Re: [exim] Setup for authenticated submission

2006-01-18 Thread Jeremy Harris
Nigel Wade wrote: I'm currently leaning towards the idea of a separate Exim process handle mail submission, and for this to relay the mail to the main Exim process for delivery. I'm hoping that will be easier to setup and maintain than a single configuration. Are there any gotchas to this

Re: [exim] SMTP error from remote mail server

2006-01-18 Thread Jeremy Harris
Leonid Shulov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mail.arabellasw.com [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]: 550 cannot route to sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably myhost.localdomain isn't in the DNS as viewed by mail.arabellasw.com.

Re: [exim] Setup for authenticated submission

2006-01-19 Thread Jeremy Harris
Bill Hacker wrote: However, and this is the important point, looking for multiple different HELO values from a single ip is a _MASSIVELY_ effective way of detecting apparent ? potential ? You're slightly too terse for me to tell exactly what you're asking here. However, looking for

Re: [exim] Show auth in logs?

2006-01-20 Thread Jeremy Harris
j2 wrote: If I read this correctly, Exim does not (as default) show if a mail was sent as an authenticated user. Is it possible to make Exim show which user the sender was authenticated as in mainlog? If you mean received on an smtp auth'd connection, look for the string like esmtpsa on the

Re: [exim] quota check at smtp_data time

2006-01-24 Thread Jeremy Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Is there a way to check quota on mailbox at smtp_data time. Checks: is account over quota (which can be MTA-imposed) and whether it will be over when writing message. Yes, but it's quite involved. Here's the core of a checker; call it as a sub-acl from both

Re: [exim] Re: Exim+SA=Server Overloaded!

2006-01-26 Thread Jeremy Harris
Chr. v. Stuckrad wrote: The ideal setup though would be adapting to the load, scanning by ACL, until too crowded, then switching to 'scan later' in the queue Even better would be scanning in the ACL always, but limiting the number of concurrent connections you accept so as to not overload your

Re: [exim] Need to generate a reject message with correct headers

2006-02-02 Thread Jeremy Harris
Kenevel wrote: Firstly, I do not want to have the emails appear to originate at a real mailbox to which addressees can reply. This means that anyone doing sender-verification will refuse your mails. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim

Re: [exim] Need to generate a reject message with correct headers

2006-02-03 Thread Jeremy Harris
Kenevel wrote: Is there a way of avoiding having to maintain identical code in two different places? A macro. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list -

Re: [exim] problem with authentication and virtual users

2006-02-11 Thread Jeremy Harris
R. Sánchez wrote: I still haven't resolved inside-outside port 25 problems. Why can't I telnet from the outside but I *can* smtp from the outside? I've double-checked there are no firewall rules, smtp connections are not using ssl or tls... Can there be some sort of ISP filtering? Always

Re: [exim] Problem sending Mail to comcast

2006-02-26 Thread Jeremy Harris
Tom Fischer wrote: i have much trouble sending to comcast Mailservers. The comcast Servers returns 450 [TEMPFAIL] comcast.net requires valid sender domain. So, what domain does the envelope-from have on a typical mail that gets rejected? Does that domain exist, have proper rDNS and matching

Re: [exim] acl variables per recipient rather than per message

2006-02-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
Mike Cardwell wrote: If I set $acl_m0 to equal something in the rcpt acl I can refer to it in the routers. If there is more than one recipient, I'll end up overwriting the contents of that acl variable. I need to be able to store information on a per recipient basis from the rcpt acl and then

Re: [exim] Exim4 condition, need help

2006-03-08 Thread Jeremy Harris
Michael Bordignon wrote: Hi there, I'm trying to have exim look at the sender address for all incoming mail, if it matches more than one row (via a mysql query) then prepend the subject with 'foo'. I've come this far; -- set acl_m9 = mysql;SELECT COUNT(*) FROM prospect_addresses WHERE

Re: [exim] disabling sender verification

2006-03-09 Thread Jeremy Harris
James Barros wrote: I dont suppose you could point me in the right direction for disabling sender verification? Take out the line saying verify = sender. It's not complicated. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Exim and Brightmail

