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| Q0008: If I run ./exim | -d -bt user@domain all seems well, but when I send a message from my User... |
| Q0064: When I run exim | -d test@domain it delivers fine, but when I send a message from the mail command, I get... |
| Q0062: When I try to start an Exim | daemon with -bd it crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening... |
| Q0063: When I try to start an Exim | daemon, nothing happens. There is no process, and nothing is written to the Exim... |
| Q0619: ... 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 it. |
| Q0626: ... Exim can route local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP | daemon requires the correct case. How can I fix this? |
| Q5028: When I HUP the Exim | daemon, the name shown in the process table changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which... |
| Q0047: ... On a reboot, or a restart of the mail system, I see the message Mailer | daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail.... |
| Q0014: Exim is timing out after receiving and responding to the | DATA command from one particular host, and yet the client host also claims... |
| Q0017: ... server, it fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after | data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q0069: What does the error SMTP | data timeout (message abandoned) on connection from... mean? |
| Q0081: What does error in redirect | data: included file xxxx is too big mean? |
| Q0087: What does rejected after | DATA: malformed address: xx@yy may not follow <xx@yy> : failing address in... |
| Q0432: I use NIS for my user | data. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being restarted?... |
| Q0508: ... files when the directories concerned are not available from the password | data? |
| Q0723: ... PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication | data". |
| Q1705: ... listed some hosts in tls_try_verify_hosts, but when they connect, no | data appears in $tls_peerdn. |
| Q5015: ... that the <> indicates that the envelope did not contain any “From” | data? |
| Q5018: If I am using dbm files for | data that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart... |
| Q9812: How can I lookup | data from a single file using both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as keys?... |
| Q0007: I've put the entry *@domain.com in a lookup | database, but it isn't working. The expansion I'm using is: |
| Q0055: What does the error Failed to open wait-remote_smtp | database: Invalid argument mean? |
| Q0080: Am I to understand that the | database lookups must only return one value? They can not return a list of values?... |
| Q1004: I just wondered if it might be helpful to put the hints | database on a RAM disk during regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? |
| Q0058: What does the error failed to open | DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists mean? |
| Q0071: What does the error failed to open | DB file /var/spool/exim//db/retry: Illegal argument mean? |
| Q0102: I can't get Exim to compile with Berkeley | DB version 2.x or 3.x. |
| Q0116: I have tried to build Exim with Berkeley | DB 3 and 4, but I always get errors. |
| Q9607: ... having difficulties trying to make Exim 4 with Redhat 9 and Berkeley | DB 4. |
| Q0006: I've put an entry for *.my.domain in a | DBM lookup file, but it isn't getting recognized. |
| 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. |
| Q5018: If I am using | dbm files for data that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I... |
| Q9705: ... has been crashing on my Solaris x86 system, apparently while running | DBM functions. |
| Q0424: How can I disable Exim's | de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different aliases expand... |
| Q9605: I installed | debian 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I... |
| Q9606: I'm having trouble configuring Exim 4 on a | Debian system. How does /etc/exim4/conf.d work? |
| Q9608: I'm running Exim 3 under | Debian, and want to upgrade to Exim 4. How difficult is it? |
| Q0004: My virtual domain setup isn't working. How can I | debug it? |
| Q0062: When I try to start an Exim daemon with -bd it crashes. I ran a | debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the function getservbyname().... |
| Q0702: ... don't want to block spam entirely; how can I inspect each message before | deciding whether or not to deliver it? |
| Q0407: How can I arrange for a | default value when using a query-style lookup such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle aliases?... |
| Q0418: I want to use a | default entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it picks up... |
| Q0434: ... alias file with an lsearch* lookup, but that sent all messages to the | default address. |
| Q0628: I have the | default retry rule, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four... |
| Q5021: What does Exim use for POP and IMAP as a | default? Do I have to install anything else? |
| Q5023: Why does Exim do ident callbacks by | default? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an ancient... |
| Q9812: ... want to set smtp_accept_max_per_host by this means, and also include a | default. |
| Q0731: Is there any | defence I can use against spam sent through an open proxy? |
| Q0423: ... or directory) when Exim tries to look for a .forward file, and the delivery is | deferred. |
| Q0602: ... happen when it is about to contact a remote host or when a delivery is | deferred. |
| Q1408: If email has been | deferred to a member on a local mailing list (implemented through forward files), and... |
| Q0413: When a user's .forward file is syntactially invalid, Exim | defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes include the user's own... |
| Q0046: A short time after I start Exim I see a | defunct zombie process. What is causing this? |
| Q0020: ... with the banner, when connections to other ports respond instantly? The | delay is sometimes as long as 30 seconds. |
| Q0738: How can I configure Exim to | delay the SMTP connection if more than 10 invalid recipients are received in... |
