Mailscanner + Exim >= 4.73

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Feb 18 18:55:07 GMT 2011


Could one of you Exim uusers get that into the wiki, if not there
already? Always nice with documented variants/choices:-).

Cheers

On 18 February 2011 18:33, Jonas <jonas at vrt.dk> wrote:
>> As I understand it, the idea is to use a "shim" exim config file that sets your
>> macro, and then includes the main exim config file.
>>
>> So, in you MailScanner.conf file, instead of having:
>> Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim4 -DOUTGOING
>>
>> You can have something like this:
>> Sendmail2 = /usr/sbin/exim4 -c /etc/exim4/exim.outgoing.conf
>>
>> Then, you have to add this new "shim" configuration file into your exim
>> trusted_configs file.
>>
>> # cat /etc/exim4/trusted_configs
>> /etc/exim4/exim.outgoing.conf
>>
>> And finally, in your exim4.outgoing.conf file, you should define your macro and
>> then include the standard exim config file.  For Debian, it might look something
>> like this:
>>
>> # cat /etc/exim4/exim.outgoing.conf
>> OUTGOING = 1
>> .include /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
>>
>> This way, you're still only modifying the one main exim4 configuration file for
>> all of your needs.  I've done it this way (I even use a different macro name),
>> and it works with the patched exim4 in Lenny.
>> And I expect it to work as is in Squeeze.
>>
>> Jase
>
> Hey Jasse
>
> That sounds like a pretty straight forward description to test.
>
> I will be upgrading my 2 mailscanners to squeeze within the next couple of weeks and will try to change to the new method you describe at the same time.
>
> I'll be sure to report back if it works or not.
>
> Also once a couple of us have their systems working this way, and its confirmed it works issue free, somebody should update the wiki.
>
> Thanks so far for your insight :-)
>
>
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