2006-03-10 Thread Jeremy Harris
Riaan Annandale wrote: Hi Guys, I have a fairly simple question: I am running exim with brightmail 6.0.3 and it works, ie. I can use brightmail verdicts / vars in the routers section. But now I would like to reject spam messages after the end of data command . So I imagine i need to add

Re: [exim] Delete recipient in a specific Message-ID

2006-03-22 Thread Jeremy Harris
Balzi Andrea wrote: Hi All There is a function that allows me to delete from command line a recipient in a specific message-id? I've found on the docs how can add a recipient (-Mar), but not for delete. How can it? You can mark a recipient as already delivered. Note that the headers of the

Re: [exim] Could not complete sender verify callout

2006-03-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
wiseas wrote: What I want to do, is to configure the server to exclude some domains which are not spam-senders. How can I accomplish that? I've read about sender_verify, sender_verify_hosts *, sender_verify_hosts_callback *, sender_verify_callback_domains ! *.some.domain :* but I don't know

Re: [exim] Re: Could not complete sender verify callout

2006-03-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
wiseas wrote: HI, I created an acl. Something like: #added just for testing on 28-03-2006 test_acl: accept hosts = mail.xxx.com There is no configuration error, but also nothing has changed. What have I done wrong? You didn't do what I said. What to do next? Read what I said. Or

Re: [exim] Non existant email addresses

2006-03-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
Gururajan Ramachandran wrote: How do you handle sending error back without ending up sending error back to bulk emailers and so on? I really would not like to go back to having the outgoing email folder filled all the time trying to send back error emails to non existent From email addresses.

Re: [exim] Re: smtp defer

2006-03-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
Hugo Osorio wrote: now when i say tail -f /etc/exim4/mainlog i am receiving another error message as follows: how this error could be corrected? thank you 2006-03-28 11:17:25 1FOGsm-7e-9E gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [ 66.249.83.114]: Connection refused 2006-03-28 11:17:25 1FOGsm-7e-9E

Re: [exim] Re: Could not complete sender verify callout

2006-03-29 Thread Jeremy Harris
wiseas wrote: I've read the specification from http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.30/doc/html/spec_38.html to figure out how this functions. I thought I understood, but the result is not as expected. in my exim.conf I added: domainlist test_list = mail.xxx.com ok Then in the check_recipient

Re: [exim] Re: bounce messages and their potential misuse

2006-03-30 Thread Jeremy Harris
Adam Funk wrote: But when MTA(n) rejects a message that MTA(n-1) is trying to relay, MTA(n-1) has to bounce it, right? Which in turn is why MTA(n-1) should be doing recipient-verify callouts. -Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Re: bounce messages and their potential misuse

2006-03-31 Thread Jeremy Harris
Peter Bowyer wrote: On 30/03/06, Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking of MTA(n-1) as a department's outgoinggmailhub or ISP's smarthost. It's usually configured to accept anything from within the IP range it's supposed to cover, That part it what it shouldn't do. By all means

Re: [exim] Retaining message IDs through transport filters

2006-03-31 Thread Jeremy Harris
Steve Hill wrote: Is there any way to pipe a message through an external command, and then continue on to process the message that's produced on the command's stdout as if it were the same message rather than having to re-transmit the command's output as an entirely new message? As a

Re: [exim] Re: bounce messages and their potential misuse

2006-03-31 Thread Jeremy Harris
Peter Bowyer wrote: I disagree. It should. We're talking about an outbound relay sending to arbitrary destinations, with verified senders. Callouts are a waste of time, because it can deliver a bounce to the known sender if it's unable to deliver a message. Which known sender would this

Re: [exim] File Access Error - Stumped

2006-04-03 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marc Perkel wrote: Trying to figure out what's causung this error: 2006-04-02 19:16:14 1FQEc2-0008MU-AJ == [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=virtual_userforward defer (-1): bad mode (0100777) for /etc/exim/control/domains/perkel.com/users/marc/filter.txt: 022 bit(s) unexpected Having your filter file be

