Re: [exim] Exim rejects: syntactically invalid argument

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Author: Alun
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim rejects: syntactically invalid argument
Marc Sherman <msherman@???> said, in message
433B14F6.4000806@???:

> > is very different for the different domains, as it turns out. So
> > far this week: 35 for one, 573 for another, and 3 for a third.
>
> That's bizarre. I see similar (lack of) patterns. I checked the
> other 3 domains I host; one has 0 hits at all, another has only 4
> hits, all of them rejected by clamav, and the last one has 11 hits,
> all of them rejected by spamassassin. Still none of the messages got
> delivered, though.


Since we're quoting figures...

My ACL says:

  drop condition = ${if or {\
                {eq {$sender_helo_name}{[$interface_address]}}\
                {eq {$sender_helo_name}{$interface_address}}\
                {eq {$sender_helo_name}{$primary_hostname}}\
                {eq {$sender_helo_name}{aber.ac.uk}}\
                {eq {$sender_helo_name}{mailserv.aber.ac.uk}}\
                {eq {$sender_helo_name}{mailserv2.aber.ac.uk}}\
                }{yes}{no}}


This happens before greylisting and has matched 28,565 attempts since
Sunday (I've not checked for duplicates where people bang on all three
servers repeatedly). During the same time we've accepted 68,940
external mails.

Cheers,
Alun.

-- 
Alun Jones                       auj@???
Systems Support,                 (01970) 62 2494
Information Services,
University of Wales, Aberystwyth