Exim is a Mail Transfer Agent, used to route and deliver email, for Unix-like operating systems. It is used as the default MTA of some Linux distributions and for some control panel software. Its documentation is extensive and exhaustive, in the form of The Exim Specification. An undocumented ...
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Exim speed up mails send/recieve mechanism
We are using Exim on CPANEL server with CENTOS 5. We have only one mail server hosted on US databasecenter contains all user mailboxes.
Problem is that our users are in two different data centers in ...
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Configure exim4 (or other MTA) to prevent sending duplicate emails
How can I configure exim4 (or another MTA) to avoid sending duplicate emails?
For my purposes a duplicate email can be defined as: same recipient and subject (or same recipient, subject and body)
I ...
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User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list on Exim and Git post-receive
im getting this error with my exim during my Git's post-receive.
I suppose that's because of this line in my exim.conf:
never_users = root
so i dont' want to compromise my system by commenting that ...
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Exim4 configuration to use several external ip for mail sending
i've got exim4 on ubuntu server and i-ve got a pool of 20 external IP's.
Is that possible to configure exim4 to use this ip-s rotating to send mail?
I think i could do this with iproute / iptables ...
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Email server port options
I have a web server that also is my mail server - running dovecot and exim4. I currently have 5 open ports that have to do with serving mail, it seems very excessive to me. Its a dedicated box, I ...
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PHP mail() function not working - looks like exim is rejecting for some reason
I have tested the script on another server and it works fine.
When I check exim logs there are lots of rows like this,
User 0 set for local_delivery transport is on the never_users list
lots like ...
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Remove Exim version number
I'm trying to get rid of the version number that you see when you get an email sent from Exim.
Received: from user1 by site.org with local (Exim 4.72)
I'v tried editing smtp_banner in these two ...
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Mailman and exim: cannot send messages
I have a Debian installation with Mailman using exim as MTA.
I can create mailing lists and receive emails from mailinglist server. But when i try to send an email to the ML address it is refused ...
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exim 4 connection timeout
I got a pretty strange problem with my Exim mailsserver recently.
Whenever I try to send mail to an emailaddress of a specific hoster (gmx.net) I get a timeout on the MX-Server from this hoster.
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Strip SpamAssassin headers before processing
I have a server running cPanel/WHM with exim and SpamAssassin. I've been noticing an issue where emails coming in with forged spamassassin headers bypassing some of the filtering. I want to strip out ...
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Exim redirect to smart host based on mx record
I'm looking at have exim redirect a subset of mail to one of our smarthosts based on the looked up mx record. Currently I can do this by specifying all of the domains and using a manualroute router, ...
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Mail not being sent by exim4 to specific domain
I administer a web server running Debian 5.0.1 on an Amazon EC2 instance and it uses exim4 for sending email. One of the sites on this server sends periodic emails to an email address: ...
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Can I configure Exim to log a given header of all emails sent?
I maintain a custom built web application. Any time this application sends an email, it adds a custom header X-UUID to the mail, to assist me in tracking abuse and email delivery. This UUID is written ...
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Remove exim local username
How can i remove the local username in the mail headers with exim4 running on debian 6?
Received: from root by host.domain.com with local (Exim 4.72)
(envelope-from <reply@domain.com>)
id ...
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How running a mta with exim on centos?
I'm try learning run a MTA with virtual domains and exim from 2 weeks ago.
but now, I can not do any thing. i select exim for mta and dovecot for imap daemon. but i can not run them, i can not ...
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Disable exim4 logging
Currently exim4 logs to /var/log/exim4/mainlog but I would like to stop this.
I'v checked a few man pages but none show how to do this.
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How to delay delivery of emails based on recent soft bounce activity with Exim
I am running Exim 4.74, I am sending solicited bulk email.
AOL at times soft bounces us saying we have been temporarily rate-limited and should try again in some number of minutes. We would like to ...
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Spamassassin/Exim (incorrectly) blocking mail from localhost as spam
On our server we've got a problem with spamassassin/exim4 blocking email from our mailing list software as spam. This because (usually) the headers the software (ecartis) adds add points to make it go ...
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Sshd and Exim not working [closed]
Ssh with exim get an error. Can not login via ssh.
Plese help me ?
Error messages;
Startup Log: cp: cannot create symbolic link `/var/empty/sshd/etc': No such file or directory
Starting sshd: ...
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SMTP unroutable address
I have set up gmail google app accounts for our own domain, domain.com, so that email is handled by gmail. I.e. MX records point to google servers, A records to our own server IP. This works fine.
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exim “temporarily rejected after DATA”
for two days now I always get the following message when receiving or trying to send mails in /exim4/mainlog
2011-12-09 15:05:41 1RZ153-00028W-AS DKIM: d=gmail.com s=gamma
c=relaxed/relaxed ...
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RT mailgate submissions with attachments failing
An RT installation configured to accept tickets via email works for nearly everything except messages with some attachments. It seems that they are larger - small images and text files appear to ...
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very slow exim mailq with empty queue
I'm having a rather strange problem with exim mailq command (or the equivalent exim -bp or exim -bpc). My mail queue is empty, yet it takes around 1 minute (or more) for the command to return...
$ ...
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Filtering e-mails with Exim and Virtual Domains
I have Exim set up on a CentOS machine and it has virtual domains (not Vexim) set up on it. I'm trying to figure out how to create a filter to forward emails from one address to another with a ...
