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

2006-02-02 Thread W B Hacker
Kenevel wrote: Marc Sherman wrote: Can you please resend with a clear explanation of what you are trying to achieve, I would like to take advantage of the VERP system of addressing to identify unavialable mailboxes, and capture any failure notifications in a local mailbox which, to be read

Re: [exim] Multiple smarthosts and archiving all emails

2006-02-03 Thread W B Hacker
Steve Cox wrote: Hi, I'm setting up an archiving system that will store any email entering or leaving the local network. Any 'forward all mail' options in the existing mail servers/relays do just that forward a copy to another mailbox - so all envelope details are lost. I want to be

Re: [exim] aliases /exim/ldap

2006-02-03 Thread W B Hacker
azzouz wrote: W B Hacker wrote: azzouz wrote: hi, I want to store aliases informations in ldap in order to view then from a client mail and eventualy to modify then. Is it possible ? Some have done it ? *trim* Could you give me some exemple concerning aliases management ? Works

Re: [exim] Delayed Delivery

2006-02-03 Thread W B Hacker
Edward Raymond Kryda wrote: I had a message that took around 19 hours to actually get delivered. Anyone have any ideas why? Here's the intitial log entry when it was recieved: Feb 2 07:45:20 sys16 exim[30853]: 2006-02-02 07:45:20 1F4dpu-00081d-2h = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=testuser P=local

Re: [exim] STARTTLS before EHLO?

2006-02-07 Thread W B Hacker
Dean Brooks wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 04:44:57AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: Marc Sherman wrote: This has come up before; if you're going to recommend to random list posters that they configure 587 for tls_on_connect, please warn them explicitly that your configuration is very non-standard

Re: [exim] STARTTLS before EHLO?

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Matthew Byng-Maddick wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:50:00AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: *SNIP* I know, let's all advocate overriding sane client defaults in everything we reply to. I mean, that wouldn't be confusing for new posters or people asking questions, would it? Given that most

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I made it like this but nothing changed condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} warnspam = nobody:true # condition = ${if {$message_size}{1M}} # condition = ${if {$message_size}{300K}} message = X-Spam_score:

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nigel Metheringham Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:29 PM To: Vahric MUHTARYAN Cc: 'W B Hacker'; exim-users@exim.org Subject: RE: [exim] condition problem On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 14:24 +0200, Vahric

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I don't want to make spam test if it's more then 300K http://www.exim.org/exim-html-4.60/doc/html/spec.html/ch40.html#SECTscanspam ass deny message = This message was classified as SPAM condition = ${if {$message_size}{10K}} spam = nobody I red this line

Re: [exim] condition problem

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: I want to scan mails for spam if their size is under 300K , İf mail size pass 300K I will not send mail and normal process will be .. ( I don't want to reject something !!! ) :) You mean scan the small ones and drop the big ones on the floor? The 'discard' verb is

Re: [exim] changing time for 25 to answer

2006-02-08 Thread W B Hacker
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 to the client, which may be dropping ident traffic at a

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] strange log entries: no IP address found for host smtp05.host.com (during SMTP connection from NULL)

2006-02-13 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Marc Sherman wrote: Here's a repost with excerpts from today's exim_mainlog file, un-edited: This entry is logged over 30,000 times per day in the exim_mainlog: 2005-12-28 09:36:50 no IP address found for host smtp05.dc2.safesecureweb.com (during SMTP

Re: [exim] 30 second wait for protocol timeout exceeded

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
Daniel Tiefnig wrote: Nigel Metheringham wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 16:36 +, Philip Hazel wrote: Do you think I should change the default to 5s? Personally, yes. I don't think there are many sites for whom that is both useful and they don't come back within 5 seconds. I'd vote

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
Sub Zero wrote: That policy is rather likely to land you on a blacklist yourself. How will using gmail/yahoo land you on a blacklist? The thinking of blocking even the postmaster address thinking they can use gmail/yahoo, akin to let them eat cake, that's of issue. If your system does

Re: [exim] messages in queue for 100d.

