On Sun, 26 Oct 1997, Paul Phillips wrote:
> Hi. exim is my friend. I am free of the sendmail daemon.
Thank you.
> -- It's not clear to me under which circumstances alias expansion sends a
> message back to the originator, if on that alias. The natives in
> general don't seem to want it.
Always. You are the first person to raise this point. What do other
people think about this? Personally, if I mail to, say, postmaster and I
happen to be on the expansion, I expect to get a copy.
> -- spam filtering: I can't figure out how to say "if ANY header
> has blah-blah-blah string then do this" i.e. full header scanning.
The next version of Exim has an expansion variable called
$mesage_headers, which makes this kind of thing possible.
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, John Henders wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26/97, Paul Phillips <paulp@???> wrote:
> >
> > -- documentation note: it took me a while to figure out why there
> > was a huge delay when trying to send email (blocked ident lookups)
> > and a while longer to figure out how to turn it off
> > (rfc1413_query_timeout = 0s). Suggest this be more prominent.
>
> Blame this on the broken winsock. If it didn't do the wrong thing with
> identd connects there wouldn't be a problem. The default of 60s might be
> a bit much though, as Eudora also has a 60 second timeout.
This is just the sort of thing that it would be helpful to have in a
well-indexed FAQ. One of these years...
Those of us that use only Unix boxes just don't see this kind of
problem. I'm not sure where I got the 60s timeout from, but I'm loath to
change it as this stage.
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