<html> <head> <title>Exim FAQ: KWIC index section A</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#F8F8F8" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#0066FF" vlink="#000099"> <h1>Exim FAQ: Keyword-in-context index</h1> <p> <font size=7 color="#FF0A0A"><b>A</b></font> <a href="FAQ-KWIC_B.html"> B</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_C.html"> C</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_D.html"> D</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_E.html"> E</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_F.html"> F</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_G.html"> G</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_H.html"> H</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_I.html"> I</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_K.html"> K</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_L.html"> L</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_M.html"> M</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_N.html"> N</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_O.html"> O</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_P.html"> P</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_Q.html"> Q</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_R.html"> R</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_S.html"> S</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_T.html"> T</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_U.html"> U</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_V.html"> V</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_W.html"> W</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_X.html"> X</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_Y.html"> Y</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_Z.html"> Z</a> <a href="FAQ.html#TOC">FAQ Contents</a> </p> <p> This <i>Keyword-in-context</i> index for the Exim FAQ is generated automatically from the FAQ source. Browsers may not display the data very prettily, but it is hoped that it may provide a useful aid for finding things in the FAQ. </p> <table border> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: ... printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">A4</font> paper? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC47" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC47">Q0047</a>: ... a restart of the mail system, I see the message <i>Mailer daemons: exim </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">abandoned</font>: unknown, malformed, or incomplete option -bz sendmail</i>. What does this...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC69" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC69">Q0069</a>: What does the error <i>SMTP data timeout (message </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">abandoned</font>) on connection from...</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC375" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC375">Q9202</a>: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses <i>mailq</i> with the </td> <td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">-Ac</font></b> parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC85" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC85">Q0085</a>: ... because of the underscore in the host name, but is there a switch to allow Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font> mail from such hosts? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC179" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC179">Q0433</a>: ... can I arrange for a single address to be processed by both <b>redirect</b> and </td> <td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font></b>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC249" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC249">Q0716</a>: ... to have a file listing the only sender addresses from which she will </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font> mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any spam (or other...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC253" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC253">Q0720</a>: I set </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font> hosts=192.168.122.96/32</tt> in order to accept mail for relaying from my local...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC325" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC325">Q1701</a>: ... enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font> this certificate. What's wrong? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC338" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC338">Q5003</a>: How can I persuade Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font> ETRN commands without the leading # character? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: Why do some servers refuse SMTP connections from my Linux box, but </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">accept</font> connections from hosts running other operating systems? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC151" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC151">Q0405</a>: On a host that </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">accepts</font> mail for several domains, do I have to use fully qualified addresses in <i>/etc/aliases</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC118" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC118">Q0204</a>: Every system has a <tt>nobody</tt> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">account</font> under which httpd etc run. I would like to know how to restrict mail which...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: ... arrange for all incoming email for <i>*@some.domain</i> to go into one pop3 mail </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">account</font>? The customer doesn't want to add a list of specific local parts to the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC347" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC347">Q5012</a>: ... (DSN), Message Status Notification (MSN), or any other form of delivery </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">acknowledgement</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC16" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC16">Q0016</a>: I've set <tt>verify = header_syntax</tt> in my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ACL</font>, but this causes Exim to complain about header lines like <tt>To: Work: Jim <jims@email>,...</tt></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: <i>... find host name from IP address</i> when I have the sender's IP address in an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ACL</font> condition? My configuration contains this ACL statement: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC35" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC35">Q0035</a>: I set a <tt>hosts</tt> condition in an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ACL</font> to do a lookup in a file of IP addresses, but it doesn't work. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC310" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC310">Q1403</a>: How should Exim be configured when it is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">acting</font> as a temporary storage system for a domain on a dial-up host? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC97" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC97">Q0104</a>: ... release. Do I need to ensure the spool is empty, or take any other special </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">action</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC204" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC204">Q0607</a>: When I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">activate</font> “return receipt” for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: ... <i>*@some.domain</i> to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer doesn't want to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> a list of specific local parts to the system. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC209" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC209">Q0612</a>: Why does the <b>pipe</b> transport </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> a line starting with <tt>>From</tt> to messages? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC213" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC213">Q0616</a>: Can Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> a <i>Content-Length:</i> header to messages it delivers? