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| Q5005: ... printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than | A4 paper? |
| Q0047: ... a restart of the mail system, I see the message Mailer daemons: exim | abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail. What does this... |
| Q0069: What does the error SMTP data timeout (message | abandoned) on connection from... mean? |
| Q0107: Exim fails to build, complaining about the | absence of the killpg function. |
| Q9202: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the | -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? |
| Q0085: ... because of the underscore in the host name, but is there a switch to allow Exim to | accept mail from such hosts? |
| Q0433: ... can I arrange for a single address to be processed by both redirect and | accept? |
| Q0716: ... to have a file listing the only sender addresses from which she will | accept mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any spam (or other... |
| Q0720: I set | accept hosts=192.168.122.96/32 in order to accept mail for relaying from my local... |
| Q1701: ... enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to | accept this certificate. What's wrong? |
| Q5003: How can I persuade Exim to | accept ETRN commands without the leading # character? |
| Q9609: Why do some servers refuse SMTP connections from my Linux box, but | accept connections from hosts running other operating systems? |
| Q0405: On a host that | accepts mail for several domains, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in /etc/aliases... |
| Q0012: ... unable to route to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to | access the DNS. |
| Q0619: ... though the lock daemon is running on the NFS server and other hosts are able to | access it. |
| Q0634: How can I stop a local transport from trying to | access the user's home directory, even when the delivery is to a file that is... |
| Q0730: ... the same passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier IMAP | access to my server? |
| Q0425: My users' mailboxes are distributed between several servers | according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers receive incoming... |
| Q0609: Exim seems to be sending the same message twice, | according to the log, although there is a difference in capitalization of the local... |
| Q0204: Every system has a nobody | account under which httpd etc run. I would like to know how to restrict mail which... |
| Q0402: ... arrange for all incoming email for *@some.domain to go into one pop3 mail | account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific local parts to the... |
| Q5012: ... (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form of delivery | acknowledgement? |
| Q0016: I've set verify = header_syntax in my | ACL, but this causes Exim to complain about header lines like To: Work: Jim <jims@email>,... |
| Q0023: ... find host name from IP address when I have the sender's IP address in an | ACL condition? My configuration contains this ACL statement: |
| Q0035: I set a hosts condition in an | ACL to do a lookup in a file of IP addresses, but it doesn't work. |
| Q1403: How should Exim be configured when it is | acting as a temporary storage system for a domain on a dial-up host? |
| Q0104: ... release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other special | action? |
| Q0607: When I | activate “return receipt” for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then... |
| Q9808: ... list exploder on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the | actual deliveries from. How can I get Exim to split a message into groups of... |
| Q0402: ... *@some.domain to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to | add a list of specific local parts to the system. |
| Q0612: Why does the pipe transport | add a line starting with >From to messages? |
| Q0616: Can Exim | add a Content-Length: header to messages it delivers? |
| Q0901: I would like | add some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain... |
| Q0902: Is it possible to have Exim | add a header to only certain local parts of outgoing mail? |
| Q0905: ... a system filter to replace certain headers in messages, but how can I | add text to existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of... |
| Q1601: How can I | add a disclaimer or an advertisement to a message? |
| Q9806: How do I get exim not to | add a Sender: header to locally originated mail? |
| Q1503: ... mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a Sender: header is being | added to the message. |
| Q0426: ... for anything@onedomain to forward to anything@anotherdomain. I tried | adding $local_part@anotherdomain to my aliases but it did not expand - it sent... |
| Q0003: What does the error Child process of | address_pipe transport returned 69 from command xxx mean? |
| Q0622: ... when I run a perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and | address_pipe transports? |
| Q0091: Why is Exim giving the error Failed to send message from | address_reply transport when I run it using -C to specify an alternate configuration?... |
| Q0511: ... uses a mail command to send a message, I get the error User 0 set for | address_reply transport is on the never_users list. What does this mean? |
| Q0319: ... indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote | admin has set their MX record to 127.0.0.1. |
| Q5001: ... arrange to allow a limited set of users to perform a limited set of Exim | administration functions? I don't want to put them all in the exim group. |
| Q5032: Are there any Exim web-based | administration scripts? |
| Q1702: How can I arrange for Exim to | advertise support for SMTP authentication only when the session is encrypted? |
| Q1601: How can I add a disclaimer or an | advertisement to a message? |
| Q0008: ... -d -bt user@domain all seems well, but when I send a message from my User | Agent, it does not arrive at its destination. |
