FYI, exim 4.74 chokes when there is a Byte Order Marker at the beginning of the exim conf file.
Took me a while to figure out why I kept getting these kinds of errors: Starting MTA:2011-02-12 20:40:47 Exim configuration error in line 1 of /etc/ecmecm/exim/main.eximconf: option setting expected: ################################################################################### Warning! Invalid configuration file for exim. Exiting....failed. Regards, Brian Blood ECMSquared.com -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/