[Pkg-exim4-users] relaying not working, temporarily?

[Andreas Metzler]

Ross Boylan <RossBoylan at stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 23:05 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:21:57PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
[...]
>>> Then, later, it seemed to be working.  Does reload not affect the ACL's,
>>> or at least not for awhile?  I don't think I've done
>>> an /etc/init.d/exim4 restart since altering the config.

>> reload re-generates the config and tells exim to re-read it, so you
>> should be fine.
> I only ran update-exim4.conf, not /etc/init.d/exim4 anything.  Hence my
> theory that the running server process did not pick up the new config at
> first.  I'm not sure if it noticed eventually, got restarted, or maybe I
> did /etc/init.d/exim4 reload or restart and forgot (?).

Hello,
update-exim4.conf just regenerates the file, it does not send HUP to
the daemon to re-read it. This can cause strange errors because the
listening daemon still has the old configuration but forked processes
handling incoming connections and delivery work with the new
configuration.

cu andreas
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