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Q5005: ... printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than | A4 paper?
Q0047: ... a restart of the mail system, I see the message Mailer daemons: exim | abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail. What does this...
Q0069: What does the error SMTP data timeout (message | abandoned) on connection from... mean?
Q0107: Exim fails to build, complaining about the | absence of the `killpg` function.
Q9202: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the | -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this?
Q0085: ... because of the underscore in the host name, but is there a switch to allow Exim to | accept mail from such hosts?
Q0433: ... can I arrange for a single address to be processed by both redirect and | accept?
Q0716: ... to have a file listing the only sender addresses from which she will | accept mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any spam (or other...
Q0720: I set | `accept hosts=192.168.122.96/32` in order to accept mail for relaying from my local...
Q1701: ... enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to | accept this certificate. What's wrong?
Q5003: How can I persuade Exim to | accept ETRN commands without the leading # character?
Q9609: Why do some servers refuse SMTP connections from my Linux box, but | accept connections from hosts running other operating systems?
Q0405: On a host that | accepts mail for several domains, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in /etc/aliases...
Q0012: ... unable to route to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to | access the DNS.
Q0619: ... though the lock daemon is running on the NFS server and other hosts are able to | access it.
Q0634: How can I stop a local transport from trying to | access the user's home directory, even when the delivery is to a file that is...
Q0730: ... the same passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier IMAP | access to my server?
Q0425: My users' mailboxes are distributed between several servers | according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers receive incoming...
Q0609: Exim seems to be sending the same message twice, | according to the log, although there is a difference in capitalization of the local...
Q0204: Every system has a `nobody` | account under which httpd etc run. I would like to know how to restrict mail which...
Q0402: ... arrange for all incoming email for *@some.domain to go into one pop3 mail | account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific local parts to the...
Q5012: ... (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form of delivery | acknowledgement?
Q0016: I've set `verify = header_syntax` in my | ACL, but this causes Exim to complain about header lines like `To: Work: Jim <jims@email>,...`
Q0023: ... find host name from IP address when I have the sender's IP address in an | ACL condition? My configuration contains this ACL statement:
Q0035: I set a `hosts` condition in an | ACL to do a lookup in a file of IP addresses, but it doesn't work.
Q1403: How should Exim be configured when it is | acting as a temporary storage system for a domain on a dial-up host?
Q0104: ... release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other special | action?
Q0607: When I | activate “return receipt” for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then...
Q9808: ... list exploder on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the | actual deliveries from. How can I get Exim to split a message into groups of...
Q0402: ... *@some.domain to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to | add a list of specific local parts to the system.
Q0612: Why does the pipe transport | add a line starting with `>From` to messages?
Q0616: Can Exim | add a Content-Length: header to messages it delivers?
Q0901: I would like | add some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain...
Q0902: Is it possible to have Exim | add a header to only certain local parts of outgoing mail?
Q0905: ... a 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...
Q1601: How can I | add a disclaimer or an advertisement to a message?
Q9806: How do I get exim not to | add a Sender: header to locally originated mail?
Q1503: ... mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a Sender: header is being | added to the message.
Q0426: ... for anything@onedomain to forward to anything@anotherdomain. I tried | adding $local_part@anotherdomain to my aliases but it did not expand - it sent...
Q0003: What does the error Child process of | address_pipe transport returned 69 from command xxx mean?
Q0622: ... when I run a perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and | address_pipe transports?
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: ... uses a `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?
Q0319: ... indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote | admin has set their MX record to 127.0.0.1.
Q5001: ... arrange to allow a 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.
Q5032: Are there any Exim web-based | administration scripts?
Q1702: How can I arrange for Exim to | advertise support for SMTP authentication only when the session is encrypted?
Q1601: How can I add a disclaimer or an | advertisement to a message?
Q0008: `... -d -bt user@domain` all seems well, but when I send a message from my User | Agent, it does not arrive at its destination.
Q0706: How can I get POP-auth-before-relay ( | aka POP-before-SMTP) support in Exim?
