Questions tagged [exim]
Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence.
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exim - domainips config - how to use multiple ip's per domain
My domainips file:
officereflections.com: 185.65.105.57; 2a09:7c44:0:66::1;
executivebrand.info: 185.216.13.144; 185.216.13.145; 185.216.13.146;
*: 185.216.13.57;
Parts of exim.conf:
EXIM_DOMAINIPS = ...
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exim4 different passwd.client for different sender or router
I am using exim4 with a couple of smarthosts to send email from my private mail server. I have a default smarthost, but I also use official SMTP relays for accounts using senders from domains handled ...
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exim mail server send receive ipv6
IPv4 mail is working fine with DKIM, SPF, etc. I can send to Gmail no problem and all validations pass. Hotmail/Outlook also work after doing validation with them.
I can send IPv6 mail through my ...
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How in exim to set up mail auto reply with error message when mailbox is full?
I have a mail server Exim + Dovecot which is built on Ubuntu.
Is it possible to configure the mail server so that when the quota of one of the mailboxes on the server is overflowing, another user who ...
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Exim router condition
I wish to use a condition = for my router section which should evaluate to true if either of $sender_address_domain , $original_domain exist in the file /etc/mydomains.
Tried a lot of permutations &...
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Exim SMTP server, reroute message based on Subject line (reroute to different SMTP)
I have a IMAP/SMTP server (exim) that is running fine.
I connect several client applications to this (think Outloook desktop and the like).
What I would like to do is route some of the emails to a ...
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Ubuntu, IPv6, multihome, e-mail, source selection. Arghhh
I've been hosting my e-mail forever, and have been also using IPv6 via 6o4 (HE) for some time. Here (South America) IPv6 has been slow in acceptance, so to say, so everything went fine until now. Now ...
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Dovecot LDA to deliver to 2 servers at once
I'd like to build robust mail system that can withstand outages. For this purpose I rent 2 servers (lets call it mx1 and mx2) in 2 different datacenters, set up Exim on both as SMTP, and Dovecot as ...
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Outgoing e-mail from Exim server is rejected by Hotmail
I am trying to send e-mails from an account using the webmail interface. When sending the test to a hotmail account, it is rejected immediately.
To investigate the issue, I used https://mxtoolbox.com/...
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Telling exim that "no recipients found" isn't panic-worthy
I manage several Debian servers which all use exim4 as their MTA and, for the most part, everything is happy.
However, one of them has a web application on it which sends out notices, and some of the ...
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How to filter email originating from @domain.com on Exim4?
I'm trying to implement a basic phishing protection on our Exim4 email relay.
The way we have our mail delivery setup is following:
external hosted smtp server -> exim4 relay -> Exchange server
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Prioritised outgoing emails using Exim
Our outgoing email queue uses Exim (on Centos) and is used both for sending bulk batches of email to clients and sending authentication keys, eg as part of the forgotten password routine. On some ...
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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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How to upgrade the Exim to version “4.92” on Ubuntu 18.04 server?
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) was found in Exim mail server. It allows to execute some code on victim's server with root privileges. This vulnerability affects versions from 4.87 to 4.91.
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Sending an email to from VM with exim4 to VM with posfix
I have two virtual machines and both running Ubuntu server. I should be able to send emails from lab2 to lab1 using mail. lab2 is running exim4and lab1 has postfix listening on port 25. I should ...
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Multi domain mail server
I have to install a MTA on Debian server (postfix or exim). It will serve email for 3 domains. It is not a problem to receive email for multiple domains but I am not sure about sending (SMTP). There ...
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Chosing a mail service on Debian, for a specific use
I am trying to setup a mail service on a local Debian Buster/Sid.
This mail service should take input mails and direct them to these locations :
- if mail is for "myownlocaldomain", it must be ...
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What Should Be My hostname and FQDN to Exim4?
My EXIM4 started to display error after I perform a sudo apt upgrade, now some servers return this message:
SMTP error from remote mail server after HELO mycompanyname: 504 5.5.2 : Helo command ...
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SMTP-EXIM Help- Only sending single mail at a time
I would like to understand what could be the problem as to why I am unable to send mail to more that one recipient at a time. My mail server uses exim and I have the following configuration
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cPanel / CentOS now showing strange symbols and exim using 99% CPU
Has anyone got any idea why this is happening?
cPanel v72.0.10
CentOS 7.5
Everything is showing as symbols, even "top" in Terminal seems to display some strange symbols.
Exim was using 99% of CPU ...
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Exim4 setup that allows me sending emails without becoming an open relay
So I've acquired a VPS and a domain (my_domain.com, say), and now I'd like to set up my own, exim4-based e-mail infrastructure for learning purposes. In order not to produce an open relay I need some ...
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exim sending only to specific domains
there is centos 7, it costs vestacp default settings for exim, I need to send my mail from my server only to the domains test.com and site.com, the rest of the mail from my server should be blocked
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How can I limit the number of mails sent from a specific email account in cpanel or WHM
I have a spam issue with an email account. Undelivered emails are being returned to the mail box. These emails were not sent from the box. Its seems someone or something is bouncing the emails off ...
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exim4 says "Warning: purging the environment" even though add/keep_environment are set
Recent versions of exim4 added add_environment and keep_environment to the config. If those are missing, exim4 sends a warning to STDERR.
In my configuration, both of those variables are set to blank:...
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Cannot Start Exim Daemon on Cygwin
I've been unable to start the Exim daemon after installing it in Cygwin on Windows 10.