Re: [exim] retry timeout exceeded

2006-04-04 Thread Jeremy Harris
Jason Keltz wrote: How can retry timeout be exceeded? Exim replied to the original sender with a message SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host x.x.x [#.#.#.#]: 450 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Recipient address rejected: Greylisted: retry timeout exceeded

Re: [exim] endpass absent

2006-04-09 Thread Jeremy Harris
Doug Jolley wrote: In the absence of the endpass modifier, control is always passed to the next ACL if there is a failing condition. Am I looking at this correctly? Nope. In the absence ... control is passed to the next verb in this ACL if there is a failing condition (which could be an

Re: [exim] TLS error on connection

2006-04-10 Thread Jeremy Harris
Dave Lugo wrote: My apologies if this has come up before, I did check the list archive, but didn't really find an answer. A remote client seems to have trouble sending to my exim: Apr 10 15:42:54 spot exim[13343]: TLS error on connection from hawk.ummail.com (hawk.sc1.ummail.com)

Re: [exim] Exim domain and login checks for relay

2006-04-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
MrTheo wrote: What I want is that someone who wants to send a mail using the server's smtp services has to login with server's user account, - advertise auth - decide what types of auth you will support. - educate your users in configuring their MUAs - reject, in an ACL, senders who are on

Re: [exim] Exim domain and login checks for relay

2006-04-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
Alan J. Flavell wrote: On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, Jeremy Harris wrote: [...] - reject senders not matching the specific auth data Rejection is not as easy as it sounds. We try to reject mail submissions which present non-existent sender addresses - but mail client software typically does

Re: [exim] verify = sender

2006-04-19 Thread Jeremy Harris
Ben Story wrote: We've been having some problems with the require verify = sender line of our exim config with Postini's outbound SMTP servers. They're wanting a detailed explanation of what this has exim do and I've not found a good answer in the specifications. Does anyone have a good place

Re: [exim] dnslist variables empty on chained ACLs?

2006-04-22 Thread Jeremy Harris
Andy Smith wrote: Now, this works, but none of the dnslist_* variables get set, so the message ends up looking a bit like: You're trying to use the variables before they're set, because the line where you use them comes before the line where they're set. So they're not set, so they're

Re: [exim] Replacing header in acl

2006-05-04 Thread Jeremy Harris
Adrian wrote: Is there a way to make exim replace the subject instead of just adding it? Yes, but do it in a router not an ACL. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list -

Re: [exim] Exim with Mysql

2006-05-14 Thread Jeremy Harris
ECJ wrote: You may get some information by running a delivery with debugging turned on for a message that is, for example, hitting the quota error. Sorry for being ignorant about this. What exim flags should I use to accomplish this? I only know the 'mail -v' option. Thanks! Exim has a -d

Re: [exim] WHOIS data lookup

2006-05-14 Thread Jeremy Harris
Andy Smith wrote: What you may find useful is translating the IP address to the AS number which can be done via DNS: http://www.cymru.com/BGP/asnlookup.html#dns $ dig +short -t txt 5.231.50.69.origin.asn.cymru.com 26904 | 69.50.224.0/20 | US | arin | 2003-06-05 $ dig +short -t txt

[exim] callout/defer_ok and smtp timeouts

2006-05-21 Thread Jeremy Harris
Should a recipient verify with defer_ok and callout=10s, which gets a TCP connection but times out during the SMTP conversation, return success? denymessage = recipient does not appear to exist !verify = recipient/callout=20s,use_sender\

Re: [exim] Milter interface for Exim

2006-05-31 Thread Jeremy Harris
Patrick von der Hagen wrote: Yes, there are several things I'd like to try out, but wouldn't know how to easily implement them using Exim-ACL. For example, I'd like to have some rate-limiting, which should keep an average of mails/timeunit sent by some IP, which should send alerts to the

Re: [exim] Milter interface for Exim

2006-06-01 Thread Jeremy Harris
Patrick von der Hagen wrote: However, the key is average of mails/timeunit significant derivation. I don't want to have fixed limits but consider keeping several values for a given IP, like average values, maximum values, etc. and them do some calculations wheter the current rate seems