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC284" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC284">Q0901</a>: I would like </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> some custom headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC285" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC285">Q0902</a>: Is it possible to have Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> a header to only certain local parts of outgoing mail? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC288" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC288">Q0905</a>: ... a system filter to replace certain headers in messages, but how can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> text to existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC322" href="FAQ_16.html#TOC322">Q1601</a>: How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> a disclaimer or an advertisement to a message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC409" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC409">Q9806</a>: How do I get exim not to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">add</font> a <i>Sender:</i> header to locally originated mail? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC320" href="FAQ_15.html#TOC320">Q1503</a>: ... mailmaster instead of the real sender, and a <i>Sender:</i> header is being </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">added</font> to the message. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC172" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC172">Q0426</a>: ... for <i>anything@onedomain</i> to forward to <i>anything@anotherdomain</i>. I tried </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">adding</font> <i>$local_part@anotherdomain</i> to my aliases but it did not expand - it sent...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC3" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC3">Q0003</a>: What does the error <i>Child process of </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">address_pipe</font> transport returned 127 from command xxx</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC219" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC219">Q0622</a>: ... when I run a perl script as a transport filter for the <b>remote_smtp</b> and </td> <td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">address_pipe</font></b> transports? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC91" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC91">Q0091</a>: Why is Exim giving the error <i>Failed to send message from </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">address_reply</font> transport</i> when I run it using -C to specify an alternate configuration?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC193" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC193">Q0511</a>: ... uses a <tt>mail</tt> command to send a message, I get the error <i>User 0 set for </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">address_reply</font> transport is on the never_users list</i>. What does this mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: ... indicates they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">admin</font> has set their MX record to 127.0.0.1. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC336" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC336">Q5001</a>: ... arrange to allow a limited set of users to perform a limited set of Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">administration</font> functions? I don't want to put them all in the <i>exim</i> group. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC367" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC367">Q5032</a>: Are there any Exim web-based </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">administration</font> scripts? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC326" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC326">Q1702</a>: How can I arrange for Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">advertise</font> support for SMTP authentication only when the session is encrypted? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC322" href="FAQ_16.html#TOC322">Q1601</a>: How can I add a disclaimer or an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">advertisement</font> to a message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC8" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC8">Q0008</a>: <tt>... -d -bt user@domain</tt> all seems well, but when I send a message from my User </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Agent</font>, it does not arrive at its destination. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> to a pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment <i>(could mean...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC84" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC84">Q0084</a>: I want to set up an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> that pipes a message to <i>gpg</i> and then pipes the result to <i>mailx</i> to resubmit the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC151" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC151">Q0405</a>: ... use fully qualified addresses in <i>/etc/aliases</i> or do I have to set up an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file for each domain? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC154" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC154">Q0408</a>: If I don't fully qualify the addresses in a virtual domain's </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file then mail to aliases which also match the local domain get delivered...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC156" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC156">Q0410</a>: How can I make Exim look in the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> NIS map instead of <i>/etc/aliases</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC161" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC161">Q0415</a>: Can I use my existing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop in Exim...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC164" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC164">Q0418</a>: I want to use a default entry in my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file to handle unknown local parts, but it picks up the local parts that...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC168" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC168">Q0422</a>: ... for all addresses in a group of domains <i>*.example.com</i> to share the same </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file? I have a number of such groups. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC173" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC173">Q0427</a>: How can I have an address looked up in two different </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> files, and delivered to all the addresses that are found? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC174" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC174">Q0428</a>: ... Sendmail, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the <tt>owner-</tt> entries in my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file to change the sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing list....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... aliases to a single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file with an <tt>lsearch*</tt> lookup, but that sent all messages to the default...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC181" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC181">Q0435</a>: My </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file contains fully qualified addresses as keys, and some wildcard domains...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC208" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC208">Q0611</a>: ... up <tt>|/bin/grep Subject|/usr/bin/smbclient -M <netbiosname></tt> as an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> but it doesn't work. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: ... response to the remote user is “unknown user” instead of the message from the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alias</font> file. How can I change this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC72" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC72">Q0072</a>: Exim will deliver to normal </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font>, and aliases that are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve <tt>:include:</tt>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC147" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC147">Q0401</a>: ... need to have any mail for <i>virt.dom.ain</i> that doesn't match one of the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font> in <i>/usr/lib/aliases.virt</i> delivered to a particular address, for example, <i>postmaster@virt.dom.ain</i>....