You are right. I guess I homed in on mikepultz.com as it seemed the more generic (or less Debian). I have send a posting on mikepultz.com asking if they could make the examples a little more clear.
My point remains - the ambiguity of the error message. Other errors - like when I made the file unreadable - where quite clear. I'm not the first person to be caught out either. On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 18:25 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2014-10-11 at 18:18 +0200, Mark Elkins wrote: > > I followed various guides on DKIM and Exim.. > > > > http://www.iodigitalsec.com/exim-dkim-and-debian-configuration/ > > http://www.systemajik.com/blog/implementing-dkim-with-exim/ > > http://mikepultz.com/2010/02/using-dkim-in-exim/ > [...] > > On further examination - all my file references in exim.conf have full > > pathnames, yet all examples for DKIM have a relative pathname. Is there > > a Global Variable for relative Pathnames? Is this a Debian thing? - I'm > > running Gentoo. > > I may be missing something, but two of the three URLs you mentioned use > absolute paths. > > iodigitalsec: DKIM_PRIVATE_KEY = /etc/exim4/dkim.27564764.key > systemmajik: DKIM_PRIVATE_KEY = CONFDIR/dkim.private.rsa1 > (where CONFDIR is a global macro) > > The mikepultz post doesn't, but also doesn't explicitly specify where to > create the key in the first place. > > Regards, > > Adam > > -- Mark James ELKINS - Posix Systems - (South) Africa [email protected] Tel: +27.128070590 Cell: +27.826010496 For fast, reliable, low cost Internet in ZA: https://ftth.posix.co.za
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