| Q0706: How can I get POP-auth-before-relay ( | aka POP-before-SMTP) support in Exim? |
| Q0026: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an | alias to a pipe, but it always gives error code 69, with the comment (could mean... |
| Q0084: I want to set up an | alias that pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the... |
| Q0405: ... use fully qualified addresses in /etc/aliases or do I have to set up an | alias file for each domain? |
| Q0408: If I don't fully qualify the addresses in a virtual domain's | alias file then mail to aliases which also match the local domain get delivered... |
| Q0410: How can I make Exim look in the | alias NIS map instead of /etc/aliases? |
| Q0415: Can I use my existing | alias files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop in Exim... |
| Q0418: I want to use a default entry in my | alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it picks up the local parts that... |
| Q0422: ... for all addresses in a group of domains *.example.com to share the same | alias file? I have a number of such groups. |
| Q0427: How can I have an address looked up in two different | alias files, and delivered to all the addresses that are found? |
| Q0428: ... Sendmail, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the owner- entries in my | alias file to change the sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing list.... |
| Q0434: ... aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system | alias file with an lsearch* lookup, but that send all messages to the default... |
| Q0435: My | alias file contains fully qualified addresses as keys, and some wildcard domains... |
| Q0611: ... up |/bin/grep Subject|/usr/bin/smbclient -M <netbiosname> as an | alias but it doesn't work. |
| Q0724: ... response to the remote user is “unknown user” instead of the message from the | alias file. How can I change this? |
| Q0072: Exim will deliver to normal | aliases, and aliases that are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve :include:... |
| Q0401: ... need to have any mail for virt.dom.ain that doesn't match one of the | aliases in /usr/lib/aliases.virt delivered to a particular address, for example, postmaster@virt.dom.ain.... |
| Q0407: ... value when using a query-style lookup such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle | aliases? |
| Q0408: ... fully qualify the addresses in a virtual domain's alias file then mail to | aliases which also match the local domain get delivered to the local domain. |
| Q0418: ... handle unknown local parts, but it picks up the local parts that the | aliases generate. For example, if the alias file is |
| Q0424: ... de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different | aliases expand to the same address. |
| Q0426: ... forward to anything@anotherdomain. I tried adding $local_part@anotherdomain to my | aliases but it did not expand - it sent it to that literal address. |
| Q0434: How can I redirect all local parts that are not in my system | aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an lsearch*... |
| Q0624: ... program called smrsh that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail | aliases. Is there something like this in Exim ? |
| Q0724: I have used :fail: in some | aliases; when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but... |
| Q9709: When I try to compile Exim 4.x on Solaris 2.5.1 I get an error | along the lines of no such field in struct as 'value.ui32'. |
| Q9708: ... to use only the resolver (i.e. ignore /etc/hosts), but don't want to | alter the nsswitch.conf file in Solaris 2. |
| Q0065: When (as root) I use -C to run Exim with an | alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being unable to create a spool file... |
| Q0091: ... message from address_reply transport when I run it using -C to specify an | alternate configuration? |
| Q5030: ... files. How can I run a second copy of eximon to inspect and modify the | alternate queue? |
| Q0317: What I'd like to do is have | alternative smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which ISP I'm connected... |
| Q1003: We have a large password file. Can Exim use | alternative lookups during delivery to speed things up? |
| Q0722: I installed | Amavis and it is working, but bounces are simply vanishing. |
| Q5014: Although I haven't set check_spool_space, Exim is still checking the | amount of space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the SIZE option.... |
| Q5023: ... by default? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an | ancient way of authentication. Is it obsolete? |
| Q0314: I have a really | annoying intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with... |
| Q0034: Exim works fine on one host, but when I copied the binary to | another identical host, it stopped working (it could not resolve DNS names). |
| Q0316: I would like to forward all incoming email for a particular domain to | another host via SMTP. Whereabouts would I configure that? |
| Q0506: Using $recipients in a system filter gives me | another problem: how can I do a string lookup if $recipients is a list of addresses?... |
| Q5033: How can I send a copy of all outgoing messages to | another mailbox? |
| Q9804: ... out a user by disabling the password and moving the home directory to | another place. How can we arrange to reject mail for users in this state? |
| Q0717: ... Exim, a number of security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim | answers to EXPN and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows relaying.... |
| Q0728: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam | Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim? |
| Q1708: ... trying to use TLS with Outlook as a client on a box that is running Norton | Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected with Unsupported command errors. Why?... |
