Exim Frequently Asked Questions

Top Questions

• How do I stop Exim being an open relay?

• How can I send a copy of all outgoing messages to another mailbox?

• How can I check addresses against a Microsoft Exchange server?

• What should I put in my acl_smtp_rcpt ACL?

• I've got a queue full of "bounce" messages. How do I get rid of them?

• Does Exim support POP and/or IMAP, or do I have to install something else to do that?

• How do I filter out spam?
  • Yeah, a can of worms, I know. But I suspect it's a question people keep asking...

If your question wasn't in the list above, try a search, or consult the complete categorised list below:

FAQ Categories

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• General Debugging

• Building and Installing

• Routing in general

• Routing to remote hosts

• Routing for local delivery

• Filtering

• Delivery

• Policy controls

• ContentScanningFrequentQuestions

• Rewriting addresses

• Headers

• Performance

• Majordomo

• Fetchmail

• Perl

• Dial-up and ISDN

• UUCP

• Modifying message bodies

• Encryption (TLS/SSL)

• Millennium

• Miscellaneous

• OS-specific FAQs:

  • Mac OS X

  • FreeBSD

  • HP-UX

  • BSDI

  • IRIX

  • Linux

  • Sun systems

  • Microsoft Windows

• Configuration cookbook

• List of sample configurations

Missing FAQ Entries:

• How can I select messages from my queue for deletion or other processing?

  • Solution: exipick/exiqgrep | xargs exim -Mfoo

• Q: How can I quickly disable a router?
  • A: Put a line "condition = false" into the router options. Note that "condition = false # disabled" does not work, since the # character is only regarded as a comment when it appears at the beginning of a line.

• CategoryFrequentlyAskedQuestions