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| Q1004: I just wondered if it might be helpful to put the hints database on a | RAM disk during regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? |
| Q0062: When I try to start an Exim daemon it crashes. I | ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the function getservbyname().... |
| Q0425: ... first letter of the user name. All the servers receive incoming mail at | random. I would like to have the same configuration file for all the servers,... |
| Q0704: ... that Exim is correctly configured to use the Realtime Blackhole List ( | RBL)? |
| Q0709: Does Exim apply | RBL checks to error messages, those with an envelope sender of <> ?... |
| 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 fetchmail any particular way?... |
| 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 have... |
| Q0608: What does the message retry time not | reached [for any host] on the log mean? Why won't Exim try to deliver the message?... |
| Q0620: ... messages without even attempting delivery, giving the error retry time not | reached for any host after a long failure period? |
| Q0077: ... installed Exim and it is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to | read mail from my PC I get connection rejected or unable to connect. |
| Q0412: ... documentation but can't see anything to suggest that Exim has to do anything other than | read the .forward file. |
| Q5018: If I am using dbm files for data that Exim | reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time... |
| Q1503: ... 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 message. |
| Q5028: ... process table changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a symlink) to the | real binary name. Can I change this? |
| 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.... |
| Q0704: How can I test that Exim is correctly configured to use the | Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)? |
| Q0047: On a | reboot, or a restart of the mail system, I see the message Mailer daemons: exim abandoned:... |
| Q5018: If I am using dbm files for data that Exim reads, can I | rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time I make a change?... |
| Q0607: When I activate ``return | receipt'' for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then I get an error message... |
| Q0059: ... sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to | receive it. The Outlook log shows this: |
| Q0425: ... servers according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers | receive incoming mail at random. I would like to have the same configuration file... |
| Q5020: How can I make Exim | receive incoming mail, queue it, but not attempt to deliver it? I want to be in... |
| Q5027: ... send bounces to the postmaster, and nobody else? Basically, I want to | receive them, and I don't want the reply/from person to get them. If I think they... |
| Q0009: What does no immediate delivery: too many messages | received in one SMTP connection mean? |
| Q0010: Exim puts for <address> in the | Received: headers of some, but not all, messages. Is this a bug? |
| Q0049: ... What does the log message no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages | received in one connection mean? |
| Q0051: When I try exim -bf to test a system filter, I | received the following error message: Filter error: unavailable filtering command "fail"... |
| Q0061: What does the error Too many `` | Received'' headers - suspected mail loop mean? |
| Q0503: I | received a message with a Subject: line that contained a non-printing character... |
| Q0903: How can I remove some part of the | Received: header? |
| Q5016: I've | received a message which does not have my address in the To: line. It is a spam message with... |
| Q0014: Exim is timing out after | receiving and responding to the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the... |
| Q0615: ... timeout exceeded and removed all messages in the queue to this host - even | recent messages. How I can avoid this behaviour? I only want to remove messages... |
| Q5004: I've | recently noticed that emails I send with a Bcc: line are being delivered to their final... |
| Q0603: ... routers that do not set check_local_user be delivered under the uid of the | recipient? |
| Q0807: ... want to rewrite local sender addresses depending on the domain of the | recipient. |
| Q1201: When I run fetchmail, I get the error SMTP listener doesn't like | recipient address xxx@localhost. |
| Q5029: A message with a | recipient address that contains a non-printing character is stuck on my mail queue.... |
| Q0725: I've set 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>...... |
| Q0727: When a message has many | recipients, how can I stop SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running... |
| Q9808: ... deliveries from. How can I get Exim to split a message into groups of | recipients between the three hosts? |
| Q0019: There seems to be a problem in the string expansion code: it doesn't | recognize references to headers such as ${h_to}. |
| Q9202: ... FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim | recognize this? |
