[xmail] Re: timetest ...

2003-11-04 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 19.08 01/11/03 -0800, you wrote: I have put this test program for the time thingy. Could ppl having troubles with incorrect rotation times pls run it? I'm running XMail 1.17 on WinNT 4.0 SP6a. Here's the timetest output: ** From Main ** time = Mon Nov 03 18:39:04 2003 timezone = -3600

[xmail] Problem sending to user@POP3server.address

2003-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, I've met several delivery problems like this: email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] machine.domain runs a POP3 server but no SMTP server MX records for machine.domain point to smtpserver.domain XMail (1.17, WinNT 4) tries to deliver to machine.domain rather than smtpserver.domain,

[xmail] Re: Problem sending to user@POP3server.address

2003-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: machine.domain runs a POP3 server but no SMTP server MX records for machine.domain point to smtpserver.domain XMail (1.17, WinNT 4) tries to deliver to machine.domain rather than smtpserver.domain [...] If you suspect a DNS problem, you may try DNS queries for,

[xmail] Re: Problem sending to user@POP3server.address

2003-11-28 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: Your problem is that MX records cannot point to CNAMEs and Davide has adhered to the RFC. Well, I'm not a DNS expert but I would say that in this case MX do not point to CNAME: platos, vasos and rediris are not CNAME, or I get something wrong? gugu.usal.es. 7125IN

[xmail] Re: SMTP Dialog Filter Hooks

2004-02-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Harald Schneider wrote: is there a chance to see SMTP dialog filter hooks in the next release? Hooks after each SMTP command and after each data line would be a nice thing, e.g.: So a script could also do anti spam and anti virus checking on the

[xmail] Re: CutMapsList prior to AuthSMTP-POP3

2004-02-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: Users cannot send email. The server (XMail-1.17) deny connection because client IP address is in=20 list.dsbl.org. Is there a way to permit relay, bypassing CutMapsList if user has been authenticated with AuthSMTP-POP3 ? The doc for [CustMapsList] says:

[xmail] Re: attachment filtering

2004-02-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: Besides MimeFilter, is anyone aware of a filter to block certain file = attachments such as .dll, .wsh, .bat, .pif and .exe?? For Win32 there is a VB script by Michal 'Altair' Valasek at http://software.altaircom.net/software/xmail-flavs.aspx I've been running it - with very minor

[xmail] Re: DNS again?

2004-02-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: Maybe you did not set the DNS-Smarthost in server.tab to the DNS-Servers used by the System resolver. No, I did'nt. Is it always necessary for XMail to work properly? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to

[xmail] Re: DNS again?

2004-02-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: Try 1.18: http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.18.tar.gz Sorry, no compiler (running on M$ Win32) :-| Ciao, Francesco Oops, I forgot the disclaimer: M$ does not mean hatred, just that a compiler does not ship with Windows at the same price as XMail ... - To unsubscribe from this

[xmail] Re: smtp.ipprop.tab

2004-03-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: About spam problem, some days ago, I changed my server.tab configuration = in this way: SMTP-RDNSCheck 1 CheckMailerDomain 1 Now, I have also this line: 213.140.2.0/24 WhiteList=1 but in smtp log file I read this line: telsey.it 213.140.2.54 2004-03-02

[xmail] AV notifications are bad

2004-03-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: I am personally getting fed up with those 'you have a virus' mails. So am I. I am now starting to block those warnings. If and when I set up a content-based spam filter, I'll surely add AV notifications to the list of things to be trashed. BTW, Fridrik Skulason - the author of

[xmail] Re: filter logics

2004-03-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 08.08 24/03/04 -0800, you wrote: I'm having a second thought about this. Maybe messages to mailing lists shouldn't be scanned, since they will be trapped later on by either IO or OUT filters. Uhmmm ... Oh, they should: if virus found the message is trashed once for all with no need to repeat

[xmail] Re: Log timestamp anomally

2004-04-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.49 02/04/04 +1000, you wrote: On the 28th March at 3am Daylight saving ended here, reverting back to 2am. Below is a list of my log directory. You will see that the logs have been happily ending in . Then log entries up until 3am are in log files ending in , then all entries after

