Re: [exim] local_scan_path change ?

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Author: Marc MERLIN
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To: Thomas Krichel
CC: Exim users list, Magnus Holmgren
Subject: Re: [exim] local_scan_path change ?
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 07:01:20PM +0000, Thomas Krichel wrote:
> root@darni /etc/exim4 # grep local_scan /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> local_scan_path = /root/opt/sa-exim-4.2.1/sa-exim-4.2.1.so
>
> root@darni /etc/exim4 # systemctl restart exim4
>
>    I send an email from my server amorp (which still runs an old exim
>    that enables sa-exim). There is not trace of anything that
>    sa-exim does. Marc writes

>
> > Could be the local scan interface changed somehow.
>
> I scanned the exim documentation changelogs from the Debian
> distribution and did not see anything that suggested that
> the local_scan_path has changed.
>
> Any wisdom from the kind folks of this list?


2 things you can try

1) /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -d+all
and check the logs to see what happens and whether local_scan gets run.

2) strace -f -e trace=file -s 256 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -d+all
check the strace output to see whether tries to load local_scan as it
should

Marc
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