Linux Administration Cookbook

How it works...

Exim configuration is found in the /etc/exim4 folder on our Debian host. Listing this file looks as follows:

$ ls /etc/exim4/conf.d exim4.conf.template passwd.client update-exim4.conf.conf

The configuration file that's being actively used is the update-exim4.conf.conf file (yes, that's .conf twice).

This file looks as follows out of the box:

# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf## Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'## Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess# around ...