Exim4 config feedback..

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 10:31:43AM +1100, Jeff Turner wrote:
> I recently upgraded Debian, and attempted to configure exim4.  After my
> best attempts at answering dpkg-reconfigure questions, I was still
> getting these errors:
> 
> 2005-12-02 09:41:34 1Ehx7O-0003Kr-LJ ** jeff at atlassian.com: Unrouteable address
> 2005-12-02 09:41:34 1Ehx7O-0003Kt-Qq <= <> R=1Ehx7O-0003Kr-LJ U=Debian-exim P=local S=1267
> 2005-12-02 09:41:34 1Ehx7O-0003Kr-LJ Completed
> 2005-12-02 09:41:34 1Ehx7O-0003Kt-Qq ** jeff at atlassian.com: Unrouteable address
> 2005-12-02 09:41:34 1Ehx7O-0003Kt-Qq Frozen (delivery error message)
> 2005-12-02 09:46:01 1EhxBh-0003Nh-Mp <= jeff at atlassian.com U=jturner P=local S=430 id=20051201224601.GA12996 at atlassian.com

That looks like a DNS issue. what does "dig mx atlassian.com" say on
the system? What does exim -bV | grep '^Configuration' say, and what's
the contents of your /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf?

> Fine, I remember having to add "trusted_users = mail:jturner" in my exim3
> config.. but I couldn't find any indication of how to set this in exim4.
> Should I be editing the conf.d files?  Adding stuff to the .conf.conf
> file?  I skimmed TFM in /usr/share/doc/exim4-config, searched Google, but
> couldn't find how to set extra params.

/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/README.Debian.gz would have answered your
question.

> So I switched to exim, which has one config file that has no macros or
> anything and Just Works.

and is unmaintained upstream since 3 years. We would have appreciated
if you had given us the opportunity to iron out a possible bug in the
package.

Greetings
Marc

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