http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80893 Hi. I wonder if it's possible to add to my Exim configuration file, a section that would temporarily suspend mail delivery to certain user accounts that are specified in a file. Once the account was removed from the file, not only would delivery resume, but queued messages would flow through as well. The sender would have no idea that the message was not immediately delivered to the user in question. Any ideas? (This would be used to do maintenance on a particular account -- moving it's location on disk, etc. while ensuring no failures in the meantime.) Jason. Jason Keltz 2008-10-10T12:24:42 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80889 Hi, I got this error while sending out email: Connection from [127.0.0.1] refused: too many connections I'm using multiple thread to send out email from my program, is there a connection limit in exim4 where we can send out email in the same time? thanks. Angel Angelo Chen 2008-10-09T14:15:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80885 Hello all, On one of the systems I administer, I have a strange problem I can't really get a grasp of why it happens. Maybe one of you can help me out here. It started when we noticed the following block in the exim log in the server, which act as an smtp outbound server on the infrastructure: (I anonymized the email address it goes to, but I tried to leave as much information as possible intact - I just don't have the liberty to write it non-anonymized) [root< at >lilzmailso01 exim]# exigrep bw< at >mp.at * 2008-10-06 10:07:02 1Kml7N-0006mb-SY <= ha< at >liwest.at H=cpe90-146-29-228.liwest.at (auerad1a8f42f7) [90.146.29.228] P=esmtpa A=fixed_login:uid=hklvappx S=1822 id=D3BDF142D43C448CB7D782EEFA768877< at >auerad1a8f42f7 2008-10-06 10:07:07 1Kml7N-0006mb-SY == bw< at >mp.at R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-44): SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<bw< at >mp.at>: host mail4.internic.at [212.126.66.30]: 450 <bw< at >mp.at>... MAILBOX temporarily unavailable(GREY_SENDER: ha< at >liwest.at) 2008-10-06 10:07:07 1Kml7N-0006mb-SY ** Jens Hoffrichter 2008-10-09T17:35:31 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80884 Hi all, Occasionally, I get a file locking error. defer (-9): failed to lock mailbox /var/spool/virtual/xxxx.ca/lib (fcntl/flock) An messages sit in the queue and eventually fail. Is there some way to recover? Is this an exim error or FreeBSD error. I have tried to delete the mailbox, and restart exim etc etc. -Grant Grant Peel 2008-10-09T14:14:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80872 I'm using exim4 as the MX server. The imap intranet server is being migrated from dovecot to zimbra. I'd like to be able to route some addresses in the same domain to the zimbra server and some to the dovecot server, like this: user1< at >example.com --> MX --> dovecot user2< at >example.com ---/ \--> zimbra Then I can migrate the users by groups (train them, and then go to the next). Right now all messages go to MX and then to dovecot. I don't even know how to start, somebody pointed me to virtusertable but it looks pretty cryptic. Is there another way, or an example on virtusertable? Thanks, Eduardo. Eduardo Trápani 2008-10-08T19:15:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80870 Folks, Several instructions for generating an ssl cert (Apache, Linux-*) use the pattern: ssl.domain.tld as an example in instructions / how-to's. over about the last 8-12 months, we've been seeing a gradually increasing number of arrivals with that pattern in HELO or even DNS lookup. So far, not one of these has offered legitimate traffic. Au contraire - all have been spam. Has anyone else seen this? Or seen significant (any?) legitimate traffic with this pattern? Bill Hacker W B Hacker 2008-10-08T15:03:30 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80868 i found a script on internet . The script is in php and used to send mails . It works fine for me $to = escapeshellcmd($to); $from = escapeshellcmd($from); $exim = popen('/path/to/exim -f ' . $from . ' ' . $to, 'w'); fwrite($exim, $message); pclose($exim); Here i can specify to and from field . But , how can i add subject ,header fields to it ? 