Re: [exim] Problem with checking condition in acl section

2006-06-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to use in the DATA ACL the ip address over the email arrive the exim? so that i can do denymessage = This message contains an attachment of a type which we do not accept (.$found_extension) demime= bat

Re: [exim] I need to filter the rcpt field

2006-06-15 Thread Jeremy Harris
Christian Schmidt wrote: Hello enediel, I have the whole list of available accounts on the domain, and I want to configure exim4 to pass to the exchange server only the messages with valid rcpt field. This can easily be done by a recipient verification via smtp callout. Don't forget to

Re: [exim] Feature Request: ACL Branching

2006-06-19 Thread Jeremy Harris
Frank Myhr wrote: As I understand it, Exim allows only a single outer ACL for the RCPT (and other) smtp commands. So the above acl logic must be written like: Do Check 1 If Condition A: Do Check 2 If Condition A: Do Check 3 Nope. acl = acl_foobar - Jeremy -- ## List

Re: [exim] Check existing user

2006-06-20 Thread Jeremy Harris
Kai Riasol wrote: I use exim as a smtp relay. This relay forward the emails to the mail server. I have the problem that, the relay take all mail and try after received the email to forward the email to the mail server The problem is, if a user does not exists and the return-path is false

Re: [exim] bash or perl question

2006-06-23 Thread Jeremy Harris
Dennis Skinner wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: cat fileA fileB | sort | uniq -u fileC Unfirtunately no. file B has addresses mot in file A. Just do fileB twice then :) cat fileA fileB fileB | sort | uniq -u fileC Ahem... useless cat again. Also useless uniq. sort -u fileA fileB fileB

Re: [exim] Filter by IP by domain ACL/filter assistance

2006-06-30 Thread Jeremy Harris
Tony Finch wrote: I suggested using defer rather than deny because (a) they are spammers and are unlikely to retry, I think (woolly-level feeling from watching mainlog and assorted graphs) that this is unfortunately becoming less so. Whether it's because zombies are starting to use system's

Re: [exim] Callback issues - vdomain w/external MX can not mail other users on server

2006-07-02 Thread Jeremy Harris
Debbie Doerrlamm wrote: Reading your comments 3 times now.. can my Exim be configured to not send a null to verify so this won;t happen? Of course it can; Exim is very flexible. How to do this is in the documentation. However, doing so would be a long-term disservice to the reliability of

Re: [exim] spammers have beat me to the game!

2006-07-04 Thread Jeremy Harris
Odhiambo Washington wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jul 04 19:57:06 2006 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:57:06 +0300 Received: from acaen-251-1-97-4.w86-205.abo.wanadoo.fr ([86.205.243.4]) by ns2.wananchi.com with

Re: [exim] Random number generation in an ACL

2006-07-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
Ian P. Christian wrote: I want to do a database cleanup in my exim config, so there's a 1 in 10,000 chance some SQL will be run - I could cron it, but I prefer the config to be self-contained. To do this, I obviously need to generate a random number - is this possible in the ACLs? I've

Re: [exim] exim exploit or configuration problem

2006-07-11 Thread Jeremy Harris
Bridgit Griffin (Withers) wrote: Recently, since late Jun, I have been seeing spam that appears to be sent from an email alias I have. However, closer inspection of the spam headers shows that someone connected into the smtp server (Exim ver 4.52) then sent it out using my alias. My

Re: [exim] smtp_accept_max and smtp_accept_max_per_host logging

2006-07-18 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marten Lehmann wrote: is it possible to enable a different logging for both types of limit exhaustion? At present I can just see Connection refused in the logfiles, but I don't know if the overall limit is exhausted or the smtp_accept_max_per_host so I don't know which values to increase.

