NAME

       update-exim4.conf.template - Regenerate exim4 configuration file template.

SYNOPSIS

       update-exim4.conf.template [-h|--help] [-n|--nobackup] [-o|--output file] [-r|--run]

OPTIONS

       -h|--help
              Show short help message and exit

       -n|--nobackup
              Overwrite existing file, instead of keeping it as /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.bak.random-number

       -o|--output file
              Write output to file instead of /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.

       -r|--run
              Actually  do  something.  If  this  option  is  not specified update-exim4.conf.template will exit
              immediately.  This   option   was   introduced   because   update-exim4.conf.template   overwrites
              configuration files.

DESCRIPTION

       The    script    update-exim4.conf.template    regenerates   the   main   configuration   file   template
       /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template from the configuration snippets in the /etc/exim4/conf.d directory tree.

       This process will overwrite all local changes in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template and might  be  useful  if
       there  are  local  changes  in  the  /etc/exim4/conf.d  directory tree, for example by a new mail related
       package dropping its own configuration snippets in there.

       update-exim4.conf.template ignores all files in the conf.d directory that have a filename which does  not
       consist  only  of  letters, numbers, underscores and hyphens ([:alnum:]_-), similar to run-parts(8).  For
       easy interaction with packages extending Exim additionally /etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar.rul is used  instead
       of /etc/exim4/conf.d/foo/bar if it exists!

ENVIRONMENT

       If  CONFDIR  is  set  update-exim4.conf.template  will  search  for the input files below $CONFDIR/conf.d
       instead of /etc/exim4/conf.d/ and will write the output to  $CONFDIR/exim4.conf.template  instead  of  to
       /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template (unless overridden with -o or --output).

BUGS

       This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in
       writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated.

SEE ALSO

       exim4(8), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/ and for general notes and details  about  interaction  with  debconf
       /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz

AUTHOR

       Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>