<html> <head> <title>Exim FAQ: KWIC index section C</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#F8F8F8" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#0066FF" vlink="#000099"> <h1>Exim FAQ: Keyword-in-context index</h1> <p> <a href="FAQ-KWIC_A.html"> A</a><a href="FAQ-KWIC_B.html"> B</a> <font size=7 color="#FF0A0A"><b>C</b></font> <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> <table border> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: When (as <i>root</i>) I use </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">-C</font> to run Exim with an alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being...</td> </tr> <tr> <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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">-C</font> to specify an alternate configuration? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC358" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC358">Q5023</a>: Why does Exim do <i>ident</i> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">callbacks</font> by default? Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been told this...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC273" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC273">Q0740</a>: How can I change the MAIL FROM address that is used for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">callouts</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC206" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC206">Q0609</a>: ... message twice, according to the log, although there is a difference in </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">capitalization</font> of the local part of the address. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC185" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC185">Q0503</a>: ... message with a <i>Subject:</i> line that contained a non-printing character (a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">carriage</font> return). This messed up my filter file. Is there a way to get round it?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: How can I get rid of spurious <tt>^M</tt> (</td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">carriage</font> return) characters in messages sent from CDE <i>dtmail</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC341" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC341">Q5006</a>: Why aren't there any man pages for Exim? I don't always </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">carry</font> my printed documentation. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: ... <tt>caseful_local_part</tt> on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have upper </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">case</font> letters in their login names, but incoming mail now has to use the correct...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: Exim can route local parts independent of their </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">case</font>, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How can I fix this?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC279" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC279">Q0804</a>: ... names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an upper </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">case</font> login name, it doesn't get rewritten. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: I have set </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">caseful_local_part</font></tt> on the routers that handle my local domain because my users have upper...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: ... its contents are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed to be handled </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">caselessly</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC240" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC240">Q0707</a>: I have one or two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">cases</font> where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC378" href="FAQ_22.html#TOC378">Q9301</a>: ... trying to compile on an HP machine and I don't have <i>gcc</i> there. So I put </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">CC=cc</font></tt> in the <i>Local/Makefile</i>, but I got this error: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC11" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC11">Q0011</a>: ... Instead of <i>exim_dbmbuild</i>, I'm using a homegrown program to build DBM (or </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">cdb</font>) files, but Exim doesn't seem to be able to use them. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: ... rid of spurious <tt>^M</tt> (carriage return) characters in messages sent from </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">CDE</font> <i>dtmail</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <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 self-signed </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">certificate</font> to enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC330" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC330">Q1706</a>: I have listed some hosts in <tt>tls_verify_hosts</tt> and provided them with </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">certificates</font>, but their connections are always rejected. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC72" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC72">Q0072</a>: ... objects to aliases that involve <tt>:include:</tt> items, complaining that it can't </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font> gid or uid. Why is this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC174" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC174">Q0428</a>: ... that Exim doesn't make use of the <tt>owner-</tt> entries in my alias file to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font> the sender address in outgoing messages to a mailing list. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC257" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC257">Q0724</a>: ... is “unknown user” instead of the message from the alias file. How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font> this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC273" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC273">Q0740</a>: How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font> the MAIL FROM address that is used for callouts? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC279" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC279">Q0804</a>: I'm using this rewriting rule to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font> login names into “friendly” names, but if mail comes in for an...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC353" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC353">Q5018</a>: ... rebuild them on the fly, or do I need to restart Exim every time I make a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC363" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC363">Q5028</a>: ... <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which is a symlink) to the real binary name. Can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">change</font> this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC88" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC88">Q0088</a>: ... and eventually times out. It worked flawlessly with Exim 3. What has </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">changed</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC363" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC363">Q5028</a>: When I HUP the Exim daemon, the name shown in the process table </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">changes</font> from <i>/usr/lib/sendmail</i> (which is a symlink) to the real binary name. Can...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC54" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC54">Q0054</a>: I'm getting an Exim configuration error <i>unknown rewrite flag </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">character</font> (m) in line 386</i> but I haven't used any flags on my rewriting rules. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC185" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC185">Q0503</a>: ... received a message with a <i>Subject:</i> line that contained a non-printing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">character</font> (a carriage return). This messed up my filter file. Is there a way to...