Hi Andreas! Indeed this host does have ipv6 disabled. After reconfiguring exim4 it finishes the installation and it has been working normally since then.
You can close this, as it seems it was a configuration problem on my end rather than a bug with exim4. Thank you for helping out! On 12-02-2017 13:15, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2017-02-12 felipe <ze...@riseup.net> wrote: >>> On 11-02-2017 23:25, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>>> fev 11 13:57:11 fx8350 exim4[21370]: ALERT: exim paniclog >>>> /var/log/exim4/paniclog has non-zero sizeā¦broken > >>> There may be interesting information in this file. > > >> This is the output: > >> $ sudo cat /var/log/exim4/paniclog >> 2017-02-10 11:20:36 socket bind() to port 25 for address ::1 failed: Cannot >> assign requested address: daemon abandoned > [...] > > Hello, > > Have you disabled IPv6 support on this host? If that that the case you'll > need to change the listening interfaces, excluding IPv6 addresses. > > dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config > > cu Andreas >