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| Q0720: ... hosts=192.168.122.96/32 in order to accept mail for relaying from my local | LAN, but it doesn't work. What's wrong? |
| Q9604: I get the too many open files error especially when a lot of messages | land for Majordomo at the same time. |
| Q9605: I installed debian 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 | laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following error: Failed to... |
| Q0625: I wish to have | large emails go out one at a time. |
| Q0711: ... possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore | large MIME attachments for example and only process text/plain? |
| Q1001: I'm running a | large mail server. Should I set split_spool_directory to improve performance?... |
| Q1003: We have a | large password file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to speed... |
| Q0201: How can I arrange that messages | larger than some limit are handled by a special router? |
| Q0314: ... pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to lookup the same domain a few minutes | later then it is OK. |
| Q0032: ... is failing to find the MySQL library, even though is it present within | LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'm getting this error: |
| Q0075: I'm using | LDAP, and some email addresses that contain special characters are causing... |
| Q0407: ... I arrange for a default value when using a query-style lookup such as | LDAP or NIS+ to handle aliases? |
| Q0108: I'm getting an unresolved symbol | ldap_is_ldap_url when trying to build Exim. |
| Q0112: I'm getting the error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find | -ldb when I try to build Exim. |
| Q5003: How can I persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the | leading # character? |
| Q1703: I have some | legacy clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session... |
| Q0425: ... mailboxes are distributed between several servers according to the first | letter of the user name. All the servers receive incoming mail at random. I would... |
| Q0414: ... caseful_local_part on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have upper case | letters in their login names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case.... |
| Q0032: Exim is failing to find the MySQL | library, even though is it present within LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'm getting this error:... |
| Q1301: ... built with Perl support exits with the error message ./exim: can't load | library 'libperl.so'. |
| Q0201: How can I arrange that messages larger than some | limit are handled by a special router? |
| Q0614: ... Exim's throat in one go. Exim spawns a lot of kids, but is there some | limit to the number of processes it creates? |
| Q0719: I would like to have a per-user | limit for the maximum size of messages that can be sent. |
| Q5001: How can I arrange to allow a | limited set of users to perform a limited set of Exim administration functions? I don't... |
| Q0082: ... __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libresolv.so.2 with | link time reference mean? |
| Q1503: ... strange on our system in regards to mail coming in via rmail from a UUCP | link. The sender is being set to mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a Sender:... |
| Q9201: On FreeBSD, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic | link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper; it doesn't contain the Sendmail binary. How... |
| Q0110: ... support. I have included -lpam in EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a | linking error: |
| Q9602: I want to use logrotate which is standard with RH5.2 | Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the logrotate config file that... |
| Q9605: I installed debian 2.2 | linux on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following... |
| Q9609: Why do some servers refuse SMTP connections from my | Linux box, but accept connections from hosts running other operating systems?... |
| Q0080: ... the database lookups must only return one value? They can not return a | list of values? The documentation seems to indicate that it's possible to return... |
| Q0202: Can I specify a | list of domains to explicitly reject? |
| Q0309: ... it is forwarded to the internal mail server, without having to have a | list of all the domains involved? |
| 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. |
| Q0428: ... in my alias file to change the sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing | list. |
| Q0506: ... filter gives me another problem: how can I do a string lookup if $recipients is a | list of addresses? |
| Q0511: ... message, I get the error User 0 set for address_reply transport is on the never_users | list. What does this mean? |
| Q0632: ... error User 1 set for local_mbx_delivery transport is on the never_users | list mean? |
| Q0704: ... test that Exim is correctly configured to use the Realtime Blackhole | List (RBL)? |
| Q0711: ... me to create a file of regexs and match incoming external email to the | list - and if a match is found file the offending message into a special location?... |
| Q0733: ... any way to tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any DNS black | list if the connection is over IPv6? |
| Q1408: If email has been deferred to a member on a local mailing | list (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN clients is on this mailing... |
| Q5008: If I set up a domain | list to contain *customer.com, it matches customer.com and abc.customer.com as required,... |
| Q9802: ... Exim so that it sends mail to the outside world only from a restricted | list of our local users? |
| Q9808: I have a mailing | list exploder on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the actual... |
| Q1705: I have | listed some hosts in tls_try_verify_hosts, but when they connect, no data appears in... |
| Q1706: I have | listed some hosts in tls_verify_hosts and provided them with certificates, but... |
| Q1201: When I run fetchmail, I get the error SMTP | listener doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost. |
| Q0716: How can I arrange for each user to have a file | listing the only sender addresses from which she will accept mail? I want to do... |
| Q5019: I need an option that is the opposite of -bpa, that is, a | listing of those addresses generated from a top-level address that have not yet... |
| Q0729: ... screen out addresses that are neither valid usernames or distribution | lists on mail being forwarded to an internal Win2K server? |
| Q0426: ... $local_part@anotherdomain to my aliases but it did not expand - it sent it to that | literal address. |
| Q9811: ... would like to “tap off” a proportion of real mail traffic from my | live mail server to use in tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope... |
