Questions tagged [exim]
Exim is a sendmail-compatible Mail Transfer Agent, licensed under the GPL, designed for Unix-like operating systems.
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How to disable SMTP access to certain users in Exim using Dovecot Authenticator
I need to make an Dovecot IMAP email account receive-only so that the users can browse, move, delete existing emails but without being able to send email from that account.
Sending is done via exim ...
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Will running a secondary SMTP server for localhost delivery cause delivery problems?
I have a scenario where I'm using a primary SMTP server from cPanel, however I'm running a Dockerized web app on a second server that is having trouble delivering to the main smtp server due to a bug ...
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Exim - slow to deliver mails
I have just setup my own Exim SMTP server to send emails
But I experience something strange when I sent out newsletters.. Alot of times when I send through Exim, mails are delivered with a delay up to ...
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Saving a copy of incoming mail for specific recipient in Exim
I need to archive important mail incoming for specific address in case it gets accidentally deleted from email server, etc.
Either saving or using a pipe to archive it on backup machine is fine (I ...
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Exim version 4.72 silently drops mail sent to user beginning with plus sign
Exim 4.72 accepts emails for recipients of format "[email protected]", and forwards these to our smarthost. Smarthost accepts the messages, they reach the recipient, and all this is shown in the log.
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GoDaddy: exim4 receiving emails but fails to send on "No route to host" error
On an Ubuntu 16.04 VPS, hosted by GoDaddy, I want to be able to send email using my domain name.
I created a mail user [email protected] through Vestacp, installed Roundcube and checked that ...
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Throttle outgoing mail by domain in exim
I am using exim to deliver mail generated by a web app. The gmx.net, gmx.de and web.de domains are asking me to throttle the amount of mail I send but I have trouble in getting that configured in ...
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Mail stuck in exim queue for no reason?
On my server, mail is sometimes delayed for apparently no specific reason.
In this example two mails were generated by systemd-cron about failing cron jobs:
mailq output (domains edited):
3m 1.9K ...
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Remove or Hide Exim version
Have looked around the Internet and at ServerFault the similar question has no solution:
Remove Exim version number
Neither received_header_text in options config or smtp_banner is working. Seems a ...
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Exim4 router doesn't match
I have defined a router for an autoreply for a domain to send a message back to the sender that the domain will be deleted.
The goal: every sender who sends email to [email protected] should receive a ...
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Cannot send mails to different domain with mail server in HostGator and website in Digital Ocean (From header is missing)
Recently I moved from HostGator with cPanel to a Digital Ocean droplet.
I still want to use the email service from HostGator.
So in DigitalOcean I added an A record pointing to HostGator IP, and MX ...
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Exim unable to open file for reading
I am working on getting an email server to send email from php
Centos 7
php 7.2
Exim version 4.92
Opendkim
If i change this line in my exim.conf file it will change the error so I know the error ...
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Messages going to Spam
My emails are going to spam no matter what I do.
Centos 7
Exim
PHP 7.2
Apache 2.4
Hostname and IP are not blacklisted.
Exim config
primary_hostname = mail.example.com
domainlist local_domains = ...
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How to set Exim envelope domain to From domain
I've set up DKIM on Exim with the domain set like:
DKIM_DOMAIN = ${sender_address_domain}
However, the domain is always set to the same domain (my primary domain), which causes DMARC validation to ...
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Exim .forward fails unexpectedly
I am trying to enable synchronous processing of incoming email on a host running exim. In the absence of a .forward file, mail gets appended to the expected /var/spool/mail/$USER
I added a very ...
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Configure Exim to work with IPv6 and G Suite
I am planning to enable IPv6 on some servers that use Exim only to send emails.
Do I need to do any special configuration in Exim when enabling IPv6?
This concern came after a user of a VPS service ...
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exim4 configuration with SMTP: daemon abandoned
I'm trying to configure exim4 to send emails on Debian 9.
