Bug#921834: exim4-config: Running dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config only shows first screen

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2019-02-09 Günter Frenz <guefz at guefz.de> wrote:
> Am Sat, 9 Feb 2019 13:36:27 +0100 kam folgendes bei mir an:
[...]
> > If I strip down your update-exim4.conf.conf file to the non-comment
> > lines
> > -------------
[...]
> With or without using -plow I get this result:

> dc_eximconfig_configtype=''
> dc_other_hostnames='corinnis.guefz.de'
[...]
> It seems that the original file is not read. Despite having smarthost
> in the original file, the first dialog has marked Internet-Server and
> no matter which option I choose, after the first dialog execution ends
> and I get the result from above.

Hello,
Have you also stripped down the the file to non-commentlines only?

> What else should I check?

Running

env EX4DEBUG=y DEBIAN_FRONTEND=readline dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config 

and aborting at the first question with Ctrl-C might produce something
helpful.

cu Andreas
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