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Isn't this just a waste of resources? I've been...</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 copied the binary to another </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">identical</font> host, it stopped working (it could not resolve DNS names). </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: ... user, which sometimes include the user's own test messages. Can it be told to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ignore</font> the <i>.forward</i> file and/or inform the user of the error? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC244" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC244">Q0711</a>: ... it possible to make Exim only filter parts of an incoming email - e.g. </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ignore</font> large MIME attachments for example and only process text/plain? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC401" href="FAQ_26.html#TOC401">Q9708</a>: I want Exim to use only the resolver (i.e. </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ignore</font> <i>/etc/hosts</i>), but don't want to alter the <i>nsswitch.conf</i> file in Solaris...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC232" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC232">Q0635</a>: The log message <i>error </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">ignored</font></i> appears after some delivery failures. What does it mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <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 <i>exim_dumpdb</i> is </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ignoring</font> this option and failing. Why? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC71" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC71">Q0071</a>: What does the error <i>failed to open DB file <i>/var/spool/exim//db/retry</i>: </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Illegal</font> argument</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC263" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC263">Q0730</a>: ... I use the same passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IMAP</font> access to my server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC356" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC356">Q5021</a>: What does Exim use for POP and </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IMAP</font> as a default? Do I have to install anything else? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: I'm seeing the message <i>inetd[334]: </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">imap</font>/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: I'm seeing the message <i>inetd[334]: </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">imap/tcp</font> server failing (looping), service terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: <i>... terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing <i>imap</i> connections to be refused. The </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">imapd</font></i> in use is Washington Univers 12.250. Could this be anything to do with...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC9" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC9">Q0009</a>: What does <i>no </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">immediate</font> delivery: too many messages received in one SMTP connection</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC49" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC49">Q0049</a>: What does the log message <i>no </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">immediate</font> delivery: more than 10 messages received in one connection</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC129" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC129">Q0306</a>: ... configure Exim to send all non-local mail to a central server if it cannot be </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">immediately</font> delivered by my host? I don't want to have queued mail waiting on my host....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC225" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC225">Q0628</a>: ... keep trying for four days, but it seems to be bouncing some messages </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">immediately</font>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC311" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC311">Q1404</a>: ... dial in. How can I arrange for any new messages that arrive while I'm connected to be delivered </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">immediately</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: ... to collect mail from my ISP, only the first 10 messages get delivered </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">immediately</font>; the remainder just sit on the queue until a queue runner process finds...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC413" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC413">Q9810</a>: How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">implement</font> “SMTP-after-POP” with Exim? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC315" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC315">Q1408</a>: If email has been deferred to a member on a local mailing list (</td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">implemented</font> through forward files), and one of our ETRN clients is on this mailing list,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC290" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC290">Q1001</a>: ... I'm running a large mail server. Should I set <tt>split_spool_directory</tt> to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">improve</font> performance? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC249" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC249">Q0716</a>: ... mail? I want to do this so my family members don't get any spam (or other </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">inappropriate</font> mail). </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC152" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC152">Q0406</a>: ... using the <i>.forward</i> to pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">INBOX</font>. How can I forbid this? </td> </tr> <tr> <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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">include</font> a <tt>${if</tt> expansion in it. This fails: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC90" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC90">Q0090</a>: I can't seem to get a pipe command to run when I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">include</font> a <tt>${lookup</tt> expansion in it. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: ... invalid, Exim defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">include</font> the user's own test messages. Can it be told to ignore the <i>.forward</i> file...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: ... keys? I want to set <tt>smtp_accept_max_per_host</tt> by this means, and also </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">include</font> a default. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC57" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC57">Q0057</a>: ... complaining about attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">included</font> in the body of the message. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC81" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC81">Q0081</a>: What does <i>error in redirect data: </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">included</font> file xxxx is too big</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC103" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC103">Q0110</a>: I'm trying to build Exim with PAM support. I have </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">included</font> <tt>-lpam</tt> in <small>EXTRALIBS</small>, but I'm still getting a linking error: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC344" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC344">Q5009</a>: ... few exceptions. For instance I don't want <i>foo.oyoy.org</i> or <i>bar.oyoy.org</i> to be </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">included</font>. What is the best way to do this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC5" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC5">Q0005</a>: Why is Exim not rejecting </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> messages addressed to non-existent users at SMTP time? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC21" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC21">Q0021</a>: ... with <tt>smtp_accept_max</tt> set to 500, but this problem started to occur at about 300 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> connections. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC79" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC79">Q0079</a>: Our new PIX firewall is causing problems with </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> mail. How can this be fixed? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC139" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC139">Q0316</a>: I would like to forward all </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> email for a particular domain to another host via SMTP. Whereabouts would...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC148" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC148">Q0402</a>: How do I arrange for all </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> email for <i>*@some.domain</i> to go into one pop3 mail account? The customer...