| Q0626: Exim can route local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus | LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How can I fix this? |
| Q1005: A lot of incoming mail is pushing up my system | load too much, and there are many Exim processes. How can I control this? |
| Q1301: ... Exim built with Perl support exits with the error message ./exim: can't | load library 'libperl.so'. |
| Q0036: ... Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a | local delivery? |
| Q0038: ... message error in forward file (filtering not enabled): missing or malformed | local part mean? |
| Q0041: What does the message unable to set gid=ddd or uid=ddd (euid=ddd): | local delivery to ... transport=ttt mean? |
| Q0206: ... I get Exim to deliver certain domains to a different SMTP port on my | local host? |
| Q0301: What do lowest numbered MX record points to | local host and remote host address is the local host mean? |
| Q0303: ... Exim to send all messages to a central server? I don't want to do any | local deliveries at all on this host. |
| Q0305: How can I arrange for mail on my | local network to be delivered directly to the relevant hosts, but all other... |
| Q0308: I have a domain for which some | local parts must be delivered locally, but the remainder are to be treated like... |
| Q0402: ... into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific | local parts to the system. |
| Q0403: How do I configure Exim to send messages for unknown | local users to a central server? |
| Q0408: ... virtual domain's alias file then mail to aliases which also match the | local domain get delivered to the local domain. |
| Q0409: I want mail for any | local part at certain virtual domains to go to a single address for each domain.... |
| Q0411: ... than 8 characters as long as the first 8 characters match one of the | local usernames? |
| Q0414: I have set caseful_ | local_part on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have... |
| 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 the aliases generate. For... |
| Q0425: ... like to have the same configuration file for all the servers, which does | local delivery for the mailboxes it holds, and sends other addresses to the... |
| Q0429: I would like to deliver mail addressed to a given domain to | local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope senders. |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to route a | local address, it gives a permission denied error for the .forward file, like... |
| Q0431: How do I configure Exim to allow arbitrary extensions in | local parts, of the form +extension? |
| Q0434: How can I redirect all | local parts that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk... |
| Q0601: ... the error Neither the xxx router nor the yyy transport set a uid for | local delivery of... mean? |
| Q0606: I'm using tmail to do | local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the pipe transport (tmail... |
| Q0609: ... according to the log, although there is a difference in capitalization of the | local part of the address. |
| Q0626: Exim can route | local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the... |
| Q0634: How can I stop a | local transport from trying to access the user's home directory, even when the... |
| Q0714: Is there a way to configure Exim to reject mail to a certain | local host? |
| Q0720: ... accept hosts=192.168.122.96/32 in order to accept mail for relaying from my | local LAN, but it doesn't work. What's wrong? |
| Q0803: I want to rewrite | local addresses in mail that goes to the outside world, but not for messages... |
| Q0807: I want to rewrite | local sender addresses depending on the domain of the recipient. |
| Q0902: Is it possible to have Exim add a header to only certain | local parts of outgoing mail? |
| Q1401: ... connected to the Internet, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my | local network to be delivered, while at the same time mail to Internet hosts... |
| Q1408: If email has been deferred to a member on a | local mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN clients... |
| Q1501: The MX records for some UUCP domains point to my | local host. How do I get it to pass the messages on to UUCP? |
| Q9802: ... it sends mail to the outside world only from a restricted list of our | local users? |
| Q9807: Is there any way to have messages sent to a specific | local address delayed by - say - 24 hours? |
| Q0207: Why does Exim lower-case the | local-part of a non-local domain when routing? |
| Q0118: I've set LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include in | Local/Makefile, but the compilation of exim_dumpdb is ignoring this option and failing.... |
| Q9301: ... compile on an HP machine and I don't have gcc there. So I put CC=cc in the | Local/Makefile, but I got this error: |
| Q0632: What does the error User 1 set for | local_mbx_delivery transport is on the never_users list mean? |
| Q0421: I can't get a regular expression to work in a | local_parts option on one of my routers. |
| Q0718: ... prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one MX to | localhost or only have address 127.0.0.1 ? |
| Q0205: How can I get Exim to deliver to me | locally and everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX record specified... |
| Q0308: I have a domain for which some local parts must be delivered | locally, but the remainder are to be treated like any other remote addresses.... |
| Q0411: Why will Exim deliver a message | locally to any username that is longer than 8 characters as long as the first... |
| Q5034: ... I would like the ability to queue messages from external sources while deliver | locally generated email as normal. |
| Q9806: How do I get exim not to add a Sender: header to | locally originated mail? |
| Q0711: ... list - and if a match is found file the offending message into a special | location? Also is it possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email... |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error Permission denied: creating | lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local delivery? |
| Q0619: ... 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 able to access... |
| Q9804: We want to be able to temporarily | lock out a user by disabling the password and moving the home directory to... |
| Q0027: What does the error Spool file is | locked mean? |
| Q0037: I am experiencing mailbox | locking problems with Sun's mailtool used over a network. |
| Q9704: I am experiencing mailbox | locking problems with Sun's mailtool used over a network. |
| Q0619: ... can't 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... |
| Q0022: What does No transport set by system filter in a | log line mean? |