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC338" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC338">Q5003</a>: How can I persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">character</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC364" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC364">Q5029</a>: A message with a recipient address that contains a non-printing </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">character</font> is stuck on my mail queue. How can I remove this address? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC75" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC75">Q0075</a>: I'm using LDAP, and some email addresses that contain special </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">characters</font> are causing parsing errors in my LDAP lookups. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC157" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC157">Q0411</a>: ... Exim deliver a message locally to any username that is longer than 8 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">characters</font> as long as the first 8 characters match one of the local usernames? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC201" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC201">Q0604</a>: ... to use MMDF-style mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">characters</font> that separate indvidual emails? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC395" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC395">Q9702</a>: How can I get rid of spurious <tt>^M</tt> (carriage return) </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">characters</font> in messages sent from CDE <i>dtmail</i>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC2" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC2">Q0002</a>: Exim is not working. What is wrong? How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">check</font> what it is doing? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC245" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC245">Q0712</a>: ... sendmail to make an ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">check</font> if a user has exceeded their email quota. If they have I issue a temporary...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC303" href="FAQ_12.html#TOC303">Q1202</a>: ... way? As far as Exim knows, all mail is coming from 127.0.0.1. Will it </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">check</font> the source address against RBL? Or will it check the <i>From:</i> header? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC200" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC200">Q0603</a>: How can mails that are being routed through routers that do not set </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">check_local_user</font></tt> be delivered under the uid of the recipient? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: Although I haven't set </td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">check_spool_space</font></tt>, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for incoming...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC254" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC254">Q0721</a>: ... some clients use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">checking</font> the mailbox, so it doesn't work. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: Although I haven't set <tt>check_spool_space</tt>, Exim is still </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">checking</font> the amount of space on the spool for incoming SMTP messages that use the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC241" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC241">Q0708</a>: How can I run customized verification </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">checks</font> on incoming addresses? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC242" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC242">Q0709</a>: Does Exim apply RBL </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">checks</font> to error messages, those with an envelope sender of <tt><></tt> ? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC3" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC3">Q0003</a>: What does the error </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Child</font> process of address_pipe transport returned 127 from command xxx</i> mean?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: What does <i>failed to create </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">child</font> process to send failure message</i> mean? This is a busy mail server with <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC228" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC228">Q0631</a>: I would like to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">choose</font> a retry rule based on on the sender rather than the recipient address....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC14" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC14">Q0014</a>: ... the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the client host also </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">claims</font> to be timing out. This seems to affect only certain messages. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use Exiscan, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Clam</font> Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC14" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC14">Q0014</a>: ... responding to the DATA command from one particular host, and yet the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font> host also claims to be timing out. This seems to affect only certain messages....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: When my Outlook Express 6.0 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font> sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC78" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC78">Q0078</a>: Exim is logging the unknown SMTP command <tt>XXXX</tt> from my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font> hosts, and they are unable to authenticate. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: ... this mailing list, the <b>-R</b> won't flush the mailing list message for that </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC328" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC328">Q1704</a>: When my Outlook Express 6.0 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font> sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't seem to...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: I am trying to use TLS with Evolution as a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font>, and keep seeing this error: <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC332" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC332">Q1708</a>: I trying to use TLS with Outlook as a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">client</font> on a box that is running Norton Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC254" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC254">Q0721</a>: I have POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim server, but some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">clients</font> use Outlook Express, which sends queued messages before checking the mailbox,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: ... mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our ETRN </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">clients</font> is on this mailing list, the <b>-R</b> won't flush the mailing list message for...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC325" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC325">Q1701</a>: ... set up an Exim server that uses a self-signed certificate to enable my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">clients</font> to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to accept this certificate....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: I have some legacy </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">clients</font> that don't use STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC40" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC40">Q0040</a>: ... messages (e.g. to routeable, but undeliverable, spammer senders) from </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">clogging</font> up the queue for days? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error <i>Remote end </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">closed</font> connection after data</i> or <i>Broken pipe</i> or a timeout. What's going on? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: When I dial up to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">collect</font> mail from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately;...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC316" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC316">Q1409</a>: ... would like to have a separate queue per domain for hosts which dial in to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">collect</font> their mail. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC243" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC243">Q0710</a>: ... sender-recipient combinations, with a specific message for each such </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">combination</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC243" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC243">Q0710</a>: I want to reject certain sender-recipient </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">combinations</font>, with a specific message for each such combination. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: ... connect an alias to a pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">comment</font> <i>(could mean unable to exec or command does not exist)</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC267" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC267">Q0734</a>: How do MailScanner and Exiscan </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compare</font>? What are the pros and cons? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC111" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC111">Q0118</a>: I've set <tt>LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include</tt> in Local/Makefile, but the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compilation</font> of <i>exim_dumpdb</i> is ignoring this option and failing. Why? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC95" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC95">Q0102</a>: I can't get Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compile</font> with Berkeley DB version 2.x or 3.x. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC113" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC113">Q0120</a>: I'm trying to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compile</font> with LOOKUP_WHOSON, but I keep getting <i>In function `whoson_find': undefined...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC378" href="FAQ_22.html#TOC378">Q9301</a>: I'm trying to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compile</font> on an HP machine and I don't have <i>gcc</i> there. So I put <tt>CC=cc</tt> in the <i>Local/Makefile</i>,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC402" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC402">Q9709</a>: When I try to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compile</font> Exim 4.x on Solaris 2.5.1 I get an error along the lines of <i>no such field...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC106" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC106">Q0113</a>: I've </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">compiled</font> Exim and I've managed to start it but there was one problem - it always complained that...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC106" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC106">Q0113</a>: ... Exim and I've managed to start it but there was one problem - it always </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">complained</font> that <i>libmsqlclient.so.10</i> was not found, even though this file is in <i>/usr/local/lib/mysql/</i>....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC50" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC50">Q0050</a>: I am getting </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">complaints</font> from a customer who uses my Exim server for relaying that they are being blocked...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC134" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC134">Q0311</a>: When a DNS lookup for MX records fails to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">complete</font>, why doesn't Exim send the messsage to the host defined by the A record?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC280" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC280">Q0805</a>: Is it possible to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">completely</font> fail a message if the rewrite rules fail? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC190" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC190">Q0508</a>: ... the use of relative paths in users' filter files when the directories </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">concerned</font> are not available from the password data? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: <i>... host name from IP address</i> when I have the sender's IP address in an ACL </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">condition</font>? 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> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">condition</font> in an ACL to do a lookup in a file of IP addresses, but it doesn't work....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: ... sending an unknown user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">condition</font> in a PLAIN authenticator? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC135" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC135">Q0312</a>: Is it possible to use a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">conditional</font> expression for the host item in a <tt>route_list</tt> for <b>manualroute</b> router? I...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC369" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC369">Q5034</a>: Is there any way to make the <tt>queue_only</tt> option </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">conditional</font>? I would like the ability to queue messages from external sources while...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC385" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC385">Q9602</a>: ... standard with RH5.2 Linux to rotate my mail logs. Anyone worked out the <i>logrotate</i> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">config</font> file that will do this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: <i>... from IP address</i> when I have the sender's IP address in an ACL condition? My </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> contains this ACL statement: </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 </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font>: 22 Invalid argument</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC54" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC54">Q0054</a>: I'm getting an Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> error <i>unknown rewrite flag character (m) in line 386</i> but I haven't used...</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 alternate </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> file, it gives an error about being unable to create a spool file when trying...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC91" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC91">Q0091</a>: <i>... from address_reply transport</i> when I run it using -C to specify an alternate </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... servers receive incoming mail at random. I would like to have the same </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> file for all the servers, which does local delivery for the mailboxes...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC360" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC360">Q5025</a>: What precautions should I take when editing Exim's run time </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> file? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: I am using exim in a two queues scenario, with two different </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> files. How can I run a second copy of <i>eximon</i> to inspect and modify the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: ... try to test the Mail program, I get the following error: <i>Failed to open </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">configuration</font> file /etc/exim.conf</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC389" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC389">Q9606</a>: I'm having trouble </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">configuring</font> Exim 4 on a Debian system. How does <i>/etc/exim4/conf.d</i> work? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC204" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC204">Q0607</a>: ... message from Exim... something like <i>not supported</i>. Can I activate delivery </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">confirmations</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: I'm trying to get Exim to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connect</font> an alias to a pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment <i>(could...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC68" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC68">Q0068</a>: Exim times out when trying to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connect</font> to some hosts, though those hosts are known to be up and running. What's...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: ... I try to read mail from my PC I get <i>connection rejected</i> or <i>unable to </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connect</font></i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC329" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC329">Q1705</a>: I have listed some hosts in <tt>tls_try_verify_hosts</tt>, but when they </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connect</font>, no data appears in <i>$tls_peerdn</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC140" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC140">Q0317</a>: ... smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which ISP I'm </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connected</font> to. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC308" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC308">Q1401</a>: When I'm not </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connected</font> to the Internet, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my local...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC311" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC311">Q1404</a>: ... delivery of waiting mail when I dial in. How can I arrange for any new messages that arrive while I'm </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connected</font> to be delivered immediately? </td> </tr> <tr> <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 SMTP </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... to a particular server, it fails, giving the error <i>Remote end closed </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> after data</i> or <i>Broken pipe</i> or a timeout. What's going on? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC18" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC18">Q0018</a>: Why do messages not get delivered down the same </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> when I do something like: <tt>exim -v -R @aol.com</tt>? For other domains, I do this and...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC45" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC45">Q0045</a>: ... entries in the log that mention two different IP addresses for the same </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font>. Why is this? For example: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC49" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC49">Q0049</a>: ... message <i>no immediate delivery: more than 10 messages received in one </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font></i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC53" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC53">Q0053</a>: Exim on my host responds to a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> with <tt>220 *****...</tt> and won't understand <small>EHLO</small> commands. </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 abandoned) on </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> from...</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC70" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC70">Q0070</a>: What does the error <i>SMTP command timeout on </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> from...</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: ... delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC I get </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> rejected</i> or <i>unable to connect</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC266" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC266">Q0733</a>: ... tell Exim not to lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> is over IPv6? </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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> after a server attempts to send a message to a number of unknown users?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC271" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC271">Q0738</a>: How can I configure Exim to delay the SMTP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> if more than 10 invalid recipients are received in one message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC312" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC312">Q1405</a>: I have an ISDN </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> and would like a way of running the queue automatically when it is up....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: ... STARTTLS, but which expect to negotiate a TLS session automatically on </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connection</font> to the ssmtp port (465). Can Exim handle this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC18" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC18">Q0018</a>: <tt>... @aol.com</tt>? For other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate <i>waiting for passed </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font> to get used</i> messages. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: Why do </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font> to my machine's SMTP port take a long time to respond with the banner,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: ... <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt> set to 500, but this problem started to occur at about 300 incoming </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC31" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC31">Q0031</a>: Exim is rejecting </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font> from hosts that have more than one IP address, for no apparent reason....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC50" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC50">Q0050</a>: ... Exim server for relaying that they are being blocked with a <i>Too many </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font></i> error. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC330" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC330">Q1706</a>: ... hosts in <tt>tls_verify_hosts</tt> and provided them with certificates, but their </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font> are always rejected. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: <i>... failing (looping), service terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font> to be refused. The <i>imapd</i> in use is Washington Univers 12.250. Could this...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC392" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC392">Q9609</a>: Why do some servers refuse SMTP </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">connections</font> from my Linux box, but accept connections from hosts running other operating...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC267" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC267">Q0734</a>: How do MailScanner and Exiscan compare? What are the pros and </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">cons</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC270" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC270">Q0737</a>: Is there some way to tell Exim not to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">consider</font> 127.0.0.1 as a valid MX? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC83" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC83">Q0083</a>: Netscape on Unix is sending messages </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">containing</font> an unqualified user name in the <i>Sender:</i> header line, which Exim is rejecting because...