[Pkg-exim4-users] exim4 (lenny) MAIN_ALLOW_DOMAIN_LITERALS

[Andreas Baitis]

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:41, Holger Wirtz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after crawling through nearby the whole internet I have not found what I
> am searching for. I hope this list cann help...
>
> I need to activate DOMAIN_LITERALS in exim4 (lenny). I found that I have
> to enable the Macro MAIN_ALLOW_DOMAIN_LITERALS. But where do I have to
> do this? And how to I activate this?
>
> TIA, Holger


This is from etch, don't know if it's the same for lenny?

Check the /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz in lenny

<README.Debian>

2.1.3. Using Exim Macros to control the configuration

   Our configuration can be controlled in a limited way by setting
   macros. That way, you can switch on and off certain parts of the
   default configuration without having to touch the dpkg-conffiles.
   While touching dpkg-conffiles itself is explitly allowed and wanted,
   it can be quite a nuisance to be asked on package upgrade whether one
   wants to use the locally changed file or the file changed by the
   package maintainer.

   Whenever you see an .ifdef or .ifndef clause in the configuration
   file, you can control the appropriate clause by setting the macro in a
   local configuration file. For split configuration, you can drop the
   local configuration file anywhere in /etc/exim4/conf.d/main. Just make
   sure it gets read before the macro is first used. 000_localmacros is a
   possible name, guaranteeing first order. For a non-split
   configuration, /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros gets read before
   /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template. To actually set the macro
   EXIM4_EXAMPLE to the value "this is a sample", write the following
   line

   EXIM4_EXAMPLE = this is a sample

   into the appropriate file. For more detailed discussion of the general
   macro mechanism, see the exim specification, chapter 6.4, for details
   how macro expansion works.

</README.Debian>


So you would set:

MAIN_ALLOW_DOMAIN_LITERALS = true

in either /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros for non-split 
or /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/000_localmacros for split configuration.

Regards Andreas