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| Q5005: ... used gv 3.5.8 (ghostview) to try printing spec.ps. After every printed | page, the printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter”... |
| Q5006: Why aren't there any man | pages for Exim? I don't always carry my printed documentation. |
| Q0029: I can't seem to figure out why | PAM support doesn't work correctly. |
| Q0110: I'm trying to build Exim with | PAM support. I have included -lpam in EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a linking... |
| Q0024: When I run exim -bd -q10m I get | PANIC LOG: exec of exim -q failed. |
| Q5005: ... printer ejects a blank sheet. Is this something to do with using “letter” rather than A4 | paper? |
| Q9202: A script that FreeBSD runs nightly uses mailq with the -Ac | parameter. Why doesn't Exim recognize this? |
| Q0075: ... and some email addresses that contain special characters are causing | parsing errors in my LDAP lookups. |
| Q0203: ... arrange to do my own qualification of non-fully-qualified domains, and then | pass them on to the next router? |
| Q0713: I'd like to | pass all messages through a virus-scanning system before delivery. Can Exim... |
| Q1501: ... records for some UUCP domains point to my local host. How do I get it to | pass the messages on to UUCP? |
| Q0018: ... @aol.com? For other domains, I do this and I see the appropriate waiting for | passed connections to get used messages. |
| Q0313: ... external mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also get | passed to the smart host. Can I avoid this? |
| Q1104: ... return code 9 from /home/majordomo/majordomo-1.94.4/wrapper when it is | passed a message from Exim. |
| Q0423: Some of our users have no home directories; the field in the | password file contains /no/home/dir. This causes the error failed to stat /no/home/dir (No... |
| Q0508: ... filter files when the directories concerned are not available from the | password data? |
| Q0726: ... authentication can be bypassed by sending an unknown user name and an empty | password. What is wrong with this condition in a PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q1003: We have a large | password file. Can Exim use alternative lookups during delivery to speed things... |
| Q9804: We want to be able to temporarily lock out a user by disabling the | password and moving the home directory to another place. How can we arrange to... |
| Q0730: How can I use the same | passwords for SMTP authentication as I use for Courier IMAP access to my server?... |
| Q0119: I know there are some 3rd-party | patches for Exim, for exiscan and other things. Where are they? |
| Q1502: How can I get Exim to handle “bang | path”; addresses? |
| Q0056: ... However, whenever a user sends an email it gets sent with the return | path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the PHP script is running as... |
| Q0508: How can I allow the use of relative | paths in users' filter files when the directories concerned are not available... |
| Q0314: ... mail domain. This only happens a few times a day and there is no particular | pattern to the sites it rejects. If I try to lookup the same domain a few minutes... |
| Q0077: ... is delivering mail just fine. However, when I try to read mail from my | PC I get connection rejected or unable to connect. |
| Q0057: We've got | people complaining about attachments that don't show up as attachments, but are... |
| Q0417: ... make Exim handle /usr/ucb/vacation processing automatically, so that | people could just create a .vacation.msg file in their home directory and not have to... |
| Q0419: I have some obsolete domains which | people have been warned not to use any more. How can I arrange to delete any... |
| Q0719: I would like to have a | per-user limit for the maximum size of messages that can be sent. |
| Q5001: How can I arrange to allow a limited set of users to | perform a limited set of Exim administration functions? I don't want to put them all... |
| Q1001: ... running a large mail server. Should I set split_spool_directory to improve | performance? |
| Q0620: ... giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long failure | period? |
| Q0622: Can I write an ordinary file when I run a | perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and address_pipe transports?... |
| Q1301: Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message ./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'.... |
| Q1302: Exim built with | Perl support exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference... |
| Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error | Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local... |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a | permission denied error for the .forward file, like this: |
| Q5035: Does Exim run with different | permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending? |
| Q0707: ... where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite | persistent, and keeps trying over and over. |
| Q5027: ... else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the reply/from | person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself. |
| Q5003: How can I | persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # character? |
| Q0904: How I can insert the | PGP header line using Exim filters? |
| Q0056: ... the return path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the | PHP script is running as apache. |
| Q0418: ... default entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it | picks up the local parts that the aliases generate. For example, if the alias... |
| Q0723: I can't get | Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect... |
| Q0017: ... fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken | pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q0025: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${if expansion in it. This fails: |
| Q0026: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a | pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment (could mean unable to... |
| Q0090: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${lookup expansion in it. |
| Q0406: Some of my users are using the .forward to | pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid... |
| Q0502: What I really need is the ability to obtain the result of a | pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect internally. Is this... |
| Q0606: ... do local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the | pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to... |
| Q0612: Why does the | pipe transport add a line starting with >From to messages? |
| Q0727: ... SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a | pipe transport. |
| Q0072: Exim will deliver to normal aliases, and aliases that are | pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve :include: items, complaining... |
| Q0084: I want to set up an alias that | pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the message,... |
| Q0079: Our new | PIX firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed?... |
| Q1302: ... exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference to ` | PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with | PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data".... |
