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| Q5023: Why does Exim do | ident callbacks by default? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been... |
| 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). |
| Q0413: ... user, which sometimes include the user's own test messages. Can it be told to | ignore the .forward file and/or inform the user of the error? |
| Q0711: ... it possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. | ignore large MIME attachments for example and only process text/plain? |
| Q9708: I want Exim to use only the resolver (i.e. | ignore /etc/hosts), but don't want to alter the nsswitch.conf file in Solaris... |
| Q0635: The log message error | ignored appears after some delivery failures. What does it mean? |
| Q0118: ... LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include in Local/Makefile, but the compilation of exim_dumpdb is | ignoring this option and failing. Why? |
| Q0071: What does the error failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim//db/retry: | Illegal argument mean? |
| Q0730: ... I use the same passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier | IMAP access to my server? |
| Q5021: What does Exim use for POP and | IMAP as a default? Do I have to install anything else? |
| Q9603: I'm seeing the message inetd[334]: | imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap... |
| Q9603: I'm seeing the message inetd[334]: | imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap... |
| Q9603: ... terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections to be refused. The | imapd in use is Washington Univers 12.250. Could this be anything to do with... |
| Q0009: What does no | immediate delivery: too many messages received in one SMTP connection mean? |
| Q0049: What does the log message no | immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection mean? |
| Q0306: ... configure Exim to send all non-local mail to a central server if it cannot be | immediately delivered by my host? I don't want to have queued mail waiting on my host.... |
| Q0628: ... keep trying for four days, but it seems to be bouncing some messages | immediately. |
| Q1404: ... dial in. How can I arrange for any new messages that arrive while I'm connected to be delivered | immediately? |
| Q1406: ... to collect mail from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered | immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue runner process finds... |
| Q9810: How can I | implement “SMTP-after-POP” with Exim? |
| 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 list,... |
| Q1001: ... I'm running a large mail server. Should I set split_spool_directory to | improve performance? |
| Q0716: ... mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any spam (or other | inappropriate mail). |
| Q0406: ... using the .forward to pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's | INBOX. How can I forbid this? |
| Q0025: I can't seem to get a pipe command to run when I | include a ${if expansion in it. This fails: |
| Q0090: I can't seem to get a pipe command to run when I | include a ${lookup expansion in it. |
| Q0413: ... invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes | include the user's own test messages. Can it be told to ignore the .forward file... |
| Q9812: ... keys? I want to set smtp_accept_max_per_host by this means, and also | include a default. |
| Q0057: ... complaining about attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are | included in the body of the message. |
| Q0081: What does error in redirect data: | included file xxxx is too big mean? |
| Q0110: I'm trying to build Exim with PAM support. I have | included -lpam in EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a linking error: |
| Q5009: ... few exceptions. For instance I don't want foo.oyoy.org or bar.oyoy.org to be | included. What is the best way to do this? |
| Q0005: Why is Exim not rejecting | incoming messages addressed to non-existent users at SMTP time? |
| Q0021: ... with smtp_accept_max set to 500, but this problem started to occur at about 300 | incoming connections. |
| Q0079: Our new PIX firewall is causing problems with | incoming mail. How can this be fixed? |
| Q0316: I would like to forward all | incoming email for a particular domain to another host via SMTP. Whereabouts would... |
| Q0402: How do I arrange for all | incoming email for *@some.domain to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer... |
| Q0414: ... 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 this somehow? |
| Q0425: ... according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers receive | incoming mail at random. I would like to have the same configuration file for all... |
| Q0708: How can I run customized verification checks on | incoming addresses? |
| Q0711: Will Exim allow me to create a file of regexs and match | incoming external email to the list - and if a match is found file the offending... |
| Q1005: A lot of | incoming mail is pushing up my system load too much, and there are many Exim processes.... |
| Q5014: ... check_spool_space, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for | incoming SMTP messages that use the SIZE option. Can I suppress this? |
| Q5020: How can I make Exim receive | incoming mail, queue it, but not attempt to deliver it? I want to be in this state... |
| Q9501: The IP addresses for | incoming calls are all being given as 255.255.255.255 or 0.0.0.0. |
| Q9809: Can I configure Exim so that my gateway host sends a copy of each | incoming message to each of two internal hosts? |
| Q0047: ... see the message Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or | incomplete option -bz sendmail. What does this mean? |
| Q0723: ... get Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 | Incorrect authentication data". |
| Q0626: Exim can route local parts | independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How... |
| Q0080: ... value? They can not return a list of values? The documentation seems to | indicate that it's possible to return a list. |
| Q0319: ... mails on my queues that are sticking around longer than the retry time | indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote admin has... |
| Q5015: ... start off <= <>. Am I correct in assuming that the <> | indicates that the envelope did not contain any “From” data? |
| Q0604: ... mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A characters that separate | indvidual emails? |
| Q9603: I'm seeing the message | inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing... |
