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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2005-03-29 18:58:39 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Did you by any chance have that funky "unconditionally overwrite
> ue4.conf.conf on each network change" configuation scheme in place
> when you did that upgrade?

Yes, since I rebooted the machine.

diffmon watches for various configuration files every night, including
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf, but unfortunately, according to the
log files and mail headers, I rebooted the machine a few hours after
upgrading exim4, so that diffmon didn't have the time to detect the
change.

BTW, /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf says:

# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'

so the user may think that he has the full control of this file,
and I probably thought that when I switched to m4 to generate
the file. Compare to what is said at the beginning of
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated for instance. And I don't
remember of any announce saying that the file had been changed
during the upgrade.

IMHO, the comment should be updated.

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