Package: exim4 Version: 4.69-9+lenny1 Severity: important Lurking in #exim, it appears the recent security update in stable is causing problems related to expanding macros/variables like MAIN_RELAY_NETS and ETC_MAILNAME in the configuration.
Symptoms include not being able to send mail at all, errors such as: 2010-12-18 17:07:48 1PTzK0-0001uY-PW <= arnou...@etc_mailname U=arnouten P=local S=1953 id=20101218160748.gs25...@bzzt.net 2010-12-18 17:07:48 1PTzK0-0001uY-PW ** pkg-multimedia-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org: Unrouteable address 2010-12-18 17:07:48 1PTzK0-0001ua-Ts Error while reading message with no usable sender address (R=1PTzK0-0001uY-PW): at least one malformed recipient address: arnou...@etc_mailname - malformed address: _MAILNAME may not follow arnou...@etc 2010-12-18 17:07:48 1PTzK0-0001uY-PW Process failed (1) when writing error message to arnou...@etc_mailname (frozen) And in another instance: 2010-12-19 10:30:06 no IP address found for host MAIN_RELAY_NETS (during SMTP connection from localhost (li37-79.members.linode.com) [127.0.0.1]) Unfortunately I've somehow fixed the problem in my instance without properly understanding what's going on, but I figured it might be good to collect information in a bugreport anyhow. For the ETC_MAILNAME problem i believe the workaround was to manually replace ETC_MAILNAME with the contents of /etc/mailname in the configfile used by exim - but that's obviously a workaround... -- Package-specific info: Exim version 4.69 #1 built 10-Dec-2010 14:00:42 Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006 Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007) Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl Expand_dlfunc GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning Old_Demime Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp Fixed never_users: 0 Size of off_t: 8 Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated # /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf # # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config' # # Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes # to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local # changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess # around with multiple versions of the file. # # update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate # exim configuration macros for the configuration file. # # Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the # Debconf configuration, but not all of them. # # This is a Debian specific file dc_eximconfig_configtype='smarthost' dc_other_hostnames='mintzer.bzzt.net;bzzt.net;thunk.nl;engelen.eu;setzer' dc_local_interfaces='94.229.57.123;127.0.0.1' dc_readhost='' dc_relay_domains='' dc_minimaldns='false' dc_relay_nets='' dc_smarthost='213.197.30.111' CFILEMODE='644' dc_use_split_config='true' dc_hide_mailname='false' dc_mailname_in_oh='true' dc_localdelivery='maildir_home' mailname:bzzt.net -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.7 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages exim4 depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii exim4-base 4.69-9+lenny1 support files for all Exim MTA (v4 ii exim4-daemon-heavy 4.69-9+lenny1 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended exim4 recommends no packages. exim4 suggests no packages. -- debconf information: exim4/drec: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
