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| Q5022: Is there an easy way of removing all queued messages at once in a | safe way? |
| Q1002: How well does Exim | scale? |
| 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?... |
| Q0504: I want to | search for $ in the subject line, but I can't seem to get the syntax. |
| 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... |
| Q0020: ... when connections to other ports respond instantly? It sometimes takes 30 | seconds to respond. |
| Q0717: When using Nessus on a system that runs Exim, a number of | security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim answers to EXPN and/or VRFY;... |
| Q0602: Exim keeps crashing with | segmentation errors (signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it... |
| Q0901: I would like add some custom headers to | selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain and the subject line. |
| Q1701: I am trying to set up an Exim server that uses a | self-signed certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than... |
| Q0008: If I run ./exim -d -bt user@domain all seems well, but when I | send a message from my User Agent, it does not arrive at its destination. |
| Q0021: What does failed to create child process to | send failure message mean? This is a busy mail server with smtp_accept_max... |
| Q0303: How do I configure Exim to | send all messages to a central server? I don't want to do any local deliveries... |
| Q0304: How do I configure Exim to | send all non-local mail to a gateway host? |
| Q0306: How do I configure Exim to | send all non-local mail to a central server if it cannot be immediately delivered... |
| Q0311: When a DNS lookup for MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim | send the messsage to the host defined by the A record? |
| Q0313: I | send all external mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also... |
| Q0403: How do I configure Exim to | send messages for unknown local users to a central server? |
| Q1103: ... to set up majordomo, but I'm getting a wrong mode error when I try to | send it mail. |
| Q1105: ... is complaining about an invalid command line when Majordomo tries to | send it a message for delivery. |
| Q1402: ... so that remote mail only goes out when I do a queue run. However, any email I | send with an address anything@aol.com is returned within about 15 minutes saying retry... |
| Q5004: I've recently noticed that emails I | send with a Bcc: line are being delivered to their final destination with the Bcc:... |
| Q5007: When I | send a message using the -t command line option, Exim sends only to the addresses... |
| Q5027: Is there any way I can | send bounces to the postmaster, and nobody else? Basically, I want to receive... |
| Q9601: Exim is mysteriously crashing, usually when forking to | send a delivery error message. |
| Q0023: ... relay, saying failed to find host name from IP address when I have the | sender's IP address in an ACL condition? My configuration contains this ACL statement:... |
| Q0801: How can I get Exim to strip the hostname from the | sender's address? |
| Q0042: ... is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no | sender. The SMTP trace does indeed show that the sender address is <>.... |
| Q0428: ... doesn't make use of the owner- entries in my alias file to change the | sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing list. |
| Q0605: ... quota, is there a way for me to set it up so that the mail bounces to the | sender and is not stored in the mail queue? |
| Q0621: ... |/usr/bin/procmail -f- and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the | sender, sending him the output of procmail. How can I prevent this? |
| Q0709: Does Exim apply RBL checks to error messages, those with an envelope | sender of <> ? |
| Q0716: How can I arrange for each user to have a file listing the only | sender addresses from which she will accept mail? I want to do this so my family... |
| Q0807: I want to rewrite local | sender addresses depending on the domain of the recipient. |
| Q1102: I have set $mailer in majordomo.cf, but it still isn't setting the | sender correctly in the messages it sends. |
| Q1503: ... our system in regards to mail coming in via rmail from a UUCP link. The | sender is being set to mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a Sender: header... |
| Q9806: How do I get exim not to add a | Sender: header to locally originated mail? |
| Q0710: I want to reject certain | sender-recipient combinations, with a specific message for each such combination. |
| Q0040: ... undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer | senders) from clogging up the queue for days? |
| Q0429: ... domain to local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope | senders. |
| Q0607: When I activate ``return receipt'' for example in Netscape Mailbox | sending options, then I get an error message from Exim... something like not supported.... |
| Q0609: Exim seems to be | sending the same message twice, according to the log, although there is a difference... |
| Q0618: ... up to have a automatic failover if it sees that the system that it is | sending all mail to is down. |
| Q0621: ... |/usr/bin/procmail -f- and mail gets 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 or only have address... |
| Q0047: ... Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz | sendmail. What does this mean? |
| Q0415: ... forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop in Exim in place of | Sendmail ? |
| Q0428: I've converted from | Sendmail, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the owner- entries in my alias... |
| Q0624: | Sendmail has a program called smrsh that restricts what binaries can be run from... |
| Q0712: I've hacked | sendmail to make an ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if... |
