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| Q0621: My .forward file is |/usr/bin/procmail | -f- and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, sending... |
| Q0051: ... received the following error message: Filter error: unavailable filtering command " | fail" near line 8 of filter file. |
| Q0805: Is it possible to completely | fail a message if the rewrite rules fail? |
| Q0015: What does the message Socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) | failed: address already in use mean? |
| Q0021: What does | failed to create child process to send failure message mean? This is a busy mail server... |
| Q0023: Why is Exim refusing to relay, saying | failed to find host name from IP address when I have the sender's IP address... |
| Q0024: When I run exim -bd -q10m I get PANIC LOG: exec of exim -q | failed. |
| Q0033: What does the error lookup of host "xx.xx.xx" | failed in yyy router mean? |
| Q0044: What does the error | Failed to create spool file mean? |
| Q0055: What does the error | Failed to open wait-remote_smtp database: Invalid argument mean? |
| Q0058: What does the error | failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists mean? |
| Q0060: Why am I getting the error | failed to expand /data/lists/lists/${lc for require_files: ${lc is not a known operator... |
| Q0071: What does the error | failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim//db/retry: Illegal argument mean? |
| Q0091: Why is Exim giving the error | Failed to send message from address_reply transport when I run it using -C to... |
| Q0423: ... field in the password file contains /no/home/dir. This causes the error | failed to stat /no/home/dir (No such file or directory) when Exim tries to look for... |
| Q0619: I can't get Exim to deliver over NFS. I get the error fcntl() | failed: No locks available, though the lock daemon is running on the NFS server... |
| Q9605: ... laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following error: | Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf. |
| Q0032: Exim is | failing to find the MySQL library, even though is it present within LD_LIBRARY_PATH.... |
| Q0087: ... rejected after DATA: malformed address: xx@yy may not follow <xx@yy> : | failing address in "from" header mean? (I've obscured the real email addresses.)... |
| Q0106: ... seem to be recognizing my operating system type correctly, and so is | failing to build. |
| Q0118: ... Local/Makefile, but the compilation of exim_dumpdb is ignoring this option and | failing. Why? |
| Q9603: I'm seeing the message inetd[334]: imap/tcp server | failing (looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections... |
| Q0618: I am trying to set exim up to have a automatic | failover if it sees that the system that it is sending all mail to is down. |
| Q0017: ... Whenever Exim tries to deliver a specific message to a particular server, it | fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken pipe... |
| Q0025: ... get a pipe command to run when I include a ${if expansion in it. This | fails: |
| Q0107: Exim | fails to build, complaining about the absence of the killpg function. |
| Q0311: When a DNS lookup for MX records | fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host defined by... |
| Q0021: What does failed to create child process to send | failure message mean? This is a busy mail server with smtp_accept_max set to 500,... |
| Q0620: ... delivery, giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long | failure period? |
| Q0712: ... user has exceeded their email quota. If they have I issue a temporary | failure and a message - can I do this with Exim? |
| Q0635: The log message error ignored appears after some delivery | failures. What does it mean? |
| Q0613: I have set | fallback_hosts on my smtp transport, but after the error sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at... |
| Q0716: ... sender addresses from which she will accept mail? I want to do this so my | family members don't get any spam (or other inappropriate mail). |
| Q0619: I can't get Exim to deliver over NFS. I get the error | fcntl() failed: No locks available, though the lock daemon is running on the... |
| Q0424: How can I disable Exim's de-duplication | features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different aliases expand to the... |
| Q1201: When I run | fetchmail, I get the error SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost.... |
| Q1202: I'm currently using Exim with | fetchmail and I'd like to use the RBL on Exim, but will it work? Do I need to configure... |
| 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... |
| Q9709: ... compile Exim 4.x on Solaris 2.5.1 I get an error along the lines of no such | field in struct as 'value.ui32'. |
| Q0029: I can't seem to | figure out why PAM support doesn't work correctly. |
| Q0022: What does No transport set by system | filter in a log line mean? |
| Q0051: When I try exim -bf to test a system | filter, I received the following error message: Filter error: unavailable filtering... |
| Q0501: My | filter isn't working. How can I test it? |
| Q0502: ... need is the ability to obtain the result of a pipe command so that I can | filter externally and redirect internally. Is this possible? |
| Q0503: ... that contained a non-printing character (a carriage return). This messed up my | filter file. Is there a way to get round it? |
| Q0506: Using $recipients in a system | filter gives me another problem: how can I do a string lookup if $recipients... |
| Q0507: What are the main differences between using an Exim | filter and using procmail? |
| Q0508: How can I allow the use of relative paths in users' | filter files when the directories concerned are not available from the password... |
| Q0509: How can I set up a | filter file to detect and block virus attachments? |
| Q0511: Whenever my system | filter uses a mail command to send a message, I get the error User 0 set for address_reply... |
