[Pkg-exim4-users] Package cleanup, reinstalling, & misc manual config questions

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-03-04 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Matt Weatherford wrote:
[...]
>> Will this get everything so I can do a reinstall
>> cleanly? Are there other files elsewhere that I need to purge?

> Should be. You might want to look whether the Debian-exim account is
> gone, and all files belonging to it, and whether /var/spool/exim4 and
> /var/lib/exim4 is gone.

Hello,
The Debian-exim accont will not be gone. It is intentionally not deleted
on purge.

[...]
>> 5) Is there some class of configuration that I can set up which causes
>> exim4 to not use the local /etc/aliases file?   Depending on my config,
>> it sometimes works, and sometimes doesnt. I want to understand this
>> behavior.

> /etc/aliases is used for local domains only, so choosing "no local
> mail" will probably not execute the system_aliases router.

> exim -bt address will show you the routing steps for an address. Add

  exim4 -bt address

> the -d option for lots of debug output.

Just some minor corrections. ;-)
               cu andreas
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