Description of problem: exim.conf contains authenticators in the retry section. begin retry # This single retry rule applies to all domains and all errors. It specifies # retries every 15 minutes for 2 hours, then increasing retry intervals, # starting at 1 hour and increasing each time by a factor of 1.5, up to 16 # hours, then retries every 6 hours until 4 days have passed since the first # failed delivery. # Address or Domain Error Retries # ----------------- ----- ------- * * F,2h,15m; G,16h,1h,1.5; F,4d,6h plain: driver = plaintext public_name = PLAIN server_prompts = : server_condition = "${if saslauthd{{$2}{$3}{smtp}} {1}}" server_set_id = $2 login: driver = plaintext public_name = LOGIN server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::" server_condition = "${if saslauthd{{$1}{$2}{smtp}} {1}}" server_set_id = $1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.63-1.fc6 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the rpm. 2. Test an address with something (exim -bt root is a good example) 3. Witness breakage. Actual results: exim reports that the configuration file has an error. Expected results: It pretty much should have worked out of the box :)