At the end of the exim-config setup, the daemon fails with this message:
Do you want to start the exim daemon ...
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Telnet host 25 - no route to host
I have basic VM (xenserver installed on dedicated machine) with cPanel on CentOs 6.8, exim 4.87 - nothing fancy. For 2 weeks I am having issue with sending e-mails - it is not global, affects about 10%...
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exim: "remote host address is the local host"
I try to set up an exim mail server and I get the error
temporarily rejected RCPT : remote host address is the local host
domain.com points to the local host, the MX from domain.com point to the ...
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How to locate spam php scripts
Most of the shared servers might be facing the issue of fake PHP code being injected in their sites which may lead to generation of spam mails, redirection to a different site, creation of social ...
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unable to send email. Emails are stuck in queue
I am unable to send an email from server using exim.
When i try to send an email. email are stuck in queue
When i try to run exim -qff commands then emails are delivered. Other wise they just stay ...
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Closing off site for external mail connections
A client of mine has a linux/cpanel based web server (VPS), which at some point in the past was also the primary mail server for the domain. It is no longer receiving mail (MX records were changed to ...
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Exim Filter to change recipient
Lets say I have this filter for user1 who doesn't exist on our network, but has an external email we want to send the emails to:
if
$header_to: matches "user1@domain.com"
then
deliver "user1@...
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Reject all Microsoft Office attachments
I have had enough of spam coming to my server with Microsoft Office attachments. No one I care about ever sends me Microsoft Office documents so I would like to reject (with a polite message) all ...
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How to change real name with exim?
When I send an email through exim, I get a From line that looks something like this:
From: smith <smith@example.com>
^^^^^
How do I get exim to change the part marked above?
I can ...
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Vestacp - exim mail forward goes to spam in gmail
I dont undestand why mail what forward mail re-send like spam. On server I use exim and VESTA Control panel. Here is source of the mail:
Delivered-To: emailforforward@gmail.com
Received: by 10.107....
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Exim: how to log email body
How can I log the body of an email in Exim?
My specific need is to trace why an email from user www-data is being generated every so often - I can see the record of its delivery in the Exim logs, but ...
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How to send email from the command line with specified sender on Debian Wheezy with Exim4?
I have search for ages trying to find out how to do this:
How can I send email from the command line and specify the sender address on a box with Debian 7.8 and Exim4?
This does not work:
mail -s "...
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Exim: How to send email (with headers) from command line?
I can use
echo "My Mail content" | exim my@email.com
to send an email, but it does not contain a subject for the message
How can I send an email with subject, "From" and "Reply-To" Headers from the ...
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How do I block exim from sending spam?
My exim 4 is sending spam from a random-name@mydomain.com address. How is this possible and how do I allow only www-data@localhost to send and to only deliver from myname@mydomain.com to myname@gmail....
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How to forward emails leaving the original intact
I have a requirement to "copy" all emails going to person A's email to person B leaving the original intact. If I forward the emails, they are no longer in person A's folder.
Any ideas how to do ...
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How to disable bounce emails in exim?
How to disable bounce emails in exim ?
I don't want the server to send a bounce message when the email not exists.
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Slow SMTP connections to Google memory overload ( Controlling Exim timeouts)
Our organization has several servers that generate and send out lots of emails (we're not spammers, it's legit email to users who have asked for it). Exim on these machines is configured to only try ...
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How to find out who (what process) is starting another process?
So no matter how many times I kill exim4 it immediately comes back to life. I have stopped the service and everything but something is bringing it back to life and using it for spamming.
How do I ...
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Enable DKIM header in sent emails Exim or CPanel
I have enabled DKIM in WHM/CPanel/exim. DNS has valid DKIM keys for "default" selector.
Everything seems ok.
I downloaded email from gmail and looked in header and it misses DKIM header.
/var/cpanel/...
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Exim is ignoring my ACL definitions for blacklists
As I am running several free sites which are CMS - based spammers are massivly attacking me. So I decided to set up my exim4 - installation for blacklisting domains.
Exim seems not to care about any ...
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Postfix corrupting Japanese characters
I'm having a problem with certain Japanese characters being corrupted when sent by my MTA, Postfix.
I've done some trial and error sending the same message from approx 7 different servers running ...
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AjentiV Mail Server Setup
AjentiV recently added support for mail server/ mail forward. I have been trying to get mail working on my domain but I have never set up courier or exim. I was wondering if anyone has instructions on ...
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Exim fails to send Gitlab message with "no recipient addresses" error
I am setting up a Gitlab server and am finishing the installation.
While everything with Gitlab runs fine, the verification of email addresses fails. I am getting the following error:
Date: Wed, 08 ...
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Hide exim4 version from email headers
I've setup exim4 on a ubuntu 12.04 server.
When an email is sent, the current "Received" header has the following content:
Received: from user by example.com with local (Exim 4.76)
(envelope-from &...
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Is it possible to limit number of emails per user per period on Exim?
I'm wondering if it's possible to limit number of emails allowed from a specific email account on Exim (maybe set a 20 email per hour limit for ab@test.com).
I'd like to see if I can use this as a ...
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With exim4 and notmuch, should .Archive be a file or a folder?
I'm following The Hacker's Replacement for Gmail, using (as suggested) Debian 7 on a VPS.
If I configure it for "normal" IMAP I can successfully receive email into INBOX. So I'm doing something right....
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