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I ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC63" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC63">Q0063</a>: When I try to start an Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">daemon</font>, nothing happens. There is no process, and nothing is written to the Exim...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC216" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC216">Q0619</a>: ... NFS. I get the error <i>fcntl() failed: No locks available</i>, though the lock </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">daemon</font> is running on the NFS server and other hosts are able to access it. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: ... Exim can route local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">daemon</font> requires the correct case. How can I fix this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC363" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC363">Q5028</a>: When I HUP the Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">daemon</font>, the name shown in the process table changes from <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC47" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC47">Q0047</a>: ... On a reboot, or a restart of the mail system, I see the message <i>Mailer </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">daemons</font>: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail</i>....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC14" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC14">Q0014</a>: Exim is timing out after receiving and responding to the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DATA</font> command from one particular host, and yet the client host also claims...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... server, it fails, giving the error <i>Remote end closed connection after </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font></i> or <i>Broken pipe</i> or a timeout. What's going on? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC69" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC69">Q0069</a>: What does the error <i>SMTP </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font> timeout (message abandoned) on connection from...</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC81" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC81">Q0081</a>: What does <i>error in redirect </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font>: included file xxxx is too big</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC87" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC87">Q0087</a>: What does <i>rejected after </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">DATA</font>: malformed address: xx@yy may not follow <xx@yy> : failing address in...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC178" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC178">Q0432</a>: I use NIS for my user </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font>. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being restarted?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC190" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC190">Q0508</a>: ... files when the directories concerned are not available from the password </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC256" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC256">Q0723</a>: ... PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font>". </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC329" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC329">Q1705</a>: ... listed some hosts in <tt>tls_try_verify_hosts</tt>, but when they connect, no </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font> appears in <i>$tls_peerdn</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC350" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC350">Q5015</a>: ... that the <tt><></tt> indicates that the envelope did not contain any “From” </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC353" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC353">Q5018</a>: If I am using dbm files for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font> that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: How can I lookup </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">data</font> from a single file using both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as keys?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC7" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC7">Q0007</a>: I've put the entry <tt>*@domain.com</tt> in a lookup </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">database</font>, but it isn't working. The expansion I'm using is: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC55" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC55">Q0055</a>: What does the error <i>Failed to open wait-remote_smtp </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">database</font>: Invalid argument</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC80" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC80">Q0080</a>: Am I to understand that the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">database</font> lookups must only return one value? They can not return a list of values?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC293" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC293">Q1004</a>: I just wondered if it might be helpful to put the hints </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">database</font> on a RAM disk during regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC58" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC58">Q0058</a>: What does the error <i>failed to open </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">DB</font> file <i>/var/spool/exim/db/retry</i>: File exists</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC71" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC71">Q0071</a>: What does the error <i>failed to open </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">DB</font> file <i>/var/spool/exim//db/retry</i>: Illegal argument</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC95" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC95">Q0102</a>: I can't get Exim to compile with Berkeley </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DB</font> version 2.x or 3.x. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC109" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC109">Q0116</a>: I have tried to build Exim with Berkeley </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DB</font> 3 and 4, but I always get errors. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC390" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC390">Q9607</a>: ... having difficulties trying to make Exim 4 with Redhat 9 and Berkeley </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DB</font> 4. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC6" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC6">Q0006</a>: I've put an entry for <tt>*.my.domain</tt> in a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DBM</font> lookup file, but it isn't getting recognized. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC11" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC11">Q0011</a>: Instead of <i>exim_dbmbuild</i>, I'm using a homegrown program to build </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DBM</font> (or cdb) files, but Exim doesn't seem to be able to use them. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC353" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC353">Q5018</a>: If I am using </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">dbm</font> files for data that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC398" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC398">Q9705</a>: ... has been crashing on my Solaris x86 system, apparently while running </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DBM</font> functions. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC170" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC170">Q0424</a>: How can I disable Exim's </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">de-duplication</font> features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different aliases expand...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: I installed </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">debian</font> 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC389" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC389">Q9606</a>: I'm having trouble configuring Exim 4 on a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Debian</font> system. How does <i>/etc/exim4/conf.d</i> work? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC391" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC391">Q9608</a>: I'm running Exim 3 under </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Debian</font>, and want to upgrade to Exim 4. How difficult is it? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC4" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC4">Q0004</a>: My virtual domain setup isn't working. How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">debug</font> it? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC62" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC62">Q0062</a>: When I try to start an Exim daemon with <b>-bd</b> it crashes. I ran a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">debugger</font> and discovered that the crash is happening in the function <i>getservbyname()</i>....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC235" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC235">Q0702</a>: ... don't want to block spam entirely; how can I inspect each message before </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">deciding</font> whether or not to deliver it? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC153" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC153">Q0407</a>: How can I arrange for a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font> value when using a query-style lookup such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle aliases?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC164" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC164">Q0418</a>: I want to use a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font> entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it picks up...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... alias file with an <tt>lsearch*</tt> lookup, but that sent all messages to the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font> address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC225" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC225">Q0628</a>: I have the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font> retry rule, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC356" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC356">Q5021</a>: What does Exim use for POP and IMAP as a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font>? Do I have to install anything else? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC358" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC358">Q5023</a>: Why does Exim do <i>ident</i> callbacks by </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font>? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an ancient...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: ... want to set <tt>smtp_accept_max_per_host</tt> by this means, and also include a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">default</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC264" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC264">Q0731</a>: Is there any </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">defence</font> I can use against spam sent through an open proxy? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC169" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC169">Q0423</a>: <i>... or directory)</i> when Exim tries to look for a <i>.forward file</i>, and the delivery is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">deferred</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC199" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC199">Q0602</a>: ... happen when it is about to contact a remote host or when a delivery is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">deferred</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: If email has been </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">deferred</font> to a member on a local mailing list (implemented through forward files), and...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: When a user's <i>.forward</i> file is syntactially invalid, Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">defers</font> delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes include the user's own...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC46" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC46">Q0046</a>: A short time after I start Exim I see a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">defunct</font> zombie process. What is causing this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: ... with the banner, when connections to other ports respond instantly? The </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">delay</font> is sometimes as long as 30 seconds. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC271" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC271">Q0738</a>: How can I configure Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">delay</font> the SMTP connection if more than 10 invalid recipients are received in...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC410" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC410">Q9807</a>: Is there any way to have messages sent to a specific local address </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">delayed</font> by - say - 24 hours? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC165" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC165">Q0419</a>: ... which people have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">delete</font> any mail that is sent to them? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: I've installed Exim and it is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">delivering</font> mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get <i>connection rejected</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: Why do I get the error <i>Permission </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">denied</font>: creating lock file hitching post</i> when Exim tries to do a local delivery?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC176" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC176">Q0430</a>: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a permission </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">denied</font> error for the <i>.forward</i> file, like this: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC265" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC265">Q0732</a>: I would like to either warn or </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">deny</font> when a host uses an underscore in the EHLO command. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC282" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC282">Q0807</a>: I want to rewrite local sender addresses </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">depending</font> on the domain of the recipient. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC8" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC8">Q0008</a>: ... well, but when I send a message from my User Agent, it does not arrive at its </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">destination</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC339" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC339">Q5004</a>: ... that emails I send with a <i>Bcc:</i> line are being delivered to their final </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">destination</font> with the <i>Bcc:</i> line still present. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC406" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC406">Q9803</a>: ... secondary MX is down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for that </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">destination</font> separately from the main queue? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC191" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC191">Q0509</a>: How can I set up a filter file to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">detect</font> and block virus attachments? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC140" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC140">Q0317</a>: ... like to do is have alternative smart hosts, where the one to be used is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">determined</font> by which ISP I'm connected to. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC311" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC311">Q1404</a>: ... or <tt>queue_smtp_domains</tt> set, and use <b>-qf</b> to force delivery of waiting mail when I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">dial</font> in. How can I arrange for any new messages that arrive while I'm connected...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: When I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">dial</font> up to collect mail from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC316" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC316">Q1409</a>: I would like to have a separate queue per domain for hosts which </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">dial</font> in to collect their mail. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC309" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC309">Q1402</a>: I have a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">dial-up</font> machine, and I use the <tt>queue_smtp_domains</tt> option so that remote mail only goes out when...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC310" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC310">Q1403</a>: ... configured when it is acting as a temporary storage system for a domain on a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">dial-up</font> host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC206" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC206">Q0609</a>: ... sending the same message twice, according to the log, although there is a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">difference</font> in capitalization of the local part of the address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC189" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC189">Q0507</a>: What are the main </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">differences</font> between using an Exim filter and using <i>procmail</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC45" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC45">Q0045</a>: I see entries in the log that mention two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> IP addresses for the same connection. Why is this? For example: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: ... Exim to use <i>syslog</i> for its logs, with the main and reject logs sent to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get one message on the reject...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC120" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC120">Q0206</a>: How can I get Exim to deliver certain domains to a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> SMTP port on my local host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC162" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC162">Q0416</a>: ... Exim so any message sent to a non-existing user would bounce back with a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> message, based on the name of non-existing user? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC170" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC170">Q0424</a>: ... Exim's de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> aliases expand to the same address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC173" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC173">Q0427</a>: How can I have an address looked up in two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> alias files, and delivered to all the addresses that are found? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: I am using exim in a two queues scenario, with two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> configuration files. How can I run a second copy of <i>eximon</i> to inspect...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC370" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC370">Q5035</a>: Does Exim run with </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">different</font> permissions between <b>-bt</b> and <b>-bh</b>, or between verifying and actual sending?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC391" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC391">Q9608</a>: I'm running Exim 3 under Debian, and want to upgrade to Exim 4. How </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">difficult</font> is it? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC390" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC390">Q9607</a>: I'm having </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">difficulties</font> trying to make Exim 4 with Redhat 9 and Berkeley DB 4. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: How can I arrange for mail on my local network to be delivered </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directly</font> to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC169" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC169">Q0423</a>: Some of our users have no home </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directories</font>; the field in the password file contains <i>/no/home/dir</i>. This causes the error <i>failed...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC190" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC190">Q0508</a>: ... can I allow the use of relative paths in users' filter files when the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directories</font> concerned are not available from the password data? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC220" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC220">Q0623</a>: ... <i>/var/spool/mail</i> has grown drastically. Is there any possibility of using two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directories</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC104" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC104">Q0111</a>: I'm getting the error <i>db.h: No such file or </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">directory</font></i> when I try to build Exim. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC108" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC108">Q0115</a>: What does <i>Can't open <i>../scripts/newer</i>: No such file or </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directory</font></i> mean? I got it while trying to build Exim. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC163" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC163">Q0417</a>: ... automatically, so that people could just create a <i>.vacation.msg</i> file in their home </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directory</font> and not have to edit their <i>.forward</i> file? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC169" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC169">Q0423</a>: ... <i>/no/home/dir</i>. This causes the error <i>failed to stat /no/home/dir (No such file or </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">directory</font>)</i> when Exim tries to look for a <i>.forward file</i>, and the delivery is deferred....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC231" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC231">Q0634</a>: ... How can I stop a local transport from trying to access the user's home </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directory</font>, even when the delivery is to a file that is elsewhere? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC407" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC407">Q9804</a>: ... temporarily lock out a user by disabling the password and moving the home </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">directory</font> to another place. How can we arrange to reject mail for users in this...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC170" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC170">Q0424</a>: How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">disable</font> Exim's de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC51" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC51">Q0051</a>: ... my system filter with <b>-bf</b>, I get the error <i>filtering command "fail" is </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">disabled</font></i>. Why is this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC407" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC407">Q9804</a>: We want to be able to temporarily lock out a user by </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">disabling</font> the password and moving the home directory to another place. How can we...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC322" href="FAQ_16.html#TOC322">Q1601</a>: How can I add a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">disclaimer</font> or an advertisement to a message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC62" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC62">Q0062</a>: ... try to start an Exim daemon with <b>-bd</b> it crashes. I ran a debugger and </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">discovered</font> that the crash is happening in the function <i>getservbyname()</i>. What's going...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC293" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC293">Q1004</a>: ... just wondered if it might be helpful to put the hints database on a RAM </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">disk</font> during regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC352" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC352">Q5017</a>: ... purely in memory, that is, it is handled without it ever hitting the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">disk</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: My users' mailboxes are </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">distributed</font> between several servers according to the first letter of the user name....