Exim 4.51

[thoroughfare]

Exim's 4.51 is out :)

Matt

[jmstacey]

Yipeeeeee!!!

Party at my house tonight :p

Thanks for the update Matt :)

[dannygoh]

Aiiyaaaaaaahhh!

I just updated to 4.50 :D

[vandal]

anyword on the rpm's yet? :)

[rldev]

LMAO. I just update to 4.50 2 days ago :)

What's new in 4.51?

[vandal]

you can read the changelog here:

http://www.exim.org/ftp/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.51

i need it becuase it should fix a bug i am having with dual processor kernel and spam assasin.

[interfasys]

Lots of ACL fixes! Can't wait for the "proper" DA package ;)

[plugin]

PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and spamd_address settings.


Sounds very good :D:D

[jlasman]

Originally posted by interfasys
Lots of ACL fixes! Can't wait for the "proper" DA package
I'm going to ask JBMC staff if they can prepare a DA package quickly as I'm working on what I hope will be the last public release of SpamBlocker/VirusBlocker, and I'd like to base it on 4.51.

Jeff

[vandal]

can you fix the piping problems i have been complaining about all over the forum :P

not to mention if you send from a script that forges the email address it gets piped too. It shouldn't be piping on outgoing emails.

thanks Jeff let me know if i can help in anyway. Cpanel's exim.conf has something in it that prevents all this from happening, maybe a special filter or something.

I can send you one of those if you would like to have a peek.

Thanks,

Justin

[jlasman]

Best way to help would be to send me specific problems instead of telling me to search for them "all over the forums".

Yes, I know that's what I tell people, but in this case I won't have time to do a lot of searching.

Second way to help would be to offer to test on other platforms besides RHEL, which is what we have and test on.

Another way to help would be send me a copy (private email; NOT on this forum) a copy of the CPanel exim.conf file from a recent version.

Jeff

[vandal]

well the problem from my research is this:

1) piping is not setup correctly in exim.conf. 1st, it gets caught by two directives, virtual_aliases and virtual_aliases_nostar. While the fix people say to use is to remove the unseen line, cpanel's is exaclty the same and includes the unseen line and piping works effectively and i don't feel this is the proper fix.

i use kayako helpdesk, which you make an alias pipe to their php script.

first problem is that it will get caught by both those directives and send in two different tickets into the helpdesk. This of course is not the way it is suppose to work.

second problem is the one I mentioned above. When i send from modernbill or kayako for whatever reason (not sure of the cause here) the outgoing message gets piped. This is not proper behaviour.

when a user submits a ticket via email it should

1) send in one ticket and send that to all the helpdesk people.
2) outgoing mail, eg responding to a ticket already created should not get piped, it should just send out the email and enter the response. but for some reason it gets piped again and creates a new ticket when it should just respond to that ticket.

once a friend of mine updates to exim 4.51 on his cpanel box i will email you the exim.conf.

sorry for not being enough help, if i knew more about exim's directives i would just fix this myself but i can't.

and just to note this is not an issue or bug with the helpdesk i have looked into that.

thanks for your time jeff, if you need any more explanations just let me know and i'm sure all the future direct admin and kayako users will be quite happy.

Justin

[Chrysalis]

Originally posted by jlasman
I'm going to ask JBMC staff if they can prepare a DA package quickly as I'm working on what I hope will be the last public release of SpamBlocker/VirusBlocker, and I'd like to base it on 4.51.

Jeff

Hmm when you say last public release, will you start only developing for private use or charge for it?

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hi guys, ;)

I've uploaded the source rpm for it. Can be found here: http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm

I have not yet compiled the binaries for each OS, so until then use:wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
rpm -ivh da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb exim.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpmFreeBSD users can get compiled binaries here:
http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd4.8/da_exim-4.51-1.tgz
http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd5.1/da_exim-4.51-1.tgz

John

[edit] -bb to --rebuild

[dannygoh]

I will try it out now :D

[dannygoh]

Originally posted by DirectAdmin Support
Hi guys, ;)

I've uploaded the source rpm for it. Can be found here:
http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm

I have not yet compiled the binaries for each OS, so until then use:wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
rpmbuild -bb da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpmFreeBSD users can get compiled binaries here:
http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd4.8/da_exim-4.51-1.tgz
http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd5.1/da_exim-4.51-1.tgz

John

[root@ns1 src]# rpmbuild -bb da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
error: File /usr/src/da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm does not appear to be a specfile.

running centos 3.3

[mr. green]

Corrected syntax :

wget http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
rpm -ivh da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -bb exim.spec
cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm

[dannygoh]

the last step should

rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm

[mr. green]

Originally posted by dannygoh
the last step should

rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm

Of course ;)

[sander815]

any succesfull installs on rh9?

