Most third-party HOWTOs that reference Debian and claim to make things easy suggest dumping a pre-fabricated, static config file to /etc/exim4/exim4.conf. This is considered bad advice by the Debian maintainers since you're going to disable all updates and service magic that Debian might deliver in the future this way. If you do not know exactly what you're doing here, this is a bad choice. We try to comment on external HOWTOs found on the web in the [5]Debian Exim4 User FAQ to help you find out which advice to follow. 5. http://wiki.debian.org/PkgExim4UserFAQ