On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng wrote:
> time exim starts up). Maybe an "exim_lint" could point
> out things like this, and cover parsing of string expansions
> as well, which have tripped people up, point out things
> like "host lists with names in require DNS lookups" where
> that applies, etc.
>
> The challenge in writing it will be to cope with all the
> change data, since one could be upgrading from a very
> old Exim, and maybe upgrading to a not-quite-latest version.
My judgement is that I do not have enough time to maintain such a beast.
I don't like making changes, and I've tried to keep things compatible,
but one or two are inevitable (apart from big upheavals like 2.x -> 3.x).
I do try to note everything relevant in the README.UPDATING file.
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