dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config is broken or not fully installed

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If this does work, verify that youre actually talking to your exim.

Ask it on the Debian exim4 user mailing list where it is less likely to be missed.

It is appreciated if you could announce your changes on the Debian exim4 user mailing list to have them reviewed.

Of course, if your change is trivial, you dont need to do that.

Thus, dpkg-reconfiguring exim4, exim4-base or one of the daemon packages is not going to work.

Please use dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config or edit etcexim4update-exim4.conf.conf directly.

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More information can be found in the manual page for update-exim4.conf.

If you want to participate in global e-mail, reconfigure your exim and choose a different General type of mail configuration.

If the HELOEHLO name does not match the reverse DNS of the originating IP, the message is rejected or scored appropriately.

The name used by Exim in EHLOHELO is pulled from configuration option primaryhostname.

If that call only returns one component, gethostbyname() or getipnodebyname() is used to obtain the fully qualified host name.

If your Exim HELOs as localhost.localdomain, then you have most probably a misconfigured etchosts created by some versions of the Debian installer.

Please refrain from using primaryhostname unless you cannot avoid using it.

It enhances the complexity of your configuration and leads to error issues that are a hell to debug.

There is currently a bug in the optional package libnss-myhostname ( ) which breaks the above mechanism of obtaining the fully qualified host name.

If you do not need libnss-myhostname, removing this package resolves the corresponding problem.

Most probably the documentation of the third-party tool is going to help you to create a working integration in Debians exim configuration.

You might not be able to use their point-and-drool step-by-step instructions, but with a moderate amount of reading and abstraction is going to deliver a working configuration.

The documentation delivered with Debians exim4 packages might help.

In this post-processing step, done by update-exim4.conf, the DEBCONFfooDEBCONF strings are replaced with values pulled from etcexim4update-exim4.conf.conf and system configuration.

Please note that the string DEBCONF is kind of a misnomer since the strings are not directly pulled from the Debconf database, but from user-editable conffiles instead.

When the account name does not fit the table layout (as it is the case for Debian-exim), ps displays the uid as a number.

If you want to use your exim as a smart host, please enter the IP ranges your exim should relay for into dcrelaynets in etcexim4update-exim4.conf.conf or reconfigure exim using debconf.

Please note that you cannot use this mechanism if your client is on a dynamic IP as your clients IP address changes.

In these case, use SMTP AUTH to have your client authenticate before relaying.

Dpkg-Reconfigure Exim4-Config Is Broken Or Not Fully Installed