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| Q5005: ... used gv 3.5.8 (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every printed | page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter”... |
| Q5006: Why aren't there any man | pages for Exim? I don't always carry my printed documentation. |
| Q0029: I can't seem to figure out why | PAM support doesn't work correctly. |
| Q0110: I'm trying to build Exim with | PAM support. I have included -lpam in EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a linking... |
| Q0024: When I run exim -bd -q10m I get | PANIC LOG: exec of exim -q failed. |
| Q5005: ... printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than A4 | paper? |
| Q9202: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the -Ac | parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? |
| Q0075: ... and some email addresses that contain special characters are causing | parsing errors in my LDAP lookups. |
| Q0203: ... arrange to do my own qualification of non-fully-qualified domains, and then | pass them on to the next router? |
| Q0713: I'd like to | pass all messages through a virus-scanning system before delivery. Can Exim... |
| Q1501: ... records for some UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it to | pass the messages on to UUCP? |
| Q0018: ... @aol.com? For other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate waiting for | passed connections to get used messages. |
| Q0313: ... external mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also get | passed to the smart host. Can I avoid this? |
| Q1104: ... return code 9 from /home/majordomo/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper when it is | passed a message from Exim. |
| Q0423: Some of our users have no home directories; the field in the | password file contains /no/home/dir. This causes the error failed to stat /no/home/dir (No... |
| Q0508: ... filter files when the directories concerned are not available from the | password data? |
| Q0726: ... authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty | password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q1003: We have a large | password file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to speed things... |
| 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 arrange to... |
| Q0730: How can I use the same | passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server?... |
| Q0119: I know there are some 3rd-party | patches for Exim, for exiscan and other things. Where are they? |
| Q1502: How can I get Exim to handle “bang | path”; addresses? |
| Q0056: ... However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the return | path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the PHP script is running as... |
| Q0508: How can I allow the use of relative | paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not available... |
| Q0314: ... mail domain. This only happens a few times a day and there is no particular | pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to lookup the same domain a few minutes... |
| Q0077: ... is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my | PC I get connection rejected or unable to connect. |
| Q0057: We've got | people complaining about attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are... |
| Q0417: ... make Exim handle /usr/ucb/vacation processing automatically, so that | people could just create a .vacation.msg file in their home directory and not have to... |
| Q0419: I have some obsolete domains which | people have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to delete any... |
| 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 want to put them all... |
| Q1001: ... running a large mail server. Should I set split_spool_directory to improve | performance? |
| Q0620: ... giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long failure | period? |
| Q0622: Can I write an ordinary file when I run a | perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and address_pipe transports?... |
| Q1301: Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message ./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'.... |
| Q1302: Exim built with | Perl support exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference... |
| Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error | Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local... |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a | permission denied error for the .forward file, like this: |
| Q5035: Does Exim run with different | permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending? |
| Q0707: ... where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite | persistent, and keeps trying over and over. |
| Q5027: ... else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the reply/from | person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself. |
| Q5003: How can I | persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # character? |
| Q0904: How I can insert the | PGP header line using Exim filters? |
| Q0056: ... the return path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the | PHP script is running as apache. |
| Q0418: ... default entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it | picks up the local parts that the aliases generate. For example, if the alias... |
| Q0723: I can't get | Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect... |
| Q0017: ... fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken | pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q0025: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${if expansion in it. This fails: |
| Q0026: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a | pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment (could mean unable to... |
| Q0090: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${lookup expansion in it. |
| Q0406: Some of my users are using the .forward to | pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid... |
| Q0502: What I really need is the ability to obtain the result of a | pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect internally. Is this... |
| Q0606: ... do local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the | pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to... |
| Q0612: Why does the | pipe transport add a line starting with >From to messages? |
| Q0727: ... SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a | pipe transport. |
| Q0072: Exim will deliver to normal aliases, and aliases that are | pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve :include: items, complaining... |
| Q0084: I want to set up an alias that | pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the message,... |
| Q0079: Our new | PIX firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed?... |
| Q1302: ... exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference to ` | PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with | PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data".... |
