[Wolves] Can someone take a look at this Exim stuff and tell me what I'm doing wrong

[Wayne Morris]

I think its working!

;-)


Wayne Morris wrote:
> Hi Adams,
>
> I'm giving this a go, but where does the code snippet below go?
> I don't have a directory 'greylistd' in /etc that you mention putting 
> 'config' in.
>
> Does this go in exim.conf then?
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
>
>
> Adam Sweet wrote:
>> --- Wayne Morris <wayne at machx.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I'm trying to implement this Greylisting using exim,
>>> perl, mysql from:
>>> http://users.aber.ac.uk/auj/spam/
>>>     
>>
>> I don't know about all that, but I have implemented
>> greylisting on Fedora Core 4 (exim self compiled) and
>> Debian with exim4-daemon heavy, which both include
>> what used to be known as the exiscan patch and is now
>> merged into the main codebase for Exim, you just have
>> to find the right configure option if you're compiling
>> yourself. I don't know if you need this for calling
>> out to greylisting functionality, but I did find an
>> exim heavy package for Fedora Core from one of the 3rd
>> party repos.
>>
>> I have the process detailed on my blog at:
>>
>> http://blog.adamsweet.org/?p=172
>>
>> but the \ characters keep getting stripped out and I
>> don't know how to solve that, so here is my
>> greylisting config for exim in full:
>>
>> defer
>>     message        = $sender_host_address is
>> greylisted. \
>>                      Mail from $sender_host_address as
>> <$sender_address> to \
>>                      <$local_part@$domain> is delayed.
>> \
>>                      Please try again in a few
>> minutes.
>>     log_message    = greylisted.
>>     !senders       = :
>>     !hosts         = : +relay_from_hosts : \
>>     !hosts         = : ${if exists
>> {/etc/greylistd/whitelist-hosts}\
>>                       {/etc/greylistd/whitelist-hosts}{}} : \
>>                        ${if exists
>> {/var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts}\
>>                       {/var/lib/greylistd/whitelist-hosts}{}}
>>     !authenticated = *
>> ##    !acl           = acl_whitelist_local_deny
>>       domains        = +local_domains :
>> +relay_to_domains
>>       verify         =
>> recipient/callout=20s,use_sender,defer_ok
>>       condition      =
>> ${readsocket{/var/run/greylistd/socket}\
>>                        {--grey \
>>                        $sender_host_address \
>>                        $sender_address \
>>                        $local_part@$domain}\
>>                        {5s}{}{false}}
>>
>> You need to install greylistd which is available from
>> ATrpms for Fedora. I had to create a few files
>> manually before it worked, namely that
>> /var/lib/greylistd should include:
>>
>> states
>> triplets
>> whitelist-hosts
>>
>> I can pass you copies of these files if you need them
>> (Debian creates them for you so I copied them over to
>> Fedora).
>>
>> Also, keep an eye on your Exim panic.log to see if
>> Exim is complaining something.
>>
>> tail -f <logfile>
>>
>> is useful for this if you don't do that already.
>> CTRL-c to quit.
>>
>> I found that Exim just carried on as normal if there
>> was a problem with the greylistd, such as the missing
>> files.
>>
>> One caveat. There is some further config to do to
>> capture emails without an envelope sender, but the
>> config I saw only refers to it in passing and doesn't
>> say how to do it, but at least it's a start.
>>
>> Hope that helps, sorry I can't solve your problem the
>> way you wanted to go, but this way seems easier...
>>
>> Ad
>>
>>   
>
>
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