Q0026: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an | alias to a pipe, but it always gives error code 69, with the comment (could mean...
Q0084: I want to set up an | alias that pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the...
Q0405: ... use fully qualified addresses in /etc/aliases or do I have to set up an | alias file for each domain?
Q0408: If I don't fully qualify the addresses in a virtual domain's | alias file then mail to aliases which also match the local domain get delivered...
Q0410: How can I make Exim look in the | alias NIS map instead of /etc/aliases?
Q0415: Can I use my existing | alias files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop in Exim...
Q0418: I want to use a default entry in my | alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it picks up the local parts that...
Q0422: ... for all addresses in a group of domains *.example.com to share the same | alias file? I have a number of such groups.
Q0427: How can I have an address looked up in two different | alias files, and delivered to all the addresses that are found?
Q0428: ... Sendmail, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the `owner-` entries in my | alias file to change the sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing list....
Q0434: ... aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system | alias file with an `lsearch*` lookup, but that send all messages to the default...
Q0435: My | alias file contains fully qualified addresses as keys, and some wildcard domains...
Q0611: ... up `|/bin/grep Subject|/usr/bin/smbclient -M <netbiosname>` as an | alias but it doesn't work.
Q0724: ... response to the remote user is “unknown user” instead of the message from the | alias file. How can I change this?
Q0072: Exim will deliver to normal | aliases, and aliases that are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve `:include:`...
Q0401: ... 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, for example, postmaster@virt.dom.ain....
Q0407: ... value when using a query-style lookup such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle | aliases?
Q0408: ... fully qualify the addresses in a virtual domain's alias file then mail to | aliases which also match the local domain get delivered to the local domain.
Q0418: ... handle unknown local parts, but it picks up the local parts that the | aliases generate. For example, if the alias file is
Q0424: ... de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different | aliases expand to the same address.
Q0426: ... forward to anything@anotherdomain. I tried adding $local_part@anotherdomain to my | aliases but it did not expand - it sent it to that literal address.
Q0434: How can I redirect all local parts that are not in my system | aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an `lsearch*`...
Q0624: ... program called smrsh that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail | aliases. Is there something like this in Exim ?
Q0724: I have used `:fail:` in some | aliases; when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but...
Q9709: When I try to 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'.
Q9708: ... to use only the resolver (i.e. ignore /etc/hosts), but don't want to | alter the nsswitch.conf file in Solaris 2.
Q0065: When (as root) I use -C to run Exim with an | alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being unable to create a spool file...
Q0091: ... message from address_reply transport when I run it using -C to specify an | alternate configuration?
Q5030: ... files. How can I run a second copy of eximon to inspect and modify the | alternate queue?
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...
Q1003: We have a large password file. Can Exim use | alternative lookups during delivery to speed things up?
Q0722: I installed | Amavis and it is working, but bounces are simply vanishing.
Q5014: Although I haven't set `check_spool_space`, Exim is still checking the | amount of space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the SIZE option....
Q5023: ... by default? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an | ancient way of authentication. Is it obsolete?
Q0314: I have a really | annoying intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with...
Q0034: Exim works fine on one host, but when I copied the binary to | another identical host, it stopped working (it could not resolve DNS names).
Q0316: I would like to forward all incoming email for a particular domain to | another host via SMTP. Whereabouts would I configure that?
Q0506: Using $recipients in a system filter gives me | another problem: how can I do a string lookup if $recipients is a list of addresses?...
Q5033: How can I send a copy of all outgoing messages to | another mailbox?
Q9804: ... out a user by disabling the password and moving the home directory to | another place. How can we arrange to reject mail for users in this state?
Q0717: ... Exim, a number of security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim | answers to EXPN and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows relaying....
Q0728: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam | Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim?
Q1708: ... trying to use TLS with Outlook as a client on a box that is running Norton | Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected with Unsupported command errors. Why?...
Q0056: ... user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope sender) | apache@server_name.com because the PHP script is running as apache.
