Yup,
Got it thanks.
Interestingly it was actually because I hadn't declared (cut and paste
failure -oops) the beginning of the authentication section. So the retry
section over ran into the authenticators and the config parser was mighty
confused as the retry section was now utter rubbish.
I have submitted a source patch to the dev list suggesting a change in
error message which would at least give a better clue than I had yesterday.
Dean: once again many thanks for taking the trouble to look at the source
and pointing me in the right direction.
Paul
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Paul Osborne
Systems Analyst
Core Services, Infrastructure Group
Computing Services
Canterbury Christ Church University
On 23/05/2013 19:03, "Dean Brooks" <dean@???> wrote:
>On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 05:02:33PM +0000, Osborne, Paul
>(paul.osborne@???) wrote:
>> Afternoon,
>>
>> It has been one of those days where I am now beating my head against the
>> desk, I am usually loathe to post config errors but this time I am in a
>> fog of config all seemingly similar.
>>
>> I have an Exim config that fails to verify with:
>>
>> line 541 is the beginning of sasl auth config with is identical to other
>> configs that I have:
>> Is there something blindingly obvious that I am missing or is this going
>> to be a case of a good night's sleep will clear the murk from my mind?
>> Think I am suffering from a non helpful config parsing message and a
>> stupid o'clock start.
>
>I checked the source code, and the error of "missing error type" appears
>to occur when its reading the retry section of the configuration file
>(section 32 in the Exim spec).
>
>I'm guessing there is a retry rule that has an error in it. Look for the
>"begin retry" line in your config.
>
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>Dean Brooks
>dean@???
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