On Tue 10 May 2016 at 12:56:47 -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2016 17:03:47 +0100 > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > >Didn't spot that; exim's .confs can be confusing. What file is used for > >non-split configuration? > > > > Not meaning to send this to you, Brian, but I lost the previous message. > > I would like to know that, too. Since /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf > has the following at the beginning:
>From a previous Sven Hartge post https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/05/msg00426.html you need to use "a file called "/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros", which will then get included in the autogenerated config file". I've not tried it but the advice looks kosher. > # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf > # > # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf > # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' > > That would seem to me to be the way to make it work. /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf is for configuring how Debian's exim4 basically works for sending or receiving mail, not for setting exim4 specific parameters which modify the sending or receiving.