| Q9807: Is there any way to have messages sent to a specific local address | delayed by - say - 24 hours? |
| Q0419: ... which people have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to | delete any mail that is sent to them? |
| Q0077: I've installed Exim and it is | delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get connection rejected... |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error Permission | denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local delivery?... |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a permission | denied error for the .forward file, like this: |
| Q0732: I would like to either warn or | deny when a host uses an underscore in the EHLO command. |
| Q0807: I want to rewrite local sender addresses | depending on the domain of the recipient. |
| Q0008: ... well, but when I send a message from my User Agent, it does not arrive at its | destination. |
| Q5004: ... that emails I send with a Bcc: line are being delivered to their final | destination with the Bcc: line still present. |
| Q9803: ... secondary MX is down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for that | destination separately from the main queue? |
| Q0509: How can I set up a filter file to | detect and block virus attachments? |
| Q0317: ... like to do is have alternative smart hosts, where the one to be used is | determined by which ISP I'm connected to. |
| Q1404: ... or queue_smtp_domains set, and use -qf to force delivery of waiting mail when I | dial in. How can I arrange for any new messages that arrive while I'm connected... |
| Q1406: When I | dial up to collect mail from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered... |
| Q1409: I would like to have a separate queue per domain for hosts which | dial in to collect their mail. |
| Q1402: I have a | dial-up machine, and I use the queue_smtp_domains option so that remote mail only goes out when... |
| Q1403: ... configured when it is acting as a temporary storage system for a domain on a | dial-up host? |
| Q0609: ... sending the same message twice, according to the log, although there is a | difference in capitalization of the local part of the address. |
| Q0507: What are the main | differences between using an Exim filter and using procmail? |
| Q0045: I see entries in the log that mention two | different IP addresses for the same connection. Why is this? For example: |
| Q0076: ... Exim to use syslog for its logs, with the main and reject logs sent to | different files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get one message on the reject... |
| Q0206: How can I get Exim to deliver certain domains to a | different SMTP port on my local host? |
| Q0416: ... Exim so any message sent to a non-existing user would bounce back with a | different message, based on the name of non-existing user? |
| Q0424: ... Exim's de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two | different aliases expand to the same address. |
| Q0427: How can I have an address looked up in two | different alias files, and delivered to all the addresses that are found? |
| 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... |
| Q5035: Does Exim run with | different permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending?... |
| Q9608: I'm running Exim 3 under Debian, and want to upgrade to Exim 4. How | difficult is it? |
| Q9607: I'm having | difficulties trying to make Exim 4 with Redhat 9 and Berkeley DB 4. |
| Q0305: How can I arrange for mail on my local network to be delivered | directly to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail... |
| Q0423: Some of our users have no home | directories; the field in the password file contains /no/home/dir. This causes the error failed... |
| Q0508: ... can I allow the use of relative paths in users' filter files when the | directories concerned are not available from the password data? |
| Q0623: ... /var/spool/mail has grown drastically. Is there any possibility of using two | directories? |
| Q0111: I'm getting the error db.h: No such file or | directory when I try to build Exim. |
| Q0115: What does Can't open ../scripts/newer: No such file or | directory mean? I got it while trying to build Exim. |
| Q0417: ... automatically, so that people could just create a .vacation.msg file in their home | directory and not have to edit their .forward file? |
| Q0423: ... /no/home/dir. This causes the error failed to stat /no/home/dir (No such file or | directory) when Exim tries to look for a .forward file, and the delivery is deferred.... |
| 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? |
| Q9804: ... temporarily lock 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... |
| Q0424: How can I | disable Exim's de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two... |
| Q0051: ... my system filter with -bf, I get the error filtering command "fail" is | disabled. Why is this? |
| Q9804: We want to be able to temporarily lock out a user by | disabling the password and moving the home directory to another place. How can we... |
| Q1601: How can I add a | disclaimer or an advertisement to a message? |
| Q0062: ... try to start an Exim daemon with -bd it crashes. I ran a debugger and | discovered that the crash is happening in the function getservbyname(). What's going... |
| Q1004: ... just wondered if it might be helpful to put the hints database on a RAM | disk during regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? |
| Q5017: ... purely in memory, that is, it is handled without it ever hitting the | disk? |
| Q0425: My users' mailboxes are | distributed between several servers according to the first letter of the user name.... |
| Q0729: How can I screen out addresses that are neither valid usernames or | distribution lists on mail being forwarded to an internal Win2K server? |
| Q0012: ... route to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the | DNS. |
| Q0034: ... binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not resolve | DNS names). |
| 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... |
| Q0315: I'd like route all mail with addresses that can't be resolved (the | DNS lookup times out) to a relay machine. |