| Q0006: ... put an entry for *.my.domain in a DBM lookup file, but it isn't getting | recognized. |
| Q0106: Exim doesn't seem to be | recognizing my operating system type correctly, and so is failing to build. |
| Q0205: ... 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 mean? |
| Q0311: ... complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host defined by the A | record? |
| Q0318: Exim won't route to a host with no MX | record. |
| Q0319: ... They are all getting frozen because some remote admin has set their MX | record to 127.0.0.1. |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant MX | records point to non-existent hosts when MX records point to IP addresses? |
| 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 defined... |
| Q1501: The MX | records for some UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it to pass... |
| Q9703: ... Exim crashes when looking up domains in the DNS that have more than 10 A | records. |
| Q9603: ... inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated on a | RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections to be refused. The imapd in use is... |
| Q0013: ... error message transport system_aliases: cannot find transport driver " | redirect" in line 92 mean? |
| Q0081: What does error in | redirect data: included file xxxx is too big mean? |
| Q0433: How can I arrange for a single address to be processed by both | redirect and accept? |
| Q0434: How can I | redirect all local parts that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried using an... |
| Q0502: ... obtain the result of a pipe command so that I can filter externally and | redirect internally. Is this possible? |
| Q0082: ... version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libresolv.so.2 with link time | reference mean? |
| Q0103: ... hosts_ctl when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error is undefined | reference to 'hosts_ctl'.) |
| Q1302: ... Perl support exits with several error messages of the form undefined | reference to `PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0019: ... seems to be a problem in the string expansion code: it doesn't recognize | references to headers such as ${h_to}. |
| Q1701: ... certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim | refuse to accept this certificate. What's wrong? |
| Q0724: I have used :fail: in some aliases; when one of these addresses is | refused, I see the message on the log, but the response to the remote user is... |
| Q9603: ... service terminated on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing imap connections to be | refused. The imapd in use is Washington Univers 12.250. Could this be anything... |
| Q0023: Why is Exim | refusing to relay, saying failed to find host name from IP address when I have... |
| Q0627: Is there a command I can send to Exim to retry all queued messages | regardless of their retry schedule? |
| Q1503: We see something strange on our system in | regards to mail coming in via rmail from a UUCP link. The sender is being set to mailmaster... |
| 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... |
| Q0421: I can't get a | regular expression to work in a local_parts option on one of my routers. |
| Q1004: ... if it might be helpful to put the hints database on a RAM disk during | regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? |
| Q0076: I've configured Exim to use syslog for its logs, with the main and | reject logs sent to different files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get... |
| Q0202: Can I specify a list of domains to explicitly | reject? |
| Q0710: I want to | reject certain sender-recipient combinations, with a specific message for each... |
| Q0714: Is there a way to configure Exim to | reject mail to a certain local host? |
| Q5016: ... both the From: and the To: headers. How can this happen, and why doesn't Exim | reject it? |
| Q9804: ... and moving the home directory to another place. How can we arrange to | reject mail for users in this state? |
| Q0076: ... the main and reject logs sent to different files, but whenever a message is | rejected, I get one message on the reject log and two messages on the main log.... |
| Q0077: ... just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get connection | rejected or unable to connect. |
| Q0314: ... annoying intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are | rejected with unknown mail domain. This only happens a few times a day and there... |
| Q0005: Why is Exim not | rejecting incoming messages addressed to non-existent users at SMTP time? |
| Q0031: Exim is | rejecting connections from hosts that have more than one IP address, for no apparent... |
| Q0042: My ISP's mail server is | rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The SMTP trace does... |
| Q0083: ... containing an unqualified user name in the Sender: header line, which Exim is | rejecting because I have set verify = header_syntax. How can I fix this? |
| Q0432: I use NIS for my user data. How can I stop Exim | rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being restarted? |
| Q0725: I've set up some specific | rejection messages for certain recipients, but when I test them, the SMTP message is always... |