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC153" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC153">Q0407</a>: ... value when using a query-style lookup such as LDAP or NIS+ to handle </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC154" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC154">Q0408</a>: ... fully qualify the addresses in a virtual domain's alias file then mail to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font> which also match the local domain get delivered to the local domain. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC164" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC164">Q0418</a>: ... handle unknown local parts, but it picks up the local parts that the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font> generate. For example, if the alias file is </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC170" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC170">Q0424</a>: ... de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font> expand to the same address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC172" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC172">Q0426</a>: ... forward to <i>anything@anotherdomain</i>. I tried adding <i>$local_part@anotherdomain</i> to my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font> but it did not expand - it sent it to that literal address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: How can I redirect all local parts that are not in my system </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font> to a single address? I tried using an asterisk in the system alias file with an...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC221" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC221">Q0624</a>: ... program called <i>smrsh</i> that restricts what binaries can be run from sendmail </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font>. Is there something like this in Exim ? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: I have used <tt>:fail:</tt> in some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">aliases</font>; when one of these addresses is refused, I see the message on the log, but...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC401" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC401">Q9708</a>: ... to use only the resolver (i.e. ignore <i>/etc/hosts</i>), but don't want to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alter</font> the <i>nsswitch.conf</i> file in Solaris 2. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: When (as <i>root</i>) I use -C to run Exim with an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alternate</font> configuration file, it gives an error about being unable to create a spool file...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC91" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC91">Q0091</a>: <i>... message from address_reply transport</i> when I run it using -C to specify an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alternate</font> configuration? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: ... files. How can I run a second copy of <i>eximon</i> to inspect and modify the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alternate</font> queue? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC140" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC140">Q0317</a>: What I'd like to do is have </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alternative</font> smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which ISP I'm connected...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC292" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC292">Q1003</a>: We have a large password file. Can Exim use </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">alternative</font> lookups during delivery to speed things up? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC255" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC255">Q0722</a>: I installed </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Amavis</font> and it is working, but bounces are simply vanishing. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC250" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC250">Q0717</a>: ... Exim, a number of security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">answers</font> to EXPN and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows relaying....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Antivirus</font>, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC332" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC332">Q1708</a>: ... trying to use TLS with Outlook as a client on a box that is running Norton </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Antivirus</font>, but all my email is being rejected with <i>Unsupported command</i> errors. Why?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (envelope sender) </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">apache</font>@server_name.com</i> because the PHP script is running as <i>apache</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC288" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC288">Q0905</a>: ... existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of messages that </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">appear</font> to be spam. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC232" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC232">Q0635</a>: The log message <i>error ignored</i> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">appears</font> after some delivery failures. What does it mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC329" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC329">Q1705</a>: ... listed some hosts in <tt>tls_try_verify_hosts</tt>, but when they connect, no data </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">appears</font> in <i>$tls_peerdn</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC201" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC201">Q0604</a>: I want to use MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">append</font> the ctrl-A characters that separate indvidual emails? </td> </tr> <tr> <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 shell command which </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">appends</font> to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC89" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC89">Q0089</a>: What does the error <i>kernel: </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">application</font> bug: exim(12099) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait()</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC242" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC242">Q0709</a>: Does Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">apply</font> RBL checks to error messages, those with an envelope sender of <tt><></tt>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC18" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC18">Q0018</a>: ... like: <tt>exim -v -R @aol.com</tt>? For other domains, I do this and I see the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">appropriate</font> <i>waiting for passed connections to get used</i> messages. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC177" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC177">Q0431</a>: How do I configure Exim to allow </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">arbitrary</font> extensions in local parts, of the form <i>+extension</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC85" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC85">Q0085</a>: I see a lot of <i>rejected EHLO ... syntactically invalid </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">argument(s</font>)</i>. I know it's because of the underscore in the host name, but is there...