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Bug 1679274 - Syntax error in default exim.conf
Summary: Syntax error in default exim.conf
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: exim
Version: 29
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-02-20 19:02 UTC by Tom Hughes
Modified: 2019-03-15 18:28 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: exim-4.92-4.fc28 exim-4.92-4.fc29
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Last Closed: 2019-03-13 19:05:25 UTC
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Description Tom Hughes 2019-02-20 19:02:13 UTC
Description of problem:

In addition to a large number of changes that probably shoudln't have been introduced in F29 there is a syntax error in exim.conf with the 4.92 update:

2019-02-20 18:57:03 Exim configuration error in line 122 of /etc/exim/exim.conf:
  option setting expected: +acl_smtp_mail =        acl_check_mail

The leading + on that line is not valid....

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

exim-4.92-1.fc29.x86_64

Comment 1 Tom Hughes 2019-02-20 20:36:29 UTC
Also was the greylist stuff supposed to get moved from the data acl to the mime acl?

Comment 2 Tim Landscheidt 2019-03-02 00:52:36 UTC
This also affects Fedora 28.  (It would be nice to add a %check section that (maybe in addition to running Exim's own test suite which is always a good idea) checks that the configuration file is valid by running something like "./exim -C ./src/configure.default -bV".)

NB: Due to this bug, currently mail from cron & Co. gets silently discarded.  To work around, edit /etc/exim/exim.conf à la:

| --- /etc/exim/exim.conf~        2019-02-11 21:35:34.000000000 +0000
| +++ /etc/exim/exim.conf 2019-03-02 00:51:16.872940421 +0000
| @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
|  # manual for details. The lists above are used in the access control lists for
|  # checking incoming messages. The names of these ACLs are defined here:

| -+acl_smtp_mail =        acl_check_mail
| +acl_smtp_mail =         acl_check_mail
|  acl_smtp_rcpt =         acl_check_rcpt
|  .ifdef _HAVE_PRDR
|  acl_smtp_data_prdr =    acl_check_prdr

Comment 3 Tim Landscheidt 2019-03-02 18:15:00 UTC
I've pushed a fix for Fedora 28 to https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exim/pull-request/3.  Please note that this does not address Tom's question in comment #1.

Comment 4 Jaroslav Škarvada 2019-03-04 09:41:14 UTC
(In reply to Tom Hughes from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> In addition to a large number of changes that probably shoudln't have been
> introduced in F29 there is a syntax error in exim.conf with the 4.92 update:
>
Sorry about it. In the past upstream had LTS versions, now it obsoleted everything older than 4.92. It's usually pain to maintain unsupported obsoleted versions, hence the rebase.

Comment 5 Jaroslav Škarvada 2019-03-04 09:44:49 UTC
(In reply to Tim Landscheidt from comment #3)
> I've pushed a fix for Fedora 28 to
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/exim/pull-request/3.  Please note that
> this does not address Tom's question in comment #1.

Thanks, merged.

Comment 6 Jaroslav Škarvada 2019-03-04 11:07:12 UTC
(In reply to Tom Hughes from comment #1)
> Also was the greylist stuff supposed to get moved from the data acl to the
> mime acl?

Sorry, merge error, is exim-4.92-4.fc31 OK? I am going to fix other branches as well.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2019-03-04 12:47:55 UTC
exim-4.92-4.fc29 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 29. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-754bb22186

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-03-04 12:51:40 UTC
exim-4.92-4.fc28 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 28. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-adf4161f4b

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2019-03-05 04:37:39 UTC
exim-4.92-4.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-adf4161f4b

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2019-03-05 14:43:58 UTC
exim-4.92-4.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-754bb22186

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2019-03-13 19:05:25 UTC
exim-4.92-4.fc28 has been pushed to the Fedora 28 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2019-03-15 18:28:45 UTC
exim-4.92-4.fc29 has been pushed to the Fedora 29 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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