Am Samstag, 13. April 2019, 21:37:19 CEST schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > Thanks, Christian, for your reply. > > Am Samstag, 13. April 2019, 19:41:15 CEST schrieb Christian Recktenwald via > > Exim-users: > > 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. > > I am running (3), but could attempt to get to a cleaner config during the > upgrade. > > > > 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 > > I would feel more comfortable, if I can test the production machine before > processing "real" mail messages again. > > thanks again > Rainer
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