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Q0020:  ... connections to my machine's SMTP port take a long time to respond with the banner, when connections to other ports respond instantly? The delay is sometimes...
Q5004:  I've recently noticed that emails I send with a Bcc: line are being delivered to their final destination with the Bcc: line...
Q0024:  When I run exim -bd -q10m I get PANIC LOG: exec of exim -q failed.
Q0062:  When I try to start an Exim daemon with -bd it crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the...
Q0702:  I don't want to block spam entirely; how can I inspect each message before deciding whether or not to deliver it?
Q0713:  I'd like to pass all messages through a virus-scanning system before delivery. Can Exim do this?
Q0721:  I have POP- before-SMTP set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook Express, which...
Q0059:  When my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it. The Outlook log shows...
Q1704:  When my Outlook Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to receive it.
Q0102:  I can't get Exim to compile with Berkeley DB version 2.x or 3.x.
Q0116:  I have tried to build Exim with Berkeley DB 3 and 4, but I always get errors.
Q9607:  I'm having difficulties trying to make Exim 4 with Redhat 9 and Berkeley DB 4.
Q0051:  When I test my system filter with -bf, I get the error filtering command "fail" is disabled. Why is this?
Q5035:  Does Exim run with different permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending?
Q0081:  What does error in redirect data: included file xxxx is too big mean?
Q0310:  If a DNS lookup returns no MX records why doesn't Exim just bin the message?
Q0624:  Sendmail has a program called smrsh that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail aliases. Is there something like this in Exim...
Q0034:  Exim works fine on one host, but when I copied the binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not resolve DNS...
Q5028:  ... table changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a symlink) to the real binary name. Can I change this?
Q9201:  ... is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper; it doesn't contain the Sendmail binary. How should I replace Sendmail with Exim on FreeBSD?
Q0015:  What does the message Socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed: address already in use mean?
Q0704:  How can I test that Exim is correctly configured to use a DNS black list such as the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)?
Q0733:  ... there any way to tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the connection is over IPv6?
Q0704:  ... is correctly configured to use a DNS black list such as the Realtime Blackhole List (RBL)?
Q5005:  ... (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every printed page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than...
Q0509:  How can I set up a filter file to detect and block virus attachments?
Q0701:  How do I block unwanted messages from outside my host?
Q0702:  I don't want to block spam entirely; how can I inspect each message before deciding whether...
Q0735:  How can I block non-FQDNs in HELO/EHLOs?
Q0050:  ... from a customer who uses my Exim server for relaying that they are being blocked with a Too many connections error.
Q0703:  How can I test that my spam blocks are working?
Q9812:  ... data from a single file using both single IP addresses and IP address blocks as keys? I want to set smtp_accept_max_per_host by this means, and also...
Q0606:  ... use_crlf option on the pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to vanish.
Q0057:  ... attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are included in the body of the message.
Q0040:  How can I stop undeliverable bounce messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer senders) from...
Q0042:  My ISP's mail server is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no sender. The SMTP trace does indeed...
Q0416:  ... quickest way to set up Exim so any message sent to a non-existing user would bounce back with a different message, based on the name of non-existing user?...
Q0620:  Why does Exim bounce messages without even attempting delivery, giving the error retry time not...
Q0621:  ... .forward file is |/usr/bin/procmail -f- and mail gets delivered, but there was a bounce to the sender, sending him the output of procmail. How can I prevent this?...
Q5031:  Why is there no sender address on bounce messages? It shows up as "<>".
Q5024:  ... problem that a message gets stuck in the mail queue and I want it to be bounced to a certain address.
Q0605:  ... mailbox is over quota, is there a way for me to set it up so that the mail bounces to the sender and is not stored in the mail queue?
Q0722:  I installed Amavis and it is working, but bounces are simply vanishing.
Q5027:  Is there any way I can send bounces to the postmaster, and nobody else? Basically, I want to receive them,...
Q0628:  ... meant that Exim should keep trying for four days, but it seems to be bouncing some messages immediately.
Q0322:  How can I reroute all messages bound for 192.168.10.0 and 10.0.0.0 to a specific mail server?
Q5019:  I need an option that is the opposite of -bpa, that is, a listing of those addresses generated from a top-level address...
Q0017:  ... it fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's going on?
Q9401:  On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl support exits with the error message
Q0008:  If I run ./exim -d -bt user@domain all seems well, but when I send a message from my User Agent,...
Q5035:  Does Exim run with different permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending?
Q0726:  My SMTP authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty password. What is wrong with...
Q0047:  ... Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail. What does this mean?

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