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<td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use Exiscan, </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SA-Exim</font>, SpamAssassin, Clam Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC357" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC357">Q5022</a>: Is there an easy way of removing all queued messages at once in a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">safe</font> way? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC64" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC64">Q0064</a>: ... when I send a message from the <i>mail</i> command, I get <i>User unknown</i> and the mail is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">saved</font> in <i>dead.letter</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam Antivirus, Sophos </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SAVI</font>, or sophie with Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC291" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC291">Q1002</a>: How well does Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">scale</font>? </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">scanning</font> messages in Python? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: I am using exim in a two queues </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">scenario</font>, with two different configuration files. How can I run a second copy of <i>eximon</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC224" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC224">Q0627</a>: ... can send to Exim to retry all queued messages regardless of their retry </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">schedule</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC262" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC262">Q0729</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">screen</font> out addresses that are neither valid usernames or distribution lists on...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... return path (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">script</font> is running as <i>apache</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 perl </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">script</font> 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="TOC375" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC375">Q9202</a>: A </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">script</font> that FreeBSD runs nightly uses <i>mailq</i> with the <b>-Ac</b> parameter. Why doesn't...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC367" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC367">Q5032</a>: Are there any Exim web-based administration </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">scripts</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC186" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC186">Q0504</a>: I want to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">search</font> for <tt>$</tt> in the subject line, but I can't seem to get the syntax. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: ... queues scenario, with two different configuration files. How can I run a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">second</font> copy of <i>eximon</i> to inspect and modify the alternate queue? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC406" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC406">Q9803</a>: A site for which I provide </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">secondary</font> MX is down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for that destination...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: ... to other ports respond instantly? The delay is sometimes as long as 30 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">seconds</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC250" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC250">Q0717</a>: When using Nessus on a system that runs Exim, a number of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">security</font> issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim answers to EXPN and/or VRFY;...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC199" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC199">Q0602</a>: Exim keeps crashing with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">segmentation</font> errors (signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC284" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC284">Q0901</a>: I would like add some custom headers to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">selected</font> outgoing mail based on a specific domain and the subject line. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC325" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC325">Q1701</a>: I am trying to set up an Exim server that uses a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">self-signed</font> certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC8" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC8">Q0008</a>: If I run <tt>./exim -d -bt user@domain</tt> all seems well, but when I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a message from my User Agent, it does not arrive at its destination. </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 process to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> 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="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: We are using Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> mail from our web server. However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC64" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC64">Q0064</a>: When I run <tt>exim -d test@domain</tt> it delivers fine, but when I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a message from the <i>mail</i> command, I get <i>User unknown</i> and the mail is saved in...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC88" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC88">Q0088</a>: The Windows mailer SENDFILE.EXE sometimes hangs while trying to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a message to Exim 4, and eventually times out. It worked flawlessly with...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC91" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC91">Q0091</a>: Why is Exim giving the error <i>Failed to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> message from address_reply transport</i> when I run it using -C to specify...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC126" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC126">Q0303</a>: How do I configure Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> all messages to a central server? I don't want to do any local deliveries...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC127" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC127">Q0304</a>: How do I configure Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> all non-local mail to a gateway host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC129" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC129">Q0306</a>: How do I configure Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> all non-local mail to a central server if it cannot be immediately delivered...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC134" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC134">Q0311</a>: When a DNS lookup for MX records fails to complete, why doesn't Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> the messsage to the host defined by the A record? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC136" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC136">Q0313</a>: I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> all external mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC149" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC149">Q0403</a>: How do I configure Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> messages for unknown local users to a central server? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC193" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC193">Q0511</a>: Whenever my system filter uses a <tt>mail</tt> command to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a message, I get the error <i>User 0 set for address_reply transport is on the...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC196" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC196">Q0514</a>: When I try to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> to two addresses I get an error in the filter file <i>malformed address: , e@fgh.com...</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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> to Exim to retry all queued messages regardless of their retry schedule?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC269" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC269">Q0736</a>: ... possible to tell exim to drop the connection after a server attempts to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a message to a number of unknown users? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC298" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC298">Q1103</a>: ... to set up majordomo, but I'm getting a wrong mode error when I try to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> it mail. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC300" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC300">Q1105</a>: ... is complaining about an invalid command line when Majordomo tries to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> it a message for delivery. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC309" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC309">Q1402</a>: ... so that remote mail only goes out when I do a queue run. However, any email I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> with an address <i>anything@aol.com</i> is returned within about 15 minutes saying <i>retry...