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
/m wrote: Anyone had experiences with heavily loaded boxes keeping stale messages in queue for 100d? What caused this to happen for you? Any information is appreciated :) Thanks! /m Is Exim still attempting to 'handle' the messages in question? If so, I would scrutunize: - the

Re: [exim] When to use dns block lists

2006-02-15 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: W B Hacker wrote: You may 'think it is OK..' but RFC's aside, mail to 'postmaster' is more often generated by a 'daemon', not a human, so the chance of it Not that I'd patronise blocking the postmaster address, but why do you think that? The postmaster address

Re: [exim] want to skip dspam router

2006-02-16 Thread W B Hacker
Brent Clark wrote: Hi all I would like to run something quickly among the list, just in case I have not thought something through. I have a router as so *trimmed* (lots of code..) If anyone would be so kind as to over look this and perhaps share with me as too how I can enhance on this,

Re: [exim] exim php shell_exec question

2006-02-16 Thread W B Hacker
Steffen Heil wrote: Hi $mailqueue = shell_exec(exim -bpc); exim: permission denied Any ideas how I could get round this? A way around this would be: install sudo, write the command above to a script, set root execution rights for the script to everyone, call sudo script from php. But I

Re: [exim] forwarding based on subject line.

2006-02-16 Thread W B Hacker
Servando Garcia wrote: Hello List I need to forward emails based on the subject line. I just started this job , today to be exact, so I am not completely sure of the configuration of the server. I am sure that the mail application is Exim and that my new employer wants to forward emails

Re: [exim] Forwarding mail onto Junk for no reason

2006-02-17 Thread W B Hacker
Chris Bolton wrote: Peter Bowyer wrote: On 17/02/06, Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 09:29 +, Chris Bolton wrote: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.4 required=7.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,---^^^---

Re: [exim] Monitoring sent emails of a user

2006-02-17 Thread W B Hacker
Jason Meers wrote: Sub Zero wrote: Hi, My boss today asked me to mirror a newcomers all sent emails to his mailbox. How do I do this in exim 4.52? Awaiting your answers. Hi all, I've been looking at this for the past two weeks as I also need to add an archive solution to my existing

Re: [exim] Re: no reply to STARTTLS

2006-02-17 Thread W B Hacker
Jürgen Herz wrote: Sven Hartge wrote: Exim advertises STARTTLS in the EHLO response but upon sending the STARTTLS command, nothing happens, it looks some client input is expected. Not if connected via client nor by hand (telnet). You should see a 220 TLS go ahead if you use telnet to

Re: [exim] tls compression

2006-02-17 Thread W B Hacker
Yves Goergen wrote: On 16.02.2006 21:09 (+0100), David Saez Padros wrote: does exim use compression on tls connections ? Isn't compression an elementary part of encryption, to avoid data redundancy and make cracking the encryption unnecessarily easy? As used in SSL/TLS and many other

Re: [exim] Re: no reply to STARTTLS

2006-02-17 Thread W B Hacker
Sven Hartge wrote: Um 04:43 Uhr am 18.02.06 schrieb W B Hacker: With fewer than ten servers running Exim, I cannot say for *sure*, but with OpenSSL on FreeBSD this has never been an issue for us with Exim, Qmail, Courier-MTA, DBMail, several IMAP/POP daemons, or anything else that uses SSL

Re: [exim] Monitoring sent emails of a user

2006-02-19 Thread W B Hacker
Jason Meers wrote: Hi all, here are my thoughts on an exim-archive howto I propose writing. I intend this to be a starting point for people who need help setting this up, not the definitive example and reference. 1) System filters seem to be just as good as any other method for copying

