Exim ignoring /etc/default/exim4

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2025-08-12 "Terry M. Roy via Pkg-exim4-users" <pkg-exim4-users at alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> Hi,

> I recently upgraded from Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie.  After the
> upgrade and a reboot, Exim no longer listened on port 465. I verified that I
> had both ports 25 and 465 set in /etc/default/exim4 SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS.
[...]
> I then tried to turn on debugging in /etc/default/exim4 with absolutely no
> luck.
[...]
> Now the question is how to set debugging.  Any suggestions?
[...]


Hello,

I have personally never changed /etc/default/exim4 to start exim with debug
options, I either stopped the main daemon and ran
exim -d -bd
or started a second daemon on a different port on the commandline with
-d.

There is also the
control = debug/<options>
ACL modifier.

cu Andreas
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