[xmail] Re: log filenames

2004-04-05 Thread Francesco Vertova
You wrote: Can someone tell me the logic in which last four digits are generated? I see the following ones 0100, and the current ones 2300. Running 1.17 on Win2k. In theory, they should always end in and rotate daily unless you set a shorter rotation time with -Mr (I think)

[xmail] Re: filter.{pre|post}-data.tab

2004-05-13 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.46 13/05/04 -0400, you wrote: I've noticed that, when a message is rejected by filter.pre-data.tab or filter.post-data.tab, no log entry is made in the SMTP logs. It might be a good idea to add a log entry there, so that log review can see that (why) a message was rejected... I agree: a

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected - Can't seem to find the problem.

2004-05-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.11 12/05/04 -0500, you wrote: Why Xmail decided to use the A record from the next DNS it was able to talk with is beyond me. My dns reports MX information for bioenergy.com as Non-authoritative. It seems - I've seen this other times - that in such a case the XMail internal resolver

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected?

2004-04-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.20 27/04/04 +, you wrote: 5 emails I just received (from the XMail Discussion group) are in a Mail loop. This may seems a stupid question but how do I fix this? Someone with a screwed up MS SMTPSVC mailserver is re-injecting old messages into the list. The original messages were

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected?

2004-04-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.43 27/04/04 +, you wrote: Yeah I noticed those to. So these messages are as good as junk? Yep. Unless you want to keep them to write an ad hoc filter ... Someone with a screwed up MS SMTPSVC mailserver is re-injecting old messages into the list. The original messages were posted

[xmail] Re: Mail loop detected?

2004-04-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 09.11 27/04/04 -0500, you wrote: Just for clarity, how would this happen? I thought a mailloop would only effect that mailserver??? Confused... XMail defines a mail loop as a message with more than (by default 16) Received: headers. It counts these headers and does not try to detect if a

[xmail] Re: SMTP filter thoughts

2004-04-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.49 27/04/04 +0200, you wrote: I don't want a script that extracts the mail and then runs the command line scanner on the the directory. or do you know command line scanners that can read mail formats and extract them? F-PROT for DOS - and, I think, all other versions - can read the @@FILE

[xmail] Re: 1.19-pre05 (Unix and Win32) ...

2004-05-23 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.58 22/05/04 -0700, you wrote: I made 1.19-pre05 for Unix (source) and Win32 (source and binaries): http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.19-pre05.tar.gz http://www.xmailserver.org/xmail-1.19-pre05.win32bin.zip I'd like to receive reports from all the architectures XMail runs on, that on 1.19

[xmail] Re: 1.19-pre05 (Unix and Win32) ...

2004-05-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.39 23/05/04 -0700, you wrote: (I need to escape @@FROM b/c the Windows VBS interpreter sees everything beginning with // - including a malformed MAIL FROM address - as an argument to itself rather than to the script ...). If you have: myexe.exe @@FROM@@FROM@@FROM

[xmail] Re: Log files fields meanings

2004-05-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.02 25/05/04 +0200, you wrote: where can I find the meanings of all the fields in xmail log files? Try here: http://xmail.eye-catcher.com/products/XMail/LogFiles/index.asp Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[xmail] New file naming convention?

2004-05-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, for those who have not looked at the headers of this msg: 1.19-pre06 has been up and running for a day on my Windows NT box :-) I noticed that message files are no longer named stime.pid.hostname but stime.pid.hexdigit.hostname. What's that additional hex digit for? (I also noticed

[xmail] Re: XMail Filter @@MACROS

2004-05-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.15 28/05/04 -1000, you wrote: I think it would be neat to allow replacement anywhere in an argment, so you could write something like: /some/path/myfilter.pl rcpt=@@RCPTmsg=@@FILEfrom=@@FROM and have the replacements done. Then, in this example, you could parse a single argument like a

[xmail] Re: Special character problem?