I have a SMTP server 192.168.202.22, which listens on port 25. (tested with telnet)
I'm able to send email with telnet connecting to this ...
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Server infected by recent cryptojacking malware but different (?) entry point
One of my servers has been infected by this cryptojacking malware (reporting to the very same IP than in the article).
It seems known for this malware to propagate through some Confluence ...
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SMTP protocol synchronization error in Exim4 when connecting from Gmail
I have a Exim 4.92 server running on a Debian machine, everything works fine. Now I want to send mails from Gmail through that Exim server, since Gmail needs an STMP server for alias addresses.
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Exim - defer (-53): retry time not reached for any host
I'm an exim newbie - and have inherited a system running exim which is misbehaving.
My instance has stopped sending emails. It is accepting messages into the queue, and is running with -q1h - each ...
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exim4 is not passing messages on to mailman via LMTP
I am trying to set up mailman3 using exim4 to run my email lists. If I try sending an email to one of my lists, the email gets delivered to the exim4 instance, which then keeps trying to deliver the ...
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The TLS connection was non-properly terminated - causing mail loop
I run an exim4 mailserver, have done for years, but today I've been innundated by another server that keeps resending the same message.
It's a valid message (it's a school newsletter) but it seems ...
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Exim frozen messages
Recently, I began to receive similar frozen messages. I have a Debian GNU / Linux server 8.10 Exim version 4.84_2. Everyone reports that this version is not confirmed by attacks, however I get the ...
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Still receiving "Message frozen" warnings after fixing Exim CVE-2019-10149 critical vulnerability
After upgrading Exim4 to an official patched version fixing CVE-2019-10149 vulnerability (i.e. exim4_4.89-2+deb9u4) on my Debian stable server, I still get the "Message frozen" warnings about ...
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Sudden unidentified frozen emails with code injection-like recipient
I am suddenly receiving a number of curious "Message frozen" emails from my server (Exim 4.89, Debian stable) :
Message 1hcbPR-0005t1-2r has been frozen (delivery error message).
The sender ...
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Exim sending got very slow
About 2 days ago the load averages on my server got really high and I was able to isolate the issue to slow exim sending causing iowaits.
I am now trying to figure out how to fix the issue.
I ran ...
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How to protect my server from CVE-2019-10149 - Exim - patched or unpatched - How to reject mail to RCPT ${run
In reference to the recently publicized Exim vulnerability CVE-2019-10149, I am running supposedly patched Exim v. 4.90_1 (built June 4th, 2019) on Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS.
Although it is supposedly ...
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exim acl_not_smtp ignored for local submissions
In the default exim4 install on Debian with split configuration files I have created a custom file at /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/33_conf with the following content:
acl_not_smtp:
defer log_message = ...
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Server with assp and smarthost: bounces from smarthost get error refused to talk to me: 451 4.7.1
I've a sever centos 7 with Exim and ASSP
Some times, I need outgoing mail using another server how smart relay.
If smart server (running postfix) get a error (bounces, return one forbidden from ...
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Exim4 error when adding router for autoreply "cannot be resolved at this time: error in redirect file: missing or malformed local part"
I've installed and configured Exim4 on Debian9. Everything works fine until when I add a router/transport for autoreply.
I added those fields:
[Router section]
uservacation:
driver = redirect
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8bit to Quoted-Printable encoding in Exim
Is it at all possible, and how, to configure the Exim4 mail server to convert outgoing messages (or message parts) from 8bit encoding to Quoted-Printable (or Base64, although I'd prefer QP) before ...
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What to use for a hostname on a dedicated Linux server?
I've recently run into Debian wiki not recommending to set exim's primary_hostname explicitly. From what I can gather, here's the code that chooses primary_hostname.
Basically, either I have FQDN in /...
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Can MTA send mail via a relay without being told so?
I'm thinking of adding an SPF to a domain. So I'm concerned if there are circumstances under which my MTA would use some relay when sending mail. Like, when the destination servers are too busy or ...
