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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: ... used <i>gv</i> 3.5.8 (<i>ghostview</i>) to try printing <i>spec.ps</i>. After every printed </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">page</font>, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter”...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC341" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC341">Q5006</a>: Why aren't there any man </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pages</font> for Exim? I don't always carry my printed documentation. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC29" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC29">Q0029</a>: I can't seem to figure out why </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PAM</font> support doesn't work correctly. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC103" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC103">Q0110</a>: I'm trying to build Exim with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PAM</font> support. I have included <tt>-lpam</tt> in <small>EXTRALIBS</small>, but I'm still getting a linking...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC24" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC24">Q0024</a>: When I run <tt>exim -bd -q10m</tt> I get </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">PANIC</font> LOG: exec of exim -q failed</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: ... printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than A4 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">paper</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC375" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC375">Q9202</a>: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses <i>mailq</i> with the <b>-Ac</b> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">parameter</font>. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC75" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC75">Q0075</a>: ... and some email addresses that contain special characters are causing </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">parsing</font> errors in my LDAP lookups. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC117" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC117">Q0203</a>: ... arrange to do my own qualification of non-fully-qualified domains, and then </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pass</font> them on to the next router? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC246" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC246">Q0713</a>: I'd like to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pass</font> all messages through a virus-scanning system before delivery. Can Exim...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC318" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC318">Q1501</a>: ... records for some UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pass</font> the messages on to UUCP? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC18" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC18">Q0018</a>: <tt>... @aol.com</tt>? For other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate <i>waiting for </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">passed</font> connections to get used</i> messages. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC136" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC136">Q0313</a>: ... external mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also get </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">passed</font> to the smart host. Can I avoid this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC299" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC299">Q1104</a>: ... return code 9 from <i>/home/majordomo/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper</i> when it is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">passed</font> a message from Exim. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC169" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC169">Q0423</a>: Some of our users have no home directories; the field in the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">password</font> file contains <i>/no/home/dir</i>. This causes the error <i>failed to stat /no/home/dir (No...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC190" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC190">Q0508</a>: ... filter files when the directories concerned are not available from the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">password</font> data? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: ... authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">password</font>. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN authenticator? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC292" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC292">Q1003</a>: We have a large </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">password</font> file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to speed things...</td>
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<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 disabling the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">password</font> and moving the home directory to another place. How can we arrange to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC263" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC263">Q0730</a>: How can I use the same </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">passwords</font> for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC112" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC112">Q0119</a>: I know there are some 3rd-party </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">patches</font> for Exim, for exiscan and other things. Where are they? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC319" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC319">Q1502</a>: How can I get Exim to handle “bang </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">path”</font>; addresses? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the return </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">path</font> (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP script is running as...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC190" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC190">Q0508</a>: How can I allow the use of relative </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">paths</font> in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not available...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: <i>... mail domain</i>. This only happens a few times a day and there is no particular </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pattern</font> to the sites it rejects. If I try to lookup the same domain a few minutes...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: ... is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PC</font> I get <i>connection rejected</i> or <i>unable to connect</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC57" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC57">Q0057</a>: We've got </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">people</font> complaining about attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC163" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC163">Q0417</a>: ... make Exim handle <i>/usr/ucb/vacation</i> processing automatically, so that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">people</font> could just create a <i>.vacation.msg</i> file in their home directory and not have to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC165" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC165">Q0419</a>: I have some obsolete domains which </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">people</font> have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to delete any...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC252" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC252">Q0719</a>: I would like to have a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">per-user</font> limit for the maximum size of messages that can be sent. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC336" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC336">Q5001</a>: How can I arrange to allow a limited set of users to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">perform</font> a limited set of Exim administration functions? I don't want to put them all...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC290" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC290">Q1001</a>: ... running a large mail server. Should I set <tt>split_spool_directory</tt> to improve </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">performance</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC217" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC217">Q0620</a>: ... giving the error <i>retry time not reached for any host after a long failure </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">period</font></i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC219" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC219">Q0622</a>: Can I write an ordinary file when I run a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">perl</font> script as a transport filter for the <b>remote_smtp</b> and <b>address_pipe</b> transports?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC305" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC305">Q1301</a>: Exim built with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Perl</font> support exits with the error message <i>./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC306" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC306">Q1302</a>: Exim built with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Perl</font> support exits with several error messages of the form <i>undefined reference...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC380" href="FAQ_23.html#TOC380">Q9401</a>: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Perl</font> support exits with the error message </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: Why do I get the error </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Permission</font> denied: creating lock file hitching post</i> when Exim tries to do a local...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC176" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC176">Q0430</a>: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">permission</font> denied error for the <i>.forward</i> file, like this: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC370" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC370">Q5035</a>: Does Exim run with different </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">permissions</font> between <b>-bt</b> and <b>-bh</b>, or between verifying and actual sending? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC240" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC240">Q0707</a>: ... where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">persistent</font>, and keeps trying over and over. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC362" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC362">Q5027</a>: ... else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the reply/from </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">person</font> to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC338" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC338">Q5003</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">persuade</font> Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # character? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC287" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC287">Q0904</a>: How I can insert the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PGP</font> header line using Exim filters? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... the return path (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PHP</font> script is running as <i>apache</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC164" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC164">Q0418</a>: ... default entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">picks</font> up the local parts that the aliases generate. For example, if the alias...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC256" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC256">Q0723</a>: I can't get </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Pine</font> to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... fails, giving the error <i>Remote end closed connection after data</i> or <i>Broken </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font></i> or a timeout. What's going on? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC25" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC25">Q0025</a>: I can't seem to get a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font> command to run when I include a <tt>${if</tt> expansion in it. This fails: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font>, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment <i>(could mean unable to...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC90" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC90">Q0090</a>: I can't seem to get a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font> command to run when I include a <tt>${lookup</tt> expansion in it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC152" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC152">Q0406</a>: Some of my users are using the <i>.forward</i> to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font> to a shell command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC184" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC184">Q0502</a>: What I really need is the ability to obtain the result of a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font> command so that I can filter externally and redirect internally. Is this...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC203" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC203">Q0606</a>: ... do local deliveries, but when I turned on the <tt>use_crlf</tt> option on the </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font></b> transport (tmail prefers <tt>\r\n</tt> terminations) message bodies started to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC209" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC209">Q0612</a>: Why does the </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font></b> transport add a line starting with <tt>>From</tt> to messages? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC260" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC260">Q0727</a>: ... SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipe</font> transport. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC72" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC72">Q0072</a>: Exim will deliver to normal aliases, and aliases that are </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipes</font> or files, but it objects to aliases that involve <tt>:include:</tt> items, complaining...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC84" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC84">Q0084</a>: I want to set up an alias that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pipes</font> a message to <i>gpg</i> and then pipes the result to <i>mailx</i> to resubmit the message,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC79" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC79">Q0079</a>: Our new </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PIX</font> firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC306" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC306">Q1302</a>: ... exits with several error messages of the form <i>undefined reference to `</i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">PL_stack_sp</font>'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC256" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC256">Q0723</a>: I can't get Pine to work with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PLAIN</font> authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data"....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: ... user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PLAIN</font> authenticator? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC125" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC125">Q0302</a>: Why does Exim say <i>all relevant MX records </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">point</font> to non-existent hosts</i> when MX records point to IP addresses? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC318" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC318">Q1501</a>: The MX records for some UUCP domains </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">point</font> to my local host. How do I get it to pass the messages on to UUCP? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC124" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC124">Q0301</a>: What do <i>lowest numbered MX record </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">points</font> to local host</i> and <i>remote host address is the local host</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... firewall machine so that if mail arrives addressed to a domain whose MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">points</font> to the firewall, it is forwarded to the internal mail server, without...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC251" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC251">Q0718</a>: Could anyone </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">points</font> me to right rules to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC356" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC356">Q5021</a>: What does Exim use for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">POP</font> and IMAP as a default? Do I have to install anything else? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC239" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC239">Q0706</a>: How can I get </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">POP-auth-before-relay</font> (aka POP-before-SMTP) support in Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC239" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC239">Q0706</a>: How can I get POP-auth-before-relay (aka </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">POP-before-SMTP</font>) support in Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC254" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC254">Q0721</a>: I have </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">POP-before-SMTP</font> set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook Express, which...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: ... do I arrange for all incoming email for <i>*@some.domain</i> to go into one </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pop3</font> mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific local...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC15" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC15">Q0015</a>: What does the message <i>Socket bind() to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">port</font> 25 for address (any) failed: address already in use</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: Why do connections to my machine's SMTP </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">port</font> take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to other...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC48" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC48">Q0048</a>: ... exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start responding on the SMTP </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">port</font>. Why is this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC120" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC120">Q0206</a>: How can I get Exim to deliver certain domains to a different SMTP </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">port</font> on my local host? </td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">port</font> (465). Can Exim handle this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC277" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC277">Q0802</a>: I have Exim configured to remove the hostname </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">portion</font> of the domain on outgoing mail, and yet the hostname is present when the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: ... take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to other </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ports</font> respond instantly? The delay is sometimes as long as 30 seconds. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: Why do I get the error <i>Permission denied: creating lock file hitching </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">post</font></i> when Exim tries to do a local delivery? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC92" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC92">Q0092</a>: ... <i>Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.