Currently, the latest version of Exim available on 18.04LTS is 4.90. However, several exploits have been found, requiring upgrade to 4.92.3. My understanding is that 18.04LTS is still within the maintenance life cycle.
Are there plans to update Exim anymore in 18.04LTS?
Thanks
I installed Exim and mailutils (For receiving) for sending mails through PHP in Ubuntu. After I installed it, I ran the command dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config, I was asked to set the mail recipient for root and postmaster (I was in a rush). I entered root there (not sure if I made a typo). the next time I try to reconfigure Exim, I am not able to set that one setting. How can I set that setting again? Please let me know. I am not able to find the solution for this myself.
in ubuntu disco 'm not able to recieve any mails over exim4. Normaly I got emails from aptlist-cachnges, that way.
2019-11-05 17:42:24 1iS0af-0001oH-B2 Message is frozen
2019-11-05 17:42:24 1iS1Je-0002HV-Lj == alex@guilmon R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-52): Retry time not yet reached
2019-11-05 17:42:24 1iS165-0001ya-O5 Message is frozen
2019-11-05 17:42:24 1iRzKT-0003zY-4h == alex@guilmon R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-52): Retry time not yet reached
2019-11-05 17:42:24 1iS1Du-000211-4c == alex@guilmon R=local_user T=mail_spool defer (-52): Retry time not yet reached
2019-11-05 17:42:24 1iS11A-0001vD-Ao Message is frozen
2019-11-05 17:42:24 End queue run: pid=1264
and
strings /var/spool/exim4/db/retry
mailbox /var/mail/alex has too many links (2)
T:alex@guilmon
Exim ist configured only for local delivery. I never saw such an error before.
A try to delever the frozen mails exim error
I habe no idea where the error exactly is.
Note ipv6 is disabled.
netstat -tulpen | grep exim4
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 0 29826 1261/exim4
I'm reaching for your help because I tried everything I knew and cannot fix my issue. If I'am trying to use "apt-get install / apt-get update / apt-get purge" I am getting the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
exim4 : Depends: exim4-daemon-light but it is not installed or
exim4-daemon-heavy but it is not installed or
exim4-daemon-custom but it is not installable
exim4-base : Depends: exim4-config (>= 4.82) but it is not installed or
exim4-config-2
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Of course I tried to run 'apt-get -f install' but that just pointed me to this error:
apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
The following packages will be REMOVED:
postfix
The following NEW packages will be installed:
exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 157 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/762 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,498 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: warning: ignoring request to remove exim4-config, only the config
files of which are on the system; use --purge to remove them too
Selecting previously unselected package exim4-config.
dpkg: regarding .../exim4-config_4.86.2-2ubuntu2.3_all.deb containing exim4-config:
exim4-config conflicts with postfix
postfix (version 3.1.0-3ubuntu0.3) is present and broken due to postinst failure.
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-config_4.86.2-2ubuntu2.3_all.deb (--unpack):
conflicting packages - not installing exim4-config
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/exim4-config_4.86.2-2ubuntu2.3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Any help would be appreciate! Thank you
dpkg --configure -a outputs this:
`dpkg: error processing package exim4 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libgnutls-openssl27:amd64 (3.4.10-4ubuntu1.5) ...
Setting up libc-dev-bin (2.23-0ubuntu11) ...
Setting up libc6-dev:amd64 (2.23-0ubuntu11) ...
Setting up postfix (3.1.0-3ubuntu0.3) ...
Postfix configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes, edit
/etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration
values, see postconf(1).
After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'.
Running newaliases
Job for postfix.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status postfix.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript postfix, action "restart" failed.
● postfix.service - LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/postfix; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/postfix.service.d
└─50-postfix-$mail-transport-agent.conf
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2019-06-05 16:10:42 CEST; 20ms ago
Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
Process: 17094 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/postfix start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 05 16:10:41 mail postfix[17190]: See http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details
Jun 05 16:10:41 mail postfix[17190]: To disable backwards compatibility use "postconf compatibility_level=2" and "postfix reload"
Jun 05 16:10:41 mail postfix[17094]: /usr/lib/postfix/sbin/post-install: Error: /etc/postfix/postfix-files is not a file.
Jun 05 16:10:41 mail postfix/postfix-script[17207]: warning: unable to create missing queue directories
Jun 05 16:10:41 mail postfix/postfix-script[17208]: fatal: Postfix integrity check failed!
Jun 05 16:10:42 mail postfix[17094]: ...fail!
Jun 05 16:10:42 mail systemd[1]: postfix.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 05 16:10:42 mail systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: Postfix Mail Transport Agent.
Jun 05 16:10:42 mail systemd[1]: postfix.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 05 16:10:42 mail systemd[1]: postfix.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package postfix (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
exim4-base
exim4
postfix
`
I have just installed exim4, and my /etc/hosts file looks like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 mycomputer
192.168.100.5 rpi.mydomain.com
However, when I run exim -bt [email protected] to test deliverability, it says:
R: dnslookup for [email protected]
[email protected] is undeliverable
It appears that Exim is not using the entries in /etc/hosts to resolve domain name. To fix the problem, I added this to /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/200_exim4-config_primary before all other router entries:
mycustomlookup:
debug_print = "R: mycustomlookup for $local_part@$domain"
driver = manualroute
transport = remote_smtp
route_list=rpi.mydomain.com 192.168.100.5
Problem solved. exim -bt [email protected]:
R: mycustomlookup for [email protected]
[email protected]
router = mycustomlookup, transport = remote_smtp
host 192.168.100.5 [192.168.100.5]
The problem now is that I don't want to have to manually edit the Exim configuration every time I change the entries in /etc/hosts. Is there a way to make Exim use /etc/hosts to resolve domain names?