| Q0726: ... user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a | PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant MX records | point to non-existent hosts when MX records point to IP addresses? |
| 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? |
| Q0301: What do lowest numbered MX record | points to local host and remote host address is the local host mean? |
| Q0309: ... firewall machine so that if mail arrives addressed to a domain whose MX | points to the firewall, it is forwarded to the internal mail server, without... |
| Q0718: Could anyone | points me to right rules to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains... |
| Q5021: What does Exim use for | POP and IMAP as a default? Do I have to install anything else? |
| Q0706: How can I get | POP-auth-before-relay (aka POP-before-SMTP) support in Exim? |
| Q0706: How can I get POP-auth-before-relay (aka | POP-before-SMTP) support in Exim? |
| Q0721: I have | POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook Express, which... |
| Q0402: ... do I arrange for all incoming email for *@some.domain to go into one | pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific local... |
| Q0015: What does the message Socket bind() to | port 25 for address (any) failed: address already in use mean? |
| Q0020: Why do connections to my machine's SMTP | port take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to other... |
| Q0048: ... exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start responding on the SMTP | port. Why is this? |
| Q0206: How can I get Exim to deliver certain domains to a different SMTP | port on my local host? |
| Q1703: ... expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically on connection to the ssmtp | port (465). Can Exim handle this? |
| Q0802: I have Exim configured to remove the hostname | portion of the domain on outgoing mail, and yet the hostname is present when the... |
| Q0020: ... take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to other | ports respond instantly? The delay is sometimes as long as 30 seconds. |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error Permission denied: creating lock file hitching | post when Exim tries to do a local delivery? |
| Q0092: ... Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. occurs when I try to use Exim with | PostgreSQL. |
| Q5027: Is there any way I can send bounces to the | postmaster, and nobody else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want... |
| Q5010: I can't seem to find a | pre-built version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.6.... |
| Q5025: What | precautions should I take when editing Exim's run time configuration file? |
| Q0606: ... but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the pipe transport (tmail | prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to vanish. |
| Q9811: ... traffic from my live mail server to use in tests of a new server. I want to | preserve the envelope contents, but to suppress any error notifications to the... |
| Q0621: ... delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, sending him the output of procmail. How can I | prevent this? |
| Q0718: Could anyone points me to right rules to | prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one MX to localhost... |
| Q5005: I used gv 3.5.8 (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every | printed page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using... |
| Q5006: Why aren't there any man pages for Exim? I don't always carry my | printed documentation. |
| Q5005: ... gv 3.5.8 (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every printed page, the | printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter”... |
| Q5005: I used gv 3.5.8 (ghostview) to try | printing spec.ps. After every printed page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is... |
| Q0003: What does the error Child | process of address_pipe transport returned 127 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... |
| Q0046: A short time after I start Exim I see a defunct zombie | process. What is causing this? |
| Q0063: When I try to start an Exim daemon, nothing happens. There is no | process, and nothing is written to the Exim log. |
| Q0074: What does the error message remote delivery | process count got out of step mean? |
| Q0711: ... incoming email - e.g. ignore large MIME attachments for example and only | process text/plain? |
| Q1406: ... immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue runner | process finds them. |
| 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... |
| Q0433: How can I arrange for a single address to be | processed by both redirect and accept? |
| Q0614: ... go. Exim spawns a lot of kids, but is there some limit to the number of | processes it creates? |
| Q1005: ... incoming mail is pushing up my system load too much, and there are many Exim | processes. How can I control this? |
| Q0417: What do I need to do to make Exim handle /usr/ucb/vacation | processing automatically, so that people could just create a .vacation.msg file in their... |
| Q0415: Can I use my existing alias files and forward files as well as | procmail and effectively drop in Exim in place of Sendmail ? |
| Q0507: What are the main differences between using an Exim filter and using | procmail? |
| Q0621: My .forward file is |/usr/bin/ | procmail -f- and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, sending... |
| 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.... |
| Q0092: The error message | Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt. occurs when I try to use Exim with... |
| Q0624: Sendmail has a | program called smrsh that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases.... |
| Q9605: ... 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 open configuration file /etc/exim.conf.... |
| Q9811: I would like to “tap off” a | proportion of real mail traffic from my live mail server to use in tests of a new... |
| Q0734: How do MailScanner and Exiscan compare? What are the | pros and cons? |
| Q0086: What does SMTP | protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon) mean? |
| Q1707: ... use TLS with Evolution as a client, and keep seeing this error: SMTP | protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C".... |
| Q9803: A site for which I | provide secondary MX is down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for... |
| Q1706: I have listed some hosts in tls_verify_hosts and | provided them with certificates, but their connections are always rejected. |
| Q0731: Is there any defence I can use against spam sent through an open | proxy? |
| Q5017: Can (or will) Exim ever handle a message delivery | purely in memory, that is, it is handled without it ever hitting the disk? |
| Q1005: A lot of incoming mail is | pushing up my system load too much, and there are many Exim processes. How can... |
| Q0510: Is it possible to write code for scanning messages in | Python? |
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