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What's wrong? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC387" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC387">Q9604</a>: I get the <i>too many open files</i> error especially when a lot of messages </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">land</font> for Majordomo at the same time. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: I installed debian 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">laptop</font>. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following error: <i>Failed to...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC222" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC222">Q0625</a>: I wish to have </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">large</font> emails go out one at a time. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">large</font> MIME attachments for example and only process text/plain? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC290" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC290">Q1001</a>: I'm running a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">large</font> mail server. Should I set <tt>split_spool_directory</tt> to improve performance?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC292" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC292">Q1003</a>: We have a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">large</font> password file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to speed...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC115" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC115">Q0201</a>: How can I arrange that messages </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">larger</font> than some limit are handled by a special router? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: ... pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to lookup the same domain a few minutes </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">later</font> then it is OK. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC32" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC32">Q0032</a>: ... is failing to find the MySQL library, even though is it present within </td> <td align="left"><small><font color="#FF0A0A">LD_LIBRARY_PATH</font></small>. I'm getting this error: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC75" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC75">Q0075</a>: I'm using </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">LDAP</font>, and some email addresses that contain special characters are causing...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC153" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC153">Q0407</a>: ... I arrange for a default value when using a query-style lookup such as </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">LDAP</font> or NIS+ to handle aliases? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC101" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC101">Q0108</a>: I'm getting an unresolved symbol </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">ldap_is_ldap_url</font></tt> when trying to build Exim. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC105" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC105">Q0112</a>: I'm getting the error <i>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">-ldb</font></i> when I try to build Exim. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC338" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC338">Q5003</a>: How can I persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">leading</font> # character? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: I have some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">legacy</font> clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... mailboxes are distributed between several servers according to the first </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">letter</font> of the user name. All the servers receive incoming mail at random. I would...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: ... <tt>caseful_local_part</tt> on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have upper case </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">letters</font> in their login names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC32" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC32">Q0032</a>: Exim is failing to find the MySQL </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">library</font>, even though is it present within <small>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</small>. I'm getting this error:...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC305" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC305">Q1301</a>: ... built with Perl support exits with the error message <i>./exim: can't load </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">library</font> 'libperl.so'</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC115" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC115">Q0201</a>: How can I arrange that messages larger than some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">limit</font> are handled by a special router? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC211" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC211">Q0614</a>: ... Exim's throat in one go. Exim spawns a lot of kids, but is there some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">limit</font> to the number of processes it creates? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC252" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC252">Q0719</a>: I would like to have a per-user </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">limit</font> for the maximum size of messages that can be sent. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC336" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC336">Q5001</a>: How can I arrange to allow a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">limited</font> set of users to perform a limited set of Exim administration functions? I don't...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC82" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC82">Q0082</a>: ... __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libresolv.so.2 with </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">link</font> time reference</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC320" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC320">Q1503</a>: ... strange on our system in regards to mail coming in via rmail from a UUCP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">link</font>. The sender is being set to mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a <i>Sender:</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC374" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC374">Q9201</a>: On FreeBSD, <i>/usr/sbin/sendmail</i> is a symbolic </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">link</font> to <i>/usr/sbin/mailwrapper</i>; it doesn't contain the Sendmail binary. How...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC103" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC103">Q0110</a>: ... support. I have included <tt>-lpam</tt> in <small>EXTRALIBS</small>, but I'm still getting a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">linking</font> error: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC385" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC385">Q9602</a>: I want to use <i>logrotate</i> which is standard with RH5.2 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Linux</font> to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the <i>logrotate</i> config file that...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: I installed debian 2.2 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">linux</font> on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: Why do some servers refuse SMTP connections from my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Linux</font> box, but accept connections from hosts running other operating systems?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC80" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC80">Q0080</a>: ... the database lookups must only return one value? They can not return a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> of values? The documentation seems to indicate that it's possible to return...