Bug#470908: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config fails

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 02:49:58PM +0200, Lars Noodén wrote:
> 2008-03-14 14:48:50 Exim configuration error in line 598 of
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>   option setting expected: }
> Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
> not installing /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to
> /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

This looks to me like something/body has messed with the
configuration, rendering it invalid. On my etch reference system,
lines 588 to 608 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated say:

address_file:
  debug_print = "T: address_file for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = appendfile
  delivery_date_add
  envelope_to_add
  return_path_add

address_pipe:
  debug_print = "T: address_pipe for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = pipe
  return_fail_output

address_reply:
  debug_print = "T: autoreply for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = autoreply

mail_spool:
  debug_print = "T: appendfile for $local_part@$domain"
  driver = appendfile
  file = /var/mail/$local_part
  delivery_date_add

no "{" visible.

Please give the output of
sed -n '588,608p;' /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
or better, send your entire /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

Greetings
Marc

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