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Re: mutt attachment error

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: mutt attachment error
Date 2016-05-12 12:40 +0200
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On Wed 11 May 2016 at 14:51:31 -0500, David Wright wrote:

> On Tue 10 May 2016 at 17:43:03 (+0200), Sven Hartge wrote:
> > David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Isn't the Debian way to put
> > 
> > > MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT=foo
> > 
> > > into /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and then run
> > > # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
> > 
> > No, that won't work. You cannot just put stuff into
> > /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and hope it will make it into the
> > configuration.
> 
> Yes, I chose the wrong file. Hope doesn't come into it:
> dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config   sees to that.
> 
> I think it's quite unusual for there not to be any stub file provided
> by Debian. In fact, it'd be quite useful in this case as
> /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros could reiterate the fact that it's
> only for unsplit configuration, and
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main000_localmacros could ditto for split.

That idea might be worth floating at

  http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users

(Coincidence: the May 2016 Archives have a discussion on the same topic
as this thread).

> BTW when will   dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config   either stop saying
> "hostname --fqdn did not return a fully qualified name, dc_minimaldns will not 
> work. Please fix your /etc/hosts setup." or suggest a reasonable fix?
> Or IOW, why has bug #504427 never even received acknowledgment?

It will stop, I suppose, when the user has a correct 127.0.1.1 line in
/etc/hosts.

It's impossible to answer your final question. Maybe the maintainers and
other readers of the report were busy.

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mutt attachment error Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-10 17:10 +0200
  Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 17:30 +0200
    Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 17:50 +0200
    Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-10 17:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 18:10 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-10 20:00 +0200
          Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 20:50 +0200
          Re: mutt attachment error Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-11 17:20 +0200
            Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-11 18:20 +0200
              Re: mutt attachment error <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-11 18:30 +0200
                Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-11 19:40 +0200
            Re: mutt attachment error Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-11 19:00 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-05-10 21:30 +0200
          Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 21:50 +0200
            Re: mutt attachment error Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 23:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-11 22:00 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 12:40 +0200
          Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 17:20 +0200
            Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 21:40 +0200
              Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-17 19:40 +0200
                Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-18 01:10 +0200
  Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-10 20:10 +0200
    Re: mutt attachment error Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-13 13:20 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-13 15:40 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-13 15:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-13 15:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> - 2016-05-13 19:10 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-13 19:10 +0200

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