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC116" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC116">Q0202</a>: Can I specify a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> of domains to explicitly reject? </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 domain </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font>. I'm trying this: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... it is forwarded to the internal mail server, without having to have a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> of all the domains involved? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: ... <i>*@some.domain</i> to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> of specific local parts to the system. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC174" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC174">Q0428</a>: ... in my alias file to change the sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC188" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC188">Q0506</a>: ... filter gives me another problem: how can I do a string lookup if <i>$recipients</i> is a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> of addresses? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC193" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC193">Q0511</a>: ... message, I get the error <i>User 0 set for address_reply transport is on the never_users </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font></i>. What does this mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC229" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC229">Q0632</a>: ... error <i>User 1 set for local_mbx_delivery transport is on the never_users </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font></i> mean? </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 DNS black </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> such as the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... me to create a file of regexs and match incoming external email to the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> - and if a match is found file the offending message into a special location?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC266" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC266">Q0733</a>: ... any way to tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any DNS black </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> if the connection is over IPv6? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: If email has been deferred to a member on a local mailing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN clients is on this mailing...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC343" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC343">Q5008</a>: If I set up a domain </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> to contain <i>*customer.com</i>, it matches <i>customer.com</i> and <i>abc.customer.com</i> as required,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC405" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC405">Q9802</a>: ... Exim so that it sends mail to the outside world only from a restricted </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> of our local users? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC411" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC411">Q9808</a>: I have a mailing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">list</font> exploder on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the actual...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC329" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC329">Q1705</a>: I have </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">listed</font> some hosts in <tt>tls_try_verify_hosts</tt>, but when they connect, no data appears in...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC330" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC330">Q1706</a>: I have </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">listed</font> some hosts in <tt>tls_verify_hosts</tt> and provided them with certificates, but...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC302" href="FAQ_12.html#TOC302">Q1201</a>: When I run fetchmail, I get the error <i>SMTP </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">listener</font> doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC249" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC249">Q0716</a>: How can I arrange for each user to have a file </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">listing</font> the only sender addresses from which she will accept mail? I want to do...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC354" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC354">Q5019</a>: I need an option that is the opposite of <b>-bpa</b>, that is, a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">listing</font> of those addresses generated from a top-level address that have not yet...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC262" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC262">Q0729</a>: ... screen out addresses that are neither valid usernames or distribution </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lists</font> on mail being forwarded to an internal Win2K server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC172" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC172">Q0426</a>: ... <i>$local_part@anotherdomain</i> to my aliases but it did not expand - it sent it to that </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">literal</font> address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... would like to “tap off” a proportion of real mail traffic from my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">live</font> mail server to use in tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope...</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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">LMTP</font> daemon requires the correct case. How can I fix this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC294" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC294">Q1005</a>: A lot of incoming mail is pushing up my system </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">load</font> too much, and there are many Exim processes. How can I control this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC305" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC305">Q1301</a>: ... Exim built with Perl support exits with the error message <i>./exim: can't </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">load</font> library 'libperl.so'</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: ... <i>Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post</i> when Exim tries to do a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> delivery? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC38" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC38">Q0038</a>: ... message <i>error in forward file (filtering not enabled): missing or malformed </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> part</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC41" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC41">Q0041</a>: What does the message <i>unable to set gid=ddd or uid=ddd (euid=ddd): </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> delivery to ... transport=ttt</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC120" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC120">Q0206</a>: ... I get Exim to deliver certain domains to a different SMTP port on my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC124" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC124">Q0301</a>: What do <i>lowest numbered MX record points to </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> host</i> and <i>remote host address is the local host</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC126" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC126">Q0303</a>: ... Exim to send all messages to a central server? I don't want to do any </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> deliveries at all on this host. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: How can I arrange for mail on my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> network to be delivered directly to the relevant hosts, but all other...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC131" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC131">Q0308</a>: I have a domain for which some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts must be delivered locally, but the remainder are to be treated like...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: ... into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts to the system. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC149" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC149">Q0403</a>: How do I configure Exim to send messages for unknown </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> users to a central server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC154" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC154">Q0408</a>: ... virtual domain's alias file then mail to aliases which also match the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> domain get delivered to the local domain. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC155" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC155">Q0409</a>: I want mail for any </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> part at certain virtual domains to go to a single address for each domain....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC157" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC157">Q0411</a>: ... than 8 characters as long as the first 8 characters match one of the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> usernames? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: I have set <tt>caseful_</tt></td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font>_part</tt> on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC164" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC164">Q0418</a>: I want to use a default entry in my alias file to handle unknown </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts, but it picks up the local parts that the aliases generate. For...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... like to have the same configuration file for all the servers, which does </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> delivery for the mailboxes it holds, and sends other addresses to the...</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 domain to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope senders. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC176" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC176">Q0430</a>: Whenever Exim tries to route a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> address, it gives a permission denied error for the <i>.forward</i> file, like...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC177" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC177">Q0431</a>: How do I configure Exim to allow arbitrary extensions in </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts, of the form <i>+extension</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: How can I redirect all </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC198" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC198">Q0601</a>: ... the error <i>Neither the xxx router nor the yyy transport set a uid for </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> delivery of...</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC203" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC203">Q0606</a>: I'm using tmail to do </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> deliveries, but when I turned on the <tt>use_crlf</tt> option on the <b>pipe</b> transport (tmail...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC206" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC206">Q0609</a>: ... according to the log, although there is a difference in capitalization of the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> part of the address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: Exim can route </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC231" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC231">Q0634</a>: How can I stop a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> transport from trying to access the user's home directory, even when the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC247" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC247">Q0714</a>: Is there a way to configure Exim to reject mail to a certain </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC253" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC253">Q0720</a>: ... <tt>accept hosts=192.168.122.96/32</tt> in order to accept mail for relaying from my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> LAN, but it doesn't work. What's wrong? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC278" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC278">Q0803</a>: I want to rewrite </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> addresses in mail that goes to the outside world, but not for messages...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC282" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC282">Q0807</a>: I want to rewrite </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> sender addresses depending on the domain of the recipient. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC285" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC285">Q0902</a>: Is it possible to have Exim add a header to only certain </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> parts of outgoing mail? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC308" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC308">Q1401</a>: ... connected to the Internet, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> network to be delivered, while at the same time mail to Internet hosts...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: If email has been deferred to a member on a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN clients...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC318" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC318">Q1501</a>: The MX records for some UUCP domains point to my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> host. How do I get it to pass the messages on to UUCP? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC405" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC405">Q9802</a>: ... it sends mail to the outside world only from a restricted list of our </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> users? </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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local</font> address delayed by - say - 24 hours? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC121" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC121">Q0207</a>: Why does Exim lower-case the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">local-part</font> of a non-local domain when routing? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC111" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC111">Q0118</a>: I've set <tt>LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include</tt> in </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Local/Makefile</font>, but the compilation of <i>exim_dumpdb</i> is ignoring this option and failing....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC378" href="FAQ_22.html#TOC378">Q9301</a>: ... compile on an HP machine and I don't have <i>gcc</i> there. So I put <tt>CC=cc</tt> in the </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Local/Makefile</font></i>, but I got this error: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC229" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC229">Q0632</a>: What does the error <i>User 1 set for </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">local_mbx_delivery</font> transport is on the never_users list</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC167" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC167">Q0421</a>: I can't get a regular expression to work in a </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">local_parts</font></tt> option on one of my routers. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC251" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC251">Q0718</a>: ... prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one MX to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">localhost</font> or only have address 127.0.0.1 ? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC119" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC119">Q0205</a>: How can I get Exim to deliver to me </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locally</font> and everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX record specified...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC131" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC131">Q0308</a>: I have a domain for which some local parts must be delivered </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locally</font>, but the remainder are to be treated like any other remote addresses....