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PHP gets EHLO for mail() function from nginx server_name - error
I'm using nginx with regex inside virtualhost name to catch subdomain name to work with that later:
server_name ~^(?<subdir>(\\w|\\-)*)(\\.)?(domain\\.org)$;
I have discovered that the mail() ...
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Exim: how to rewrite a header to remove a string like +1234+?
Hi sorry for a bit of a newbie exim question.
For historic reasons we have email going through a smart host addressed to something like: [email protected] (where 12345 can be any ...
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Alias to forward mail to all addresses for a domain using Exim
I'm using Exim v4.91 in a CentOS 7 server hosting more than one domain and I'd like to set up a group address/alias to forward mail messages to all addresses of a given domain (one for every domain). ...
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exim4 showing tls_certificate and tls_privatekey not set when configured to send via Gmail via TLS 465
I have configured exim4 to send e-mails using TLS through smtp.gmail.com::465 , NOT STARTTLS through smtp.gmail.com::587. I used information provided to me that was pulled from various sources. The ...
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Relaying mail for a machine with port 25 blocked [closed]
I recently moved and had to start using a new residential ISP (my old one doesn't serve the new address yet). To my dismay, the new ISP has no option of unblocking the TCP/25 port even when you buy a ...
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Why is this Exim string expansion for an environment variable not working?
The problem
In short, using the following line in my Exim transport does not result in the string expansion (insertion) of the TESTVAR environment variable:
headers_add = "X-TESTVAR: ${env{TESTVAR}{$...
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exim filter not working on long emails
I was trying to set a file extension based filter in exim.
if
$message_body contains "pdf.gz"
or $message_body contains "pdf.arj"
This filter does work on small mail, such as mail with only test ...
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Gmail rejects messages from new exim4 setup
I have problem with delivering mails to GMail from a new server setup with configured exim4.
Messages sometime passed to gmail spam folder. But sometimes it rejects immediatelly. I have attached a ...
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Change 550 Mail to noreply has been suspended for Exim
List item
Someone replied to a noreply email address and received the following response:
Change 550 Mail to [email protected] has been suspended
The footer of all outgoing emails from that ...
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Unroutable address when sending email with exim from vm1 to vm2
I am trying to send emails from virtual machine 1 to virtual machine 2 but I get the error Unroutable address and more specifically dnslookup_relay_to_domains router declined for user@lab1
Looking at ...
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(Debian) Running two mail- and web- servers at the same time in different docker containers
I´ve setup a Debian Webserver with two docker containers:
- a laradock container (laradock.io - Documentation availible at laradock.io).
- a mailcow container (mailcow.email - Documentation ...
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How config Exim4 to accept only authenticated sender
How can I setup Exim to accept only authenticated email from managed domain address?
I'm receiving spoofed email.. from myself.
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exim filter regex discard rule
We are trying to discard all emails with a matching subject, example of subject:
Subject: DOMAIN.COM Alert: NAME We have NOT received your payment
We are trying to match any domain, Alert, and "We ...
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Need more information about exim4 log
Sometimes when I try to send a mail, I can see in exim4 mainlog,a line like this :
address_mail R=dnslookup_users T=remote_smtp defer (98): Address already
and the mail is put in exim queue, why ? I ...
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Exim4 with outlook and other domain error
Sometimes when I try to send a mail to microsoft domain address I can see in exim4 mainlog lines like this :
eur.olc.protection.outlook.com address already in use
After hours or days in the exim4 ...
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Exim filter - Matching FROM and TO
I have been receiving a lot of mailer-daemon spam lately ... It's obvious the spammer is spoofing the to & from fields so that mailer-daemon kicks in and delivers the actual message to me.
I ...
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exim4 maildir - make message read
I'm trying to setup exim4 to handle spam-suspected messages moving them to the Junk user folder. So, I made a router:
spam_junk:
debug_print = "R: local_user spam/junk moving to junk for $...
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