Re: [exim] Running exim as a user with no username

2006-02-20 Thread W B Hacker
Mike Cardwell wrote: * on the Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 03:12:17PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: On Saturday 28 January 2006 11:13, Mike Cardwell wrote: That would probably work yes. Sounds like more of a nasty hack than I was wanting to go with though. Another way of doing this would be to

Re: [exim] Running exim as a user with no username

2006-02-20 Thread W B Hacker
Mike Cardwell wrote: * on the Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:27:04AM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: I understand the solution, but I was puzzled by your OP as to why you wanted to do this at all (w/r Exim's EUID) - and am still puzzled. Just as background, in my own installations Exim, SA, ClamAV

Re: [exim] Safe dnslist

2006-02-23 Thread W B Hacker
Stian Jordet wrote: Hi, I was just wondering, what's the safest dns blacklist? I know they're never fool-proof, but what lists are people on the list using to deny mail? Best regards, Stian If there was one always-best answer to that question, there would probably be far fewer

Re: [exim] alias address composition

2006-02-23 Thread W B Hacker
Jim Pazarena wrote: is there anywhere (an RFC for example) which indicates what letters/numbers/symbols are acceptable to be used within an alias email name? things like joe+suzy@ steveanny@ I for one refuse : and , which I use as delimiters, and the pipes ^ | but is there a

Re: [exim] SA causing Exim 421 timeout/frozen messages

2006-02-28 Thread W B Hacker
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of W B Hacker Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 6:13 PM To: exim-users@exim.org Subject: Re: [exim] SA causing Exim 421 timeout/frozen messages Bradley Walker wrote: To answer your question about how Exim/SA is setup, currently it's used via router

Re: [exim] SA causing Exim 421 timeout/frozen messages

2006-02-28 Thread W B Hacker
Peter Bowyer wrote: On 28/02/06, Bradley Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I use an exim.conf file that is pre-created/released by the webhosting control panel software makers and also created by Jeff Lasman who *trim* It's always difficult to give useful support to users of the

Re: [exim] domains contion in DATA ACL

2006-03-01 Thread W B Hacker
Viktor Vislobokov wrote: Hi! I run into problem in Exim 4.60 In exim.conf: ... domainlist antivirus_domains = lsearch;/etc/exim/antivirus_domains acl_smtp_data = acl_check_data av_scanner = clamd:/tmp/clamd ... acl_check_data: denydomains = +antivirus_domains message =

Re: [exim] Some spam domains for people

2006-03-01 Thread W B Hacker
Nigel Metheringham wrote: I would like to point out that if you want a reliable consistent simple list of potential spammers, guaranteed to have absolutely no, zero, nada false negatives, then you should go with the following list:- * It has the additional benefits of no

Re: [exim] Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: timed out

2006-03-01 Thread W B Hacker
Cengiz Yazgan wrote: I am getting this error message Failed to get write lock for /var/spool/exim/db/wait-remote_smtp.lockfile: timed out What does it mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] [/var/log]# exim -bV Exim version 4.52 #1 built 28-Jul-2005 08:17:04 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2005

Re: [exim] fast mirrors?

2006-03-02 Thread W B Hacker
Angel Tsankov wrote: I've been downloading exim for 2-3 hours now at less than 1KB/s. Are all mirrors that slow? Definitely not the mirrors, and probably not even the bandwidth via Sofia, Bulgaria. Stop and send 100 pings at each of several of the servers you are trying to download

Re: [exim] greylisting builtin to exim?

2006-03-03 Thread W B Hacker
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Has there been any discussion of patching exim to add greylisting support (so outside programs are not needed)? There has been a good deal of discussion - most of it concentrated about a year back. I'm not the 'oracle' but I did not see any trend toward incorporating

Re: [exim] Protesting AOL pay to send email plan

2006-03-04 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: As many of you know AOL is contemplating a pay to send email plan. *trim* Let's be a bit more precise. - all 'free' mail has a cost to send or receive, somewhere, born by somebody, usually as part of an ISP service fee, or staff, student, organization membership costs.