[thoroughfare]

Works fine with FreeBSD 5.3 :)

Matt

[Chrysalis]

Worked fine here on both FreeBSD 5.3 and 4.10

[jmstacey]

And for those Debian testers who feel a little left out, I went to the work of building the binaries for Debian and you can download it here:
http://www.mark87.com/directadmin/misc/da_exim-4.51-1.deb

Note: Although this package worked perfecly on my Debian 3.0 server, I make no guarantee's that it will work on yours ;)

Let me know how it works out :)

[redeye]

Moved my question to:

http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8134

since it is an bigger problem than only exim :(

[qlsys]

I have a problem with upgrading da_exim package. after I run:

rpmbuild -bb exim.spec

I got some errors:

gcc -c -O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -o exim_dbmbuild.o exim_dbmbuild.c
In file included from exim.h:391,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbstuff.h:103:16: db.h: No such file or directory
In file included from exim.h:391,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbstuff.h:529: error: syntax error before "DB"
dbstuff.h:529: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
dbstuff.h:531: error: syntax error before '}' token
dbstuff.h:531: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
In file included from exim.h:395,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbfunctions.h:13: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:14: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:15: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:15: error: syntax error before "open_db"
dbfunctions.h:15: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
dbfunctions.h:16: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:17: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:18: error: syntax error before '*' token
exim_dbmbuild.c: In function `main':
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: `DB' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: for each function it appears in.)
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: `d' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:145: error: `DBT' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:145: error: syntax error before "key"
exim_dbmbuild.c:198: error: `DB_HASH' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:278: error: `content' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:281: error: `key' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:281: error: `R_NOOVERWRITE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [exim_dbmbuild.o] Error 1
make: *** [go] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59160 (%build)
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59160 (%build)

Any ideas?

Kind Regards,

[vandal]

what os/version?

[qlsys]

Hi,

Fedora Core 3

Regards,

[vandal]

hard to say

I ran rpmbuild --rebuild exim.....

from RHEL 3.0

[jmstacey]

qlsys,
I had a similar error on Debian. You need to install both libdb3 and libdb3-dev packages (berkeley libraries).

[dbeames]

I run Fedora Core 2 and tried both ways to install this update. However, I am running into a problem I have had with other rpm's. Its failing on a couple dependencies:

[root@server i386]# rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by da_exim-4.51-1
libssl.so.0.9.7 is needed by da_exim-4.51-1


I have installed openssl-0.9.7g. It was a compiled source install. Everything else that relies on openssl works fine. SSH, Apache, ProFTPd, etc (i did a rebuild of customapache) all recompiled fine and run fine. Here is an out of openssl version:OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
And if you ssh to the box: OpenSSH_4.0p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005

So OpenSSL is working. I have run ldconfig:

[root@server src]# ldconfig -v | grep libcrypto
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.7
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.7
libcrypto.so.4 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.7a
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 -> libcrypto.so.0.9.7

When I run find / -name "libcrypto*", it finds libcrypto.so.0.9.7 in /lib, /usr/lib, /usr/local/openssl/lib and /usr/local/ssl/lib. All these directories are in ld.so.conf.

The only thing out of the ordinary, and might be causing this problem, is this: rpm -qa | grep openssl outputs: openssl-0.9.7a-35

Thats the original openssl install on a Fedora 2 box. However, there are no rpm's built to actually upgrade that. I have found a couple, but also fail with similar dependency problems.

Has anyone else seen this? What else can I do to resolve this?

Thank you.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Try this:

rpm -Uvh --force da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm

It will likely work if it was compiled on your system.

qlsys:
Make sure you have the db4-devel rpm packge installed.

John

[dbeames]

HMmm::

[root@server i386]# rpm -Uvh --force da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by da_exim-4.51-1
libssl.so.0.9.7 is needed by da_exim-4.51-1


AHaaa!


[root@server i386]# rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:da_exim ########################################### [100%]

Did service exim restart and then:

[root@server i386]# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 server... ESMTP Exim 4.51 Mon, 09 May 2005 02:28:52 -0400


Fixed. Thanks John!

[spirit]

It´s possible to update when i use Exiscan?

[modem]

I want to report that the 4.51 Source RPMS worked great on my CentOS 3.3 server. I simply followed John's instructions for compiling, restarted Exim and upgraded SpamAssassin to 3.0.3 and everything works great.

