[UFO Chicago] exim in unstable

[Sean Neakums]

Those of you running Debian unstable may have noticed that the current
version of exim fails to start.  This happens because exim tries to
listen on all interfaces by default, including IPv6 loopback, since it
has been built with IPv6 support enabled.  When IPv6 support *is* in
the kernel, it exhibits some other problems.

You can around this by adding a line such as the following to your
/etc/exim/exim.conf:

local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1 : 192.168.0.2

Simply list each of the interfaces upon which you want exim to listen
(separated by colons), issue /etc/init.d/exim start and you're away
for slates.  (You might be able to use 0.0.0.0 to mean "listen on all
available IPv4 interfaces", but I haven't tried this.)  If you already
had a line like this, you probably didn't have any problems at all.

Bugs have been filed against exim regarding this issue, and no doubt
it will be resolved soon.

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