Re: [exim] prohibited anonymous senders

2006-07-27 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marten Lehmann wrote: mail from: 501 Anonymous Senders Prohibited Is it possible to configure this similar with exim? Of course it is. But before you do, look into the definition of a bounce. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details

Re: [exim] unusually long delays during DATA part of smtp communication

2006-07-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marcus Barczak wrote: On our primary mail server here i'm noticing major (up to 1-2 minutes) delays on incoming SMTP connections at the end of the DATA phase. After the final period exim appears to be hanging a majorly long time before notifying the client that their message is

Re: [exim] Incoming duplicates

2006-08-01 Thread Jeremy Harris
Chris Blaise wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Balzer Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 2:03 AM To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] Incoming duplicates I can confirm this MSN behavior, one recipient here was at

Re: [exim] Accept Mail only to known recipients

2006-08-01 Thread Jeremy Harris
Odhiambo G. Washington wrote: I need some advise on a task I am working on towards spam control and bandwidth saving. I am going to have a dedicated server hosted somewhere upstream and this server is going to be my highest priority MX for several thousand domains. I assume you have a

Re: [exim] suggestion for those implementing ACLs to suppress backscatter bounces

2006-08-02 Thread Jeremy Harris
Chris Lightfoot wrote: No valid bounce will have 1 recipient I think there are cases (mailinglists?) where that isn't so. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list -

Re: [exim] mailx with exim 4.60 doesn't strip Bcc: headers?

2006-08-04 Thread Jeremy Harris
John Dalbec wrote: execve(/usr/sbin/sendmail, [send-mail, -i, jpdalbec], [/* 22 vars */]) I assume you checked that /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually exim on your system? - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ##

Re: [exim] How to disable logging unroutable addresses?

2006-08-14 Thread Jeremy Harris
Robert Fargher wrote: 2006-08-14 14:11:57 H=53541e05.cable.casema.nl (-1209460120) [83.84.30.5] F=[EMAIL PROTECTED] rejected RCPT [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unrouteable address There are so many of these rejections logged that it is almost impossible to use the log files in real time. tail

Re: [exim] Queue-Runs and frozen timeouts

2006-09-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
Felix Havemann wrote: I run exim4-daemon-heavy (from backports) on a debian sarge machine Ask on the debian-specific exim mailinglist, as suggested in the debian exim documentation. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] Default user account

2006-09-19 Thread Jeremy Harris
Stephen Kestle wrote: I just can't seem to find some documents on a default account or redirect for my server. It seems to reject any non-local address, and that also seems to eliminate any alias redirection (I tried *:mail-default). It's something pretty simple, but I just can't find

Re: [exim] Spamassassin + Exim4 high IO Wait

2006-09-19 Thread Jeremy Harris
Mark Adams wrote: I was hoping to draw from the pool of experience that the exim mailing list has, as I realise this is a spamassassin or other issue. We are running exim4.62-4 with Spamassassin 3.1.4-4 and suffering extremely high IO Wait times on the server whenever spamassassin scans an

Re: [exim] Sending mail from different IP per domain

2006-09-21 Thread Jeremy Harris
Fernando Barajas wrote: Do you know if ther's a way that I could send different domains' mails from a different IP? That is, that all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] will go out from IP 11.22.33.44, and all mails from *anotherdomain.com will go out from IP 55.66.77.88? Your can put an interface

Re: [exim] Default config in distributions.

2006-09-23 Thread Jeremy Harris
David Woodhouse wrote: Perhaps I should ship the exim package with its existing fairly basic config (perhaps with some mailman stuff ifdeffed out), and then ship a _separate_ all-singing, all-dancing exim config package which is capable of just about everything? And perhaps that package could

Re: [exim] Feature Request - return_path in autoreply

2006-09-24 Thread Jeremy Harris
Martin Nicholas wrote: I would of thought a vacation message would be do the least damage if it came from a blackhole, rather than be a bounce. Bounces indicate a delivery failure to most mailing systems. I'd like therefore to be able to set the return_path to something like: [EMAIL

Re: [exim] Sender callout verification with warning only

2007-07-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marcin Krol wrote: and would block only a tiny %age of spam. This may be so, but I would like to see some realistic numbers and experiments to show that. My own (admittedly, quick) estimates based on my mail logs indicate that the volume of spam cut short by callouts is approx. 5/6 of

