Author: Jasen Betts Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] exim command to dump config after macro expansion
On 2015-07-03, Jan Ingvoldstad <frettled@???> wrote: > 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.
yeah, that expands the debconf macros, but not the exim macros.