| Q0314: ... 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 later then it is OK.... |
| Q0707: I have one or two cases where my host correctly | rejects messages, but the remote host is quite persistent, and keeps trying over... |
| Q0508: How can I allow the use of | relative paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not available... |
| Q0414: ... in their login names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case. Can I | relax this somehow? |
| Q0023: Why is Exim refusing to | relay, saying failed to find host name from IP address when I have the sender's... |
| Q0030: I'm trying to use a query-style lookup for hosts that are allowed to | relay, but it is giving really weird errors. |
| Q0315: ... with addresses that can't be resolved (the DNS lookup times out) to a | relay machine. |
| Q5026: Is exim able to use RFC 2645, On-demand Mail | Relay (ODMR)? |
| 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. |
| Q0717: ... answers to EXPN and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows | relaying. |
| Q0720: I set accept hosts=192.168.122.96/32 in order to accept mail for | relaying from my local LAN, but it doesn't work. What's wrong? |
| 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?... |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all | relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts when MX records point to IP addresses?... |
| Q0305: ... arrange for mail on my local network to be delivered directly to the | relevant hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail server? The local... |
| Q0082: What does | relocation error: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2: symbol __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE... |
| Q0803: ... addresses in mail that goes to the outside world, but not for messages that | remain within the local intranet. |
| Q0308: ... domain for which some local parts must be delivered locally, but the | remainder are to be treated like any other remote addresses. |
| Q1406: ... from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately; the | remainder just sit on the queue until a queue runner process finds them. |
| Q0012: Exim is unable to route to any | remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the DNS. |
| Q0017: ... a specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error | Remote end closed connection after data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's going... |
| Q0074: What does the error message | remote delivery process count got out of step mean? |
| Q0301: What do lowest numbered MX record points to local host and | remote host address is the local host mean? |
| Q0308: ... delivered locally, but the remainder are to be treated like any other | remote addresses. |
| Q0319: ... time indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some | remote admin has set their MX record to 127.0.0.1. |
| Q0602: ... 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it is about to contact a | remote host or when a delivery is deferred. |
| Q0707: ... have one or two cases where my host correctly rejects messages, but the | remote host is quite persistent, and keeps trying over and over. |
| Q0724: ... these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but the response to the | remote user is ``unknown user'' instead of the message from the alias file. How... |
| Q1402: ... have a dial-up machine, and I use the queue_smtp_domains option so that | remote mail only goes out when I do a queue run. However, any email I send with an address... |
| Q0622: ... ordinary file when I run a perl script as a transport filter for the | remote_smtp and address_pipe transports? |
| Q0114: How can I | remove Sendmail from my system? I've built Exim and run make install, but it... |
| Q0615: ... host - even recent messages. How I can avoid this behaviour? I only want to | remove messages that have exceeded the maximum retry time. |
| Q0715: How can I get Exim to | remove attachments from messages? |
| Q0802: I have Exim configured to | remove the hostname portion of the domain on outgoing mail, and yet the hostname... |
| Q0903: How can I | remove some part of the Received: header? |
| Q1602: How can I | remove attachments from messages? |
| Q5029: ... contains a non-printing character is stuck on my mail queue. How can I | remove this address? |
| Q0615: ... 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 messages. How I can... |
| Q5022: Is there an easy way of | removing all queued messages at once in a safe way? |
| Q0905: I know I can use a system filter to | replace certain headers in messages, but how can I add text to existing headers?... |
| Q9201: ... /usr/sbin/mailwrapper; it doesn't contain the Sendmail binary. How should I | replace Sendmail with Exim on FreeBSD? |
| Q0505: My problem is that Exim | replaces $local_part with an empty string in the system filtering. What's wrong... |
| Q5027: ... nobody else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the | reply/from person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself.... |
| Q0052: What does ridiculously long message header in an error | report mean? |