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC160" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC160">Q0414</a>: ... local domain because my users have upper case letters in their login names, but </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> mail now has to use the correct case. Can I relax this somehow? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC171" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC171">Q0425</a>: ... according to the first letter of the user name. All the servers receive </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> mail at random. I would like to have the same configuration file for all...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC241" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC241">Q0708</a>: How can I run customized verification checks on </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> addresses? </td> </tr> <tr> <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 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> external email to the list - and if a match is found file the offending...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC294" href="FAQ_10.html#TOC294">Q1005</a>: A lot of </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> mail is pushing up my system load too much, and there are many Exim processes....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC349" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC349">Q5014</a>: ... <tt>check_spool_space</tt>, Exim is still checking the amount of space on the spool for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> SMTP messages that use the SIZE option. Can I suppress this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC355" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC355">Q5020</a>: How can I make Exim receive </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> mail, queue it, but not attempt to deliver it? I want to be in this state...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC382" href="FAQ_24.html#TOC382">Q9501</a>: The IP addresses for </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> calls are all being given as 255.255.255.255 or 0.0.0.0. </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 copy of each </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">incoming</font> message to each of two internal hosts? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC47" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC47">Q0047</a>: ... see the message <i>Mailer daemons: exim abandoned: unknown, malformed, or </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">incomplete</font> option -bz sendmail</i>. What does this mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC256" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC256">Q0723</a>: ... get Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Incorrect</font> authentication data". </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC223" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC223">Q0626</a>: Exim can route local parts </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">independent</font> of their case, but the Cyrus LMTP daemon requires the correct case. How...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC80" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC80">Q0080</a>: ... value? They can not return a list of values? The documentation seems to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">indicate</font> that it's possible to return a list. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC142" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC142">Q0319</a>: ... mails on my queues that are sticking around longer than the retry time </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">indicates</font> they should. They are all getting frozen because some remote admin has...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC350" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC350">Q5015</a>: ... start off <tt><= <></tt>. Am I correct in assuming that the <tt><></tt> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">indicates</font> that the envelope did not contain any “From” data? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC201" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC201">Q0604</a>: ... mailboxes. How can I get Exim to append the ctrl-A characters that separate </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">indvidual</font> emails? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC386" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC386">Q9603</a>: I'm seeing the message </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">inetd[334</font>]: imap/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated</i> on a RedHat 5.2 system, causing...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: ... user's own test messages. Can it be told to ignore the <i>.forward</i> file and/or </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">inform</font> the user of the error? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC86" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC86">Q0086</a>: What does <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">input</font> sent too soon)</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC331" href="FAQ_17.html#TOC331">Q1707</a>: ... seeing this error: <i>SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error (next </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">input</font> sent too soon): rejected "\200F^A^C".</i> What does it mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC287" href="FAQ_9.html#TOC287">Q0904</a>: How I can </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">insert</font> the PGP header line using Exim filters? </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 crashes </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">inside</font> <i>sscanf()</i>. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC235" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC235">Q0702</a>: I don't want to block spam entirely; how can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">inspect</font> each message before deciding whether or not to deliver it? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC365" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC365">Q5030</a>: ... different configuration files. How can I run a second copy of <i>eximon</i> to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">inspect</font> and modify the alternate queue? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC107" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC107">Q0114</a>: ... How can I remove Sendmail from my system? I've built Exim and run <tt>make </tt></td> <td align="left"><tt><font color="#FF0A0A">install</font></tt>, but it still doesn't seem to be fully operational. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC110" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC110">Q0117</a>: Is there a quick walk-through of an Exim </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">install</font> from source anywhere? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC356" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC356">Q5021</a>: What does Exim use for POP and IMAP as a default? Do I have to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">install</font> anything else? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC372" href="FAQ_20.html#TOC372">Q9101</a>: How can I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">install</font> Exim on Mac OS X? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC98" href="FAQ_1.html#TOC98">Q0105</a>: What does the error </td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">install-info</font>: command not found</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC39" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC39">Q0039</a>: I have </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">installed</font> Exim, but now I can't mail to <i>root</i> any more. Why is this? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC77" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC77">Q0077</a>: I've </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">installed</font> Exim and it is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my PC...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC255" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC255">Q0722</a>: I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">installed</font> Amavis and it is working, but bounces are simply vanishing. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC388" href="FAQ_25.html#TOC388">Q9605</a>: I </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">installed</font> debian 2.2 linux on a small 325mb 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC344" href="FAQ_19.html#TOC344">Q5009</a>: ... match all domains of the form <i>*.oyoy.org</i> but want a few exceptions. For </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">instance</font> I don't want <i>foo.oyoy.org</i> or <i>bar.oyoy.org</i> to be included. What is the...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC20" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC20">Q0020</a>: ... time to respond with the banner, when connections to other ports respond </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">instantly</font>? The delay is sometimes as long as 30 seconds. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC43" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC43">Q0043</a>: What does the error <i>Unable to get </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">interface</font> configuration: 22 Invalid argument</i> mean? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC137" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC137">Q0314</a>: I have a really annoying </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">intermittent</font> problem where attempts to mail to valid sites are rejected with <i>unknown mail...