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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: [exim] Re: newbie - where to make config changes (on debian, ?for cyrus+exim)
Derek Stevenson <dls@???> wrote:
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> Most of the docs and mailing lists refer to editing the conf file, but
> there's no /etc/exim.conf but rather the various components broken out
> into /etc/exim4/conf.d/* directories.


> Do I make changes in those files, which are then picked up by exim on a
> restart? Or are those used to generate a conf file that lives
> elsewhere? I've found /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated but I'm not
> sure of the relation. Is the auto file used or is it simply an example?


> If I do make changes to the files in /etc/exim4/conf.d, do I just edit
> the existing files? Do I need to create new ones?


/usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz should answer most of your
questions, especially

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What are these gazillion number of files in /etc/exim4/conf.d? How do I
get rid of them? How does the configuration work? What kind of crack are
you smoking?
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            cu andreas
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