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Author: exim-users
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Error message received when attempting exim4 restart w/spamd_address variant
Hi David,

On 01.10.21 07:00, s.xx.david--- via Exim-users wrote:
> If I edit the exim4.conf.template to merely uncomment the 'spamd_address',
> I can restart exim4 aok...
>
> If I merely change it to add the 11333 variant=rspamd, exim4 fails to
> restart with error "*Failed to start LSB: exim Mail Transport Agent"... *have
> commented out the acl filtering for now...


Look up the actual exim errors in the exim log file under /var/log/exim/mainlog.

> Both otherwise seem to be running relatively ok (exim4 sending out mail, at
> least between users on my server & to lower security servers : for some
> reason mail.yahoo.com seems to want dnssec enabled!?), just not talking to
> each other!?


What are the coressponding messages in the log? I would not assume missing dnssec
as a cause for that.

> I assume this means the debian packages _were_ compiled with WITH_CONTENT_SCAN
> on!? I'm wondering what else to try?


Yes, that should be part of the binary in exim-daemon-heavy, however you could
double check the provided config in /usr/share/doc/exim-daemon-heavy/EDITME.exim4-heavy.gz.

hth,
Thomas