Re: [Exim] Exim reloading [was Re: (no subject)]

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Author: Dave C.
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To: Suresh Ramasubramanian
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim reloading [was Re: (no subject)]
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> +++ Dave Doeppel [exim-users] <25/01/02 10:28 -0800>:
> > The problem was the poprelayd script which was trying to restart the daemon
> > everytime it updated.
> > Since Exim re-reads it's configuration on it's own I disabled that function
> > and it seems to have resolved the issue.
>
> You can't always rely on exim to do that ...



Yes, but it *will* read external lookup files each time it performs the
relevant checks - which is probably what his pop3d needed..

>
> ########### IMPORTANT ########## IMPORTANT ########### IMPORTANT ###########
> #                                                                          #
> # Whenever you change Exim's configuration file, you *must* remember to    #
> # HUP the Exim daemon, because it will not pick up the new configuration   #
> # until you do. It is usually a good idea to test a new configuration for  #
> # syntactic correctness before installing it (for example, by running the  #
> # command "exim -C /config/file -bV").                                     #
> #                                                                          #
> ########### IMPORTANT ########## IMPORTANT ########### IMPORTANT ###########

>
> HTH HAND
>     --srs

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