91change 2008-10-08T14:15:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80867 Hello list, I haven't received a copy of my message so I assume it hasn't arrived to the list. If it had, I'm sorry for double-posting. I'm a bit stuck and tired with this problem. Maybe I was choosing the wrong path... My problem is that our smarthost accepts mails from us only from a given IP address (on which my exim instance runs), and with only a specific address in the MAIL FROM: command. I was trying with rewrite rules: *< at >* bocmok< at >clients.wx with this, I succeeded, as mails went out from my box, but local mailing failed, as exim sent thos mails to the smarthost for somewhat reason. So sending a mail with "mail polesz< at >w00d5t0ck.info" sent to the smarthost, so as "mail polesz", which should arrive in the local user "polesz"'s mailbox. Can you suggest me a new solution, or a correct rewrite line for this problem please? Thanks in advance, Gergely Polonkai Gergely Polonkai 2008-10-08T08:37:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80856 For a class I set up a common email so that the students could communicate with the TAs. When mail is sent to it, it delivers that message to the common account and my account, and also forwards that message to the TAs. The current .forward is just: \common_account, \my_account, ta1< at >campus.edu, ta2< at >campus.edu Somehow or other that email address made it onto a spam list. The common account only needs to receive mail from campus addresses. So I want to put something like the following in the .forward instead, but this is pseudocode because I do not know the correct syntax: # exim filter if $reply_to = "campus.edu$" then #reply_to ENDS in "campus.edu" deliver common_account #delivery to addressee on this machine deliver my_account #delivery to 2nd account on this machine deliver ta1< at >campus.edu #forward to one TA deliver ta2< at >campus.edu #forward to another TA fi finish What is the actual syntax for this? Thanks, David Mathog mathog< at >caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Bi David Mathog 2008-10-07T17:41:02 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80850 Hello list, I'm a bit stuck and tired with this problem. Maybe I was choosing the wrong path... My problem is that our smarthost accepts mails from us only from a given IP address (on which my exim instance runs), and with only a specific address in the MAIL FROM: command. I was trying with rewrite rules: *< at >* bocmok< at >clients.wx with this, I succeeded, as mails went out from my box, but local mailing failed, as exim sent thos mails to the smarthost for somewhat reason. So sending a mail with "mail polesz< at >w00d5t0ck.info" sent to the smarthost, so as "mail polesz", which should arrive in the local user "polesz"'s mailbox. Can you suggest me a new solution, or a correct rewrite line for this problem please? Thanks in advance, Gergely Polonkai Gergely Polonkai 2008-10-07T15:21:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80838 New to exim and have not found this in the FAQs or online resources so far. We have a machine with several domains. The MX record for these domains is pointed to a spam filter appliance. Alas, spammers don't play fair. They choose to connect directly to the IP address(es) of the domains on the box and still send their spam that way. While a firewall solution might seem the logical choice, it isn't here. The reason is that the users in each domain need to be able to see mail.abc.com or mail.xyz.com as their outgoing SMTP server which they relay through via SMTP auth. So, I need to know how to disable the ability to receive mail for local domains EXCEPT from a trusted source (the spam appliance box). Further, I need to allow SMTP AUTH clients to relay mail through their respective domains. A firewall simply shuts off all SMTP traffic including SMTP auth unless I know all the "trusted sources" which is basically moot given roaming customers. How can this be done? Also, it would be preferab Exim List 2008-10-07T03:46:29 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80831 Hi, I'd like to have a possibility to express (in an exim user filter) if $local_part_prefix is "foo-" and $original_local_part is "mh" and $local_part_suffix is "+bar" and $domain is "example.com" then .... endif more easily, for example as if $local_part_prefix$original_local_part$local_part_suffix< at >$domain is "foo-mh+bar< at >example.com" then ... endif Is there a way to do this? Greetings Marc Marc Haber 2008-10-06T16:46:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80824 New to Exim and using Exim 4.43 and Dovecot 1.0.13 on CentOS 4.6. Server sends and receives mail but when sending from Squirrelmail it is sent as user 'apache< at >mydomain.com' and because of this replies are rejected with a '550 relay not permitted (in reply to RCPT TO command)' Any ides on this one? Used to work normally with Postfix in place of Exim on same server. regards, Chas. chas< at >digital-journal.com 2008-10-06T13:46:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80815 Hi, I set up quotas and warning message in my exim config, but I do not receive a warn message if I cross the quota. exims seems to recognize that the mailbox exeeds the quota threshold, but sends no message. I search the internet, but didn't find any solution. Any ideas ? Version: Exim version 4.69 #1 built 05-Oct-2008 23:05:26 23:43:20 32606 check_dir_size: regex did not match courierpop3dsizelist 23:43:20 32606 check_dir_size: dir=/srv/mail/spool/kepler2004.de/webmaster/Maildir sum=57428328 count=1110 23:43:20 32606 delivering in maildir format in /srv/mail/spool/kepler2004.de/webmaster/Maildir 23:43:20 32606 expanding: ,S=$message_size 