Re: [exim] Sender verification

2007-08-29 Thread Patrick Okui
On 28 Aug, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote: Hi exim folks, I wonder how I could tell exim to reject messages that look like this: helo mail.domain.name MAIL FROM:NokiaNiedersch\366neweidewlole@ono.com The local part of the sender address is obviously broken, and I want

[exim] errors by sender verifying

2007-08-29 Thread Margrit Lottmann URZ-N
A great mail provider r-online.de doesn't allow since yesterday our verify procedure for sender checking: here our configure part: denymessage = $acl_verify_message sender_domains = ! partial-dbm;DBM/etc/always_accepted_senders !hosts = +relay_hosts !verify =

Re: [exim] Perl showing error while attempting exim -qff

2007-08-29 Thread Vinayan Benedict
Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Vinayan Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fr 24 Aug 2007 11:08:36 CEST): Hi, While I am attempting command exim -qff Following error displays perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = es_ES:es:en_GB:en, LC_ALL = [EMAIL

[exim] Too many concurrent SMTP-Connections

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Justra
Hello, I tried google for that problem but it didn't give me any helpfull hints. I'm running a debian server. About an year after the install it now begins to bring sometimes the message 421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later There are about 5-6 People on that machine

Re: [exim] errors by sender verifying

2007-08-29 Thread Frank Elsner
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:32:53 +0200 Margrit Lottmann URZ-N wrote: A great mail provider r-online.de doesn't allow since yesterday our verify procedure for sender checking: here our configure part: denymessage = $acl_verify_message sender_domains = !

Re: [exim] Sender verification

2007-08-29 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:45 +0200, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote: helo mail.domain.name MAIL FROM:NokiaNiedersch\366neweidewlole@ono.com The local part of the sender address is obviously broken, That isn't obvious to me. Do you have internal knowledge of the ono.com domain that you haven't

[exim] auth_relay_hosts and 587

2007-08-29 Thread Matt
I am running Directadmin email/web server that uses Exim. In my exim.conf I have this. domainlist local_domains = lsearch;/etc/virtual/domains domainlist relay_domains = lsearch;/etc/virtual/domains : localhost hostlist relay_hosts = net-lsearch;/etc/virtual/pophosts : /etc/virtual/relay_ips :

[exim] Problem with vacation_replay (autoreplay) transport

2007-08-29 Thread Marcin Giedz
Hello, I set up router and transport for vacation message. Router seems to work OK, however I'm facing strange problem with transport. Exim user is exim and belongs to group sysusers. Regular users are in a different group. I run exim as root user: exim -bd -d -v debug mode here is the

Re: [exim] Too many concurrent SMTP-Connections

2007-08-29 Thread Tom Ray [Lists]
Martin Justra wrote: Hello, I tried google for that problem but it didn't give me any helpfull hints. I'm running a debian server. About an year after the install it now begins to bring sometimes the message 421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again later There are about

Re: [exim] Too many concurrent SMTP-Connections

2007-08-29 Thread Martin Justra
Tom Ray [Lists] schrieb: Martin Justra wrote: Hello, I tried google for that problem but it didn't give me any helpfull hints. I'm running a debian server. About an year after the install it now begins to bring sometimes the message 421 Too many concurrent SMTP connections; please try again

Re: [exim] auth_relay_hosts and 587

2007-08-29 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On Wednesday 29 August 2007 16:56, Matt wrote: I am running Directadmin email/web server that uses Exim. In my exim.conf I have this. domainlist local_domains = lsearch;/etc/virtual/domains domainlist relay_domains = lsearch;/etc/virtual/domains : localhost hostlist relay_hosts =

[exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Marc Perkel
As some of you know I get rid of a lot of spam using fake high numbered MX records. I'm now doing some interesting experiments. Even though my TTL is only 2 hours I notice that if I change my fake high MX to different fake high MX that the spam zombies still send email to the old fake MX

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Pitt
Hmmm... over the years I've run into many instances where short TTLs (and in fact any TTL in some cases) have been ignored by some (many) of the big ISPs - again, sometimes for a month or more (AOL for example) These instances were for A records mostly as things like web sites and ftp sites were

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Phil \(Medway Hosting\)
- Original Message - From: Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: exim-users@exim.org Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:23 PM Subject: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies As some of you know I get rid of a lot of spam using fake high numbered MX records. I'm now doing