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC157" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC157">Q0411</a>: Why will Exim deliver a message </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locally</font> to any username that is longer than 8 characters as long as the first...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC369" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC369">Q5034</a>: ... I would like the ability to queue messages from external sources while deliver </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locally</font> generated email as normal. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC409" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC409">Q9806</a>: How do I get exim not to add a <i>Sender:</i> header to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locally</font> originated mail? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... list - and if a match is found file the offending message into a special </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">location</font>? Also is it possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: Why do I get the error <i>Permission denied: creating </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">lock</font> file hitching post</i> when Exim tries to do a local delivery? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC216" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC216">Q0619</a>: ... over NFS. I get the error <i>fcntl() failed: No locks available</i>, though the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lock</font> daemon is running on the NFS server and other hosts are able to access...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC407" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC407">Q9804</a>: We want to be able to temporarily </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lock</font> out a user by disabling the password and moving the home directory to...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC27" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC27">Q0027</a>: What does the error <i>Spool file is </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">locked</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC37" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC37">Q0037</a>: I am experiencing mailbox </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locking</font> problems with Sun's <tt>mailtool</tt> used over a network. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC397" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC397">Q9704</a>: I am experiencing mailbox </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">locking</font> problems with Sun's <i>mailtool</i> used over a network. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC216" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC216">Q0619</a>: ... can't get Exim to deliver over NFS. I get the error <i>fcntl() failed: No </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">locks</font> available</i>, though the lock daemon is running on the NFS server and other...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC22" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC22">Q0022</a>: What does <i>No transport set by system filter</i> in a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> line mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC24" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC24">Q0024</a>: When I run <tt>exim -bd -q10m</tt> I get <i>PANIC </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">LOG</font>: exec of exim -q failed</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC45" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC45">Q0045</a>: I see entries in the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> that mention two different IP addresses for the same connection. Why is...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC49" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC49">Q0049</a>: What does the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> message <i>no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: ... to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> shows this: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC63" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC63">Q0063</a>: ... nothing happens. There is no process, and nothing is written to the Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC73" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC73">Q0073</a>: I'm seeing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> file corruption, with parts of log lines getting mangled by other log...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: ... different files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get one message on the reject </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> and two messages on the main log. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC205" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC205">Q0608</a>: What does the message <i>retry time not reached [for any host]</i> on the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> mean? Why won't Exim try to deliver the message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC206" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC206">Q0609</a>: Exim seems to be sending the same message twice, according to the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font>, although there is a difference in capitalization of the local part of...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC214" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC214">Q0617</a>: ... retry rules specify longer times after a while, because it is writing a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> entry every time, like this: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC232" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC232">Q0635</a>: The </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> message <i>error ignored</i> appears after some delivery failures. What does...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: ... some aliases; when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font>, but the response to the remote user is “unknown user” instead...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC337" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC337">Q5002</a>: I want to “tail” the Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font>, but I have a number of other logs I also want to “tail”, and...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC350" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC350">Q5015</a>: I just noticed </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">log</font> entries that start off <tt><= <></tt>. Am I correct in assuming that the <tt><></tt>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC78" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC78">Q0078</a>: Exim is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">logging</font> the unknown SMTP command <tt>XXXX</tt> from my client hosts, and they are unable...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: ... that handle my local domain because my users have upper case letters in their </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">login</font> names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case. Can I relax...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC279" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC279">Q0804</a>: I'm using this rewriting rule to change </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">login</font> names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an upper...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC385" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC385">Q9602</a>: I want to use </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">logrotate</font></i> which is standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: I've configured Exim to use <i>syslog</i> for its </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">logs</font>, with the main and reject logs sent to different files, but whenever a...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC337" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC337">Q5002</a>: I want to “tail” the Exim log, but I have a number of other </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">logs</font> I also want to “tail”, and the number of tailing windows is getting...