2004-08-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 09.55 02/08/04 +0200, you wrote: I received a complained where people could not reply to a message they =3D received because the reply field seemed empty in their mail client. =3D Appearently the people who sent these mails have special characters in =3D their names like 'L=3DE9on'. If I look

[xmail] Re: SMTP Log desc

2004-08-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 01.08 06/08/04 +0200, you wrote: I'm looking for a smtp log file description. I need to give a name to each column of data. Found nothing in doc. Any help ? Thanks. Try here: http://xmail.eye-catcher.com/products/XMail/LogFiles/index.asp Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[xmail] Re: Block (some) attachments

2004-10-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 13.51 11/10/04 +0200, you wrote: Hi all, What's the easiest way to reject mail that contains exe, pif and vbs and received on XMAIL 1.20 (windows)? I've been running a modified version of Michail Altair Valasek's FLAVS for a year (the link to the original version can be found on the XMail

[xmail] Re: Block (some) attachments

2004-10-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.24 11/10/04 +0200, you wrote: Francesco hi, This looks like exactly what I need, but although xmail process the filter, the bad attachment still delivers. I tried changing the error code (from 97 to 4), but it didn't work either (message was still delivered. Can you help me getting it

[xmail] Re: Block (some) attachments

2004-10-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.12 11/10/04 +0200, you wrote: Thank you Francesco, It indeed worked. Can you tell me what's the different between filters*.tabs? I want to use the fastest attachment check. No other check (AV, content) is used. Shouldn't I use the filters.in or global filters file? In my own view, the best

[xmail] Re: Perl filters on Windows

2004-11-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.52 01/11/04 -0500, you wrote: If I wan to run a perl script (on Windows)should the command be: c:\perl\bin\perl.exe[TAB]MyFilter.pl[TAB]@@FILE... or c:\perl\bin\perl.exe MyFilter.pl[TAB]@@FILE... for some reason following line doesn't work: MyFilter.pl[TAB]@@FILE... even though .pl is

[xmail] Re: Abemus Papam ...

2005-01-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.59 10/01/05 +1100, you wrote: Thanks Davide, Would you believe Google can't translate Abemus Papam There are numerous google hits, but I have been unable to workout what you said - only I think it is related to Finally Could you enlighten the non Italian speaking world? It isn't

[xmail] Syntax questions

2005-02-01 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, current XMail (1.21) accepts addresses such as real name [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tries to deliver to address], which eventually results in a DNS failure) or 'real name' [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tries to deliver to address, which eventually results in a user unknown from address). Is this correct?

[xmail] Re: MAIL FROM: Syntax

2005-02-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.06 17/02/05 +0100, you wrote: What's a clear response ;-) Thanks Chris ;-) What is the new crypto algo used here ? Didn't pass any crack here ... = ;-) Francis -Message d'origine- De : Chris L. Franklin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoy=E9 : jeudi 17 f=E9vrier 2005 14:30 =C0 :

[xmail] Re: name of xmail log files is wrong

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 07.55 28/03/05 +0200, you wrote: I use 1.21 As I tought today the logs are fine. But we could think about next change... I've been using XMail since version 1.17, first on NT4 then on Win2K (always with the latest service pack) and I've always observed this behaviour at daylight saving time

[xmail] Re: anti-spam DNS MX Record Lookup

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.32 28/03/05 -0800, you wrote: Hi all - Does anyone know of a way, or have a filter written to, do a lookup of the domain in the from field and/or the return field of an email and check that it has a valid MX record as a spam deterrent using XMail? At least on my server ( 90% of incoming

[xmail] Re: name of xmail log files is wrong

2005-03-29 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.42 29/03/05 +1000, you wrote: Sounds more like it is only a problem on the _day_ DST changes. DST usually changes at 02:00, so I'm guessing that on the day of change, when a new log is being rotated, the new day is having 1 hour adjusted when the file name is being calculated at 00:00 (day

[xmail] Re: server.tab

2005-04-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 00.55 06/04/05 -0700, you wrote: Can _NOT_ be modified while XMail is running (And shouldn't be edited by hand - use the CTRL Admin Protocol instead): aliases.tab aliasdomain.tab domains.tab extaliases.tab mailusers.tab pop3links.tab They shouldn't be modified through the CTRL cfgfileset

[xmail] Re: Never seen before

2005-04-12 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 07.18 12/04/05 -0700, you wrote: Only, no SMTP transaction was logged for about 1 hour. Nothing in the Event Log, disk OK (no errors in chkdsk), no server load (30 messages or so during the blackout, no idea about rejected connections: they are only logged in smtp logs). Has anybody