| Q0028: Exim is | reporting IP addresses as 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 instead of their correct values.... |
| Q0060: ... Why am I getting the error failed to expand /data/lists/lists/${lc for | require_files: ${lc is not a known operator for this setting: |
| Q5008: ... contain *customer.com, it matches customer.com and abc.customer.com as | required, but it also matches noncustomer.com, which is wrong. How can I get round... |
| Q0626: ... route local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon | requires the correct case. How can I fix this? |
| Q0034: ... the binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not | resolve DNS names). |
| Q0315: I'd like route all mail with addresses that can't be | resolved (the DNS lookup times out) to a relay machine. |
| Q0613: ... fallback_hosts on my smtp transport, but after the error sem@chat.ru cannot be | resolved at this time Exim isn't using them. |
| Q9708: I want Exim to use only the | resolver (i.e. ignore /etc/hosts), but don't want to alter the nsswitch.conf file... |
| Q5023: ... Why does Exim do ident callbacks by default? Isn't this just a waste of | resources? I've been told this is an ancient way of authentication. Is it obsolete?... |
| 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? It... |
| Q0014: Exim is timing out after receiving and | responding to the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the client host... |
| Q0048: Whenever exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start | responding on the SMTP port. Why is this? |
| Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps | responding "535 Incorrect authentication data". |
| Q0053: Exim on my host | responds to a connection with 220 *****... and won't understand EHLO commands.... |
| Q0724: ... when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but the | response to the remote user is ``unknown user'' instead of the message from the... |
| Q0047: On a reboot, or a | restart of the mail system, I see the message Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown,... |
| Q5018: ... data that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to | restart Exim every time I make a change? |
| Q0432: ... data. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being | restarted? |
| Q0048: Whenever exim | restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start responding on the SMTP port. Why is... |
| Q0204: ... nobody account under which httpd etc run. I would like to know how to | restrict mail which comes from that account to users on that host only. |
| Q9802: ... configure Exim so that it sends mail to the outside world only from a | restricted list of our local users? |
| Q0624: Sendmail has a program called smrsh that | restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases. Is there something like... |
| Q0084: ... 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 get an error... |
| Q0084: ... want to set 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... |
| 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.... |
| Q0319: ... have 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... |
| Q0610: How can I force the next | retry time for a host to be now? |
| 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 -... |
| Q0617: ... seems to be trying to deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the | retry rules specify longer times after a while, because it is writing a log... |
| Q0620: ... Exim bounce messages without even attempting delivery, giving the error | retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period? |
| Q0627: Is there a command I can send to Exim to | retry all queued messages regardless of their retry schedule? |
| Q0628: I have the default | retry rule, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four days,... |
| Q1402: ... send with an address anything@aol.com is returned within about 15 minutes saying | retry time exceeded, and all addresses are affected. |
| Q0056: ... server. 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... |
| Q0080: Am I to understand that the database lookups must only | return one value? They can not return a list of values? The documentation seems... |
| Q0503: ... with a 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? |
| Q0607: When I activate `` | return receipt'' for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then I get an error... |
| Q1104: I'm getting | return code 9 from /home/majordomo/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper when it is passed... |
| Q0003: What does the error Child process of address_pipe transport | returned 69 from command xxx mean? |
| Q1402: ... do a queue run. However, any email I send with an address anything@aol.com is | returned within about 15 minutes saying retry time exceeded, and all addresses... |
| Q0310: If a DNS lookup | returns no MX records why doesn't Exim just bin the message? |
| 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... |
| Q0803: I want to | rewrite local addresses in mail that goes to the outside world, but not for messages... |
| Q0805: Is it possible to completely fail a message if the | rewrite rules fail? |
| Q0807: I want to | rewrite local sender addresses depending on the domain of the recipient. |