[dbeames]

Originally posted by spirit
It´s possible to update when i use Exiscan?

If you are currently on 4.50, then you will not have a problem upgrading. Since Exim 4.50, Exiscan is included in the Exim releases. If you are on a prior version of Exim, then you will want to browse the forums for the topic of depricated things in the exim.conf file. (i.e. demime *). I upgraded from 4.50-2 to 4.51 and I run SA 3.0.3 and Exiscan with ClamAV. Had no problems upgrading.

[rldev]

RHE 3 worked perfect.

[Titam]

Euh stupid question but ... when i try to run : rpmbuild -bb exim.spec

He says me : command not found (on fedora 3)

humpf ... any idea ?

(i have exim 4.50 and I would like to update)

Edit : Solved, i forgot to install rpmbuild ...

[aleto]

Are the DirectAdmin FreeBSD packages also patched with exiscan?

[Chrysalis]

exiscan is enabled on FreeBSD binaries.

[Titam]

Hi, thanks John, I had the same problem as dbeames (i have fc3 too ^^)

It's working ^^

[hansmiddelhoek]

Hello,
I've also upgraded to 4.51 on freebsd 5.3 It works, but exiscan isn't enabled as far as I can see. Could somebody check this please?
I'm trying to get exim to work with clamav.
When I restart Exim, the following error occurs:
Exim configuration error in line 558 of /etc/exim.conf:
error in ACL: unknown ACL condition/modifier in "demime = *"

I searched google and found out that this is because exiscan isn't installed.

Thanks,
Hans Middelhoek

[dbeames]

See my earlier post about "demime = *" being depricated. Your "check_message:" in exim.conf should look like:


check_message:
# Virus Check
deny message = This message contains a virus or other malware ($malware_name)
malware = *
warn message = X-Antivirus-Scanner: Scanned with Exiscan. You should still use an antivirus.
accept


Notice the change in the deny_message, and the removal of demime = *.

[Avenueduweb]

Originally posted by qlsys
[B]I have a problem with upgrading da_exim package. after I run:

rpmbuild -bb exim.spec

I got some errors:

gcc -c -O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -o exim_dbmbuild.o exim_dbmbuild.c
In file included from exim.h:391,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbstuff.h:103:16: db.h: No such file or directory
In file included from exim.h:391,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbstuff.h:529: error: syntax error before "DB"
dbstuff.h:529: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
dbstuff.h:531: error: syntax error before '}' token
dbstuff.h:531: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
In file included from exim.h:395,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbfunctions.h:13: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:14: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:15: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:15: error: syntax error before "open_db"
dbfunctions.h:15: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
dbfunctions.h:16: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:17: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:18: error: syntax error before '*' token
exim_dbmbuild.c: In function `main':
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: `DB' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: for each function it appears in.)
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: `d' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:145: error: `DBT' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:145: error: syntax error before "key"
exim_dbmbuild.c:198: error: `DB_HASH' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:278: error: `content' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:281: error: `key' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:281: error: `R_NOOVERWRITE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [exim_dbmbuild.o] Error 1
make: *** [go] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59160 (%build)
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59160 (%build)


To resolve this error on fedora core 3, try that :

yum install db4-devel

For me it's good after that.

Bye.

[Protollix]

awk '{ print ($1+1) }' cnumber.h > cnumber.temp
rm -f cnumber.h; mv cnumber.temp cnumber.h
gcc -c -O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -I/usr/local/openssl/include/ -I/usr/kerberos/include version.c
rm -f exim
gcc -o exim acl.o child.o crypt16.o daemon.o dbfn.o debug.o deliver.o directory.o dns.o drtables.o enq.o exim.o expand.o filter.o filtertest.o globals.o header.o host.o ip.o log.o lss.o match.o moan.o os.o parse.o queue.o rda.o readconf.o receive.o retry.o rewrite.o rfc2047.o route.o search.o sieve.o smtp_in.o smtp_out.o spool_in.o spool_out.o store.o string.o tls.o tod.o transport.o tree.o verify.o local_scan.o perl.o malware.o mime.o regex.o spam.o spool_mbox.o demime.o bmi_spam.o spf.o srs.o dk.o version.o \
pcre/libpcre.a \
routers/routers.a transports/transports.a lookups/lookups.a \
auths/auths.a \
-lresolv -lnsl -lcrypt \
-ldb \
-rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE -lperl -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -lutil -L/usr/local/openssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto
rfc2047.o(.text+0x38f): In function `rfc2047_decode2':
: undefined reference to `libiconv_open'
rfc2047.o(.text+0x45c): In function `rfc2047_decode2':
: undefined reference to `libiconv'
rfc2047.o(.text+0x548): In function `rfc2047_decode2':
: undefined reference to `libiconv_close'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [exim] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/da_exim-4.51/build-Linux-i386'
make: *** [go] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.97366 (%build)


I built libiconv from source and still no go....

ideas?

