Bug#515668: update-exim4.conf expands wildcards with local filenames

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-02-16 Markus Koller <markus-koller at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.69-9

> Hello

> After upgrading to Lenny I found that my Exim4 configuration didn't work
> anymore. I use it as a spam relay which forwards mail to the actual mail
> server, so I use dc_relay_domains='*' and additional configuration which
> verifies the address using recipient callouts.

> Now I discovered that the problem was that update-exim4.conf replaces the
> asterisk with the filenames in /etc/exim4 in /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.
> I was able to solve it by adding a backslash before the wildcard.

> It seems this bug was introduced sometime after the etch version (4.63-17).
> Otherwise, the upgrade worked really well so far (still got about 40 servers
> to do...)


Hello,
Using "set -f" in update-exim4.conf seems to hotfix this.

cu andreas
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