[xmail] SMTP filters docs (and ML question)

2005-05-03 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, for those of you who are wondering why /domain$/ may not match a @@FILE's 4th line: the SMTP filters docs should say MAIL FROM:...[ SIZE=...] [ 4th line ] rather than MAIL FROM:... [ 4th line ] Apparently, the line holds the peer's MAIL FROM command as is, including the (optional)

[xmail] Re: MTP filters docs (and ML question)

2005-05-04 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.53 03/05/05 +0200, you wrote: On Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:15 AM [GMT+1=CET], Francesco Vertova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The (unrelated) question is: a ListSender[tab] in user.tab sets an empty MAIL FROM: in delivering to ML users without changing the mail headers (much like

[xmail] Re: RDNS and RBLsquestion

2005-05-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.37 20/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Now I'm using Spamhaus, Ordb and Spamcop as RBL servers, do you advise any others? The list of DNSBL is very dependent on your special needs (and geographical location, I think). You have to experiment a bit for yourself. I'm using spamcop, njabl, spamhaus

[xmail] Re: Filters and info line format in spool files (first line)

2005-05-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.39 27/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Hello Davide and list XMail doc in sections for filters (in and out) and smtp filters (in and out) says that first line in the spool file passed to filters is as this : ClientDomain;ClientIP;ClientPort;ServerDomain;ServerIP;ServerPort;Time;Logo The filter

[xmail] Re: RDNS and RBLsquestion

2005-05-31 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.37 20/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Now I'm using Spamhaus, Ordb and Spamcop as RBL servers, do you advise any others? The list of DNSBL is very dependent on your special needs (and geographical location, I think). You have to experiment a bit for yourself. I'm using spamcop, njabl, spamhaus

[xmail] Re: Filters and info line format in spool files (first line)

2005-05-31 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.39 27/05/05 +0200, you wrote: Hello Davide and list XMail doc in sections for filters (in and out) and smtp filters (in and out) says that first line in the spool file passed to filters is as this : ClientDomain;ClientIP;ClientPort;ServerDomain;ServerIP;ServerPort;Time;Logo The filter

[xmail] Re: DNS entry files

2005-06-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 14.04 07/06/05 -0400, you wrote: Yes Windows will not allow trailing spaces or periods in file or directory names. I have just checked my DNS cache. Theoretical question: if such file names are not allowed in Windoze, how can XMail create and use them? Practical answer (this is copyright

[xmail] Re: UHHHHHHH STOP IT !

2005-06-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.29 15/06/05 +0200, you wrote: LOL - someone could assume that this is my personal PITA mailserver for If I remember well, this is the very same guy (or machine) who reinjected messages in the list a couple of weeks ago. From the header: Received: from mail pickup service by

[xmail] DNS again?

2005-07-20 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, any idea why XMail (1.21 Win32) delivers OK to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but fails to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The two have exactly the same MX records, the only difference being that datacomm.iue.it has also an A record (is an alias of dns1.iue.it). For some reason, XMail tries A instead

[xmail] Re: DNS again?

2005-07-21 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.14 20/07/05 -0300, you wrote: any idea why XMail (1.21 Win32) delivers OK to [EMAIL PROTECTED] but fails to deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The two have exactly the same MX records, I do, I do :) http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=datacomm.iue.it So another

[xmail] Re: DNS again?

2005-07-22 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.50 21/07/05 -0300, you wrote: XMail DNS resolver had a bug in handling CNAME, but this was fixed in 1.18 and later. However, all versions of XMail have problems with - which means, are less good than nslookup and dig at - handling DNS info that is 'Non-authoritative' (see below). I used

[xmail] Re: Suggestion: bypass filter execution in case of whitelisted ip

2005-08-04 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.06 04/08/05 +0200, you wrote: I think a flag for (SMTP)-filters which disables filter execution for whilelisted Ips (listed in smtp.ipprop.tab with Whitelist=3D1) would = be very helpful (similar to aex). Something like: !ipprop(Whitelist=3D1)[TAB]command[TAB]arg-or-macro[TAB]...[NEWLINE=

[xmail] Re: Suggestion: bypass filter execution in case of whitelisted ip

2005-08-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.33 04/08/05 -0600, you wrote: I've been trying to hack an AV script of ours to have an IP whitelist, but my Perl is pretty rudimentary, so I haven't had a lot of success. I'd love to see this functionality in XMail itself. The overhead of an interpreted script is mostly in initialization.

