Re: [exim] exim4 smarthost out, fetchmail in conf

Martin McCormick via Exim-users <exim-users@???> wrote:
> Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users <exim-users@???> writes:
>> Whenever a recent Exim is configured to advertise TLS
>> (tls_advertise_hosts), it tries to create a self-signed certificate
>> until you point Exim to the certificate file.

>> Exim's hard wired default for tls_advertise_hosts is '*' since 4.xx

>> You seem to have a Debian based system. As far as I know, they kept the
>> old default (nothing) for tls_advertise_hosts and change it to '*',
>> whenever you enable TLS via Debian MAIN_TLS_ENABLE macro.

>> So I'd say, it should be sufficient not to enable this macro. Having the
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> Thank you extremely. I must admit that I am not familiar with
> the programming language other than I can tell what it is doing
> more or less. Is there a name for it or is it peculiar to exim4?

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_exim_runtime_configuration_file.html#SECTmacrodefs

cu Andreas