| Q0054: ... rewrite flag character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used any flags on my | rewriting rules. |
| Q0804: I'm using this | rewriting rule to change login names into ``friendly'' names, but if mail comes... |
| Q0806: I'm using $domain as the key for a lookup in a | rewriting rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed... |
| Q0804: ... names, but if mail comes in for an upper case login name, it doesn't get | rewritten. |
| Q1407: | RFC 1985 specifies that the SMTP command ETRN host.domain causes all mail... |
| Q5026: Is exim able to use | RFC 2645, On-demand Mail Relay (ODMR)? |
| Q0052: What does | ridiculously long message header in an error report mean? |
| Q1503: ... see something strange on our system in regards to mail coming in via | rmail from a UUCP link. The sender is being set to mailmaster instead of the real sender,... |
| Q0039: I have installed Exim, but now I can't mail to | root any more. Why is this? |
| Q0065: When (as | root) I use -C to run Exim with an alternate configuration file, it gives an error... |
| Q9602: I want to use logrotate which is standard with RH5.2 Linux to | rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the logrotate config file that will do... |
| Q0012: Exim is unable to | route to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the DNS. |
| Q0315: I'd like | route all mail with addresses that can't be resolved (the DNS lookup times out)... |
| Q0318: Exim won't | route to a host with no MX record. |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to | route a local address, it gives a permission denied error for the .forward file,... |
| Q0626: Exim can | route local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires... |
| Q0307: The | route_list setting ^foo$:^bar$ $domain in a manualroute router does not work. |
| Q0312: Is it possible to use a conditional expression for the host item in a | route_list for manualroute router? I tried the following, but it doesn't work: |
| Q0040: How can I stop undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to | routeable, but undeliverable, spammer senders) from clogging up the queue for days?... |
| Q0603: How can mails that are being | routed through routers that do not set check_local_user be delivered under the... |
| Q0033: What does the error lookup of host "xx.xx.xx" failed in yyy | router mean? |
| Q0201: ... arrange that messages larger than some limit are handled by a special | router? |
| Q0203: ... qualification of non-fully-qualified domains, and then pass them on to the next | router? |
| Q0307: The route_list setting ^foo$:^bar$ $domain in a manualroute | router does not work. |
| Q0312: ... conditional expression for the host item in a route_list for manualroute | router? I tried the following, but it doesn't work: |
| Q0601: What does the error Neither the xxx | router nor the yyy transport set a uid for local delivery of... mean? |
| Q0414: I have set caseful_local_part on the | routers that handle my local domain because my users have upper case letters in... |
| Q0421: ... get a regular expression to work in a local_parts option on one of my | routers. |
| Q0603: How can mails that are being routed through | routers that do not set check_local_user be delivered under the uid of the recipient?... |
| Q0207: Why does Exim lower-case the local-part of a non-local domain when | routing? |
| Q0101: I'm having a problem with an Exim | RPM. |
| Q0628: I have the default retry | rule, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four days, but... |
| Q0804: I'm using this rewriting | rule to change login names into ``friendly'' names, but if mail comes in for... |
| Q0806: I'm using $domain as the key for a lookup in a rewriting | rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed to... |
| Q0054: ... flag character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used any flags on my rewriting | rules. |
| Q0617: ... to be 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... |
| Q0718: Could anyone points me to right | rules to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one MX... |
| Q0805: Is it possible to completely fail a message if the rewrite | rules fail? |
| Q1406: ... delivered immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue | runner process finds them. |
| Q0056: ... path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the PHP script is | running as apache. |
| Q0068: ... trying to connect to some hosts, though those hosts are known to be up and | running. What's the problem? |
| Q0619: ... the error fcntl() failed: No locks available, though the lock daemon is | running on the NFS server and other hosts are able to access it. |
| Q0727: ... recipients, how can I stop SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm | running it from a pipe transport. |
| Q1001: I'm | running a large mail server. Should I set split_spool_directory to improve performance?... |
| Q1405: I have an ISDN connection and would like a way of | running the queue automatically when it is up. |
| Q5010: ... to find a 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. |
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