| Q0425: ... the servers, which does local delivery for the mailboxes it holds, and | sends other addresses to the correct other server. Is this possible? |
| Q0721: ... set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook Express, which | sends queued messages before checking the mailbox, so it doesn't work. |
| Q1102: ... majordomo.cf, but it still isn't setting the sender correctly in the messages it | sends. |
| Q5007: When I send a message using the -t command line option, Exim | sends only to the addresses within the message, not to those on the command... |
| Q9802: How do I configure Exim so that it | sends mail to the outside world only from a restricted list of our local users?... |
| Q9809: Can I configure Exim so that my gateway host | sends a copy of each incoming message to each of two internal hosts? |
| Q0305: ... be 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... |
| Q0416: What is quickest way to set up Exim so any message | sent to a non-existing user would bounce back with a different message, based... |
| Q0419: ... warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to delete any mail that is | sent to them? |
| Q0426: ... anything@anotherdomain. I tried adding $local_part@anotherdomain to my aliases but it did not expand - it | sent it to that literal address. |
| Q0719: ... to have a per-user limit for the maximum size of messages that can be | sent. |
| Q9702: How can I get rid of spurious ^M characters in messages | sent from CDE dtmail? |
| Q9807: Is there any way to have messages | sent to a specific local address delayed by - say - 24 hours? |
| Q0604: ... MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A characters that | separate indvidual emails? |
| Q1409: I would like to have a | separate queue per domain for hosts which dial in to collect their mail. |
| Q9803: ... down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for that destination | separately from the main queue? |
| 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... |
| Q0021: ... to create child process to send failure message mean? This is a busy mail | server with smtp_accept_max set to 500, but this problem started to occur at... |
| Q0042: My ISP's mail | server is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The... |
| Q0050: I am getting complaints from a customer who uses my Exim | server for relaying that they are being blocked with a Too many connections error.... |
| Q0303: How do I configure Exim to send all messages to a central | server? I don't want to do any local deliveries at all on this host. |
| Q0305: ... 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 Internet... |
| Q0306: How do I 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... |
| Q0309: ... 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? |
| Q0403: ... configure Exim to send messages for unknown local users to a central | server? |
| Q0425: ... the mailboxes it holds, and sends other addresses to the correct other | server. Is this possible? |
| Q0619: ... failed: No locks available, though the lock daemon is running on the NFS | server and other hosts are able to access it. |
| Q0721: I have POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim | server, but some clients use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before... |
| Q1001: I'm running a large mail | server. Should I set split_spool_directory to improve performance? |
| Q1701: I am trying to set up an Exim | server that uses a self-signed certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However,... |
| Q9603: I'm seeing the message inetd[334]: imap/tcp | server failing (looping), service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections... |
| Q0425: My users' mailboxes are distributed between several | servers according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers receive... |
| Q0026: ... pipe, but it always gives error code 69, with the comment (could mean | service or program unavailable). |
| Q9603: I'm 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... |
| Q0004: My virtual domain | setup isn't working. How can I debug it? |
| Q0405: On a host that accepts mail for | several domains, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in /etc/aliases or... |
| Q0425: My users' mailboxes are distributed between | several servers according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers... |
| Q1302: Exim built with Perl support exits with | several error messages of the form undefined reference to `PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0422: ... 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. |
| Q5005: ... (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every printed page, the printer ejects a blank | sheet. Is this something to do with using ``letter'' rather than A4 paper? |
| 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 this? |
| Q0046: A | short time after I start Exim I see a defunct zombie process. What is causing... |
| Q0042: ... Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The SMTP trace does indeed | show that the sender address is <>. Why is the Sender on the bounce message... |
| Q5028: When I HUP the Exim daemon, the name | shown in the process table changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a symlink)... |
| Q0602: Exim keeps crashing with segmentation errors ( | signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it is about to contact... |
| Q0722: I installed Amavis and it is working, but bounces are | simply vanishing. |
| Q0409: I want mail for any local part at certain virtual domains to go to a | single address for each domain. |
| Q1406: ... only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately; the remainder just | sit on the queue until a queue runner process finds them. |
| Q9803: A | site for which I provide secondary MX is down for some time. Is there a way... |