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How to set exim4 to send email anywhere but only from authorised users?
Struggling to get my head around the various relaying controls in the exim4 config.
I can send email from my server, I can send email from home and work (because I explicitly added suitable netblocks ...
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Append to outgoing e-mail on ExIM the proper way
We are a small charity organization running ExIM for our emails. Is there a proper way to configure ExIM to append links to our facebook and twitter profiles to every outgoing mail?
I found this ExIM ...
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Can't start HTTPD
I'm trying to start httpd, but it only gives me '[FAILED]'. Now, I installed exim, but that didn't worked, so I uninstalled it. But then the web server didn't worked any more! I tried to ...
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limit remote sender attachment file size on exim
I have Cpanel related to exim mail server.
I want to refuse any email from sender which has attachment size over 15 MB.
How can i do this?
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Exim and receiving email with large recipient lists
I have Exim4 running on Debian configured to receive mail on multiple domains. Exim is set to forward all email that is received to one of the domains to another box. This box is configured with a ...
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In exim's queue, how can I see when each message will be retried?
I don't want to force a retry just yet, I want to see when I should check the queue again. (Without having to mentally evaluate the retry configuration.) mailq only shows how long each message has ...
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How do I setup exim to send emails from mutiple domains?
I have a centos 5 box running exim. The box hosts many domain names which send outgoing email. The problem is that the emails show that the email is coming the box's hostname (say x.com), rather ...
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Pipe all incoming mail to a command (exim4)
How can I setup Exim to pipe all incoming mail to a command (PHP)? and never reject an email?
I'm using Debain squeeze, and Exim4
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Can exim deliver the same message to multiple MDAs?
I currently have a setup using exim as the MTA and courier-imapd for POP3/IMAP access.
Now I plan moving to dovecot instead of courier but for testing purposes I'd like to run it on a different port ...
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Enabling per-virtualhost email relaying through external user/pass smtp relay
I've got a problem that's driving me mad.
Basically, I run 10 virtualhosts in a CentOS distribution.
From now on, I'll call these virtualhost domains www.example1.com to www.example10.com
In the ...
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Make Exim send bounces to postmaster instead of the sender, for non-local sender
I have a few e-mail aliases that forward to external hosts. Currently, if the external host rejects a message, Exim generates a bounce message and sends it to the original sender. This is bad because ...
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Antivirus for a mail server to scan emails for virus
I have a requirement as follows
"I have a site in which the end user is asked to upload a file which is directly sent to the client. Those files are not stored on my server. Now the issue is I don't ...
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Directadmin exim don't start anymore
We have VPS server and currently we are having the following error when trying to start exim:
root@c58-76:/usr/local/directadmin/scripts# /etc/init.d/exim start
Starting exim: /etc/init.d/exim: line ...
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exim dkimproxy configuration - explanation?
I'm trying to setup DKIM on exim in a cPanel VPS.
I'm going with the DKIM Proxy option since cPanel is seriously dragging its feet with the it's-definitely-coming 11.32 release.
These guides here, ...
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How to setup :fail: default email address in cPanel?
How to setup a :fail: default email address in cPanel?
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Using exim4 as smarthost with multiple recipient servers
I've two mail server, one running exim4 as smarthost. atm it delivers all mails to the second server (with the mailboxes). Now I want the smarthost to send all message also to a new server for ...
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How Do I Troubleshoot Exim Mail Retry Issues?
My server is encountering high CPU load (like almost pegged at 100%) so much that the Apache service can't run and we get Apache 500 errors. We used a script to catch this and this is where we ...
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exim configuration: 503 AUTH command used when not advertised
I'm running a piece of software on a Windows server that sends email notifications via a remote SMTP server. It has very few configuration options, and only supports basic SMTP authentication without ...
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Exim 4 filter spam on return path different from “mail from”
Recently I'm receiving (a lot of) spam with "mail from:" from legitimate users (on my server) but a different "Return path". This should not happen for our users, that is, mail received for ...
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Exim mail server slow on sending through SMTP
It takes about 30 seconds for the server to send me the banner, but initial connection is done instantly
only happens when I am at the office, from home it works fine
at the office I have a rRns ...
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Exim4: Router/Transport for virtual domains/users file permissions
I'm configuring a IMAP server with Exim/Dovecot on a Debian machine serving multiple domains with distinct users. To active this I configured a router and a transport:
dovecot_router:
driver = ...
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How to configure Exim4 as via SPF entry authorized mailserver?
I have a server which is reachable under the domain mydomain.com. The mailserver for this domain (sending and receiving) is mail.provider.com. As I have to send a newsletter from my site and the ...
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Exim TLS and Secure SMTP
I'm in the process of converting an existing mail server to support encrypted SMTP for our clients, but I've run into this brick wall with very little useful log data to help me forward. Everything ...
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GeoIP based greylisting with Exim?
I have been using Sendmail together with milter-greylist for many years at several sites.
milter-greylist has support for defining greylisting rules based on GeoIP database lookups. This is very ...
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Centos Directadmin Dovecot Exim, Forward Email From a Different Email Address
I am trying to set up a Facebook group so anyone can send email to a specific address and this gets forwarded to our groups address and so is posted in the group.
However unfortunately if you just ...
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VPS - The easiest way to start sending email
I have installed (clean) Debian 6 on VPS, and I am running a Django-powered application on it. Everything works fine, except that I need to set up SMTP to enable my application (meaning sender is ...