Re: [exim] exim listen only on some IP's

2006-03-04 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: Marc Haber wrote: For a mailing list manager, a 550 is a bounce. If you reject too much spam (which easily happens on lists with a low S/N ratio), you'll get unsubscribed. That might be true for some, but I know at least one (mlmmj) which sends out a probe and

Re: [exim] Protesting AOL pay to send email plan

2006-03-04 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: I don't allways agree with EFFs position on things - especially spam. But the payment of money isn't a good way to distinguish real email from spam. The payment of money to the *recipeint* might be ;-) - but to skip-over spam checks? Isn't bribing a policeman a crime in

Re: [exim] Protesting AOL pay to send email plan

2006-03-04 Thread W B Hacker
Richard Clayton wrote: *trimmed* Then, for consistency and the proper impact, you should be arranging to do the same with Yahoo! and researching how to distinguish the clients of Habeas and Ironport's Bonded Sender programme (I believe MSN and Hotmail are signed up) ... and doubtless some

Re: [exim] Lots of incomplete transaction (RSET) messages appearing

2006-03-07 Thread W B Hacker
Richard Hobbs wrote: Hello, Our mail server has been up for 259 days now, and in the last few days we have started to see emails go missing. They leave the mail client, and the client thinks the email has been sent. However, quite a few of the emails are never being received. Our logs show

Re: [exim] Loopy idea: tunnel SMTP through HTTP

2006-03-15 Thread W B Hacker
Greg Ward wrote: *trimmed* So ... why not tunnel SMTP through HTTP? IOW, when we *want* to do Presuming you, or another staff member on your team have an American Express, Visa, MC, or online banking or brokerage account, several https-based examples should already be familiar to you.

Re: [exim] missing email problem

2006-03-16 Thread W B Hacker
John W. Baxter wrote: *trimmed* Our local (and rather small) telephone directory reveals a Sexauer and Hmmm We're lucky to even get a coffee-break here Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please

Re: [exim] maildir and filters

2006-03-21 Thread W B Hacker
Dave Hartburn wrote: Can anyone offer some advice on a maildir and filter problem? The major issue is that this problem concerns my private e-mail on a hosted server, rather than anything I administer for work. So, I am limited to what I can do. The hosters have recently changed to the courier

Re: [exim] O_NONBLOCK / ``421 lost input connection'' in exim 4.60

2006-03-22 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: Further inspection with ktrace indicates that something was setting O_NONBLOCK on the input stream (smtp_in in smtp_in.c); the first read from the stream will then typically fail with -EAGAIN, which is treated as an error. As

Re: [exim] O_NONBLOCK / ``421 lost input connection'' in exim 4.60

2006-03-22 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Chris Lightfoot wrote: I believe it's because exim links against libc_r (because it is linked against libcrypto, which itself is linked against libc_r). This does not seem to be a problem on FreeBSD 4.10, which is where I ran my tests, which do

Re: [exim] HELO verification

2006-03-24 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: Quoting Jakob Hirsch: condition = ${if !match {$sender_helo_name} {\N^([a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$\N}} This should have been case-insensitive: condition = ${if !match {$sender_helo_name} {\N^(?i)([a-z0-9][-_a-z0-9]*\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$\N}} I have it now running

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

2006-03-31 Thread W B Hacker
Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-03-31, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you should be sending your mail via your work's authenticated SMTP relay (and yes, I'm aware they probably don't run one :). This is a requirement anyway if your work published SPF records for the domain. To do

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

2006-03-31 Thread W B Hacker
Adam Funk wrote: On 2006-03-31, W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *trim* If you weren't running a 'home Exim' at all, but simply had multiple accounts set up in your MUA, each account would seek to I've also got mail coming from cron jobs, logcheck and scripts, all of which expect

