Exim FAQ: KWIC index section E

# Exim FAQ: Keyword-in-context index

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Q0417: ... could just create a .vacation.msg file in their home directory and not have to | edit their .forward file?
Q5025: What precautions should I take when | editing Exim's run time configuration file?
Q0415: ... use my existing alias files and forward files as well as procmail and | effectively drop in Exim in place of Sendmail ?
Q0053: ... host responds to a connection with `220 *****...` and won't understand | EHLO commands.
Q5005: ... 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'' rather than...
Q0042: ... the sender address is `<>`. Why is the Sender on the bounce message | empty?
Q0104: ... about to upgrade to a new Exim release. Do I need to ensure the spool is | empty, or take any other special action?
Q0505: My problem is that Exim replaces $local_part with an | empty string in the system filtering. What's wrong or what did I miss?
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?...
Q1701: ... trying to set up an Exim server that uses a self-signed certificate to | enable my clients to use TLS. However, clients other than Exim refuse to accept...
Q0038: What does the error message error in forward file (filtering not | enabled): missing or malformed local part mean?
Q1702: ... to advertise support for SMTP authentication only when the session is | encrypted?
Q0017: ... specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the error Remote | end closed connection after data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's going...
Q0104: I'm about to upgrade to a new Exim release. Do I need to | ensure the spool is empty, or take any other special action?
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 apache....
Q0429: ... given domain to local mailboxes, but also to generate messages to the | envelope senders.
Q0709: Does Exim apply RBL checks to error messages, those with an | envelope sender of `<>` ?
Q5015: ... `<= <>`. Am I correct in assuming that the `<>` indicates that the | envelope did not contain any ``From'' data?
Q0003: What does the | error Child process of address_pipe transport returned 69 from command xxx mean?...
Q0013: What does the | error message transport system_aliases: cannot find transport driver "redirect"...
Q0017: ... deliver a specific message to a particular server, it fails, giving the | error Remote end closed connection after data or Broken pipe or a timeout. What's...
Q0026: ... trying to get Exim to connect an alias to a pipe, but it always gives | error code 69, with the comment (could mean service or program unavailable)....
Q0027: What does the | error Spool file is locked mean?
Q0032: ... library, even though is it present within LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I'm getting this | error:
Q0033: What does the | error lookup of host "xx.xx.xx" failed in yyy router mean?
Q0036: Why do I get the | error Permission denied: creating lock file hitching post when Exim tries to...
Q0038: What does the | error message error in forward file (filtering not enabled): missing or malformed...
Q0043: What does the | error Unable to get interface configuration: 22 Invalid argument mean?
Q0044: What does the | error Failed to create spool file mean?
Q0050: ... for relaying that they are being blocked with a Too many connections | error.
Q0051: When I try `exim -bf` to test a system filter, I received the following | error message: Filter error: unavailable filtering command "fail" near line 8 of...
Q0052: What does ridiculously long message header in an | error report mean?
Q0054: I'm getting an Exim configuration | error unknown rewrite flag character (m) in line 386 but I haven't used any...
Q0055: What does the | error Failed to open wait-remote_smtp database: Invalid argument mean?
Q0058: What does the | error failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File exists mean?
Q0060: Why am I getting the | error failed to expand `/data/lists/lists/${lc` for require_files: `${lc` is not a known...
Q0061: What does the | error Too many ``Received'' headers - suspected mail loop mean?
Q0103: I'm getting an undefined symbol | error for `hosts_ctl` when I try to build Exim. (On some systems this error is undefined...
Q0105: What does the | error install-info: command not found mean?
Q0110: ... support. I have included `-lpam` in EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a linking | error:
Q0111: I'm getting the | error db.h: No such file or directory when I try to build Exim.
Q0112: I'm getting the | error /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -ldb1 when I try to build Exim.
Q0412: Why am I seeing the | error bad mode (100664) for /home/test/.forward? I've looked through the documentation...
Q0413: ... messages. Can it be told to ignore the .forward file and/or inform the user of the | error?
Q0423: ... the field in the password file contains /no/home/dir. This causes the | error failed to stat /no/home/dir (No such file or directory) when Exim tries to look...
Q0430: ... Whenever Exim tries to route a local address, it gives a permission denied | error for the .forward file, like this:
Q0601: What does the | error Neither the xxx router nor the yyy transport set a uid for local delivery...
Q0607: ... receipt'' for example in Netscape Mailbox sending options, then I get an | error message from Exim... something like not supported. Can I activate delivery...
Q0613: I have set `fallback_hosts` on my smtp transport, but after the | error sem@chat.ru cannot be resolved at this time Exim isn't using them.
Q0619: I can't get Exim to deliver over NFS. I get the | error fcntl() failed: No locks available, though the lock daemon is running...