| Q0321: ... use only IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both types in the | DNS? |
| Q0704: How can I test that Exim is correctly configured to use a | DNS black list such as the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)? |
| 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? |
| Q9703: On SunOS 4 Exim crashes when looking up domains in the | DNS that have more than 10 A records. |
| Q0305: ... other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail server? The local hosts are all | DNS-registered and behave like normal Internet hosts. |
| Q0080: ... must only return one value? They can not return a list of values? The | documentation seems to indicate that it's possible to return a list. |
| Q0412: ... error bad mode (100664) for /home/test/.forward? I've looked through the | documentation but can't see anything to suggest that Exim has to do anything other than read... |
| Q5006: ... aren't there any man pages for Exim? I don't always carry my printed | documentation. |
| 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... |
| Q0004: My virtual | domain setup isn't working. How can I debug it? |
| Q0205: ... can I get Exim to deliver to me locally and everyone else at the same | domain via SMTP to the MX record specified host? |
| Q0207: Why does Exim lower-case the local-part of a non-local | domain when routing? |
| Q0208: I can't get a lookup to work in a | domain list. I'm trying this: |
| Q0308: I have a | domain for which some local parts must be delivered locally, but the remainder... |
| Q0309: ... configure Exim on a firewall machine so that if mail arrives addressed to a | domain whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded to the internal mail... |
| Q0314: ... 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 pattern... |
| Q0316: I would like to forward all incoming email for a particular | domain to another host via SMTP. Whereabouts would I configure that? |
| Q0405: ... 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... |
| Q0409: ... local part at certain virtual domains to go to a single address for each | domain. |
| Q0414: I have set caseful_local_part on the routers that handle my local | domain because my users have upper case letters in their login names, but incoming... |
| Q0429: I would like to deliver mail addressed to a given | domain to local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope senders.... |
| Q0513: ... all mails greater than 500K in size, but to exclude those to a specific | domain. However, I don't seem to be able to use $domain in a system filter. |
| Q0802: I have Exim configured to remove the hostname portion of the | domain on outgoing mail, and yet the hostname is present when the mail gets delivered.... |
| Q0807: I want to rewrite local sender addresses depending on the | domain of the recipient. |
| Q0901: ... add some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific | domain and the subject line. |
| Q1403: ... Exim be configured when it is acting as a temporary storage system for a | domain on a dial-up host? |
| Q1407: RFC 1985 specifies that the SMTP command ETRN host. | domain causes all mail queued for that host, no matter what domain it's for,... |
| Q1409: I would like to have a separate queue per | domain for hosts which dial in to collect their mail. |
| Q5008: If I set up a | domain list to contain *customer.com, it matches customer.com and abc.customer.com as... |
| Q0012: Exim is unable to route to any remote | domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the DNS. |
| Q0018: ... same connection when I do something like: exim -v -R @aol.com? For other | domains, I do this and I see the appropriate waiting for passed connections to get... |
| Q0202: Can I specify a list of | domains to explicitly reject? |
| Q0203: How can I arrange to do my own qualification of non-fully-qualified | domains, and then pass them on to the next router? |
| Q0206: How can I get Exim to deliver certain | domains to a different SMTP port on my local host? |
| Q0309: ... to the internal mail server, without having to have a list of all the | domains involved? |
| Q0405: On a host that accepts mail for several | domains, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in /etc/aliases or do I have... |
| Q0409: I want mail for any local part at certain virtual | domains to go to a single address for each domain. |
| Q0419: I have some obsolete | domains which people have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to... |
| Q0422: How can I arrange for all addresses in a group of | domains *.example.com to share the same alias file? I have a number of such groups.... |
| Q0435: ... alias file contains fully qualified addresses as keys, and some wildcard | domains in the form @foo.bar. Can Exim handle these? |
| Q0718: ... points me to right rules to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for | domains which have one MX to localhost or only have address 127.0.0.1 ? |
| Q0806: ... lookup in a rewriting rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't | domains supposed to be handled caselessly? |
| 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?... |
| Q5009: I want to match all | domains of the form *.oyoy.org but want a few exceptions. For instance I don't want foo.oyoy.org... |
| Q9703: On SunOS 4 Exim crashes when looking up | domains in the DNS that have more than 10 A records. |
| Q0623: My /var/spool/mail has grown | drastically. Is there any possibility of using two directories? |
| Q0013: ... does the error message transport system_aliases: cannot find transport | driver "redirect" in line 92 mean? |
| Q0415: ... existing alias files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively | drop in Exim in place of Sendmail ? |
| Q0736: Is it possible to tell exim to | drop the connection after a server attempts to send a message to a number of... |
| Q5012: Does Exim support Delivery Status Notification ( | DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form of delivery acknowledgement?... |
| Q9707: How do I stop Sun's | dtcm from hanging? |
| Q9702: ... of spurious ^M (carriage return) characters in messages sent from CDE | dtmail? |
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