| Q0413: ... user's own test messages. Can it be told to ignore the .forward file and/or | inform the user of the error? |
| Q0086: What does SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next | input sent too soon) mean? |
| Q1707: ... seeing this error: SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next | input sent too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C". What does it mean? |
| Q0904: How I can | insert the PGP header line using Exim filters? |
| Q9701: Exim builds fine with gcc on SunOS 4 but crashes | inside sscanf(). |
| Q0702: I don't want to block spam entirely; how can I | inspect each message before deciding whether or not to deliver it? |
| Q5030: ... different configuration files. How can I run a second copy of eximon to | inspect and modify the alternate queue? |
| Q0114: ... How can I remove Sendmail from my system? I've built Exim and run make | install, but it still doesn't seem to be fully operational. |
| Q0117: Is there a quick walk-through of an Exim | install from source anywhere? |
| Q5021: What does Exim use for POP and IMAP as a default? Do I have to | install anything else? |
| Q9101: How can I | install Exim on Mac OS X? |
| Q0105: What does the error | install-info: command not found mean? |
| Q0039: I have | installed Exim, but now I can't mail to root any more. Why is this? |
| Q0077: I've | installed Exim and it is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC... |
| Q0722: I | installed Amavis and it is working, but bounces are simply vanishing. |
| Q9605: I | installed debian 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program,... |
| Q5009: ... match all domains of the form *.oyoy.org but want a few exceptions. For | instance I don't want foo.oyoy.org or bar.oyoy.org to be included. What is the... |
| Q0020: ... time to respond with the banner, when connections to other ports respond | instantly? The delay is sometimes as long as 30 seconds. |
| Q0043: What does the error Unable to get | interface configuration: 22 Invalid argument mean? |
| Q0314: I have a really annoying | intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with unknown mail... |
| Q0309: ... addressed to a domain whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded to the | internal mail server, without having to have a list of all the domains involved?... |
| Q0729: ... neither valid usernames or distribution lists on mail being forwarded to an | internal Win2K server? |
| Q9809: ... my gateway host sends a copy of each incoming message to each of two | internal hosts? |
| Q0502: ... result of a pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect | internally. Is this possible? |
| Q0305: ... server? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like normal | Internet hosts. |
| Q1401: When I'm not connected to the | Internet, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my local network to be delivered,... |
| Q0092: The error message Program received signal SIGINT, | Interrupt. occurs when I try to use Exim with PostgreSQL. |
| Q0803: ... the outside world, but not for messages that remain within the local | intranet. |
| 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? |
| 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... |
| Q0413: When a user's .forward file is syntactially | invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes include the... |
| Q0738: How can I configure Exim to delay the SMTP connection if more than 10 | invalid recipients are received in one message? |
| Q1105: Exim is complaining about an | invalid command line when Majordomo tries to send it a message for delivery. |
| Q0072: ... aliases, and aliases that are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that | involve :include: items, complaining that it can't change gid or uid. Why is this?... |
| Q0309: ... internal mail server, without having to have a list of all the domains | involved? |
| Q0712: I've hacked sendmail to make an | ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if a user has exceeded... |
| Q0023: Why is Exim refusing to relay, saying failed to find host name from | IP address when I have the sender's IP address in an ACL condition? My configuration... |
| Q0028: Exim is reporting | IP addresses as 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 instead of their correct values.... |
| Q0031: Exim is rejecting connections from hosts that have more than one | IP address, for no apparent reason. |
| Q0035: I set a hosts condition in an ACL to do a lookup in a file of | IP addresses, but it doesn't work. |
| Q0045: I see entries in the log that mention two different | IP addresses for the same connection. Why is this? For example: |
| Q0302: ... relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts when MX records point to | IP 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? |
| Q9501: The | IP addresses for incoming calls are all being given as 255.255.255.255 or... |
| Q9812: How can I lookup data from a single file using both single | IP addresses and IP address blocks as keys? I want to set smtp_accept_max_per_host... |
| Q0321: How can I tell an Exim router to use only | IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both types in the DNS? |
| Q0321: How can I tell an Exim router to use only IPv4 or only | IPv6 addresses when it finds both types in the DNS? |
| Q0733: ... lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the connection is over | IPv6? |
| Q1405: I have an | ISDN connection and would like a way of running the queue automatically when... |
| Q0042: My | ISP's mail server is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no... |
| Q0305: ... delivered directly to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my | ISP's mail server? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like normal... |
| Q0317: ... alternative smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which | ISP I'm connected to. |
| Q0614: After the holidays my | ISP has always hundreds of e-mails waiting for me. These are forced down Exim's... |
| Q1406: When I dial up to collect mail from my | ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately; the remainder just... |
| Q0312: Is it possible to use a conditional expression for the host | item in a route_list for manualroute router? I tried the following, but it... |
| Q0072: ... are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve :include: | items, complaining that it can't change gid or uid. Why is this? |
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