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC262" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC262">Q0729</a>: How can I screen out addresses that are neither valid usernames or </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">distribution</font> lists on mail being forwarded to an internal Win2K server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC12" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC12">Q0012</a>: ... route to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC34" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC34">Q0034</a>: ... binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not resolve </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> names). </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC133" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC133">Q0310</a>: If a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> lookup returns no MX records why doesn't Exim just bin the message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC134" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC134">Q0311</a>: When a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> lookup for MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC138" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC138">Q0315</a>: I'd like route all mail with addresses that can't be resolved (the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> lookup times out) to a relay machine. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC144" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC144">Q0321</a>: ... use only IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both types in the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC237" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC237">Q0704</a>: How can I test that Exim is correctly configured to use a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> black list such as the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC266" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC266">Q0733</a>: ... Is there any way to tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> black list if the connection is over IPv6? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC396" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC396">Q9703</a>: On SunOS 4 Exim crashes when looking up domains in the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS</font> that have more than 10 A records. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: ... other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail server? The local hosts are all </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DNS-registered</font> and behave like normal Internet hosts. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC80" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC80">Q0080</a>: ... must only return one value? They can not return a list of values? The </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">documentation</font> seems to indicate that it's possible to return a list. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC158" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC158">Q0412</a>: ... error <i>bad mode (100664) for /home/test/.forward</i>? I've looked through the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">documentation</font> but can't see anything to suggest that Exim has to do anything other than read...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC341" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC341">Q5006</a>: ... aren't there any man pages for Exim? I don't always carry my printed </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">documentation</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC154" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC154">Q0408</a>: If I don't fully qualify the addresses in a virtual </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain's</font> alias file then mail to aliases which also match the local domain get...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC4" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC4">Q0004</a>: My virtual </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> setup isn't working. How can I debug it? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC119" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC119">Q0205</a>: ... can I get Exim to deliver to me locally and everyone else at the same </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> via SMTP to the MX record specified host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC121" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC121">Q0207</a>: Why does Exim lower-case the local-part of a non-local </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> when routing? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC122" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC122">Q0208</a>: I can't get a lookup to work in a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> list. I'm trying this: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC131" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC131">Q0308</a>: I have a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> for which some local parts must be delivered locally, but the remainder...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... configure Exim on a firewall machine so that if mail arrives addressed to a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded to the internal mail...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: ... where attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with <i>unknown mail </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font></i>. This only happens a few times a day and there is no particular pattern...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC139" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC139">Q0316</a>: I would like to forward all incoming email for a particular </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> to another host via SMTP. Whereabouts would I configure that? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC151" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC151">Q0405</a>: ... addresses in <i>/etc/aliases</i> or do I have to set up an alias file for each </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC154" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC154">Q0408</a>: If I don't fully qualify the addresses in a virtual </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font>'s alias file then mail to aliases which also match the local domain get...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC155" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC155">Q0409</a>: ... local part at certain virtual domains to go to a single address for each </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: I have set <tt>caseful_local_part</tt> on the routers that handle my local </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> because my users have upper case letters in their login names, but incoming...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC175" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC175">Q0429</a>: I would like to deliver mail addressed to a given </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> to local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope senders....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC195" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC195">Q0513</a>: ... all mails greater than 500K in size, but to exclude those to a specific </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font>. However, I don't seem to be able to use <i>$domain</i> in a system filter. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC277" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC277">Q0802</a>: I have Exim configured to remove the hostname portion of the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> on outgoing mail, and yet the hostname is present when the mail gets delivered....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC282" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC282">Q0807</a>: I want to rewrite local sender addresses depending on the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> of the recipient. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC284" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC284">Q0901</a>: ... add some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> and the subject line. