Bug#526819: exim4-daemon-light: claims to support TLS but doesn't recognise hosts_require_tls option on smtp transport

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-05-04 Dafydd Harries <daf at debian.org> wrote:
> Ar 04/05/2009 am 19:14, ysgrifennodd Andreas Metzler:
>> On 2009-05-03 Dafydd Harries <daf at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Package: exim4-daemon-light
>>> Version: 4.69-9
>>> Severity: normal

>>> Older versions of exim4-daemon-light supported the hosts_require_tls
>>> option on the smtp transport. After upgrading exim recently, it
>>> stopped recognising this option:

>>>   2008-11-13 12:20:26 Exim configuration error in line 213 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
>>>     main option "hosts_require_tls" unknown
[...]


>> Hello,
>>  From the error message this sounds like the respective line is placed
>> the wrong section of the configuration file, with the main options
>> instead of as a setting for the respective transport.
[...]

> Here's the entire transport stanza:

>     remote_smtp_smarthost:
[...]

> IIRC, only the port and the hosts_require_tls lines were added over
> the default version of
> transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost.

I think the transport is fine, but I also think you have got a second
"hosts_require_tls" setting somewhere else. "line 213" is far away
from the tranport setting. Please take a look at
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp and
 grep -r "hosts_require_tls" /etc/exim4/

Thanks, cu andreas