| Q0056: ... user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope sender) | apache@server_name.com because the PHP script is running as apache. |
| Q0031: ... rejecting connections from hosts that have more than one IP address, for no | apparent reason. |
| Q9705: Exim has been crashing on my Solaris x86 system, | apparently while running DBM functions. |
| Q0905: ... existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of messages that | appear to be spam. |
| Q0635: The log message error ignored | appears after some delivery failures. What does it mean? |
| Q1705: ... listed some hosts in tls_try_verify_hosts, but when they connect, no data | appears in $tls_peerdn. |
| Q0604: I want to use MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to | append the ctrl-A characters that separate indvidual emails? |
| Q0406: ... Some of my users are using the .forward to pipe to a shell command which | appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid this? |
| Q0089: What does the error kernel: | application bug: exim(12099) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait() mean? |
| Q0709: Does Exim | apply RBL checks to error messages, those with an envelope sender of <>... |
| Q0018: ... like: exim -v -R @aol.com? For other domains, I do this and I see the | appropriate waiting for passed connections to get used messages. |
| Q0431: How do I configure Exim to allow | arbitrary extensions in local parts, of the form +extension? |
| Q0085: I see a lot of rejected EHLO ... syntactically invalid | argument(s). I know it's because of the underscore in the host name, but is there... |
| Q0043: What does the error Unable to get interface configuration: 22 Invalid | argument mean? |
| Q0055: What does the error Failed to open wait-remote_smtp database: Invalid | argument mean? |
| Q0071: ... does the error failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim//db/retry: Illegal | argument mean? |
| Q0319: I have some mails on my queues that are sticking | around longer than the retry time indicates they should. They are all getting... |
| Q0309: How can I configure Exim on a firewall machine so that if mail | arrives addressed to a domain whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded... |
| Q5015: ... just noticed log entries that start off <= <>. Am I correct in | assuming that the <> indicates that the envelope did not contain any “From”... |
| Q0434: ... that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried using an | asterisk in the system alias file with an lsearch* lookup, but that send all messages... |
| Q0057: We've got people complaining about | attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are included in the body of the... |
| Q0509: How can I set up a filter file to detect and block virus | attachments? |
| Q0711: ... Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore large MIME | attachments for example and only process text/plain? |
| Q0715: How can I get Exim to remove | attachments from messages? |
| Q1602: How can I remove | attachments from messages? |
| Q5020: How can I make Exim receive incoming mail, queue it, but not | attempt to deliver it? I want to be in this state while moving some mailboxes.... |
| Q0620: Why does Exim bounce messages without even | attempting delivery, giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long... |
| Q0314: I have a really annoying intermittent problem where | attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with unknown mail domain. This only... |
| Q0736: Is it possible to tell exim to drop the connection after a server | attempts to send a message to a number of unknown users? |
| Q1401: ... at the same time mail to Internet hosts is queued without any delivery | attempts? |
| Q0078: ... unknown SMTP command XXXX from my client hosts, and they are unable to | authenticate. |
| Q9203: How can I use Exim for | authenticated SMTP using Cyrus on FreeBSD? |
| Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with PLAIN | authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data". |
| Q0726: My SMTP | authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty password.... |
| Q0730: How can I use the same passwords for SMTP | authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server? |
| Q1702: How can I arrange for Exim to advertise support for SMTP | authentication only when the session is encrypted? |
| Q5023: ... Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an ancient way of | authentication. Is it obsolete? |
| Q0726: ... name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN | authenticator? |
| Q0618: I am trying to set exim up to have a | automatic failover if it sees that the system that it is sending all mail to is... |
| Q0417: What do I need to do to make Exim handle /usr/ucb/vacation processing | automatically, so that people could just create a .vacation.msg file in their home directory... |
| Q1405: I have an ISDN connection and would like a way of running the queue | automatically when it is up. |
| Q1703: ... that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session | automatically on connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim handle this? |
| Q0065: ... gives an error about being unable to create a spool file when trying to run an | autoreply transport. Why is this? |
| Q0508: ... relative paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not | available from the password data? |
| Q0619: ... get Exim to deliver over NFS. I get the error fcntl() failed: No locks | available, though the lock daemon is running on the NFS server and other hosts are... |
| Q5011: Is there a version of Exim | available that runs under Windows? |
| Q0313: ... this means that bad addresses also get passed to the smart host. Can I | avoid this? |
| Q0615: ... removed all messages in the queue to this host - even recent messages. How I can | avoid this behaviour? I only want to remove messages that have exceeded the... |
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