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC310" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC310">Q1403</a>: ... Exim be configured when it is acting as a temporary storage system for a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> on a dial-up host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC314" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC314">Q1407</a>: RFC 1985 specifies that the SMTP command <tt>ETRN host.</tt></td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font></tt> causes all mail queued for that host, no matter what domain it's for,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC316" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC316">Q1409</a>: I would like to have a separate queue per </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> for hosts which dial in to collect their mail. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC343" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC343">Q5008</a>: If I set up a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domain</font> list to contain <i>*customer.com</i>, it matches <i>customer.com</i> and <i>abc.customer.com</i> as...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC12" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC12">Q0012</a>: Exim is unable to route to any remote </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font>. It doesn't seen to be able to access the DNS. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC18" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC18">Q0018</a>: ... same connection when I do something like: <tt>exim -v -R @aol.com</tt>? For other </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font>, I do this and I see the appropriate <i>waiting for passed connections to get...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC116" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC116">Q0202</a>: Can I specify a list of </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> to explicitly reject? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC117" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC117">Q0203</a>: How can I arrange to do my own qualification of non-fully-qualified </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font>, and then pass them on to the next router? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC120" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC120">Q0206</a>: How can I get Exim to deliver certain </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> to a different SMTP port on my local host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... to the internal mail server, without having to have a list of all the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> involved? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC151" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC151">Q0405</a>: On a host that accepts mail for several </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font>, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in <i>/etc/aliases</i> or do I have...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC155" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC155">Q0409</a>: I want mail for any local part at certain virtual </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> to go to a single address for each domain. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC165" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC165">Q0419</a>: I have some obsolete </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> which people have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC168" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC168">Q0422</a>: How can I arrange for all addresses in a group of </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> <i>*.example.com</i> to share the same alias file? I have a number of such groups....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC181" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC181">Q0435</a>: ... alias file contains fully qualified addresses as keys, and some wildcard </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> in the form @foo.bar. Can Exim handle these? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC251" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC251">Q0718</a>: ... points me to right rules to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> which have one MX to localhost or only have address 127.0.0.1 ? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: ... lookup in a rewriting rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> supposed to be handled caselessly? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC318" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC318">Q1501</a>: The MX records for some UUCP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> point to my local host. How do I get it to pass the messages on to UUCP?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC344" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC344">Q5009</a>: I want to match all </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> of the form <i>*.oyoy.org</i> but want a few exceptions. For instance I don't want <i>foo.oyoy.org</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC396" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC396">Q9703</a>: On SunOS 4 Exim crashes when looking up </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">domains</font> in the DNS that have more than 10 A records. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC220" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC220">Q0623</a>: My <i>/var/spool/mail</i> has grown </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">drastically</font>. Is there any possibility of using two directories? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC13" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC13">Q0013</a>: ... does the error message <i>transport system_aliases: cannot find transport </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">driver</font> "redirect" in line 92</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC161" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC161">Q0415</a>: ... existing alias files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">drop</font> in Exim in place of Sendmail ? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC269" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC269">Q0736</a>: Is it possible to tell exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">drop</font> the connection after a server attempts to send a message to a number of...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC347" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC347">Q5012</a>: Does Exim support Delivery Status Notification (</td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">DSN</font>), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form of delivery acknowledgement?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC400" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC400">Q9707</a>: How do I stop Sun's </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">dtcm</font></i> from hanging? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: ... of spurious <tt>^M</tt> (carriage return) characters in messages sent from CDE </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">dtmail</font></i>? </td> </tr> </table> <p> <a href="FAQ-KWIC_A.html"> A</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_B.html"> B</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_C.html"> C</a> <font size=7 color="#FF0A0A"><b>D</b></font> <a href="FAQ-KWIC_E.html"> E</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_F.html"> F</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_G.html"> G</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_H.html"> H</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_I.html"> I</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_K.html"> K</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_L.html"> L</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_M.html"> M</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_N.html"> N</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_O.html"> O</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_P.html"> P</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_Q.html"> Q</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_R.html"> R</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_S.html"> S</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_T.html"> T</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_U.html"> U</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_V.html"> V</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_W.html"> W</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_X.html"> X</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_Y.html"> Y</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_Z.html"> Z</a> <a href="FAQ.html#TOC">FAQ Contents</a> </p> </body> </html>
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