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC385" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC385">Q9602</a>: ... to use <i>logrotate</i> which is standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">logs</font>. Anyone worked out the <i>logrotate</i> config file that will do this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: Why do connections to my machine's SMTP port take a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">long</font> time to respond with the banner, when connections to other ports respond...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC52" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC52">Q0052</a>: What does <i>ridiculously </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">long</font> message header</i> in an error report mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC157" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC157">Q0411</a>: ... a message locally to any username that is longer than 8 characters as </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">long</font> as the first 8 characters match one of the local usernames? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC217" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC217">Q0620</a>: ... delivery, giving the error <i>retry time not reached for any host after a </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">long</font> failure period</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: I have some mails on my queues that are sticking around </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">longer</font> than the retry time indicates they should. They are all getting frozen...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC157" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC157">Q0411</a>: Why will Exim deliver a message locally to any username that is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">longer</font> than 8 characters as long as the first 8 characters match one of the local...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC214" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC214">Q0617</a>: ... to deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the retry rules specify </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">longer</font> times after a while, because it is writing a log entry every time, like...</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 DBM </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> file, but it isn't getting recognized. </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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> database, but it isn't working. The expansion I'm using is: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC30" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC30">Q0030</a>: I'm trying to use a query-style </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> for hosts that are allowed to relay, but it is giving really weird errors....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC33" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC33">Q0033</a>: What does the error </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> of host "xx.xx.xx" failed in yyy router</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC35" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC35">Q0035</a>: I set a <tt>hosts</tt> condition in an ACL to do a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> in a file of IP addresses, but it doesn't work. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC122" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC122">Q0208</a>: I can't get a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> to work in a domain list. I'm trying this: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC133" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC133">Q0310</a>: If a DNS </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> 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 DNS </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> for MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: ... day and there is no particular pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> the same domain a few minutes later then it is OK. </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 DNS </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> times out) to a relay machine. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC153" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC153">Q0407</a>: How can I arrange for a default value when using a query-style </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle aliases? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an <tt>lsearch*</tt> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font>, but that sent all messages to the default address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC188" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC188">Q0506</a>: ... <i>$recipients</i> in a system filter gives me another problem: how can I do a string </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> if <i>$recipients</i> is a list of addresses? </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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> the IP address against any DNS black list if the connection is over IPv6?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: I'm using <i>$domain</i> as the key for a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> in a rewriting rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookup</font> data from a single file using both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC111" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC111">Q0118</a>: I've set </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include</font></tt> in Local/Makefile, but the compilation of <i>exim_dumpdb</i> is ignoring this...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC113" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC113">Q0120</a>: I'm trying to compile with </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">LOOKUP_WHOSON</font>, but I keep getting <i>In function `whoson_find': undefined reference to `wso_query'</i>....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC75" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC75">Q0075</a>: ... that contain special characters are causing parsing errors in my LDAP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookups</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC80" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC80">Q0080</a>: Am I to understand that the database </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookups</font> must only return one value? They can not return a list of values? The...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC292" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC292">Q1003</a>: We have a large password file. Can Exim use alternative </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lookups</font> during delivery to speed things up? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC61" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC61">Q0061</a>: ... What does the error <i>Too many “Received” headers - suspected mail </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">loop</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: I'm seeing the message <i>inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing (</i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">looping</font>), service terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i> connections to be refused....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC121" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC121">Q0207</a>: Why does Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lower-case</font> the local-part of a non-local domain when routing? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: ... as the key for a lookup in a rewriting rule, but its contents are not being </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">lowercased</font>. Aren't domains supposed to be handled caselessly? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC124" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC124">Q0301</a>: What do </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">lowest</font> numbered MX record points to local host</i> and <i>remote host address is the local...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC103" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC103">Q0110</a>: I'm trying to build Exim with PAM support. I have included </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">-lpam</font></tt> in <small>EXTRALIBS</small>, but I'm still getting a linking error: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... single address? 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