Re: [exim] Speed for authenticated users

2006-04-01 Thread W B Hacker
Christopher Molnar wrote: I have a question - is there anyway to speed up the transmission of mail by authenticated users? I want the users to be able to log in and send mail extremely quickly. I don't remember seeing the delay that I am seeing now when we where using procmail. Can received mail

Re: [exim] Exim + Courier and archiving incoming/outgoing mail

2006-04-02 Thread W B Hacker
Alltimed wrote: Hello I have a customer who wants to archive all of their incoming and outgoing mail into an IMAP Maildir folder (say .archive-in and .archive-out). He is familiar with Sieve from a previous host and I can't say I know anytihng about Sieve or Exim filtering. My question is this.

Re: [exim] replacing headers in ACLs

2006-04-02 Thread W B Hacker
Stanislaw Halik wrote: hello, i'm trying to replace headers in the ACLs, so i could hint SpamAssassin (through exiscan-acl) about the status of callout verification. however, 'warn message' adds a new header instead of replacing the existing one. is replacing headers ACL-time possible or is

Re: [exim] File Access Error - Stumped

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
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 Here's the router that's

Re: [exim] mail to myself is rejected

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Chris Purves wrote: *trimmed* My server (as well as myself) is located in Shanghai. - On an 'Allocated Portable' IP - In a dynamically-allocated IP netblock often denied MTA connection by potential peers if not firewalled by the netblock owner, the PRC Government, or some combination of

Re: [exim] replacing headers in ACLs

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Stanislaw Halik wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006, W B Hacker wrote: i'm trying to replace headers in the ACLs, so i could hint SpamAssassin (through exiscan-acl) about the status of callout verification. however, 'warn message' adds a new header instead of replacing the existing one. is replacing

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: OK - here's what I want to do. I want to forward a copy of selected email to another email address, but only if the email address that I want to forward to is a valid working email address. So - I need to do a callout and check if the email address is valid before I forward

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: *trimmed* the email address I need to verify isn't either the sender or the recipient. I need to verify and arbetrary address that I generate to see if it exists Pardon my ignorance, but if you are the one who 'generates' it and it is truly 'arbitrary' then WOGGE would

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: W B Hacker wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: *trimmed* the email address I need to verify isn't either the sender or the recipient. I need to verify and arbetrary address that I generate to see if it exists Pardon my ignorance, but if you are the one who 'generates

Re: [exim] Brain Teaser - how would you do this?

2006-04-03 Thread W B Hacker
Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, W B Hacker wrote: require verify = recipient/callout Well - yes, if on the same server No, callouts work across servers. We use this on the MXs in Cambridge to verify addresses in departments such as the Computer Lab that run their own email

[exim] Re: negation is not allowed with acl

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Haber wrote: Debian uses a sub-ACL to exclude sender e-mail addresses and sender IP addresses from a number of ACL checks, and the notation of !acl has been a convenient and intuitive way of specifying this behavior. Wasn't aware of that capability. Do see the value. If it were my

Re: [exim] Problem Owner, group or Mode of Exim4

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Haber wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:14:03 +0100, Jason Meers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Usual Permissions required on Exim Binaries owner: root, group: root, permissions: 4755 (suid root) Correct for /usr/sbin/exim4. The other exim related binaries are root:root 755 as usual. Usual

Re: [exim] exiscan-acl, $spam_report

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
Stanislaw Halik wrote: hello, exiscan-acl works really well, except for one thing i'm not able to figure out. $spam_report contains a large, verbose message with excerpts from bodies and individual rule scoring. is there a way to only fetch the rule scoring part or is matching it by a regexp

Re: [exim] mail to myself is rejected

2006-04-04 Thread W B Hacker
an MTA without 'true' fixed-IP, DNS and PTR records any longer. Fewer and fewer MTA will accept such connections, let alone the traffic, and 'EasyDNS' operators are often blacklisted along with dynamic IP blocks. HTH Bill W B Hacker wrote: Chris Purves wrote: *trimmed* My server

