Re: [exim] Start working with exim config files

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Συντάκτης: Yves
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Προς: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Start working with exim config files
Hi John,

> Am Dienstag, 13. Juni 2017, 12:30:52 CEST schrieb John Smith:
>>     I added the "MAIN_TLS_ENABLE = yes" in the
>>     conf.d/main/03_exim4-config_tlsoptions. Here it works after restarting
>>     Exim : I can see STARTTLS after EHLO localhost on telnet.
>>     But after that I wanted to set other options like (for examples) :
>>     tls_certificate =  /etc/ssl/certs/file1.crt
>>     tls_privatekey  =  /etc/ssl/certs/private/file2.key

>>
>>     (I know that Exim takes by default the exim.key and  exim.crt in
>>     /etc/exim4 folder so I can unset the two lines above and use the files
>>     generated by gencert command...
> […]
> "MAIN_TLS_ENABLE" is not a EXIM directive. Debian (as Ubuntu) use their own
> (splitted) very complex config file with many own directives (mostly upper case
> names) to "switch on/off" parts of their "configuration snippets".


You may be interested in these articles I wrote, which are based on Debian:
http://yalis.fr/cms/index.php/tag/exim
In particular, the article about supporting real and virtual users gives
some explanations on how Debian manages its Exim configuration.

Cheers,

Yves