Bug#301906: exim4: Mail messages sent to local addresses are lost

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 04:56:27PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2005-03-29 15:27:05 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > NEWS.Debian is a must-read on unstable boxes, and the changelog maybe
> > as well.
> 
> Yes, but unfortunately, it is presented just like the ChangeLog,
> so that it is confusing.

*shrug* I am not in a position to change _that_

> > Do you do that just for the sake of having a different smarthost?
> 
> Yes, something like that. On some networks, I need
> dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet' because the smarthost
> is broken (and with dhcp, since I don't know how to get the
> smarthost), and on other networks, I need to use a smarthost
> because of firewalls.

I see. May I suggest that your ifdown code generates warnings if
ue4.conf.conf was changed inside a session?

Thankfully, I only have to change smarthosts, and am doing this by my
ifupdown code dropping an appropriate snippet into
/etc/exim4/conf.d/

Greetings
Marc

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