On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 21:29:51 (+0000), Joe wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2018 14:38:44 -0600 > John Foster <jfoster81...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have been following a process for setting up my e-mail server, link > > below: > > > > http://t-machine.org/index.php/2014/06/27/webmail-on-your-debian-server-exim4-dovecot-roundcube/ > > > > After doing all the steps I finally got to restart everything with > > the following commands > > 1 /etc/init.d/apache2 restart > > 2 /etc/init.d/exim4 restart > > 3 /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > > apache2 and dovecot restarted as expected but exim4 failed with this > > message: > > > > > Myuser@myserver/home/frosty# update-exim4.conf > > 2018-01-17 08:41:17 Exim configuration error in line 576 of > > /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp: > > option "AND" unknown > > Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not > > installing > > /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to > > /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated > > > > Myuser@myserver/home/frosty# /etc/init.d/dovecot restart > > [ ok ] Restarting dovecot (via systemctl): dovecot.service. > > > > > > anyone here that tried this? > > Any suggestions for what to do with exim4 to get it restarted. > > I do not know what the error messeges here are referencing. > > Neither do we. The broken file referred to is basically a program with > subroutines, some external. We don't know what line 576 contains. > > The first step would be to copy and paste here that line 576, with two > or three lines before and after it. If the code is inline, we can > probably make some suggestion for improvement, if it refers to a macro > we would need to look a bit further. But with luck, there is an obvious > syntax error on line 576 itself. As the file is autogenerated, it isn't > going to be a typo, but it's probably looking for a variable that isn't > initialised, or something like that. It might conceivably be a typo in > a user configuration file which gets built into this autogenerated one. > > I doubt that the exim4 configuration is standard enough that someone > else can find the answer from their own line 576. The version of exim4 > I'm running is older and does its configuration differently, so I > can't help directly.
We could hazard a guess though. Mine would be that the OP tried to put multiple smarthosts, say, by connecting them with AND rather than ";". But I would ask that the OP post their /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf in the first instance, suitably recused of course. Cheers, David.