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC339" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC339">Q5004</a>: I've recently noticed that emails I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> with a <i>Bcc:</i> line are being delivered to their final destination with the <i>Bcc:</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC342" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC342">Q5007</a>: When I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a message using the <b>-t</b> command line option, Exim sends only to the addresses...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC362" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC362">Q5027</a>: Is there any way I can </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> bounces to the postmaster, and nobody else? Basically, I want to receive...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC368" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC368">Q5033</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a copy of all outgoing messages to another mailbox? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC384" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC384">Q9601</a>: Exim is mysteriously crashing, usually when forking to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">send</font> a delivery error message. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: ... relay, saying <i>failed to find host name from IP address</i> when I have the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender's</font> IP address in an ACL condition? My configuration contains this ACL statement:...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC276" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC276">Q0801</a>: How can I get Exim to strip the hostname from the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender's</font> address? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: ... is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font>. The SMTP trace does indeed show that the sender address is <tt><></tt>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font>) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP script is running as <i>apache</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC83" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC83">Q0083</a>: ... on Unix is sending messages containing an unqualified user name in the </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Sender</font>:</i> header line, which Exim is rejecting because I have set <tt>verify = header_syntax</tt>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC174" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC174">Q0428</a>: ... doesn't make use of the <tt>owner-</tt> entries in my alias file to change the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> address in outgoing messages to a mailing list. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC202" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC202">Q0605</a>: ... quota, is there a way for me to set it up so that the mail bounces to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> and is not stored in the mail queue? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC218" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC218">Q0621</a>: ... <tt>|/usr/bin/procmail -f-</tt> and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font>, sending him the output of procmail. How can I prevent this? </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 rule based on on the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> rather than the recipient address. Is this possible? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC242" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC242">Q0709</a>: Does Exim apply RBL checks to error messages, those with an envelope </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> of <tt><></tt> ? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC249" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC249">Q0716</a>: How can I arrange for each user to have a file listing the only </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> addresses from which she will accept mail? I want to do this so my family...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC282" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC282">Q0807</a>: I want to rewrite local </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> addresses depending on the domain of the recipient. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC297" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC297">Q1102</a>: I have set <i>$mailer</i> in <i>majordomo.cf</i>, but it still isn't setting the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> correctly in the messages it sends. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC320" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC320">Q1503</a>: ... our system in regards to mail coming in via rmail from a UUCP link. The </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> is being set to mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a <i>Sender:</i> header...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC366" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC366">Q5031</a>: Why is there no </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font> address on bounce messages? It shows up as "<>". </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC409" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC409">Q9806</a>: How do I get exim not to add a </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Sender</font>:</i> header to locally originated mail? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... envelope contents, but to suppress any error notifications to the original </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC243" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC243">Q0710</a>: I want to reject certain </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sender-recipient</font> combinations, with a specific message for each such combination. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC40" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC40">Q0040</a>: ... undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">senders</font>) from clogging up the queue for days? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC175" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC175">Q0429</a>: ... domain to local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the envelope </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">senders</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC83" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC83">Q0083</a>: Netscape on Unix is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font> messages containing an unqualified user name in the <i>Sender:</i> header line, which...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC204" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC204">Q0607</a>: ... When I activate “return receipt” for example in Netscape Mailbox </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font> options, then I get an error message from Exim... something like <i>not supported</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC206" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC206">Q0609</a>: Exim seems to be </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font> the same message twice, according to the log, although there is a difference...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC215" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC215">Q0618</a>: ... up to have a automatic failover if it sees that the system that it is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font> all mail to is down. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC218" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC218">Q0621</a>: ... <tt>|/usr/bin/procmail -f-</tt> and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font> him the output of procmail. How can I prevent this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: My SMTP authentication can be bypassed by </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font> an unknown user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC370" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC370">Q5035</a>: ... different permissions between <b>-bt</b> and <b>-bh</b>, or between verifying and actual </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending</font>? </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 prevent </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sending/receiving</font> messages to/for domains which have one MX to localhost or only have address...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC47" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC47">Q0047</a>: ... <i>Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">sendmail</font></i>. What does this mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC107" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC107">Q0114</a>: How can I remove </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sendmail</font> from my system? I've built Exim and run <tt>make install</tt>, but it still doesn't...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC161" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC161">Q0415</a>: ... forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop in Exim in place of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sendmail</font> ? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC174" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC174">Q0428</a>: I've converted from </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sendmail</font>, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the <tt>owner-</tt> entries in my alias...