[xmail] Re: XMail 1.22 ZIP and .arch-ids ?

2005-10-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.40 18/10/05 +0200, you wrote: Hi Davide, what are these .arch-ids folders that are spread thru the whole directory tree of the 1.22 Win32 ZIP archive ? Are they vital ? I hope they aren't, since I nuked them from the whole MAIL_ROOT dir just after upgrading ... Ciao, Francesco - To

[xmail] Re: Log files ending with 0100

2005-10-31 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 05.12 31/10/05, you wrote: What is the condition that makes the log files end with 0100? I suspect it has to do with DST change. If this is the case - it's a classical topic that comes up twice a year - you should have two files for Oct 30: one ending in storing entries until 2:59:59

[xmail] Local domain and trailing dot

2005-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, if I have domain.net in domains.tab and send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note the final dot), domain.net. is not recognized as local, which leads to a mail loop. Can anybody confirm this? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body

[xmail] Re: mail loop?

2006-02-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.55 16/02/06, you wrote: If I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- with a trailing '.' After the .com, I get a mail loop error back. I suppose domain.com is a local domain. This is a known issue (see the thread on local domain and trailing dot). Queued for next release. By now the only

[xmail] Re: quota bug in forwarding

2006-02-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.49 17/02/06, you wrote: I have found a situation with XMail where XMail ignores the mailbox = quotas. If there are two mailboxes on the same box and one forwards into the = other, XMail ignores the mailbox quota of the second mailbox when receiving forwards from the first one. From what

[xmail] Re: Thoughts on mail processing with Xmail.

2006-02-18 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 00.57 18/02/06, you wrote: It seems that the quota check is done on smtp processing, but should be done at other times too. I'd like to see a change in the way Xmail processes mail, so that whenever a movement of mail occurs, all checks are done. I see a problem here: checking mailbox

[xmail] GLST bug?

2006-03-30 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, It seems that glst 0.23 does not distinguish between a numeric ClientDomain - a spammer sends an IP address as HELO - and the actual sender IP. As a result, if the ClientDomain is a XNETted IP - typically, the mail server's IP - glst stops processing and passes the message. Can

[xmail] Re: xmail DNS problem : First sample

2006-05-22 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.30 22/05/06, you wrote: First problem : Use of A domain entry (exist) even if Mx entries exist for the destination domain [00] XMail bounce: [EMAIL PROTECTED];Error=3D[554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Relay access denied] (preliminary: my nslookup reports non-authoritative answer for ifrance.com

[xmail] Format of @@REMOTEADDR

2006-06-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, before starting trial and error: do you know the format of the @@REMOTEADDR macro passed to SMTP filters? ip:port, [ip;port] ...? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the

[xmail] Re: Format of @@REMOTEADDR

2006-06-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 16.49 27/06/06, you wrote: The Manual here: http://www.xmailserver.org/Readme.html OK, I RTFMed and found: @@REMOTEADDR: remote IP address and port of the sender. But how are they bundled together in the macro? Are they separated by comma, colon, space, nothing ... Are they enclosed in

[xmail] Re: Format of @@REMOTEADDR

2006-07-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.22 27/06/06, oi01 wrote: actually it should be host:port like 192.168.0.1:8956, seperated by a colon. Yes, after some experimenting I can confirm that the ip is NOT included in square brackets. I can say nothing about the port part since I only retrieve the IP but I think you are right.

