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| Q0072: ... that involve :include: items, complaining that it can't change gid or | uid. Why is this? |
| Q0601: ... What does the error Neither the xxx router nor the yyy transport set a | uid for local delivery of... mean? |
| Q0603: ... through routers that do not set check_local_user be delivered under the | uid of the recipient? |
| Q0041: What does the message unable to set gid=ddd or | uid=ddd (euid=ddd): local delivery to ... transport=ttt mean? |
| Q0066: What does the message unable to set gid=xxx or | uid=xxx mean? |
| Q0012: Exim is | unable to route to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the... |
| Q0041: What does the message | unable to set gid=ddd or uid=ddd (euid=ddd): local delivery to ... transport=ttt... |
| Q0043: What does the error | Unable to get interface configuration: 22 Invalid argument mean? |
| Q0065: ... run Exim with an alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being | unable to create a spool file when trying to run an autoreply transport. Why... |
| Q0066: What does the message | unable to set gid=xxx or uid=xxx mean? |
| Q0077: ... However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get connection rejected or | unable to connect. |
| Q0078: ... logging the unknown SMTP command XXXX from my client hosts, and they are | unable to authenticate. |
| Q0026: ... gives error code 69, with the comment (could mean service or program | unavailable). |
| Q0051: ... to test a system filter, I received the following error message: Filter error: | unavailable filtering command "fail" near line 8 of filter file. |
| Q0103: I'm getting an | undefined symbol error for hosts_ctl when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error... |
| Q1302: ... built with Perl support exits with several error messages of the form | undefined reference to `PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0040: How can I stop | undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer senders)... |
| Q0085: ... rejected EHLO ... syntactically invalid argument(s). I know it's because of the | underscore in the host name, but is there a switch to allow Exim to accept mail from... |
| Q0732: I would like to either warn or deny when a host uses an | underscore in the EHLO command. |
| Q0053: Exim on my host responds to a connection with 220 *****... and won't | understand EHLO commands. |
| Q0080: Am I to | understand that the database lookups must only return one value? They can not return... |
| Q9603: ... system, causing imap connections to be refused. The imapd in use is Washington | Univers 12.250. Could this be anything to do with Exim? |
| Q0083: Netscape on | Unix is sending messages containing an unqualified user name in the Sender: header line,... |
| Q0047: ... of the mail system, I see the message Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: | unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail. What does this mean? |
| Q0054: I'm getting an Exim configuration error | unknown rewrite flag character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used any flags on... |
| Q0064: ... it delivers fine, but when I send a message from the mail command, I get User | unknown and the mail is saved in dead.letter. |
| Q0078: Exim is logging the | unknown SMTP command XXXX from my client hosts, and they are unable to authenticate.... |
| Q0314: ... intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with | unknown mail domain. This only happens a few times a day and there is no particular... |
| Q0403: How do I configure Exim to send messages for | unknown local users to a central server? |
| 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.... |
| Q0725: ... the SMTP message is always 550 5.1.1 <user@mydomain.com>... User | unknown. |
| Q0726: My SMTP authentication can be bypassed by sending an | unknown user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in... |
| Q0736: ... the connection after a server attempts to send a message to a number of | unknown users? |
| Q0083: Netscape on Unix is sending messages containing an | unqualified user name in the Sender: header line, which Exim is rejecting because I have set... |
| Q0067: What does the error too many | unrecognized commands mean? |
| Q0108: I'm getting an | unresolved symbol ldap_is_ldap_url when trying to build Exim. |
| Q0109: I'm getting an | unresolved symbol mysql_close when trying to build Exim. |
| Q1708: ... is running Norton Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected with | Unsupported command errors. Why? |
| Q0701: How do I block | unwanted messages from outside my host? |
| Q0104: I'm about to | upgrade to a new Exim release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take... |
| Q9608: I'm running Exim 3 under Debian, and want to | upgrade to Exim 4. How difficult is it? |
| 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... |
| Q0804: ... login names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an | upper case login name, it doesn't get rewritten. |
| Q0606: I'm using tmail to do local deliveries, but when I turned on the | use_crlf option on the pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message... |
| Q0724: ... see the message on the log, but the response to the remote user is “unknown | user”; instead of the message from the alias file. How can I change this? |
| Q0406: ... are using the .forward to pipe to a shell command which appends to the | user's INBOX. How can I forbid this? |
| Q0413: When a | user's .forward file is syntactially invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages to... |
| Q0605: If a | user's mailbox is over quota, is there a way for me to set it up so that the... |
| 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 elsewhere?... |
| Q0008: If I run ./exim -d -bt | user@domain all seems well, but when I send a message from my User Agent, it... |
| Q0056: ... are using Exim to send mail from our web server. However, whenever a | user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com... |
| Q0064: ... test@domain it delivers fine, but when I send a message from the mail command, I get | User unknown and the mail is saved in dead.letter. |
| Q0083: Netscape on Unix is sending messages containing an unqualified | user name in the Sender: header line, which Exim is rejecting because I have set verify... |
| Q0413: When a | user's .forward file is syntactially invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages... |
| Q0416: ... is quickest way to set up Exim so any message sent to a non-existing | user would bounce back with a different message, based on the name of non-existing... |
| Q0425: ... distributed between several servers according to the first letter of the | user name. All the servers receive incoming mail at random. I would like to... |
| Q0432: I use NIS for my | user data. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being... |
| Q0511: ... system filter 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... |
| Q0632: What does the error | User 1 set for local_mbx_delivery transport is on the never_users list mean?... |
| Q0712: ... make an ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if a | user has exceeded their email quota. If they have I issue a temporary failure... |
| Q0716: How can I arrange for each | user to have a file listing the only sender addresses from which she will accept... |
| Q0724: ... addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but the response to the remote | user is “unknown user” instead of the message from the alias file.... |
| Q0725: ... recipients, but when I test them, the SMTP message is always 550 5.1.1 < | user@mydomain.com>... User unknown. |
| Q0726: My SMTP authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown | user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN... |
| Q9804: We want to be able to temporarily lock out a | user by disabling the password and moving the home directory to another place.... |
| 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... |
| Q0411: ... 8 characters as long as the first 8 characters match one of the local | usernames? |
| Q0729: How can I screen out addresses that are neither valid | usernames or distribution lists on mail being forwarded to an internal Win2K server?... |
| Q0005: Why is Exim not rejecting incoming messages addressed to non-existent | users at SMTP time? |
| Q0204: ... run. I would like to know how to restrict mail which comes from that account to | users on that host only. |
| Q0403: How do I configure Exim to send messages for unknown local | users to a central server? |
| Q0406: Some of my | users are using the .forward to pipe to a shell command which appends to the... |
| 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... |
| Q0423: Some of our | users have no home directories; the field in the password file contains /no/home/dir. This... |
| Q0425: My | users' mailboxes are distributed between several servers according to the first... |
| Q0508: How can I allow the use of relative paths in | users' filter files when the directories concerned are not available from the... |
| Q0736: ... connection after a server attempts to send a message to a number of unknown | users? |
| Q5001: How can I arrange to allow a limited set of | users to perform a limited set of Exim administration functions? I don't want to put... |
| Q9802: ... sends mail to the outside world only from a restricted list of our local | users? |
| Q9804: ... home directory to another place. How can we arrange to reject mail for | users in this state? |
| Q9706: The exiwhat | utility isn't working for me on a Solaris 2 system. |
| Q1501: The MX records for some | UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it to pass the messages on... |
| Q1503: ... something 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... |
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