Not clear what delimiter to use when configuring exim4 listen interfaces
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| exim4 (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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| exim4 (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: exim4-config
ii exim4-config 4.69-5ubuntu2 configuration for the Exim MTA (v4)
When running 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config', the screen "Mail Server Configuration" doesn't say what delimiter to use between addresses.
Mail Server Configuration
IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections:
127.0.0.1
<Ok> <Cancel>
If you use spaces or commas, later you get the error message:
* Stopping MTA for restart [ OK ]
* Restarting MTA 2008-10-25 17:12:22 Malformed IP address "127.0.
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "restart" failed.
Could you please change the configure dialog to say use semicolons. Or, better still, can you use exim4 to check that the configuration is well formed after each setting?
| description: | updated |
| Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in exim4 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| Changed in exim4 (Debian): | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
The message as of right now is:
IP-addresses to listen on for incoming SMTP connections:
Please enter a semicolon-separated list of IP addresses. The Exim SMTP
listener daemon will listen on all IP addresses listed here.
It has been that way since at least 4.63-9. The additional help seems the right place to put this.
That said, this field should be easy to validate, as it sounds like only components of ipv6 or ipv4 addresses are allowed, and semi-colon.
I've forwarded this to the debian BTS as thats probably a better place to address this.
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Marking Triaged, setting Importance to Wishlist.