| Q0726: ... user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a | PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant MX records | pft">performance? |
| Q0620: ... giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long failure | period? |
| Q0622: Can I write an ordinary file when I run a | perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and address_pipe transports?... |
| Q1301: Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message ./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'.... |
| Q1302: Exim built with | Perl support exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference... |
| Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error | Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local... |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a | permission denied error for the .forward file, like this: |
| Q5035: Does Exim run with different | permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending? |
| Q0707: ... where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite | persistent, and keeps trying over and over. |
| Q5027: ... else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the reply/from | person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself. |
| Q5003: How can I | persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # character? |
| Q0904: How I can insert the | PGP header line using Exim filters? |
| Q0056: ... the return path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the | PHP script is running as apache. |
| Q0418: ... default entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it | picks up the local parts that the aliases generate. For example, if the alias... |
| Q0723: I can't get | Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect... |
| Q0017: ... fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken | pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q0025: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${if expansion in it. This fails: |
| Q0026: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a | pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment (could mean unable to... |
| Q0090: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${lookup expansion in it. |
| Q0406: Some of my users are using the .forward to | pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid... |
| Q0502: What I really need is the ability to obtain the result of a | pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect internally. Is this... |
| Q0606: ... do local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the | pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to... |
| Q0612: Why does the | pipe transport add a line starting with >From to messages? |
| Q0727: ... SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a | pipe transport. |
| Q0072: Exim will deliver to normal aliases, and aliases that are | pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve :include: items, complaining... |
| Q0084: I want to set up an alias that | pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the message,... |
| Q0079: Our new | PIX firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed?... |
| Q1302: ... exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference to ` | PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with | PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data".... |
| Q0726: ... user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a | PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant MX records | pft">performance? |
| Q0620: ... giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long failure | period? |
| Q0622: Can I write an ordinary file when I run a | perl script as a transport filter for the remote_smtp and address_pipe transports?... |
| Q1301: Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message ./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'.... |
| Q1302: Exim built with | Perl support exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference... |
| Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with | Perl support exits with the error message |
| Q0036: Why do I get the error | Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to do a local... |
| Q0430: Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a | permission denied error for the .forward file, like this: |
| Q5035: Does Exim run with different | permissions between -bt and -bh, or between verifying and actual sending? |
| Q0707: ... where my host correctly rejects messages, but the remote host is quite | persistent, and keeps trying over and over. |
| Q5027: ... else? Basically, I want to receive them, and I don't want the reply/from | person to get them. If I think they need it I will forward it myself. |
| Q5003: How can I | persuade Exim to accept ETRN commands without the leading # character? |
| Q0904: How I can insert the | PGP header line using Exim filters? |
| Q0056: ... the return path (envelope sender) apache@server_name.com because the | PHP script is running as apache. |
| Q0418: ... default entry in my alias file to handle unknown local parts, but it | picks up the local parts that the aliases generate. For example, if the alias... |
| Q0723: I can't get | Pine to work with PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect... |
| Q0017: ... fails, giving the error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken | pipe or a timeout. What's going on? |
| Q0025: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${if expansion in it. This fails: |
| Q0026: I'm trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a | pipe, but it always gives error code 127, with the comment (could mean unable to... |
| Q0090: I can't seem to get a | pipe command to run when I include a ${lookup expansion in it. |
| Q0406: Some of my users are using the .forward to | pipe to a shell command which appends to the user's INBOX. How can I forbid... |
| Q0502: What I really need is the ability to obtain the result of a | pipe command so that I can filter externally and redirect internally. Is this... |
| Q0606: ... do local deliveries, but when I turned on the use_crlf option on the | pipe transport (tmail prefers \r\n terminations) message bodies started to... |
| Q0612: Why does the | pipe transport add a line starting with >From to messages? |
| Q0727: ... SpamAssassin from being called for each of them? I'm running it from a | pipe transport. |
| Q0072: Exim will deliver to normal aliases, and aliases that are | pipes or files, but it objects to aliases that involve :include: items, complaining... |
| Q0084: I want to set up an alias that | pipes a message to gpg and then pipes the result to mailx to resubmit the message,... |
| Q0079: Our new | PIX firewall is causing problems with incoming mail. How can this be fixed?... |
| Q1302: ... exits with several error messages of the form undefined reference to ` | PL_stack_sp'. |
| Q0723: I can't get Pine to work with | PLAIN authentication; Exim keeps responding "535 Incorrect authentication data".... |
| Q0726: ... user name and an empty password. What is wrong with this condition in a | PLAIN authenticator? |
| Q0302: Why does Exim say all relevant MX records | pft">performance? |
| Q0620: ... giving the error retry time not reached for any host after a long failure | period? |
| Q0622: Can I write an ordinary file when I run a |