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC245" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC245">Q0712</a>: I've hacked </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sendmail</font> to make an ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC374" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC374">Q9201</a>: On FreeBSD, <i>/usr/sbin/</i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">sendmail</font></i> is a symbolic link to <i>/usr/sbin/mailwrapper</i>; it doesn't contain the Sendmail...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... using Exim to send mail from our web server. However, whenever a user </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: When my Outlook Express 6.0 client </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... the servers, which does local delivery for the mailboxes it holds, and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> other addresses to the correct other server. Is this possible? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC254" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC254">Q0721</a>: ... set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook Express, which </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> queued messages before checking the mailbox, so it doesn't work. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC297" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC297">Q1102</a>: ... <i>majordomo.cf</i>, but it still isn't setting the sender correctly in the messages it </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC328" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC328">Q1704</a>: When my Outlook Express 6.0 client </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC342" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC342">Q5007</a>: When I send a message using the <b>-t</b> command line option, Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> only to the addresses within the message, not to those on the command...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC405" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC405">Q9802</a>: How do I configure Exim so that it </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> mail to the outside world only from a restricted list of our local users?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC412" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC412">Q9809</a>: Can I configure Exim so that my gateway host </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sends</font> a copy of each incoming message to each of two internal hosts? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... from our web server. However, whenever a user sends an email it gets </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> with the return path (envelope sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: ... configured Exim to use <i>syslog</i> for its logs, with the main and reject logs </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> to different files, but whenever a message is rejected, I get one message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: What does <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> too soon)</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: ... be delivered directly to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to be </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> to my ISP's mail server? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC162" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC162">Q0416</a>: What is quickest way to set up Exim so any message </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> to a non-existing user would bounce back with a different message, based...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC165" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC165">Q0419</a>: ... warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to delete any mail that is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> to them? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC172" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC172">Q0426</a>: ... <i>anything@anotherdomain</i>. I tried adding <i>$local_part@anotherdomain</i> to my aliases but it did not expand - it </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> it to that literal address. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... an asterisk in the system alias file with an <tt>lsearch*</tt> lookup, but that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> all messages to the default address. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC252" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC252">Q0719</a>: ... to have a per-user limit for the maximum size of messages that can be </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font>. </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> through an open proxy? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... this error: <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C".</i> What does it mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: ... can I get rid of spurious <tt>^M</tt> (carriage return) characters in messages </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> from CDE <i>dtmail</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC410" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC410">Q9807</a>: Is there any way to have messages </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sent</font> to a specific local address delayed by - say - 24 hours? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC201" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC201">Q0604</a>: ... MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A characters that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">separate</font> indvidual emails? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC316" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC316">Q1409</a>: I would like to have a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">separate</font> queue per domain for hosts which dial in to collect their mail. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC406" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC406">Q9803</a>: ... down for some time. Is there a way to run the queue for that destination </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">separately</font> from the main queue? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: Whenever Exim tries to deliver a specific message to a particular </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>, it fails, giving the error <i>Remote end closed connection after data</i> or <i>Broken...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: <i>... to create child process to send failure message</i> mean? This is a busy mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> with <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt> set to 500, but this problem started to occur at...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: My ISP's mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The...</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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> for relaying that they are being blocked with a <i>Too many connections</i> error....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: We are using Exim to send mail from our web </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>. However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC126" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC126">Q0303</a>: How do I configure Exim to send all messages to a central </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>? I don't want to do any local deliveries at all on this host. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: ... to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my ISP's mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like normal Internet...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC129" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC129">Q0306</a>: How do I configure Exim to send all non-local mail to a central </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> if it cannot be immediately delivered by my host? I don't want to have...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded to the internal mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>, without having to have a list of all the domains involved? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC145" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC145">Q0322</a>: ... reroute all messages bound for 192.168.10.0 and 10.0.0.0 to a specific mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC149" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC149">Q0403</a>: ... configure Exim to send messages for unknown local users to a central </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... the mailboxes it holds, and sends other addresses to the correct other </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>. Is this possible? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC216" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC216">Q0619</a>: <i>... failed: No locks available</i>, though the lock daemon is running on the NFS </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> and other hosts are able to access it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC254" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC254">Q0721</a>: I have POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>, but some clients use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC262" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC262">Q0729</a>: ... usernames or distribution lists on mail being forwarded to an internal Win2K </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC263" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC263">Q0730</a>: ... passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC269" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC269">Q0736</a>: Is it possible to tell exim to drop the connection after a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> attempts to send a message to a number of unknown users? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC290" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC290">Q1001</a>: I'm running a large mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font>. Should I set <tt>split_spool_directory</tt> to improve performance? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC325" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC325">Q1701</a>: I am trying to set up an Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> that uses a self-signed certificate to enable my clients to use TLS. However,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: I'm seeing the message <i>inetd[334]: imap/tcp </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> failing (looping), service terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i> connections...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... “tap off” a proportion of real mail traffic from my live mail </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">server</font> to use in tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope contents,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: My users' mailboxes are distributed between several </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">servers</font> according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers receive...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC178" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC178">Q0432</a>: ... NIS for my user data. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">servers</font> are being restarted? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: Why do some </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">servers</font> refuse SMTP connections from my Linux box, but accept connections from...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: I'm seeing the message <i>inetd[334]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">service</font> terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i> connections to be refused. The...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: ... my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">session</font>, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook log shows this: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC326" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC326">Q1702</a>: ... arrange for Exim to advertise support for SMTP authentication only when the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">session</font> is encrypted? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: ... clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">session</font> automatically on connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim handle this?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC328" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC328">Q1704</a>: ... my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">session</font>, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC4" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC4">Q0004</a>: My virtual domain </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">setup</font> isn't working. How can I debug it? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC151" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC151">Q0405</a>: On a host that accepts mail for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">several</font> domains, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in <i>/etc/aliases</i> or...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: My users' mailboxes are distributed between </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">several</font> servers according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC306" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC306">Q1302</a>: Exim built with Perl support exits with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">several</font> error messages of the form <i>undefined reference to `PL_stack_sp'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC168" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC168">Q0422</a>: ... can I arrange for all addresses in a group of domains <i>*.example.com</i> to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">share</font> the same alias file? I have a number of such groups. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: ... (<i>ghostview</i>) to try printing <i>spec.ps</i>. After every printed page, the printer ejects a blank </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sheet</font>. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than A4 paper?...</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 pipe to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">shell</font> command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC46" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC46">Q0046</a>: A </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">short</font> time after I start Exim I see a defunct zombie process. What is causing...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: ... Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The SMTP trace does indeed </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">show</font> that the sender address is <tt><></tt>. Why is the Sender on the bounce message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC57" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC57">Q0057</a>: We've got people complaining about attachments that don't </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">show</font> up as attachments, but are included in the body of the message. </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">shown</font> in the process table changes from <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which is a symlink)...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: ... begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook log </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">shows</font> this: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC366" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC366">Q5031</a>: Why is there no sender address on bounce messages? It </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">shows</font> up as "<>". </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC89" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC89">Q0089</a>: ... does the error <i>kernel: application bug: exim(12099) has SIGCHLD set to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SIG_IGN</font> but calls wait()</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC89" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC89">Q0089</a>: What does the error <i>kernel: application bug: exim(12099) has </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SIGCHLD</font> set to SIG_IGN but calls wait()</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 received signal </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SIGINT</font>, Interrupt.</i> occurs when I try to use Exim with PostgreSQL. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC92" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC92">Q0092</a>: The error message <i>Program received </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">signal</font> SIGINT, Interrupt.</i> occurs when I try to use Exim with PostgreSQL. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC199" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC199">Q0602</a>: Exim keeps crashing with segmentation errors (</td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">signal</font> 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it is about to contact...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC155" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC155">Q0409</a>: I want mail for any local part at certain virtual domains to go to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">single</font> address for each domain. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC179" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC179">Q0433</a>: How can I arrange for a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">single</font> address to be processed by both <b>redirect</b> and <b>accept</b>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... can I redirect all local parts that are not in my system aliases to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">single</font> address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an <tt>lsearch*</tt>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: How can I lookup data from a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">single</font> file using both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as keys? I want to set...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC406" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC406">Q9803</a>: A </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">site</font> for which I provide secondary MX is down for some time. Is there a way...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: ... really annoying intermittent problem where attempts to mail to valid </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sites</font> are rejected with <i>unknown mail domain</i>. This only happens a few times a...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC195" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC195">Q0513</a>: I want my system filter to freeze all mails greater than 500K in </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">size</font>, but to exclude those to a specific domain. However, I don't seem to be able...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC252" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC252">Q0719</a>: I would like to have a per-user limit for the maximum </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">size</font> of messages that can be sent. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: ... checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SIZE</font> option. Can I suppress this? </td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">small</font> 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following error:...</td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">smart</font> host, but this means that bad addresses also get passed to the smart host....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC140" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC140">Q0317</a>: What I'd like to do is have alternative </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">smart</font> hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which ISP I'm connected...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC221" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC221">Q0624</a>: Sendmail has a program called </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">smrsh</font></i> that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases. Is there...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC5" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC5">Q0005</a>: ... Exim not rejecting incoming messages addressed to non-existent users at </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> time? </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 received in one </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> connection</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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> port take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: ... bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> trace does indeed show that the sender address is <tt><></tt>. Why is the...</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 responding on the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> port. Why is this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC69" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC69">Q0069</a>: What does the error </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> data timeout (message abandoned) on connection from...</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC70" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC70">Q0070</a>: What does the error </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> command timeout on connection from...</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC78" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC78">Q0078</a>: Exim is logging the unknown </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> command <tt>XXXX</tt> from my client hosts, and they are unable to authenticate....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: What does </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon)</i> mean?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC119" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC119">Q0205</a>: ... Exim to deliver to me locally and everyone else at the same domain via </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> to the MX record specified host? </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> port on my local host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC139" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC139">Q0316</a>: ... forward all incoming email for a particular domain to another host via </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font>. Whereabouts would I configure that? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC210" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC210">Q0613</a>: I have set <tt>fallback_hosts</tt> on my </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">smtp</font></b> transport, but after the error <i>sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at this time</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC230" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC230">Q0633</a>: Why is <i>$domain</i> not set in the </td>
<td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">smtp</font></b> transport? </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> RCPT command, to check if a user has exceeded their email quota. If they...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC258" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC258">Q0725</a>: ... rejection messages for certain recipients, but when I test them, the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> message is always <i>550 5.1.1 <user@mydomain.com>... User unknown</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: My </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC263" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC263">Q0730</a>: How can I use the same passwords for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC271" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC271">Q0738</a>: How can I configure Exim to delay the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> connection if more than 10 invalid recipients are received in one message?...</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 </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> listener doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC314" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC314">Q1407</a>: RFC 1985 specifies that the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> command <tt>ETRN host.domain</tt> causes all mail queued for that host, no matter...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC326" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC326">Q1702</a>: How can I arrange for Exim to advertise support for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> authentication only when the session is encrypted? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... trying to use TLS with Evolution as a client, and keep seeing this error: </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon): rejected...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: ... <tt>check_spool_space</tt>, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> messages that use the SIZE option. Can I suppress this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC376" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC376">Q9203</a>: How can I use Exim for authenticated </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> using Cyrus on FreeBSD? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: Why do some servers refuse </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SMTP</font> connections from my Linux box, but accept connections from hosts running...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: <i>... child process to send failure message</i> mean? This is a busy mail server with </td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">smtp_accept_max</font></tt> set to 500, but this problem started to occur at about 300 incoming connections....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: ... both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as keys? I want to set </td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">smtp_accept_max_per_host</font></tt> by this means, and also include a default. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC15" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC15">Q0015</a>: What does the message </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Socket</font> bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed: address already in use</i> mean?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC345" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC345">Q5010</a>: ... pre-built version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a Sparc 5 running </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Solaris</font> 2.6. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC398" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC398">Q9705</a>: Exim has been crashing on my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Solaris</font> x86 system, apparently while running DBM functions. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC399" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC399">Q9706</a>: The <i>exiwhat</i> utility isn't working for me on a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Solaris</font> 2 system. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC401" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC401">Q9708</a>: ... ignore <i>/etc/hosts</i>), but don't want to alter the <i>nsswitch.conf</i> file in </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Solaris</font> 2. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC402" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC402">Q9709</a>: When I try to compile Exim 4.x on </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Solaris</font> 2.5.1 I get an error along the lines of <i>no such field in struct as 'value.ui32'</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: ... does <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">soon</font>)</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... error: <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">soon</font>): rejected "\200F^A^C".</i> What does it mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: ... I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sophie</font> with Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam Antivirus, </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sophos</font> SAVI, or sophie with Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC110" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC110">Q0117</a>: Is there a quick walk-through of an Exim install from </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">source</font> anywhere? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC303" href="FAQ_12.html#TOC303">Q1202</a>: ... far as Exim knows, all mail is coming from 127.0.0.1. Will it check the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">source</font> address against RBL? Or will it check the <i>From:</i> header? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC369" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC369">Q5034</a>: ... <tt>queue_only</tt> option conditional? I would like the ability to queue messages from external </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sources</font> while deliver locally generated email as normal. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: Although I haven't set <tt>check_spool_</tt></td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">space</font></tt>, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC235" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC235">Q0702</a>: I don't want to block </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spam</font> entirely; how can I inspect each message before deciding whether or not...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC236" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC236">Q0703</a>: How can I test that my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spam</font> blocks are working? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC249" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC249">Q0716</a>: ... will accept mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spam</font> (or other inappropriate mail). </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spam</font> sent through an open proxy? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC288" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC288">Q0905</a>: ... messages, but how can I add text to existing headers? I want to add [</td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SPAM</font>] to the subject line of messages that appear to be spam. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC351" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC351">Q5016</a>: ... received a message which does not have my address in the <i>To:</i> line. It is a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spam</font> message with the same address in both the <i>From:</i> and the <i>To:</i> headers. How...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC260" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC260">Q0727</a>: When a message has many recipients, how can I stop </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SpamAssassin</font> from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a pipe transport....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SpamAssassin</font>, Clam Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC40" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC40">Q0040</a>: ... undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spammer</font> senders) from clogging up the queue for days? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC345" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC345">Q5010</a>: ... can't seem to find a pre-built version of Exim anywhere. The machine is a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sparc</font> 5 running Solaris 2.6. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC211" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC211">Q0614</a>: ... e-mails waiting for me. These are forced down Exim's throat in one go. Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spawns</font> a lot of kids, but is there some limit to the number of processes it creates?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC75" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC75">Q0075</a>: I'm using LDAP, and some email addresses that contain </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">special</font> characters are causing parsing errors in my LDAP lookups. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC97" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC97">Q0104</a>: ... Exim release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">special</font> action? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC115" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC115">Q0201</a>: ... How can I arrange that messages larger than some limit are handled by a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">special</font> router? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... the list - and if a match is found file the offending message into a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">special</font> location? Also is it possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC150" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC150">Q0404</a>: ... arrange for messages submitted by (for example) Majordomo to be handled </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specially</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: Whenever Exim tries to deliver a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error <i>Remote end closed connection...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC145" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC145">Q0322</a>: ... How can I reroute all messages bound for 192.168.10.0 and 10.0.0.0 to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> mail server? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: ... to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to add a list of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> local parts to the system. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC195" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC195">Q0513</a>: ... freeze all mails greater than 500K in size, but to exclude those to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> domain. However, I don't seem to be able to use <i>$domain</i> in a system filter....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC243" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC243">Q0710</a>: I want to reject certain sender-recipient combinations, with a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> message for each such combination. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC258" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC258">Q0725</a>: I've set up some </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> rejection messages for certain recipients, but when I test them, the SMTP message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC284" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC284">Q0901</a>: ... would like add some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> domain and the subject line. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC410" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC410">Q9807</a>: Is there any way to have messages sent to a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specific</font> local address delayed by - say - 24 hours? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC119" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC119">Q0205</a>: ... locally and everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX record </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specified</font> host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC314" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC314">Q1407</a>: RFC 1985 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specifies</font> that the SMTP command <tt>ETRN host.domain</tt> causes all mail queued for that...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC91" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC91">Q0091</a>: ... <i>Failed to send message from address_reply transport</i> when I run it using -C to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specify</font> an alternate configuration? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC116" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC116">Q0202</a>: Can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specify</font> a list of domains to explicitly reject? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC214" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC214">Q0617</a>: ... trying to deliver a message every 10 minutes, though the retry rules </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">specify</font> longer times after a while, because it is writing a log entry every time,...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC292" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC292">Q1003</a>: ... large password file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">speed</font> things up? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC272" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC272">Q0739</a>: Does Exim support </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SPF</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC411" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC411">Q9808</a>: ... where I want to do the actual deliveries from. How can I get Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">split</font> a message into groups of recipients between the three hosts? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC290" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC290">Q1001</a>: I'm running a large mail server. Should I set </td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">split_spool_directory</font></tt> to improve performance? </td>
