: exim-users exim-users@exim.org
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 6:16 AM
Subject: [exim] Problem with Barracuda Networks
I have a problem with
On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 11:44 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
{snip}
Current setup
Customer (dynamic IP from their ISP) - Customer Exim/Mail Server (in
data center with static IP) - Intended mail recipient server (using
Barracuda)
Barracuda is rejecting the emails based on the Customer IP,
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:51 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
[snip other items for clarity]
I think my hosts are frequently listed, but I've only _once_ noticed it
causing a rejection -- and in that case, the admin of the rejecting mail
server was easily persuaded to stop using backscatterer.org
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 11:28 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
--On 24 June 2010 09:43:40 + Kebba Foon kebba.f...@qcell.gm wrote:
Backscatterer - Why it is abusive and how to stop your system doing so
Email servers should be configured to provide Non-Delivery Reports
(bounces) to local
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 09:50 -0500, Matt wrote:
my mail server has been listed at backscatterer.org, and on their site
they suggested that i should only send bounces to local users but i dont
know how to implement this in exim. recently i found out that some of
the ip's i allow relay for
On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 17:54 +0100, Dennis Davis wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, Ron White wrote:
From: Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk
Cc: exim-users@exim.org
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:02:18
Subject: Re: [exim] listed at Backscatterer.org
...
Is it not possible to have an ACL check
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:54 -0400, Jean-Paul natola wrote:
VIA C6 MB @ US$ 70. Twin 80 to 500 GB WD SATA on ATACONTROL, GMIRROR, or
SoftRAID are cheap. HK$ 1,300 1U case PSU... typically 4 to 6 year
component
life - HDD included, fans excluded. IPFW or PF has all one needs for
Just jumping back to 'used' Barracuda's. I see this chap has quite a
history for selling them on eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Barracuda-300-Spam-Firewall-1GB-RAM-80GB-HDD-Turbo-Unit/170501841864?cmd=ViewItempt=LH_DefaultDomain_0hash=item27b2b3a3c8
Very cheeky :-)
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On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 09:52 -0400, Jean-Paul natola wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying get an idea of the hardware required for a new server, I currently
use exim in th efollowing config
PIV 1.3
1gig ram
40 gig IDE drive
I use exim with spamassassin and clamav as a gateway to sanitze
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 14:13 -0400, Jean-Paul natola wrote:
I have spent some time working with Barracuda 'spam' firewalls which
have this (or a lower) specification and they can easily handle quite a
lot of work (hundreds of domains, thousands of messages). Inside they
are just a Linux
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 10:35 +0100, Mark Thornton wrote:
The default configuration bypasses spam assassin for messages in excess
of 10. We have recently started seeing an increase in spam which is
just over this limit (103KB). I wonder if there is a connection.
Mark Thornton
In the
On outbound mail I've noticed this header that, for my needs, is 'a bit
too much detail' insofar as revealing the internal IP of the client:
Received: from munged.com ([x.x.x.x]:52225
helo=[192.168.5.x]) by host.munged.com with esmtpsa
(TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:05 -0400, W B Hacker wrote:
Ron White wrote:
On outbound mail I've noticed this header that, for my needs, is 'a bit
too much detail' insofar as revealing the internal IP of the client:
Received: from munged.com ([x.x.x.x]:52225
helo=[192.168.5.x
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 15:24 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
--On 14 May 2010 14:57:59 +0100 Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
A couple of child like questions for my own sanity here;
1. Am I right in thinking you can have multiple condition = statements
in a router? (I know you can do
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 15:24 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
--On 14 May 2010 14:57:59 +0100 Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
A couple of child like questions for my own sanity here;
1. Am I right in thinking you can have multiple condition = statements
in a router? (I know you can do
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 15:55 +0100, John Horne wrote:
On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 14:57 +0100, Ron White wrote:
A couple of child like questions for my own sanity here;
1. Am I right in thinking you can have multiple condition = statements
in a router? (I know you can do 'and' but I have three
Good afternoon list.
In Postfix there is this directive: strict_rfc821_envelopes yes || no.
Is there a global Exim equivalent or do I need to form something into an
ACL condition?
Grateful thanks
Ron
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 14:46 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote:
On 13 May 2010 12:42, Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
Good afternoon list.
