Re: [exim] changing time for 25 to answer

2006-02-09 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 09/02/06, W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Bowyer wrote: On 09/02/06, Hawk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *trim* 2) Unless you have a specific use for it, turn off ident checking with 'rfc_1413_timeout = 0s' in your Exim config. This will stop Exim trying to do an ident query

Re: [exim] changing time for 25 to answer

2006-02-09 Thread W B Hacker
Peter Bowyer wrote: Quite correct - thanks, Bill. Hey - thanks for reminding *me* that I had forgotten to re-insert that after some recent testing ... Just shaved 30 seconds of my send-cycle for every message. Bill -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-09 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Rafa wrote: control. My problem is, that server is configured to return 450 for invalid mailboxes, causing exim to interpret it as a temporary error. This is broken, wrong and stupid. 4xx tells other MTAs to retry, but as they'll never accept that mail, there is no point in doing so. 1.

Re: [exim] Re: Debian uucp

2006-02-09 Thread Brent Clark
Joerg Sommer wrote: Do you know why exim wants to access the home dir? Does it search a forward file there? For me, it looks like a bug that the forward router fails if the home directory is missing. Regards, Jörg. Hi Jörg I think you may be on to something there. I have copied and pasted

[exim] 550 error when virus detected, sender not notified.

2006-02-09 Thread Jahan De Silva
Hi all, I have got ClamAV working with Exim 4.53 and it all seems fine. Mail wiith virus get rejected, rejectlog records this, and i can see the 550 message when I test via telnet. However the sender did not get a returned mail, and thus thinks that the mail went thru fine. I suspect it may be

Re: [exim] 550 error when virus detected, sender not notified.

2006-02-09 Thread Peter Bowyer
On 09/02/06, Jahan De Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have got ClamAV working with Exim 4.53 and it all seems fine. Mail wiith virus get rejected, rejectlog records this, and i can see the 550 message when I test via telnet. However the sender did not get a returned mail, and thus

Re: [exim] message_size_limit (change in default)

2006-02-09 Thread Philip Hazel
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 the change happened for

Re: [exim] message_size_limit (change in default)

2006-02-09 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, John Jetmore wrote: There are two message_size_limit options, one for the main section and one for transports. realspecOptionsList book main 50MB50MB0 50MB (pg 311) transport 0 0 0 0

Re: [exim] Dealing with broken mta

2006-02-09 Thread Philip Hazel
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Rafa wrote: 220 mail.abcd.com ESMTP Postfix helo test 250 mail.abcd.com mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 250 Ok rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: User unknown in local recipient table data 554 Error: no valid recipients This causes exim to leave the

[exim] Wildcard Certs

2006-02-09 Thread Josh Berry
Hi, My company owns a wildcard certificate from trustssl.co.uk which allows us to certify *.domain.com under the same certificate. It works fine on a number of platforms with apache and I have got it working with courier imap but am having problem with Exim. When I try and use SMTP over SSL with

Re: [exim] Re: Debian uucp

2006-02-09 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Brent Clark wrote: I was wondering if I shouldnt add something like require_files = $local_part:$home/.forward Your userforward router looks like it's debian-specific, so you probably want to take this to the debian-exim list (pkg-exim4-users). -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] Wildcard Certs

2006-02-09 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Josh Berry wrote: file=/share/admin/mailauth/STAR_plus.net.crt): error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory Is this file readable by the exim user? -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] Re: Debian uucp

2006-02-09 Thread Brent Clark
Jakob Hirsch wrote: require_files = $local_part:$home/.forward Your userforward router looks like it's debian-specific, so you probably want to take this to the debian-exim list (pkg-exim4-users). Hi Jakob You right, it is debian specific. Thanks all who replied. Kind Regards Brent Clark

Re: [exim] Wildcard Certs

2006-02-09 Thread Josh Berry
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 11:34 +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote: Josh Berry wrote: file=/share/admin/mailauth/STAR_plus.net.crt): error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory Is this file readable by the exim user? Yes, I have tried all sorts of permissions - including world rwx

Re: [exim] problem with authentication and virtual users

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, R. Sánchez wrote: I've tried to telnet from the outside, but I don't even get a response from port 25 with telnet. From the inside telnet works ok without encryption. Sounds like a problem with your firewall to me. Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim] Wildcard Certs

2006-02-09 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Thu 09 Feb 2006 11:26:14 GMT , Josh Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: file=/share/admin/mailauth/STAR_plus.net.crt): error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory Is this file readable by the exim user? Yes, I have tried all sorts of permissions - including world rwx -

Re: [exim] CallerID with Exim4

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Craig Whitmore wrote: Has anyone written anything which will do CallerID with exim? (even external program) There is experimental support for SPF, but the checks it performs are not compatible with many legitimate uses of SMTP, and the Caller-ID variant is even worse.