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC43" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC43">Q0043</a>: What does the error <i>Unable to get interface configuration: 22 Invalid </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">argument</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC55" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC55">Q0055</a>: What does the error <i>Failed to open wait-remote_smtp database: Invalid </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">argument</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC71" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC71">Q0071</a>: ... does the error <i>failed to open DB file <i>/var/spool/exim//db/retry</i>: Illegal </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">argument</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC350" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC350">Q5015</a>: ... just noticed log entries that start off <tt><= <></tt>. Am I correct in </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">assuming</font> that the <tt><></tt> indicates that the envelope did not contain any “From”...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC180" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC180">Q0434</a>: ... that are not in my system aliases to a single address? I tried using an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">asterisk</font> in the system alias file with an <tt>lsearch*</tt> lookup, but that sent all messages...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC57" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC57">Q0057</a>: We've got people complaining about </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attachments</font> that don't show up as attachments, but are included in the body of the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC191" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC191">Q0509</a>: How can I set up a filter file to detect and block virus </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attachments</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. ignore large MIME </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attachments</font> for example and only process text/plain? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC248" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC248">Q0715</a>: How can I get Exim to remove </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attachments</font> from messages? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC323" href="FAQ_16.html#TOC323">Q1602</a>: How can I remove </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attachments</font> from messages? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC355" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC355">Q5020</a>: How can I make Exim receive incoming mail, queue it, but not </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attempt</font> to deliver it? I want to be in this state while moving some mailboxes....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC217" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC217">Q0620</a>: Why does Exim bounce messages without even </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attempting</font> delivery, giving the error <i>retry time not reached for any host after a long...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: I have a really annoying intermittent problem where </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attempts</font> to mail to valid sites are rejected with <i>unknown mail domain</i>. This only...</td> </tr> <tr> <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 server </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attempts</font> to send a message to a number of unknown users? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC308" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC308">Q1401</a>: ... at the same time mail to Internet hosts is queued without any delivery </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">attempts</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC78" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC78">Q0078</a>: ... unknown SMTP command <tt>XXXX</tt> from my client hosts, and they are unable to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authenticate</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC376" href="FAQ_21.html#TOC376">Q9203</a>: How can I use Exim for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authenticated</font> SMTP using Cyrus on FreeBSD? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC274" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC274">Q0741</a>: How can I get Outlook Express to use TLS when </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authenticating</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC256" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC256">Q0723</a>: I can't get Pine to work with PLAIN </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authentication</font>; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data". </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: My SMTP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authentication</font> can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty password....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC263" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC263">Q0730</a>: How can I use the same passwords for SMTP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authentication</font> as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC326" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC326">Q1702</a>: How can I arrange for Exim to advertise support for SMTP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authentication</font> only when the session is encrypted? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC358" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC358">Q5023</a>: ... Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this is an ancient way of </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authentication</font>. Is it obsolete? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: ... name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">authenticator</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC215" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC215">Q0618</a>: I am trying to set exim up to have a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">automatic</font> failover if it sees that the system that it is sending all mail to is...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC163" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC163">Q0417</a>: What do I need to do to make Exim handle <i>/usr/ucb/vacation</i> processing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">automatically</font>, so that people could just create a <i>.vacation.msg</i> file in their home directory...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC312" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC312">Q1405</a>: I have an ISDN connection and would like a way of running the queue </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">automatically</font> when it is up. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: ... that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">automatically</font> on connection to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim handle this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: ... gives an error about being unable to create a spool file when trying to run an </td> <td align="left"><b><font color="#FF0A0A">autoreply</font></b> transport. Why is this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC190" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC190">Q0508</a>: ... relative paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">available</font> from the password data? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC216" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC216">Q0619</a>: ... get Exim to deliver over NFS. I get the error <i>fcntl() failed: No locks </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">available</font></i>, though the lock daemon is running on the NFS server and other hosts are...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC346" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC346">Q5011</a>: Is there a version of Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">available</font> that runs under Windows? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC136" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC136">Q0313</a>: ... this means that bad addresses also get passed to the smart host. Can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">avoid</font> this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC212" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC212">Q0615</a>: ... removed all messages in the queue to this host - even recent messages. How I can </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">avoid</font> this behaviour? 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