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<td align="right"><a name="TOC163" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC163">Q0417</a>: ... could just create a <i>.vacation.msg</i> file in their home directory and not have to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">edit</font> their <i>.forward</i> file? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC360" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC360">Q5025</a>: What precautions should I take when </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">editing</font> Exim's run time configuration file? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC161" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC161">Q0415</a>: ... use my existing alias files and forward files as well as procmail and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">effectively</font> drop in Exim in place of Sendmail ? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC53" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC53">Q0053</a>: ... host responds to a connection with <tt>220 *****...</tt> and won't understand </td>
<td align="left"><small><font color="#FF0A0A">EHLO</font></small> commands. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC85" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC85">Q0085</a>: I see a lot of <i>rejected </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">EHLO</font> ... syntactically invalid argument(s)</i>. I know it's because of the underscore...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC265" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC265">Q0732</a>: ... would like to either warn or deny when a host uses an underscore in the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">EHLO</font> command. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC340" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC340">Q5005</a>: ... 3.5.8 (<i>ghostview</i>) to try printing <i>spec.ps</i>. After every printed page, the printer </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ejects</font> a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC231" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC231">Q0634</a>: ... the user's home directory, even when the delivery is to a file that is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">elsewhere</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: ... the sender address is <tt><></tt>. Why is the Sender on the bounce message </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">empty</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC97" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC97">Q0104</a>: ... about to upgrade to a new Exim release. Do I need to ensure the spool is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">empty</font>, or take any other special action? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC187" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC187">Q0505</a>: My problem is that Exim replaces <i>$local_part</i> with an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">empty</font> string in the system filtering. What's wrong or what did I miss? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC194" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC194">Q0512</a>: ... reference the <i>Envelope-To:</i> header in my filter, but <i>$h_envelope-to:</i> is always </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">empty</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC259" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC259">Q0726</a>: ... authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">empty</font> password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN authenticator?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC325" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC325">Q1701</a>: ... trying to set up an Exim server that uses a self-signed certificate to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">enable</font> my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to accept...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC38" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC38">Q0038</a>: What does the error message <i>error in forward file (filtering not </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">enabled</font>): missing or malformed local part</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC326" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC326">Q1702</a>: ... to advertise support for SMTP authentication only when the session is </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">encrypted</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error <i>Remote </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">end</font> closed connection after data</i> or <i>Broken pipe</i> or a timeout. What's going...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC97" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC97">Q0104</a>: I'm about to upgrade to a new Exim release. Do I need to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ensure</font> the spool is empty, or take any other special action? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC56" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC56">Q0056</a>: ... However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the return path (</td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">envelope</font> sender) <i>apache@server_name.com</i> because the PHP script is running as <i>apache</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC175" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC175">Q0429</a>: ... given domain to local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">envelope</font> senders. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC242" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC242">Q0709</a>: Does Exim apply RBL checks to error messages, those with an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">envelope</font> sender of <tt><></tt> ? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC350" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC350">Q5015</a>: ... <tt><= <></tt>. Am I correct in assuming that the <tt><></tt> indicates that the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">envelope</font> did not contain any “From” data? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... live mail server to use in tests of a new server. I want to preserve the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">envelope</font> contents, but to suppress any error notifications to the original sender....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC194" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC194">Q0512</a>: I'm trying to reference the </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Envelope-To</font>:</i> header in my filter, but <i>$h_envelope-to:</i> is always empty. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC3" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC3">Q0003</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Child process of address_pipe transport returned 127 from command xxx</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC13" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC13">Q0013</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message <i>transport system_aliases: cannot find transport driver "redirect"...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC17" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC17">Q0017</a>: ... deliver a specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Remote end closed connection after data</i> or <i>Broken pipe</i> or a timeout. What's...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: ... trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a pipe, but it always gives </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> code 127, with the comment <i>(could mean unable to exec or command does not...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC27" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC27">Q0027</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Spool file is locked</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC32" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC32">Q0032</a>: ... library, even though is it present within <small>LD_LIBRARY_PATH</small>. I'm getting this </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC33" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC33">Q0033</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>lookup of host "xx.xx.xx" failed in yyy router</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC36" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC36">Q0036</a>: Why do I get the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post</i> when Exim tries to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC38" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC38">Q0038</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message <i>error in forward file (filtering not enabled): missing or malformed...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC43" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC43">Q0043</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Unable to get interface configuration: 22 Invalid argument</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC44" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC44">Q0044</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Failed to create spool file</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC50" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC50">Q0050</a>: ... for relaying that they are being blocked with a <i>Too many connections</i> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC51" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC51">Q0051</a>: When I test my system filter with <b>-bf</b>, I get the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>filtering command "fail" is disabled</i>. Why is this? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC52" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC52">Q0052</a>: What does <i>ridiculously long message header</i> in an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> report mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC54" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC54">Q0054</a>: I'm getting an Exim configuration </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>unknown rewrite flag character (m) in line 386</i> but I haven't used any...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC55" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC55">Q0055</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Failed to open wait-remote_smtp database: Invalid argument</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC58" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC58">Q0058</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>failed to open DB file <i>/var/spool/exim/db/retry</i>: File exists</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC60" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC60">Q0060</a>: Why am I getting the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>failed to expand <tt>/data/lists/lists/${lc</tt> for require_files: <tt>${lc</tt> is not a known...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC61" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC61">Q0061</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Too many “Received” headers - suspected mail loop</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC65" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC65">Q0065</a>: ... <i>root</i>) I use -C to run Exim with an alternate configuration file, it gives an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> about being unable to create a spool file when trying to run an <b>autoreply</b>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC67" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC67">Q0067</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>too many unrecognized commands</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC69" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC69">Q0069</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>SMTP data timeout (message abandoned) on connection from...</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC70" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC70">Q0070</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>SMTP command timeout on connection from...</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC71" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC71">Q0071</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>failed to open DB file <i>/var/spool/exim//db/retry</i>: Illegal argument</i> mean?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC74" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC74">Q0074</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message <i>remote delivery process count got out of step</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC81" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC81">Q0081</a>: What does </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> in redirect data: included file xxxx is too big</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC82" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC82">Q0082</a>: What does <i>relocation </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>: /lib/libnss_dns.so.2: symbol __libc_res_nquery, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC84" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC84">Q0084</a>: ... to resubmit the message, but when I use my tested command in an alias file, I get an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> from <i>gpg</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: What does <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> (next input sent too soon)</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC89" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC89">Q0089</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>kernel: application bug: exim(12099) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC91" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC91">Q0091</a>: Why is Exim giving the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Failed to send message from address_reply transport</i> when I run it using...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC92" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC92">Q0092</a>: The </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message <i>Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.</i> occurs when I try to...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC96" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC96">Q0103</a>: I'm getting an <i>undefined symbol</i> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> for <tt>hosts_ctl</tt> when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error is <i>undefined...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC98" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC98">Q0105</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>install-info: command not found</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC103" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC103">Q0110</a>: ... support. I have included <tt>-lpam</tt> in <small>EXTRALIBS</small>, but I'm still getting a linking </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC104" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC104">Q0111</a>: I'm getting the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>db.h: No such file or directory</i> when I try to build Exim. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC105" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC105">Q0112</a>: I'm getting the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb</i> when I try to build Exim. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC158" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC158">Q0412</a>: Why am I seeing the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>bad mode (100664) for /home/test/.forward</i>? I've looked through the documentation...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: ... messages. Can it be told to ignore the <i>.forward</i> file and/or inform the user of the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC169" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC169">Q0423</a>: ... the field in the password file contains <i>/no/home/dir</i>. This causes the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>failed to stat /no/home/dir (No such file or directory)</i> when Exim tries to look...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC176" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC176">Q0430</a>: ... Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a permission denied </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> for the <i>.forward</i> file, like this: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC193" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC193">Q0511</a>: ... Whenever my system filter uses a <tt>mail</tt> command to send a message, I get the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>User 0 set for address_reply transport is on the never_users list</i>. What...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC196" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC196">Q0514</a>: When I try to send to two addresses I get an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> in the filter file <i>malformed address: , e@fgh.com may not follow a@bcd.com</i>....</td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>Neither the xxx router nor the yyy transport set a uid for local delivery...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC204" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC204">Q0607</a>: ... receipt” for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then I get an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message from Exim... something like <i>not supported</i>. Can I activate delivery...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC210" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC210">Q0613</a>: I have set <tt>fallback_hosts</tt> on my <b>smtp</b> transport, but after the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at this time</i> Exim isn't using them. </td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>fcntl() failed: No locks available</i>, though the lock daemon is running...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC217" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC217">Q0620</a>: ... does Exim bounce messages without even attempting delivery, giving the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC229" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC229">Q0632</a>: What does the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>User 1 set for local_mbx_delivery transport is on the never_users list</i>...</td>
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<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> ignored</i> appears after some delivery failures. What does it mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC242" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC242">Q0709</a>: Does Exim apply RBL checks to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> messages, those with an envelope sender of <tt><></tt> ? </td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> when I try to send it mail. </td>