23:43:20 32606 result: ,S=297 23:43:20 32606 writing to file tmp/1223243000.H201561P32606.kepler2004.de 23:43:20 32606 Exim quota = 60817408 old size = 57428328 this message = 297 (not included) 23:43:20 32606 file count quota = 0 count = 1110 23:43:20 32606 writing data block fd=7 size=412 timeout=0 23:43:20 32606 quota = 60817408 threshold = 42572185 old size Hannes Rapp 2008-10-05T22:01:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80813 I'm aware of alternatives/workarounds to what I'm requesting, so no need to rehash them.... I would like to see a variable in exim that reflects the actual rDNS value for sender_host_address. Properly I think sender_host_name should have that value and there should be a new variable, perhaps sender_host_name_verified that contains the result of reverse AND forward lookups on sender_host_address. Given backward compatibility concerns, perhaps just a new variable: sender_host_rdns would suffice. Regards, Brian Brian Blood 2008-10-05T16:35:12 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80808 Ubuntu 8.04 Exim 4 I have 10 frozen messages in the queue and I can't delete them. Both of these commands: sudo exim -bpr | grep frozen | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm sudo exim4 -bp | awk '/^ *[0-9]+[mhd]/{print "exim -Mrm " $3}' | sh return Permission Denied. Also I know that only the sender of the mail can delete it so I tried it without sudo, still denied. I got these commands from two different places, does it matter if I use exim or exim4? shwick 2008-10-05T01:43:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80800 Based on To: . Because of AOL redacting email addresses from SPAM reports, I thought that if a new Envelope-to: (different name) was added, and the user name was split into pieces and then added some weird characters in the middle, AOL (and others) would not be able to redact. (From an earlier thread, Envelope-To would probably not work.) Example: Call the new header X-Ref X-Ref: exiqwerm-uqwersrs< at >exim.org X-Ref: exim-users< at >exim.org This would then work for both mailing lists and individual messages. Any thoughts on this? Other options also solicited. Lloyd Tennison 2008-10-05T00:16:09 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80797 Hello, I would like how could i limit the amount of mails sent to yahoo.com and hotmail.com domains per hour. I have been looking at exim documentation and i did not find for any clue. Also i checked on the mailing list and nothing like this has been answered before. Any suggestion will be appreciated. Thank you. nicza3 2008-10-03T18:06:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80789 Hello List: I'm just setting up SSL on my Exim 4.69 and I would like to ask a question about the certificate. Do I have to order it in the name of the MX record (which has a matching A record) or just for the domain without any sub name prefix. Thanks, George list2 2008-10-03T16:00:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80777 Hi, People on this list will be interested to know that RFCs 2821 and 2822 (and some other related RFCs) have been deprecated by the release yesterday of RFCs 5321 (SMTP) and 5322 (Internet Message Format) respectively. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321> Abstract This document is a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport. It consolidates, updates, and clarifies several previous documents, making all or parts of most of them obsolete. It covers the SMTP extension mechanisms and best practices for the contemporary Internet, but does not provide details about particular extensions. Although SMTP was designed as a mail transport and delivery protocol, this specification also contains information that is important to its use as a "mail submission" protocol for "split-UA" (User Agent) mail reading systems and mobile environments. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322> Abstract This document specifies the Internet Message Format (IMF), Ian Eiloart 2008-10-03T09:23:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.exim.user/80770 Is there a way to copy the RCPT-TO address to a message header? If so, can it be done with the original address before any rewrites? That is (the different RCPT TO and FROM is intended to highlight the issue): RCPT TO: Bob< at >example.com DATA FROM: Alan< at >example.com text . A rewrite rule changes Bob< at >example.com to Bob< at >subdomain.example.com The headers of the final email received by Bob< at >subdomain.example.com would include: X-Orig-RCPT-TO: Bob< at >example.com FROM: Alan< at >example.com Is this possible with exim4? I can only get add header to user the message header and not the envelope address. Brian -- Boost your business with a small business loan. Click now! http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/Ioyw6h4euX1Ehh1rbAR10jvzWA3Zmw6HL1GYXkTKXepdnUN6MEnEHD/ B. Tkatch 2008-10-02T19:32:39 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.mail.exim.user