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| Q0065: When (as root) I use | -C to run Exim with an alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being... |
| Q0091: ... Failed to send message from address_reply transport when I run it using | -C to specify an alternate configuration? |
| Q5023: Why does Exim do ident | callbacks by default? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this... |
| Q0609: ... message twice, according to the log, although there is a difference in | capitalization of the local part of the address. |
| Q0503: ... message with a Subject: line that contained a non-printing character (a | carriage return). This messed up my filter file. Is there a way to get round it?... |
| Q5006: Why aren't there any man pages for Exim? I don't always | carry my printed documentation. |
| 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... |
| Q0626: Exim can route local parts independent of their | case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How can I fix this?... |
| Q0804: ... names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an upper | case login name, it doesn't get rewritten. |
| Q0414: I have set | caseful_local_part on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have upper... |
| Q0806: ... its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed to be handled | caselessly? |
| Q0707: I have one or two | cases where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite... |
| Q9301: ... trying to 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: |
| Q0011: ... Instead of exim_dbmbuild, I'm using a homegrown program to build DBM (or | cdb) files, but Exim doesn't seem to be able to use them. |
| Q9702: How can I get rid of spurious ^M characters in messages sent from | CDE dtmail? |
| Q1701: I am trying to set up an Exim server that uses a self-signed | certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse... |
| Q1706: I have listed some hosts in tls_verify_hosts and provided them with | certificates, but their connections are always rejected. |
| Q0072: ... objects to aliases that involve :include: items, complaining that it can't | change gid or uid. Why is this? |
| Q0428: ... 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. |
| Q0724: ... is “unknown user” instead of the message from the alias file. How can I | change this? |
| Q0804: I'm using this rewriting rule to | change login names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an... |
| Q5018: ... rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time I make a | change? |
| Q5028: ... /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a symlink) to the real binary name. Can I | change this? |
| Q0088: ... and eventually times out. It worked flawlessly with Exim 3. What has | changed? |
| Q5028: When I HUP the Exim daemon, the name shown in the process table | changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a symlink) to the real binary name. Can... |
| Q0054: I'm getting an Exim configuration error unknown rewrite flag | character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used any flags on my rewriting rules. |
| Q0503: ... received a message with a Subject: line that contained a non-printing | character (a carriage return). This messed up my filter file. Is there a way to... |
| Q5003: How can I persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # | character? |
| Q5029: A message with a recipient address that contains a non-printing | character is stuck on my mail queue. How can I remove this address? |
| Q0075: I'm using LDAP, and some email addresses that contain special | characters are causing parsing errors in my LDAP lookups. |
| Q0411: ... 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 usernames? |
| Q0604: ... to use MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A | characters that separate indvidual emails? |
| Q9702: How can I get rid of spurious ^M | characters in messages sent from CDE dtmail? |
| Q0002: Exim is not working. What is wrong? How can I | check what it is doing? |
| Q0712: ... sendmail to 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... |
| Q1202: ... way? As far as Exim knows, all mail is coming from 127.0.0.1. Will it | check the source address against RBL? Or will it check the From: header? |
| Q0603: How can mails that are being routed through routers that do not set | check_local_user be delivered under the uid of the recipient? |
| Q5014: Although I haven't set | check_spool_space, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming... |
| Q0721: ... some clients use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before | checking the mailbox, so it doesn't work. |
| 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... |
| Q0708: How can I run customized verification | checks on incoming addresses? |
| Q0709: Does Exim apply RBL | checks to error messages, those with an envelope sender of <> ? |
| Q0003: What does the error | Child process of address_pipe transport returned 69 from command xxx mean? |
| Q0021: What does failed to create | child process to send failure message mean? This is a busy mail server with smtp_accept_max... |
| Q0631: I would like to | choose a retry rule based on on the sender rather than the recipient address.... |
| Q0014: ... the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the client host also | claims to be timing out. This seems to affect only certain messages. |
| Q0728: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, | Clam Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim? |
| Q0014: ... responding to the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the | client host also claims to be timing out. This seems to affect only certain messages.... |
| Q0059: When my Outlook Express 6.0 | client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to... |
| Q0078: Exim is logging the unknown SMTP command XXXX from my | client hosts, and they are unable to authenticate. |
| Q1408: ... this mailing list, the -R won't flush the mailing list message for that | client. |
| Q1704: When my Outlook Express 6.0 | client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to... |