In Postfix there is this directive: strict_rfc821_envelopes yes || no.
Is there a global Exim equivalent or do I need to form something into an
ACL
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 16:59 +0100, Ian Eiloart wrote:
--On 13 May 2010 12:42:24 +0100 Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
Good afternoon list.
In Postfix there is this directive: strict_rfc821_envelopes yes || no.
Is there a global Exim equivalent or do I need to form something
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 23:07 +0200, Zammhauer wrote:
auth_plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_prompts = :
server_condition = # don't know what to do here
server_set_id = $auth2
I don't use CDB myself, but perhaps this link may help (it's somewhat
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 14:34 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
which means
(1) the final catch-all recipient needs to be verified so we don't
accept mail for something we can't deliver (2) that catch all could be a
locally routed account, a remote smtp destination (sub classes of 'by
ip, by
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 08:33 +0100, Ron White wrote:
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 14:34 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
which means
(1) the final catch-all recipient needs to be verified so we don't
accept mail for something we can't deliver (2) that catch all could be a
locally routed account
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:31 +1000, Ted Cooper wrote:
This doesn't seem like a job for address rewriting. I just use a catch
all router at the end with specific conditions.
I have a very old setup that will catch all crap sent to a domain I
specify in a directory. I should have changed this
I'm trying to get something simple to work, but my lack of understanding
and knowledge of Exim is still giving me a few problems. If I'm honest,
I'm probably a bit too stupid to understand what is going on here.
What I'm trying to do is have the rewrite section lookup a full email
address in a
On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 18:10 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
On 05/08/2010 12:19 PM, Ron White wrote:
I guess what I'm trying to ask is can I rewrite address conditionally
inline in an ACL?
Effectively no. Best done in routers. Add one near the head
of your router tree to transform (only
Good morning,
I'm looking at the concept of creating a message log database which
contains one line for each message that my Exim sees.
At this point I'm mostly guessing, but I suspect in the my various ACL
'drop' or 'deny' statements I could probably add something like:
set acl_m_nullthing =
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 10:25 +0200, Chris Knipe wrote:
Have you looked at exilog yet?
Thanks for that Chris, it looks interesting and I'm grateful for it, but
it seems to depend on reading a running log file with an agent and
tweaking things to match what appears in a log.
I'd really prefer to
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 10:50 +0200, Chris Wilson wrote:
Hi Ron,
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Ron White wrote:
I'd really prefer to get Exim to write this on the fly as a message
passes through. I can *half* do what I want - rejected messages don't
appear to be a problem. It's the accepted
A little playing around and I've noticed that if I have an acl_variable
with an value (say a simple short integer of '4') if I run a conditional
set command preserving the original value requires a bit of thought.
This will set the value of $acl_m_userouter to 2, if it's currently '1'
else set it
I'm having a fight with if and || if or and getting some really
interesting errors as I try to juggle around the braces:
each subcondition inside an and{...} condition must be in its own {}
condition name expected, but found { ={$spam_score inside and{...}
condition
Looking at the docs;
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 12:54 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Qua, 05 Mai 2010, Ron White wrote:
Looking at the 'if' example shown:
${if or {{eq{$local_part}{spqr}}{eq{$domain}{testing.com}}}
seems to have unbalanced braces?
It does not seem to, it is missing a closing
I would like to say:
if acl_mvirusscan=1 AND acl_m_spamscan=2 then acl_m_userouter = sysquar
but I'm not sure how I do that with the constructs in Exim.
Something like (but does not seem to work):
set acl_m_userouter = ${if eq {$acl_mvirusscan}{1} eq
{$acl_mvirusscan}{1}{sysquar}}
I'm not
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 14:26 +0200, Chris Wilson wrote:
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html#toc0145
${if and {{eq {$acl_mvirusscan}{1}}{eq
{$acl_mvirusscan}{1}{sysquar
Cheers, Chris.
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On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 10:52 +0900, Jeff Wexler wrote:
I have been googling for three days now to no avail.
I'm not sure that I can help, but my recent toe dipping into Exim4 has
meant a great deal of reading and a couple of things ring a bell with me
- mostly from my time spent here:
.. Just to add to my own reply (and +1 for Bill's suggestion to use
openssl instead) I'm aware you are using gnutls - but I would test it
using the openssl client as it's really a stalwart for testing.