This is on Redhat 9

[sander815]

succesfully installed on RH9 after installing db4-devel

[hail]

hi

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1879104 Apr 1 21:41 da_exim-4.50-2.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1908321 May 6 08:36 da_exim-4.51-1.src.rpm
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 5253 Mar 1 20:02 exim.spec
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 4 15:37 i386

have trouble at :

rpmbuild -bb exim.spec
-bash: rpmbuild: command not found

any help please?

[sander815]

i think you don't have rpm-build (http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=rpm-build&submit=Search+...)installed

[hail]

Originally posted by sander815
i think you don't have rpm-build (http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=rpm-build&submit=Search+...)installed

thank you.

Now i get these error :

gcc -c -O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -o exim_dbmbuild.o exim_dbmbuild.c
In file included from exim.h:391,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbstuff.h:103:16: db.h: No such file or directory
In file included from exim.h:391,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbstuff.h:529: error: syntax error before "DB"
dbstuff.h:529: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
dbstuff.h:531: error: syntax error before '}' token
dbstuff.h:531: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
In file included from exim.h:395,
from exim_dbmbuild.c:33:
dbfunctions.h:13: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:14: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:15: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:15: error: syntax error before "open_db"
dbfunctions.h:15: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
dbfunctions.h:16: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:17: error: syntax error before '*' token
dbfunctions.h:18: error: syntax error before '*' token
exim_dbmbuild.c: In function `main':
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: `DB' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: for each function it appears in.)
exim_dbmbuild.c:144: error: `d' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:145: error: `DBT' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:145: error: syntax error before "key"
exim_dbmbuild.c:198: error: `DB_HASH' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:278: error: `content' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:281: error: `key' undeclared (first use in this function)
exim_dbmbuild.c:281: error: `R_NOOVERWRITE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[1]: *** [exim_dbmbuild.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/da_exim-4.51/build-Linux-i386'
make: *** [go] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.39203 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.39203 (%build)
[root@xxx SPECS]# cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
[root@xxx i386]# rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm
error: open of da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm failed: No such file or directory

i am cpanel user moved to DA , and have difficult to update server program, can you make the update auto at control panel our make Graphic interface to help us.

thank you

[sander815]

check this thread, there are some ore things to install, f.i. db4-devel rpm package

had the same error, after installing the db4-devel rpm package, it installed fine

most answers are in this thread

[dec]

Perfect installation on FC1 :D

[kamino]

Originally posted by dbeames
See my earlier post about "demime = *" being depricated. Your "check_message:" in exim.conf should look like:


check_message:
# Virus Check
deny message = This message contains a virus or other malware ($malware_name)
malware = *
warn message = X-Antivirus-Scanner: Scanned with Exiscan. You should still use an antivirus.
accept


Notice the change in the deny_message, and the removal of demime = *.


Hello,

I have the same kind of error like hansmiddelhoek.
Unfortunately I can't find the solution or a workaround to solve this, even browsing the forum. The config you provided above has no effect for me.

It's really like exim don't understand the ACL...
But with this exim version, if I'm correct, exiscan is included, is it ?
So we don't have to install it , don't we ?
Because I'm starting from a clean clamav install here, just upgraded exim to 4.51.

I try to find out with this document http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/exiscan-acl-spec.txt related to exim ACL specs, but I'm still stuck on the issue.

Any help or explanations appreciated if you can.

Best Regards,

[rayan]

hi
have trouble at last step

[root@dual i386]# rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.51-1.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package da_exim-4.51-1 is already installed
file /etc/aliases from install of da_exim-4.51-1 conflicts with file from package setup-2.5.36-1
file /etc/exim.cert from install of da_exim-4.51-1 conflicts with file from package da_exim-4.51-1
file /etc/exim.key from install of da_exim-4.51-1 conflicts with file from package da_exim-4.51-1
file /usr/sbin/exim from install of da_exim-4.51-1 conflicts with file from package da_exim-4.51-1
[root@dual i386]# service exim restart
Shutting down exim:
Starting exim:

my OS is fedora core 3.

any help?

Regards.

[beatmix01]

sweet! perfect install on rh9!