Facing issues with exim starting due to wrong exim.conf? You can fix it using below command which will rebuild exim.conf
root@vps [/etc]# /scripts/buildeximconf
You get below entries when rebuilding the exim.conf
Configuration file passes test! New configuration file was installed.
Enabled system filter options: attachments|spam_rewrite
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_MAIL_PRE_BLOCK: default_mail_pre
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECIPIENT_POST_BLOCK: default_recipient_post
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_SPAM_SCAN_CHECK_BLOCK: default_spam_scan_check
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CHECK_MESSAGE_PRE_BLOCK: default_check_message_pre
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CONNECT_POST_BLOCK: default_connect_post
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_OUTGOING_NOTSMTP_CHECKALL_BLOCK: resolve_vhost_owner|end_default_outgoing_notsmtp_checkall
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CONNECT_BLOCK: ratelimit|slow_fail_block|spammerlist
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_POST_RECP_VERIFY_BLOCK: dictionary_attack
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_TRUSTEDLIST_BLOCK: trustedmailhosts
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_IDENTIFY_SENDER_BLOCK: default_identify_sender|default_message_submission
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_MAIL_BLOCK: requirehelo|requirehelonoforge|requirehelosyntax
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_PRE_RECIPIENT_BLOCK: dkim_disable
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_CHECK_MESSAGE_POST_BLOCK: default_check_message_post
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_POST_SPAM_SCAN_CHECK_BLOCK: mailproviders
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_SMTP_QUIT_BLOCK: slow_fail_block
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_SPAM_SCAN_BLOCK: default_spam_scan
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_NOTQUIT_BLOCK: ratelimit
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECP_VERIFY_BLOCK: default_recp_verify
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_PRE_SPAM_SCAN: mailproviders
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECIPIENT_MAILMAN_BLOCK: default_recipient_mailman
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_RECIPIENT_BLOCK: default_recipient
Enabled ACL options in block ACL_MAIL_POST_BLOCK: default_mail_post
Detected spam handling in acls, disabling spamassassin in routers & transports!.
SpamAssassin method remains unchanged
Configured options list is:
ACL: acl_not_smtp is active
ACL: acl_smtp_connect is active
ACL: acl_smtp_data is active
ACL: acl_smtp_mail is active
ACL: acl_smtp_quit is active
ACL: acl_smtp_notquit is active
ACL: acl_smtp_rcpt is active
Provided options list is: deliver_queue_load_max|queue_only_load|daemon_smtp_ports|tls_on_connect_ports|system_filter_user|system_filter_group|tls_require_ciphers|hostlist loopback|hostlist senderverifybypass_hosts|hostlist skipsmtpcheck_hosts|hostlist spammeripblocks|hostlist backupmx_hosts|hostlist trustedmailhosts|hostlist relay_hosts|domainlist user_domains|smtp_accept_queue_per_connection|remote_max_parallel|smtp_receive_timeout|ignore_bounce_errors_after|rfc1413_query_timeout|timeout_frozen_after|auto_thaw|callout_domain_negative_expire|callout_negative_expire|acl_not_smtp|acl_smtp_connect|acl_smtp_data|acl_smtp_mail|acl_smtp_quit|acl_smtp_notquit|acl_smtp_rcpt|message_body_newlines|check_rfc2047_length|perl_at_start|deliver_queue_load_max|queue_only_load|daemon_smtp_ports|tls_on_connect_ports|system_filter_user|system_filter_group|tls_require_ciphers|spamd_address
Exim Insert Regex is: virtual_userdelivery|virtual_aliases|democheck|check_mail_permissions|remote_smtp|address_pipe|virtual_user|localuser|virtual_sa_user
Exim Replace Regex is: virtual_sa_user|sa_localuser|virtual_sa_userdelivery|local_sa_delivery|cpanel_archiver|cpanel_archiver_transport|discover_sender_information|fixed_login|fixed_plain|lookuphost|remote_smtp|secure_login|secure_plain
Exim Match Insert Regex is:
Exim version 4.82 #2 built 06-Feb-2014 16:42:57
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 – 2013
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 – 2013
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.7.25: (September 12, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl OpenSSL Content_Scanning DKIM Old_Demime Experimental_SPF Experimental_SRS
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch dbm dbmjz dbmnz passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir autoreply pipe smtp
Size of off_t: 4
Exim Perl Load List is: spamkey|mail_permissions|get_relayhosts_domain|checkuserquota|boxtrapper|fast_checkvalias|email_archiver|fast_isdemo|fast_accountfunc|0_mail_permissions_variables|checkpass_cphulkd|spam_acl_support|encode_string_literal|safefile|cpwrap|checkspam|z_preload_modules|email_send_limits|identify_local_connection
/etc/exim.pl.local installed!
razor2 is installed, enabled in SpamAssassin!
pyzor is not installed, disabling it in SpamAssassin to save memory
SPF is disabled in exim or unavailable, enabling SPF for SpamAssassin
/bin/chown: changing ownership of `/var/spool/exim/msglog/1WxaaD-00018g-Nl’: No such file or directory
Refreshing SMTP Mail protection.
SMTP Mail protection has been disabled. All users may make outbound smtp connections.
Now Restart exim to get it going
root@vps [/etc]# /etc/init.d/exim restart
Shutting down exim: [ OK ]
Shutting down spamd: [ OK ]
Starting exim: [ OK ]
0 processes (antirelayd) sent signal 9
/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/update_sa_rules: running in background
root@vps [/etc]# /scripts/buildeximconf