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| Q0054: I' | m getting an Exim configuration error unknown rewrite flag character (m) in... |
| Q9101: How can I install Exim on | Mac OS X? |
| Q0037: I am experiencing | mailbox locking problems with Sun's mailtool used over a network. |
| Q0605: If a user's | mailbox is over quota, is there a way for me to set it up so that the mail bounces... |
| Q0607: When I activate ``return receipt'' for example in Netscape | Mailbox sending options, then I get an error message from Exim... something like not... |
| Q0721: ... use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before checking the | mailbox, so it doesn't work. |
| Q5033: How can I send a copy of all outgoing messages to another | mailbox? |
| Q9704: I am experiencing | mailbox locking problems with Sun's mailtool used over a network. |
| Q0425: My users' | mailboxes are distributed between several servers according to the first letter... |
| Q0429: I would like to deliver mail addressed to a given domain to local | mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope senders. |
| Q0604: I want to use MMDF-style | mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A characters that separate indvidual... |
| Q5020: ... not attempt to deliver it? I want to be in this state while moving some | mailboxes. |
| Q0047: On a reboot, or a restart of the mail system, I see the message | Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail.... |
| Q0428: ... entries in my alias file to change the sender address in outgoing messages to a | mailing list. |
| 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... |
| Q9808: I have a | mailing list exploder on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the... |
| Q1503: ... 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 is being added to the... |
| Q9202: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses | mailq with the -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? |
| 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. |
| Q0084: ... up an alias that pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to | mailx to resubmit the message, but when I use my tested command in an alias file, I... |
| Q0404: How can I arrange for messages submitted by (for example) | Majordomo to be handled specially? |
| Q1101: How do I set up | Majordomo to work with Exim? |
| Q1103: I'm trying to set up | majordomo, but I'm getting a wrong mode error when I try to send it mail. |
| Q1105: Exim is complaining about an invalid command line when | Majordomo tries to send it a message for delivery. |
| Q9604: ... too many open files error especially when a lot of messages land for | Majordomo at the same time. |
| Q0038: ... error message error in forward file (filtering not enabled): missing or | malformed local part mean? |
| Q0047: ... mail system, I see the message Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, | malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail. What does this mean? |
| Q5006: Why aren't there any | man pages for Exim? I don't always carry my printed documentation. |
| Q0113: I've compiled Exim and I've | managed to start it but there was one problem - it always complained that libmsqlclient.so.10... |
| Q0073: I'm seeing log file corruption, with parts of log lines getting | mangled by other log entries. |
| Q0307: The route_list setting ^foo$:^bar$ $domain in a | manualroute router does not work. |
| Q0312: ... to use a conditional expression for the host item in a route_list for | manualroute router? I tried the following, but it doesn't work: |
| Q0009: What does no immediate delivery: too | many messages received in one SMTP connection mean? |
| Q0050: ... uses my Exim server for relaying that they are being blocked with a Too | many connections error. |
| Q0061: What does the error Too | many ``Received'' headers - suspected mail loop mean? |
| Q0067: What does the error too | many unrecognized commands mean? |
| Q0727: When a message has | many recipients, how can I stop SpamAssassin from being called for each of... |
| Q9604: I get the too | many open files error especially when a lot of messages land for Majordomo... |
| Q0410: How can I make Exim look in the alias NIS | map instead of /etc/aliases? |
| Q0401: I need to have any mail for virt.dom.ain that doesn't | match one of the aliases in /usr/lib/aliases.virt delivered to a particular address,... |
| Q0408: ... addresses in a virtual domain's alias file then mail to aliases which also | match the local domain get delivered to the local domain. |
| Q0411: ... username that is longer than 8 characters as long as the first 8 characters | match one of the local usernames? |
| 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... |
| Q5009: I want to | match all domains of the form *.oyoy.org but want a few exceptions. For instance I don't want... |
| Q5008: If I set up a domain list to contain *customer.com, it | matches customer.com and abc.customer.com as required, but it also matches noncustomer.com,... |
| Q1407: ... SMTP command ETRN host.domain causes all mail queued for that host, no | matter what domain it's for, to be delivered. Why doesn't Exim support this?... |
| Q0615: ... avoid this behaviour? I only want to remove messages that have exceeded the | maximum retry time. |
| Q0719: I would like to have a per-user limit for the | maximum size of messages that can be sent. |
| 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... |
| Q1408: If email has been deferred to a | member on a local mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN... |
| Q0716: ... 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). |
| Q5017: Can (or will) Exim ever handle a message delivery purely in | memory, that is, it is handled without it ever hitting the disc? |
| Q0045: I see entries in the log that | mention two different IP addresses for the same connection. Why is this? For example:... |
| Q0503: ... Subject: line that contained a non-printing character (a carriage return). This | messed up my filter file. Is there a way to get round it? |
| Q0311: ... DNS lookup for MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the | messsage to the host defined by the A record? |
| Q0711: ... make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore large | MIME attachments for example and only process text/plain? |
| Q0048: Whenever exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 | minutes to start responding on the SMTP port. Why is this? |
| Q0314: ... particular pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to lookup the same domain a few | minutes later then it is OK. |
| Q0617: Exim seems to be trying to deliver a message every 10 | minutes, though the retry rules specify longer times after a while, because it... |
| Q1402: ... any email I send with an address anything@aol.com is returned within about 15 | minutes saying retry time exceeded, and all addresses are affected. |
| Q0505: ... $local_part with an empty string in the system filtering. What's wrong or what did I | miss? |
| Q0038: ... does the error message error in forward file (filtering not enabled): | missing or malformed local part mean? |
| Q0604: I want to use | MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A characters that separate... |
| Q0412: Why am I seeing the error bad | mode (100664) for /home/test/.forward? I've looked through the documentation but can't... |
| Q1103: I'm trying to set up majordomo, but I'm getting a wrong | mode error when I try to send it mail. |
| Q5030: ... configuration files. How can I run a second copy of eximon to inspect and | modify the alternate queue? |
| Q5020: ... queue it, but not attempt to deliver it? I want to be in this state while | moving some mailboxes. |
| Q9804: ... 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 reject mail... |
| Q5012: ... support Delivery Status Notification (DSN), Message Status Notification ( | MSN), or any other form of delivery acknowledgement? |
| Q0205: ... deliver to me locally and everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the | MX record specified host? |
| Q0301: What do lowest numbered | MX record points to local host and remote host address is the local host... |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant | MX records point to non-existent hosts when MX records point to IP addresses?... |
| 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... |
| Q0310: If a DNS lookup returns no | MX records why doesn't Exim just bin the message? |
| Q0311: When a DNS lookup for | MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host... |
| Q0318: Exim won't route to a host with no | MX record. |
| Q0319: ... should. They are all getting frozen because some remote admin has set their | MX record to 127.0.0.1. |
| Q0718: ... rules to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one | MX to localhost or only have address 127.0.0.1 ? |
| Q1501: The | MX records for some UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it... |
| 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... |
| Q5027: ... reply/from person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it | myself. |
| Q0032: Exim is failing to find the | MySQL library, even though is it present within LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'm getting... |
| Q0109: I'm getting an unresolved symbol | mysql_close when trying to build Exim. |
| Q9601: Exim is | mysteriously crashing, usually when forking to send a delivery error message. |
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