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NAME

       update-exim4.conf - Generate exim4 configuration files.

SYNOPSIS

       update-exim4.conf     [-v|--verbose]    [-h|--help]    [--keepcomments]
       [--removecomments] [-o|--output file]

OPTIONS

       -v|--verbose
              Enable verbose mode

       -h|--help
              Show short help message and exit

       --keepcomments
              Do not remove comment lines from the output file.

       --removecomments
              Remove comment lines from the output file. [Default]

       -o|--output file
              Write       output       to        file        instead        of
              /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

       -d|--confdir directory
              Read input from directory instead of /etc/exim4.

DESCRIPTION

       The  script  update-exim4.conf  generates  the main configuration files
       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated for Exim v4 by merging the data  in
       the  template  file  /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template  or the ones in the
       /etc/exim4/conf.d      directory      tree       respectively       and
       /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf      to      the      output     file
       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

       If dc_use_split_config in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf specifies a
       split  configuration, update-exim4.conf processes the /etc/exim4/conf.d
       subdirectories in  the  order  main,  acl,  router,  transport,  retry,
       rewrite  and auth. Within each directory it takes files in lexical sort
       order by file name. It concatenates  all  these  files  and  makes  the
       debconf replacement described below.

       If you are not using split configuration update-exim4.conf concatenates
       /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros   (if   this   file    exists)    and
       /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template  (in  this  order) and makes the debconf
       replacement described below.

       In    either    case,    before    outputting     the     result     to
       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated,   update-exim4.conf   generates  a
       number of exim configuration macros from the contents  of  dc_something
       from   /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf  and  inserts  them  into  the
       configuration right after the  definition  of  the  exim  configuration
       macro  UPEX4CmacrosUPEX4C  (which  is only used as placeholder for this
       case). The macro definitions are bracketed with .ifdef clauses to allow
       the  local  admin  to  override  the  values  with earlier definitions.
       update-exim4.conf makes no other changes to  the  configuration.   This
       makes  it  very  simple  to make small changes to the configuration and
       still have the benefits of debconf.

       On the other hand if you don't want to manage exim4.conf  with  debconf
       install  your  own  handcrafted version as /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.  Exim
       will use this file if it  exists  and  ignore  the  autogenerated  one.
       Additionally  you  might  want  to set dc_eximconfig_configtype=none in
       /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf  to  stop  debconf  from  asking  you
       questions about exim4.

       update-exim4.conf     exits    silently    and    does    nothing    if
       /etc/exim4/exim4.conf exists and -o was not used to direct  the  output
       to a different file than /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.

       update-exim4.conf will only use files in the conf.d directory that have
       a filename which consists only of  letters,  numbers,  underscores  and
       hyphens   ([:alnum:]_-),   similar   to   run-parts(8).   Additionally,
       update-exim4.conf will  use  /etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar.rul  instead  of
       /etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar  if the .rul file exists. This is meant to be
       helpful for easy interaction with packages extending Exim.

       If     the     new     configuration     will     be     written     to
       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated,  update-exim4.conf  will check the
       validity of the freshly generated configuration. If  the  new  file  is
       detected    as    invalid,    update-exim4.conf    leaves    the    old
       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated untouched and exits with an  error.

       However,  there  are  still  possible  invalidities  that  can  only be
       detected  at  run  time.  This  most  notably  applies  to  errors   in
       expressions that are expanded at run time.

       If  the  new  configuration  will  be  written  to  some other file, no
       validity checking occurs and that file will always be overwritten.

EXAMPLES

       You want to be able to check exim's queue as normal  user:  Generate  a
       new  file,  e.g. /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/40_local_mailq, containing only
       the line queue_list_requires_admin = false

NOTES

       update-exim4.conf changes the file permissions of the  output  file  to
       the  value  of  the  environment  variable  CFILEMODE.  If CFILEMODE is
       neither set in /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf nor in the environment
       it  defaults to 0644.  Change this to 0640 if you are keeping sensitive
       information (LDAP credentials et. al.) in there.

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

       All lists given in configuration variables are semicolon-separated.  In
       the  past,  they  used  to  be  colon  separated.  This  was changed to
       semicolon separation to make specification of  IPv6  addresses  easier.
       Backwards  compatibility is preserved, so that old configurations using
       colons as separators do still work. Colons  are  deprecated  and  might
       stop  working in a later release. If you need to specifiy a single IPv6
       address in a field that is defined as  a  list  of  host  names  or  IP
       addresses,  please prefix "<;" to explicitly specify the list separator
       as a semicolon. Otherwise, the code cannot tell an IP  address  from  a
       colon-separated list of strange host names.

