Bug#625647: exim4: Exim configuration error→error in ACL: unknown ACL condition/modifier

[Cyril Brulebois]

Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.75-2+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: Trivial configuration but non-working package

Hi,

upgrading exim4 from 4.75-2 to 4.75-2+b1 broke my quite trivial and
straightforward smarthost configuration:
| Starting MTA:2011-05-04 21:03:21 Exim configuration error in line 236 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
|   error in ACL: unknown ACL condition/modifier in "{/etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist}{}}"
| Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing
| /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
| invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.

The whole block around it is:
| begin acl
| 
| acl_local_deny_exceptions:
|   accept
|     hosts = ${if exists{CONFDIR/host_local_deny_exceptions}\
|                  {CONFDIR/host_local_deny_exceptions}\
|                  {}}
|   accept
|     senders = ${if exists{CONFDIR/sender_local_deny_exceptions}\
|                    {CONFDIR/sender_local_deny_exceptions}\
|                    {}}
|   accept
|     hosts = ${if exists{CONFDIR/local_host_whitelist}\
|                  {CONFDIR/local_host_whitelist}\
|                  {}}
|   accept
|     senders = ${if exists{CONFDIR/local_sender_whitelist}\
|                    {CONFDIR/local_sender_whitelist}\
|                    {}}
| 
|   .ifdef LOCAL_DENY_EXCEPTIONS_LOCAL_ACL_FILE
|   .include LOCAL_DENY_EXCEPTIONS_LOCAL_ACL_FILE
|   .endif
| 
|   .ifdef WHITELIST_LOCAL_DENY_LOCAL_ACL_FILE
|   .include WHITELIST_LOCAL_DENY_LOCAL_ACL_FILE
|   .endif

Not sure it's related to #624696 so filing this bug for now.

Mraw,
KiBi.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.75 #1 built 03-May-2011 18:06:24
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.1.25: (January 28, 2011)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.10.5
GnuTLS runtime version: 2.10.5
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost'
dc_other_hostnames='caol-ila.home.mraw.org'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
dc_readhost='mraw.org'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='kitty.home.mraw.org'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:caol-ila.home.mraw.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]        1.5.39      Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                   4.75-2+b1   support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                        2.13-2      Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdb5.1                     5.1.25-10   Berkeley v5.1 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26                  2.10.5-1+b1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpcre3                     8.12-3      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

exim4-daemon-light suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4-daemon-light/drec:
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