Re: [exim] Rejection policies

2007-07-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marc Sherman wrote: [I changed the subject because this is not a continuation of the part of the thread that was getting acrimonious] Jeremy Harris wrote: Without knowing for sure what mails are spam and what are ham, we reject connections: 10% rdns + 2mx 35% helo 5% dnsbl

Re: [exim] Start/Stop Exim

2007-07-13 Thread Jeremy Harris
Nizar KHEIR wrote: ([EMAIL PROTECTED])/usr/exim$: bin/exim Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent. It is normally called by Mail User Agents, not directly from a shell command line. Options and/or arguments control what it does when called. For a list of options, see the Exim documentation. Start/stop

Re: [exim] Serious Problems .. over 100,000 messages in the queue

2007-08-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
Andrew Rosolino wrote: There is also a bigger problem.. most of those e-mails are all SPAM being sent from our server =(.. we are being badly abused!!! I have it set to delete SPAM messages and not deliver them but its not even deleting it.. I am using SpamAssasin by the way.. here is some

Re: [exim] Serious Problems .. over 100,000 messages in the queue

2007-08-08 Thread Jeremy Harris
Andrew Rosolino wrote: I added a RBL and it seriously blocked almost every single e-mail going out and no one go their e-mail. I tried using these Reject mail at SMTP time if the sender host is in the zen.spamhaus.org, or bl.spamcop.net rbl Probably you added the dnsbl test in the wrong

Re: [exim] round robin / avoid bounce messages - Resolved ?

2007-08-14 Thread Jeremy Harris
Knaupp, Thomas wrote: | I've set up two servers that act as backup MXs for | various domains. In times when spam flood is increasing | more and more, I tried to load balance them .. | | The MX-Records for the domains using this servers | is set round robin, i.e. | | IN MX 10

Re: [exim] Exim Timeout.. Mail Queue Backed Up.

2007-08-15 Thread Jeremy Harris
Andrew Rosolino wrote: So it tried to send the message for 5 minutes and then timedout and kept the message on the list? I am assuming it keeps trying to process these messages and wasteing 5 minutes on each one.. why doesnt it just delete them if they timeout. Because the target host might

Re: [exim] Exim Timeout.. Mail Queue Backed Up.

2007-08-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
Andrew Rosolino wrote: Yeah the problem is I have over 160 websites mass e-mailing their meembers. If a website with 50,000 members mass e-mail the first day there will be at least 10,000 in the queue by the next morning and then a site with 30,000 e-mails and it piles on sometimes like that.

Re: [exim] Fast insert into Exim's queue

2007-08-20 Thread Jeremy Harris
Chris Laif wrote: I wonder what's the best way to insert a large number (~ 5000) of emails into exim's queue (No, these are _not_ spam messages!). Each email will consist of customized content for the recipient and it is planned to use VERP. If it's a one-time 5000 you may as well talk SMTP

Re: [exim] Remote eximon

2007-09-04 Thread Jeremy Harris
Peter Thomassen wrote: is it possible to monitor a remote Exim installation using the Exim monitor? X is not installed on my mail box. Certainly; it's a Simple Matter of Networking. You'll need to a) get the X shipped off-system and b) get your DISPLAY environment set correctly on the mail

Re: [exim] No QUIT is spambot indicator

2007-09-08 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marc Perkel wrote: Basically most all good email servers are polite and do the quit. Most all spam bot server don't want to expend the time and bandwidth to be polite and that can be used in combination with other indicators to catch spam. The new 4.68 Exim is a major advancement with

Re: [exim] Todays possibilities to rate limit outgoing emails per host

2007-09-15 Thread Jeremy Harris
Lars Timmann wrote: Hi Exim-Users, I have the problem that one of our customers need the possibility to ratelimit the number outgoing emails on a per host basis. The receiving host blocks the customer if he sends more than 2 mails per second.

