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| Q0023: Why is Exim refusing to relay, saying failed to find host | name from IP address when I have the sender's IP address in an ACL condition?... |
| Q0083: Netscape on Unix is sending messages containing an unqualified user | name in the Sender: header line, which Exim is rejecting because I have set verify... |
| Q0085: ... syntactically invalid argument(s). I know it's because of the underscore in the host | name, but is there a switch to allow Exim to accept mail from such hosts? |
| Q0416: ... non-existing user would bounce back with a different message, based on the | name of non-existing user? |
| Q0425: ... distributed between several servers according to the first letter of the user | name. All the servers receive incoming mail at random. I would like to have... |
| Q0726: My SMTP authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user | name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN authenticator?... |
| Q0804: ... “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an upper case login | name, it doesn't get rewritten. |
| Q5028: When I HUP the Exim daemon, the | name shown in the process table changes from /usr/lib/sendmail (which is a... |
| Q0034: ... another identical host, it stopped working (it could not resolve DNS | names). |
| Q0414: ... handle my local domain because my users have upper case letters in their login | names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct case. Can I relax this somehow?... |
| Q0804: I'm using this rewriting rule to change login | names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an upper case... |
| Q1703: ... have some legacy clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to | negotiate a TLS session automatically on connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can... |
| Q0717: When using | Nessus on a system that runs Exim, a number of security issues are raised. Nessus... |
| Q0083: | Netscape on Unix is sending messages containing an unqualified user name in the Sender:... |
| Q0607: When I activate “return receipt” for example in | Netscape Mailbox sending options, then I get an error message from Exim... something like... |
| Q0037: ... experiencing mailbox locking problems with Sun's mailtool used over a | network. |
| Q0305: How can I arrange for mail on my local | network to be delivered directly to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to... |
| Q1401: ... to the Internet, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my local | network to be delivered, while at the same time mail to Internet hosts is queued... |
| Q9704: ... experiencing mailbox locking problems with Sun's mailtool used over a | network. |
| Q0511: ... send a message, I get the error User 0 set for address_reply transport is on the | never_users list. What does this mean? |
| Q0632: ... does the error User 1 set for local_mbx_delivery transport is on the | never_users list mean? |
| Q0079: Our | new PIX firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed?... |
| Q0104: I'm about to upgrade to a | new Exim release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other... |
| Q1404: ... and use -qf to force delivery of waiting mail when I dial in. How can I arrange for any | new messages that arrive while I'm connected to be delivered immediately?... |
| Q9811: ... proportion of real mail traffic from my live mail server to use in tests of a | new server. I want to preserve the envelope contents, but to suppress any... |
| Q0086: What does SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error ( | next input sent too soon) mean? |
| Q0203: ... qualification of non-fully-qualified domains, and then pass them on to the | next router? |
| Q0610: How can I force the | next retry time for a host to be now? |
| Q1707: ... keep seeing this error: SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error ( | next input sent too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C". What does it mean? |
| Q0619: I can't get Exim to deliver over | NFS. I get the error fcntl() failed: No locks available, though the lock daemon... |
| Q9202: A script that FreeBSD runs | nightly uses mailq with the -Ac parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? |
| Q0407: ... arrange for a default value when using a query-style lookup such as LDAP or | NIS+ to handle aliases? |
| Q0410: How can I make Exim look in the alias | NIS map instead of /etc/aliases? |
| Q0432: I use | NIS for my user data. How can I stop Exim rejecting mail when my NIS servers... |
| Q0204: Every system has a | nobody account under which httpd etc run. I would like to know how to restrict... |
| Q5027: Is there any way I can send bounces to the postmaster, and | nobody else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the reply/from... |
| Q0005: Why is Exim not rejecting incoming messages addressed to | non-existent users at SMTP time? |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant MX records point to | non-existent hosts when MX records point to IP addresses? |
| Q0416: What is 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... |
| Q0735: How can I block | non-FQDNs in HELO/EHLOs? |
| Q0203: How can I arrange to do my own qualification of | non-fully-qualified domains, and then pass them on to the next router? |
| Q0207: Why does Exim lower-case the local-part of a | non-local domain when routing? |
| Q0304: How do I configure Exim to send all | non-local mail to a gateway host? |
| Q0306: How do I configure Exim to send all | non-local mail to a central server if it cannot be immediately delivered by my host?... |
| Q0503: I received a message with a Subject: line that contained a | non-printing character (a carriage return). This messed up my filter file. Is there... |
| Q5029: A message with a recipient address that contains a | non-printing character is stuck on my mail queue. How can I remove this address? |
| Q0072: Exim will deliver to | normal aliases, and aliases that are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve... |
| Q0305: ... ISP's mail server? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like | normal Internet hosts. |
| Q5034: ... queue messages from external sources while deliver locally generated email as | normal. |
| Q1708: I trying to use TLS with Outlook as a client on a box that is running | Norton Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected with Unsupported command... |
| Q0063: When I try to start an Exim daemon, | nothing happens. There is no process, and nothing is written to the Exim log.... |
| Q0428: I've converted from Sendmail, and I | notice that Exim doesn't make use of the owner- entries in my alias file to change... |
| Q5004: I've recently | noticed that emails I send with a Bcc: line are being delivered to their final destination... |
| Q5015: I just | noticed log entries that start off <= <>. Am I correct in assuming that the <>... |
| Q5012: Does Exim support Delivery Status | Notification (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form of delivery... |
| Q9811: ... server. I want to preserve the envelope contents, but to suppress any error | notifications to the original sender. |
| Q5002: ... to “tail”, and the number of tailing windows is getting to be a | nuisance. |
| Q0422: ... group of domains *.example.com to share the same alias file? I have a | number of such groups. |
| Q0614: ... in one go. Exim spawns a lot of kids, but is there some limit to the | number of processes it creates? |
| Q0717: When using Nessus on a system that runs Exim, a | number of security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim answers to EXPN... |
| Q0736: ... to drop the connection after a server attempts to send a message to a | number of unknown users? |
| Q5002: I want to “tail” the Exim log, but I have a | number of other logs I also want to “tail”, and the number of tailing... |
| Q0301: What do lowest | numbered MX record points to local host and remote host address is the local host... |
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