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Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on *nix. It is licensed under the GNU GPL, so is Free software.

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on *nix. It is licensed under the GNU GPL, so is Free software.

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How can I bcc with mailx?

I'm trying to send unix mail (heirloom-mailx) via bcc. $ mail -V 12.5 6/20/10 My MTA is exim, which sends via Gmail SMTP. I can execute the following: echo -e "body" | mail -s 'subject' -b [email protected],[email protected]…
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How to check if my e-mail goes to recipient's spam folder?

I'm using Exim as an MTA to send emails. Is it possible to get notified if an email goes into the recipient's spam folder?
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Why is exim4 listening on port 25?

Am I misinterpreting the results of netstat -anp --tcp --udp | grep LISTEN wrong, or does the output mean, that the process exim4 is listening to the outside on port 25: tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN …
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Mail delivery notices are correctly delivered, actual mail isn't

I have configured the Debian workstations at our department to use Exim 4 for mail delivery. Also I have created an alias such that I receive all the root emails. The Exim 4 configuration (via Ansible and debconf) has those…
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How to configure Exim to forward all incoming mail to new server?

I am moving servers, both of them running Debian (oldstable and stable). Both are running Exim4. When I switch the DNS entries over to the new server, I'd like the old server to still forward incoming mail to my new server for processing, so that…
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The first email bounces; the second and subsequent emails go through

550 relay not permitted That's the error message when email sent by Exim4 from my Debian laptop bounces. What's weird is that only the first email bounces. Second and subsequent emails pass through the relay and on to their destinations just fine.…
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Exim: Email to root ignores /etc/aliases and /root/.forward - always used qualifies domain name

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config asks for a domain name to "qualify" email addresses of local users such as root. Let's say I've set this setting to qualified.example.com - this causes all email sent to simply root to go to…
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How can I disable old TLS versions in exim?

I'm running an Exim MTA which only receives emails from a few other systems under my control. All these systems happily negotiate TLSv1.2/TLSv1.3 with my MTA. I would like to disable support for TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 but I can't find instructions on…
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How to blackhole an external address in an exim relay server without rewriting?

I have a scenario where email is sent through my outbound relay with a do-not-reply 'To:' recipient (the actual recipients are BCCd). Example of what these emails look like: From: To: Bcc:…
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Complete setup of Exim4 as SMTP to reach most inboxes as possible (correct configuration)

I have over the last days tried to setup Exim4 to handle all mails sent from a web application. It seems to be working, but I haven't found out how to hardcode the hostname which will be sent with EHLO? (I don't want to set /etc/hostname) Have found…
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Redirect all incoming email to a Python script

I'd like to manage all email incoming to *@example.com with a Python script running on my server, which will do various jobs. I've already done a DNS MX record for example.com, directing it my server: mx.example.com MX …
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spamassassin does not honour local.cf

I updated my /etc/spamassassin/local.cf spamassassin file to update some score rules. However, even after restarting spamassassin (via service), the new score are not shown in spam emails. In fact, nothing in that file seem to influence how…
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SMTP Server Dovecot / Exim Authentication error

Recently, I've installed the centOS 6. The purpose of the installation to use this server as Mail server. Where I've installed Exim version 4.84_2 #1 and Dovecot. I've followed this blog post and I've tried to solve the below given error, however I…
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Is it a correct way to clear the exim mail queue?

I use the following command to delete the exim mail queues exiqgrep -i | xargs exim -Mrm or # following commands seems to work faster compared to the above. exim -bpru | awk {'print $3'} | xargs exim -Mrm But the above commands do not work when…
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How to override email address used by at command

cron has MAILTO setting to explicitly configure the email address that will receive the report Does at have anything of the kind? Man page says it will send using /usr/sbin/sendmail but which destination address will be used? I only have exim…
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