The Exim Mail Transport Agent

1 Introduction
- 1.1 Mailing list and Web site
- 1.2 Availability
- 1.3 Limitations
- 1.4 Features
- 1.5 Support for IPv6
- 1.6 Interface
- 1.7 Terminology
2 Incorporated code
3 How Exim delivers mail
- 3.1 Philosophy
- 3.2 Message reception
- 3.3 Life of a message
- 3.4 Drivers
- 3.5 Delivery in detail
- 3.6 Temporary delivery failures
4 Building and installing Exim
- 4.1 Unpacking
- 4.2 Multiple machine architectures and operating systems
- 4.3 DBM libraries
- 4.4 Pre-building configuration
- 4.5 Including support for IPv6
- 4.6 The building process
- 4.7 Overriding build-time options for Exim
- 4.8 OS-specific header files
- 4.9 Overriding build-time options for the monitor
- 4.10 Installing commands and scripts
- 4.11 Setting up the spool directory
- 4.12 Testing
- 4.13 Switching Exim on
- 4.14 Stopping Exim on Solaris 2
5 The Exim command line
- 5.1 Setting options by program name
- 5.2 Trusted and admin users
- 5.3 Command line options
6 File and database lookups
- 6.1 Single-key lookup types
- 6.2 Query-style lookup types
- 6.3 Use of data lookups
- 6.4 Temporary errors in lookups
- 6.5 Partial matching in lookups
- 6.6 More about NIS+
- 6.7 More about LDAP
7 The Exim configuration file
- 7.1 Configuration file format
- 7.2 Macros in the configuration file
- 7.3 Common option syntax
- 7.4 Integer
- 7.5 Fixed point number
- 7.6 Time interval
- 7.7 String
- 7.8 Expanded strings
- 7.9 User and group names
- 7.10 String lists
- 7.11 Domain lists
- 7.12 Partial matching in domain lists
- 7.13 Address lists
- 7.14 Host lists
- 7.15 Net lists
8 Regular expressions
9 String expansions
- 9.1 Testing string expansions
- 9.2 Expansion items
- 9.3 Expansion operators
- 9.4 Expansion conditions
- 9.5 Expansion variables
- 9.6 Expansion string examples
10 Main configuration
11 Driver specifications
12 Default transports
13 Environment for running local transports
- 13.1 Uids and gids
- 13.2 Current and home directories
14 Generic options for transports
15 The appendfile transport
- 15.1 Private options for appendfile
- 15.2 Operational details for appending
- 15.3 Operational details for delivery to a new file
16 The autoreply transport
- 16.1 Private options for autoreply
17 The debug transport
18 The pipe transport
- 18.1 Returned status and data
- 18.2 How the command is run
- 18.3 Environment variables
- 18.4 Private options for pipe
- 18.5 Using an external local delivery agent
19 The smtp transport
20 Common generic options for directors and routers
21 Additional generic options for directors
- 21.1 Skipping directors
22 The aliasfile director
- 22.1 Alias file format
- 22.2 Types of alias item
- 22.3 Duplicate addresses
- 22.4 Errors in alias files
- 22.5 Specifying a transport
- 22.6 Aliasfile private options
23 The forwardfile director
- 23.1 Forward file items
- 23.2 Errors in forward files
- 23.3 Filter files
- 23.4 The home directory
- 23.5 Forwardfile private options
24 The localuser director
25 The smartuser director
26 Additional generic options for routers
- 26.1 Skipping routers
27 The domainlist router
- 27.1 Routing rules
- 27.2 Host list format
- 27.3 Options format
- 27.4 Application of routing rules
- 27.5 Domainlist examples
28 The ipliteral router
29 The iplookup router
30 The lookuphost router
31 The queryprogram router
32 Retry configuration
- 32.1 Retry rules
- 32.2 Retry rule examples
