[Pkg-exim4-users] Package cleanup, reinstalling, & misc manual config questions

[Matt Weatherford]

Fellow Eximers,

I have a few questions (may be simply confirmations):

I'm seeing odd/non-reproducable behaviour with Exim4 on Sarge
I want to clear off the entire exim3/exim4 pacakage and reinstall
with all the defaults to see if I can get a clean setup.

1) What is the recommended way to clean off all related files?

I tried :

  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-daemon-light
  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-base
  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4-config
  dpkg --purge --force-depends exim4

Will this get everything so I can do a reinstall
cleanly? Are there other files elsewhere that I need to purge?


2)  I am not getting the behaviour I expect from the config file that
gets set up as a result of answering the debconf questions.
(Runnning "dpkg-reconfigure exim4")

If I want to change settings by hand, what is the file that I edit?

3) After I change that file, I assume I need to do:

/usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf
/etc/init.d/exim4 restart

Is there anything else I'm missing?


4) I am using exim4-* (sarge) 4.44-2
Are there any known bugs in the autoconfig process with a clean install
or subsequent, repeated "dpkg-reconfigure exim4" runs?


5) Is there some class of configuration that I can set up which causes
exim4 to not use the local /etc/aliases file?   Depending on my config,
it sometimes works, and sometimes doesnt. I want to understand this
behavior.


Most of All, thank you to the folks shedding blood, sweat, and tears to make
this package availible in the Sarge distribution!

Thanks,

Matt


-- 
Matt Weatherford
Unix Administration
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
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University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA, 98195         206-685-5346
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