| Q0314: ... really annoying intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid | sites are rejected with unknown mail domain. This only happens a few times a... |
| Q0719: I would like to have a per-user limit for the maximum | size of messages that can be sent. |
| Q5014: ... checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the | SIZE option. Can I suppress this? |
| Q9605: I installed debian 2.2 linux on a | small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following error:... |
| Q0313: I send all external mail to a | smart host, but this means that bad addresses also get passed to the smart host.... |
| Q0317: What I'd like to do is have alternative | smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which ISP I'm connected... |
| Q0624: Sendmail has a program called | smrsh that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases. Is there... |
| Q0005: ... Exim not rejecting incoming messages addressed to non-existent users at | SMTP time? |
| Q0009: What does no immediate delivery: too many messages received in one | SMTP connection mean? |
| Q0020: Why do connections to my machine's | SMTP port take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to... |
| 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... |
| Q0048: ... Whenever exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start responding on the | SMTP port. Why is this? |
| Q0205: ... Exim to deliver to me locally and everyone else at the same domain via | SMTP to the MX record specified host? |
| Q0316: ... forward all incoming email for a particular domain to another host via | SMTP. Whereabouts would I configure that? |
| Q0613: I have set fallback_hosts on my | smtp transport, but after the error sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at this 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 quota. If they... |
| Q1201: When I run fetchmail, I get the error | SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost. |
| Q1407: RFC 1985 specifies that the | SMTP command ETRN host.domain causes all mail queued for that host, no matter... |
| 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? |
| Q0021: ... child process to send failure message mean? This is a busy mail server with | smtp_accept_max set to 500, but this problem started to occur at about 300 incoming connections.... |
| Q0015: What does the message | Socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed: address already in use mean?... |
| Q5010: ... pre-built version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a Sparc 5 running | Solaris 2.6. |
| Q9705: Exim has been crashing on my | Solaris x86 system, apparently while running DBM functions. |
| Q9706: The exiwhat utility isn't working for me on a | Solaris 2 system. |
| Q9708: ... ignore /etc/hosts), but don't want to alter the nsswitch.conf file in | Solaris 2. |
| Q1202: ... far as Exim knows, all mail is coming from 127.0.0.1. Will it check the | source address against RBL? Or will it check the From: header? |
| Q5014: Although I haven't set check_spool_ | space, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming... |
| Q0702: I don't want to block | spam entirely; how can I inspect each message before deciding whether or not... |
| Q0703: How can I test that my | spam blocks are working? |
| Q0716: ... will accept mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any | spam (or other inappropriate mail). |
| Q0905: ... messages, but how can I add text to existing headers? I want to add [ | SPAM] to the subject line of messages that appear to be spam. |
| Q5016: ... received a message which does not have my address in the To: line. It is a | spam message with the same address in both the From: and the To: headers. How... |
| Q0040: ... undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, | spammer senders) from clogging up the queue for days? |
| Q5010: ... can't seem to find a pre-built version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a | Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.6. |
| Q0614: ... 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 of processes it creates?... |
| Q0104: ... Exim release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other | special action? |
| Q0201: ... How can I arrange that messages larger than some limit are handled by a | special router? |
| Q0711: ... the list - and if a match is found file the offending message into a | special location? Also is it possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming... |
| Q0404: ... arrange for messages submitted by (for example) Majordomo to be handled | specially? |
| Q0017: Whenever Exim tries to deliver a | specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection... |
| Q0402: ... to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of | specific local parts to the system. |
| Q0710: I want to reject certain sender-recipient combinations, with a | specific message for each such combination. |
| Q0901: ... would like add some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a | specific domain and the subject line. |
| Q9807: Is there any way to have messages sent to a | specific local address delayed by - say - 24 hours? |
| Q0205: ... locally and everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX record | specified host? |
| Q1407: RFC 1985 | specifies that the SMTP command ETRN host.domain causes all mail queued for that... |
| Q0202: Can I | specify a list of domains to explicitly reject? |
| Q0617: ... trying to 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,... |
| Q1003: ... large password file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to | speed things up? |
| Q9808: ... where I want to do the actual deliveries from. How can I get Exim to | split a message into groups of recipients between the three hosts? |
