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Package: exim4
Version: 4.44-2
I installed sarge using a weekly CD build about a week old. In
debian-installer, I chose the option to leave exim4 unconfigured. (I use a
web-based e-mail service. Also, I am a home user and do not need sudo(1) to
send me occasional e-mails.)
The blue debconf screen soon scrolled up to reveal one black line, "starting
mailer: " or something. There was a 30 or 60 second delay. Then exim4 started.
I don't remember if any additional info came up, but I know exim4 was now
running because it then printed its name for a split second before debconf
reappeared and refreshed the screen.
Then, when I removed exim4 later (sudo apt-get remove exim4), I experienced the
same delay.
I tried to reproduce this bug again today but couldn't. Debconf did not give me
an option to leave exim4 unconfigured, presumably because I made a conscious
decision to install it this time.
However, I did get this interesting set of error messages:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install exim4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
Suggested packages:
eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info
The following NEW packages will be installed:
exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1353kB of archives.
After unpacking 2986kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-config.
(Reading database ... 72862 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking exim4-config (from .../exim4-config_4.44-2_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-base.
Unpacking exim4-base (from .../exim4-base_4.44-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-daemon-light.
Unpacking exim4-daemon-light (from .../exim4-daemon-light_4.44-2_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4.
Unpacking exim4 (from .../e/exim4/exim4_4.44-2_all.deb) ...
Setting up exim4-config (4.44-2) ...
Setting up exim4-base (4.44-2) ...
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.44-2) ...
Starting MTA: 2005-03-27 21:48:12 Exim configuration error in line 6 of
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated:
malformed macro definition
Warning! Invalid configuration file for exim4. Exiting.
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
Reloading exim4 configuration files
2005-03-27 21:48:12 Exim configuration error in line 6 of
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated:
malformed macro definition
Warning! Invalid configuration file for exim4. Exiting.
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "reload" failed.
Setting up exim4 (4.44-2) ...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
--end log--
This bug is frustrating because I never wanted exim installed in the first
place.
Thanks for listening,
js
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 4.62-1
On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Most users use the default DEBCONF_PRIORITY of "high" because they don't
> want to deal with things like exim-config. I believe that the majority
> of these users would prefer local delivery, and for all other exim
> options to be left as the defaults the postinst script currently
> suggests. (This way, if they use sudo, cron, etc. they will be able to
> pick up messages sent by these apps easily using mailx or mutt. If not,
> they can choose to have people send mail to their machine, or can use
> fetchmail, or can use a POP3 client to read their mail directly off
> their ISP's POP3 server. In all these cases, they'll be fine.)
The priority was lowered from critical to high back in April 2006.
There are no critical templates any more.
Greetings
Marc
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