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Thank you for taking the time to reply Jim.
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 16:09 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
As I continue to build my Exim gateway I've can see the question of a
virus/spam quarantine on the horizon and would like
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 16:24 +0200, Francesco Pasqualini wrote:
hi all,
I'm trying to use acl_smtp_mail (exim4 on ubuntu)
The acl does not work, like it wasn't there.
For example my
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 06:16 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:47:10 +0100, Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
As my ACL grows It has crossed my mind that for every acl stanza making
use of a MySQL that fires off, there is the roundtrip cost of the query.
Whilst some
As I continue to build my Exim gateway I've can see the question of a
virus/spam quarantine on the horizon and would like to ask Exim expert
their views.
I'm aware of AMAVIS(new) being a popular choice but it appears to have
two distinct sets of views. There are those that sing its praises, there
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 03:39 -0400, W B Hacker wrote:
Ron White wrote:
*snip*
This part should have a new thread of its own if it is to be pursued.
Moving on from that - today I turn my attention to Clamav and Exim and
in particular SELinux on the Cent5 box. The installation
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 16:09 -0400, W B Hacker wrote:
Ron White wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:44 -0400, W B Hacker wrote:
Ron White wrote:
As my ACL grows It has crossed my mind that for every acl stanza making
use of a MySQL that fires off, there is the roundtrip cost of the query
As my ACL grows It has crossed my mind that for every acl stanza making
use of a MySQL that fires off, there is the roundtrip cost of the query.
Whilst some of the lookups can be optimised by ACL layout, I'm not going
to be able to avoid some similar very similar queries when I check my
database
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 13:44 -0400, W B Hacker wrote:
Ron White wrote:
As my ACL grows It has crossed my mind that for every acl stanza making
use of a MySQL that fires off, there is the roundtrip cost of the query.
Whilst some of the lookups can be optimised by ACL layout, I'm not going
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 20:29 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
On 04/28/2010 04:47 PM, Ron White wrote:
SELECT email,usertype,inbound,outbound FROM mailusers WHERE
email='${quote_mysql:$local_pa...@${quote_mysql:$domain}';
Certainly. I do just that (with pgsql or ldap, depending). Bung it
all
Reading through the docs:
http://exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_22.html#CHAP22
I was really interested to read this:
The incoming address can be redirected in several different ways:... It
can be forced to fail, with a custom error message.
This would be really handy for 'noreply' and
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:04 +0100, John Burnham wrote:
Reading through the docs:
http://exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_22.html#CHAP22
I was really interested to read this:
The incoming address can be redirected in several different
ways:... It
can be forced to fail, with
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:13 +0100, Peter Bowyer wrote:
On 27 April 2010 16:04, John Burnham john.burn...@admin.cam.ac.uk wrote:
Reading through the docs:
http://exim.org/exim-html-4.50/doc/html/spec_22.html#CHAP22
I was really interested to read this:
The incoming address can be
There are a couple of things I don't fully understand when making
callous to verify recipients and would appreciate some pointers.
My system is currently experimental (non production) and I'm trying to
iron out some issues with some more unusual 'features' I'm hoping to
implement. I'm still at a
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 09:04 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote:
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:26:43 +0100, Ron White exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
The ACL stanza performing the call out looks like this:
dropmessage = REJECTED - Remote Recipient Verify Failed
log_message = relay recipient
On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 12:50 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
Quoting Ron White (from 24/04/10 03:01):
server_condition = ${if crypteq {$3}{\{whateva\}${lookup mysql{ SELECT
userpassword FROM mailusers WHERE some_condition.\}}}{yes}{no}}
You have an extra unwanted \ in there at the end
On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 03:20 +0100, Always Learning wrote:
Our Exim servers now accept no 'To:' headers but only for this list's
emails. Otherwise if senders can't be bothered to send us 'proper'
emails containing the basic 5 header fields:
From:
To:
Date:
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 16:02 +0200, Chris Wilson wrote:
Hi Exim.Ml (I still don't know what your name is, which seems a little
odd form),
Apologies. Corrected the profile.
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, exim...@riotm.co.uk wrote:
or let the database do it:
select 1 from mailusers where
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