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<td align="right"><a name="TOC18" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC18">Q0018</a>: ... delivered down the same connection when I do something like: <tt>exim -v </tt></td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">-R</font> @aol.com</tt>? For other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate <i>waiting for...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: ... forward files), and one of our ETRN clients is on this mailing list, the </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">-R</font></b> won't flush the mailing list message for that client. </td>
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<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 database on a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RAM</font> disk during regular operation. Did anybody try that yet? </td>
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<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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ran</font> a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the function <i>getservbyname()</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... first letter of the user name. All the servers receive incoming mail at </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">random</font>. I would like to have the same configuration file for all the servers,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC237" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC237">Q0704</a>: ... configured to use a DNS black list such as the Realtime Blackhole List (</td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RBL</font>)? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC242" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC242">Q0709</a>: Does Exim apply </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RBL</font> checks to error messages, those with an envelope sender of <tt><></tt> ?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC303" href="FAQ_12.html#TOC303">Q1202</a>: I'm currently using Exim with fetchmail and I'd like to use the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RBL</font> on Exim, but will it work? Do I need to configure fetchmail any particular way?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC245" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC245">Q0712</a>: I've hacked sendmail to make an ioctl call at the time of the SMTP </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RCPT</font> command, to check if a user has exceeded their email quota. If they have...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC205" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC205">Q0608</a>: What does the message <i>retry time not </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">reached</font> [for any host]</i> on the log mean? Why won't Exim try to deliver the message?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC217" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC217">Q0620</a>: ... messages without even attempting delivery, giving the error <i>retry time not </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">reached</font> for any host after a long failure period</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: ... installed Exim and it is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">read</font> mail from my PC I get <i>connection rejected</i> or <i>unable to connect</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC158" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC158">Q0412</a>: ... documentation but can't see anything to suggest that Exim has to do anything other than </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">read</font> the <i>.forward</i> file. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC353" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC353">Q5018</a>: If I am using dbm files for data that Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reads</font>, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC320" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC320">Q1503</a>: ... from a UUCP link. The sender is being set to mailmaster instead of the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">real</font> sender, and a <i>Sender:</i> header is being added to the message. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC363" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC363">Q5028</a>: ... process table changes from <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which is a symlink) to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">real</font> binary name. Can I change this? </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 proportion of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">real</font> mail traffic from my live mail server to use in tests of a new server....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC237" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC237">Q0704</a>: ... that Exim is correctly configured to use a DNS black list such as the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Realtime</font> Blackhole List (RBL)? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC47" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC47">Q0047</a>: On a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reboot</font>, or a restart of the mail system, I see the message <i>Mailer daemons: exim abandoned:...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC353" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC353">Q5018</a>: If I am using dbm files for data that Exim reads, can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rebuild</font> them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time I make a change?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC204" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC204">Q0607</a>: When I activate “return </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receipt”</font>; for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then I get an error message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: ... sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receive</font> it. The Outlook log shows this: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... servers according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receive</font> incoming mail at random. I would like to have the same configuration file...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC328" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC328">Q1704</a>: ... sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receive</font> it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC355" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC355">Q5020</a>: How can I make Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receive</font> incoming mail, queue it, but not attempt to deliver it? I want to be in...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC362" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC362">Q5027</a>: ... send bounces to the postmaster, and nobody else? Basically, I want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receive</font> them, and I don't want the reply/from person to get them. If I think they...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC9" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC9">Q0009</a>: What does <i>no immediate delivery: too many messages </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">received</font> in one SMTP connection</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC10" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC10">Q0010</a>: Exim puts <i>for <<i>address</i>></i> in the </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Received</font>:</i> headers of some, but not all, messages. Is this a bug? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC49" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC49">Q0049</a>: ... What does the log message <i>no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">received</font> in one connection</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC92" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC92">Q0092</a>: The error message <i>Program </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">received</font> signal SIGINT, Interrupt.</i> occurs when I try to use Exim with PostgreSQL....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC185" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC185">Q0503</a>: I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">received</font> a message with a <i>Subject:</i> line that contained a non-printing character...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC271" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC271">Q0738</a>: ... Exim to delay the SMTP connection if more than 10 invalid recipients are </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">received</font> in one message? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC286" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC286">Q0903</a>: How can I remove some part of the </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Received</font>:</i> header? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC351" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC351">Q5016</a>: I've </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">received</font> a message which does not have my address in the <i>To:</i> line. It is a spam message with...