{"id":17835,"date":"2013-03-08T17:08:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=17835"},"modified":"2019-02-01T15:06:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T13:06:43","slug":"redmine-email-notifications-with-exim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/08\/redmine-email-notifications-with-exim\/","title":{"rendered":"Redmine email notifications with Exim"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>When configuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmine.org\/\">Redmine<\/a> project management to send email notifications, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exim.org\/\">Exim MTA<\/a>, you might end up with test emails bouncing due to no&nbsp;recipients&nbsp;specified. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a bit tricky to debug, but, fortunately, quite easy to fix. &nbsp;The problem comes from different implementations of &#8220;<em>-t<\/em>&#8221; option handling for <em>\/usr\/sbin\/sendmail<\/em>. &nbsp;Redmine uses this option to specify on the command line to specify message&nbsp;recipients&nbsp; &nbsp;However, Exim by default uses a different behavior, where it gets&nbsp;recipients&nbsp;from the message headers, and <strong>removes<\/strong> from that list&nbsp;recipients&nbsp;which are provided using the &#8220;<em>-t<\/em>&#8221; command line option.<\/p>\n<p>The solution to the problem is a very simple &#8211; just add the following line to your <em>\/etc\/exim\/exim.conf<\/em> file, as per <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.dvgu.ru\/admin\/exim\/FAQ_19.html#TOC337\">this FAQ<\/a>:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nextract_addresses_remove_arguments = false\n<\/pre>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>When configuring Redmine project management to send email notifications, using Exim MTA, you might end up with test emails bouncing due to no&nbsp;recipients&nbsp;specified. &nbsp;It&#8217;s a bit tricky to debug, but, fortunately, quite easy to fix. &nbsp;The problem comes from different implementations of &#8220;-t&#8221; option handling for \/usr\/sbin\/sendmail. &nbsp;Redmine uses this option to specify on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/08\/redmine-email-notifications-with-exim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Redmine email notifications with Exim<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[72,3144,1220,3318,3145],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-17835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-email","tag-exim","tag-notifications","tag-qobo","tag-redmine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When configuring Redmine project management to send email notifications, using Exim MTA, you might end up with test emails bouncing due to no recipients specified. 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