       Using  lookups  like  "dsearch;something" in update-exim4.conf.conf has
       never been supported and does no longer work! If you need this,  please
       convert to directly setting the appropriate macros.

       update-exim4.conf        evaluates        these       patterns       in
       /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf:

       CFILEMODE
              The octal file mode of the generated file.

       dc_eximconfig_configtype
              The main configuration type.  One  of  "internet",  "smarthost",
              "satellite",  "local",  "exim3manual"  or  "none".   Sets  macro
              DC_eximconfig_configtype.

       dc_hide_mailname
              Boolean option that controls whether the local mailname  in  the
              headers  of  outgoing mail should be hidden. (Only effective for
              "smarthost" and "satellite". Sets macro HIDE_MAILNAME.

       dc_mailname_in_oh
              Internal use only Boolean option that is set by  the  maintainer
              scripts  after  adding  the  contents  of  /etc/mailname  to the
              dc_other_hostnames list. This is a transition  helper  since  it
              wouldn't  otherwise  be possible to see whether that domain name
              has been removed from dc_other_hostnames on purpose. This is not
              used by update-exim4.conf, and no macro is set.

       ue4c_keepcomments
              Boolean  option  that  controls whether update-exim4.conf strips
              the comments from the target  configuration  file  (default)  or
              leaves  them  in.  This  can  be  overridden by the command line
              options --keepcomments and --removecomments. The  value  is  not
              written to an exim macro.

       dc_localdelivery
              name  of the default transport for local mail delivery. Defaults
              to  mail_spool  if  unset,  use  maildir_home  for  delivery  to
              ~/Maildir/. Sets macro LOCAL_DELIVERY.

       dc_local_interfaces
              List  of  IP addresses the Exim daemon should listen on. If this
              is left empty,  Exim  listens  on  all  interfaces.  Sets  macro
              MAIN_LOCAL_INTERFACES only if there is a non-empty value.

       dc_minimaldns
              Boolean  option to activate some option to minimize DNS lookups,
              if set to "true" a macro DC_minimaldns is defined. If true,  the
              macro    DC_minimaldns    is   set   to   1,   and   the   macro
              MAIN_HARDCODE_PRIMARY_HOSTNAME is set to the appropriately post-
              processes output of hostname --fqdn.

       dc_other_hostnames
              is   used   to  build  the  local_domains  list,  together  with
              "localhost".  This is the list of domains for which this machine
              should  consider itself the final destination. The local_domains
              list ends up in the macro MAIN_LOCAL_DOMAINS.

       dc_readhost
              For "smarthost" and "satellite" it is possible to hide the local
              mailname  in  the  headers  of outgoing mail and replace it with
              this value instead, using rewriting. Sets macro DCreadhost.

       dc_relay_domains
              is a list of domains for which we accept mail from  anywhere  on
              the  Internet  but which are not delivered locally, e.g. because
              this machine serves as secondary  MX  for  these  domains.  Sets
              MAIN_RELAY_TO_DOMAINS.

       dc_relay_nets
              A  list of machines for which we serve as smarthost. Please note
              that 127.0.0.1 and ::1  are  always  permitted  to  relay  since
              /usr/lib/sendmail  is available anyway and relay control doesn't
              make sense here. Sets macro MAIN_RELAY_NETS.

       dc_smarthost
              List of hosts to which all outgoing mail is passed to  and  that
              takes  care of delivering it. Each of the hosts is tried, in the
              order specified (See  exim  specification,  chapter  20.5).  All
              deliveries  go  out  to  TCP  port 25 unless a different port is
              specified after the host name, separated from the host  name  by
              two  colons.  Colons  in IPv6 addresses need to be doubled. If a
              port number follows, IP addresses may be enclosed  in  brackets,
              which  might  be  the only possibility to specify delivery to an
              IPv6 address and a different port. Examples:
              host.domain.example deliver to host looked up on DNS, tcp/25
              host.domain.example::587 deliver  to  host  looked  up  on  DNS,
              tcp/587
              192.168.2.4 deliver to IPv4 host, tcp/25
              192.168.2.4::587 deliver to IPv4 host, tcp/587
              [192.168.2.4]::587 deliver to IPv4 host, tcp/587
              2001::0db8::f::4::::2 deliver to IPv6 host, tcp/25
              [2001::0db8::f::4::::2]::587 deliver to IPv6 host, tcp/587
              This is used as value of the DCsmarthost macro.

       dc_use_split_config
              Boolean  option  that  controls  whether  update-exim4.conf uses
              /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template ("false") or the  multiple  files
              below /etc/exim4/conf.d ("true") as input. This does not set any
              macros.

       The macro MAIN_PACKAGE_VERSION is set to Debian's Version number of
              the package being installed  for  convenient  inclusion  in  the
              configuration.

RECOMMENDED USAGE

       If you are running exim as daemon (as it is in the default setup of the
       Debian packages) you should not invoke update-exim4.conf directly  when
       exim  is  running. For SMTP receiving or queue running, exim forks, and
       the new processes would use  the  new  configuration  file,  while  the
       original  main  exim daemon would still use the old configuration file.
       You should use invoke-rc.d exim4 restart instead.

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better  groff
       than  us  and  has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches
       would be greatly appreciated.

FILES

       /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
              Exim's main configuration file

       /etc/exim4/exim4.conf
              Optional manually managed Exim main  configuration  file.  Takes
              precedence over debconf managed one if it exists.

       /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
              Configuration  file  being  written  by  exim4-config maintainer
              scripts, which may be hand-edited,  and  is  read  as  input  by
              update-exim4.conf.

SEE ALSO

       exim(8),   exim4-config_files(5),  /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/  and  for
       general   notes   and   details   about   interaction   with    debconf
       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz

AUTHOR

       Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>
       Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>