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC14" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC14">Q0014</a>: Exim is timing out after </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">receiving</font> and responding to the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC212" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC212">Q0615</a>: <i>... timeout exceeded</i> and removed all messages in the queue to this host - even </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recent</font> messages. How I can avoid this behaviour? I only want to remove messages...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC339" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC339">Q5004</a>: I've </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recently</font> noticed that emails I send with a <i>Bcc:</i> line are being delivered to their final...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC200" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC200">Q0603</a>: ... routers that do not set <tt>check_local_user</tt> be delivered under the uid of the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipient</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC228" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC228">Q0631</a>: ... would like to choose a retry rule based on on the sender rather than the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipient</font> address. Is this possible? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC282" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC282">Q0807</a>: ... want to rewrite local sender addresses depending on the domain of the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipient</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC302" href="FAQ_12.html#TOC302">Q1201</a>: When I run fetchmail, I get the error <i>SMTP listener doesn't like </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">recipient</font> address xxx@localhost</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC364" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC364">Q5029</a>: A message with a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipient</font> address that contains a non-printing character is stuck on my mail queue....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC258" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC258">Q0725</a>: I've set up some specific rejection messages for certain </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipients</font>, but when I test them, the SMTP message is always <i>550 5.1.1 <user@mydomain.com>......</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC260" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC260">Q0727</a>: When a message has many </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipients</font>, how can I stop SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC271" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC271">Q0738</a>: ... I configure Exim to delay the SMTP connection if more than 10 invalid </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipients</font> are received in one message? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC411" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC411">Q9808</a>: ... deliveries from. How can I get Exim to split a message into groups of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recipients</font> between the three hosts? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC19" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC19">Q0019</a>: There seems to be a problem in the string expansion code: it doesn't </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recognize</font> references to headers such as <tt>${h_to}</tt>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC375" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC375">Q9202</a>: ... FreeBSD runs nightly uses <i>mailq</i> with the <b>-Ac</b> parameter. Why doesn't Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recognize</font> this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC6" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC6">Q0006</a>: ... put an entry for <tt>*.my.domain</tt> in a DBM lookup file, but it isn't getting </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recognized</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC99" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC99">Q0106</a>: Exim doesn't seem to be </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">recognizing</font> my operating system type correctly, and so is failing to build. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC119" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC119">Q0205</a>: ... to me locally and everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">record</font> specified host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC124" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC124">Q0301</a>: What do <i>lowest numbered MX </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">record</font> points 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="TOC134" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC134">Q0311</a>: ... complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host defined by the A </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">record</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC141" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC141">Q0318</a>: Exim won't route to a host with no MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">record</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: ... They are all getting frozen because some remote admin has set their MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">record</font> to 127.0.0.1. </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 </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">records</font> point to non-existent hosts</i> when MX records point to IP addresses? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC133" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC133">Q0310</a>: If a DNS lookup returns no MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">records</font> why doesn't Exim just bin the message? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC134" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC134">Q0311</a>: When a DNS lookup for MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">records</font> fails to complete, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host defined...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC318" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC318">Q1501</a>: The MX </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">records</font> for some UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it to pass...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC396" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC396">Q9703</a>: ... Exim crashes when looking up domains in the DNS that have more than 10 A </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">records</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: ... <i>inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated</i> on a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RedHat</font> 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i> connections to be refused. The <i>imapd</i> in use is...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC390" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC390">Q9607</a>: I'm having difficulties trying to make Exim 4 with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Redhat</font> 9 and Berkeley DB 4. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC13" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC13">Q0013</a>: ... error message <i>transport system_aliases: cannot find transport driver "</i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">redirect</font>" in line 92</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC81" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC81">Q0081</a>: What does <i>error in </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">redirect</font> data: included file xxxx is too big</i> mean? </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 processed by both </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">redirect</font></b> and <b>accept</b>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">redirect</font> all local parts that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC184" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC184">Q0502</a>: ... obtain the result of a pipe command so that I can filter externally and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">redirect</font> internally. Is this possible? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC82" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC82">Q0082</a>: ... version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libresolv.so.2 with link time </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reference</font></i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC96" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC96">Q0103</a>: ... <tt>hosts_ctl</tt> when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error is <i>undefined </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">reference</font> to 'hosts_ctl'</i>.) </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC113" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC113">Q0120</a>: ... LOOKUP_WHOSON, but I keep getting <i>In function `whoson_find': undefined </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">reference</font> to `wso_query'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC194" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC194">Q0512</a>: I'm trying to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reference</font> the <i>Envelope-To:</i> header in my filter, but <i>$h_envelope-to:</i> is always empty....