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<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> <i>SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC305" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC305">Q1301</a>: Exim built with Perl support exits with the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message <i>./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC306" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC306">Q1302</a>: Exim built with Perl support exits with several </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> messages of the form <i>undefined reference to `PL_stack_sp'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... am trying to use TLS with Evolution as a client, and keep seeing this </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>: <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next input sent too soon):...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC378" href="FAQ_22.html#TOC378">Q9301</a>: ... have <i>gcc</i> there. So I put <tt>CC=cc</tt> in the <i>Local/Makefile</i>, but I got this </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC380" href="FAQ_23.html#TOC380">Q9401</a>: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl support exits with the </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC384" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC384">Q9601</a>: ... Exim is mysteriously crashing, usually when forking to send a delivery </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> message. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC387" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC387">Q9604</a>: I get the <i>too many open files</i> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> especially when a lot of messages land for Majordomo at the same time....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: ... 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font>: <i>Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC402" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC402">Q9709</a>: When I try to compile Exim 4.x on Solaris 2.5.1 I get an </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> along the lines of <i>no such field in struct as 'value.ui32'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC414" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC414">Q9811</a>: ... new server. I want to preserve the envelope contents, but to suppress any </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">error</font> notifications to the original sender. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC30" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC30">Q0030</a>: ... lookup for hosts that are allowed to relay, but it is giving really weird </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">errors</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC75" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC75">Q0075</a>: ... some email addresses that contain special characters are causing parsing </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">errors</font> in my LDAP lookups. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC109" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC109">Q0116</a>: I have tried to build Exim with Berkeley DB 3 and 4, but I always get </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">errors</font>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC199" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC199">Q0602</a>: Exim keeps crashing with segmentation </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">errors</font> (signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it is about...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC332" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC332">Q1708</a>: ... Antivirus, but all my email is being rejected with <i>Unsupported command</i> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">errors</font>. Why? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC314" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC314">Q1407</a>: RFC 1985 specifies that the SMTP command </td>
<td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">ETRN</font> host.domain</tt> causes all mail queued for that host, no matter what domain...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: ... local mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ETRN</font> clients is on this mailing list, the <b>-R</b> won't flush the mailing list message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC338" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC338">Q5003</a>: How can I persuade Exim to accept </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ETRN</font> commands without the leading # character? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC41" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC41">Q0041</a>: What does the message <i>unable to set gid=ddd or uid=ddd (</i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">euid=ddd</font>): local delivery to ... transport=ttt</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC88" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC88">Q0088</a>: ... SENDFILE.EXE sometimes hangs while trying to send a message to Exim 4, and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">eventually</font> times out. It worked flawlessly with Exim 3. What has changed? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC119" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC119">Q0205</a>: How can I get Exim to deliver to me locally and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">everyone</font> else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX record specified host? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: I am trying to use TLS with </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Evolution</font> as a client, and keep seeing this error: <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization...</i></td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC212" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC212">Q0615</a>: When a message in the queue got to 12h old, Exim wrote <i>retry timeout </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exceeded</font></i> and removed all messages in the queue to this host - even recent messages....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC245" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC245">Q0712</a>: ... ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if a user has </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exceeded</font> their email quota. If they have I issue a temporary failure and a message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC309" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC309">Q1402</a>: ... address <i>anything@aol.com</i> is returned within about 15 minutes saying <i>retry time </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exceeded</font></i>, and all addresses are affected. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC344" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC344">Q5009</a>: I want to match all domains of the form <i>*.oyoy.org</i> but want a few </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exceptions</font>. For instance I don't want <i>foo.oyoy.org</i> or <i>bar.oyoy.org</i> to be included....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC195" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC195">Q0513</a>: ... my system filter to freeze all mails greater than 500K in size, but to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exclude</font> those to a specific domain. However, I don't seem to be able to use <i>$domain</i>...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC24" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC24">Q0024</a>: When I run <tt>exim -bd -q10m</tt> I get <i>PANIC LOG: </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exec</font> of exim -q failed</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: ... it always gives error code 127, with the comment <i>(could mean unable to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exec</font> or command does not exist)</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC89" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC89">Q0089</a>: What does the error <i>kernel: application bug: </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exim(12099</font>) has SIGCHLD set to SIG_IGN but calls wait()</i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC11" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC11">Q0011</a>: Instead of </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exim_dbmbuild</font></i>, I'm using a homegrown program to build DBM (or cdb) files, but Exim doesn't...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC111" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC111">Q0118</a>: ... <tt>LOOKUP_INCLUDE=-I/client/include</tt> in Local/Makefile, but the compilation of </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exim_dumpdb</font></i> is ignoring this option and failing. Why? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: ... with two different configuration files. How can I run a second copy of </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">eximon</font></i> to inspect and modify the alternate queue? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC112" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC112">Q0119</a>: I know there are some 3rd-party patches for Exim, for </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exiscan</font> and other things. Where are they? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC261" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC261">Q0728</a>: How do I use </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Exiscan</font>, SA-Exim, SpamAssassin, Clam Antivirus, Sophos SAVI, or sophie with Exim?...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC267" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC267">Q0734</a>: How do MailScanner and </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Exiscan</font> compare? What are the pros and cons? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC26" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC26">Q0026</a>: ... 127, with the comment <i>(could mean unable to exec or command does not </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exist</font>)</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC161" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC161">Q0415</a>: Can I use my </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">existing</font> alias files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC288" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC288">Q0905</a>: ... filter to replace certain headers in messages, but how can I add text to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">existing</font> headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of messages that appear...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC58" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC58">Q0058</a>: ... does the error <i>failed to open DB file <i>/var/spool/exim/db/retry</i>: File </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exists</font></i> mean? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC305" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC305">Q1301</a>: Exim built with Perl support </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exits</font> with the error message <i>./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'</i>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC306" href="FAQ_13.html#TOC306">Q1302</a>: Exim built with Perl support </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exits</font> with several error messages of the form <i>undefined reference to `PL_stack_sp'</i>....</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC380" href="FAQ_23.html#TOC380">Q9401</a>: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl support </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exits</font> with the error message </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC399" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC399">Q9706</a>: The </td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">exiwhat</font></i> utility isn't working for me on a Solaris 2 system. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC60" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC60">Q0060</a>: Why am I getting the error <i>failed to </i></td>
<td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">expand</font> <tt>/data/lists/lists/${lc</tt> for require_files: <tt>${lc</tt> is not a known operator</i>...</td>
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<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 aliases </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expand</font> to the same address. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC172" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC172">Q0426</a>: ... <i>anything@anotherdomain</i>. I tried adding <i>$local_part@anotherdomain</i> to my aliases but it did not </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expand</font> - it sent it to that literal address. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC7" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC7">Q0007</a>: ... the entry <tt>*@domain.com</tt> in a lookup database, but it isn't working. The </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expansion</font> I'm using is: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC19" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC19">Q0019</a>: There seems to be a problem in the string </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expansion</font> code: it doesn't recognize references to headers such as <tt>${h_to}</tt>. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC25" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC25">Q0025</a>: I can't seem to get a pipe command to run when I include a <tt>${if</tt> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expansion</font> in it. This fails: </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC90" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC90">Q0090</a>: I can't seem to get a pipe command to run when I include a <tt>${lookup</tt> </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expansion</font> in it. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC327" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC327">Q1703</a>: I have some legacy clients that don't use STARTTLS, but which </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expect</font> to negotiate a TLS session automatically on connection to the ssmtp port...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC116" href="FAQ_2.html#TOC116">Q0202</a>: Can I specify a list of domains to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">explicitly</font> reject? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC411" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC411">Q9808</a>: I have a mailing list </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">exploder</font> on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the actual deliveries...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC250" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC250">Q0717</a>: ... of security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim answers to </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">EXPN</font> and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows relaying. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC59" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC59">Q0059</a>: When my Outlook </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Express</font> 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC254" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC254">Q0721</a>: ... POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Express</font>, which sends queued messages before checking the mailbox, so it doesn't...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC274" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC274">Q0741</a>: How can I get Outlook </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Express</font> to use TLS when authenticating? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC328" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC328">Q1704</a>: When my Outlook </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Express</font> 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC135" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC135">Q0312</a>: Is it possible to use a conditional </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expression</font> for the host item in a <tt>route_list</tt> for <b>manualroute</b> router? I tried the...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC167" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC167">Q0421</a>: I can't get a regular </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">expression</font> to work in a <tt>local_parts</tt> option on one of my routers. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC177" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC177">Q0431</a>: How do I configure Exim to allow arbitrary </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">extensions</font> in local parts, of the form <i>+extension</i>? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC136" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC136">Q0313</a>: I send all </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">external</font> mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also get passed...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: Will Exim allow me to create a file of regexs and match incoming </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">external</font> email to the list - and if a match is found file the offending message...</td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC369" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC369">Q5034</a>: ... <tt>queue_only</tt> option conditional? I would like the ability to queue messages from </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">external</font> sources while deliver locally generated email as normal. </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC184" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC184">Q0502</a>: ... the ability to obtain the result of a pipe command so that I can filter </td>
<td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">externally</font> and redirect internally. Is this possible? </td>
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<td align="right"><a name="TOC103" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC103">Q0110</a>: I'm trying to build Exim with PAM support. I have included <tt>-lpam</tt> in </td>
<td align="left"><small><font color="#FF0A0A">EXTRALIBS</font></small>, but I'm still getting a linking error: </td>
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