| Q1707: I am trying to use TLS with Evolution as a | client, and keep seeing this error: SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error... |
| Q1708: I trying to use TLS with Outlook as a | client on a box that is running Norton Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected... |
| Q0721: I have POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim server, but some | clients use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before checking the mailbox,... |
| Q1408: ... mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN | clients is on this mailing list, the -R won't flush the mailing list message for... |
| Q1701: ... set up an Exim server that uses a self-signed certificate to enable my | clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to accept this certificate.... |
| Q1703: I have some legacy | clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically... |
| Q0040: ... messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer senders) from | clogging up the queue for days? |
| Q0017: ... message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error Remote end | closed connection after data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q1406: When I dial up to | collect mail from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately;... |
| Q1409: ... would like to have a separate queue per domain for hosts which dial in to | collect their mail. |
| Q0710: ... sender-recipient combinations, with a specific message for each such | combination. |
| Q0710: I want to reject certain sender-recipient | combinations, with a specific message for each such combination. |
| Q0026: ... connect an alias to a pipe, but it always gives error code 69, with the | comment (could mean service or program unavailable). |
| Q0734: How do MailScanner and Exiscan | compare? What are the pros and cons? |
| Q0118: I've set LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include in Local/Makefile, but the | compilation of exim_dumpdb is ignoring this option and failing. Why? |
| Q0102: I can't get Exim to | compile with Berkeley DB version 2.x or 3.x. |
| Q9301: I'm trying to | compile on an HP machine and I don't have gcc there. So I put CC=cc in the Local/Makefile,... |
| 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... |
| Q0113: I've | compiled Exim and I've managed to start it but there was one problem - it always complained that... |
| Q0113: ... Exim and I've managed to start it but there was one problem - it always | complained that libmsqlclient.so.10 was not found, even though this file is in /usr/local/lib/mysql/.... |
| Q0050: I am getting | complaints from a customer who uses my Exim server for relaying that they are being blocked... |
| Q0311: When a DNS lookup for MX records fails to | complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host defined by the A record?... |
| Q0805: Is it possible to | completely fail a message if the rewrite rules fail? |
| Q0508: ... the use of relative paths in users' filter files when the directories | concerned are not available from the password data? |
| Q0023: ... 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.... |
| Q0726: ... sending an unknown user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this | condition in a PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q0312: Is it possible to use a | conditional expression for the host item in a route_list for manualroute router? I... |
| Q5034: Is there any way to make the queue_only option | conditional? I would like the ability to queue messages from external sources while... |
| Q9602: ... standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the logrotate | config file that will do this? |
| Q0023: ... from IP address when I have the sender's IP address in an ACL condition? My | configuration contains this ACL statement: |
| Q0043: What does the error Unable to get interface | configuration: 22 Invalid argument mean? |
| Q0054: I'm getting an Exim | configuration error unknown rewrite flag character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used... |
| 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 when trying... |
| Q0091: ... from address_reply transport when I run it using -C to specify an alternate | configuration? |
| Q0425: ... servers receive incoming mail at random. I would like to have the same | configuration file for all the servers, which does local delivery for the mailboxes... |
| Q5025: What precautions should I take when editing Exim's run time | configuration file? |
| Q5030: I am using exim in a two queues scenario, with two different | configuration files. How can I run a second copy of eximon to inspect and modify the... |
| Q9605: ... try to test the Mail program, I get the following error: Failed to open | configuration file /etc/exim.conf. |
| Q9606: I'm having trouble | configuring Exim 4 on a Debian system. How does /etc/exim4/conf.d work? |
| Q0607: ... message from Exim... something like not supported. Can I activate delivery | confirmations? |
| 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... |
| Q0068: Exim times out when trying to | connect to some hosts, though those hosts are known to be up and running. What's... |
| Q0077: ... I try to read mail from my PC I get connection rejected or unable to | connect. |
| Q1705: I have listed some hosts in tls_try_verify_hosts, but when they | connect, no data appears in $tls_peerdn. |
| Q0317: ... smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which ISP I'm | connected to. |
| Q1401: When I'm not | connected to the Internet, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my local... |
| Q1404: ... delivery of waiting mail when I dial in. How can I arrange for any new messages that arrive while I'm | connected to be delivered immediately? |
| Q0009: ... What does no immediate delivery: too many messages received in one SMTP | connection mean? |
| Q0017: ... to a particular server, it fails, giving the error Remote end closed | connection after data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q0018: Why do messages not get delivered down the same | connection when I do something like: exim -v -R @aol.com? For other domains, I do this and... |
| Q0045: ... entries in the log that mention two different IP addresses for the same | connection. Why is this? For example: |
