Package: exim4-config Version: 4.67-5 Severity: normal Hi,
When dealing with the debconf template about 'Machines to relay mail for', the wording says 'Please enter a semicolon-separated list of IP address ranges for which this system will unconditionally relay mail, functioning as a smarthost.' But in the (rare) case a single IPv6 address (with no semicolon in the input) is given (like, as an example, 2002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001/128), it seems to be understood by the debconf machinery as an old-style colon separated list. (I have not yet identified the responsible piece of code.) The /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated has then: .ifndef MAIN_RELAY_NETS MAIN_RELAY_NETS=2002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001/128 : 127.0.0.1 : ::::1 .endif (and the relay does not work -- with a real address, obviously --). One workaround I have found is to add a semicolon in the template field (like '2002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001/128;') and then /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated has: .ifndef MAIN_RELAY_NETS MAIN_RELAY_NETS=<; 2002:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001/128; ; 127.0.0.1 ; ::1 .endif (that works.) I suppose doubling the colons might work too (I have not tried it). As the setting of having one single IPv6 address to relay might be quite uncommon, the main purpose of this bug report is to properly report and document this weird behaviour. (Maybe add a sentence to the debconf template?) Thanks for your work on exim4. Best regards, Frédéric Lehobey -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.67 #1 built 28-Jun-2007 13:09:54 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006 Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September 6, 2005) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dsearch nis nis0 passwd Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4-config depends on: ii adduser 3.103 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.13 Debian configuration management sy exim4-config recommends no packages. -- debconf information excluded