Re: [exim] Re: FreeBSD pipe_transport_setup build failure

2006-04-07 Thread W B Hacker
Jochen Knuth wrote: Hi, Tony Finch wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Philip Hazel wrote: On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Phil Pennock wrote: -lutil should be correct. Folks, please tell me whether this should be a permanent fix or not. Yes, that should be present. I don't know why it worked on sesame

Re: [exim] Load Reduction Trick

2006-04-08 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: Working on load reduction tricks and increased spam rejection. It's sort of a greylisting trick for TLDs that tend to be mostly all spam. The idea being that the initial defer will get rid of a lot of spam that never retries after one defer where real email will retry and

Re: [exim] SMTP timeout sending mail to gmail

2006-04-09 Thread W B Hacker
Avleen Vig wrote: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 04:00:41PM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: I suspect you are correct, and tcpdump may show it clearly. I don't think that should be the case. If Daniel is sending packets larger than 400 bytes, it is his OWN router that should complain that the packets

Re: [exim] SMTP timeout sending mail to gmail

2006-04-09 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Sherman wrote: Avleen Vig wrote: I don't think that should be the case. If Daniel is sending packets larger than 400 bytes, it is his OWN router that should complain that the packets are too large before they leave the network. By the time they get to the gmail servers, they should

Re: [exim] SMTP timeout sending mail to gmail [Getting way OT]

2006-04-09 Thread W B Hacker
Daniel Webb wrote: *trimmed* Sure enough, the tcpdump of a session shows that the packets are close to 576 bytes. *trimmed* I do have QoS with VoIP packets given highest priority, but given my JMNSHO, but trying to run an MTA *and* VoIP on the same slender resources you describe,

Re: [exim] Question for old-timers: mailbox sorting

2006-04-11 Thread W B Hacker
Philip Hazel wrote: I have been asked for evidence of when local part suffixes were first used for sorting messages into different folders (for a patent issue). Restricted to internet and smtp? Or would snail-mail, teletype distribution, phone numbers, BBS services, SNA, and such help

Re: [exim] sqlrelay

2006-04-11 Thread W B Hacker
Alexandre Busquets wrote: Can exim4 works with sqlrelay. 'Yes, but' We use PostgreSQL extensively for Exim virtual-domain configuration, but do not recommend it to others as anything close to an optimal methodology. SQLRelay - has value for many things where very heavy DB access is

Re: [exim] sqlrelay

2006-04-12 Thread W B Hacker
Alexandre Busquets wrote: I would test with sqlite. wich is the string lookup Ej: ${lookup mysql{ What has better performance with exim, mysql o postgresql From decades of experience, we tend to prefer a proper Relational Database Engine for SQL 'heavy' or general-purpose use,

Re: [exim] Exim4 and clamav

2006-04-12 Thread W B Hacker
Brent Clark wrote: Lasse Birnbaum Jensen wrote: jkfloris wrote: Hello, I'm using Exim 4, Clamav, fetchmail, Spamassassin and Courier-Imap as my mail server everything is working fine, so that's not the issue. But I want Clamav to ad a line to every email body or header. For example:

Re: [exim] compile errors on 4.61 .. 2nd try

2006-04-12 Thread W B Hacker
Jim Pazarena wrote: first message had a silly typo; sorry Dunno if this fits, but problems w/r pipe transport build were discused very recently under thread: FreeBSD pipe_transport_setup build failure Wherein the flag -lutil seemed to have (sometimes) been required. FWIW,

Re: [exim] SMTP error: subscribers are not permitted to directly connect to this mail server

2006-04-12 Thread W B Hacker
Menekhem M. Zviman wrote: Hello, My ISP, comcast.net, does not allow direct connection to their mail server. Nor should they. Below is a log entry of an attempt to send mail via SquirrlMail - Courier IMAP - Exim. In all probability, comcast.net expect a 'subscriber' to connect from an