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<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Spool</font> file is locked</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC44" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC44">Q0044</a>: What does the error <i>Failed to create </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">spool</font> file</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: ... alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being unable to create a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spool</font> file when trying to run an <b>autoreply</b> transport. Why is this? </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 release. Do I need to ensure the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spool</font> is empty, or take any other special action? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: Although I haven't set <tt>check_</tt></td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">spool</font>_space</tt>, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: How can I get rid of </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">spurious</font> <tt>^M</tt> (carriage return) characters in messages sent from CDE <i>dtmail</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC394" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC394">Q9701</a>: Exim builds fine with <i>gcc</i> on SunOS 4 but crashes inside </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">sscanf</font>()</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: ... expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically on connection to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ssmtp</font> port (465). Can Exim handle this? </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">standard</font> with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the <i>logrotate</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC46" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC46">Q0046</a>: A short time after I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">start</font> Exim I see a defunct zombie process. What is causing this? </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">start</font> responding on the SMTP port. Why is this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC62" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC62">Q0062</a>: When I try to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">start</font> an Exim daemon with <b>-bd</b> it crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC63" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC63">Q0063</a>: When I try to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">start</font> an Exim daemon, nothing happens. There is no process, and nothing is written...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC106" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC106">Q0113</a>: I've compiled Exim and I've managed to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">start</font> it but there was one problem - it always complained that <i>libmsqlclient.so.10</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC350" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC350">Q5015</a>: I just noticed log entries that </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">start</font> off <tt><= <></tt>. Am I correct in assuming that the <tt><></tt> indicates...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: ... This is a busy mail server with <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt> set to 500, but this problem </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">started</font> to occur at about 300 incoming connections. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC203" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC203">Q0606</a>: ... option on the <b>pipe</b> transport (tmail prefers <tt>\r\n</tt> terminations) message bodies </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">started</font> to vanish. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC209" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC209">Q0612</a>: Why does the <b>pipe</b> transport add a line </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">starting</font> with <tt>>From</tt> to messages? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: When my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">STARTTLS</font> command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: I have some legacy clients that don't use </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">STARTTLS</font>, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically on connection...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC328" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC328">Q1704</a>: When my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">STARTTLS</font> command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC169" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC169">Q0423</a>: ... password file contains <i>/no/home/dir</i>. This causes the error <i>failed to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">stat</font> /no/home/dir (No such file or directory)</i> when Exim tries to look for a <i>.forward...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC347" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC347">Q5012</a>: Does Exim support Delivery </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Status</font> Notification (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form...</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 process count got out of </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">step</font></i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: I have some mails on my queues that are </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">sticking</font> around longer than the retry time indicates they should. They are all...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC40" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC40">Q0040</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stop</font> undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer...</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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stop</font> Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers are being restarted? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC231" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC231">Q0634</a>: How can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stop</font> a local transport from trying to access the user's home directory, even...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC260" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC260">Q0727</a>: When a message has many recipients, how can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stop</font> SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC400" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC400">Q9707</a>: How do I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stop</font> Sun's <i>dtcm</i> from hanging? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC34" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC34">Q0034</a>: ... one host, but when I copied the binary to another identical host, it </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stopped</font> working (it could not resolve DNS names). </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC310" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC310">Q1403</a>: How should Exim be configured when it is acting as a temporary </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">storage</font> system for a domain on a dial-up host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC227" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC227">Q0630</a>: How can I configure Exim to deliver to a Cyrus message </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">store</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC202" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC202">Q0605</a>: ... for me to set it up so that the mail bounces to the sender and is not </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stored</font> in the mail queue? </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 </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">string</font> expansion code: it doesn't recognize references to headers such as <tt>${h_to}</tt>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC187" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC187">Q0505</a>: My problem is that Exim replaces <i>$local_part</i> with an empty </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">string</font> in the system filtering. What's wrong or what did I miss? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC188" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC188">Q0506</a>: ... <i>$recipients</i> in a system filter gives me another problem: how can I do a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">string</font> lookup if <i>$recipients</i> is a list of addresses? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC276" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC276">Q0801</a>: How can I get Exim to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">strip</font> the hostname from the sender's address? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC402" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC402">Q9709</a>: ... 4.x on Solaris 2.5.1 I get an error along the lines of <i>no such field in </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">struct</font> as 'value.ui32'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC359" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC359">Q5024</a>: I often have the problem that a message gets </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stuck</font> in the mail queue and I want it to be bounced to a certain address. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC364" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC364">Q5029</a>: ... message with a recipient address that contains a non-printing character is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">stuck</font> on my mail queue. How can I remove this address? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC185" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC185">Q0503</a>: I received a message with a </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Subject</font>:</i> line that contained a non-printing character (a carriage return). This...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC186" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC186">Q0504</a>: I want to search for <tt>$</tt> in the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">subject</font> line, but I can't seem to get the syntax. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC284" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC284">Q0901</a>: ... headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain and the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">subject</font> line. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC288" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC288">Q0905</a>: ... but how can I add text to existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">subject</font> line of messages that appear to be spam. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC208" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC208">Q0611</a>: I set up <tt>|/bin/grep </tt></td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">Subject|/usr/bin/smbclient</font> -M <netbiosname></tt> as an alias but it doesn't work. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC150" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC150">Q0404</a>: How can I arrange for messages </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">submitted</font> by (for example) Majordomo to be handled specially? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC158" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC158">Q0412</a>: <i>... /home/test/.forward</i>? I've looked through the documentation but can't see anything to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">suggest</font> that Exim has to do anything other than read the <i>.forward</i> file. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC37" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC37">Q0037</a>: I am experiencing mailbox locking problems with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sun's</font> <tt>mailtool</tt> used over a network. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC397" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC397">Q9704</a>: I am experiencing mailbox locking problems with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sun's</font> <i>mailtool</i> used over a network. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC400" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC400">Q9707</a>: How do I stop </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Sun's</font> <i>dtcm</i> from hanging? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC394" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC394">Q9701</a>: Exim builds fine with <i>gcc</i> on </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SunOS</font> 4 but crashes inside <i>sscanf()</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC396" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC396">Q9703</a>: On </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">SunOS</font> 4 Exim crashes when looking up domains in the DNS that have more than...</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 PAM </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> 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 PAM </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font>. I have included <tt>-lpam</tt> in <small>EXTRALIBS</small>, but I'm still getting a linking error:...</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 POP-before-SMTP) </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> in Exim? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC272" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC272">Q0739</a>: Does Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> SPF? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC305" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC305">Q1301</a>: Exim built with Perl </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> 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 Perl </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> exits with several error messages of the form <i>undefined reference to `PL_stack_sp'</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC314" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC314">Q1407</a>: ... for that host, no matter what domain it's for, to be delivered. Why doesn't Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC326" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC326">Q1702</a>: How can I arrange for Exim to advertise </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> for SMTP authentication only when the session is encrypted? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC347" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC347">Q5012</a>: Does Exim </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> Delivery Status Notification (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN),...</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 Perl </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">support</font> exits with the error message </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC204" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC204">Q0607</a>: ... sending options, then I get an error message from Exim... something like <i>not </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">supported</font></i>. Can I activate delivery confirmations? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: ... space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the SIZE option. Can I </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">suppress</font> this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope contents, but to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">suppress</font> any error notifications to the original sender. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC61" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC61">Q0061</a>: What does the error <i>Too many “Received” headers - </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">suspected</font> mail loop</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC85" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC85">Q0085</a>: <i>... argument(s)</i>. I know it's because of the underscore in the host name, but is there a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">switch</font> to allow Exim to accept mail from such hosts? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC82" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC82">Q0082</a>: What does <i>relocation error: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2: </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">symbol</font> __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libresolv.so.2...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC96" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC96">Q0103</a>: I'm getting an <i>undefined </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">symbol</font></i> error for <tt>hosts_ctl</tt> when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error is...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC101" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC101">Q0108</a>: I'm getting an unresolved </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">symbol</font> <tt>ldap_is_ldap_url</tt> when trying to build Exim. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC102" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC102">Q0109</a>: I'm getting an unresolved </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">symbol</font> <tt>mysql_close</tt> when trying to build Exim. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC374" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC374">Q9201</a>: On FreeBSD, <i>/usr/sbin/sendmail</i> is a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">symbolic</font> link to <i>/usr/sbin/mailwrapper</i>; it doesn't contain the Sendmail binary....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC363" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC363">Q5028</a>: ... shown in the process table changes from <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which is a </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">symlink</font>) to the real binary name. Can I change this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: What does <i>SMTP protocol violation: </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">synchronization</font> 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>: ... Evolution as a client, and keep seeing this error: <i>SMTP protocol violation: </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">synchronization</font> error (next input sent too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C".</i> What does it mean?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: When a user's <i>.forward</i> file is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">syntactially</font> invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes include...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC85" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC85">Q0085</a>: I see a lot of <i>rejected EHLO ... </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">syntactically</font> invalid argument(s)</i>. I know it's because of the underscore in the host...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC186" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC186">Q0504</a>: ... want to search for <tt>$</tt> in the subject line, but I can't seem to get the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">syntax</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC76" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC76">Q0076</a>: I've configured Exim to use </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">syslog</font></i> for its logs, with the main and reject logs sent to different files, but...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC13" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC13">Q0013</a>: What does the error message <i>transport </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">system_aliases</font>: cannot find transport driver "redirect" in line 92</i> mean? </td>
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