On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Exim User wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> thanks for your answer, which I accidentally deleted, so here's
> the link to the copy in archives:
> http://www.exim.org/pipermail/exim-users/Week-of-Mon-20030217/050137.html
>
> You were right, exims needs /etc/exim/exim.conf to be a regular
> file and not a symbolic link to /crypt/root/exim.conf (where it
> lived in my case). Since I changed back, all problems went away.
>
> Bummer, I was hoping to protect the file (which contains
> passwords) by placing it into a cryptographically secured
> environment.
You can include other files in an exim config file.
Might be worth putting the sensitive bits in another file (or files)
and including them.
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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@??? http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