Re: [exim] Todays possibilities to rate limit outgoing emails per host

2007-09-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Jeremy Harris wrote: Lars Timmann wrote: I have the problem that one of our customers need the possibility to ratelimit the number outgoing emails on a per host basis. The receiving host blocks the customer if he sends more than 2 mails per second. http

Re: [exim] Blocking Users with No Reverse DNS

2007-11-06 Thread Jeremy Harris
Jim Pazarena wrote: 2007-09-11 08:42:47 no IP address found for host reverse.154.51.184.66.static.ldmi.com (during SMTP connection from [66.184.51.154]) [...] Can someone advise what I have configured to have generated this? Possibly host_lookup = * ? Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List

Re: [exim] Debugging router condition

2007-12-20 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marcin Krol wrote: Hello everyone, Is there any way to increase verbosity of debugging router condition? It's not enough in one complicated case I have - I need (incoming mail) router to skip one (outgoing) address and can't get it to work: I've been known to use such gross hacks as:

Re: [exim] Exim verify recipients not working

2007-12-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
A.smith wrote: We have had a complaint from a user that they are recieving a lot of spoofed undeliverable email messages, the user in question catches all email to unkown addresses for his domain. If you mean he has a catchall on his domain, feeding into his own mail - well, he's

[exim] ldap returned data format

2008-01-13 Thread Jeremy Harris
How should one deal with multi-valued attributes in ldap, where an attribute could contain a comma? The spec says If the attribute has multiple values, they are separated by commas. Actually I see comma, space - but while this is less likely to appear in an attribute value it still isn't

Re: [exim] ldap returned data format

2008-01-13 Thread Jeremy Harris
Phil Pennock wrote: Exim requires you to quote at the point of use, since different services require different quoting. So there are ${quote_foo:...} expansion operators for various foo. For Exim's own parsing, ${quote:...} is useful, for putting the string into double-quotes as needed.

Re: [exim] ldap returned data format

2008-01-15 Thread Jeremy Harris
Magnus Holmgren wrote: If a value can contain , I'm afraid you're out of luck. Either you make sure that no value contains , , perhaps by putting the space inside [ ] if it's in a regexp, or change the separator string in src/lookups/ldap.c line 683 and recompile Exim. Ah, thanks for the

Re: [exim] remote delivery fail bounce turning off

2008-02-24 Thread Jeremy Harris
Graeme Fowler wrote: the MX records aren't in RFC1918 space and so on Before I dive into processing my logs - is this a common case in the wild? Thanks, Jeremy -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use

Re: [exim] Regular expressions with $header_to?

2008-03-24 Thread Jeremy Harris
Robert Nicholson wrote: How can I differentiate b/w 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3. Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4. [EMAIL PROTECTED] without using is ie. exactly comparison I want to be able to canoncalize the address before the comparison. in the above I want

Re: [exim] ACL help needed to accept inbound emails from email gateway only

2008-03-24 Thread Jeremy Harris
Madan Thapa wrote: Hello, Please advise an ACL to accept inbound emails from email gateway ( one IP or a list of mail gateway IPs ) only for some domains, most likely at HELO stage Say for example: # I have a.com,b.com . z.com ( a number of domains on the

Re: [exim] Temporary error not treated as such

2008-03-25 Thread Jeremy Harris
Jon Schneider wrote: I just mailed a friend via the local squirrelmail and got an immediate bounce from what looks like a temporary error. The second line shows a 421 error from the remote system. (The extra stuff is my maildrop forwarding a copy to my gmail) Why is the 421 causing an

Re: [exim] HELO retries?

2008-03-27 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marc Perkel wrote: Most of what I'm seeing are spammers. Is there legit email that does this? Or is this just viruses? One retry isn't unexpected, if the first was EHLO and the second HELO. - Jeremy -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at

Re: [exim] emails split with multiple recipients

2008-04-07 Thread Jeremy Harris
Searcher wrote: I also applied a fix I found somewhere: defer message = only one recipient at a time condition = ${if def:acl_m0 {1}{0}} But not sure if it does anything useful $acl_m0 will only have something put into it if your config file puts something

Re: [exim] conditional dnslists

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Harris
Mohit Tewari wrote: dnslists = dnsbl.sorbs.net condition = ${if == {USE_RBL} {1}} We'd need a few more lines around that pair for context, but it's likely that you'd want them the other way around. Cheers, Jeremy -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ##

Re: [exim] Problems with manualroute

2008-05-17 Thread Jeremy Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: exim -bV Exim version 3.36 #1 built 11-Nov-2006 10:47:21 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002 Time you upgraded to a version-4 exim. Six years is forever, in internet time. Few people here will be able to help you with version 3. Cheers, Jeremy -- ##

Re: [exim] How to log the generated outgoing message-id?