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC306" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC306">Q1302</a>: ... Perl support exits with several error messages of the form <i>undefined </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">reference</font> to `PL_stack_sp'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC19" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC19">Q0019</a>: ... seems to be a problem in the string expansion code: it doesn't recognize </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">references</font> to headers such as <tt>${h_to}</tt>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC325" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC325">Q1701</a>: ... certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">refuse</font> to accept this certificate. What's wrong? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: Why do some servers </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">refuse</font> SMTP connections from my Linux box, but accept connections from hosts...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: I have used <tt>:fail:</tt> in some aliases; when one of these addresses is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">refused</font>, I see the message on the log, but the response to the remote user is “unknown...</td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">refused</font>. The <i>imapd</i> in use is Washington Univers 12.250. Could this be anything...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: Why is Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">refusing</font> to relay, saying <i>failed to find host name from IP address</i> when I have...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC224" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC224">Q0627</a>: Is there a command I can send to Exim to retry all queued messages </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">regardless</font> of their retry schedule? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC320" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC320">Q1503</a>: We see something strange on our system in </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">regards</font> to mail coming in via rmail from a UUCP link. The sender is being set to mailmaster...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: Will Exim allow me to create a file of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">regexs</font> and match incoming external email to the list - and if a match is found...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC167" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC167">Q0421</a>: I can't get a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">regular</font> expression to work in a <tt>local_parts</tt> option on one of my routers. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC293" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC293">Q1004</a>: ... if it might be helpful to put the hints database on a RAM disk during </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">regular</font> operation. Did anybody try that yet? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: I've configured Exim to use <i>syslog</i> for its logs, with the main and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reject</font> logs sent to different files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC116" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC116">Q0202</a>: Can I specify a list of domains to explicitly </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reject</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC243" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC243">Q0710</a>: I want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reject</font> certain sender-recipient combinations, with a specific message for each...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC247" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC247">Q0714</a>: Is there a way to configure Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reject</font> mail to a certain local host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC351" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC351">Q5016</a>: ... both the <i>From:</i> and the <i>To:</i> headers. How can this happen, and why doesn't Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reject</font> it? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC407" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC407">Q9804</a>: ... and moving the home directory to another place. How can we arrange to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reject</font> mail for users in this state? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: ... the main and reject logs sent to different files, but whenever a message is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font>, I get one message on the reject log and two messages on the main log....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: ... just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get <i>connection </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font></i> or <i>unable to connect</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC85" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC85">Q0085</a>: I see a lot of </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font> EHLO ... syntactically invalid argument(s)</i>. I know it's because of the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC87" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC87">Q0087</a>: What does </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font> after DATA: malformed address: xx@yy may not follow <xx@yy> : failing...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: ... annoying intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font> with <i>unknown mail domain</i>. This only happens a few times a day and there...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC330" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC330">Q1706</a>: ... <tt>tls_verify_hosts</tt> and provided them with certificates, but their connections are always </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font> "\200F^A^C".</i> What does it mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC332" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC332">Q1708</a>: ... on a box that is running Norton Antivirus, but all my email is being </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejected</font> with <i>Unsupported command</i> errors. Why? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC5" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC5">Q0005</a>: Why is Exim not </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejecting</font> incoming messages addressed to non-existent users at SMTP time? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC31" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC31">Q0031</a>: Exim is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejecting</font> connections from hosts that have more than one IP address, for no apparent...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: My ISP's mail server is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejecting</font> bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The SMTP trace does...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC83" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC83">Q0083</a>: ... containing an unqualified user name in the <i>Sender:</i> header line, which Exim is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejecting</font> because I have set <tt>verify = header_syntax</tt>. How can I fix this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC178" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC178">Q0432</a>: I use NIS for my user data. How can I stop Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejecting</font> mail when my NIS servers are being restarted? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC258" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC258">Q0725</a>: I've set up some specific </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejection</font> messages for certain recipients, but when I test them, the SMTP message is always...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: ... happens a few times a day and there is no particular pattern to the sites it </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejects</font>. If I try to lookup the same domain a few minutes later then it is OK....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC240" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC240">Q0707</a>: I have one or two cases where my host correctly </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rejects</font> messages, but the remote host is quite persistent, and keeps trying over...</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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relative</font> paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not available...