| Q0049: ... message no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one | connection mean? |
| Q0053: Exim on my host responds to a | connection with 220 *****... and won't understand EHLO commands. |
| Q0069: What does the error SMTP data timeout (message abandoned) on | connection from... mean? |
| Q0070: What does the error SMTP command timeout on | connection from... mean? |
| Q0077: ... delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get | connection rejected or unable to connect. |
| Q0733: ... tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the | connection is over IPv6? |
| 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?... |
| Q0738: How can I configure Exim to delay the SMTP | connection if more than 10 invalid recipients are received in one message? |
| Q1405: I have an ISDN | connection and would like a way of running the queue automatically when it is up.... |
| Q1703: ... STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically on | connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim handle this? |
| Q0018: ... @aol.com? For other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate waiting for passed | connections to get used messages. |
| Q0020: Why do | connections to my machine's SMTP port take a long time to respond with the banner,... |
| Q0021: ... smtp_accept_max set to 500, but this problem started to occur at about 300 incoming | connections. |
| Q0031: Exim is rejecting | connections from hosts that have more than one IP address, for no apparent reason.... |
| Q0050: ... Exim server for relaying that they are being blocked with a Too many | connections error. |
| Q1706: ... hosts in tls_verify_hosts and provided them with certificates, but their | connections are always rejected. |
| Q9603: ... failing (looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap | connections to be refused. The imapd in use is Washington Univers 12.250. Could this... |
| Q9609: Why do some servers refuse SMTP | connections from my Linux box, but accept connections from hosts running other operating... |
| Q0734: How do MailScanner and Exiscan compare? What are the pros and | cons? |
| Q0737: Is there some way to tell Exim not to | consider 127.0.0.1 as a valid MX? |
| Q0083: Netscape on Unix is sending messages | containing an unqualified user name in the Sender: header line, which Exim is rejecting because... |
| Q0616: Can Exim add a | Content-Length: header to messages it delivers? |
| Q0806: ... I'm using $domain 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?... |
| Q9811: ... server to use in tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope | contents, but to suppress any error notifications to the original sender. |
| Q1005: ... my system load too much, and there are many Exim processes. How can I | control this? |
| Q0428: I've | converted from Sendmail, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the owner- entries... |
| Q0034: Exim works fine on one host, but when I | copied the binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not... |
| Q5030: ... scenario, with two different configuration files. How can I run a second | copy of eximon to inspect and modify the alternate queue? |
| Q5033: How can I send a | copy of all outgoing messages to another mailbox? |
| Q9809: Can I configure Exim so that my gateway host sends a | copy of each incoming message to each of two internal hosts? |
| Q0073: I'm seeing log file | corruption, with parts of log lines getting mangled by other log entries. |
| Q0074: What does the error message remote delivery process | count got out of step mean? |
| Q0629: I'm having trouble with quotas and | Courier, because Exim is not handling maildirsize files. |
| Q0730: How can I use the same passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for | Courier IMAP access to my server? |
| Q0062: ... start an Exim daemon it crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the | crash is happening in the function getservbyname(). What's going on? |
| Q0062: When I try to start an Exim daemon it | crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the function... |
| Q9701: Exim builds fine with gcc on SunOS 4 but | crashes inside sscanf(). |
| Q9703: On SunOS 4 Exim | crashes when looking up domains in the DNS that have more than 10 A records. |
| Q0001: Exim is | crashing. What is wrong? |
| Q0602: Exim keeps | crashing with segmentation errors (signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems... |
| Q9601: Exim is mysteriously | crashing, usually when forking to send a delivery error message. |
| Q9705: Exim has been | crashing on my Solaris x86 system, apparently while running DBM functions. |
| Q0021: What does failed to | create child process to send failure message mean? This is a busy mail server with smtp_accept_max... |
| Q0044: What does the error Failed to | create spool file mean? |
| Q0065: ... 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 is this? |
| Q0417: ... /usr/ucb/vacation processing automatically, so that people could just | create a .vacation.msg file in their home directory and not have to edit their .forward... |
| Q0711: Will Exim allow me to | create a file of regexs and match incoming external email to the list - and if... |
| Q0614: ... a lot of kids, but is there some limit to the number of processes it | creates? |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error Permission denied: | creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local delivery? |
| Q0604: I want to use MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the | ctrl-A characters that separate indvidual emails? |
| Q0901: I would like add some | custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain and the subject... |
| Q0708: How can I run | customized verification checks on incoming addresses? |
| Q0626: Exim can route local parts independent of their case, but the | Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How can I fix this? |
| Q0630: How can I configure Exim to deliver to a | Cyrus message store? |
| Q9203: How can I use Exim for authenticated SMTP using | Cyrus on FreeBSD? |
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