Author: Jan Ingvoldstad Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] exim command to dump config after macro expansion
On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Evgeniy Berdnikov <bd4@???> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 04:52:04PM +0200, Jan Ingvoldstad wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Heiko Schlittermann <hs@???
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Tim Watts <tim.j.watts@???> (Fr 03 Jul 2015 14:43:39 CEST):
> > > > No matter - I'll write one from scratch - it will take less effort :)
> > >
> >
> > When you run the update-exim4.conf command, it creates a regular Exim
> > configuration, placed in /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.
>
> When this file is assembled by update-exim4.conf, macro definitions
> are NOT expanded.
>
They are expanded, but they are not substituted in every place they occur.
As far as I know, there is no additional magic required to run
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated than a standard Exim.
