Re: [Exim] Upgrading from Exim 3 to Exim 4

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: michael
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Upgrading from Exim 3 to Exim 4
On 24 May 2002 michael@??? wrote:

> I just upgraded our fairly large mail system to Exim 4. The migration
> was easier than I expected. The conversion tool did a good job to give
> me a starting point for the new configuration and fixing the remaining
> issues took me perhaps an hour per configuration file. One thing that
> isn't obvious is the new way require_files is parsed. Perhaps the
> conversion tool could at least put a warning before that option.


From 4.03, the conversion script does a better job on require_files, and
it should have warned you in the comments that it output. Did it do this
for you? (It might be broken, of course.)

> All in all, upgrading to Exim 4 went pretty smooth and it works great.


Thanks.

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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.