Q0031: ... rejecting connections from hosts that have more than one IP address, for no | apparent reason.
Q9705: Exim has been crashing on my Solaris x86 system, | apparently while running DBM functions.
Q0905: ... existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of messages that | appear to be spam.
Q0635: The log message error ignored | appears after some delivery failures. What does it mean?
Q1705: ... listed some hosts in `tls_try_verify_hosts`, but when they connect, no data | appears in $tls_peerdn.
Q0604: I want to use MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to | append the ctrl-A characters that separate indvidual emails?
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?
Q0089: What does the error kernel: | application bug: exim(12099) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait() mean?
Q0709: Does Exim | apply RBL checks to error messages, those with an envelope sender of `<>`...
Q0018: ... like: `exim -v -R @aol.com`? For other domains, I do this and I see the | appropriate waiting for passed connections to get used messages.
Q0431: How do I configure Exim to allow | arbitrary extensions in local parts, of the form +extension?
Q0085: I see a lot of rejected EHLO ... syntactically invalid | argument(s). I know it's because of the underscore in the host name, but is there...
Q0043: What does the error Unable to get interface configuration: 22 Invalid | argument mean?
Q0055: What does the error Failed to open wait-remote_smtp database: Invalid | argument mean?
Q0071: ... does the error failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim//db/retry: Illegal | argument mean?
Q0319: I have some mails on my queues that are sticking | around longer than the retry time indicates they should. They are all getting...
Q0309: How can I configure Exim on a firewall machine so that if mail | arrives addressed to a domain whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded...
Q5015: ... just noticed log entries that start off `<= <>`. Am I correct in | assuming that the `<>` indicates that the envelope did not contain any “From”...
Q0434: ... that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried using an | asterisk in the system alias file with an `lsearch*` lookup, but that send all messages...
Q0057: We've got people complaining about | attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are included in the body of the...
Q0509: How can I set up a filter file to detect and block virus | attachments?
Q0711: ... Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore large MIME | attachments for example and only process text/plain?
Q0715: How can I get Exim to remove | attachments from messages?
Q1602: How can I remove | attachments from messages?
Q5020: How can I make Exim receive incoming mail, queue it, but not | attempt to deliver it? I want to be in this state while moving some mailboxes....
Q0620: Why does Exim bounce messages without even | attempting delivery, giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long...
Q0314: I have a really annoying intermittent problem where | attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with unknown mail domain. This only...
Q0736: Is it possible to tell exim to drop the connection after a server | attempts to send a message to a number of unknown users?
Q1401: ... at the same time mail to Internet hosts is queued without any delivery | attempts?
Q0078: ... unknown SMTP command `XXXX` from my client hosts, and they are unable to | authenticate.
Q9203: How can I use Exim for | authenticated SMTP using Cyrus on FreeBSD?
Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with PLAIN | authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data".
Q0726: My SMTP | authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty password....
Q0730: How can I use the same passwords for SMTP | authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server?
Q1702: How can I arrange for Exim to advertise support for SMTP | authentication only when the session is encrypted?
Q5023: ... Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an ancient way of | authentication. Is it obsolete?
Q0726: ... name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN | authenticator?
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...
Q0417: What do I need to do to make Exim handle /usr/ucb/vacation processing | automatically, so that people could just create a .vacation.msg file in their home directory...
Q1405: I have an ISDN connection and would like a way of running the queue | automatically when it is up.
Q1703: ... that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session | automatically on connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim handle this?
Q0065: ... gives an error about being unable to create a spool file when trying to run an | autoreply transport. Why is this?
Q0508: ... relative paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not | available from the password data?
Q0619: ... 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 and other hosts are...
Q5011: Is there a version of Exim | available that runs under Windows?
Q0313: ... this means that bad addresses also get passed to the smart host. Can I | avoid this?
Q0615: ... removed all messages in the queue to this host - even recent messages. How I can | avoid this behaviour? I only want to remove messages that have exceeded the...

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