2008-08-22 Thread Jeremy Harris
Ferenc Wagner wrote: Hi, For tracking email, I'd like to log the message-id generated by Exim for mail submitted by a local process. How could I achieve this? Look in the docs at http://exim.org for log_message and $message_id - Jeremy -- ## List details at

Re: [exim] quoting/escaping in map lists

2008-08-25 Thread Jeremy Harris
WJCarpenter wrote: ${map{a:b:c:d:e}{[$item]}} I'd like to construct a list where one of the items in the list is the 3-character string b:c. Is there a way to do it? I've tried various things like ${quote:b:c}, etc, with no joy. Something like ${sg{foo}{:}{::}} ? cf.

[exim] exilog query

2006-10-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
Does this error mean anything to anyone? Tom? DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near OPTIMIZE at character 1 at /usr/local/exilog/bin/../Exilog/exilog_sql.pm line 201. The routine in question looks like: sub _pgsql_sql_optimize { my $where = shift || nothing;

Re: [exim] exilog query

2006-10-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
Tom Kistner wrote: Jeremy Harris wrote: DBD::Pg::st execute failed: ERROR: parser: parse error at or near OPTIMIZE at character 1 at /usr/local/exilog/bin/../Exilog/exilog_sql.pm line 201. Funny we just had this issue discussed 3-4 weeks back. See http://www.exim.org/mail

Re: [exim] exilog query

2006-10-16 Thread Jeremy Harris
Jeremy Harris wrote: I'll post diffs once running. This seems to work fine: *** 196,202 sub _pgsql_sql_optimize { my $where = shift || nothing; ! my $sql = OPTIMIZE TABLE .$where; my $sh = $dbh-prepare($sql); $sh-execute; $sh-finish; --- 196,202 sub

Re: [exim] Exim and mailman

2006-10-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
Phillip Ryker wrote: ok, I changed to all brackets from braces as follows: mailman_router: driver = accept require_files = /virtual/${domain}/mailman/lists/${lc:$local_part}/config.pck local_part_suffix_optional local_part_suffix = -bounces : -bounces+* : \

[exim] Doc nits

2006-10-28 Thread Jeremy Harris
- The ratelimiting doc, http://exim.org/exim-html-4.62/doc/html/spec_html/ch39.html#SECTratelimiting says If the client is over the limit it will be subjected to counter-measures. Isn't this dependent on the use of the ratelimit in context in an ACL? - The ${run expansion item,

Re: [exim] Automatic Mail Redirection

2006-10-31 Thread Jeremy Harris
gascione wrote: Anybody? Insufficient question. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/

Re: [exim] * at end of logline

2006-11-02 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marten Lehmann wrote: What is the asterisk at the end of a logline for? 2006-11-02 22:39:22 1GfkHC-0007TK-Du = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=mailbox_cyrus T=mailbox_lmtp H=10.0.1.10 [10.0.1.10] 2006-11-02 22:39:22 1GfkBY-0005FL-Mr = [EMAIL PROTECTED] R=mailbox_cyrus T=mailbox_lmtp H=10.0.1.10

Re: [exim] Rate Limit Question

2006-11-02 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marc Perkel wrote: Here's the situation. I get a dictionary attack from an IP address. So what I want to do is count bad recipients so that every time I get a bad recitient from an IP address I add 1 to the count. In a separate ACL I want to look at the count and if it is greater than my

Re: [exim] HELO delays

2006-11-10 Thread Jeremy Harris
Marc Haber wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:12:25 +0800, W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But specifically NOT allowing pipelining (and enforcing sync) tosses off a whole 'nuther class of spambots. I have always thought that these were caught before PIPELINING was advertised? Not at

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