[xmail] Re: Reducing spam

2006-10-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.25 01/10/06, you wrote: Hi list. Spam seems to be getting to rediculous levels so I'm trying to re= duce the number of spam messages I am receiving in my xmail server. I started by uncommenting the line in server.tab: CustMapsList

[xmail] Re: Spool dir

2006-10-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.34 09/10/06, you wrote: Is there a way to run XMail (Win32 version) with the spool dir in a separeted folder (example: I'm running XMail on D:\mailroot BUT I want to run *only* spool in another drive/folder, something like: Z:\spool or Z:\mailroot\spool)? Under Win2K/XP and NTFS you can

[xmail] Re: Local domain and trailing dot

2006-11-02 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 00.25 30/10/06, you wrote: Ok, this comes from 2005 but I'm going through stuff to include in 1.23. The trailing dot is not legal, according to section 4.1.2 of: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html Path = [ A-d-l : ] Mailbox Mailbox = Local-part @ Domain Domain = (sub-domain 1*(.

[xmail] Re: 1.23-pre11 ...

2006-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 13.20 08/11/06, Rob Arends wrote: And found this in the readme: MACRO SUBSTITUTION XMail support two kinds of macro declaration inside its TAB file. The old macro declaration done by prefixing the macro name with the '@@' sequence is still supported for backward

[xmail] Re: Verifying usage of wlex

2006-11-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 09.58 11/11/06, you wrote: Just so that I'm absolutely correct according to the documentation, the new wlex will work as a flag inside of filter files used by filters.in.tab and filters.out.tab but will NOT work if it is part of filters.pre* and filters.post* files correct? As I understand

[xmail] Re: wlex doubt

2007-01-23 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 07.54 23/01/07, you wrote: Davide Libenzi a écrit : Hmmm, that shouldn't happen. Did anyone else have problems with wlex? Does anyone else use wlex with success ? I'm using !aex,wlex for glst - as pre-data filter - on Windows and it works as expected, AFAIK. Ciao, Francesco - To

[xmail] Re: Advices

2007-01-24 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.35 24/01/07, you wrote: - does anyone knows an antivirus working fine with xmail (on Windows 2003 server) and working with xmail filters. I've been using F-PROT for DOS on both Win2K Pro and WinXP Pro and works very well in a post-data filter. I've also tested ClamAV - native

[xmail] Multipe Reply-To headers

2007-02-07 Thread Francesco Vertova
Suggestion for 1.25: if UseReplyTo is set, XMail will prepend a Reply-To header to messages for a mailing list. If the incoming message already has one, it will end up with multiple Reply-To headers, which is - depending on different interpretations of the RFCs - either illegal (agents should

[xmail] Re: wlex doubt

2007-02-14 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.50 11/02/07, you wrote: !aex,wlexTAB/var/MailRoot/filters/filip-supera-filters/GLST_.plTAB@@REMOTEADDRTAB@@FILETAB@@FROMTAB@@CRCPT A doubt: should be something like --mfileTAB@@FILETAB--raddrTAB@@REMOTEADDR, I think ... Also, if you pass a @@FILE you don't need any other parameters (they

[xmail] Re: Drop NDRs?

2007-03-06 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.43 05/03/07, you wrote: Also, my spool is loaded with messages that xmail keeps trying to deliver to obviously bad addresses. This has been mostly cured with XMail = 1.23. Which version are you running? Ciao, Francesco - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe xmail in

[xmail] Re: Question about GLST

2007-03-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 13.56 15/03/07, you wrote: Well, see, that's the weird thing. When I do a glst --cleanup, the glst.dbm file actually *grows* (admittedly, only a small amount - maybe 10 - 20 KB or so). Which I thought was weird. That may be normal: --cleanup marks some space allocated by the file as unused -

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre04 ...

2007-04-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.35 10/04/07, you wrote: I agree, but i have thousand of entrances of this, all for pellicano.biz, all after and immediately after the upgrade. I only running 1.25-pre04 for 30 minutes. Do you mean: I would like XMail not to report this kind of error in the Event Log? Description:

[xmail] Re: glst question

2007-05-17 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.41 16/05/07, you wrote: The exact same yahoo issue happens to our users very often. The yahoo groups servers do not retry - they simply stop sending after any failure. And they even send viri, from time to time. They suck ... Has anyone been successfull in finding all the needed xnet

[xmail] Re: 1.25-pre14

2007-06-10 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 21.19 10/06/07, Davide Libenzi wrote: I made pre15 with some new -M* options. You can select if to use only IPV4, only IPV6, IPV4 if present or IPV6, IPV6 if present or IPV4. It defaults to the former at the moment. For those wishing a clickable link:

[xmail] Re: Another xmail dns resolver problem ?

