[Pkg-exim4-users] smarthost-config not working; unrouteable, frozen

[Christoph Krell]

Andreas Metzler schrieb:
> Christoph Krell <christoph.krell at xidras.com> wrote:
> [...]
>   
>> I had exim4 running on debian 5.0 before, but i had to switch back to 
>> 4.0, so i decided to copy the /etc/exim4, but that just didn't work.
>> So i deleted the /etc/exim4 by hand (that was a bad idea, got me in 
>> trouble when reinstalling) and ended up reinstalling all exim4-packages.
>>     
>
>   
>> Unfortunatly, exim4 still won't work. I get the following errors for 
>> every mail:
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> error message to root at ETC_MAILNAME (frozen)
>>     
> [...]
>   
>> Don't know where to look at. Could there be some old config-files that 
>> are still interfering?
>>     
> [...]
>
> Either that, or some missing ones.
>
> Do you still have a copy of the old working exim4 configuration for
> Debian 5.0?
>
> If yes you could simply echange your broken /etc/exim4 with the backup
> copy and install exim4 from backports.org.
>
> If not I would go through the painful reinstall route:
>
> dpkg --force-depends --purge exim4-config
> apt-get install exim4-config
>
> cu andreas
>   

All i got is the old /etc/exim4 directory, would that be enough?

Why would the reinstall route be painful, are there any side-effects?


@Ken:

nemesis:~# cat /etc/mailname
mediadesign.at


thanks,
Christoph