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| Q5007: When I send a message using the | -t command line option, Exim sends only to the addresses within the message,... |
| 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... |
| Q5002: ... a number of other logs I also want to “tail”, and the number of | tailing windows is getting to be a nuisance. |
| Q0705: How can I use | tcpwrappers in conjunction with Exim? |
| Q0321: How can I | tell an Exim router to use only IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both... |
| Q0733: Is there any way to | tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the connection... |
| Q0736: Is it possible to | tell exim to drop the connection after a server attempts to send a message... |
| Q0737: Is there some way to | tell Exim not to consider 127.0.0.1 as a valid MX? |
| Q9804: We want to be able to | temporarily lock out a user by disabling the password and moving the home directory... |
| Q0712: ... check if a user has exceeded their email quota. If they have I issue a | temporary failure and a message - can I do this with Exim? |
| Q1403: How should Exim be configured when it is acting as a | temporary storage system for a domain on a dial-up host? |
| Q9603: ... seeing the message inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), service | terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections to be refused. The imapd... |
| Q0606: ... turned on the use_crlf option on the pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n | terminations) message bodies started to vanish. |
| Q0051: When I try exim -bf to | test a system filter, I received the following error message: Filter error: unavailable... |
| Q0413: ... 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 and/or inform the... |
| Q0501: My filter isn't working. How can I | test it? |
| Q0703: How can I | test that my spam blocks are working? |
| Q0704: How can I | test that Exim is correctly configured to use the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)?... |
| Q0725: ... up some specific rejection messages for certain recipients, but when I | test them, the SMTP message is always 550 5.1.1 <user@mydomain.com>... User... |
| Q9605: ... installed 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... |
| Q0084: ... and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the message, but when I use my | tested command in an alias file, I get an error from gpg. |
| Q9811: ... off” a proportion of real mail traffic from my live mail server to use in | tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope contents, but to suppress... |
| Q0905: ... system filter to replace certain headers in messages, but how can I add | text to existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of messages... |
| Q0711: ... email - e.g. ignore large MIME attachments for example and only process | text/plain? |
| Q0628: I have the default retry rule, which I | thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four days, but it seems to be bouncing... |
| Q9808: I have a mailing list exploder on one host, and | three other hosts where I want to do the actual deliveries from. How can I get... |
| Q0614: ... 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 some limit to the number... |
| Q0412: ... seeing the 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... |
| Q0603: How can mails that are being routed | through routers that do not set check_local_user be delivered under the uid of... |
| Q0713: I'd like to pass all messages | through a virus-scanning system before delivery. Can Exim do this? |
| Q0731: Is there any defence I can use against spam sent | through an open proxy? |
| Q1408: ... 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, the -R... |
| Q0005: ... not rejecting incoming messages addressed to non-existent users at SMTP | time? |
| Q0020: Why do connections to my machine's SMTP port take a long | time to respond with the banner, when connections to other ports respond instantly?... |
| Q0046: A short | time after I start Exim I see a defunct zombie process. What is causing this?... |
| Q0082: ... __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libresolv.so.2 with link | time reference mean? |
| Q0319: ... some mails on my queues that are sticking around longer than the retry | time indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote... |
| Q0608: What does the message retry | time not reached [for any host] on the log mean? Why won't Exim try to deliver... |
| Q0610: How can I force the next retry | time for a host to be now? |
| Q0613: ... my smtp transport, but after the error sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at this | time Exim isn't using them. |
| Q0615: ... behaviour? I only want to remove messages that have exceeded the maximum retry | time. |
| Q0617: ... specify longer times after a while, because it is writing a log entry every | time, like this: |
| Q0620: ... bounce messages without even attempting delivery, giving the error retry | time not reached for any host after a long failure period? |
| Q0625: I wish to have large emails go out one at a | time. |
| 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 their email... |
| Q1401: ... to other hosts on my local network to be delivered, while at the same | time mail to Internet hosts is queued without any delivery attempts? |
| Q1402: ... with an address anything@aol.com is returned within about 15 minutes saying retry | time exceeded, and all addresses are affected. |
| Q5018: ... reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every | time I make a change? |
| Q5025: What precautions should I take when editing Exim's run | time configuration file? |
| Q9604: ... files error especially when a lot of messages land for Majordomo at the same | time. |
| Q9803: A site for which I provide secondary MX is down for some | time. Is there a way to run the queue for that destination separately from... |
| Q0017: ... 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? |
| Q0070: What does the error SMTP command | timeout on connection from... mean? |
| Q0615: When a message in the queue got to 12h old, Exim wrote retry | timeout exceeded and removed all messages in the queue to this host - even recent... |