2007-09-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.24 27/09/07, CLEMENT Francis wrote: IMOO, is this case (Domain ok BUT no MX AND no A entry), xmail such immediatly stop at first attempt and return an NDR to the sender (like a 5xx error) as the domain older didn't give any info who to join them by mail This issue has already been brought

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-07 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.35 07/11/07, you wrote: To filter a bit the spam, I'm using this CustMapsList (but I'm not satisfied at all with my list.) CustMapsList sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org.:0,combined.njabl.org.:0,bl.spamcop.net.:0 Anyone has a better list to give me or complete? It depends on the reasons why you are

[xmail] dnscache directory

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, just got a directory listing of MAIL_ROOT/dnscache/mx. After 30 or 40 mins it reported a total of over 252,000 files. Since XMail checks MailerDomain before CustMapsList (why?), I think they're mostly domain files of blacklisted spam. Is it advisable and safe to delete some of this

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.03 08/11/07, Edinilson - ATINET wrote: Here we are using: CustMapsList zen.spamhaus.org.:0,dsn.rfc-ignorant.org.:0,bl.spamcop.net.:0 BUT we are having too many '551 Server access forbidden by your IP' *even* with authenticated users (yes, I=B4m sure they are authenticated). The default

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 17.26 08/11/07, you wrote: So, in which situation '551 Server access forbidden by your IP' is returned? I think it's a sort of default error message. Usually from smtp.ipmap.tab, since the other IP-based blocks (CustMapsList and spammers.tab) have their own messages. Because, if I comment

[xmail] Re: server.tab CustMapsList

2007-11-08 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.46 08/11/07, you wrote: Here we are using: #SmtpMsgIPBanMaps 550 Denied due inclusion of your IP in the following map With that entry commented out, the peer should get a 550 Denied due inclusion of your IP inside (map name), besides the usual SNDRIP=EIPMAP (map name) in the SMTP log. If

[xmail] Me too? (1.25-pre22)

2007-11-15 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, I've installed 1.25-pre22 from an hour. Looks like auth'd (SMTP after POP3) users cannot bypass DNSBL in spite of code 0: excerpt from today's pop3log: dex1.tsd.unifi.it tsd.unifi.it 151.49.38.240 2007-11-15 09:30:54 xxx LOGIN 230 4129295 dex1.tsd.unifi.it

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 23.20 15/11/07, you wrote: Not using from a long time pop before smtp auth method. Looks like nobody is using it, indeed, since I've not yet received feedback from others using that feature, so far ... Anyway, a feature should either be dropped or work, IMHO ... As noted by Davide seems

[xmail] SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, apparently I have a problem with the new SysGetHostByName which causes POP3-SMTP auth always to fail. This chainsaw patch works for me: --- POP3Utils.cpp 2007-11-02 01:34:32.0 +0100 +++ POP3Utils.cpp.new 2007-11-16 13:23:20.890625000 +0100 @@ -1544,8 +1544,7 @@

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.24 16/11/07, you wrote: Can you try the patch below? diff --git a/POP3Utils.cpp b/POP3Utils.cpp index 85ee92d..5b3111b 100644 --- a/POP3Utils.cpp +++ b/POP3Utils.cpp @@ -1542,10 +1542,10 @@ int UPopUserIpCheck(UserInfo *pUI, SYS_INET_ADDR const *pPeerInfo, unsigned int

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 18.24 16/11/07, you wrote: Can you try the patch below? diff --git a/POP3Utils.cpp b/POP3Utils.cpp index 85ee92d..5b3111b 100644 --- a/POP3Utils.cpp +++ b/POP3Utils.cpp @@ -1542,10 +1542,10 @@ int UPopUserIpCheck(UserInfo *pUI, SYS_INET_ADDR const *pPeerInfo, unsigned int

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 20.12 16/11/07, you wrote: Duh!? Can you try to add here ... const *pPeerInfo, unsigned int fclose(pIpFile); char szIPP[128]; SysInetNToA(*pPeerInfo, szIPP, sizeof(szIPP)); SysLogMessage(LOG_LEV_MESSAGE, PreIP='%s'\tCurrIP='%s'\n, szIPP, szIP);