- 32.3 Long-term failures
33 Address rewriting
- 33.1 Rewriting rules
- 33.2 Rewriting patterns
- 33.3 Rewriting replacements
- 33.4 Rewriting flags
- 33.5 Rewriting examples
34 Customizing error and warning messages
- 34.1 Customizing error messages
- 34.2 Customizing warning messages
35 The default configuration file
- 35.1 Main configuration settings
- 35.2 Transport configuration settings
- 35.3 Director configuration settings
- 35.4 Router configuration settings
- 35.5 Default retry rule
- 35.6 Rewriting configuration
36 Multiple user mailboxes
37 Using Exim to handle mailing lists
- 37.1 Closed mailing lists
38 Virtual domains
- 38.1 All mail to a given host
- 38.2 Virtual domains not preserving envelopes
- 38.3 Virtual domains preserving envelopes
39 Intermittently connected hosts
40 Verification of incoming mail
- 40.1 Host verification
- 40.2 Sender verification
- 40.3 Fixing bad senders
- 40.4 Header verification
- 40.5 Receiver verification
41 Other policy controls on incoming mail
- 41.1 Host checking using RBL
- 41.2 Other host checking
- 41.3 Network checking
- 41.4 Sender checking
- 41.5 Control of relaying
- 41.6 Policy checking flowchart
- 41.7 Prohibition messages
42 System-wide message filtering
- 42.1 The system message filter
- 42.2 Per-address filtering
43 SMTP processing
- 43.1 Outgoing SMTP over TCP/IP
- 43.2 Incoming SMTP over TCP/IP
- 43.3 Outgoing batched SMTP
- 43.4 Incoming batched SMTP
44 Message processing
- 44.1 Unqualified addresses
- 44.2 The Bcc header
- 44.3 The Date header
- 44.4 The Delivery-date header
- 44.5 The Envelope-to header
- 44.6 The From header
- 44.7 The Message-id header
- 44.8 The Received header
- 44.9 The Return-path header
- 44.10 The Sender header
- 44.11 The To header
- 44.12 Adding and removing headers
- 44.13 Constructed addresses
- 44.14 Case of local parts
- 44.15 Rewriting addresses
45 Automatic mail processing
- 45.1 System-wide automatic processing
- 45.2 Taking copies of mail
- 45.3 Automatic processing by users
- 45.4 Simplified vacation processing
46 Log files
- 46.1 Logging message reception
- 46.2 Logging deliveries
- 46.3 Deferred deliveries
- 46.4 Delivery failures
- 46.5 Completion
- 46.6 Log level
- 46.7 Message log
47 Day-to-day management
- 47.1 The panic log
- 47.2 The reject log
- 47.3 Log cycling
- 47.4 Statistics
- 47.5 What is Exim doing?
- 47.6 Changing the configuration
- 47.7 Watching the queue
- 47.8 Holding domains
48 Exim utilities
- 48.1 Querying Exim processes
- 48.2 Summarising the queue
- 48.3 Extracting log information
- 48.4 Cycling log files
- 48.5 Making DBM files
- 48.6 Individual retry times
- 48.7 Database maintenance
- 48.8 Mail statistics
49 The Exim monitor
- 49.1 Running the monitor
- 49.2 The stripcharts
- 49.3 Main action buttons
- 49.4 The log display
- 49.5 The queue display
- 49.6 The queue menu
50 Security considerations
- 50.1 Root privilege
- 50.2 Reading forward files
- 50.3 Delivering to local files
- 50.4 IPv4 source routing
- 50.5 The VRFY, EXPN, and ETRN commands in SMTP
- 50.6 Privileged users
- 50.7 Spool files
- 50.8 Use of argv[0]
- 50.9 Use of %f formatting
- 50.10 Embedded Exim path
- 50.11 Use of sprintf()
- 50.12 Use of debug_printf() and log_write()
- 50.13 Use of strcat() and strcpy()
51 Format of spool files
52 Adding new drivers or lookup types
53 Concept Index
54 Function Index

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