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC213" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC213">Q0616</a>: Can Exim add a </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Content-Length</font>:</i> header to messages it delivers? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC281" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC281">Q0806</a>: ... I'm using <i>$domain</i> as the key for a lookup in a rewriting rule, but its </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">contents</font> are not being lowercased. Aren't domains supposed to be handled caselessly?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... server to use in tests of a new server. I want to preserve the envelope </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">contents</font>, but to suppress any error notifications to the original sender. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC294" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC294">Q1005</a>: ... my system load too much, and there are many Exim processes. How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">control</font> this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC174" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC174">Q0428</a>: I've </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">converted</font> from Sendmail, and I notice that Exim doesn't make use of the <tt>owner-</tt> entries...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC34" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC34">Q0034</a>: Exim works fine on one host, but when I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">copied</font> the binary to another identical host, it stopped working (it could not...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: ... scenario, with two different configuration files. How can I run a second </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">copy</font> of <i>eximon</i> to inspect and modify the alternate queue? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC368" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC368">Q5033</a>: How can I send a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">copy</font> of all outgoing messages to another mailbox? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC412" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC412">Q9809</a>: Can I configure Exim so that my gateway host sends a </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">copy</font> of each incoming message to each of two internal hosts? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC73" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC73">Q0073</a>: I'm seeing log file </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">corruption</font>, with parts of log lines getting mangled by other log entries. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC74" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC74">Q0074</a>: What does the error message <i>remote delivery process </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">count</font> got out of step</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC226" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC226">Q0629</a>: I'm having trouble with quotas and </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Courier</font>, because Exim is not handling maildirsize files. </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 authentication as I use for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Courier</font> IMAP access to my server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC62" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC62">Q0062</a>: ... daemon with <b>-bd</b> it crashes. I ran a debugger and discovered that the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crash</font> is happening in the function <i>getservbyname()</i>. What's going on? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC62" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC62">Q0062</a>: When I try to start an Exim daemon with <b>-bd</b> it </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashes</font>. I ran a debugger and discovered that the crash is happening in the function...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC394" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC394">Q9701</a>: Exim builds fine with <i>gcc</i> on SunOS 4 but </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashes</font> inside <i>sscanf()</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC396" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC396">Q9703</a>: On SunOS 4 Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashes</font> when looking up domains in the DNS that have more than 10 A records. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC1" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC1">Q0001</a>: Exim is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashing</font>. What is wrong? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC199" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC199">Q0602</a>: Exim keeps </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashing</font> with segmentation errors (signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC384" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC384">Q9601</a>: Exim is mysteriously </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashing</font>, usually when forking to send a delivery error message. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC398" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC398">Q9705</a>: Exim has been </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">crashing</font> on my Solaris x86 system, apparently while running DBM functions. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: What does <i>failed to </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">create</font> child process to send failure message</i> mean? This is a busy mail server with <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC44" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC44">Q0044</a>: What does the error <i>Failed to </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">create</font> spool file</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: ... with an alternate configuration file, it gives an error about being unable to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">create</font> a spool file when trying to run an <b>autoreply</b> transport. Why is this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC163" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC163">Q0417</a>: ... <i>/usr/ucb/vacation</i> processing automatically, so that people could just </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">create</font> a <i>.vacation.msg</i> file in their home directory and not have to edit their <i>.forward</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: Will Exim allow me to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">create</font> a file of regexs and match incoming external email to the list - and if...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC211" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC211">Q0614</a>: ... a lot of kids, but is there some limit to the number of processes it </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">creates</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: Why do I get the error <i>Permission denied: </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">creating</font> lock file hitching post</i> when Exim tries to do a local delivery? </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 append the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ctrl-A</font> characters that separate indvidual emails? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC284" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC284">Q0901</a>: I would like add some </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">custom</font> headers to selected outgoing mail based on a specific domain and the subject...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC241" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC241">Q0708</a>: How can I run </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">customized</font> verification checks on incoming addresses? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: Exim can route local parts independent of their case, but the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Cyrus</font> LMTP daemon requires the correct case. 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