[exim] setsockopt(SO_KEEPALIVE)

2006-04-14 Thread W B Hacker
I have a *vague* recollection of having seen a post on this sort of error - but am not even usre it was on the Exim list: 2006-04-14 12:21:14 SMTP connection from [220.194.14.66]:16860 I=[203.194.153.81]:25 (TCP/IP connection count = 2) 2006-04-14 12:21:21 setsockopt(SO_KEEPALIVE) on

Re: [exim] setsockopt(SO_KEEPALIVE)

2006-04-14 Thread W B Hacker
David Restall - System Administrator wrote: Hi Bill, In October 2005 there was a thread 'setsockopt(SO_KEEPALIVE) - is this about Exim?' but it doesn't appear to have been concluded apart from updating exim. TTFN D Thanks! This is the only box still at 4.54. Will see if 4.6X fixes it.

Re: [exim] Errors

2006-04-14 Thread W B Hacker
Alexandre Busquets wrote: I have installed exim 4.60 (Compiled myself). And in my logs i have two errors 2006-04-14 14:39:54 1FUNac-0002Q0-8z malware acl condition: clamd: ClamAV returned /var/spool/exim/scan/1FUNac-0002Q0-8z: lstat() failed. ERROR Are you using IP or a unix socket to

Re: [exim] Errors

2006-04-14 Thread W B Hacker
never tried that. Bill On Fri, April 14, 2006 08:51, W B Hacker wrote: Alexandre Busquets wrote: I have installed exim 4.60 (Compiled myself). And in my logs i have two errors 2006-04-14 14:39:54 1FUNac-0002Q0-8z malware acl condition: clamd: ClamAV returned /var/spool/exim/scan/1FUNac

Re: [exim] Exim is listening on port 80

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Olivier Bonvalet wrote: Hello, I have a problem : one exim is listening on port 80, so Apache can't restart. I really don't know why it do this, but it is not the first time... Of course, there is not any reference to 80, http or www in the exim4 conf... :S What I see : w30100:~# netstat

Re: [exim] lock file

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Alex wrote: if Exim needs to delibery and email and i'm in a pop session, how exim do this? It does it very well. ;-) Or - to be more technical - it doesn't know or care if you are logged-in and receiving. It has no connection to the POP or IMAP daemons, save that of shared storage in

Re: [exim] lock file

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
deiveries to more than one type. You are only 'locked in' if you believe you are. Bill 2006/4/15, W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alex wrote: if Exim needs to delibery and email and i'm in a pop session, how exim do this? It does it very well. ;-) Or - to be more technical

Re: [exim] lock file

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Alex wrote: I would like use maildir, but i'm on migration from cobalt 550, now all users are using openwebmail. And a good choise of Openwebmail is: All preferences,... is stored in the user home. I tested some webmail script (squirrelmail), but the preferences,.. is stored in a http dir, with

Re: [exim] Exim is listening on port 80

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 14:31:18 +0800, W B Hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'exim4' implies Debian, so best to ask on the debian-speciifc Exim list. Why? This doesn't look like a Debian-specific issue, and I fail to see what the Debian maintainers could have broken to make

[exim] Tools for SQL export to CDB

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Folks, Does anyone have experience with / a recommendation for.. .. tools or settings for exporting records from an SQL DB to a CDB? (or similar Berkeley or GDB, even?) The records in question would contain: - UID - PWD, crypt and/or plain - aliases - virtual domain.tld - mailstore

Re: [exim] lock file

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Alex wrote: Now i have exim 4.60+ dovecot+sqlite3 Exim 4.61_+, Dovecot, PostgreSQL here. The doubts are: work with virtual users or no. You now have the tools to work more easily with virtual than shell... *especially* if you need to support multiple domains. That said, so long as it

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

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
MrTheo wrote: Hi, I'm currently setting up a mail system on a linux server that currently hosts 3 domains. Every domain has its specific mail addresses, and all mail users have a local user account with mail directories in their home dirs. Everything is working fine as it is and people can

[exim] spam_score_int signed or unsigned?