Re: [exim] Exim + Mysql

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Support wrote: Can someone helpme to run exim as demon? exim $DAEMON -bd) -q$QUEUE Remove the ) Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\ N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, John Oxley wrote: Is there any reason why I shouldn't use dns block lists in the acl_smtp_connect? You might want people to be able to contact postmaster in case of an incorrect blacklisting. Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/

Re: [exim] Multiple delivery targets

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Adrian wrote: is it possible to have multiple targets for a single mail address? Yes. http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch22.html#SECTitenonfilred Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\

Re: [exim] Wildcard Certs

2006-02-09 Thread Josh Berry
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:36 +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote: file=/share/admin/mailauth/STAR_plus.net.crt): error:02001002:system library:fopen:No such file or directory Is this file readable by the exim user? Yes, I have tried all sorts of permissions - including world rwx - without any

Re: [exim] Wildcard Certs

2006-02-09 Thread Jakob Hirsch
Josh Berry wrote: Have tried strace but really, having never used it before, I have no idea at all what the output means. Can you point me in the direction of a website that tries to explain the output or what sort of thing i will be looking for. No, but it's not that hard: - telnet 0 smtp

RE: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-09 Thread Sub Zero
Is there any reason why I shouldn't use dns block lists in the acl_smtp_connect? You might want people to be able to contact postmaster in case of an incorrect blacklisting. They might use gmail/yahoo etc if they really need to.. right? -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Sherman
Sub Zero wrote: You might want people to be able to contact postmaster in case of an incorrect blacklisting. They might use gmail/yahoo etc if they really need to.. right? That policy is rather likely to land you on a blacklist yourself. - Marc -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] match_domain not working in data acl

2006-02-09 Thread Philip Hazel
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Dean Brooks wrote: I almost got to the point where it seemed like Exim (v4.60) was clobbering the contents of $2 in some manner, which affected the second lookup, but I can't prove that and I wasn't able to get much out of debug +expand. driver = plaintext

Re: [exim] AUTH over TLS only

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:16:26 -0800, Fred Viles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As explained already, there won't be any non-encrypted authentication attempts to reject. Which is a feature, since with AUTH PLAIN, the credentials have already been transmitted unencrypted when the auth attempt is

Re: [exim] Remote Domains Not Supported

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:58:12 -0500, Marc Sherman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Johnson wrote: I am trying to send a message using the php library phpmailer from one of our debian web servers. I configure the script to use the mail() function, which apparently by default hands off the message

Re: [exim] problem with authentication and virtual users

2006-02-09 Thread R. Sánchez
Tony Finch wrote: I've tried to telnet from the outside, but I don't even get a response from port 25 with telnet. From the inside telnet works ok without encryption. Sounds like a problem with your firewall to me. Tony. I don't think so, because I've triple checked that and because

Re: [exim] problem with authentication and virtual users

2006-02-09 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, R. Sánchez wrote: I don't think so, because I've triple checked that and because mail gets through with no tls. Maybe some firewall rules on that box but not on the router. How can I be sure? Look at your firewall logs. Tony. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [exim] message_size_limit (change in default)

2006-02-09 Thread Jim Pazarena
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

Re: [exim] message_size_limit (change in default)

2006-02-09 Thread Philip Hazel
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Jim Pazarena wrote: Philip, perhaps the reference on page 167 could mention 'see the global option in section XXX' ? Oh yes, I've already got that noted. :-) -- Philip HazelUniversity of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book:

Re: [exim] fatal errors in BSMTP transport

2006-02-09 Thread Paul Dekkers
Hi, Marco Herrn wrote: I am running exim 4.50 with virtual domains/users. Some of the users get their mails checked for spam by a seperate transport. Since yesterday some mails were rejected, because of problems with this transport. Funny thing is that today a similar thing happened to me.

Re: [exim] smtp authorization test via telnet?

2006-02-09 Thread Jakob Hirsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Notice that the string produced by gen-auth is different from the string produced by normal base64 encoders: AGp1Z3NAZ29vZnl3ZXJrcy5jb20AQm9pbmdCMDFuZw== decodes to: $ base64decode AGp1Z3NAZ29vZnl3ZXJrcy5jb20AQm9pbmdCMDFuZw== | hexdump -C 00 6a 75 67 73

[exim] filtering question

2006-02-09 Thread Andreas Freyvogel
Hello, I am currently setting up a filter file to handle spam going to our systems folder. I am used to postfix where you point to a text based file in the config and it will check against that file. What I am wondering is if Exim has a similar feature. So for example: The headers.txt file

[exim] 500 error.. not sure why?

2006-02-09 Thread Xiaoyu Huang
Hello, I write a php script to connect to exim smtp server and send mails. it does work for exim 4.52. but after exim's upgraded to 4.53, a strange 500 error happened. Connecting to host address ... Connected to SMTP server . S 220-www..com ESMTP Exim 4.53 #0 Fri, 10 Feb 2006