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

[Holger Wirtz]

Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 06:02:41PM +1000, Andreas Baitis wrote:
> 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

Argh - found it. I read /usr/share/doc/exim/... and there was no
interesting information. Perhaps a hangover from etch...

I think I just have to read it completly before asking again. 

> <README.Debian>
> 
> 2.1.3. Using Exim Macros to control the configuration
[...]
> </README.Debian>
> 
> 
> So you would set:
> 
> MAIN_ALLOW_DOMAIN_LITERALS = true
> 
> in either /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros for non-split 

This seems to be /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf (yes with double
conf).

> or /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/000_localmacros for split configuration.

The configuration building seems to be something strange... at least it
does not what I thaught. Yes: I have to read the aboce doc.

As Marc wrote it also seems to be a problem from exim4 itself... 

Thanks, Holger

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