Bug#279103: exim4-daemon-heavy: option "mysql_servers" unknown

Jeff Bowden Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com>, 279103@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 06 Nov 2004 15:59:54 -0800


Andreas Metzler wrote:

>tags 279103 unreproducible
>thanks
>On 2004-10-31 Jeff Bowden <jlb@houseofdistraction.com> wrote:
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>>Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
>>Version: 4.34-6
>>Severity: normal
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>>When I try to tell it how to talk to mysql using
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>>  hide mysql_servers = localhost/<database>/<username>/<password>
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>>and then when I execute update-exim4.conf I get the error message
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>>  option "mysql_servers" unknown
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>I cannot reproduce this, if I add *exactly*
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>hide mysql_servers = localhost/<database>/<username>/<password>
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>to the main options section exim accepts it without problems. Did you
>put it in the wrong section of the configuration file? Is this the
>complete error message?
>              cu andreas
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It's possible that I put it in the wrong section.  I'm not really sure 
what the right section is what with all these files.  I put it in one of 
the files in the auth directory.  But I'm over it now as I am using 
saslauthd rather than mysql.