On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 06:15:33PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch via Exim-users wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to upgrade my server from Debian Jessie to Debian Stretch. I am afraid 
> that at some time during the upgrade process, there is an invalid exim 
> configuration and messages get rejected. 

The whole process is not so much about exim as farmore how the packet 
management works.

(1) If you have your own configuration file in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
there will be no such problem. 

(2) If you have configured your Exim using the debian packet configuration
there also would be no problem.

(3) If you are running a modified configuration derived from the debian 
configuration there might be a glitch but this would be unlikely.

> Can anybody recommend one of the approaches or even propose something 
> better...?

- in case of (3) you also can:
  - prevent exim from starting: set "exit 0" as first line in /etc/default/exim4
  - create a packet filter rule dropping connections to port 25/tcp
  - create /etc/exim4/exim4.conf which just makes exim return SMTP error 451

HTH

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Christian Recktenwald
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