</i></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... addressed to a domain whose MX points to the firewall, it is forwarded to the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">internal</font> mail server, without having to have a list of all the domains involved?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC262" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC262">Q0729</a>: ... neither valid usernames or distribution lists on mail being forwarded to an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">internal</font> Win2K server? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC412" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC412">Q9809</a>: ... my gateway host sends a copy of each incoming message to each of two </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">internal</font> hosts? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC184" href="FAQ_5.html#TOC184">Q0502</a>: ... result of a pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">internally</font>. Is this possible? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: ... server? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like normal </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Internet</font> hosts. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC308" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC308">Q1401</a>: When I'm not connected to the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">Internet</font>, how can I arrange for mail to other hosts on my local network to be delivered,...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC92" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC92">Q0092</a>: The error message <i>Program received signal SIGINT, </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Interrupt</font>.</i> occurs when I try to use Exim with PostgreSQL. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC278" href="FAQ_8.html#TOC278">Q0803</a>: ... the outside world, but not for messages that remain within the local </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">intranet</font>. </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 </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Invalid</font> argument</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: </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">Invalid</font> argument</i> mean? </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 </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">invalid</font> argument(s)</i>. I know it's because of the underscore in the host name, but...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC159" href="FAQ_4.html#TOC159">Q0413</a>: When a user's <i>.forward</i> file is syntactially </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">invalid</font>, Exim defers delivery of all messages to that user, which sometimes include the...</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 connection if more than 10 </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">invalid</font> recipients are received in one message? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC300" href="FAQ_11.html#TOC300">Q1105</a>: Exim is complaining about an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">invalid</font> command line when Majordomo tries to send it a message for delivery. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC72" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC72">Q0072</a>: ... aliases, and aliases that are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">involve</font> <tt>:include:</tt> items, complaining that it can't change gid or uid. Why is this?...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC132" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC132">Q0309</a>: ... internal mail server, without having to have a list of all the domains </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">involved</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC245" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC245">Q0712</a>: I've hacked sendmail to make an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ioctl</font> call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if a user has exceeded...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC23" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC23">Q0023</a>: Why is Exim refusing to relay, saying <i>failed to find host name from </i></td> <td align="left"><i><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> address</i> when I have the sender's IP address in an ACL condition? My configuration...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC28" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC28">Q0028</a>: Exim is reporting </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> addresses as 0.0.0.0 or 255.255.255.255 instead of their correct values....</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC31" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC31">Q0031</a>: Exim is rejecting connections from hosts that have more than one </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> address, for no apparent reason. </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 ACL to do a lookup in a file of </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> addresses, but it doesn't work. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC45" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC45">Q0045</a>: I see entries in the log that mention two different </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> addresses for the same connection. Why is this? For example: </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC125" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC125">Q0302</a>: <i>... relevant MX records point to non-existent hosts</i> when MX records point to </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> addresses? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC266" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC266">Q0733</a>: Is there any way to tell Exim not to lookup the </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> address against any DNS black list if the connection is over IPv6? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC382" href="FAQ_24.html#TOC382">Q9501</a>: The </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> addresses for incoming calls are all being given as 255.255.255.255 or...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC415" href="FAQ_27.html#TOC415">Q9812</a>: How can I lookup data from a single file using both single </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IP</font> addresses and IP address blocks as keys? I want to set <tt>smtp_accept_max_per_host</tt>...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC144" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC144">Q0321</a>: How can I tell an Exim router to use only </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IPv4</font> or only IPv6 addresses when it finds both types in the DNS? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC144" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC144">Q0321</a>: How can I tell an Exim router to use only IPv4 or only </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IPv6</font> addresses when it finds both types in the DNS? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC266" href="FAQ_7.html#TOC266">Q0733</a>: ... lookup the IP address against any DNS black list if the connection is over </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">IPv6</font>? </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC312" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC312">Q1405</a>: I have an </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ISDN</font> connection and would like a way of running the queue automatically when...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC42" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC42">Q0042</a>: My </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ISP's</font> mail server is rejecting bounce messages from Exim, complaining that they have no...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC128" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC128">Q0305</a>: ... delivered directly to the relevant hosts, but all other mail to be sent to my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ISP's</font> mail server? The local hosts are all DNS-registered and behave like normal...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC140" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC140">Q0317</a>: ... alternative smart hosts, where the one to be used is determined by which </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ISP</font> I'm connected to. </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC211" href="FAQ_6.html#TOC211">Q0614</a>: After the holidays my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ISP</font> has always hundreds of e-mails waiting for me. These are forced down Exim's...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC313" href="FAQ_14.html#TOC313">Q1406</a>: When I dial up to collect mail from my </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">ISP</font>, only the first 10 messages get delivered immediately; the remainder just...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC135" href="FAQ_3.html#TOC135">Q0312</a>: Is it possible to use a conditional expression for the host </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">item</font> in a <tt>route_list</tt> for <b>manualroute</b> router? I tried the following, but it...</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"><a name="TOC72" href="FAQ_0.html#TOC72">Q0072</a>: ... are pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve <tt>:include:</tt> </td> <td align="left"><font color="#FF0A0A">items</font>, complaining that it can't change gid or uid. 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