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: ... in their login names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case. Can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relax</font> this somehow? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: Why is Exim refusing to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relay</font>, saying <i>failed to find host name from IP address</i> when I have the sender's...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC30" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC30">Q0030</a>: I'm trying to use a query-style lookup for hosts that are allowed to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relay</font>, but it is giving really weird errors. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC138" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC138">Q0315</a>: ... with addresses that can't be resolved (the DNS lookup times out) to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relay</font> machine. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC361" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC361">Q5026</a>: Is exim able to use RFC 2645, <i>On-demand Mail </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Relay</font></i> (ODMR)? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC50" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC50">Q0050</a>: I am getting complaints from a customer who uses my Exim server for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relaying</font> that they are being blocked with a <i>Too many connections</i> error. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC250" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC250">Q0717</a>: ... answers to EXPN and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relaying</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC253" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC253">Q0720</a>: I set <tt>accept hosts=192.168.122.96/32</tt> in order to accept mail for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relaying</font> from my local LAN, but it doesn't work. What's wrong? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC97" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC97">Q0104</a>: I'm about to upgrade to a new Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">release</font>. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other special action?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC125" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC125">Q0302</a>: Why does Exim say <i>all </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">relevant</font> MX records point to non-existent hosts</i> when MX records point to IP addresses?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: ... arrange for mail on my local network to be delivered directly to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">relevant</font> hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail server? The local...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC82" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC82">Q0082</a>: What does </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">relocation</font> error: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2: symbol __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC278" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC278">Q0803</a>: ... addresses in mail that goes to the outside world, but not for messages that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remain</font> within the local intranet. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC131" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC131">Q0308</a>: ... domain for which some local parts must be delivered locally, but the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remainder</font> are to be treated like any other remote addresses. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: ... from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately; the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remainder</font> just sit on the queue until a queue runner process finds them. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC12" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC12">Q0012</a>: Exim is unable to route to any </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the DNS. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... a specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Remote</font> end closed connection after data</i> or <i>Broken pipe</i> or a timeout. What's going...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC74" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC74">Q0074</a>: What does the error message </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> delivery process count got out of step</i> mean? </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 points to local host</i> and </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> host address is the local host</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC131" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC131">Q0308</a>: ... delivered locally, but the remainder are to be treated like any other </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> addresses. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: ... time indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> admin has set their MX record to 127.0.0.1. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC199" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC199">Q0602</a>: ... 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it is about to contact a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> host or when a delivery is deferred. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC240" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC240">Q0707</a>: ... have one or two cases where my host correctly rejects messages, but the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> host is quite persistent, and keeps trying over and over. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: ... these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but the response to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> user is “unknown user” instead of the message from the alias file....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC309" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC309">Q1402</a>: ... have a dial-up machine, and I use the <tt>queue_smtp_domains</tt> option so that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remote</font> mail only goes out when I do a queue run. However, any email I send with an address...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC219" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC219">Q0622</a>: ... ordinary file when I run a perl script as a transport filter for the </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">remote_smtp</font></b> and <b>address_pipe</b> transports? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC107" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC107">Q0114</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> Sendmail from my system? I've built Exim and run <tt>make install</tt>, but it...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC212" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC212">Q0615</a>: ... host - even recent messages. How I can avoid this behaviour? I only want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> messages that have exceeded the maximum retry time. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC248" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC248">Q0715</a>: How can I get Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> attachments from messages? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC277" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC277">Q0802</a>: I have Exim configured to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> the hostname portion of the domain on outgoing mail, and yet the hostname...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC286" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC286">Q0903</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> some part of the <i>Received:</i> header? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC323" href="FAQ_16.html#TOC323">Q1602</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> attachments from messages? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC364" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC364">Q5029</a>: ... contains a non-printing character is stuck on my mail queue. How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">remove</font> this address? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC212" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC212">Q0615</a>: ... message in the queue got to 12h old, Exim wrote <i>retry timeout exceeded</i> and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">removed</font> all messages in the queue to this host - even recent messages. How I can...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC357" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC357">Q5022</a>: Is there an easy way of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">removing</font> all queued messages at once in a safe way? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC288" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC288">Q0905</a>: I know I can use a system filter to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">replace</font> certain headers in messages, but how can I add text to existing headers?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC374" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC374">Q9201</a>: ... <i>/usr/sbin/mailwrapper</i>; it doesn't contain the Sendmail binary. How should I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">replace</font> Sendmail with Exim on FreeBSD? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC187" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC187">Q0505</a>: My problem is that Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">replaces</font> <i>$local_part</i> with an empty string in the system filtering. What's wrong...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC362" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC362">Q5027</a>: ... nobody else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reply/from</font> person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC52" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC52">Q0052</a>: What does <i>ridiculously long message header</i> in an error </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">report</font> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC28" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC28">Q0028</a>: Exim is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reporting</font> IP addresses as 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 instead of their correct values....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC60" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC60">Q0060</a>: ... Why am I getting the error <i>failed to expand <tt>/data/lists/lists/${lc</tt> for </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">require_files</font>: <tt>${lc</tt> is not a known operator</i> for this setting: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC343" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC343">Q5008</a>: ... contain <i>*customer.com</i>, it matches <i>customer.com</i> and <i>abc.customer.com</i> as </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">required</font>, but it also matches <i>noncustomer.com</i>, which is wrong. How can I get round...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: ... route local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">requires</font> the correct case. How can I fix this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC145" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC145">Q0322</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">reroute</font> all messages bound for 192.168.10.0 and 10.0.0.0 to a specific mail server?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC34" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC34">Q0034</a>: ... the binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">resolve</font> DNS names). </td>
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<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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">resolved</font> (the DNS lookup times out) to a relay machine. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC210" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC210">Q0613</a>: ... <tt>fallback_hosts</tt> on my <b>smtp</b> transport, but after the error <i>sem@chat.ru cannot be </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">resolved</font> at this time</i> Exim isn't using them. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC401" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC401">Q9708</a>: I want Exim to use only the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">resolver</font> (i.e. ignore <i>/etc/hosts</i>), but don't want to alter the <i>nsswitch.conf</i> file...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC358" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC358">Q5023</a>: ... Why does Exim do <i>ident</i> callbacks by default? Isn't this just a waste of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">resources</font>? I've been told this is an ancient way of authentication. Is it obsolete?...</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 port take a long time to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">respond</font> with the banner, when connections to other ports respond instantly? The...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC14" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC14">Q0014</a>: Exim is timing out after receiving and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">responding</font> to the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the client host...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC48" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC48">Q0048</a>: Whenever exim restarts it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">responding</font> on the SMTP port. Why is this? </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 PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">responding</font> "535 Incorrect authentication data". </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC53" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC53">Q0053</a>: Exim on my host </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">responds</font> to a connection with <tt>220 *****...</tt> and won't understand <small>EHLO</small> commands....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: ... when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">response</font> to the remote user is “unknown user” instead of the message from...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC47" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC47">Q0047</a>: On a reboot, or a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restart</font> of the mail system, I see the message <i>Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown,...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC353" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC353">Q5018</a>: ... data that Exim reads, can I rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restart</font> Exim every time I make a change? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC178" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC178">Q0432</a>: ... data. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restarted</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC48" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC48">Q0048</a>: Whenever exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restarts</font> it takes up to 3-5 minutes to start responding on the SMTP port. Why is...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC118" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC118">Q0204</a>: ... <tt>nobody</tt> account under which httpd etc run. I would like to know how to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restrict</font> mail which comes from that account to users on that host only. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC405" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC405">Q9802</a>: ... configure Exim so that it sends mail to the outside world only from a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restricted</font> list of our local users? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC221" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC221">Q0624</a>: Sendmail has a program called <i>smrsh</i> that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">restricts</font> what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases. Is there something like...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC84" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC84">Q0084</a>: ... alias that pipes a message to <i>gpg</i> and then pipes the result to <i>mailx</i> to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">resubmit</font> the message, but when I use my tested command in an alias file, I get an error...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC84" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC84">Q0084</a>: ... want to set up an alias that pipes a message to <i>gpg</i> and then pipes the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">result</font> to <i>mailx</i> to resubmit the message, but when I use my tested command in an alias...</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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">result</font> of a pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect internally....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: ... have some mails on my queues that are sticking around longer than the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> time indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC205" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC205">Q0608</a>: What does the message </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> time not reached [for any host]</i> on the log mean? Why won't Exim try to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC207" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC207">Q0610</a>: How can I force the next </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> time for a host to be now? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC212" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC212">Q0615</a>: When a message in the queue got to 12h old, Exim wrote </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> timeout exceeded</i> and removed all messages in the queue to this host -...