| Q0024: When I run exim -bd -q10m I get PANIC | LOG: exec of exim -q failed. |
| Q0045: I see entries in the | log that mention two different IP addresses for the same connection. Why is... |
| Q0049: What does the | log message no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection... |
| Q0059: ... to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook | log shows this: |
| Q0063: ... nothing happens. There is no process, and nothing is written to the Exim | log. |
| Q0073: I'm seeing | log file corruption, with parts of log lines getting mangled by other log... |
| Q0076: ... different files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get one message on the reject | log and two messages on the main log. |
| Q0608: What does the message retry time not reached [for any host] on the | log mean? Why won't Exim try to deliver the message? |
| Q0609: Exim seems to be sending the same message twice, according to the | log, although there is a difference in capitalization of the local part of... |
| Q0617: ... retry rules specify longer times after a while, because it is writing a | log entry every time, like this: |
| Q0635: The | log message error ignored appears after some delivery failures. What does... |
| Q0724: ... some aliases; when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the | log, but the response to the remote user is “unknown user” instead... |
| Q5002: I want to “tail” the Exim | log, but I have a number of other logs I also want to “tail”, and... |
| Q5015: I just noticed | log entries that start off <= <>. Am I correct in assuming that the <>... |
| Q0078: Exim is | logging the unknown SMTP command XXXX from my client hosts, and they are unable... |
| Q0414: ... that handle my local domain because my users have upper case letters in their | login names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case. Can I relax... |
| Q0804: I'm using this rewriting rule to change | login names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an upper... |
| Q9602: I want to use | logrotate which is standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out... |
| Q0076: I've configured Exim to use syslog for its | logs, with the main and reject logs sent to different files, but whenever a... |
| Q5002: I want to “tail” the Exim log, but I have a number of other | logs I also want to “tail”, and the number of tailing windows is getting... |
| Q9602: ... to use logrotate which is standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail | logs. Anyone worked out the logrotate config file that will do this? |
| Q0020: Why do connections to my machine's SMTP port take a | long time to respond with the banner, when connections to other ports respond... |
| Q0052: What does ridiculously | long message header in an error report mean? |
| Q0411: ... a message locally to any username that is longer than 8 characters as | long as the first 8 characters match one of the local usernames? |
| Q0620: ... delivery, giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a | long failure period? |
| Q0319: I have some mails on my queues that are sticking around | longer than the retry time indicates they should. They are all getting frozen... |
| Q0411: Why will Exim deliver a message locally to any username that is | longer than 8 characters as long as the first 8 characters match one of the local... |
| Q0617: ... to deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the retry rules specify | longer times after a while, because it is writing a log entry every time, like... |
| Q0006: I've put an entry for *.my.domain in a DBM | lookup file, but it isn't getting recognized. |
| Q0007: I've put the entry *@domain.com in a | lookup database, but it isn't working. The expansion I'm using is: |
| Q0030: I'm trying to use a query-style | lookup for hosts that are allowed to relay, but it is giving really weird errors.... |
| Q0033: What does the error | lookup of host "xx.xx.xx" failed in yyy router mean? |
| Q0035: I set a hosts condition in an ACL to do a | lookup in a file of IP addresses, but it doesn't work. |
| Q0310: If a DNS | lookup returns no MX records why doesn't Exim just bin the message? |
| Q0311: When a DNS | lookup for MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to... |
| Q0314: ... day and there is no particular pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to | lookup the same domain a few minutes later then it is OK. |
| Q0315: ... I'd like route all mail with addresses that can't be resolved (the DNS | lookup times out) to a relay machine. |
| Q0407: How can I arrange for a default value when using a query-style | lookup such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle aliases? |
| Q0434: ... address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an lsearch* | lookup, but that send all messages to the default address. |
| Q0506: ... $recipients in a system filter gives me another problem: how can I do a string | lookup if $recipients is a list of addresses? |
| Q0733: Is there any way to tell Exim not to | lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the connection is over IPv6?... |
| Q0806: I'm using $domain as the key for a | lookup in a rewriting rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't... |
| Q9812: How can I | lookup data from a single file using both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as... |
| Q0118: I've set | LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include in Local/Makefile, but the compilation of exim_dumpdb is ignoring this... |
| Q0075: ... that contain special characters are causing parsing errors in my LDAP | lookups. |
| Q0080: Am I to understand that the database | lookups must only return one value? They can not return a list of values? The... |
| Q1003: We have a large password file. Can Exim use alternative | lookups during delivery to speed things up? |
| Q0061: ... What does the error Too many “Received” headers - suspected mail | loop mean? |
| Q9603: I'm seeing the message inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing ( | looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections to be refused.... |
| Q0207: Why does Exim | lower-case the local-part of a non-local domain when routing? |
| Q0806: ... as the key for a lookup in a rewriting rule, but its contents are not being | lowercased. Aren't domains supposed to be handled caselessly? |
| Q0301: What do | lowest numbered MX record points to local host and remote host address is the local... |
| Q0110: I'm trying to build Exim with PAM support. I have included | -lpam in EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a linking error: |
| Q0434: ... single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an | lsearch* lookup, but that send all messages to the default address. |
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