Q0620: ... does Exim bounce messages without even attempting delivery, giving the | error retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period?
Q0709: Does Exim apply RBL checks to | error messages, those with an envelope sender of `<>` ?
Q1103: I'm trying to set up majordomo, but I'm getting a wrong mode | error when I try to send it mail.
Q1201: When I run fetchmail, I get the | error SMTP listener doesn't like recipient address xxx@localhost.
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 to `PL_stack_sp'.
Q9301: ... have gcc there. So I put `CC=cc` in the Local/Makefile, but I got this | error:
Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl support exits with the | error message
Q9601: ... Exim is mysteriously crashing, usually when forking to send a delivery | error message.
Q9604: I get the too many open files | error especially when a lot of messages land for Majordomo at the same time....
Q9605: ... 486 laptop. When I try to test the Mail program, I get the following | error: Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf.
Q0030: ... lookup for hosts that are allowed to relay, but it is giving really weird | errors.
Q0602: Exim keeps crashing with segmentation | errors (signal 11 or 139) during delivery. This seems to happen when it is about...
Q1407: RFC 1985 specifies that the SMTP command | `ETRN host.domain` causes all mail queued for that host, no matter what domain...
Q1408: ... local mailing list (implemented through forward files), and one of our | ETRN clients is on this mailing list, the -R won't flush the mailing list message...
Q5003: How can I persuade Exim to accept | ETRN commands without the leading # character?
Q0041: ... Unable to get root to set uid and gid for local delivery to xxx: uid=yyy | euid=zzz mean?
Q0205: How can I get Exim to deliver to me locally and | everyone else at the same domain via SMTP to the MX record specified host?
Q0615: When a message in the queue got to 12h old, Exim wrote retry timeout | exceeded and removed all messages in the queue to this host - even recent messages....
Q0712: ... ioctl call at the time of the SMTP RCPT command, to check if a user has | exceeded their email quota. If they have I issue a temporary failure and a message...
Q1402: ... address anything@aol.com is returned within about 15 minutes saying retry time | exceeded, and all addresses are affected.
Q5009: I want to match all domains of the form *.oyoy.org but want a few | exceptions. For instance I don't want foo.oyoy.org or bar.oyoy.org to be included....
Q0024: When I run `exim -bd -q10m` I get PANIC LOG: | exec of exim -q failed.
Q0011: Instead of | exim_dbmbuild, I'm using a homegrown program to build DBM (or cdb) files, but Exim doesn't...
Q5030: ... with two different configuration files. How can I run a second copy of | eximon to inspect and modify the alternate queue?
Q0415: Can I use my | existing alias files and forward files as well as procmail and effectively drop...
Q0905: ... filter to replace certain headers in messages, but how can I add text to | existing headers? I want to add [SPAM] to the subject line of messages that appear...
Q0058: ... does the error failed to open DB file /var/spool/exim/db/retry: File | exists mean?
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 to `PL_stack_sp'....
Q9401: On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl support | exits with the error message
Q9706: The | exiwhat utility isn't working for me on a Solaris 2 system.
Q0060: Why am I getting the error failed to | expand `/data/lists/lists/${lc` for require_files: `${lc` is not a known operator...
Q0424: ... de-duplication features? I want it to do two deliveries if two different aliases | expand to the same address.
Q0426: ... anything@anotherdomain. I tried adding $local_part@anotherdomain to my aliases but it did not | expand - it sent it to that literal address.
Q0007: ... the entry `*@domain.com` in a lookup database, but it isn't working. The | expansion I'm using is:
Q0019: There seems to be a problem in the string | expansion code: it doesn't recognize references to headers such as `${h_to}`.
Q0025: I can't seem to get a pipe command to run when I include a `${if` | expansion in it. This fails:
Q0202: Can I specify a list of domains to | explicitly reject?
Q9808: I have a mailing list | exploder on one host, and three other hosts where I want to do the actual deliveries...
Q0717: ... of security issues are raised. Nessus complains that Exim answers to | EXPN and/or VRFY; sometimes it even complains that Exim allows relaying.
Q0059: When my Outlook | Express 6.0 client sends a STARTTLS command to begin a TLS session, Exim doesn't...
Q0721: ... POP-before-SMTP set up on my Exim server, but some clients use Outlook | Express, which sends queued messages before checking the mailbox, so it doesn't...
Q0312: Is it possible to use a conditional | expression for the host item in a `route_list` for manualroute router? I tried the...
Q0421: I can't get a regular | expression to work in a `local_parts` option on one of my routers.
Q0431: How do I configure Exim to allow arbitrary | extensions in local parts, of the form +extension?
Q0313: I send all | external mail to a smart host, but this means that bad addresses also get passed...
Q0711: Will Exim allow me to create a file of regexs and match incoming | external email to the list - and if a match is found file the offending message...
Q0502: ... the ability to obtain the result of a pipe command so that I can filter | externally and redirect internally. Is this possible?
Q0110: I'm trying to build Exim with PAM support. I have included `-lpam` in | EXTRALIBS, but I'm still getting a linking error:

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