[xmail] Re: SMTP after POP3 in 1.25 pre-22 (a clue)

2007-11-16 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 22.01 16/11/07, you wrote: Cat you try to show me the content and metadata of the account's .ipconn file? dir C:\MailRoot\domains\tsd.unifi.it\vertova\.ipconn Volume in drive C is unlabeled Serial number is F8F7:824F Directory of C:\MailRoot\domains\tsd.unifi.it\vertova\.ipconn

[xmail] ErrCode -40 vs -215

2007-12-01 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, since installing 1.25 I notice that when a message gets frozen immediately because of a DNS problem there are two kinds of slog messages. One is familiar since 1.23 ErrCode = -215 ErrString = DNS name not exist Recipient domain yahoo.fr' does not exist (or it has a misconfigured DNS)

[xmail] Re: Header 'Received :' question/suggestion

2008-03-19 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 11.39 19/03/08, you wrote: Here is a sample xmail generated 'Received :' header : Received: from some_sender_name ([aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd]:p) (not important) What is exactly the 'some_sender_name' actual value ? - The value of the HELO/EHLO ? - The reverse dns of aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

[xmail] Re: hotmail delivery problems

2008-03-21 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 12.47 21/03/08, David Lord wrote: On 21 Mar 2008, at 1:56, max toro q wrote: I installed Xmail on win2k, and I have delivery problems to hotmail. Some messages get delivered, some simply get lost. The log shows no sign of problem. Yes but not very often. Mails are accepted but never

[xmail] Re: hotmail delivery problems

2008-03-21 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 19.16 21/03/08, Phillip R. Shaw wrote: if a MTA accepts a message for delivery, it must either deliver or bounce.. While this was a nice idea at one time, it really isn't desirable any more. Why? SPAM. I get thousands of emails that I accept but are then rejected by my spam filtering. You

[xmail] Re: Lockdown xMail

2008-04-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 06.45 25/04/08, you wrote: Greylisting is not working as well as it used to... Verizon, Hotmail and Yahoo Mail seem to not re-send correctly when Graylisting is ON. I previously posted about this AFAIK it is only Yahoo Groups that does no resend and requires xnet or white list. In any

[xmail] Duplicate log entries (1.25)

2008-06-11 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, I've just moved glst from pre-data to post-rcpt and noticed that every rejection generates two entries in the smtp log: a spurious DATA=EFILTER followed by RCPT=EFILTER. I've tried patching SMTPSvr.cpp in 1.26 pre-01 (moving the log statement from SMTPRunFilters to SMTPHandleCmd_DATA)

[xmail] Is anyone having problems with spamhaus?

2008-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
Hi all, zen.spamhaus.org has been catching nothing on my server for over a week, now (it used to catch thousands of spams per day). Looks like XMail cannot reach it, maybe because of some DNS problems of theirs (see http://www.dnssniffer.com/report.php?domain=spamhaus.orgSniff=Sniff). Is it

Re: [xmail] Is anyone having problems with spamhaus?

2008-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 14.12 27/11/08, you wrote: Seems ok here too Perhabs your xmail server (or SmartDnsHost if configured) try only the 'temporary unavailable' spamhaus dns server (as seens in the report) What does your nslookup report for zen.spamhaus.org? Mine reports a timeout error, maybe it is related.

Re: [xmail] Is anyone having problems with spamhaus?

2008-11-27 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 14.12 27/11/08, you wrote: Seems ok here too It is definitely a problem with the university dns. Changed my dns setup and spamhaus worked again. Ciao, Francesco ___ xmail mailing list xmail@xmailserver.org

Re: [xmail] CtrlClnt local/remote diff in return value on w2k

2009-09-25 Thread Francesco Vertova
At 10.34 25/09/09, CLEMENT Francis wrote: Server : W2K server SP4, xmail 1.26 WorkStation : W2K workstation SP4, ctrlclnt.exe copied from xmail 1.26 server (so exactly same binary) When running CtrlClnt from the workstation all ok, output result is ok, ctrlclnt exit immediatly and exit code

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