| Q0068: Exim | times out when trying to connect to some hosts, though those hosts are known... |
| Q0088: ... sometimes hangs while trying to send a message to Exim 4, and eventually | times out. It worked flawlessly with Exim 3. What has changed? |
| Q0314: ... sites are rejected with unknown mail domain. This only happens a few | times a day and there is no particular pattern to the sites it rejects. If I... |
| Q0315: ... route all mail with addresses that can't be resolved (the DNS lookup | times out) to a relay machine. |
| Q0617: ... deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the retry rules specify longer | times after a while, because it is writing a log entry every time, like this:... |
| Q0014: Exim is | timing out after receiving and responding to the DATA command from one particular... |
| Q0059: ... When my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a | TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook log shows this:... |
| Q1701: ... server that uses a self-signed certificate to enable my clients to use | TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to accept this certificate. What's... |
| Q1703: ... legacy clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a | TLS session automatically on connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim... |
| Q1704: ... When my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a | TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. |
| Q1707: I am trying to use | TLS with Evolution as a client, and keep seeing this error: SMTP protocol violation:... |
| Q1708: I trying to use | TLS with Outlook as a client on a box that is running Norton Antivirus, but all my... |
| Q1705: I have listed some hosts in | tls_try_verify_hosts, but when they connect, no data appears in $tls_peerdn. |
| Q1706: I have listed some hosts in | tls_verify_hosts and provided them with certificates, but their connections are always... |
| Q0606: I'm using | tmail to do local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the pipe transport... |
| Q5019: ... opposite of -bpa, that is, a listing of those addresses generated from a | top-level address that have not yet been delivered. |
| Q9801: How do I configure Exim as part of | TPC (http://www.tpc.int)? |
| Q0042: ... bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The SMTP | trace does indeed show that the sender address is <>. Why is the Sender... |
| 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 server. I want to preserve... |
| Q0003: What does the error Child process of address_pipe | transport returned 69 from command xxx mean? |
| Q0013: What does the error message | transport system_aliases: cannot find transport driver "redirect" in line 92 mean?... |
| Q0022: What does No | transport set by system filter in a log line mean? |
| Q0065: ... error about being unable to create a spool file when trying to run an autoreply | transport. Why is this? |
| Q0091: ... Why is Exim giving the error Failed to send message from address_reply | transport when I run it using -C to specify an alternate configuration? |
| Q0511: ... mail command to send a message, I get the error User 0 set for address_reply | transport is on the never_users list. What does this mean? |
| Q0601: What does the error Neither the xxx router nor the yyy | transport set a uid for local delivery of... mean? |
| Q0606: ... local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the pipe | transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to vanish. |
| Q0612: Why does the pipe | transport add a line starting with >From to messages? |
| Q0613: I have set fallback_hosts on my smtp | transport, but after the error sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at this time Exim... |
| 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? |
| Q0632: What does the error User 1 set for local_mbx_delivery | transport is on the never_users list mean? |
| Q0633: Why is $domain not set in the smtp | transport? |
| Q0634: How can I stop a local | transport from trying to access the user's home directory, even when the delivery... |
| Q0727: ... SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a pipe | transport. |
| Q0041: ... message unable to set gid=ddd or uid=ddd (euid=ddd): local delivery to ... | transport=ttt mean? |
| Q0622: ... perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and address_pipe | transports? |
| Q0308: ... some local parts must be delivered locally, but the remainder are to be | treated like any other remote addresses. |
| Q0629: I'm having | trouble with quotas and Courier, because Exim is not handling maildirsize files.... |
| Q9606: I'm having | trouble configuring Exim 4 on a Debian system. How does /etc/exim4/conf.d work?... |
| Q0606: I'm using tmail to do local deliveries, but when I | turned on the use_crlf option on the pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations)... |
| Q0609: Exim seems to be sending the same message | twice, according to the log, although there is a difference in capitalization... |
| Q0045: I see entries in the log that mention | two different IP addresses for the same connection. Why is this? For example:... |
| Q0076: ... but whenever a message is rejected, I get one message on the reject log and | two messages on the main log. |
| Q0424: How can I disable 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?... |
| Q0514: When I try to send to | two addresses I get an error in the filter file malformed address: , e@fgh.com... |
| Q0623: ... /var/spool/mail has grown drastically. Is there any possibility of using | two directories? |
| Q0707: I have one or | two cases where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is... |
| Q5030: I am using exim in a | two queues scenario, with two different configuration files. How can I run a second... |
| Q9809: ... that my gateway host sends a copy of each incoming message to each of | two internal hosts? |
| Q0106: Exim doesn't seem to be recognizing my operating system | type correctly, and so is failing to build. |
| Q0321: ... Exim router to use only IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both | types in the DNS? |
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