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

[Ross Boylan]

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:
> > Running exim4-daemon-heavy 4.69-9+lenny4 to use a smarthost, initially
> > update-exim4.conf.conf had
> > dc_relay_nets=''.
> > I edited the file so that it was
> > dc_relay_nets='127.0.0.1 : ::1 : 192.168.0.0/16'
> > and ran update-exim4.conf and then /etc/init.d/exim4 reload
> 
> Try a semicolon as list separator. The docs say that we took care to
> keep colon separated lists working, but I have not relied on that in
> years.
I simplified by eliminating the autogenerated ips and now have
dc_relay_nets='192.168.0.0/16'

However, the configuration machinery itself has generated the :'s
MAIN_RELAY_NETS=192.168.0.0/16 : 127.0.0.1 : ::::1
in config.autogenerated
> 
> man update-exim4.conf.conf might help.
> 
> > 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 (?).

Ross
> 
> Greetings
> Marc
>