| Q0512: I'm trying to reference the Envelope-To: header in my | filter, but $h_envelope-to: is always empty. |
| Q0513: I want my system | filter to freeze all mails greater than 500K in size, but to exclude those to a specific... |
| Q0514: When I try to send to two addresses I get an error in the | filter file malformed address: , e@fgh.com may not follow a@bcd.com. What is... |
| 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? |
| Q0711: ... message into a special location? Also is it possible to make Exim only | filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore large MIME attachments for example... |
| Q0905: I know I can use a system | filter to replace certain headers in messages, but how can I add text to existing... |
| Q0038: What does the error message error in forward file ( | filtering not enabled): missing or malformed local part mean? |
| Q0051: ... system filter, I received the following error message: Filter error: unavailable | filtering command "fail" near line 8 of filter file. |
| Q0505: ... is that Exim replaces $local_part with an empty string in the system | filtering. What's wrong or what did I miss? |
| Q0904: How I can insert the PGP header line using Exim | filters? |
| Q5004: ... noticed that emails I send with a Bcc: line are being delivered to their | final destination with the Bcc: line still present. |
| Q0321: ... I tell an Exim router to use only IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it | finds both types in the DNS? |
| Q1406: ... immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue runner process | finds them. |
| Q0079: Our new PIX | firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed? |
| Q0309: How can I configure Exim on a | firewall machine so that if mail arrives addressed to a domain whose MX points... |
| Q0411: ... locally to any username that is longer than 8 characters as long as the | first 8 characters match one of the local usernames? |
| Q0425: ... users' mailboxes are distributed between several servers according to the | first letter of the user name. All the servers receive incoming mail at random.... |
| Q1406: When I dial up to collect mail from my ISP, only the | first 10 messages get delivered immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue... |
| Q0083: ... which Exim is rejecting because I have set verify = header_syntax. How can I | fix this? |
| Q0626: ... case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How can I | fix this? |
| Q0079: ... PIX firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be | fixed? |
| 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... |
| Q0054: ... unknown rewrite flag character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used any | flags on my rewriting rules. |
| Q0088: ... trying to send a message to Exim 4, and eventually times out. It worked | flawlessly with Exim 3. What has changed? |
| Q1408: ... files), and one of our ETRN clients is on this mailing list, the -R won't | flush the mailing list message for that client. |
| Q0087: What does rejected after DATA: malformed address: xx@yy may not | follow <xx@yy> : failing address in "from" header mean? (I've obscured... |
| Q0514: ... get an error in the filter file malformed address: , e@fgh.com may not | follow a@bcd.com. What is going on? |
| Q0406: ... .forward to pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I | forbid this? |
| Q0610: How can I | force the next retry time for a host to be now? |
| Q1404: I have queue_domains 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... |
| Q0614: ... holidays my ISP has always hundreds of e-mails waiting for me. These are | forced down Exim's throat in one go. Exim spawns a lot of kids, but is there... |
| Q9601: Exim is mysteriously crashing, usually when | forking to send a delivery error message. |
| Q0038: What does the error message error in | forward file (filtering not enabled): missing or malformed local part mean? |
| Q0316: I would like to | forward all incoming email for a particular domain to another host via SMTP. Whereabouts... |
| Q0415: Can I use my existing alias files and | forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop in Exim in place of Sendmail... |
| Q0426: One of the things I want to set up is for anything@onedomain to | forward to anything@anotherdomain. I tried adding $local_part@anotherdomain to... |
| Q1408: ... 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, the -R won't... |
| Q5027: ... want the reply/from person to get them. If I think they need it I will | forward it myself. |
| Q0309: ... arrives 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... |
| Q0320: How can I arrange for all mail to user@some.domain to be | forwarded to user@other.domain? |
| Q0729: ... that are neither valid usernames or distribution lists on mail being | forwarded to an internal Win2K server? |
| Q0628: ... default retry rule, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for | four days, but it seems to be bouncing some messages immediately. |
| Q9201: On | FreeBSD, /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper; it doesn't... |
| Q9202: A script that | FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize... |
| Q9203: How can I use Exim for authenticated SMTP using Cyrus on | FreeBSD? |
| Q0513: I want my system filter to | freeze all mails greater than 500K in size, but to exclude those to a specific domain.... |
| Q0319: ... longer than the retry time indicates they should. They are all getting | frozen because some remote admin has set their MX record to 127.0.0.1. |
| Q0062: ... crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the | function getservbyname(). What's going on? |
| Q0107: Exim fails to build, complaining about the absence of the killpg | function. |
| Q5001: ... limited set of users to perform a limited set of Exim administration | functions? I don't want to put them all in the exim group. |
| Q9705: ... been crashing on my Solaris x86 system, apparently while running DBM | functions. |
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