| Q1001: I'm running a large mail server. Should I set | split_spool_directory to improve performance? |
| Q0027: What does the error | Spool file is locked mean? |
| Q0044: What does the error Failed to create | spool file mean? |
| Q0104: I'm about to upgrade to a new Exim release. Do I need to ensure the | spool is empty, or take any other special action? |
| Q5014: Although I haven't set check_ | spool_space, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming... |
| Q9702: How can I get rid of | spurious ^M characters in messages sent from CDE dtmail? |
| Q9701: Exim builds fine with gcc on SunOS 4 but crashes inside | sscanf(). |
| Q9602: I want to use logrotate which is | standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the logrotate... |
| Q0046: A short time after I | start Exim I see a defunct zombie process. What is causing this? |
| Q0048: Whenever exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to | start responding on the SMTP port. Why is this? |
| Q0113: I've compiled Exim and I've managed to | start it but there was one problem - it always complained that libmsqlclient.so.10... |
| Q5015: I just noticed log entries that | start off <= <>. Am I correct in assuming that the <> indicates... |
| Q0021: ... This is a busy mail server with smtp_accept_max set to 500, but this problem | started to occur at about 300 incoming connections. |
| Q0606: ... 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? |
| Q0423: ... 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 a .forward... |
| Q5012: Does Exim support Delivery | Status Notification (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form... |
| Q0319: I have some mails on my queues that are | sticking around longer than the retry time indicates they should. They are all... |
| Q0040: How can I | stop undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer... |
| Q9707: How do I | stop Sun's dtcm from hanging? |
| Q0034: ... one host, but when I copied the binary to another identical host, it | stopped working (it could not resolve DNS names). |
| Q1403: How should Exim be configured when it is acting as a temporary | storage system for a domain on a dial-up host? |
| Q0605: ... for me to set it up so that the mail bounces to the sender and is not | stored in the mail queue? |
| Q0019: There seems to be a problem in the | string expansion code: it doesn't recognize references to headers such as ${h_to}.... |
| Q0505: My problem is that Exim replaces $local_part with an empty | string in the system filtering. What's wrong or what did I miss? |
| Q0506: ... $recipients in a system filter gives me another problem: how can I do a | string lookup if $recipients is a list of addresses? |
| Q0801: How can I get Exim to | strip the hostname from the sender's address? |
| Q5024: I often have the problem that a message gets | stuck in the mail queue and I want it to be bounced to a certain address. |
| Q5029: ... message with a recipient address that contains a non-printing character is | stuck on my mail queue. How can I remove this address? |
| Q0503: I received a message with a | Subject: line that contained a non-printing character (a carriage return). This... |
| Q0504: I want to search for $ in the | subject line, but I can't seem to get the syntax. |
| Q0901: ... headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain and the | subject line. |
| Q0905: ... but how can I add text to existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the | subject line of messages that appear to be spam. |
| Q0611: I set up |/bin/grep | Subject|/usr/bin/smbclient -M <netbiosname> as an alias but it doesn't work. |
| Q0404: How can I arrange for messages | submitted by (for example) Majordomo to be handled specially? |
| Q0412: ... /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 the .forward file. |
| Q0037: I am experiencing mailbox locking problems with | Sun's mailtool used over a network. |
| Q9704: I am experiencing mailbox locking problems with | Sun's mailtool used over a network. |
| Q9707: How do I stop | Sun's dtcm from hanging? |
| Q9701: Exim builds fine with gcc on | SunOS 4 but crashes inside sscanf(). |
| Q9703: On | SunOS 4 Exim crashes when looking up domains in the DNS that have more than... |
| 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 error:... |
| Q0706: How can I get POP-auth-before-relay | support in Exim? |
| 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 to `PL_stack_sp'.... |
| Q1407: ... for that host, no matter what domain it's for, to be delivered. Why doesn't Exim | support this? |
| Q5012: Does Exim | support Delivery Status Notification (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN),... |
| Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl | support exits with the error message |
| Q0607: ... options, then I get an error message from Exim... something like not | supported. Can I activate delivery confirmations? |
| Q5014: ... space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the SIZE option. Can I | suppress this? |
| Q0103: I'm getting an undefined | symbol error for hosts_ctl when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error is... |
| Q0108: I'm getting an unresolved | symbol ldap_is_ldap_url when trying to build Exim. |
| Q0109: I'm getting an unresolved | symbol mysql_close when trying to build Exim. |
| Q5028: ... shown in the process table changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a | symlink) to the real binary name. Can I change this? |
| Q0413: When a user's .forward file is | syntactially invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes include... |
| Q0504: ... want to search for $ in the subject line, but I can't seem to get the | syntax. |
| Q0013: What does the error message transport | system_aliases: cannot find transport driver "redirect" in line 92 mean? |
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