</i> occurs when I try to use Exim with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">PostgreSQL</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC362" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC362">Q5027</a>: Is there any way I can send bounces to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">postmaster</font>, and nobody else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC345" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC345">Q5010</a>: I can't seem to find a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pre-built</font> version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a Sparc 5 running Solaris 2.6....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC360" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC360">Q5025</a>: What </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">precautions</font> should I take when editing Exim's run time configuration file? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC203" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC203">Q0606</a>: ... but when I turned on the <tt>use_crlf</tt> option on the <b>pipe</b> transport (tmail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">prefers</font> <tt>\r\n</tt> terminations) message bodies started to vanish. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... traffic from my live mail server to use in tests of a new server. I want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">preserve</font> the envelope contents, but to suppress any error notifications to the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC218" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC218">Q0621</a>: ... delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, sending him the output of procmail. How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">prevent</font> this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC251" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC251">Q0718</a>: Could anyone points me to right rules to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">prevent</font> sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one MX to localhost...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: I used <i>gv</i> 3.5.8 (<i>ghostview</i>) to try printing <i>spec.ps</i>. After every </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">printed</font> page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC341" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC341">Q5006</a>: Why aren't there any man pages for Exim? I don't always carry my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">printed</font> documentation. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: ... <i>gv</i> 3.5.8 (<i>ghostview</i>) to try printing <i>spec.ps</i>. After every printed page, the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">printer</font> ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter”...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: I used <i>gv</i> 3.5.8 (<i>ghostview</i>) to try </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">printing</font> <i>spec.ps</i>. After every printed page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC3" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC3">Q0003</a>: What does the error <i>Child </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font> of address_pipe transport returned 127 from command xxx</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: What does <i>failed to create child </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font> to send failure message</i> mean? This is a busy mail server with <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC46" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC46">Q0046</a>: A short time after I start Exim I see a defunct zombie </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font>. What is causing this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC63" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC63">Q0063</a>: When I try to start an Exim daemon, nothing happens. There is no </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font>, and nothing is written to the Exim log. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC74" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC74">Q0074</a>: What does the error message <i>remote delivery </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font> count got out of step</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... incoming email - e.g. ignore large MIME attachments for example and only </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font> text/plain? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: ... immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue runner </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font> finds them. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC363" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC363">Q5028</a>: When I HUP the Exim daemon, the name shown in the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">process</font> table changes from <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which is a symlink) to the real...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC179" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC179">Q0433</a>: How can I arrange for a single address to be </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">processed</font> by both <b>redirect</b> and <b>accept</b>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC211" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC211">Q0614</a>: ... go. Exim spawns a lot of kids, but is there some limit to the number of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">processes</font> it creates? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC294" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC294">Q1005</a>: ... incoming mail is pushing up my system load too much, and there are many Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">processes</font>. How can I control this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC163" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC163">Q0417</a>: What do I need to do to make Exim handle <i>/usr/ucb/vacation</i> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">processing</font> automatically, so that people could just create a <i>.vacation.msg</i> file in their...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC161" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC161">Q0415</a>: Can I use my existing alias files and forward files as well as </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">procmail</font> and effectively drop in Exim in place of Sendmail ? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC189" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC189">Q0507</a>: What are the main differences between using an Exim filter and using </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">procmail</font></i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC218" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC218">Q0621</a>: My <i>.forward</i> file is <tt>|/usr/bin/</tt></td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">procmail</font> -f-</tt> and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, sending...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC11" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC11">Q0011</a>: Instead of <i>exim_dbmbuild</i>, I'm using a homegrown </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">program</font> to build DBM (or cdb) files, but Exim doesn't seem to be able to use them....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC92" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC92">Q0092</a>: The error message </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Program</font> received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.</i> occurs when I try to use Exim with...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC221" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC221">Q0624</a>: Sendmail has a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">program</font> called <i>smrsh</i> that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: ... debian 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">program</font>, I get the following error: <i>Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: I would like to “tap off” a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">proportion</font> of real mail traffic from my live mail server to use in tests of a new...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC267" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC267">Q0734</a>: How do MailScanner and Exiscan compare? What are the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pros</font> and cons? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: What does <i>SMTP </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">protocol</font> violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon)</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... use TLS with Evolution as a client, and keep seeing this error: <i>SMTP </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">protocol</font> violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C".</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC406" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC406">Q9803</a>: A site for which I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">provide</font> secondary MX is down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC330" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC330">Q1706</a>: I have listed some hosts in <tt>tls_verify_hosts</tt> and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">provided</font> them with certificates, but their connections are always rejected. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC264" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC264">Q0731</a>: Is there any defence I can use against spam sent through an open </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">proxy</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC352" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC352">Q5017</a>: Can (or will) Exim ever handle a message delivery </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">purely</font> in memory, that is, it is handled without it ever hitting the disk? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC294" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC294">Q1005</a>: A lot of incoming mail is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">pushing</font> up my system load too much, and there are many Exim processes. How can...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC192" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC192">Q0510</a>: Is it possible to write code for scanning messages in </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Python</font>? </td>
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