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:23 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: As some of you know I get rid of a lot of spam using fake high numbered MX records. I'm now doing some interesting experiments. Even though my TTL is only 2 hours I notice that if I change my fake high MX to different fake high MX that

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Marc Perkel wrote: My theort is that spam zombies do DNS caching so as to maximize spam output by eliminating dns lookups. Thus zombies retain old information far longer than they are supposed to. So I'm experimenting with a blaclisting trick where I change my fake high MX records, wait

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Graeme Fowler wrote: In the olden days, when AOL used to be a Really Big Player (!), there were many uncorroborated and persistent rumours that they (and several other large ISPs) used to deliberately ignore DNS zone and resource TTls, and forced them to be much longer than the zone

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Richard Pitt
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 18:48 +0100, Graeme Fowler wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 10:23 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: As some of you know I get rid of a lot of spam using fake high numbered MX records. I'm now doing some interesting experiments. Even though my TTL is only 2 hours I notice that

Re: [exim] Too many concurrent SMTP-Connections

2007-08-29 Thread Tom Ray [Lists]
Martin Justra wrote: Tom Ray [Lists] schrieb: Martin Justra wrote: Hello, I tried google for that problem but it didn't give me any helpfull hints. I'm running a debian server. About an year after the install it now begins to bring sometimes the message 421 Too many concurrent

[exim] Validating [EMAIL PROTECTED] using SPA authenticator

2007-08-29 Thread Pedro Ribeiro
Hello , I'm trying to authenticate our Outlook users using the SPA/NTLM authenticator native of Exim 4.67 The problem is the extraction of the domain name to execute the query in the database to fetch the password for verification. It seems that $auth1 only contains the local part of the

Re: [exim] Log stats to DB?

2007-08-29 Thread D. Dante Lorenso
Ted Cooper wrote: D. Dante Lorenso wrote: All, Can someone share an Exim rule that will allow me to log statistics to a database? I want to log the number of messages sent to/from a given user, total messages sent through server, and other various data. I've got Exim connected to

Re: [exim] Perl showing error while attempting exim -qff

2007-08-29 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Vinayan Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mi 29 Aug 2007 09:44:24 CEST): Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Vinayan Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fr 24 Aug 2007 11:08:36 CEST): Hi, While I am attempting command exim -qff Following error displays perl: warning: Please check that your locale

Re: [exim] Log stats to DB?

2007-08-29 Thread Phil Pennock
On 2007-08-29 at 15:28 -0500, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: It would be nice if Exim included a means of executing queries without forcing me to use what seems like a side-effect of the 'warn' feature. I mean, technically it's not a warning, you know. That would be the continue ACL modifier which

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 14:42 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: Keep in mind Phil that these are fake high numbers MX records that normal server never access even if they are correct. So if you add in the expired fake MX factor then it starts getting pretty safe. I refer the honourable gentleman to my

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Graeme Fowler wrote: It needs work, in my opinion, but it could be a reasonable assistant to other technologies. Omniscience being the obvious candidate. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spam anti-virus Consultant| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | filtering.

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Graeme Fowler wrote: that's fine. If, however, you drop, reject, blackhole or otherwise send AWOL a time-critical [0] message destined to one of your customers and cause, ooh, a business deadline to be missed, then you'd best be prepared for several long talks with your lawyer. I don't think

Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies

2007-08-29 Thread Phil \(Medway Hosting\)
- Original Message - From: Jeroen van Aart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: exim-users@exim.org Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:23 AM Subject: Re: [exim] An interesting observation about spam zombies I don't think one can blame an email provider for lost email just as one can't blame a

Re: [exim] Sender verification

2007-08-29 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:45 +0200, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote: helo mail.domain.name MAIL FROM:NokiaNiedersch\366neweidewlole@ono.com The local part of the sender address is obviously broken, That isn't obvious to me.

[exim] Multiple messages per connection when queue-running

2007-08-29 Thread Matthew Hodgson
Hi all, I have the problem of a very large mail queue which contain lots of messages sent to the same remote address. Unfortunately the MX servers for the remote domain are rather slow, and so when performing a queue run in exim 4.66 the messages are trickling through very slowly as each

Re: [exim] Sender verification

2007-08-29 Thread Wolfgang Hennerbichler
On 30.08.2007, at 02:31, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 12:08 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 22:45 +0200, Wolfgang Hennerbichler wrote: helo mail.domain.name MAIL FROM:NokiaNiedersch\366neweidewlole@ono.com The local part of the sender address is