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Can anyone confirm that spam_score_int is (and is intended to be) an *unsigned* integer? Or not? Bill -- ## 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] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Marc Perkel wrote: Trying a load reduction trick which I will share if it works. Running into a little snag and this is probably simple but I need to get user mail to run iptables that requires user root to run, and without havinf to use a password to do it. 1) install 'monitord' and run it

[exim] Re: Tools for SQL export to CDB

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Bill Hacker wrote: Folks, Does anyone have experience with / a recommendation for.. .. tools or settings for exporting records from an SQL DB to a CDB? (or similar Berkeley or GDB, even?) Clarification: - to multiple, 'bespoke' CDB/DB, GDB, each with only the essentials for its purpose.

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Bill Hacker wrote: John Hall wrote: On 4/15/06, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying a load reduction trick which I will share if it works. Running into a little snag and this is probably simple but I need to get user mail to run iptables that requires user root to run, and

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
John Hall wrote: On 4/15/06, Marc Perkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I'm mail and I run sudo it asks for the root password. What do I need to add to get around that? See NOPASSWD in man sudoers. regards, John ?? Is that a good idea? I think I am beginning to see why some folks say

Re: [exim] spam_score_int signed or unsigned?

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: Quoting W B Hacker: Can anyone confirm that spam_score_int is (and is intended to be) an *unsigned* integer? Of course not, many scores are negative, like your mail: X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Oh, and please don't steal threads (last point of MailingListEtiquette

Re: [exim] spam_score_int signed or unsigned?

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: Quoting W B Hacker: Steal threads *how* ?? I started a new one. No, you replied to a message in an existing thread, otherwise there would have been no References and In-Reply-To header. Ah so - not sure how I missed that - thanks. Still not sure where

Re: [exim] linefeeds in check_data acl

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Marten Lehmann wrote: Hello, looking at spool_mbox.c, I'd say no (apart from changing the code). Too bad. But why would you want to do that? Well, as I explained in my first email, there are different virus scanners and spamfilters that just don't work with solely LF-sequences.

Re: [exim] spam_score_int signed or unsigned?

2006-04-15 Thread W B Hacker
Jakob Hirsch wrote: Quoting W B Hacker: Steal threads *how* ?? I started a new one. No, you replied to a message in an existing thread, otherwise there would have been no References and In-Reply-To header. Still not sure where the negative spam score is coming from BTW low bayes

Re: [exim] Re: spam_score_int signed or unsigned?

2006-04-16 Thread W B Hacker
Andreas Metzler wrote: Jakob Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting W B Hacker: Steal threads *how* ?? I started a new one. No, you replied to a message in an existing thread, otherwise there would have been no References and In-Reply-To header. Which will cause it to appear as part

Re: [exim] sudo - iptables trick

2006-04-16 Thread W B Hacker
Tom Kistner wrote: Marc Perkel wrote: Basicly my idea is that when a dictionary tack occurs I want to block the IP address for a short period of time as a load reduction trick with the chain being cleared every few minutes. I've been doing this for a few months with very good results. Not

Re: [exim] Tools for SQL export to CDB

2006-04-17 Thread W B Hacker
David Saez Padros wrote: Hi !! If you have PHP installed with support for al db types you use you could use it's CLI mode version to make a script to do that. Does anyone have experience with / a recommendation for.. .. tools or settings for exporting records from an SQL DB to a CDB? (or

Re: [exim] Tools for SQL export to CDB

2006-04-17 Thread W B Hacker
David Saez Padros wrote: Hi !! It's not a matter of reinventing anything, this i just a docen lines of code so it will be easier to code it in your preferred language than searching, installing and learning a new program. Sorry - NFW PHP or its libs or structures ever get near one of my

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