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC214" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC214">Q0617</a>: ... seems to be trying to deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> rules specify longer times after a while, because it is writing a log...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC217" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC217">Q0620</a>: ... Exim bounce messages without even attempting delivery, giving the error </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> time not reached for any host after a long failure period</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC224" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC224">Q0627</a>: Is there a command I can send to Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> all queued messages regardless of their retry schedule? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC225" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC225">Q0628</a>: I have the default </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> rule, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four days,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC228" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC228">Q0631</a>: I would like to choose a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> rule based on on the sender rather than the recipient address. Is this...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC309" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC309">Q1402</a>: ... send with an address <i>anything@aol.com</i> is returned within about 15 minutes saying </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">retry</font> time exceeded</i>, and all addresses are affected. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... server. However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">return</font> path (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP script is running...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC80" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC80">Q0080</a>: Am I to understand that the database lookups must only </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">return</font> one value? They can not return a list of values? The documentation seems...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC185" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC185">Q0503</a>: ... with a <i>Subject:</i> line that contained a non-printing character (a carriage </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">return</font>). This messed up my filter file. Is there a way to get round it? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC299" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC299">Q1104</a>: I'm getting </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">return</font> code 9 from <i>/home/majordomo/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper</i> when it is passed...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: How can I get rid of spurious <tt>^M</tt> (carriage </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">return</font>) characters in messages sent from CDE <i>dtmail</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC3" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC3">Q0003</a>: What does the error <i>Child process of address_pipe transport </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">returned</font> 127 from command xxx</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC309" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC309">Q1402</a>: ... do a queue run. However, any email I send with an address <i>anything@aol.com</i> is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">returned</font> within about 15 minutes saying <i>retry time exceeded</i>, and all addresses...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC133" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC133">Q0310</a>: If a DNS lookup </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">returns</font> no MX records why doesn't Exim just bin the message? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC54" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC54">Q0054</a>: I'm getting an Exim configuration error <i>unknown </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">rewrite</font> flag character (m) in line 386</i> but I haven't used any flags on my rewriting...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC278" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC278">Q0803</a>: I want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewrite</font> local addresses in mail that goes to the outside world, but not for messages...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC280" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC280">Q0805</a>: Is it possible to completely fail a message if the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewrite</font> rules fail? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC282" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC282">Q0807</a>: I want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewrite</font> local sender addresses depending on the domain of the recipient. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC54" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC54">Q0054</a>: <i>... rewrite flag character (m) in line 386</i> but I haven't used any flags on my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewriting</font> rules. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC279" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC279">Q0804</a>: I'm using this </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewriting</font> rule to change login names into “friendly” names, but if mail...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: I'm using <i>$domain</i> as the key for a lookup in a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewriting</font> rule, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC279" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC279">Q0804</a>: ... names, but if mail comes in for an upper case login name, it doesn't get </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rewritten</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC314" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC314">Q1407</a>: </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RFC</font> 1985 specifies that the SMTP command <tt>ETRN host.domain</tt> causes all mail...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC361" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC361">Q5026</a>: Is exim able to use </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RFC</font> 2645, <i>On-demand Mail Relay</i> (ODMR)? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC52" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC52">Q0052</a>: What does </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">ridiculously</font> long message header</i> in an error report mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC320" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC320">Q1503</a>: ... see something strange on our system in regards to mail coming in via </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rmail</font> from a UUCP link. The sender is being set to mailmaster instead of the real sender,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC39" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC39">Q0039</a>: I have installed Exim, but now I can't mail to </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">root</font></i> any more. Why is this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: When (as </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">root</font></i>) I use -C to run Exim with an alternate configuration file, it gives an error...</td>
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<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 Linux to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rotate</font> my mail logs. Anyone worked out the <i>logrotate</i> config file that will do...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC12" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC12">Q0012</a>: Exim is unable to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">route</font> to any remote domains. It doesn't seen to be able to access the DNS. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC138" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC138">Q0315</a>: I'd like </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">route</font> all mail with addresses that can't be resolved (the DNS lookup times out)...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC141" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC141">Q0318</a>: Exim won't </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">route</font> to a host with no MX record. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC176" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC176">Q0430</a>: Whenever Exim tries to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">route</font> a local address, it gives a permission denied error for the <i>.forward</i> file,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: Exim can </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">route</font> local parts independent of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC130" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC130">Q0307</a>: The </td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">route_list</font></tt> setting <tt>^foo$:^bar$ $domain</tt> in a <b>manualroute</b> router does not work. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC135" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC135">Q0312</a>: Is it possible to use a conditional expression for the host item in a </td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">route_list</font></tt> for <b>manualroute</b> router? I tried the following, but it doesn't work: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC40" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC40">Q0040</a>: How can I stop undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">routeable</font>, but undeliverable, spammer senders) from clogging up the queue for days?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC200" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC200">Q0603</a>: How can mails that are being </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">routed</font> through routers that do not set <tt>check_local_user</tt> be delivered under the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC33" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC33">Q0033</a>: What does the error <i>lookup of host "xx.xx.xx" failed in yyy </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font></i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC115" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC115">Q0201</a>: ... arrange that messages larger than some limit are handled by a special </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC117" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC117">Q0203</a>: ... qualification of non-fully-qualified domains, and then pass them on to the next </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC130" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC130">Q0307</a>: The <tt>route_list</tt> setting <tt>^foo$:^bar$ $domain</tt> in a <b>manualroute</b> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font> does not work. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC135" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC135">Q0312</a>: ... conditional expression for the host item in a <tt>route_list</tt> for <b>manualroute</b> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font>? I tried the following, but it doesn't work: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC144" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC144">Q0321</a>: How can I tell an Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font> to use only IPv4 or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both types in the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC198" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC198">Q0601</a>: What does the error <i>Neither the xxx </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">router</font> nor the yyy transport set a uid for local delivery of...</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: I have set <tt>caseful_local_part</tt> on the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">routers</font> that handle my local domain because my users have upper case letters in...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC167" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC167">Q0421</a>: ... get a regular expression to work in a <tt>local_parts</tt> option on one of my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">routers</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC200" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC200">Q0603</a>: How can mails that are being routed through </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">routers</font> that do not set <tt>check_local_user</tt> be delivered under the uid of the recipient?...</td>
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<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 domain when </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">routing</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC94" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC94">Q0101</a>: I'm having a problem with an Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">RPM</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC225" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC225">Q0628</a>: I have the default retry </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rule</font>, which I thought meant that Exim should keep trying for four days, but...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC228" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC228">Q0631</a>: I would like to choose a retry </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rule</font> based on on the sender rather than the recipient address. Is this possible?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC279" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC279">Q0804</a>: I'm using this rewriting </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rule</font> to change login names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: I'm using <i>$domain</i> as the key for a lookup in a rewriting </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rule</font>, but its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC54" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC54">Q0054</a>: <i>... flag character (m) in line 386</i> but I haven't used any flags on my rewriting </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rules</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC214" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC214">Q0617</a>: ... to be trying to deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the retry </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rules</font> specify longer times after a while, because it is writing a log entry...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC251" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC251">Q0718</a>: Could anyone points me to right </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rules</font> to prevent sending/receiving messages to/for domains which have one MX...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC280" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC280">Q0805</a>: Is it possible to completely fail a message if the rewrite </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">rules</font> fail? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: ... delivered immediately; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">runner</font> process finds them. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... path (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP script is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> as <i>apache</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC68" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC68">Q0068</a>: ... trying to connect to some hosts, though those hosts are known to be up and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font>. What's the problem? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC216" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC216">Q0619</a>: ... the error <i>fcntl() failed: No locks available</i>, though the lock daemon is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> on the NFS server and other hosts are able to access it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC260" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC260">Q0727</a>: ... recipients, how can I stop SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> it from a pipe transport. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC290" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC290">Q1001</a>: I'm </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> a large mail server. Should I set <tt>split_spool_directory</tt> to improve performance?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC312" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC312">Q1405</a>: I have an ISDN connection and would like a way of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> the queue automatically when it is up. </td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> Norton Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected with <i>Unsupported command</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC345" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC345">Q5010</a>: ... to find a pre-built version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a Sparc 5 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> Solaris 2.6. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC391" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC391">Q9608</a>: I'm </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> Exim 3 under Debian, and want to upgrade to Exim 4. How difficult is it?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: ... SMTP connections from my Linux box, but accept connections from hosts </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> other operating systems? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC398" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC398">Q9705</a>: Exim has been crashing on my Solaris x86 system, apparently while </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">running</font> DBM functions. </td>
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