Pkg exim4 users - Mar 2005 - Package cleanup, reinstalling, & misc manual config questions

Fellow Eximers,

I have a few questions (may be simply confirmations):

I''m seeing odd/non-reproducable behaviour with Exim4 on Sarge
I want to clear off the entire exim3/exim4 pacakage and reinstall
with all the defaults to see if I can get a clean setup.

1) What is the recommended way to clean off all related files?

I tried :

  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-daemon-light
  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-base
  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-config
  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4

Will this get everything so I can do a reinstall
cleanly? Are there other files elsewhere that I need to purge?


2)  I am not getting the behaviour I expect from the config file that
gets set up as a result of answering the debconf questions.
(Runnning "dpkg-reconfigure exim4")

If I want to change settings by hand, what is the file that I edit?

3) After I change that file, I assume I need to do:

/usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart

Is there anything else I''m missing?


4) I am using exim4-* (sarge) 4.44-2
Are there any known bugs in the autoconfig process with a clean install
or subsequent, repeated "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" runs?


5) Is there some class of configuration that I can set up which causes
exim4 to not use the local /etc/aliases file?   Depending on my config,
it sometimes works, and sometimes doesnt. I want to understand this
behavior.


Most of All, thank you to the folks shedding blood, sweat, and tears to make
this package availible in the Sarge distribution!

Thanks,

Matt


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On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Matt Weatherford
wrote:
> I''m seeing odd/non-reproducable behaviour with Exim4 on Sarge
Can you outline what happens?
> I want to clear off the entire exim3/exim4 pacakage and reinstall
> with all the defaults to see if I can get a clean setup.
> 
> 1) What is the recommended way to clean off all related files?
> 
> I tried :
> 
>  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-daemon-light
>  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-base
>  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-config
>  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4
you can put all four package names on a single command-line, but you
still need force-depends since you likely have packages depending on
m-t-a on your system.
> Will this get everything so I can do a reinstall
> cleanly? Are there other files elsewhere that I need to purge?
Should be. You might want to look whether the Debian-exim account is
gone, and all files belonging to it, and whether /var/spool/exim4 and
/var/lib/exim4 is gone.
> 2)  I am not getting the behaviour I expect from the config file that
> gets set up as a result of answering the debconf questions.
> (Runnning "dpkg-reconfigure exim4")
> 
> If I want to change settings by hand, what is the file that I edit?
Depends. If what you want to use is with in Debconf scope, edit
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf. If you want to do something outside
debconf scope, you either need to edit the appropriate file in
/etc/exim4/conf.d, or /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template, depending on
whether you have chosen split or non-split config.
> 3) After I change that file, I assume I need to do:
> 
> /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf
> /etc/init.d/exim4 restart
> 
> Is there anything else I''m missing?
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart is enough, it invokes update-exim4.conf.
> 4) I am using exim4-* (sarge) 4.44-2
> Are there any known bugs in the autoconfig process with a clean install
> or subsequent, repeated "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" runs?
All known bugs are visible in the Debian BTS.
> 5) Is there some class of configuration that I can set up which causes
> exim4 to not use the local /etc/aliases file?   Depending on my config,
> it sometimes works, and sometimes doesnt. I want to understand this
> behavior.
/etc/aliases is used for local domains only, so choosing "no local
mail" will probably not execute the system_aliases router.

exim -bt address will show you the routing steps for an address. Add
the -d option for lots of debug output.

Greetings
Marc

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On 2005-03-04 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-users@zugschlus.de>
wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 03:24:35PM -0800, Matt Weatherford wrote:
[...]
>> Will this get everything so I can do a reinstall
>> cleanly? Are there other files elsewhere that I need to purge?
> Should be. You might want to look whether the Debian-exim account is
> gone, and all files belonging to it, and whether /var/spool/exim4 and
> /var/lib/exim4 is gone.
Hello,
The Debian-exim accont will not be gone. It is intentionally not deleted
on purge.

[...]
>> 5) Is there some class of configuration that I can set up which causes
>> exim4 to not use the local /etc/aliases file?   Depending on my config,
>> it sometimes works, and sometimes doesnt. I want to understand this
>> behavior.
> /etc/aliases is used for local domains only, so choosing "no local
> mail" will probably not execute the system_aliases router.
> exim -bt address will show you the routing steps for an address. Add
  exim4 -bt address
> the -d option for lots of debug output.
Just some minor corrections. ;-)
               cu andreas
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